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Evening Star, Issue 3550, 9 July 1874, Page 2

Th* time for the Municipal elections is fast approaching, the nomination of oandidates for the Mayoralty being fixed for the loth instant, and for vacancies in the City Council for the 24th instant.

The * Tasmanian Tribune ’ announces that, from the Bth inst, that paper will be increased in size, and issued as a daily morning journal.

Advices have been received of tbe sailing of the Mary Ball, from Glasgow, on the 7th May, with over four hundred passengers equal to 360$ adults, for Otaao. By this day’s ‘Waikouaiti Herald’ we learn that there is no sign of opposition to Mr T. Pratt’s election to the office of Mayor of that town for the (ifch time. At the meeting of the City Council last evening, a letter from the Provincial Undersecretary was read, intimating that the L2,UO ) for the improvement of York place would be paid over this week.

Messrs Brogden and Sons have imported a cargo of railway sleepers from Paget Sound, Oregon. They are of red pine, and certainly inferior to some ew Zea'and timber easily procurable. We may instance totara matai, or birch. How is this justifiable with the decisions of the Waste Land Board of Invercargill ? The secretary to the Waterworks Company has written to the Corporation asking that steps might be taken to ascertain as approximately as possible what proportion of the purchase-money for the works and plant was likely to be paid in cash and what in bonds j adding that, in accordance with the request of the City Council, a circular has been issued to the shareholders, desiring each one to say how he wishes to be paid. The committee elected-from the gentlemen interested in the erection of a Sailors’ Home have accepted the offer of the Amateur Press Dramatic Club to give an entertainment in aid of the funds of the former proposed institution. We understand the members of the Club are busy rehearsing, so that the performances may be expected to be not less successful than the previous ones given by the same body. The date is fixed for Friday, the. 17 th instant.

Tne election of officers of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Society, at its meeting at the Hibernian Hotel last night, resulted as follows :—President, J. Calvin ; vice-president, H, Miller ; treasurer, D. Kerr ; check-gte-steward, A, Cook. Committee Messrs Moore, WinLurst, Watts, W. Bragg, and A Hunter. Trustees—Messrs Sansbury. Alexander, Bickerditc, Steven, and Bowden. Auditors—Goodlut, A, Bragg, and Pickard. •Secretary —Mr Allan. Twenty-new members were enrolled, and it was arranged that a meeting should be held fortnightly.

The ‘ Southland Times’ says that Mr Osborne’s sale of the crescent sections, at the Land Office, Invercargill, on Saturday, was largely attended. The auctioneer stated that section 1 bad been withdrawn from sale, t'he following are .the sections which were sold, and the prices they brought, together with the names of the buyers ;—Section 2, L 260, Mr Pratt j section 3, L 272, same ouyer ; section 4, L3OO, Messrs Cochran ami Blackwood ; section 5, L3IO, Mr Hast; section 6, L3OO, Mr J. W. Mitchell; section 7, L 330, same buyer ; section 8, L3BO, Mr Y. D. Smyth; section 9, LSOO, Mr James Harvey ; and section 10, LI,OOO, the same >uyer ; the total amount realised by the sale being L 3,350. “Azael the Prodigal,” followed by tbe farce of “ The Captain is not A-Miss,” was repeated at the Princess’s last evening, and, judging by the applause frequently beat*wed on tbe representatives of the principal characters, seemed to afford general satisfac hob. The same programme will be pre seated this evening, <v'r Steele, one oi the lessees and a deservedly popular actor, an iiounces his benefit for to morrow night, when an enticing programme will be pro duced. The opening piece is Buckstoue’.-well-known comedy, “ Leap Year,” and the afterpiece a new farce entitled, “ Give me back my Wife. ” The management have been unceasing in their efforts to cater for their atrona’ amusement, and we predict for tomorrow a substantial acknowledgment in the shape of a full house. A deputation, consisting of Messrs J. Shand, M.P.C., J. Allen, M.P, 0, A Todd, T. Todd, A. Aitken, James Forrest, R. Brown, and K. Charters, waited upon his I onor the Superintendent yesterday in re ference to the proposed expenditure or L1.50U for opening up a certain portion of the Silver Stream. It was stated that if the work was carried out in the manner proposed by the Government the lands of the settlers lower down the stream would bo flooded, and that thoobject sought would be better obtained by raising the road instead of deepening the stream; therefore the expenditure should be left in the hands of the Road Board. His Souor submitted to the deputation a report of the surveyor, who has been engaged in •aking levels in the stream, and assured them that nothing further should be done until tbe matter was thoroughly investigated. A deputation introduced by Professor M‘Gregor waited on his Honor the Superintendent yesterday, presenting a petition signed by sixty residents of the Anderson s Bay district, requesting the levelling of a hil| on the road line behind Mr Holmes’s bouse. The deputation also suggested that the prisoners should complete the road line from tbe main road along the beach at the foot of Vauxhall to 'fie Ba> Hotel, thereby saving a distance of nearly a mile and a-half. His Honor said prison labor was much in request, and that it was needed for forming the road further down the beach. He thought the better way would be to have the road formed to Portobello, and * then for one person now using the rpad ten would go. dc .thought there was very little hope of the Government lowering the hill, but promised to bring the whole matter before the Executive.

A special meeting of Court Enterprise, A.0.F., will be held in the South Australian Hall, at eight o’clock to-morrow evening. The united prayer meetings now being held have been so largely attended that it has been necessary to alter .the place of meeting from the Masonic Hall to the First Church. This evening a service will therefore' be held in the latter place.

Mr Wiltshire, tjie pedestrian, is announced to perform the difficult feat of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. A marquee has been erected just above the Princess Theatre, and a start will be made at eight o’clock this evening.