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Evening Star, Issue 3440, 2 March 1874, Page 2

Mr Turton has resigned the Proyjnoial Solicitorship. ' The attention of Volunteers Is directed to general orders respecting the commanding officer and the sailing of representatives. The quarterly meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Association will be held in the Fire Brigade rooms to-morrow at 7.34 p.m. W® have much pleasure in announcing that the Defence Minister has appointed Major Atkinson to the command of the Otago Volunteers —promotion that is well deserved. We hope the new commandant will be able to infuse a little life into the movement, which in Dunedin at least J/itely shown signs of languishing. We are informed that Captain Hutton has secured the human remains found at Deborah ® a y* Chalujers/ consist of the right humerus, the right radius, some ribs, two vertebra, and the broken portions pi a scapula. 1 here were also several shells of the njore common edible molluscs, and a stone celt. Mr Robin, the coach-builder, is a fortunate ™ ai l‘ JP*is morning, while in the witness-box in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, he informed his Worship that he had a trap which had been upset on no less than four occasions, and still had not sustained sixpennyworfch of damage. Remark made that the owner should advertise for tenders to have a glass-frame made for its future use, seemed to afford great relief to Mr Bobu*. A writer in tiie ‘ New Zealand Herald,’ in describing a “muff cricket match” lately played in Auckland, concludes big report by saying the fielding would perhaps liav.e been better had not the attention of the fielders been distracted by a ten-gallon keg of beer, soused encumber, ham sandwiches, and mild cheese, which had been carelessly allowed to remain at large in the private dressing room of the members ,of the Club. We observe that Mr Charles Brown, of iarauaki, and some years ago Superintendent of that Province, has forwarded his resignation as a J.P, to the Minister of Justice, pn account of a remark made upon tho Bench by" jVJTr Reuny, K.M., with regard to a certain case, to the effect “ that he believed the other magistrate on the bench agreed with him, but if he did not, it did not matter, as he (the R.M.) had two votes to the other’s one, and would therefore decide it,” Ihere was a full mi and stalls at the Queen’s ibeatre ou Saturday evening, when “Dick iurpm was produced. Mr Glover appeared as Turpin, and Mr O’Brien as Tom Ring, both parts being very well played. Mr Hoyle dressed and looked more like a young man just entering upon his teens than the father of Mary, Miss Moore did what little she had to do as Mary \y atson in a very creditable manner. I be burlesque pf “Aladdin,” with Miss Watson m the leading part, followed, and was exceedingly well received. , of the reasons amongst many given by r 6 .l° ve £^ ent non-cabling ( of’tender/? for the Wmtoii-Kinggtou, line second section, has been want of plant. Tho ‘ Mail,’ remarking upon the delay, says Seeing the large quantity of railway material -coming forward from Home, this excuse can no longer be accept 50 as genuine. The Government have given such strong promises that they must be earned out. - Tbp personal rectitude of the Premier is almost concerned in the completion of this Ime within the promised $ me, The

Colonial Treasurer promised in writing that it should be at once proceeded with. The. Corporation of Queenstown hold that promise, and it will expire in the year 1875. It will be necessary, to secure its redemption, that steps should be immediately taken to call for tenders. In consequence of the outbreak of a fresh case of fever, in the person of a little boy, on the Quarantine Island, the seventy persons remaining there, whose release would otherwise have taken place on Saturday, will be detained there a few days longer. The decision of the Board of Health rc the Carnatic, is that the whole of the passengers be removed from the ship, the single men to be put on the small island, tthe others on the Quarantine Islands. The Carnatic is being fumigated, and the whole of the bedding used by the sick was burned on the sand-hank at Port Chalmers this morning.

It is not often that persons, after being fined for drunkenness, openly express their gratitude to either the police constable or the Bench for mulcting them; but this morning, after the police business had been disposed of, a man who had evidently not recovered from the effects of “a good drunk” addressed his Honor, and deeply thanked him for fining him in the sum of 40s for being drunk on the previous day— Sunday. _ No sooner, however, had he given vent to his feelings of thankfulness than he was arrested by the Court crier and removed from the Court, in order, as he apparently thought, to be again locked up, for he exclaimed, to the intense amusement of all present, “ Well, this is base ingratitude, without doubt.” He was set at liberty outside.

Some very important notifications appear in the last issue of the ‘New Zealand Gaaette,’ The description of the Dunedin District Court comprises a line along the summit of the Horse range to the ocean, near the mouth of the Shag river, on the east by the ocean, on the sotith- by the southern bank of the Taieri river • and branch to the Waipori Lake and the Meggattburn until it meets the boundary of the Goldfields district, and on the west by the Goldfields district. Circuits of the Supreme Court are to be held at Invercargill on the sesecond Monday in June and December, and at Lawrence on the third Tuesday in March and September. The following are Resident Magistrates in this Province under the new Licensing Apt;—Q an ?aru district, Mr T. W. Parker ; Mount Ida, Mr Stratford ; Dunstan and Cromwell, Mr Simpson; the Lakes, Mr Beetham; Waikouaiti, Mr Murdoch ; Lawrence, Mr Carew; Switzers, Mr Wood; Taieri, Mr Fulton ; Dunedin and suburbs, Mr Bathgate; Tokomairiro and the Clutha, Mr Maitland.; Southland, ‘Mr M'Culloch : OrepOki and Longwood, Mr H. Rogers ; and Stewart’s Island, Mr J. R. Greig. Mi’ Bathgate is appointed Auditor of Law Trusts Accounts, vice Mr Watt; Mr Burt, surveyor, inspector of steamers at Dunedin !Mr John Bbrrie, to be Deputy Collector of Customs at Invercargill, during Captain File’s visit to England j and Mr Strode, to be Deputy Commissiouer of Crown Lands for Otago. The resignation by Colonel Cargill of his command of the Otago Volunteers is also gazetted. Mr Jewitt, fishmonger, had on sale this morning two remarkably handsome fish, strangers to fishermen on these waters. They were each about three feet seven inches long from the nose to the end of the tail, andiin girth they measured twenty-four and twentytwo inches respectively. The heavier one weighed 301bs. In form they were not unlike salmon; the head small and finely formed ; anterior to the dorsal fin are five small spines. In color they were bright purply blue on the back, gradually merging to silvery, white on-the belly, with bright: sUvery scales throughput. We believe them to be the Kina Fish or Haku of the natives— (Sei'iqla Calandii ) of Wellington, and the Yellow Tail of Australia. The curator of the M\;seum has supplied' ,us with tlie the following particulars regarding this fish.. lu the months of January and February large shoals of them visit Cook’s Straits, and occasionally Wellington Harbor. They are generally of two distinct sizes—the smaller about 61bs weight and 20 inches in length, and the larger about 4 feet long, weighing about 401bs. The fish is very rich and well flavored, but, like all fish of this glass, 'mqst be eaten quits ireah. - . ..... They ere sometimes driven on exposed coasts, several generally being cast up together.* The Natives value them very highly, and search the coast for them at the jiroper season. They have been known to carry choice specimens far into the interior of the country as gifts to friends. These fishes have a wide range, being found in ;the high seas of the Atlantic as well as in New Zealand. No mention has been made of their having been seen further South than Cook’s Straits, but in all probability they may be met with a’mng the whole length of the west side of the Middle island; Jn its habits it is migratory and 'gregarioqs like the fqnny, with which, however, it must Hot be confounded.

The following election meetings are summoned for this evening: Mr B, ft Isaac, in the Odd Fellows Hall, at 8 ; Mr Chapman, in the Masonic Hall, at 7.30. ; and after him, Mr Reeves in the same place.