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Evening Star, Issue 3541, 29 June 1874, Page 2

The Masonic Hall was. crowded to excess last evening, when Dr Carp lectured on the Immortality of the Soul.” Tonight’* lecture will be on “Self-Reliance.” We will endeavor to make room to-morrow tor the letter of “Paterfamilias.” Mr W. 0. Johnston’s communication cannot be inserted, it having been first sent to another paper. the departure of the Californian mail steamer has been postponed till Friday, In consequence of the accident to the Mikado’s machinery the City of Adelaide will proceed through to San Francisco. It is stated that the Hlngineer-in-Chief has reported that, for a comparatively moderate ■aim, the bar and channel at Kiverton could be deepened to a sufficient extent for the en trance of vessels with a draught of water of fifteen or twenty feet. 5? n .‘ a j &r Richardson, Messrs -hep her “? Gillies, Brown, and M‘Gil may, r were P a *aengers by the Ladybird for Wellington yesterday. The bplk of ti.e Otago members will proceed .North by the Phoebe and City of Adelaide. The example of Mr Oliver, M.P.C., might be well followed by many other bon. memuir’ e g®btleman has forwarded one half of his honorarium (L4B) to the funds of the hospital of the district which he represents, and the other half to the Sailors’ Home.

As a resalt of the meeting of carpenters on Friday last, some twenty-five of that trade struck work to-day. These are, we believe, mostly hands in the employ of Mr Hyslop, and, as will be seen, the movement has not been generally supported. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Cha mers, this morning, Charles Williams, for being drunk, was fined ss, or twenty-four hours. In the case of Klder v, lawyers, the defendant was ordered to pay the amount of rent due, and to give up possession of »he house *n fourteen days. Drs Drysdale and O’Donoghue, J. P ’s, presided. The pei formance at the Princess’s on Saturday evening was interrupted by a drunken man in the pit. who-e conduct was so violent as to necessitate the lowering of the curtain. After some delay the man was arrested and removed, and the play proceeded to its conclusion, This evening “ Lucrezia Borgia” and the farce of “Cupboard Love” will bo played.

As will be seen in our telegraphic columns, intelligence has been received of the weights allotted to the New Zealand borsesfentered for the Melbourne Cup, Whether Mr Redwood will accept with Lnrline at the weight (Bsb llib), or with any of his other three, is open to conjecture, but the general opinion here is that the mare, at least, is overweighted.

The dwelling-house of Mr Benjamin, in Moray place, was nearly hurried down on Saturday afternoon. Constable Mulholland. while on duty in the neighborhood, observed that the gate was on fire, and, after alarming the inmates, soon extinguished the flames, which in a few minutes more would have spread to the house, the fire was caused through the servant leaving near the gate a box containing live coals. The Education Board met to-day at noon, in the Superintendent’s office. The following members were present:—His Honor the Superintendent, Messrs Reid, and Turnbull, The only business transacted was the acceptance of Mr Sperry’s resignation of the office of Secretary to tlie Board, and Mr Hislop’s appointment in his stead. The meeting was then postponed till to-morrow at 11 o’clock, forenoon.

As an illustration of the rise in the value of suburban property, we may instance the sale of some land at Caversham to day. When the property was sold last year Mr Feger purchased it for 1,80. It then had a wooden building on it, and to this he made some alteration and insured it for L 250. The house was burnt down ''a couple of months ago, and the land to-day realised LSI. or LI more than the price it was originally sold for with the building thereon. Mr,Wilkie Collins, the well-known author, and colleague of the late Charles Dickens, it appears, is not unlikely soon to visit Australia, coming by the San Francisco route, *0 that he will have an opportunity of seeing New Zealand, and we may have the chance of seeing him and hearing him as a lecturer, or rather as a reader of selections from his own works. Letters by the last mail state that the author of ‘ The Woman in White ’ was about ro sail for America, in response to numerous invitations, aud that after a tmr there he would turn bis face towards Australia.

The disturber of the drama, whose most unseemly conduct caused “The Woman in ded . to come to a rather abrupt termina ion at the Princess Theatre on Saturday figured at the Resident Magistrate’s tJourc this morning. Be was placed in the dock under the by no means common name of ‘ Guy Fawkes,” but when so addressed by the Bench, he seemed to be greatly sur•rised at being complimented by the historical title, aud said, to the great amusement of tho-e present in Court, that up to that moment he was not aware that he had any other name than that of Henry Pearson. The case was called on, but Pearson was discharged on his own uncorroborated word that he was tipsy—his Wo>ship taking the view that the lessees of the theatre wer themselves to blame in admitting drunken men.

On June 24 there appeared before Mr M Culloch, Reident Magistrate 1 at Invercargill, a married couple named Gough, who were charged with drunken and disorderly conduct in the immigration barracks there. The arresting cons able said that both the accused were immigrants by the ship Asia, anq. he further characterised them as nuisauces to the neighborhood in which they'resided. The man pleaded that he and his old woman ’ had never been so accused before, and the “ old woman” voluntarily informed the < 'ourt that she “might have been a grandmother, but she wasn’t.” On being told by the Court that they were fined 5s each, or, failing payment, twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, the man triumphantly exclaimed—“ Paix, an’ I haven’t a ha’penny.”

A bankrupt under examination at the ■Supreme Court this morning having said that he once sold a section of land to a man whose name he did not know and did not ask, the opposing counsel took hold of this statement as being sufficiently extraordinary to throw doubt over the truthfulness of the witness’s evidence. Mr Justice Chapman however, thought it a matter of little moment, saying that names were awkward things, and with some people it was advisable tQo much publicity should not be given to them. To show thQ ffidffieronce and want of curiosity as to names evinced by certain people, his Honor related an instance of a digger who went to get a marriage license, and, (on the registrar asking him the lady’s name, said, “ I’m blest u I know 1” and then, turning to his best man, “ What’s her name, Bill ?”

The damage done by the fire at Mr M ‘Kegg’s stables, Utakia, on Friday night is estimated at a little over L2OO, the greater part of which is covered by insurance. W-e learn from the ‘ Chronicle’ that at ■ asehy on Sunday night last, while evening service was being conducted in the Churches, the firebell rang out an alarm of fire, flames haring been seen issuing from Mr'Busch’s back premises. Before, however the water could be made available, owingtothefrozenstateef the plugs and hose, several good volunteers were hard at work checking the flames. Buckets were being passed, and their contents thrown with great precision at the portions of the roof in flames. As spoil sj-s the hose did get play on, the flames were at onoo pgt gift. Fortunately there was no wind, and the heavy frost on the iron cheeked the flames. Mr Busch estimates his loss at L 640, which is fully covered by insurance. The following paragraph from the ‘ New Zealand Times ’ refers to a lad well-known in Dunedin, who was taken frem the ReformatoryA lad named Cately, an apprentice on board the Luna, has been missing from the vessel for the past day or two. Being of rather an erratic disposition, he has upon several occasions absented himself from the vessel, the.latest instance of this kind odereliction happening during the present week. Captain F»uphild, feeling an interest in the boy, who is only fomteen years old. discovered his whereabouts, brought him back, and placed him in hia o*d quarters ©n board the Luna. Some indispensable articles of clothing were taken ffom him when he went to bed to prevent him ‘bolting’ during the night, but despite all precaution he was moji cst in the morning, and may have carried out a threat which he uttered when smarting under a feeling of irritatien at being brought back to the Luna. Kvery search will be made until some, trace of his movements is obtained,"

to remind our readers that the share list or the Paper Makers Company closes tomorrow, the 30th insb.

The adjourned Birieeting of the Painters’ Society Will be held in Milton Hall, to-morrow I Tuesday) evening, at eight o’clock. Wo draw attention to the Town Clerk’s advertisement, that to-morrow is the last day for paying hotel, wholesale, and bottle licenses. oJriH °f Lodge Pioneer of Dunedin and of sister lodges of the 1.0. G.T. are invited by advertisement to attend the funeral of the late Bro. William Brooks Lenton, to-morrow. CnT)te- Ual r™ eefcing of the Shotorer Ten-ace Gold Mining Company will be held to-morrow. Wo business will, however, be transacted, in consequence of the non-arrival of the company’s books from Queenstown, and the meeting willbe a ijourned, due notice of which will be given.