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Evening Star, Issue 3510, 23 May 1874, Page 2

Mr Chapman’s entertainment at the Queen’s Theatre was moderately attended last evening. The tricks and second sight business were exceedingly well done. In the Auckland papers of May 7, the following ages appear in the obituary listßobt. Hunt, aged 83 years; Henry Hill, aged 75 ; and Mrs Shepherd, aged 74; total aggregate, 232 years. Mr Hill was a solicitor, and had been in the Colony twenty-one years. It may interest our readers to know that the English correspondence received at the Chief Post, Office to-day came via Torres Straits to Auckland. We mention the fact lest it should be imagined that the letters,, and particularly the newspapers, which bear no date impression, have been delayed. \ TheOamaru deputation, while in town the other day, communicated with the Minister for public works re the advisability of proceeding at once with the plate-laying on the Oamaru-Wai-taki main line, in order that there might be through traffic from and to the terminus of the Awamok® branch by next wool season; and a reply was received! from Mr Richardson to the effect that as soon as the bridges over the Lagoon mouth and the Boundary Creek were constructed (in about two months’ time), the layingiof the rails would be immediately pushed on. We were most unwittingly led into an error in describing, as we did do in our issue of the 14th, Mr W. Pearson as the medium through which certain proposals were made to the Government for the construction of a light railway through Seaward Bush. The mistake arose through misreading the memo, by the late Secretary for Works. Mr W. Brown was the gentleman who communicated with the Government. It is due to Mr Pearson to state that as Chief Commissioner of the Southland Waste Land Board he has always advocated that the railway in question should be undertaken by the Province, as is now proposed to be done. In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Nelson lately, the secretary jf the Caledonian Sosiety was sued by Mr Askew, an hotelkeeper. The plaintiff’s claim was for the value of eighteen bottles of Tennant’s ale, twelve bottles of Colonial ale, twelve jugs of beer for a “Doch an Dhurras ” for seventeen committeemen and others, and for twenty-three glasses broken, as it wq,s alleged, by the habit Scotchmen have of knocking their glasses together on festive occasions, the occasion in question having been the Caledonian fete, January j., 1871. The committee did not admit any portion ,pf the debt, but offered the plaintiff L2 10s, believing that he had sustained sotne loss. 3?or thafc arrjQiuif; judgment was given, each side to pay its own and half the Court costs. There appears to be good ground for believing that the baptism of fire Auckland is at present undergoing is not altogether the result of accident or carelessness. Three days after the last Queen street fire the school in Hepburn street was discovered to be on fire, and the circumstances point to a clear case of incendiarism. On the alarm being raised, the neighbors rushed to the building, which was just catching fire, and found that a most deliberate attempt had been made by some person to burn it, The school. is raised upon blocks a short distance from the surface of the ground. Under the building they found a large quantity of materials, consisting of cotton cloth, a woman’s apron, newspapapers, &c,, &c., thonughly saturated with kerosene oil, blazing furiously. The burning material was pulled out, and the fire extinguished. The result of the police investigation was that an old woman named Hunts? was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the Attempted arson. A correspondent Writes to the ‘Southern Cross’ as follows ”if & drunkard takes undue familiarity in the street, one pan give him in charge ; but what is to be dons whgi? a Good Templar makes too free? A lady hod kindly assisted in the musical portion of one of tfyiil’ open lodges, and had ; to submit to the jpaffiarous aspirations of the speakers (at time her pup was full to overflowing) after which one of jthe lights of the Horder,’ accosted hey a fashionable bookseller’s, dressed a Iq British grimy moleskin trousers, ditto hat and coat, ;with guph hands, and hair that appeared i\evey to have been combed since last cut, addressing fieri f WelJ, and how are you ?’ The lady, not reposing the individual, stared with astonishment at flip presumption, and began to be on the look out for the police, thinking him von. coin., when he again burst out with, ‘ Why, don’t you know me? Not know Brother Dash, who listened with mwfi to the music,’ &c. With that lie put oyt hie filthy black hands to shake with her.” The collections to-morrow at St. Paul’s will bo in aid of the Sunday School fund. The Dunedin Savings Bank will close on Monday, and re-open on Tuesday evening at the usual hour. T - T’he usual fortnightly meeting of the Commercial Building Society will be held on Tuesday, instead of Monday evening. We understand that a vessel is to be laid on for jbhA Samoa Hush. Further particulars will be fowjd jn our advertisement columns. Mr Ha?cop jpifi address the ratepayers of Leith Ward on evening, at Cotter’s Caledonian Hotel, at V, at the Star and Garter, Albany street, at 8.1*5. fkWe understand that the sailing of the s.s. Otago., for Oamaru and Northern ports, lias 1 been delayed on account of the weather prevailing on the coast, until to-morrow morning.

The prizes won at tkv late meeting of the Utago Kina Association will ‘ presented on parade on Monday next. In addition to the money and other prizes already notified, the winners or the highest aggregate scores in the three first matches will receive the following trophies: Silver medal, presented by Messrs Harrop and Neill.; barometer, by Hayman and v g . old T l°. ckot , hv Captain Stavely; cup, by "P™ Hislop; field glass, by Messrs Beaver and 00. We are requested to notify that any pnie-wmnera absent from parade can obtain their respective .prizes on application to the secretary, Mr Sydney James.