The Evening Star SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1874

Evening Star, Issue 3492, 2 May 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1874

The Governor of Tasmania is expected to the Lakes ,oUrse o£ »onth, on a tour to . ° r L *k o Mountains” was repeated at the Queen s Theatre to an indifferent attendTo : ai Sht “The Pirates of Savannah” will be produced. The scholarship of L 25 per annum for three years, given by the Synod of Otago and Southend, was gamed by Mr R. Huie, of Awamoko. mere were only two competitors. A stack fire occurred at Mr M'AulyV Totara, on Wednesday night. Eight hundred bushels °£ wheat were destroyed. Insurance covers about three-fourths of the loss. It is not stated now the fire originated* The arrangements for an Executive are underatood to be nearly completed, and it is expected they wiU meet the Council on Monday. As, k® yet an insuperable im- %?. Proposed reconstruction, we Go%e e r!:rnl PUbllßUgthe o£ n ® w of'the e n e^ g of the shareholders was C ° D ? p ? ,ny * a statement was read, showing the cash m hand ready for distribution among the shareholders, was L 774 . It^ aS o reSol J ved to de °lare a dividend £, and a motion was passed that w be “

The boat-race between the employes of Messrs Ferguson and Mitchell and those of Messrs Sargood and Co. was pulled this afternoon, and won by the former. The race was a hollow affair, the winning crew being fully a quarter-of-a-mile ahead at the finish.

A meeting of gentlemen interested in the establishment of Sunday evening services at Kensington, was held in the schoolhouse there last evening ; Mr Shacklock in the chair. A number of gentlemen volunteered to act as lay preachers, and Messrs TJren, Smith, Waldie, Lenton, and Edmonds were appointed a committee of management. The first service is to be held on Sunday week. , A meeting of the Otago Schoolmasters Association was held in the Government buildings this morning, when there was a large attendMr Montgomery read a paper on the “ Science of Education,” the discussion on which was postponed to the next monthly meeting. Captain Hutton kindly presented the Association with a copy of Dr Butler’s work on New Zealand birds. The meeting then adjourned until the first Saturday in June.

There was a full house at the Princess’s last evening, when the Siamese Troupe presented an unusually attractive bill. The principal feature of the programme was the feat oh the four cross ropes by one of the senior members of the troupe and a little girl three years of age, some of the positions assumed being marvellous. The dwarf triek was very well done ; and the bamboo trick, conjuring, juggling, and tumbling were all well received. The manager announced that this evening would positively be the Troupe’s last appearance in Dunedin. One of the most unique returns ever drawn up is that recently furnished by the Taranaki Education Board by an out-district in that Province. Opposite the name of a girl who attended school twice during the fifty-seven days of the quarter that it was opened was the entry, “ Mrs - has not time to dress her childrenagainst a child ten years old who attended thirty times, “ kept away from school to herd cowsopposite one who attended four times, “ whooping cough;” and opposite a second girl who attended only four times, “The parents have had time to get them ready for school. ” The ‘ North Otago Times,’ in an article on the order made by Mr Justice Chapman to produce telegrams in Macassey v. Bell, says:—“ The whole public opinion of the Colony will backup the demand to assimilate the law of the Colony with the law of England on the subject. Legislation on the question cannot be delayed without serious detriment to the public interest,and the matter is one which should have the earliest attention of Government. Fortunately, Parliament will be in session in two months hence, and the required legislation will, it is presumable, therefore, very shortly take place. Meantime swe reiterate the caution. |Mind whak you send by telegraph.” A very important case to cattle owners and butchers was tried at the R.M. Court this morning. The Clerk of the Roslyn Road Board summoned Mr John Asher for driving some cattle along the main road, Roslyn, within the prescribed hours, and it was alleged for the defence that if the law were allowed the cattle-yards would have to be removed, as it was necessary to drive the cattle there within the prescribed hours. The Superintendent and Clerk of the Executive Council had been summoned to produce the Executive minute-book, but the former failed to appear when called on, and the latter said that the Superintendent had authorized' him not to produce the book. Mr Harris pointed out that this inflicted great hardship upon his client, and the Bench, seeing theinfnngement was not a wilful one, merely inflicted a nominal penalty of 10s and costs. The seventh monthly meeting of the National Building Society will be held at the Society’s office, Princes street, on Monday evening at 6 o’clock. We have been requested to mention that an alteration has been made in the hour at which passengers per Maori are to embark. They will go on board that vessel at Rattray street wharf before 3.30 to-morrow afternoon, instead of proceeding to Port by 2.30 train, as previously announced.