The Evening Star FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1874.

Evening Star, Issue 3402, 16 January 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1874.

1; _, n A commencement has ..been made with the f constnirtiqtt'Of the deviation (rail Wa y' line to j the coal-pits,-‘from a' poiht about 500 f yards to the northward of Mr King’s st.eam flour milla j The Duilfillin, froth 'London, 'which was signalled at the'Heads.yeßterday afternoon, ; has made the remarkably : fine passage of 81 days from land to land, beating the mail boat, • by which her papers were to have been for-, warded. Her 7 immigrants will be conveyed td ’ town at noon to*morr6w. ’ , Ragpitiker of Pans” was repeated at j the Princess’s last evening, to a pretty nutne-, ■t. ?° ua attendance. Mr Seane. as,the Ragpicker,i ' Mr Kemp as the Baron; and Miss Andrews as! r the dressmaker,, all played in a highly 2 satisfactory manner, and were frequently ap-; plauded. “ After Dark ” is ‘announced for toQ 1 morrow night. .Oh Monday evening' at the annual meeting of the members of the North-East Valley Educational District, the report- of the 1 retiring committee and statement of accounts for last , year were read and adopted. The following ■J Ef rs on? were chosen members of the School -I for ensuing year s-Messre An--8 drew Watson W Hutton, George' Oalder,, Isaac Green, James FarguLarson, tDavid AnJ derson, and John Longworth. • t Tha names of toe candidates who have passed ; the recent Civil Service Examination have been ‘ , published. _ The number of those who passed s the Junior Examination is 27, and of those who 1 passed the Senior Examination, 12. Thefol-i ; -tofting iname&iolthe sutcicsßM Otago:'

candidates Junior Examination—T. H, Rawson, Oamaru; and H. Maitland, Dunedin, Senior Examination—T. H. Rawson, Oamaru. . They had something like a hail and ice storm in Canterbury on Sunday last. In one district it commenced at 3 p.m. and lasted twenty minutes. Lumps of ice fel/ measuring in circumference..Much dama£e/TN$. dpflb, to-the' growing crops; which a mob of sheep had beex^driven':thi}ougli : them ; while the potatoes stripped of their leaves. AJI the windows''exposed id the south were and. in tone hdu4e thirty-seven sqtoires' were broken. s V f X , What will Good Templars say to the followclipped from of the ‘Liverpool Courier’?— r‘* Bury this week a man named Booth, \i.ho was bom in 1777. He was a handloofh weaver by trade, and for sixty - years he took.a holiday by working-in the har-„ vest field with a sickle. During the'whole of his life he nevt-r used tobacco, and up to'eighty years of ago he had all his teeth, perfectly soUhd. < .Hewas of ‘ drams,’.and was.firmly, convinced thai drinMhg'whisky Had prolonged' his life.”

The Tuapeka railway works in the neighborhood of Manuka Creek are proceeding rapidly, A large number of Chinese laborers, are em-. ployed ift that locality. 1 % canvas town of siderable dimensions baa been built within the last few weeks close to the fluming, conjointly occupied by Europeans and Chinamen. -We- (‘ Tuapeka Times ’) have not heard of any conflict between the two races } 'but; on the son- ' trafy.they appear to work amicably together. The New Zealand navvy must be more civilised than the Clunes miner.

-rThOTeWM%capit^lattendapce : pt>theMasonic Hall last night, all parti; 0$ the>|?qilding being well attended.The jprQmmmei'qf the previous evening was repeated, Mr Kennedy’s anec- ■ dotes of his visit to MormonJand, causing infinite ' amusement; ' He. ’g£ve' a 7a Young a semp.n, T<l , lflch %o f tickled the fancy of his audi- ‘ •ehoto -that ; they were' - fain to have it repeated, but he contented himself by remarking;!amidst much meminent;ltha{: it’ ifirstrtimelin' his experience, that A sermombad been,’shcored. ,Yo-pight-Mr Kennedy .ypU .give: Readings, from, “Robßoy.” ' : v We-,- noticed ‘ by- aj rjreeent -Queensland' • paper that a considerable number ©/ sm,albsettlers in. ,jtbe Wide Bay G districlj-contemplate immigrating to the Province of Canterbury in Mhrah heit. At a public meeting .held, to discusstHeinatter, J a letter froth d Cahtefbuiy fairer; ’setting forth the excellence of the climate of-New’Zealand,' especially that of the Southern Island, was read, and the Chairman observed that it would' be well if more of the Queensland fanners. r wpsdf make, up .their .minds to settle in .New Zealand which appeared to "huh v to -be the most prosperous Colohjr ’ih the’ Sduth'erii Hemisphere. t' 1 „■ >. ■ ■ Mr Clapcptt appears to make his lectures .on Life Assurance very popular.' 'First he explains’ the advantages of the scheme, and then he gives selections from his readings, and sends his audiences home with a useful lesson and highly delighted.... At j; Tuapeka, the- Rev. Mr Beaumont, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer,, said,, from - the .increased liberality of >.she Governinent in their insurahce §cheine since Captain Baldwin’s visit, He would! Hpt 1 be ’surprised, Should Mr Okpcott visit Tuapeka in the course of another year on the samb uiftsion, if he offered to insure people’s lives for L500,’ the Government paying the premiums. -7A: woman • .named Mrs ;Hhir; :’died father suddenly yesterday afternoon. She hailed, a driver O P e VPf ■ .the.: Cayerphamr, .coaches, . named Fleury, at the stand in Princes street/ and told :him to. driTO.her;.fee. M(*snj HerHe/t, paynes, and Co. & shop, but meeting the firin’s measen?er 011 the way with the. parcel which she was m quest of, she was 'drived back to the s't’and. On reaching it, a lad callfed out that the woman had fallen,from her seat, attd'Fleury, onlya'lad himself, tried to raise her, but without.success. Thinking She wad the worse, of liqfwr, he.dfove towards Caversham, where : she lived, and on ;!*yinj^to lift her.into hqr that she was dead. She .had .beep,, pndefmetii-v ’ 9P-L treatpient for past, as . she was suffering froha disease of the heart,' which’is supposed to have been the cause of her death.

; The. (Jreathead remedy for ? diphtheria has been tried at Dunolly with success.'' fhe ‘ Express ’ reports a cure in the case of two children. The father states that he/tioticed the children to be very feverish, the ybungott' eSpeoialYy -sd,' th<f skin, hot, dry, and parched, with heavy throbbing pulse; On examining the throats >he observed small white spots about the orifice and roof of the mouth, and one of them had a large red lump on one 1 side of the" throat. : THere'waS an entire loss of appetite, and the children were restless. To the youngest he gave four drops of the acid in a-small tumbler of water,of which she only drank about half, after which the fever abated, the appetite returned, ;and no further treatment :w£s necessary, . The other had. two doses on consecutive and as In the othbr case, ’all appearance of the malady has depajr&d,? and both children are.'a? well as ever, they w,e.Td, T a llemperMce 'wtektiMaM recently given at Auckland ifeS©- ‘Star’* says “ Several, songs; and ' given by ■ juvenfles,- ■ arid thb'tygger tong, •* Cheer up, .Sam,- don’t let 'your' spirits go down,’ created.: a-buret -ofi-applause*- -and --seemed- to banish seriousness eyery face. The lad whose, name was Tufclias,'who 'sang the ditty! was loudly, encored. .. Mr Carr, (the chairman) at length brought his gratified audience back to a due state of solemnity,, and administered A rebuke to the 'lid on the impropriety of singing such a song m * Cheer up a*Temperance Hall, which Should bfe devoted entirely to purer melodies, such as Pretty darlings, go to bed,’ and the ‘ Crystal spring.. ' 1 .Dr Stirling lately/addressed a Jettey to,the cototoittee of the Dunstan Hospital; .offering himself as a candidate for the position ofrefeident surgeon in thatinatitutiomwhich he lately reigned. ; :Jle “ J am qfijqpimen that very possibly it may be for my advantage to re* mam in f act; , pm this point I am .better, satisfied tba£, I,was some time ago, t.e. , before Tl or :Vaided toy resignation, I ..however, of, the, skrhe'opinion as regards tbesalary you altogetheritovdeSuate; and, if shall look forward to ns, matter being thoroughly and impartially both. 'by :the’, cdmmijfete(»' rand‘Bub- ’ scribers j thbaghdttt‘; the, district.? pW nbvir offered is'LfiOO'a year, with Hheitydfplrb vate practise. The election, we are.informed, 1 resulted ( in a ..tip Drs, Stirling and Thompson—the numbers, polled beihg74;each. There will, jfchdfefbrei be fresh, eleotiobl j One of the ot&est'' and 1 best 6f cricketers received an unusual ■: presentation lately. Every Victorian has heard of Dan Sweeney, the hero of a hundred fights, who has captained Ballarat teams |ts victory for many years. r Jn one of the matchfg fpr placesi j &to.ong the twenty-two to England, Sweeney w-eht in and was bowM'fpr a dueled egg,, which his not hatojefied. tb' hito tipoehelUw ,connected with Ballarat/ The blub could/ridt 1 allow siich an extraordinary 'evbnt to pass undolSged, and 1 a 1 leather -toedal,' about eight inches in diameter, and bearing the fallowing inscription, was presented to him in the-afternoon sj—“'Presented td-Dan Sweeney, our mainstay, in commemoration of bis grand score made in .the -match ,Ist Eleven -y. next Eighteen, Nov. 29,1873.” iEoixnd the rim sjeo the, words, “ May his shadow and score never grow less. Medal struck, Dec. I, ' 1875.” Mr Sweeney made a suitable acknowledgment. , The Victorian Female Labor Bill promises to become a piece of Useless impracticable legis- ; lation. Those for whose amelioration it was : intended are the first to cry b'ut against it, and' declare that its operation would be most - detrimental to their interests. About a month ago the Chief Secretary was petitioned by a large number of female operators., employed at the Victoria and Albion Woollen Factories, Gee-long,-prayingthat the Act might not be made to apply to these establishments, the Chief Secretary having power under the third section of the, Act, in cases of emergency, to make exceptiohs. Mr Francis, haring in the, first in-! stance .obtained the opinion of ' the Attorney-! -General thit he’ had full power to act • as; requested, took the precaution to institute in-. quiries aa to whether any pressure had been ; employed in order to induce : the petitioners to' sign the document, and also as to whether the ten hours system of work was injurious to the health of the operatives. The..investigation was entrusted: to Mr Panton, P.M., who reported yery favorably in support of < the views expressed by tho}pptj£oner«j Mr Francis has

accordingly decided to grant the prayer of the petition, and exempt the Victoria and Albion ■■Woollen Cloth Factories, Geelong, from the Operation of the Act, which came into operation on’the Ist of January. A case of more than ordinary interest to the charitable is ..mentioned by our- Tuapeka ,confapts/are as follow,Cartier' fishily had. been living' in the; of for some'time pa%’ jhiid Mrs Cartier hajtfom several ’occaiuoiis given, .signs of Hospital; however, returned tw Her hotise partly convalescent, hut had not been there many days when, in a fit of derangement, she set fire to the place the family was living in, and shortly the whole of it was burnt to the ground destroying every article, including her own clothing and that of Mr Cartier ’and their children; ” ■ln addition to these -mispne _of their children, about two months iiUcfe,* had his leg broken,'anji is how: in the Tuapeka Hospital! lilt s Cartier Has Dees' removed to.Dunedin Cartier, .who is. thus left means and with three children, hopep tb reise a few pounds Ho place the children in safety while he seeks‘for work for himself.' !

The business done by the Presbyterian Synod at its sitting' to church extension and temperance/ Interesting by noth committees were and considerable discussion took place upon each; but the live; liest debate was upon temperance. Tbp ‘Daily. Times ’ came in for a good share of condemnation;--and the Good Templars were roughly handled by some, and as warmly defended by others. The Rev. Mr Gillies advised the Synod to be chary of giving support ,to the-Templars, because their religion totally ignored! Christianity. , This (assertion brought; to/hi)}, feet the Rev. Mr. Christie, who expressed his : astonishment at 'Vuoh: a statement being made. Mr Gillies, he said,’ "was totally in error; thereligiouscondifionbftheGpod Templars was perfectly souridj, and they Were Christiana in every seisse of theiteim Imtheir prayers they invoked the Holy Spirit, abd their prayers were pff bred thr ought he interceSaion'of our Saviour. 1 The Rev. Mr Watt, speaking for the...samp effect, as, 1 Mjr Ch istie. The .Rev. Mf Ryley mentioned that he declined to join a Good Temi plar Lodge , because., of the negative character 6t its Teligion,' J Dr Copland' wanted 5 the Synod to adopt a resolution expressive of regret that Ppo'rineiaV''Government 'had lately granted new licenses to public-houses fin opposition to the spirit of' the new Licensing Act] but he was not supported. Our Report of to* d»yVsittigg;is unavoidably held over.

The (/.arandinis will give, one .of their pleasing concerta at' the Masonic- Hall, Port Chalmers: on Tuesday.evening next,'• • • ;;; j A meeting of the TemperanceTjemonstratioii Committee will be held in. the Ath'eriseum, tof mon'o'w (Saturday) at half-past 7 o’clock. '■ ! •Messrs Gillies and Street, agents'for the Norwich tJhion Fire Insurance Society, have favored us with a very neat card almanack, published oy the Society,' so arranged as to .be easily enclosed in;-a pocket book ,or memorandum- book.. On < the cover •is ■ a very, meat specimen of the engraver’s art. ... (