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Evening Star, Issue 3535, 22 June 1874, Page 2

Erysipelas has this winter again showed itself in Naseby, and the local paper reports two cases now under treatment. Mr Charles Anderson, late manager of one of the N. Z, and A. L. Co.’s stations in Southland, has been appointed sheep inspector in the room pf the late Mr Fielder, At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, br-fore Dr o’Doa.o--hue, J.P., Henry Fulton, arrested for being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night, was discharged with a caution. Hokitika papers refrain from publishing full reports of the proceedings of the Borough Council, as they labor under the conviction that it would not enhance the credit of the town, if people at a distance were informed of all that takes place at the meetings. A general stagnation in mining in the Dunstan district is brought about by th severe frosts that have set in during the week. Work is entirely stopped, and, to all appearance (remarks the ‘Times’), tht weather being very severe, is likely to be for some time to come. Ttye Masonic Hall was crowded in all parts op Saturday night, when Dr Carr went through another of bis mesmeric and phreno-1 logical entertainments.' r po-nighb’s lecture; will be for the special delectation of thei young, the subject of it being “Love, courtship, and matrimony.” The affairs of the Shotover Terrace Gold Mining Company seem to be thoroughly disorganised. Mr Barton, on behalf of the men, has, says the ‘ Wakatip Mail,’ issued a large number of summonses (forty) against the manager for work and labor done. The! district will again get into nice repute about, its gold mining companies. A genial matron residing near Goulburn,' tf.S.W,, F4s recently taken a somewhat peculiar step to assert her prowess in the saddle. The following advertisement appears, in the ‘Goulburn Chronicle’:—“lf Miss S——f, who sent the insulting letter to me about horse-riding, please, I will ' ride with i her one hundred (IffO) miles in six hours.— 1 Mrs E. Carter.”

Mr Beetham, R. M., has been, called upon by the General Government to proceed to Greymouth or Cobden to assess matters connected, with the Waimea Water Race Company, and the claims of landholders and others. ‘ The Company is one of those supplemented by the Water Subsidy Loan. Mr Beetham will be absent two mouths, or thereabouts, in all probability. The weekly meeting of the Roslyn and Kaikorai Institute was held on Tuesday evening, in the Roslyn Dali. Plan and specification for proposed extension pf hall were submitted, and, after having been considered by members present, were referred to the committee. It was announced that Mr Chisholm woul! read an essay on “ Bays of Rest on Tuesday (to-morrow) evening. The Press Amateur]} Dramatic Club will make their next appearance in public iu about six weeks’ time, when they will play the drapja “ Time and the Hour” and the farce of “The Unfinished Gentleman.” At a meeting pf members on Saturday night there was some discussion as to the object in aid of which the performance shop Id be, and ultimately the matter was left to the committee to determine, ’ ' ' At the Immigration Barracks to-day ai number of married couples (agricultural : laborers) without families found employment at L6O per year. The Immigration uflicer informs us that all the young men are now engaged, with the exception of a few “ weeds,” whom he cannot get off. A number of the married couples are to be sent to Oamaru and Invercargill. The arrival of the Hindostan, which may now be hourly looked for, will oyer-run the barracks if those there do not quickly find employment. Messrs Steele and Keogh are being well supported in their endeavors to produce novelties. On Saturday night, when “Kathleen Mavourneen” was played, the P stalls were inconveniently crowded, while there was a fair springing in the dress circle. Mrs Hill appeared to advantage as Kathle.ep. Mr Steele was excellent as Terence, and Messrs Keogh and Mus-j grave were satisfactory representatives of : the parts of Buptspn and The

afterpiece, “ The Milliners* Holliday,” would have been thoroughly enjoyable if one of the performers had not introduced a lot of “ gag-” “ The Courier of Lyons ” will be played to-night. The following are unpublished cablegrams:—“lt is rumored that Mr Disraeli will be married to the Dowager Countess of Chesterfield. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will soon visit Ireland. A boiler explosion near Glasgow smashed in a school; three children were killed and thirty wounded. Mr J. W. Huddlestone, Q.C , who was elected M.P, for Norwich at the last elections, has declined the SolicitorGeneraLhip. Obituary The Marquis of Downshire and the Marquis of Clanricarde Great distress exists among tnc laborers in America. ” Matters pertaining to the approaching annual municipal elections are already assuming a definite character. Certainty is beginning to take the place of rumor. Mr M. J. Malaghan, the present Mayor of Queenstown, has declined the solicitations of his friends to allow himself to be again placed in nomination. Mr Betts has also been strongly urged to come forward, and may be considered a probable candidate. Mr J. W. ivobertaon has also been pressed to stand, but declines to contest the election against Mr Warren, who stands in accordance with hia promises of last year. Mr Herbert declines to contest the mayoralty of Lawrence for the fourth time. In the course of his financial statement the Provincial Secretary of Canterbury read an extract from a letter received by last mail from Mr Andrew Duncan, in which he stated that owing to a lock-out in a large agricultural district in England, where he was at the time of writing, a number of vary desirable agricultural laborers, who were •just the sore of immigrants wanted for the Province, had been unable to payj the LI for ship s outfit which is required by theGovernmeut. Under these circumstances, Mr Duncan writes the Government that he had mide an offer to the Laborers’ Union to select 1,000 and pay the expenses of outfit, the immigrants leaving England in time to arrive here for the harvest. This announcement was received with cheers by hon members. J

Messrs Nicol, Miller, and M‘Kinnon, with several captains of vessels now lying in the Port, waited upon his Worship the Mayor, " a Saturday, to request that he would authorise a holiday on Monday next, in commemoration of Her Majesty’s Coronation, as it is intended to hold a regatta at Port maimers on that day. His Worship did jot consider it advisable to make the holiday general, as the short midwinter days render every break of labor a loss to the working classes ; but suggested that the deputation should wait on his Honor the Superintendent, who, if consenting to give a half holiday to the Civil servants of the Provincial Government, would probably induce banks and wholesale houses not immediately iffected by cessation of labor to follow the example, ihe Mayor accompanied the deputation, and bis Honor ac once expressed bis willingness to consent to the proposal. We trust that wherever the holiday can be conveniently granted, the action of the Superintendent will be followed. Judging by the two subjoined paragraphs extracted from Melbourne papers to hand by the Otago, there must be a considerable dearth of employment in Victoria in response to an advertisement which appeared in the Melbourne ‘ Argus’ a day or two ago tor a clerk, salary L2 per week, 120 applications were made for the situation,—Those who are constantly clamoring about the icarcity of labor (says the ‘ Geelong Advertiser’) might have their eyes opened if they prosecuted their inquiries as to the real state of the labor market in the right direction, Lhe testimony of Mr Squire Ward, the manager of the Woollen Mill, which certainly ought to be of value on such a matter, goes far to disprove the allegation* persistently made by the advocates of abuud mt labor. Mr Ward states that he is daily uesieged by applicants for employment, and that few persons have any idea of the number ■>f young women who are absolutely begging for the means of disposing of their labor to advantage. The demands constantly made ipon him in this way are described as ■dekeniug, and he has to turn many an earnest applicant away. The spread of diphtheria and other diseases in Invercargill has led to the eatablisment there of a Sanitary Committee. At the last meeting of that body, the scarcity of house accommodation in town was discussed, and (according to the ‘ News’ ’ report) Dr Yorath and the Rev. Mr Deane mentioned cases of overcrowding in private dwellings which had come under their notice. The former stated one case which was peculiarly painful, vis, that a family of nine persons, some of the children being well grown, were living together in one ordinary-sized room, and that one of the children was laid up with typhoid fever. A somewhat similar case had come under his notice only a short time previously in which a family of seven were living in one room of 12ffc square. In that house also there was a case of typhoid fever, a girl who was removed to the hospital, and there died. Several other instances of a similar though less objectionable nature having been mentioned, it. was resolved to acquaint the Town Council therewith so that they might be fully informed of the necessity for hurrying on the building of the Government cottages already contracted for, and q f devising other means for providing suitable houses tor the poor people being brought to the district, The London correspondent of the * vvening Post,’ writing to that journal under date February 11th, says “Mr Alexander Brogden, who is connected with our New Zealand railway works, has been returned for Wednesbury by 1,717 majority. Dunne i the contest, New Zealand figured conspicu- l ously. Having ho hope of beating Mr Brogden m a fair light, the tactics usual in such cases were resorted to. An extract from the Marlborough ‘ Press,’ giving part of the speech of Mr Connelly for one of the Brogden immigrants sued, vas 'printed, and the working men were called upon to ' yote against Mr Brogden on account of his illtreatment of the men, A complete refutation, however, was at hand in many other letters one of which was published as a handbill; and in the ‘Laborer’s Chronicle’ of that week Appeared another refutation in a ett f received from one of the men. In 18b8, a, majority of the publicans and all the Catholics went for Mr Brogden ; now they went against him, almost unanimously, and yet they were beaten by the strenuous aud indefatigable services of the working m OD Beep ajid Bible were the two cries. The publicans worked hard, had their oWn cbmmittees sitting jn each district of the borough, employed a large' number of vehicles, and brought up many voters for the f, or , ie . 8 ; At °“ e time ifc was apprehended that there would be serious riots, a band of hired roughs from Birmingham and W allsail being in the borough, but the magistrates resolved upon ,closing every public-house at once, should any riot take place, aud this quieted them,”

The following amusing Pickwickian story is related by the ‘ West Coast Times A rich story is told of one of our members, who is likewise a member of the higher Assembly, it appears that one night lately, after being engaged m earnest debate until eleven o clock, he retired to his hotel, where he lit a-candle and sauntered quietly to his usual place of repose. Meditating, it might have

been, on the component parts of an Executive, or eu the past history of the County, the first subject being one he will most probably be called on to consider at no distant date, and the other g matter with which he is thoroughly conversant, he placed his lighted taper on his dressing-table, extinguished his cigar, removed his white beaver covering, withdrew his gold pin from his checked scarf, and hung up bis overcoat by the tape fastening which hangs from the velvet collar. He was about to divest himself of further wearing apparel, when behold ! a head popped out from the co 'ch he had occupied f >r the past fortnight. ‘ Halloa! Vhat brought you here, old fellow?” inquired our described occupant of the apartment, to the stranger; ‘You have •no right here, and I have to request that you find a room elsewhere, as this is mind, and has been 'or some time.’ ‘ You will pardon me,’ replied the stranger, ‘but this is the number we were told to take.’ ‘ We !’ ejaculated the member, * who are we ?’ Just then a few curl-papers were observed in hiding behind the head ef the stranger; and the member remained not, oven to apologise, a duty he did not neglect, however, on the following morning, when the married gentleman expressed his astonishment that he had omitted to lock the door before retiring.” There will be no meeting of Jthe Guiding: Star Lodge, 1.0.Q-.T., this week. We have been requested to remind members of the Chamber of Commerce that part of the business to be transacted on Wednesday will be to elect two members of the Otago Harbor Board. We have received from Messrs Kerr and Co., the publishers, the first number of the ‘ Christian Advocate,’ a monthly paper, published at Riverton. It is devoted to religion, and is mainly designed for the yoimg. The current number of the ‘Australian Sketcher ’ is more than averagely interesting. The engravings comprise views of the dismasted ship Loch Ard, John Kerr, and Cambridgeshire, the wreck of the British Admiral, the fire brigade torch-light procession, and portraits of the Earl and Countoss of Donoughmore.