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Evening Star, Issue 3448, 11 March 1874, Page 2

i enders will be called in about a fortnight for the erection of a fourth school at Pelichet Bay. Ihe Provincial Council is expected to meet tor the transaction of business on Wednesday. April 29th. Travelling is cheap enough in one part of the Province. A coach is now running between Lawrence and Dunedin for ten shilling fares. It is notified that Mr D. Petrie, M.A., has been appointed Inspector of Schools, the appomtment to date from January 13 ; and that Dr Stewart has been appointed Surgeon to the Lawrence Gaol. “Grif” will be played, for the last time, at the (Queens -theatre this evening, when Miss lowers, who has played the part of the hero, will take a benefit. The drama will be preceded by the comedy of a “ Regular Fix.” The Clyde Town Council have appointed Mr I. J. Wilson their solicitor, and authorised him to take the necessary steps to initiate water L/,000 for the purpose of constructing the necessary works. The railway works in the immediate neighborhood of Hampden have not hitherto been pushed ahead with that vigor and speed which perhaps, might be desirable. The high 1111111" lately and the scarcity of hands may presumably account for this state of things, A

large number of _ Chinese have just landed at Port MOeraki, with the intention of starting on the line. ” A number of them are already encamped in the township.

The North Otago Times’ says : —lf the Government would pay travelling agents a commission for obtaining nominations, thousands of immigrants of the very best stamp, with the advantage of having friends to receive them, and employment ready for them could be had.

The additional quarantine buildings to be placed on Goat Island comprise a two-storeyed wooden building with leans-to. The main building furnishes two dormitories, 64 x 24ft.; the additional rooms being kitchen, storeroom, washhouse, and keeper’s room. Mr D. Miller is the builder, and will commence work on the island in a day or two.

At the Mining Conference it was suggested that all gold sold to toe one bank agreed upon should be assayed, the bank giving at first an advance, as for retorted gold, and after assay, paying balance according to standard value, and sending assay report to depositor. The Mount Ida Chronicle’ states that the Bank of New South Wales agrees to do this —parcels to be not less than ten ounces each. In a speech made by Mr Seymour, at the nomination of candidates for the Marlborough Supenntendency, he said, “The office work I should not attend to myself more than necessary, as that is the Provincial Secretary’s business rather, I have been styled the travelling Superintendent. I do duty abroad rather than sit in the office to be waited on. Much is done m the saddle, and at times in water-tight boots and a swag on one’s back.”

The Arrowites have been snubbed. They forwarded to the Government a series of resolutions adopted at a public meeting relaMve to the temporary removal from the district of Mr Warden Stratford, and requested an unqualified promise from the Government that Mr Stratford would return in three months. Mr Bastings replies that “ the Government cannot undertake to make any such promise. The disposal of the services of Government officers is a matter for the Executive to regulate, and it declines to be influenced by public meetings at the Arrow.”

We learn from the ‘Mail,’that eight applications were lodged with the District Officer, on the Irth ult., for land under deferred payments m . the Dart District. The applications comprised an area of over 1,400 acres. The right to occupy'’ will be settled by the Board ou Friday next, the 13th inst, A writer iu the same paper makes a charge against the Land officers that the Mayor. Mr Malaghan, was present at the time when the first applications were put in, and that members of his family have applied for the same sections. It is probable that an inquiry will result.

In our report of the proceedings in the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, the inference might be drawn that the Rev. E. G. Edwards had himself preferred the charge of garden robbing against the children who appeared to answer it. It has been explained to us, that this was not the case, but that the police, in the execution of their duty, took the little fellows into custody, and laid the information. It is supposed that they were merely tools of older larrikins,_ who have for some time committed depredations and damage to the Deanery gardens, and who, if taken, would have been deservedly punished. The revenue received at the Provincial Treasury during the quarter ended December 31 last amounted to L 126.612. The Provincial heads of revenue were—Crown lands, L 32.076 ; Hundreds assessment, L 51,399; General Government payments, Ll2,4iU; gold export, L 4,338; goldfields revenue, L(5,482; incidental receipts, L 3,979. Railways—Dunedin and Port Chalmers, _ 1.3,974; Southland, L 3,071. Licenses, L 7,045. The expenditure during the same period amounted to L 74.782, the Provincial Treasurer and Secretary and the Secretary for Lands being credited with L 24,855; do, general, L1G.846; and the Goldfields and Works Department with L 31.714. Sir Charles R. Peters, a wealthy citizen of San Francisco, has made the following liberal propositions to the Government and the people of that city. He will build an immense public market; offers to arrange another place for the market gardeners ; tells his fellow-citizens that the time for action lias come, and makes to them a number of propositions, viz. To appropriate 250,000d0l for a grand hall, 400 feet square, to be used for large meetings and drills; to erect a public fountain, Mr Peters to furnish a man who will pay for the fountain, the city to furnish the water; to put up a statue of Janies Lick, one of F. L. A. Pioehe, and other representative pioneers in the different parts of the city ; to send to Europe to buy a museum for the pioneers ; to buy Woodward’s animals, and have in the park a free menagerie, add Mr Woodward to the park commissioners, turn in water, _ and make a free garden worthy of San Francisco ; to utilise the labor of prisoners by putting them to work on the park; to give a dollar a day during the winter to every man who is out of work and willing to work on the streets.

The regular monthly meeting of the Otago Kilwinning Lodge will be held in the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock.

A challenge from Mr Parra’s men, to prill Messrs Hugljes and Harvey’s men a three-mile race, appears in oup advertising columns.

The usual monthly meeting of the Loyal Orange Sitarvpf Otago Lodge will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall to-morrow evening at eight o’clock. ’