The Evening Star SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1874

Evening Star, Issue 3528, 13 June 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1874

The prorogation of the Provincial Council will take place on Monday afternoon. Mr M'Kellar is the new Goldfields Secretary, and last evening took his seat on the Government benches. Our Port Chalmers correspondent telegraphs that another child died on board the Atrato this afternoon. [n the matter of Outrad v. Begg, the form of the Resident Magistrate’s judgment prevents appeal, and we are informed that a writ against the auctioneer and Mr Begg has been issued this morning, which we hope will terminate what Mr Bathgate calls, as it may be, a very difficult question. The Melbourne ‘ Telegraph ’ supplies us with the following amusing item :—A good point may be made by an interruption. The Chief Secretary on Monday night denied that he had sent to England for the furniture for Government House without calling for tenders there. “ But L, L. Smith says so,” exclaimed an excited elector. “Then,” replied Mr Francis, “L. L. Smith lies -” Enthusiastic cheers followed the word, and it was not for a full minute that the Chief Secretary was able to go ou with—“.lies under a mistake.” All things considered, the representation of “ The Lady of Lyons,” at the Princess’s last evening, was very satisfactory. Mrs Hill is a careful and conscientious Pauline, but is not able to bring the character into its proper prominence. Mr Steele’s Claude is undoubtedly his best performance, and can always be seen with pleasure ; Mr Musgrave made an excellent Colonel Lamas, and the subsidiary parts (Mr Hi-sford, perhaps, excepted) were well filled. To night “ The Dumb Man of Manchester” will be produced. A deputation from the Early Closing Association waited on the employers in the drapery trade on Tuesday last, to make arrangements for closing at an earlier hour on Saturday*. They met with very favorable receptions, and universal assurances of sympathy and support. By far the greater majority of employers stated their willingness to close at 6 o’clock on Saturdays ; but owing to exceptional circumstances, one firm in the City would not agree. The Association, however, trusts in the course of the next few weeks to show some results for the efforts that are being made. The Good Templars of Grahamstown, at a recent given in that place, a lopted an ill-advised course to shew how low a man falls when he becomes intoxicated from spirituous Jliquors. A youth was made to come forward on the stage and enact the drunken man in his most repulsive antics. We endorse the remarks of a c-mtempory, in alluding to the above exhibition :—Temperance might well beseech to fee saved from her indiscreet and indecent friends ft Grahamstown, who introduced such a disgusting performance and applauded it to the echo.

A case of some interest to cricketers was heard in the Ballarat county court very recently. A lad named Burke sued another named Ward for the sum of LSO, as damages for an accident by which a stick thrown by Ward so severely injured one of Burke’s eyes as to destroy its sight. Both boys were concerned in a cricket match, Burke being one of the “in” side, and Ward “a scout ” on the side of the field ; and the case turned upon whether Burke, being one of the “ins,” had a right to be in the “play ” where he received the injury. Judge Rogers decided that he had no right there, and gave a verdict to defendant.

Advertising is now reduced to a science. Tn one of the Home journals recently it w» announced that a shoemaker in London was paying an indigent M, A. to travesty Homer for advertising purposes. A in Charleston employs a poet; the following clipped from the local paper being a sped menof his abilities s—“Thbßells. By Edgar Allan Poe ? 0 dear me no, oh no ! But by your friend John Bell, Whose duty it is to tell, In a sort of rustic rhyme, That he sells To the swells Tobacco superfine; That they cry As they try Keeping time, time, time. In this expressive lingo ; Oh by jingo ! Oh by jingo ! I Such stingo, Oh such stingo !! ! is Hunter’s pure sublime !!!!”

Some strange individuals appear to be placed, in the commission of the peace in New South Wales. In one of the country districts of that Colony, very recently, a case ot larceny occupied the attention of the Court of Petty Sessions. The prisoner, when being baptized, was blessed with the name of Henry ; and it happened in this instance, as it frequently does, that this magistrate, who, by the way, was chairman of the Court, and Henry were at one time what is termed “old cronies.” The larceny closed, the magistrates had the usual consultation for ten minutes or so, and then the chairman, addressing the prisoner, said, “Well, Henry! you leave this Court without a stain upon your character ; still, for all that, we must give you three months. ”

A special service was held in All Saints’ Church last evening on the opening of rhe new organ, in which Bishop Nevill, the Yen. Archdeacon Edwards, and the He vs. Stanford, Stanley, Penny, and Leeson assisted. The service was intoned by the Hev. Mr Penny, and a sermon by Bishop Nevill followed. The vocal musical service, Tallis’s, and an anthem from the Messiah were given by the united choirs of St, Paul’s and All Saints’ Churches. The instrumental portion, which included as selections, the Russian National Hymn| an adagio by Beethoven, and the Festal March, and Jupiter Symphony, by Mozart were finely played by Mr A. Towsey. We have before published a description of the organ. It was slightly out of tune last evening, which somewhat marrred the effect of Mr Towsey’s playing; but the tone is rich and mellow, although, we think, scarcely sufficiently powerful for the church. Probably this is owing in part to its position, which prevents the pealing “notes of praise” of the organ resounding through the “ longdrawn aisle.” After the service a collection was made in aid of the organ fund, when LIS 5s was contributed.

-he holding capacity of tjw Immigration Barracks at Cavershatn was severely, but at the same time satisfactorily, tested Ijast wet k. On the Ist of Judo there were domiciled there 120 families, 220 single men, and 70 single women, or 800 souls. These were immigrants by the J. N. Fleming, Janet Court, Buckinghamshire, and Asia! During the last two weeks sixty families left the barracks, having either found employment, or settled in different parts of the country. Uf the remaining families, the heads of ten have found employment, and will leave the b irracks in a couple of days, lha ija .fried people whose desire is to reside in the City, have experienced the utmost difficulty in procuring hpnse accommodation; and we have had told tons i$ almost mournful terms the wearisome and profitless tramps of some of ■ the men and women on i the look-out for houses. One man to-day assured us that he bad been unable to find suitable accomodation for hia wife and

family, and in despair, had been obliged to accept “as a favor,” one room at a rental of nme shillings a week. There are still half-a-dozen single men and a few young women (“ Asiatics ”) in the barracks. Mr Hake, the obliging barrack-master, informs us that there is a good demand for ploughmen and farm laborers, twenty of whom found good situations at from x.60 to L 65 per year.

The Orangemen of New South Wules have sent the following address to the Emperor of Germrny :—“The noble and liberal sentiments which have been elicited from your Majesty by the recent struggle in Europe, and especially in Germany, against Ultramontane designs, have found a response, and have given great encouragement here, although we be removed as far as the Antipodes. The same disloyal spirit, inspired by the Vatican, which attempts in Europe to control civil law, and the freedom of kings and people, has not failed in these southern Colonies to intrigue for the same ends, abasing the very forms of liberty for its destruction, and seeking by a combination, domin ited by Ultramontane bishops, to wring from reluctant ministries concession* which aggrandise, at the expense of the public, the horse-leech of Papal power. It was against that political scheme that we found it necessary to organise ourselves, and we continue organised, with increasing success. As a guarantee to our Romish fellowcolonists that, like your Majesty, we would desire for them, as for ojjrgelves, the utmost liberty of worship and perfect equality before the law, we associate under the glorious name and memory of that William of Orange, to whom your Majesty, in one of your letters, is pleased to refer with just admiration, aad to whom the English, whether Protestant or Papal, are indebted under God for their rights, religious and civil. We thank your Majesty for werds which have given us a new impulse. We think we see another Williaqj holding in check the eld enemies of right j and while fighting the same battle here on a smaller sphere, we shall not fail to plead before the King of Kings to nerve your Koyal arm with might, and bless your Royal life with happiness, and to continue on your throne for many generations a line of Royal princes who shall strongly guard the right and suppress the wrong,” A queer couple must Mr and Mrs Matthews of Nelson be. A day or two ago we referred to the committal for tiiaL of the husband for attempting to stab his wife, and to the committal to prison of the latter because she declined to enter into the usual recognisance to prosecute. We are now in possession of the Nelson papers, which report the following strange scene as having occurred at the Magisterial investigation “.Stephen Rough Matthews wa« charged, ou the information of the Inspector of Police (the injured woman herself declining to prosecute) with stabbing aad wounding Isabella Matthews, his wife? On the book being placed m the woman’s hands, she positively refused to take the oath, stating th -t nothing would induce her to go agiu himj*’ The following conversation then ensued :—His worship : I shall commit you to gaol for three days, and you will be brought up here every day and asked whether you intend to give your evidence.—Mrs Matthews : You may send me there for three years, but 1 won’t do it.—Prisoner : It’s no use for you to go on like that. Let the case go ou. Mrs Matthews : Ah ! my good gentleman, you needn’t talk to me ; you’ve too good a cheek altogether. His Worship ; You are doing him no good by refusing, for I shall have to remand him from day to day until you give your evidence. Mrs Matthews : \h ! your Honor, 1 ‘ can’t do it. He’s a dangerous man, and > I don’t know what he may do to himse.f in prjson. You may put me there as long as you like t you may send me there for twenty years, out i’ll give no oath at all. Do let him clear away from here altogether. Prisoner, addressing his wife: Prom port to port, aad shore to shore, I swear under this canopy of heaven that I will follow you up from day to day until I bring you to a true sense of your duties as a wife. I swear it. The woman was tnen committed to gaol for three days, for contempt. At the end of that time she again appeared in Court, gave evidence, and, as ha? been already stated, returned to gaol because she would not enter into the required surety.

A special meeting of the Pioneer Lodge, P*A,]?. Society, will beheld in Milton Hall on Monday evening. The adjourned general meeting of members of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held in the Athengsum on Monday evening, at 8 o’clock.