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Evening Star, Issue 3461, 26 March 1874, Page 2

The burlesque and pantomime at the Queen’s theatre continue to draw good houses, and will be kept on the boards for the remainder of the week.

A Victorian squatter, hlr Dbhald Cameron, has found journalism anything‘hut a paying speculation. He took shares in the ‘ Town and Country Journal,’and the ‘Evening Express,’ and in the course of a few months lost L 13,000 by the venture.

■ r ® BU W of the commission appointed to mqmre into the differences between the Green Island School Committee and Ihe teacher is that the Government have requested to Mr A. G. Allan,: the schoolmaster, to resign, which he refuses to do. It is stated that he intends bringing an action against the Government. The first sod of the Dunedin and Mqeraki railway, was turned at Deborah Bay this afternoon by his Honor the Superintendent, assisted by the Mayor of Port Chalmers (Mr.M’Dermid), the Kev. Dr. Stuart, and Mr' Blair, district Engineer. .There were about 140. persons' present, and 'after the ceremony his Honor addressed the assemblage; Everything passed off well. Our report of the proceedings will appear to-morrow. •-

A good deal of business was done at the Immigration Barracks, Caversham, to-day.' Married couple * with famiiiea fouhd- employment—the men as farm servants, the women as domestic servants—at about average of. from L 65 to L7O a-year ; while one couple, with their son, received L9O. .Single girls got about L 25 t6 L3O, and the young men LI per week.. About forty-five of the young men will he forwarded to Invercargill to-morrow.

The Artillery Company competed this morning for their Challenge Belt, at the Anderson’s Bay Rifle Range, upon the following conditions —viz., five shots at 300, 400, 500, and 600 yards; standing position at the first range, kneeling at the second, and any position at the others; Wimbldepn targets, and.Government rifles and ammunition.. The morning was a fine one, and but few of the corps were present. Gunner Smith is the winner, with the score of 54, and holds the. belt for the' ensuing six months.

' The Dunedin Presbytery met the congregation of the First Church last evening,. and, after devotional exercise, intimated that it was open to the congregation to nominate a minister: whereupon, on the motion of Mr A. C. Begg, the name of, the Rev. Dr. Cameron, of St! Hilda, Victoria, was inserted in the call, to which there were no dissentients. On Sunday next the congregation will have another opportunity of signing the call; and on;the following Wednesday the Presbytery will meet and take the final steps in the matter.

Mr G. D. Carter has been lecturing in Melbourne in defence of the use of intoxicating iliquors.The lecturer declared that among the old Jewish nation wine was a thing of everyday use, and was regarded not as a curse hut a blessing; and that in the more recent date of the Christian era, it was wine, not water, that the Good Samaritan poured into the wounded trayeller- and it was to,an,“bin;” and not to a . Rechabite tent,” that he was conveyed. One of Christ’s miracles, also, was to turn water into wine, and not wine into water.

_ The Grand Duchess was repeated at the Princess’s, last evening, to a capital attendance in all parts of the house. ■ The. audience was 'a very appreciative one, and was unusually liberal With its applause. The regulation scene,, “ Say! to him,” and the drinking song ■were specially singled out, and the second one all .but encored. In previous notices of this opera we omitted to mention the part of Baron Grog— not because the part was small, but because we had no desire to penetrate the incognita of the persona tor Since, however, Mr Evans declares himself, we will do him the justice to that. he does the say little he has to do well To-night Satanella will be reproduced.

Now that tree-planting is extending, the relative value of the kinds planted should be carefully studied by those investing capital. On.this subject the ‘Lyttelton Times’ pub-' hshes the following extract from a letter received by a gentleman in Christchurch from a firm in America “In reply to your inquiry about the Finns insignis, we beg to say that, tue timber of this tree is used largely by boxmakers and coopers, for staves, &c., but not for building materials, being too soft, and not fit to be exposed to the weather. The timber best adapted for the purpose mentioned is that of the so-called Oregon pine (spruce) Abies Don-' glasn, which tree is also of rapid growth, and the seed of which can be furnished at about sixteen dollars per pound.” I A gossiper in the Melbourne ‘Town and* Country Journal’ relates a good story ; “Did you over hear of such effrontery? A young' gentleman, who is the son of a very rich Melbourne merchant, had the cheek to tell his' frith er the othsr day' thftt he wanted to marry a governess. Considering that his parent had married his own cook, it did not seem to the youth that there were rocks, ahead. Buthe : was mistaken. ‘ Marry the governess !’ cried the old gentleman, in a rage ; ‘ I’d sooner see' you run away with a- barmaid;’ ‘ But isn’t it better to marry a governess than a cook ?’ retorted the son rather severely. ‘No fear,’ was the replt ‘ The one would save you a’lot of money, the other would inake you, spend it.’' v\ hat true ideas of economy!” The ‘ Cologne Gazette’ of January 2 has the; followingAt Collier’s manufactory of bells Berlin, three church bells have just been, mushed, haying been cast from guns taken from the hrench m the late war. The Emperor of G ermany has presented the guns to the Christian body by which the bells wore ordered. The total weight is 18cwt 55£lbs. On the largest i?,,, 1 ®.- ea .d ,bf the Emperor in relief, and the following inscription,. “ Wilhelm I;, Kaiser von Deutschland.” On the other side, this inscnption appears—“Filr die Deutsch-evauge-lische Gemomde. Christchurch, Canterbury, rTew Zealand, The second largest bell shows the head of the Crown Prince, with the inscription, “Friedrich Wilhelm, Kronprinz von Deutschland.” The third has the head of Bismarck in relief, and below it, “Fiirst yon Bismarck, Reichskanzler des Deutschen Reiches.”

Wntmg of the English cricketers, on the • H lclr . final match in Victoria, the ■ Australasian said, “ The Eleven of to-day arc a different team to the Eleven of two months back. Ihe Englishmen have gained their true xorm, and at last fairly outstripped defeat: in batting, bowling, and fielding they have improved a hundredfold. The ‘leviathan’ has shown us that he is indeed all that our fancy painted him, whether against eleven, eighteen, or twenty-two in the field, having in thirteen matches scored nearly 800 runs, and secured an average of 39 an innings, playing against a great variety of bowling, and on many different ana unfavorable, grounds. His brother has given us a taste' of those fast-scoring qualities for which he is famous, and has actually opened the eyes of certain laudatores temporis acti in our midst, who laughed his cricket to scorn, and deemed the game sadly deteriorated if he was accounted to hear the ‘hall mark.’ Jupp, Gscroft, Greenwood, and MTntyre have all borne ti u i“ eir Home reputations; while Mr Bush has completely reversed public opinion in ms favor, those who at first declared him to be no better than our own keepers of the sticks, now averring that wo have not seen his equal since the days of Tom Lockyer of revered memory. The bowlers, too, have rather astonished the natives in their journeying around, and although not the ‘ wonders ’ we had thought them to be, ere we had an opportunity of judging for ourselves, are splandid bowlers, and, on the most perfect of batsmen’s wickets, nme-runs-a-wicket-men.

A very excellent institution, upon a new plan, lias been initiated in Melbourne, for the reclamation ot what are commonly known as “ gut ter children. It is of recent formation, and has already many admirers and the promise of a considerable amount of assistance. It is known as the “ Boye’ Trading Brigade,” and

the object in -foitaing it is -set out in one * v i, 1 ? 16 ® f ?r regulation of the institution to be to assist poor and: neglected children in trading and obtaining employment, and to train them in habits of industry and good order” The promoter of; the brigade (Mr H. Davis), in a latter to a Melbourne journal, has set forth the objects he had in-View in the formation of the brigade as, follows:—“ Having collected a number, of destitute boys, and provided them . m *°. rms > andia number for the purpose of identification, a truck is lent to each of them. lnree _or four boys are sent round with each truck for the purpose of gathering rags, bottles, , •> nQ d one of the bigger boys, in whose honesty some confidence can be placed, is put at the head of each truck-band. All the articles collected are brought to the yards every evening, and the superintendent gives to each boy threefourths, of the estimated value of’ his day’s work, and places the other fourth to his credit in a fund which has been formed for the purpose of apprenticing him or starting him in some other employment, and which is. only drawn upon in case of necessity.,, The premises just ob-, tamed are in Cambridge street, Oollingwood,;] and care has been*.taken to have accommodation' sufficient to enable those who are homeless to;' live upon such premises under the charge of thei superintendent. For this privilege payment isi re fi u h'®d- Arrangements have been made to! sell direct to ; the wholesale dealers all the ar-1 tioles collected, and the profits of the marine'' store: traders are thereby saved. As no boy l goes out hy himself, or is allowed to want any-> thing necessary for him, and as all articles are* brought in daily and inspected, it is believed that, very little dishonesty can be practised, i As soon, however, as the present- plans are in‘ good working order, further requirements are 1 to be organised, and the most trustworthy boys, will be selected to do other and more respeot•if l H j 8 expected that .the brigade. will become entirely self-supporting, but the promoter points out that “in' the meantime it should ha remembered that the brigade now 1 ; started will be such as ihe public,thinks proper! to make it. If assistance is freely given by do- < -B a $ ol l® articles, as well as by ad-i vice and personal effort; the wbi-k undertaken will bo certainly successful, and many of the boys now so freely anathematised—whoso present life is one of monotonous wearisomcness, and whose future threatens to be dark and evil, alike dangerous to themselves and to others — ma y» by kind and judicious management, be converted into good and useful members of society. ”, ; .

There is to be a select quadrille assembly at St v George’s Hall this evening. A third degree meeting of the Pioneer Lodge °f the 1.0.G-.T. will be held in the Congregational Hall, Moray place, to-morrow (Friday), at 7.30 p.m.

The 122 nd monthly meeting of the Permanent Building. Society of Otago will be held in Temple Chambers to-morrow (Friday) evening, at 7 o’clock.