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Evening Star, Issue 3539, 26 June 1874, Page 2

The last crushing of 2uo tons of stone from the .Star of the East claim at Cromwell yielded 1250z. of gold. Messrs Meikle and Campbell are the successful tenderers for the erection of the new railway passenger station at Dunedin, the price being L3,3g8 10s. The immigrants in the barracks who refused to work on Wednesday, finding that the authorities were determined to rigorously enforce the regulations, resumed work today. A match had been arranged for to-morrow afternoon between fifteen players of the Dunedin Football Club and twenty of the Union Football Club, but owing to the wet and muddy state ©f the Nortn Recreation Ground, upon which the game was to have been played, it has been postponed until the 4th prox,

'I he ‘ New Zealand ! Herald ’ cannot see why claims to v.ite, on the part of qualified persons, should not be received at any time during the year, instead of only during the months of January, February, and March, as is at present the case. Our contemporary is of opinion that political feeling amongst the public generally would be promoted .by such a change as that indicated. Instructions having been received from head-quarters to entirely suspend the liquor traffic on Sundays, the police visited every hotel in Lawrence on Sunday last to ascertain if any of them were open for business, and the ‘Times’ understan is they gave notice to tbe hotel-keepers that for the future the selling of liquor on Sunday would be strictly prohibited, excepting to bona fide boarders or travellers.

“ Londoner,” who writes informing us that he was in London September last when the ship Hindostan (daily expected at this pot) sailed for Auckland, an a that he intended coming out by her if she had been on the berth for Otago, must be laboring under a hallucination. The immigration authorities here have unmistakeable evidence that the Hindostan sailed for Port Chalmers, from London, on March 20 last, with immigrants.

The * Heefton Courier’ hastens to correct an amusing error in the interests of all <*ood Templars. By an unfortunate misprint contained in its mining reporter’s letter one of the m st sober and well-regulate I miners in the district, working in the Devil’s Creek, was said to have been “drinking” very hard. o f late, whereas it should have read “driving.” The mistake was an awkwar one, we must confess, but wo trust it will not be the means of “driving the injured man to drink.”

The half-yearly tennis match for the Ladies’ Silver Cup will be played by the High School boys to-morrow, beginniag at ten o’clock. The match last year was con fined to boys actually attending the s-chooi ; this year former pupil* may compete. Besides the match for the Cup, there will be a number of matches for the juniors. The final bout for the possession of the Cup will nro bably take place at about three o’clock in the afternoon. Visitors will be provided with seats in the enc osure.

Dt Carr gave another very successful entertainment at the Masonic Hall last evening to a numerous audience. The phrenological examinations were more than usually successful, and evidently were true delineations of the characters and dispositions of his subjects. In the course of the evening the doctor announced that he intends to deliver a discourse on “The Immortality of the boul ” on Sunday night, when the public will be admitted free of charge. To-morrow evening is announced as the last stance but two.

At Tokomairiro, on Tuesday last, John Jenkins, of Waihela, carrier, was charged with wilfully setting tire to a dwellinghouse on 31st May last. The evidence was to the effect that accused, on the date named, had come to the house of informant, one John Donohue, at Waihola—a building of timber and canvas—and, after being there some time with informant, his wife, and a man named Hayes, and having partaken of some beer with them, bad suddenly taken up the candle, and set fire to the roof, at the same time saying—“ I will burn you out.” The accus d.was committed for trial at next sittings of the Supreme Court, bail being allowed, himself in LIOO, and two sureties in LSO each.

An accident, which we (‘ Bruce Herald ’) regret to find presents all t-e symptoms of becoming fatal, occurred on Tuesday morning last at Balclutha to a waggoner from Dunedin or Caversham, named Mr William Graham, who arrived fit the Balclutha Hotel on Monday evening, and whose waggon still lies just below the hotel, where bis team were fed and turned out for the night. The accident happened as follows In the morning, having fed bis horses, several of them strayed afterwards from the spot, and he got upon the back of one which remained by the waggon, and went in search of the missing portion of his team, and while riding over the frosty and slippery ground, the horse fell, and rolled over him in the fall. This was obseived, and ho was carefully conveyed to the Balclutha Hotel, and at once placed under the surgical treatment of Dr Smith, who has but little hopes of his recovery, as, despite every effort made to restore sensibility, Graham had not recovered consciousness up to a late hour on Wednesday evening.

Watts Phillips’s drama, “The Woman in Red, was produced for the" first time in Dunedin at the Princess’s la t evening. Owing probably to the inclemency of the weather, the attendance was not so large as the management might reasonably have expected the production of the piece would have attracted. The plot turns on the efforts of a Jewess named Miriam, whose chiiH was stolen from her in its infancy, to recover it. After searching for sixteen years she finds her in the possession of the Countess Donati, who, having acknowledged that she was not the girl’s true mother, is obliged to give her up to her rightful owner. Mrs Hill appeared as Miriam, and her voting throughout was most natural and vigorous. In the scene where she tries to convince her child that she is her mother and finds that she is treated as mad, she fairly carried the sympathies of the audience yyith her } indeed we do not re-

collect, seeing her to greater advantage than in the scene in question. The entire weight of the piece rests on Mrs HiU, who performed her part most satisfactorily, but was very inr differently supported. Messrs Steele and Keogh gave very creditable representations of the respective parts of Firamonte and Bravadura, a brace of thieves, but the other characters were not up to the mark, and the prompter’s voice was too frequently heard. This defect will probably be remedied tonight, when the piece will be repeated. Wehad almost omitted to mention that some really good scenery has been pa’ntedjby Mr Williams, the palace at Genoa being especially wonhv of mention. J J

A Kaitangata correspondent of the ‘ Bruee Herald’ writes.:-—“’lhe settlers’ prospects are brightening considerably, as the Government is proposing to carry,the railway round to Roper’s Creek. Should that intention be carried out, Waugaloa will then be able to ompare favorably with other places. Its situation and proximity to the sea will make it a famous resort. k branch railway to Roper’s Creek will enable all the farmers to have easy access to it, as the ground is level, and there is a good road in the summer. There aie some excellent seams of coal, from fifteen to eighteen feet thi;k. Few of the farmers have to go far for coal, as it is generally found on their own land. Some of the seams can be traced out into the sea for a considerable distance, and there is one very good face just at the bottom of the cliffs, which supplies the farmers in that local-ty. It is rumored that Messrs Brogden and Sons have agreed to make the railway to Kaitangata, on condition of receiving 100 tons of coal per day. lam informed that the Company has agreed to it.”

The construction of a sludge channel from Lawrence to the Blue Spur is a work of such vital interest to the former township that we are not surprised to find the townspeople straining every nerve to carry the scheme out. From the ‘ Tuapeka Times,’ we learn that at the late meeting of the channel committee Mr J. C. Browns a'ed “that until two days prior to the prorogation of the Provincial Council he could not ascertain from the Executive whether or not r hey intended recommending the scheme and bring. iug it be ore tbe Oouncii. Uad he ascer tained sooner that they declined to recommend the scheme, he would have had a notice of motion placed on the Order Paper, and brought the matter before the Council m that manner ; but it was too late in the day to think of such a thing.” As to the proper course now to be adopted, Mr Brown expressed some doubts. He was under the impression that a clause in the Public Works Act precluded the Colonial Government from giving its sanction to a work of the kind proposed, unless it was recommended by the Provincial Council. He would advise the committee to enlist the ser vices oi 'he Superintendent, who was strongly in favor of the scheme. If that gentleman could be prevailed upon to present the memorial to the General Government, he (Mr Br-*wn) believed nearly every Otago memoer would support it, and there was just the probability the work’would be sanctioned, Mr Squires stated that he bad not received any official communication to the effect that the Government had declined to recommend the scheme. We understand that since the meeting above referred to Mr Brown and the Mayor of Lawrence waited on the Provincial Secretary, and urged him to obtain a reconsideration of the committee s application by the Provincial Government. It appeared that the Executive had come to their decision under a misconception of the nature of the work, and as the parties interested have not only undertaken to defray the cost of keeping the channel open but to guarantee the free use of the water, there is n probability of their wishes being met by the Government.

The second entertainment by the pupils of , Tmnedm Collegiate School will be given in tne Masonic Hall this evening.