The Evening Star. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1874

Evening Star, Issue 3458, 23 March 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1874

I Captain Hutton is to deliver, ,on Monday - evening next, the inaugural lecture of, the 1874 i Session of the Qtagp University, * 1: . It is seriously proposed to establish a voluniteer.force in Demliquin.fpr the purpose of putting down larrikinism, ias ,-the rimsance has bb- ; come ahnoSt. iptbleiable. .;' ‘ ■ is succeeding ; admirably m. South Australia, and thbre is one : good feature conneted ;with it des&Virig of ; special notice. Out of 43 children placed out : aurihg’the last half year no feWer than 36 were : taken for adoption who cease to - be a'Charge to ! the country. . ■.• • At a meeting of the Invercargill Jockey Club, hold on thfe, 28th ult., a rosolutiou was i passed disqualifying W. Lawson, from ever run- ! ning any horses at the races of the club, in consequence of his having scratched all his horses ; entered for the late races after weights >yere de- ! clared, and stopped payment of nis cheque for , entry money. Nine hundred pounds is a good price for a Horse. That amount was given by Mr R. xiamilton, of Rozelle, for tbc Clydesdale entire Young Prince of Wales. The ‘ News * informs i us that the horse was on his way to* Dunedin for sue under Mr Driver’s hammer, when the bargain was completed in Invercargill, and a telegram sent off to intercept Lim at Tokomainro, : . The capital employed in sawmilla in the ProY l n r C onn f n^: uc^ lld ’ “ atat ed by the ‘ Herald’ at L2n0,000. The number of men they employ directly is I,2oo,'and the number indirectly in, carriage to market,and otherwise is very much! larger. They produce sawn timber to the value' important branches of local ' industry.'" The

boat-building and ship-building in which Auckland has acquired a striking pre-eminence are largely dependent on the success of the sawmills. Numerous other trades are directly or indirectly interested in them. The ‘Mount Ida Chronicle’ has had the curiosity to ascertain the value of,,the annual licenses applied for-in the The result of .its. .'calwaiajtions .Qgiycs £1;0T0> This is rather a heavy sum in directtaxatibnlfor the public-house and liquor .trad#; vQf this .tax Naseby alone contributes L5lO-H-her residents having put in no less than seventeen applica--tions for general and night licenses, v "

We hear of a robbery of a peculiar kind at Invercargill. As the story is told us, it seems a contractor went into a Chinese store in that town with the object of securing the employment of Celestial laborers. While there he was generously invited to,smoke the, “calumet of peace ” in the shape of opium, which had the effect of rendering the unwary employer.,of “ John ” insensible. When he came to himself; be was minus a valuable cluster-diamond ring, whichhacTbeen takexfromhis finger. — The ‘Geelong Advertiser’ is responsible foi* 'the following :—“ At the Smythesdale sports, ! E. Ebbells vaulted 10ft. Tin. If we mistake 'not this is the highest vault that has,been done, in public in the krifewn world ; 10ft. 6in. being iit is thought, given as the best ever done in England,' The old. champion, M. K. Gqllen, .of Winchelsea, is 'said to hive cleared lift; in a 'private trialbut. old age and flesh, are. beginjmh'g to tell on him, as! he only cleared 10ft. -3iri, jEbbells is only, eighteen years of i age,‘ : aud .th'Crefdre has plehty'of'time to improve even on his last grand performance.” > i ; ‘Both theatres Nveri? well attended l on Saturday evening. At the Princess’s “The Lily of .Killaniey '’'-fras repeated, landf-Was, even! better received ithan on its former representation..; Mr Eainford .and 'Afiss May , were, frequently applauded, and Mr Willis received a- call- for the cava scene, “ The Rose of Castle” will ,be reproduced to-night. —At the Queen’s the dramas of “ The Twa Drovers ” and the “Irish ; Emigrant ” were played, Miss Stephenson 'sustaining the chief part ’in. each ■ piece. To-night ' Planche’s last extravaganza, the burlesque of , “ The Fair -One With'the Golden Lodes,” preceded by a' pantomime, * will bo> played. -Mr Kemp has painted . some, new scenery, for .the production of thijs piece. t ’ L .. i Some tei-rifio squalls of wind and rain-passed over Invercargill between two and six o’clock a.m. on Friday. In of ,these. .the framework of the hew Mataufa railway goods shed—a ipapsive wooden structure of some 200 feet in length; with a fool tpan of over;so lapsed almost Rs'completely as a House built of i cards, smashing massive timbers; and costly : Oregon tie-beams ilika matchwood,! --The . labor

of a number of men for several weeks,-, ip say nothing jp.ffthe value of, the material was,.tiuxs few.-njinutes lost to Messrs ounm and Co.', the contractors,' whb had, In fact,'pot through with the heaviest portipn of the' wtork,. and < were lobking forward to ’ its ’ speedy., cbmpfetiop,. The ‘News’ says it is'istinlKted that L7OO will scarcely dovei* the dabiSgP. ' '■ r .On Sunday fast, a man named a fanhcr.residing in' ‘the" Hdbfr Valley, hear Timaru, -Self-destruction: < Thei ‘ Gazette ’ leams that on the morning of that day two men in his.epiplpjr went into his whare and found him weltering in blood, having inflicted a deadly wound in the left side of his throat, about two inches in length, and also a am&ller one bn- the nght'iTde.' r . One 'of the >meh! instantly rode away to VVaimate, and informed the police of the occurrence: : Dr Wareing-waS" alsojsneediljr ,and seiwed'np'.ihe wounds, which are .of: a most dangerous nature. It , is supposed . that the man' attempted selfdestruction in a fit of melahchpiy, being 1 a single, man and living by himself. 1 ’' Me has a mm”df 100 acres in the H6ok Valley, Mr’bP-fcdsKAW stemious habits, and when attended to on Sunday last Md the suin Of IiOO ’Sewh' hisi shirt. ;i .'-I' ; . At the banquet given recently to Mr-Vogel ntjtbe Thairies, oie of the Mr Eowe.J said he had been identified with rdining* for 45 years,‘at alii sorts.- of, minihg, cjSpmetimes.his' efforts were very unsuccessful; sometimes the Opposite, r - He; waa jone .of . bni.theThames field. He had been connected with it from the.cpmmenceiusnk, Mr Whitaker and himself had made the first investment—L2,2oo for half the Kuranui claim. The highest’geological authority had said they must be mad! But the investment had been a great success*. There were men in yAncklapd ; .;V^o.i<V er ® yet willing to invest their money whenever they

saw a probability of a return. Auckland was not deficient, in . enterprise. He had made LIO,OOO in sixmbntjis, ahld had lost L2o.ooo'in three, and had' possibly made half of it in another six-.*- -Thariwas the experience of many,The Thames had at one time got a bad name, but it was through the indiscretion of investors. There never was a field offering bettor means of investment than the Thames. A man narifefl .Henry,,Qedgejwag - charged at the Resident Magistrate’s. Court this morning with Using insulting and threatening languageto Mrs Crawford, the matron of the Immigra-' tiott Riirraoks, This master ofthe Barracks was the only witness .called, ;and from his evidence

it appeared that" Ged'ge' went to the place at 10.30- o’clock on -Saturday, mprning. passed through' the maiii entrance, ‘ arid notwithstanding ms', being ’ remonstrated i; wiih"i -and* told he would 1 'get into ■ trouble, went-'into the single girls l apartments, vi Here he used" bad language to the matron, and then went out and remained on an-elevated spot at the rear of the place-whereb e could be seen by, the girls, for over two hours. Ab be beckoned ( to them, the barrck-master went ojjjjside, arid expostulated with him. and asbe relusedto go away,' Constable Andersop, Vfho was passing,' was nailed ‘ and arrested him, He pleaded gulty to the charge this iriorniiig; 'arid' attributed : his having been there to having' had a' glass- too‘ l much'; but his Worship 1 held that indecent language,. - when used,-always implied-a depraved condition, 1 and stated thrit he: would take no-apology .when respectable females were so, insuUpdj-and .fined the defendant 40s. The Colonial Treasurer has given a hinjt-that should , be 1 valuable,, to- , those - who, venture opinions upon the Native pplicy of .the Gtoyernment. ~ It would,the perplexities which .grow up in ’ |he. Native department are not wholly of Maori planting. • It would seem that the aboriginal element of the Now Zealand population iria’d he employ ‘•‘special” correspondents, and use the electric telegraph. They l have a very keen appreciation; .of the anxiety of ' the European to extend . roads through,'the Colony,, .This anxiety is the measure of the value they set;upou hereditaments. Let us.put,the .case. thus. ,A' tribe of Maoris would;bo willing.to »jll their and' to-day for a nominal sum.. But' to-morrow there is a public meeting of Europeans to represent to their Government how valuable that laud would be for, say a railway, a road, or a telegraph line. Immediately the Maoris multiply the -value by two. It would be a little curious to* inquiry the source of this i,inspiration of the Maori mind. However, the fact is so. The Colonial Treasurer has. publicly, stated* that the greater the anxiety for ,a piece of land the more numerous are -the'barridft raiscd 'by .the"Native against the 1 'Government -obtaining, it—except, we presume, at;aprice. The,price -would possibly be regarded as for such laud in any other part of the world. 1 ‘ A London correspondent, speaking of the prospects of future projected penny newspapers Itt that. metropolis says’‘-‘-Among * the -new announcements for the next year is the * Circle,’ a daily paper to be devoted to ‘ London News.’ There is also projected another new daily, the ‘lndependent,’ whose mission is expressed in its title. That such ventures jp this age are of a highly speculative arid hazardous kind is sufficiently proved by the fate pf the ‘ Hour,’ which, after not a v«fy shining,existence of cine months, has brought tha proprietor,to the bankruptcy Court, with liabilities to the handsome amount of L 31,000, ;.. It is a result at which no one can feel surprise, considering the small rea- : son for existence offered by the new diurnal. • There was nothing in the ‘ Hour’ to distinguish it from any other morning paper or to tempt the purchaser. Troubled from the first ‘ Hour’ by the accursed want of pence, it has lived from hand to mouth in desperate expectation of something turning up, audit still lingers in that mysterious, way very common to men and newspapers in the last depths of impecuniosity. The truth js that the day for the new penny papers has past'for ever in London. The existing ones at that price do Well because they have taken Foot, and hive riribuFed 1 advertisers, but'-to start a new paper at a peony is as hopeless ao enter*

prise as the Guinea Coal Company with Walls-end-kt 425. A penny in these days is not equal a penny was when the ‘ Telegraph’ end ‘ Standard’ were founded, and the lucky proprietors of those thriving concerns, with their princely incomes, may chuckle over the fact that they are practically beyond the reach of