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Evening Star, Issue 3443, 5 March 1874, Page 2

Sharks, from twelve to/fourteen have been' captured in the Aparima river lately* . ", ■ : . ’ : - : /' ! : , ..yf* ,wmfid remind our readers that thb fii'ausRekel- concertsare to . be 'resumed 'at /the Princess this evening. ‘ ,J /, ’ The Hutt railway is to be handed over to the Government on the 25th March. Ballast trains fu-e now running through. ‘ '!■ ’ • By the Carnatic there has'aitived, consigned to the General Government, 405 tons of rail waymaterial for the permanent way of fheDun'edin and Clutha railway. This consignment will be transhipped and forwarded to the .Clutha. : .. There must be some splendid-.farms "in the Western district," ; We read of one—Strahitrran farm, Flint’s Bush—wherethereare three or four acres of oats', the yield, being at the rate of eighty bushels to the acre. The ground had been sown with new seed imported from Victoria. . In a cricket match played at Lyttelton mi Saturday : last: between the Collegians and 4 Woolston team, Beaumont, one of the latter! accomplished the unusual feat of talcing four wickets - with four consecutive balls; His bowling is described as being good throughout the match. ,b : . r . . . ....:/' - Mr Reeves addressed two meetings last night —one at the Russell street/the other at Watson’s. Royal Hotel. Mr Chapman’s meetings were at the Bull and Mouth Hotel; Maolaggau street, ;qndat Watson’s Royal; Mr CargiU a at the Royal and at the Mi?siomhouse. ihe candidates Received a vote of: confidence-at each meeting.' /, , ,;■/ “The French Highwayman,” was the title of a comic two-act drama which was produced at the Queen’s Theatre, for the .first time, last evening. Mr Hydes as Jacques.Strop. and Mr O’Brien as Robert Macaire, fairly upset the - gravity of the audience. There was a large attendance downstairs. Fnrjeon’s “ Grif ” dramatised, is announced for this eygning. ’ ] : The ‘ Western/Star’is responsible for the followingA Riverton bachelor was last .week offered L2OO by a speqial friend, if,ho would get married within Wo' weeks frpin the date of the offer. The bachelor being not at all averse to the proposal, requested - that' LIOO should he paid down as a preliminary—in the event of his not being married within tbo specified period, the money to be returned. Here, is a chance for the young ladies of the Western district.- Thirteen ; days of the specified time have yet to run.’’

■ In the course of the hearing of . a case of slygrog selling, More Mr Bowen; R.M., at Christchurch recently, it was : proved that the wine which the defendant was charged with selling was fermented, was made from Previncial gro wnf ruit, and had been sold for years without a license. One of the witnesses told ini evidence that “he sold large quantities of the wine, and many teetotallers drank it. He was in the habit of selling it to teetotallers, who dnuik it at home. He did not know whether ‘the Council of the Good" Templars was aware of teetotallers purchasing these wines.” Complaint comes from Riverton that copies of the plans of the light railways to be con-: structed in the district are not on view there. The ‘Star’ remarks that the Government seem mortally afraid to allow plans and specifications of works to be constructed in this district to be shown at Riverton. If there is a road to be made the plans are not allowed to travel out of Invercargill. Now there are light, railways,to be constructed, and no local con • tractor, unless he undergoes the cost and Inconvenience of a journey to Dunedin, can have the slightest chance ■of competing. Why is this thus? J “ When shall we have done with Sir Janies Fergusaon?” is the question asked by the Riverton paper. > When the telegram from his Honor the Superintendent, announcing that his Excellency had deliberately resolved upon snubbing the people of the Western district was received, the member* of the Reception Committee, to whom it was addressed, replied as follows “ Come yourself. Everythin® provided. Cavalcade on WaUacetown road! Cold lunch. Won’t detain you long. Leave Governor to himself.” For sending this harmless telegram, the gentleman referred to received a ferocious missive from the Wellington Chamber of Horrors, intimating that unless he paid 2s for the telegram and 5s fine, the most, awful penalties would be inflicted upon-him The gentlemen still lives, but his faith in telegraphing about the movements of Governors has received a severe shock.

The Board of Health met to-day, and agreed to the following resolution “ That if no fresh cases break out in the interim, the whole of the healthy immigrants, ex Mongol and Carnatic, now on the Quarantine Island, be released on Monday next, provided that the Health Board at a meeting on Saturday sees no cause to alter the decision. That the whole of the healthy Single men (86) oh board the Scimitar be placed on the small island, arid that a hulk be moored alongside for their accommodation : also, that a few tents be placed on the island. That the sick bo at once removed from the Scimitar to the Qurantine Hospital. Further, that all usual steps be taken for fumigating and cleansing both the ship and the passengers’ effects afloat and ashore.” We believe it is intended to increase the quarantine accommodation by the erection of buildings! on the eastern side of Goat island. Plans for the work are already prepared. The commissioners who are inquiring into the circumstances under which disease broke out on board the Mongol are Dr Johnston (Provincial Surgeon for-Woffington); Mr F. A. Krull (Consul-General for Germany), and Mr M‘Kellar (Collector of Customs at Wellington). The witnesses examined the first day were the Rev, Mr Kennedy, a clergyman, bound for Auckland .Mr Stewart, an Irish Magistrate, who is visiting the Colony in connection with a scheme of :; ?pecial settlement; and Mr Ralph Rxchardqqn, ap flld blew Zealand settler, and formerly M.H.R, for Nelson suburbs.' The captain was also partly examined. As far as tho evidence taken goes, it establishes the fact that immigrants were sent on board from the Plymouth depot while in a very sickly condition, The ‘Post ’ learns also that the medical man placed on board at London had to be discharged at Plymouth for misbehaviour/and his place was then supplied by the gentleman who is now in quarantine in Otago,

Two brothers named Murdoch, aged re spsctively fourteen and sixteen years, indulged in what they were afterwards pleased to call "only a lark,” late on the night of the 28th ult., at Sylvan Bank, near Invercargill. Probably for the want of something worse to do, they gratified their love for pleasantry by "sticking up” one William Hall, a neighbor and acquaintance, and relieving him of L 3. Approaching their friend in a jocular manner, one of the youths caught him behind and held his anus, while the other, coming up in front, took his money. The neighbors then parted, and it was not till some time afterwards that Hall missed his money. ' Thinking he had lost it iu towri, Ufc returned, aud, procuring a lalpj),

went up and down the streets, Diogenes like looking for his lost, treasure. At last, finding his search vain,. Hall, .went and?described his adventure with the 'Murdochs to" the police ' who afterwards appreheudgd''the boy who had’, as he himself said, quite unknown to his brother, “cbnyeisTd’’ the:/money from. Hall’s /ppeket i to his own? >. , ? i The correspondence read at the City Council meeting last night included a letter from the Church trustees, agreeing, on the receipt of anUndertaking by the Council to caify it>out,,to the stipulations their proposal—viz., that ••• m- consideration of- granting to the Corporation a lease of the piece of land having a frontage of 50ft. to Princes street for twenty-one years, at the uominal rental of Is per annum, and to withheld the granting of new leases over the ground required to widen the street until the leases expire in April, 1876, -the Corporation will undertakeito give effect to ■ the widening of the street within two (2) years 'from this date, and will pay .all compensation winch may be payable to the tenants for the value of their buildings, &c.. or for non-renewal of their leases in accordance with the terms of the existing contracts:” It was resolved to enter into this arrangement with .the Church Trustees.— Mr F. J. Avlidge, who for the last eight and a-half years has acted as Corporation messen’r ger, forwarded his resignation, sickness in his family necessitating their removal from the Province. The letter was referred to the Finance Committee, to consider the advisability of granting Mr Arlidge a bonus for good service! —The Secretary to the Waterworks Company wrote that from the attitude taken by the Council in refusing to support them in their endeavor to check waste, the Company must fall back on its rights, and refuse to supply the Council with water, except at the rate at whicli the general public were supplied, a course which the Company regretted to ;have to take! In the discussion that followed it was mentioned shatfor public .baths the Council could be independent of the Company, as there were excellent springs on Corporation property, at the head of Maclaggan street. Mr Dick’s letter , was referred to the. Water, Committee, - ;

We direct the attention of electors to Mr Chapman’s letter, which : appears in our advertising columns.

The regular monthly meeting of the Imperial Building Society will bo .held. to-morrow even? mg at the usual time and place. ; Election meetings will be held this evening as follows :—Mr Cargill'at Cotter’s Oaledonioh Hotel, King street, at eight y Mr Chapman at the Mission-house, Russell street, at eight ; Mr Beeves at the Star and Garter Hotel, -Albany street, at half-past seven, and at Cotter’s Caledonian Hotel at half-past* eight.;

Amongst those who are almost silently doing utmost Useful.educational work, is]-Mr John C. Diack, of the Phonetic School, Maitland street, Dunedinr "VVe have many times alluded to this valuable institution, and drawn attention to the fact that, the system,, applied, to f teaching, childreh'to read, saves'many weary months in time that can be profitably employed in imparting other necessary branches' of knowledge. Mr Diack not only teaches reading phonetically, but instructs in'phonographib Writing. It is an acquirement that cannot be attained too early,: and the experience of thirty; years in England; America, and the Colonies proves that children can easily learn to read phonography, although they may not have learned the caligraphic alphabet. Phonographic shorthand is equal to a new power of acquisition. It is seldom learnt when its need is felt, in adult years; and as it aids in acquiring every other art and science, the more familiar children are with it the better. Mr Di&ck; ■ with* a view to: affording facilities for its acquisition, has published a uiost interesting reading [book, written in : a simple style. The selections are good, the char-; acters well-formed, and the lithography exceedingly heat. It is a little work of sixteen pages of small-sized, note-paper, but it contains as much matter as would fill fifty pages of the ordinary-sized school-books. Not the least interesting feature of this Heat little work" is the fact that it was printed in Dunedin" by Messrs Mills, Dick, and Go. The lithography is fully ,equal to any similar work that we have; seen. ; . .