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Evening Star, Issue 3480, 18 April 1874, Page 2

The amount of Mr Robert Martini's tender (which was accepted) for the erection of workshops to contain the machinery lately ordered from England by the Dock Board is L 1,841 There will be no change in the performance at the Queen’s Theatre this evening. On Monday the Balmoral Variety Troupe of Scottish vocalists and performing animals will make their appearance.

The deer sent to the Province by the Earl of Dalhousie, and released on Morven Hills station in 1871, appear to have thriven well. The 1 North Otago Times’ learns from the late proprietor that they are now at least twenty in number. Those bred here have become very wild, and are well able to take care of themselves. The acclimatisation of these animals may be pronounced a great success. The increase, since March, 1871, has been thirteen, the number turned loose being t>yp stags and five hinds.

“ Timon” in the * Southern Mercury* writes: adapting himself to the situation. The newlyfledged Corporation of Arrowtown lately announced that they required a Town Clerk, and amongst the applications there was one from a Chinaman. Truly the pay is modest—Lls per annum and 1 extras,’ whatever these may be. But a Mongolian Town Clerk was rather too much for tfie dignity of Mr Mayor, and John’s offer was declined with thanks.”

The English Opera Company do not appear to have been over successful at Oamaru. They opened in “ Maritana” to an attendance which the local journal admits did not come up to anticipation; on Tuesday the “Daughter of the Regiment” drew much better; and on Wednesday “The Bohemian Girl” was played, but toe critic does not appear to have been, over pleased with it. The company sailed in the Samson for Timaru at midnight on Wednesday.

The Subcommittee for Harbor Improvement, whose report ha* jpst been published, waited yesterday morning op hi* Honor the Superintendent to request him to take the necessary steps to have a Bill creating a Harbor Trust brought before the Provincial Council at its ensuing session. His Honor received the deputation most courteously, and promised to bring the matter before the Executive as soon as possible, with a view to the recommendations of the Committee being embodied in a Bill to be introduced by the Government should they approve of them. "We received the above too late for publication yesterday. “Snyder” has his say about the Carandinis as follows; —“ The three Misses Cajcandini are phantoms of delight; likewise Madame Carandini, all but the phantom part, which couldn’t

be expected or looked for. I like Mr Gordon, and should like him better if he wasn’t always singing about shipwrecks, and churchyards, and graves, and sextons, and snowstorms, and gathering in dead bodies, which must be anything but delicious to contemplate, leaving out the departmental work of the gathering in. I don’t go to concerts to be made uncomfortable, and to be reminded in double-bass tones that the time is not far distant when I shall have to be gathered in myself. I like things to bo in keeping. What dp Miss Isabella an-i Mias Lizzie Carandini mean by saying that they have been wandering o’er the mountains ? Miss Isabella is in yellow satin, and Mjsa Lizzie in blue silk; and they laugh in their song, which they wouldn’t do if they bad had a mountain

ot two to wander over such as I have had in my time, lam of opinion that Miss Lizzie’s blue silk dress wouldn’t have looked quite so fresh as it did if she had been over mountains wandering, as she said she had on the occasion I was present. And then, because I have taken a middle seat in the front row, Miss Fannie comes on to. the front, and fixing her eyes upon says, right before five hundred people, Did I not love thee ?” A good many girls have told me this sort of thing in my time, but they didn’t go blurting it out before company. Messrs Berndston and Reichel have completed the they undertook at the instance of the Provincial Government to ascertain the practicability of bringing in water from the head of the Orewera to Orepuki. They have found that it is impracticable to bring in water from the locality indicated. The report says:—“ The level taken for the sludge channel to a point about a mile from the ocean beach was ascertained and proved to be 42ft of rise. We started our levels from that place, and found that! 466 ft

would have commanded the Orepuki gold workings. Thence we proceeded to the Otautau, having ascertained from the Provincial Engineer, the rise of the Otautau bridge from high water mark. We commenced our levels from the bridge, and finished in Raymond’s Gap. The total rise from high water mark to this place, only gave 350 ft. This is the only available route for a water-race to Orepuki goldfield, but the levels show it is quite impracticable. The tributaries of the Waiau, between Raymond’s Gap and the Waiau, lay on lower levels than the Gap itself, and consequently no water could be obtained from there.” Mr Daniel, M.P.0., in a note forwarding the report, says : —“All that can be done is by making dams, &c., and that will have to be undertaken by private hands.”

The following, which we take from the ‘ Ballarat Courier,’ can scarcely fail in possessing an interest for parents and guardians of children :—“ A. little girl, three and a-half years of age, the daughter of Mr Munro, of Eyre street, died suddenly on Thursday evening. She was seized with, vomiting after dinner. Dr Jakins was sent for, and he administered emetics, &c. The child did not improve, and Dr Nicholson was also called in, but the patient died at 11 p.m. Both doctors refused to give a certificate, because there was nothing to indicate the cause of death; an inquest was therefore hold on Saturday by Mr Gaunt, P.M., acting coroner. Dr Jakins performed the postmortem examination in the presence of Dr Butler, when the cause of death was found to be

enteritis, and, on the medical evidence, the jury returned a verdict that the child died by the visitation of God, in a natural way, of the disease aforesaid, and not by any violent means whatsoever. From the evidence of the child’s father, it appears that she was well and hearty previous to eating her dinner, when she complained of a pain in her stomach ; her dinner consisted of boiled beef, cabbage, and carrots. Dr Jakins said that the fermentation of this food probably caused the inflammation of the bowels, and led to the child’s death ; meat and stewed together frequently caused vomiting in healthy people, especially in thundery weather. Dr Butler quite coincided in Dr Jakins’s opinion.”

We find the Mr A. S. Paterson, who went to Melbourne as the representative of the Dunedin branch of the Melbourne Young Men’s Christian Association, writing to the ‘ Argus’: **l spoke of the Dunedin Athenaeum as having a larger number of spiritualistic and infidel magazines and books, in proportion to those of an opposite character, than the kindred institutions of Melbourne and the other Colonial towns. I stated that this had been alleged and complained of by persons of all Christian sects, and I mentioned the names of such magazines found in our institution and not in yours. I spoke of this as a source of danger to young men, not at a public meeting, not even at a meeting ta which the public were invited, but only the members of the Young Men’s Christian Association and their friends, who were kind enough to receive mo warmly as a representative of New Zealand. For this I am dragged before the public, and made the subject of violent abuse. I blamed no one; I simply stated

a fact. I did not speak disrespectfully—nor speak at all, indeed—of my fellow-townsmen who think differently from me. You report mo as saying that there are ‘ a great many unbelievers’ in Dunedin. I used no such words. I did not refer at all to that subject, and your statement therefore is a pure assumption. I was not assuming the position of a public instructor ; and X do not think that you have done honor to your position as such by your attack on an unobtrusive stranger. ” To which the editor replied “We do not see what the Christian young men of Melbourne had to do with the contents of the Dunedin Athenseum. If a stranger, however ‘ unobtrusive’ he may be, chooses to indulge in this sort of tittle-tattlo in the presence of reporters, he has no right to complain of comments. Our reporter, we may add, has no doubt of the correctness of Lis report.”

A meeting of the 1.0.0. F. Hall 00. will fee held in the Leith Lodge room on Monday evening, at 7 o’clock.

Mr Barton will address the electors at Hardy’s North Dunedin Hotel, George street, at eight o clock this evening.

By the Freetrader, from HobartTown,there arnyed a circus and acrobatic company. The opening performance of the above will be given in the Princess Theatre on Monday evening. . M- r Wales will address the .electors this evening as underßaxter’s Hotel, Maitland street, at seven; Fagan’s Carrier’s Arms, Princes street, at eight; Watson’s Royal Hotel, Walker street, at nine.

We have received from Mr Wise, Princes street, a copy of the new map of the Province just issued by him. It is undoubtedly the best got up thing of the kind we have seen; and reflects the utmost credit on the lithographer, Mr D. Henderson. The map, which not only shows in the clearest manner the towns, roads, &c., but indicates the several electoral districts, and is furnished with a scale of distances, is published at the moderate price of Ss 6d.