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Evening Star, Issue 3456, 20 March 1874, Page 2

It was stated,m the case of Agar v, Bailey, in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, that the crew of the ship Helen Burns, shipped at, Lyttelton, each received LlO forthe tun down to.Port Chalmers, which occupied six days. 1 The admission ,of the .Rev. J. Dewe into full orders as priest of the Church of England, took plachin Trinity Church, LaWtence, on Sundly morning Isat.' 'The ’cerpiilony -Was‘ conducted w the Rkhop of Dunedin,' assisted by the Rev. R. Coffey and the Rev.' GvP. Beaumont. \ At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, Edward Cotta was sentenced to four weeks’ hard labor for deserting from the ship Dallam Tower. The accused smeo deserting, had shipped in,, the Dunfillan. Air D. Rolfe and Dr Drysdale presided. In answer to pressing requests by the South* land Immigration and Railway Committees, hia Honor the Superintendent has taken means to forward 150 spuls by the Scimitar to that place. The remaining immigrants will be open for engagement it the Immigration Barracks^ The boatswain of the ship ■Scimitar, who fell down the after-hatch and broke bis kneecap, the day previous to her arrival, and had been detained on board the ship in consequence of her being in quarantine, was removed to t°wn hp thekst train yesterday, and conveyed

“The Bose of Killarney” and “The Two French Thieves” were played at the Queen’s Theatre last evening; to a fairly numerous attendance. The former piece passed off as well as on its previous representations, while Mr Hydes and Mr O’Brien in the latter succeeded in keeping the audience in a state of continual merriment. “ Kory o’ More ” is announced for this evening. . According to the ‘Bruce Herald,’ the Secretary for Works and the Provincial Engineer nave visited the Taieri and arranged about the land for the branch railway from the. main line to Outram. They have arranged with all the landowners except one; and that case is now under the consideration of the Executive There is very little likelihood of the inhabitsl*B getting their wishes gratified in the matter of the bridge across the Taieri, Scrogg’s Greek, as the Government intend to' make the one bridge answer for the railway as well as for general’traffic. - the speeches at a ! s6ir6e recently held at Tuapeka—as reported by a local jonmal-f-is worth quoting. It was by the Eev. Mr Drake, who said that, * 1 owing to tho long and tiresome journey be bad undergone, be.wae entirely die-

qut&necl' to make a speech. He believed strongly in these gatherings, where Christians met together to eat and drink. When two tribes met together in a friendly manner, they vcelebwted\their v ' meeting by eating and drinkihgfahdwhen ainarimeV-a friend; he. had not* seen for years; thfi firtkthifig hb did -was to ask' him to eat and dri k. The dedpist mystery of their religion was sealed by the act of eating and drinking.” Our readers will probably agree with us in thinking that however lethargic Mr Drake’s brains may have been, his digestive organs, at any rate, were in good order. “The Daughter of the Regiment” was repeated at the Princess’s last evening to a tolerably numerous but very appreciative audience. Miss May, at times, did not sing with her customary ease, but on the. whole carried the part through well. In the ringing lesson last evading she introduced .“The. Last Rose of Summer,” and sang the balled with rare taste and,feeling. An encore was persisted in, and sherespodedby giving “Coming through the Rye,” with even greater success. We were glad to observe Mr Rainfbrd took the hint we gave him last week, and dressed the character of Sulpice a little .more becomingly; but he ought .to make further modifications, to repre- . sent a sergeant of the line of the period he represents. - To-night Balfe’s “ Satanella” will be produced, 1 ' . j >

Some of ,the Scimitar immigrants arc gaining unenviable notoriety. ,”Th# wert ! only landed from the Quarantine 'island yesterday after-! noon, and no lets than eight of them figured in the Resident Magistrate’s Court'this morning on charges either < of drunkenness, obscene languagejco? xdwdyism. The men seemed to rejoice in thefr position, and one told his Worship that he was a■ “true-boiTi Cockney,” and emphatically declared that he had never bisen before, his Worship, previously. It appears that another, when arrested, hadalife-preserver in his possession; and used' “the most filthy language ever heard to the' attesting i constable. ” His Worship recommended the: mAn not to carry such formidable weapons , with him, as the law and'its officers sufficiently protect him without His using a preserver. Those who had Only been guilty, of drunkenness were discharged on payment of the mitigated penalty Of. bsj, as they were enjoying their first day of liberty while the others were fined in comparison with their conduct after being arrested.

At a. meeting.-of the. directory of the Caledonian Society-last evening,’ the following report by the .Education Committee was discussed:—" Yottr committee beg to report that the Society should extend its operations by establishing three evening classes-rone for the North, one for the Central,,and ones for the .South; district of Dunedin; and fpr, that t purpose, propose that the directors vote a mm not exceeding LlQO* and, in accordance with the above direction, your committee instructed 1 thh secretary tb communicate' with bertam’parties with .a view to obtain accommodation for the* purpose -stated/” . It -fras resolved that -there should be only two classes—one in the North, and the other .in- the'.Central district.—Mr Allan, schoolmaster,. Green, Island, requested the Society to extend its operations to that district, but it was decided that thatcpuld not: be done at present. The was instructed to convey the thanks of the Society to! the’Education Board for their offer of the use of the North School for the evening classes;; also to thank the committee, of the Athenseum' for the pffer.of the use of a room in that' building. The, consideration of the 1 question as to : . the use to which the Society’s land should be : put,was deferred; and it was resolved'that a sura sufficient to qualify the President for the -time, being for a life-membership should be voted to the Benevolent Institution, i,, : .,. •.. A.public meeting of the ratepayers‘ of Port Chalmers was Held in the Royal Assembly Rooms.there last evening, to take into consideration the Waterworks question. The meeting was convened by Councillors M‘Kenzie and Miller, and the Mayor and other Councillors werbi present. .Mr Andrew. M‘Kinnon was voted to the chair. After reading the notice calling the meeting, the Chairman called upon Mr M’Kenzie, who stated his reasons, for calling the meeting and his views on the “subject at considerable length.—Messrs David ‘Miller, M’Dermid, and Dench also addressed the meeting;—Mr Neale then proposed, '" That the Town Council be requested by this meeting to apply to the Government for Sections 1 “and 2} Block Vl.,'and also ,to, epeleayor to secure all the unsold portion of the sheep' reserve for water purposes.” The motion was seconded by Mr.Mackmly,. and carried by acclamation.— Mr George Clark proposed, ‘.‘That this meeting approve of the action of Messrs M‘Kenzife and Miller in-opposing the .Sawyer’s. Bay water scheme, and is of opinion that the cost of constructing the said works is beyond our means as a Town.” —Mr Murray moved as an amendment, “ That the motion is premature.-’ On a division, four voted for the amendment, and the remainder for the motion, which was declared-csffjed. ,A,vote of..thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings.

Commenting upon the recent actions for libel brought against the Melbourne newspapers, the ‘Age’ says .-—“ After the ease of Ireland v. the;;licensed Victuallers’ Gazette’ and Th-een v. it would not be Wci^'rii'pricing U the defendants in a newspaper action for libel were led to agree with Mr Bumble that “juries are poor ine idicated creeturs after all.” Treeh sued Camtron for L3,t;o > damages for having been stigmatised n a weekly journal belonging to the latter as “a literary thief,” and Cameron pleaded justification, bn the ground thatTreen, who had been his agricultural editor, had inBertedi bpdiiy in bin paper eatira articles published some twelve months before in a rival Melbourne, print. The nefence set up by Trjep was unique; Kfle declared that he had been authorised by those over him to do exactly as he djd. That is to say, he asked tho jury, coniposed of la dozen sane Englishmen, tp, believe that the proprietors a journal out.iof Yarra Bend had sanctioned the’ destruction of their own property, in obedience to their agricultural editor’s peculiar notion of meum and tuum. And .they believed it., They did more. They not only stigmatised Treeris emplpyers - as accomplices to theirown ruin,buttheyactually endorsed Treen’sact ofpalming off upon the subscribers old articles for new as a creditable and perfectly honest proceeding. Of the identity of the article? ux question there was no doubt. Treeri did tiot dnuyith.# he Jiad them to, a rival publication previohsiy; and he actually had the temerity to himself for using thepa again on the, plearimi he was the original adthor of them;‘and that they wepp therefore h#s own property.- The question of originality does noit shejp to have been investigated PB this occasion, but ip. {mother case an article protajwiug to bojhy Treen Pkpwnfy be made up almost entirely of whole sentences cut out and cunningly transposed, without the alteration of a word, from an English agricub tural journal. Even this was not enough to disturb the moral serenity of the jury, however, who found him" hot guilty of literary thef4 on each of the counts submitted to them by the; judge. By what proeega of reasoning they arrived at the verdict, 1 in'the teeth of the evidence and the.summing up of the judge, we do not pretend even to conjecture. The ways of jurymen pass all understanding, and must be treated as Artemus Ward treated the commdp»m—given up for insoluble.

The drawing for the monster sweep at Wain’s Hotel wifi take place two p.m. to-morroW. The sweep closes at • • The adjourned meeting <?f the Oirectorslof the Caledoman Society will he held in Ww’s hotel to-morrow evening, i>t 5 o’clock." : '' ‘ J