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Evening Star, Issue 3411, 27 January 1874, Page 2

We have received a very proper and pertinent •iy r , comm . e pti n g on the sympathy evinced with the position of the Oaptain of the Surat, but as it contains forms of" expression'more damaging than the term “Bumble,” pro nounced libellous in the late trial, we are reluctantly obliged to refuse admission to it. The public will at once/see that we are compelled to . course as a" measure of self-pro-tection. «...

The Superintendent calculates that the forests of Southland are worth five hundred millions of money’! ■ - ■ > ■ • ■,

As axil instance of the scarcity 'of labor in ® th s r y Provinces, we; may, mention, that Mr Brogden s manager went on board the Alhamr A afc -Wellington, and offered 'to engage 100 of the Chinese at 7s per'day.-- The' offer was refused.

i Lodge Western Pioneer, LOjG:T. : , claims the honor of numbering amongst its members the first .Maon. who. haa .joiiwd.-tba order,. _The, Na-tive TempL>r r .iß and through -i 1? *i ence a bd example iteveral other Maoris and half-castes have joined .the crusade against King Alcohol ■; ■. v i

JaF Hoskins .and Mias Colville were married ?*gy* Jo™ 8 Church, 1 Christchurch, this mpni- ' A'telegram from a oorresponaent' says ; There was a full choral' service. Everything was on a grand scale, .and the church was crowded to excess.”—Miss Clara Stephenson was married the other day to Mr Wills, a member of the “ Ixion ” troupe. , The editor of,the Auckland .‘ Evening Star ’ thus finishes his Christmas article Let the beware who would attempt to dis.turb our Christmas pleasures with the soundof anything but the popping of corks and the merry-making of holiday-seekers. For two days the Star* will cease to twinkle; we are off to the mountains.”

Messrs Blair and Watson have just eonipleted their contract for the formation of ten miles of the Dunedin and Balclutha Railway (Balclutha end.) The work has thus been very expeditiously carried but, and we believe it has been finished ih a most satisfactory manner. It is expected that tenders will be called within'-a few days for daring the sleepers and rails upon this portion of the line.

j.iFattracted a large attendance to the Pnncess Theatre last evening, and was well received. Mr HydesV Tom Tit was even more amusing than on the first-representation. We would remind our readers that Miss Andrews takes her first benefit in Dunedin this evening, when no doubt her many friends will rally round her. The programme put forward is a capital one, including; “The Loan of a £°y. er : ft? interlude, and the burlesque of .“Cinderella.” - ■ 1 ■

Retake the following items from the *Tua pelca Times ’: “Reaping is steadily advancing in this district, although not as yet in full awing. The grain crops generally are not re- , mark ably heavy,'nevertheless there'areexcep*- : turns. A magnificent cropof wheat-we observed on Tuapeka 3) lat this week, which is considered to be the best in the district., The farmer who o crop assures us that he is confident he will have a yield of over, forty bushels to the acre of really first-class grain. The straw in some places is 6ft in height. Mining on the , banks of the Molyneux is almost .suspended, the high level of the river and the scarcity of : water for sluicing purposes being-the principal ; reasons. The Public Works and harvesting operations in the-Province are drawing away all tne miners who have pot been getting much : gold of late. , : : The arrival of Chinese on the Grey ~oldftelda is thus noticed by the ‘Argus “The coiitipufd influx pf Chinese miners to this dis-. trict is one of the matters of greatest interest to. the European minors. Of the cargo' of Celestials landed at G-reymouth. ex Alhambra about fifty arrived here oh the 21st, and the - same number -were expected next day. They travel in style, too, Ashton and Cassidy’s four- 1 horse coaches being the luxurious means employed to convey the almond-eyed strangers to this new land of ours. At first a few stragglers arrived, quite accidentally as it Were, and oeydnd the natural curiosity with which’new arrivals on an old goldfield are always regarded they djd not excite any attention, : They com’

menced fossicking about, making friends with the outside barbarians, drinking whisky like ‘-™ en \ an “ Paying billiards and cards wiwatr much gusto as could be, and the upshot is they found out all they wanted to know, and this new rush to the Grey Valley is the consequence.” » , T^o. funeral of - the late Mr Adam Johnston topkrplace on .Sunday Afternoon, at 3 Vcloclc,. when, (says the ; ‘ Brude:gerald ’) the largest as- ■ senralage at anyTuneiiihthat has taken place in : iv: 9? a , y togetther to. pay ,the. last: tokens of respect; to his'remains by following 'them -to F The large attendanceducruded people not only from <khe Tokomairiro district, but also from Dunedin, Taieri, Waihola, Lawrence, and Balclutha, a circuit of forty miles round. About six hundred persons followed the remains to the grave. About forty gentlemen came from Dunedin by coach vtr- Private conv e yances, numbering amongst them the leading professional men and members’ ■■ 1 ° l .. Ber y ices * both General, iGoyemment. and Provincial, with whom 'Mr Johnston' had' ioug heen a follow-worker. No stronger proof of the high estimate in which he was held could have been given than this fact, that every' member of the Government staff that couldpossibly get away was present. Amongst those from Dunedin were several of the office! bearers and mbmbore of- Knox Church, ofi which congregation Hr Johnston had been a' member, had taken an active interest in the young as a Sabbath-school iteacher, 'and as. a member of the Young Men’s Association in concoction with that cjrurolv. . ; . (

~ banquet given himat Invercargill, the GoVeinpr said:—“ I am affirm believer ina good public works, policy, 1> do not believe ’ that a Colony situated sq : remotely as New Zealand can- possibly, develop its ,own resources! spontaneously.To make the country what it should be you musttinduce population to come to it, and in doing sothert are many counterattractions to_ contend with, for you are entered in the race with America, which; being so very. much nearer the Home country, and' offering land equal in quality to your own, and with people speaking .the same language as ourselves, is specially inviting to intending emigrants. You must offer tempting inducements to people before you can expect them to undertake a voyage half round the world. There is one agency which'is ‘ perhaps ihore'powerful than any other one, and that is the accounts sent Home by immigrants who have succeeded in New Zealand. Only to-day I was addressed by a body of workmen who have come from one of the poorest towns in my own country— Girvan—whose inhabitants were d ependent’on an obsolete trade—-that of handloom weaving. The people wera sopbor that they were unable to emigrate, and I remember wo used to assist them'to gb to Canada. lam most glad to find that some of them, who used to : present a somewhat poverty-stricken appearance in Ayrshire, are now happy and prosperous members of this community.. When used to be asked what was the use of sending such people to the Colo , nies, I was sometimes at a loss for an answer; but I shall be so np longer, for those ’weavers are good colonists aUd capable mien.” :

It was only, to be expected that the farewell .entertainment given by, the Kennedy Family, at the Masonic Hall, last Evening, wpuld have drawn a crowded house, but the large’audience which assembled there was no doubt even beyond; the anticipations of Mr j'Kennedy himsolf-'; The hall was crowded fully a quarter of an hour earlier than was fixed for tho opening of the entertEdnment, and those who. were not fortunate enough to be thWbefore''that time were informed oh applying for admissioh at the door that “no one could enter;” an'd : had therefore to turn homewards. Not only were all the seats in the: body .of fhe.hall and allthe available standing room occupied, but Mr .Kenheidy* igaye qp possession of the: ante-rooms at the side of the stage, besidesi accommodating many persons with seats on the stage itself. The steps leading to the fohms upstairs, and the passage, were, also brought into use, but no charge Was exacted, from those so situated The wholb of the songS‘were gone through in the company s best style. Towards the close of the entertainmentr’Mr Kennedy came to. the fbotfights. and thanked his “ kind friends of" Dun--6 j’/ -for their exceedingly prosperous season, and for the many instances of private kindness bestowed on himself . and family during their stay here. “We have certainly,” continued he, fallen among‘friendly, genial, and faith-ful-hearted people, and have been treated 'with a kindness which, being Scotch people, we know came from the heart.” He concluded by saymg, amidst loud applause, that he would return to Dunedin in July. “Auld Lang Syne,’’and the National Anthem, followed by three cheers for Mr Kennedy by his audience, brought the entertainment to a’close:' ■ ■ < :*

lie 'Superintendent of Canterbury, in prorotM Provincial Council of that Province', increase of revenue, population, antitrade, and the;; development of local enterprise, have been iinequailed in - any similar period in the history of the Province. During the first part of thia'period .the Province took the lead in the extension of the railway system, and the promotion of .immigration, and paved the way for the moire extended operations which were subsequently undertaken by the Colony. Its system of local contracts, its regulations for the introduction of population, have been for the most part adopted by the Colonial Government; and you have wisely .supplemented their pokey by your determination <tp provide larger and improved harbor accommodation, to subsi* Ml®® liberally the Poad Boards in the openin o ' up of .the country, to bridge the rivers which have hitherto proved a barrier to settlement, and to enlarge and improve those Social and educational institutions, which will be rendered more and more necessary by the increase of population and the - advance 'of our ’material' prosperity. -■ If the period is marked in the history of New Zealand, iby the general, adoption by the Colony, of a system of works and immigration previously confined principally to this and the - sitter Province of Otago,. it ,> Y iU be knovvpin that of : this Province by its liberal and. spirited action in providing more fully for mental and physical suffering iriits asylums arid' hospitals, m founding a free’PubUc Library, in extending and endowing its museum, in supplying the means-' of primary : instruction throughout its borders; and in completing its system of education by the establishment of a Normal school, and. of a college, where the higher branches of leanring and science may be advantageously pursued.” The J® is a reasonable- apprehension that -the case of Manley.v, Lamb, tried last weekbeforo Chief Justice Amey, will impede the work of private benevolence in Auckland. The facts of this peculiar case,.which illustrates the irascibility of poverty on the one hand, the somewhat rugged dictation of excellent intention upon the other, and the failure of a really benevolent purpose by mutual wrbngheadednoss, are thus fold by the ‘ Herald ’:-The busband of the plaintiff was drowned in the service of the defendant;’ who offered—as a present. - according to Mrs Stanley—a sura of L2O, to be drawn against at the .rate of 15s a week. ,It> happened, however, though the L2O and a great deal more were given, it was not exactly in the form of a present, but as a subscription for the benefit of the plaintiff and her children—Sir Lamb and two other 1 gentlemen undertaking the office of trustees. The plaintiff's mistake was in thinking that while she was drawing 15s aweek from Mr Lamb, she was using “the present, and not-the fruits of the subscription, list, bho is informed by Mr Lamb, through: her representatives, that she has been drawing against the subscription list, arid Mr -Lamb is somewhat imperiously written to for au account of the moneys which have come into his hands. The Accounts Are made up, And the defendant sets about investing the balance unused in A' house, but the house is to’have a mortgage upon it in the manner described. The plaintiff will have none of it, because there is to-.be a mortgage • on. it, though she is t willing that the fund should be invested in A house. Mr Lamb, however, tells her that if she does not accept"what he has chosen., to provide, “she will get, nothing.” Here, indeed, was the food for female resentment, and an action follows to Compel Mr Lamb to specific performance” of the purpose of the subscription. It is clear the plaintiff was wrongly advised, for assuming the result l of litigation to be in her favor, the law leaves little behind of a poor man’s acre.” Mr Lamb was indiscreet in telling the woman that she a ist have what he has provided or nothing. His nght did not extend so far, and the result is that he gets.scant gratitude for a really excellent intention, a good deal of trouble, and a very considerable ajnwnt o( money,

x a fternoon from Green consisting,tof Messrs John Robei ts, M.P.O. for the district, D. Andrew, J. Runoiman, and W. Todd,'waited upon tendent and requested Kim .to lay before the Government the construifcihg a hraneh.railway. to;start ttomThe northward of the mainTipe towards thS Chjiin Hills,' so'Us tp: .;Cohnect,tte;coal pits in tliat part of the district' :vwthj ith^ re existed there a three or ■four of Which were now at work, which'required ;as much t<i be connected with the main line as MB pits..pn the other side of it..... In 'one of the mines preferred, to a shaft sunk to a depth of 150 ft, and the seam of coal was eighteen feet thick. To take the line asked for as far as Durie’s would make it about a mile m length ; but to take from the bridge below Sampson’s pit would only be half a mile. A member 0 f the deputation was unders!ood| to say that Mr Blair, the District Engineer, had .informed him that there would be no difficulty ■m taking the proposed line along the roadside. His Honor said that nothing could be done until the Provincial Council met* so that there would be plenty of-time to.-ascertain how matters stood. Another member of the deputation expressed the opinion that nearly all the coal lay. on the north aide of the river,' bn which h ls Honor remarked that in that case—though he did not agree with the opinion—the Government had made a great mistake in constructing the, branch lino .now in progress.. It was further remarked by the deputation that if the Government could not see .their way to construct a branch railway, a tramway to carry trucks by horse power.would satisfy, .With proper apf the pit' that was now downto a depth of loOft could put out from seventy to a hundred tons daily, the price at the pitjs mouth being lls a ton. If the railway covtld take the coal into Dunedin at 4s a ton, it could be sold hero fpr 13. Finally, his Honor said he felt alive to the.importance of the matter, and would do all he, could to give effect to it. He ? would bring the matter before the Executive, but nothing could be done until they had a vote.. The deputation then withdrew. V

The Guiding Star Lodge 1.0.G.TJ will meet to-morrow evening at tho usual time and place. , Mr M. Fleming, corn and produce inerohant, street', desires' iis to state that it was •not his- name that • appeared in 1 - our yesterday’s report of proceedings m bankruptcy; - ■ Messrs Howell and Hay’s art union came off successfully last night. There was a large number of subscribers present, from whom a committee wos elected, who conducted the affair in,a satisfactory manner. . The* winning numbers are published, in oyr advertising columns^