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Evening Star, Issue 3500, 12 May 1874, Page 2

From the 7th inst. to the 9th inst. inclusive, applications were received at the Immigration Office, Dunedin, for passages for eighty-one souls, equal to sixty-eight statute adults. The taking of evidence in the ease of Burns v. the Otago and Southland Investment Co., at the Supreme Court, this morning, was concluded, and counsel were addressing the jury when we went to press. At the Supreme Court, this morning, on the application of Mr Smith, his Honor appointed Thursday next as the day for hearing argument in support of the rule granted to set aside the order granted in the case of Macassey v'. Bell to inspect telegrams. A fourth share in a now well known claim in the Upper Waikaia district was last winter sold for L 5, and was reported speedily to have returned the purchaser over L6OO for his share of the returns, abovej 80oz having been obtained in one week out of a 13ft paddock. Mr Burford’s benefit at the Queen’s Theatre last evening was not so largely attended as might have been expected. The nautical drama of “ Jenny Foster,” which was tbe }riecc de resistance, was well played. To-night, when the same programme will be repeated, will be tbe last performance of this company, as they leave for Invercargill to-morrow. The case of Maclean and the Bank of New Zealand v. Macaudrew and others has been before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It is an appeal fro .. an order of the Court of Appeal of 'New Zealand, made on December 4,1872, which reversed an order of the Supreme Court, Otago, in September preceding. After a long discussion their lordships reserved judgment. The entertainment by the Siamese and Circus Companies at the Princess’s was only moderately well attended last evening. The programme appeared to give general satisfaction, the riding of Young America and Madame Salavaro, and the tricks on the bamboo and cross-ropes, by the Japanese forming the principal features of the entertainment. There will be another performance to-night.' The ‘ Tuapeka Times ’ pronounces against the Gov eminent, on the ground that any Government in which the offices of Secretary for Public Works and Goldfields are disassociated cannot be for the interests of the goldfields. The office of Goldfields Secretary, if one should be appointed, will prove to be purely of an ornamental kind, and it does not expect any goldfields member will be found to accept the office on such terms. By way of Melbourne we learn that Mr Du Cane’ssuecessorin the Government of Tasmania will be Sir Arthur Gordon, at present Governor of Mauritius. The salary in the latter Government is L 7,000 per annum; in Tasmania it is onlyL3,ooo. Removalfrom Port Louis to Hobart Town cannot be called promotion; and the people of Tasmania have the unpleasantness of knowing that their new representative of her Majesty is the most unpopular Governor who ever ruled in Port I^ouis. During the sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, his Worship, addressing the Sub-Inspector of Police, said that a young man sitting in the lobby of the Court complained that he had received some injuries, and that on applying for admission to the Hospital he had been refused it. He wished a constable to be sent there and learn the reason of the objection, or to see if the young man’s story were correct. The police would make known the reason complained of to him. The Sub-Inspector promised to carry out his Worship’s instructions. During the past fortnight, a largo amount of business has been done at the Survey Office, Lawrence. The_ local paper informs us that the various district maps have been scanned by anxious eyes, and many sections of land have been applied for which, two or three years ago, would not have been looked at. /The hearing of applications for no fewer than 5,500 acres is set down for the 27th inst., and we learn that this earth hunger remains unabated. At the present rate of application, every section within five miles of Lawrence will be taken up in less than a month. The head of the Wellington police is known to have considerable decision of character, and our contemporary the ‘ Tribune ’ now instances him as an authority on character. It appears that Inspector Aitcheson was at Wanganui very recently, and was there called upon to give “character” to a couple of delinquents, which he did by descrioing one as the “ most untruthful man he ever met,” which was certainly saying a good deal: the other he ticketed as “ the greatest loafer in the Province.” No one can accuse Inspector Aitcheson of being “ mealy-mouthed.” An accident occurred, we understand, on Wednesday last to Cobb’s coach which leaves the Dunstan for Dunedin by way of Alexandra. William Duff was driving, and when only a short distance from the starting place, the morning being very dark, the coach capsized over a rock at the side of the road. There were eleven passengers inside and a good number outside, and consequently a few bruises and a rather severe shake were the result, but we believe only one person was hurt. This was John Leya, who fell out of the coach as it capsized, it falling on him. He seemed seriously injured at first, but on being taken to tbe Dunstan Hospital, we fiear a more favorable opinion was entertained of him. After the accident another coach and a fresh driver were obtained by the passengers.

Mr MKenzie, carpenter, of Warepa, met with a most serious accident at Balclutha on Saturday evening. While proceeding along the Ferry flat towards home, and at a good handgallop, his horse came in contact with a dray coming in the opposite direction. The force of the collision caused the shaft Of the dray to penetrate Mr M‘Kenzie’s thigh, the horse going from under him, and leaving him suspended, causing a dreadful laceration of the flesh, but without, as far as can be ascertained, injuring the bone. The ‘ Bruce Herald ’ tells us that, up to Sunday evening, he remained in a very precarious state, when he rallied somewhat, and gave hopes of ultimate recovery. “Mrs Colls,” says the ‘Hew Zealand Herald,’ m ,P 3 a select registry office, and resides in Wakefield street. On Saturday afternoon a man and woman, smartly dressed, made their appearance at the door of Mrs Oolls’s residence, and when asked their business, the man slyly *|Pu !.■ , ‘ they wanted to get married.’ With the best countenance the lady could command, the couple were informed that it was the Registrar’s and not a ‘ Registry Office’ the required. With a sheepish look the two departed, the man muttering ‘lt is hard a man doesn’t know where to get married these days. A number of men have left the Waipori Sludge Channel works. They have been receiving their wages monthly from the contractors, and wished the term altered to fortnightly, but to this the contractors would not accede. The Tuapeka Times’ remarks :—lt is well for the laboring classes that they can afford to throw up remunerative employment in this manner, and thus put employers of labor to inconvenience 5 but the matter of receiving his wages once or twice in the month hardly justifies a man leaving steady work at any time, more particularly on what is likely to be a long job. The Hon, W. Fox has recently addressed a letter to the chairman and members of the Napier Licensing Board, respecting the disgraceful condition and management of certain public-houses in the Province of Hawke’s Bay. The hon. gentleman says : “ The houses which I refer to, are . . These houses are all conducted in the worst possible manner, so as to render them the source of the greatest discomfort and disgust to travellers, instead of the places of refreshment they are intended to be. Two out of the three are filthy to the last degree, and swarming with vermin. The servants are quite unfit for their work, and the whole of the surroundings of the traveller who resorts to them —the sight, the smell, the language which greets his ear, are calculated to excite intense disgust. To say these places are beastly would be a misapplication of terms. No beast is ever a participant in such scenes as occur at these dens. They are not beastly but demoniac; no words can better describe them than ‘Hells upon earth.’ It is a burning disgrace to any Government that such places should be licensed for money to demoralise the community, outrage public decency, and scatter vice and misery broadcast. It appears to have been particularly the object of those concerned, to push such houses into those places where large bodies of labourers are employed on public works, or where considerable Native communities afford ready victims for the rums'? 1101 ; ; and it seems to be particularly in such districts_ that the vigilance of the licensing authorities has been the most ralaxed, and opportunity given for the establishment of the very worst description of drinking dens by which the country is cursed.” Messrs Burton Bros., the well-known photohaving received by a recently arrived Home ship, a number of the newest specimens of art in the shape of oil and water-color paintings, &c., have determined to dispose of them by art union, the drawing of which is fixed for the 30th instant. We inspected the various prizes this morning, and can speak in the highest terms of them—down even to those of the smallest value. _ The first prize is au oilpainting a sea piece off the coast, and not valued too highly at thirty-five guineas. The second is a Niemann—a landscape in this artist s best style, and a perfect gem. Among the oil paintings are also an effective view in Venice, by Pritchett, and a painting of flowers, very naturally done. The oil paintings amount m value to one hundred and fourteen guineas. Then come fifteen “autotypes” of the more celebrated works of the great masters, such as Kataelle, Michael Angelo, Rubens, Titiens, and others. These are exact facsimiles of the origi nals, produced by a process termed autotypy and therefore highly valuable as faithful reproduction of the old painters’ chef d'ceavres. There is a large number of oleographs, all of which are good, but especially that after Birket Foster’s Storming of the Castle.” We have not space to mention more than a few of the long list of prizes, but must not forget some beautiful watercolors on photographic bases —photographs from the originals, afterwards colored by hand. One in particular, representing a scene in the late Frauco-Prussian war, is a fine piece of grouping and each figure is full of character. The remainder of the series consists of chromo-lithographs, photographs, and bronzes, none of which are of a trashy description ; so that it will be seen there is something to suit the taste of everybody, 1 rom the satisfaction which Messrs Burton’s previous art unions have given there can be no doubt that this one, of three hundred members, will go off very quickly. An additional incentive is offered to subscribers by the notice that each ticket holder who fails to receive a prize will be ent tied to chose a view from the photographic series of “ Otago thraugh the Camera.”