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Evening Star, Issue 3562, 23 July 1874, Page 2

Wellington correspondent telegraphs that the Volunteer prize-firing is to be carried on this year as usual. We learn by notification in the ‘Provincial Government Gazette’ that Mr William ramie has been appointed collector of passage money due from July, 1872. * The ‘ Provincial Government Gazette ’ contains a notification that Mr George 1 urnbull, M.P.C.. will act as Provincial Secretary during Mr Donald Reid’s absence. Mr Duncan M'Kellar having resigned. By proclamation in the 1 Provincial Government Gazette,’ elections of members of Uistnct Road Boards will be held at the Volunteer Hotel, Green Island, on Wednes day, July 29th, for the Abbotshill Subdivision of the Kaikorai Road District; and on Ihursday, the 80tb, for the Abbotsford Diviemn, at the Kaikorai Hotel, Green

Mr Arrow, proprietor of the Crown Hotel, Caversham, died very suddenly at about eleven o’clock last night. Deceased had been suffering from ague and bronchitis for some time past j but excessive drinking is supposed to have been mainly the cause of death.

The low-lying land at the back of Kensington and on each side of the railway line has been flooded by the late rains, and the passages to the immigrants’ cottages have been rendered aim st impassable. This is the first time this land has suffered by the rains this winter.

By proclamation in the 1 Provincial Government Gazette,’ the Deputy-Superinten-dent has temporarily reserved the who'e of the unsold and unappropriated forest land in Southland, excepting a belt of five chains in depth on the edge of the bushes, should their area permit it. “ Behind the Curtain ” attracted a good andience to the Princess’s last evening. A new farce, entitled the “ The Silent Man,” in which the Misses Willis and Vivian, and Messrs Musgrave and Hooper took part, brought the entertainment to a successful termination. “Broken Ties” will be reproduced to-night.

Mr and Mrs Wiltshire have completed a third of their undertaking, the husband having walked 333 miles, and the wile a like number of half-miles. Beth come to the scratch regularly at the appomted hour, and despite the cold weather to which they have been subjected, appear to walk as w*ll as when they first started. Writing from Hyde to the ‘Waikonaiti Herald,’ a correspondent says the roads between Shag Valley and Naseby via Macraes and Hyde were never in a such a state of repair as they are now, and be has no hesitation in saying that when the L 1.300 voted for this road is expended it wilt be the favored road with teamsters and others. Mr R. Clarke, M.P.C., addressed his constituents at the - Library Hall, Arrowtown. on Wednesday last, and gave an account of the business done at the. last session of the Council. He advocated the forming of the Wakatip district into a county, as the only means of obtaining its fair share of the revenue. An unanimous vote of confidence was passed. Mr Goidston, Mayor of Arrowbown, was in the chair.

“ Ogles’’ is responsible for the following : —“ A popular preacher has, it is believed, been somewhat unfortunate in mining speculations. A dealer in securities of this kind said to me to day, ‘ I think the Reverend

doesn’t forget hia mining ventures.’ ‘How,’ said I, ‘do you come to that conclusion?’ ‘ Well, from this—L went to hear him on Sunday evening, and he took hia text from Micah. ’ This person is still at large. ” There now remain only abo at twenty single girls and fifty young men from the ships Hindustan and Caroline in the Immigration Barracks. The girls have readily found emidovraent at from L 25 to L3O a-year, and the men have got good wages. '1 he singh gTls from the Sussex were brought to town tnd forwarded to the Barracks this afternoon. They appear to be of a vary good class. \ number of the men were this morning engaged in making a footpath from the road to th» engaging office, which was badly needed The barrack-master assures us that uad it not been for the last week’s bad weather (which has prevented country people coming to town) nearly all the hands would Uave been absorbed.

Ihe annual election of councillors and auditors for theperiod commencing August 1, 1874,” according to the verbiage of the public notice in the ‘ Provincial Government Gazette,’ is arranged as follows :—The nomination of pamtidates is to take place to-morrow at the Terrace, Water street, a: noon. The day of election, should there be contest in the Wards, is not named. Two councillors will have to be chosen for each Ward, and, as both auditors retire, two auditors will have to be appointed. The councillors retiring by rotation are For •South Ward, Mr H. J. Walter ; for High Ward, Mr Alexander Burt; for Bell Ward, Mr William "^opdlaud; and for South Ward, Mr Peter .(jibsoq. We need hardly say that the auditors are required to be elected by the whole City. *

Mr B. Isaac offers himself as City Coun cillor for High Ward.

Mr R. H. Leary is a candidate far the representation of Bell Ward in the City Council. The City Council nominations for High Ward to-morrow vyill only be to fill the vacancy caused by the expiry of Mr Burt’s term of office and the extra councillor given to each Word— Messrs Burt, Isaac, and Mercer .being the advertised candidates. The nomination day for Mr Ramsay’s successor, for which vacancy Mr Barron is announced, has not yet been fixed. The latter will only be elected lor Mr Ramsay’s unexpired term, about eleven months.

The Californian Minstrels, consisting of thirteen members, are announced to make their first appearance at the Queen’s Theatre on Saturday. The troupe have appeared in the various Australian Colonies, and come here with an excellent reputation. Jn Melbourne, where they had the assistance of Harry Emerson (who has since gone to California), tney played the most successful season of any negro company that ever appeared there. With the exception of Harry Kelly, a corner man, and E. Amery, a basso profundo, both of whom were here with the Excelsior Troupe some couple of years ago, the whole of the members are strangers to Dunedin.