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Evening Star, Issue 3504, 16 May 1874, Page 2

Telegraphic communication is now established with Switzers. There will be a sitting in bankruptcy on Monday before Mr Registrar Ward. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman has appointed Mr 0. R. Chapman a perpetual commissioner for taking the acknowledgments of married women. An entertainment of the usual character was given. at the Princess Theatre by the Siamese and Circus Companies last evening. The troupes make their last appearencein Dunedin this evening, when some novelties are promised. The largest number of prisoners that have been discharged in one day from the Dunedin Gaol, since the discharge of the Maori prisoners, took place this forenoon, eighteen of them having received their liberty from effluxion of time. It was intimated in the Provincial Council yesterday that the Government proposed to meet the wishes of owners of property and re-sidents-t in the districts through which the Port Chalmers Railway runs, by running an early train from Dunedin at seven a.m., and a late one at six p.m., if the proposed* alterations in the time table were practicable and would not interfere with the manager’s arrangements. . On Wednesday evening, about 7 p.m,, a brilliant meteor was observed at Oamaru, coming from the west, and falling at an angle of about 75 degrees eastward. As it came in contact with the horizon it appeared to burst, giving out a deep red glare. It was certainly the most distinctive and most remarkable one that has yet been observed in the district. The ‘ Times’ asks if this can be the same meteor reported in our telegraphic intelligence as being seen at Charleston. Two thousand three hundred and ten miles for a small prize, and that by a girl too. This is what the Spring Bay correspondent of the ‘Hobart Town Mercury’ relates. At the annual distribution of prizes at the Triabunna public school, on April 12, the special prize for regular attendance was given to a Miss Fox, who had during the year walked 2,310 miles to obtain it: she actually walked twelve miles a day to and from schools. •We hope the prize was a valuable one: it certainly deserved to be. A “New Chum” wants to know if the Government is aware that the new arrivals are being charged eight shillings a week for the cottages at Kensington occupied by them. For his information we have to state that the Government is fully aware of the charge, which is made with their sanction, and considered very reasonable. There is very little doubt that if the Government desired to let the cottages to others than the immigrants, they could easily obtain higher rents, and we do not see what reason “ New Chum” has to complain. There was a very excellent attendance at the Queen’s Theatre last evening, when Mr Chapman gave his opening entertainment, which is divided into three parts, and falls almost entirely.on his shoulders; and Mr Chapman succeeded in keeping his audience amused for close upon three hours. First he gave tricks of legerdemain, which were followed by secondsight manifestations, in which Miss Ida Bonnifon took partthe entertainment concluding with an exposure of Spiritualism, which the lecturer denounced as wicked. There will be a change of programme to-night. The President of the Roslyn and Kaikorai Institute, Mr A. H. Ross, delivered his inaugural address to a good attendance of members in the hall of the Institute on Tuesday evening The Vice-President, Mr Chisholm, was iu the chair. The address, which was upon the Advance of Thought,” was a most interesting and instructive one, and was listened to throughout with marked attention, the members present generally expressing their satisfaction with the manner in which the subject had been treated. The subject for consideration on Tuesday night will be—“ Is it expedient or necessary to run trains on the existing railways in Otago on Sundays.” With reference to the paragraph about stacks oßwheat haying been burnt on a. farm at the month of the Otepopo, on Friday, the 10th instant, the North Otago Times’has received the following additional information Mr Robert Darroch states that the stacks mentioned were his property, and were not insured. That he has obtained strong evidence as to the fire bein«" the work of an incendiary, having found, near the ashes of the stacks, a roll of charred linen which had evidently been singed, under the belief that being ignited and placed in the stack it would smoulder for a time, and then be fanned by the wind into a flame. There appears but little doubt that the perpetrator of this dastardly crime placed several of these “ fire rolls” in different parts of the stack, some one of which was the means of accomplishing the destruction meditated. As yet no clue to the culprits has been obtained. A correspondent calls our attention to the necessity for the police taking i-rompt measures to effectually check the larrikinism at the north-end of the City, where it is rapidly becoming an intolerable nuisance, and vouches for the following “On Thursday evening, about a dozen young ruffians set upon one of the lads who delivers the Star in the neighborhood of the Caledonian Grounds, and beat him so severely that one of his teeth cut ririit through his cheek. We may add that the boy gave no provocation, being nearly a stranger here, and not long since- arrived from another Colony, And last week a lady returning from town was in George street met by a crowd of these rascals, who chased and pelted her with mud. Such acts should be put a stop to at once, and _we think a vigorous application of the cat-o-nine tails to the backs of these gentry, if the police succeed in catching some of them, would have a very beneficial effect.” A special meeting of the Sons of Temperance will be held on Monday evening, and 7.30, The No. 1 Company is ordered to attend a special battalion parade on Monday evening l . The quarterly summoned meeting of the Pioneer Lodge, P. A.F. Society, will be held in Milton Hall on Monday evening, at 7-30. A summoned meeting of the Loyal Reith Lodge, I. 0.0. F. will be held on Monday evening. Degrees, will be given on Wednesday next, at 8 p.m. We perceive by advertisement in another column that Mr Sykes, whose performances of the descriptive piece of music, “ Sunshine and Tempest have always delighted audiences, purposes publishing it. He is now busy in arranging it, and we doubt not but that every musical enthusiast in the City and Province wjjl secure a copy, which can be had only through Mr Sykes himself. We believe it is due to Mr Sykes to say that be gives Mr Heller credit fpr Hie idea; but the introduction and andante, movement are his own composition, and the arrangement of the music entirely his own.