The Evening Star TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1873

Evening Star, Issue 3377, 16 December 1873, Page 2

The Evening Star TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1873

The residents near Taicri Ferry have collected LIOO for the widow and family of the late John Patou, who was drowned in the Taieri Fiver a few weeks ago. An error occurred in our report of the business at the Supreme Court yesterda}'. A final order of discharge was granted to the bankrupt James Fraser,' instead of the application being adjourned, as stated. The licensing difficulty continues, .and in consequence the proceedings at the sitting of the Licensing Bench resulted in nothing being done. The probability is the Provincial Government of Otago will, as in other Provinces, grant licenses to all who ought to have them, under the provisions of the Provincial Ordinance.

The following extraordinary telegram appeared in the “ Now Zealand Herald, on the sth inst“ The Clutha to Port Chalmers line was finished to-night, and the engine will run right through to-morrow, a distance of seventy miles.” Our friends in the North must think wc are very go ahead people -to finish seventy miles of railways in seventeen months. Mr South’s benefit at the Princesses was largely attended last evening, the and stalls being inconveniently crowded. “The Ticket-of-Leavc Man ” formed the chief attraction, Mr South appearing as Hawkshaw, which is bis best character ; Miss Raymond was May Edwards, but the part was evidently too much for her. The afterniece, “Tom Gribb’s Parlor, caused roars of laughter. “Rory OMore will be ployed this evening. The entertainment given by the Carandini ('ompany docs not meet with the support that it is entitled to, the attendance last evening not being at all commensurate with the excellence of the performance. In the first part, the duct “Guarda chc Bianca Luna,” by the sisters Isabella and Fannie, was exquisitely sung ; and Mr Gordon’s song, “ I never can forget,” suited his voice admirably. Mr Alfred Anderson played a fantasia on airs from “ Norma.” with his usual skill. Mr Ootterell's sketches were as well appreciated as ever. The unaccompanied part song, “The Nightingale,” in^ the second part, by" the sisters Fosina and Fannie, and Messrs Sherwiu and Gordon, was splendidly rendered. We would remind our readers that Miss Fannie Carandini’s benefit takes place this evening, when we trust there will be a crowded house.

About «k months ago wt; reprinted from the Melbourne papers an account of an address delivered by a so-called "Christian inednun, and emanating from the spirit of “John pagan, who when in the body lived at Rochdale, England.” Mr Pagan, however, is not only not dead, but has written a letter to a friend in Collingwood, Mr J. H. Turner, which has been handed to us fur publication. It is dated Reform Club, London, September It), 187:5, and contains the followin passages : - “ My grief is, that anyone out of Bedlam could be found to listen to, much less to in the incoherent ravings of this so-called spiriitfPiJistio medium. It may be interesting to yo-i* to know that prior to my leaving Rochdale, J did some years ago, I was placed in the e<mi.mislf-op of the peace for tho county of Lancaster, at the Request of the late Richard Cobdcn and our vyoif'l-hiyOwn townsman the Right Hon. John Bright, mw I now rondo at Oak Lodge, near Guildford, town of Surrey. ... I sincerely trust that vfeo,'old friend Mr W. H. lleginbotham learns that f. ; ;;U) still in the flesh, and not in the spirit, )»» c v i?l be convinced of the folly and stupidity of Lite n,oy/ faith, and be restored to his right mind." “Tom Brown,” the Aad t -ulasi(in\ contributor, gives some additional in reference to. tho English Eleven -tu E.CI;tewlm* the “Wonder” played in seven matches. and made 433 runs; G, E. Grace, 28(1; HuiAWion and Lillyv/liite were the greatest bowleg. The former, in tho month, Sot 8G wickets at a tost of about six runs each, and Lilly white 6-1 wicM?, giving only five runs to each. An old Victorian .cricketer, now at Oxford, writes out The team coming out is • ery sirring. Medium paced round aym howl,nV \r. now all the rage, and fV-utherton an* LiUywJuie are the two bwt bowler* here, The

former can pitch the ball on a five shilling piece, and breaks both ways without any perceptible alteration in delivery. MTntyre is the swiftest bowler in England, dangerous on hard wickets,, and a splendid bat to boot.” A telegram in the Auckland Star says:-—‘‘The reception of the Auckland team in Dunedin has been most cordial, notwithstanding tlio blackguard attempts to damage the men by circulating slanderous statements. — In its notice of the match, Auckland v. Nelson, the Mail says “ Perhaps it would be better to say nothing about Nelson s second innings. Its history will be found in the score-a'total of 42. of which number 15 were extras. Seven men got ducks’eggs. In Auckland’s first innings there were 38 extras.” noteholder's Pautascope, shortly described, is a succession of well painted sketches of the principal cities and scenes to be met with on the journey from New York across the American continent to San I rancisco, thence to Sydney. "Webb's line was the placing us in such close connection with the lj lilted States, that by means of photographs and the desciiption that have appeared in the local papers from the pens of persons in onr midst, who have made the journey, we have become tolerably familiar with most of the scones that were last night unfolded to our view* on cam as, and aic thus able to test their accuracy. Many pnntascopes or dioramas - call them what you may, they are one and the same thing present to us unknown lands, so that we are obliged to believe the lecturer’s account that things are as represented, but Mr Batcholder seta his claim for support on his pictures, being as true to nature as the pencil of the scenic artist could make them. The audience bust night included some persons who havo made the transcontinental journey ; and their warm approval of many of the views shown is the best commendation the exhibition could have. Nor was the general audience backward in testifying its approval of the admirably conti ived mechanical applies uccs which helped to demonstrate Now York by moonlight, the passage through the snow sheds on the Sierra Nevada, and the storm at sea, while the Mirror Lake, which is admirably drawn, received a. deservedly special round. Of course an exhibition of this sort would hardly take without the help of a person who can suitably tell what is worth knowing about each view as it is unfolded. It requires that eacli description should be short, terse, and vigorous; and these are points studied by Mr Bent, who knows well where and how' to introduce a racy anecdote. But for a few Yankee mannerisms, which we take leave to think arc affected and might be dispensed with, he makes a capital lecturer. In the other line in which he appears W'e havo seen him before. He is an excellent cornu pie, and helps his audience to spend half-an-hour very pleasantlv. All his songs were encored last night. Messrs Saunders and Illingworth wore announced to perform on their respective, in strumeuts, but were prevented from doing so hv an accident the company met with on the road. 'Jliey will, however, appear this evening.

Somebody .said 11 Dress makes the man. In Daria a man makes the dresses. Lazily gazing at the wonderful outcome of photographic art displayed in an operators show-case, my attention was drawn to a portrait of Governor Bowen by an old gentleman who remembers Sir Georges father fifty yeais Said my venerable companion, looking at the picture, “He has nice eyes ; when, from behind us, came this, interjected by a greasy looking person of the loafer persuasion^ Ins eyes. He's got a nice salary.” Which was more pertinent than polite.