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Evening Star, Issue 3573, 5 August 1874, Page 2

The allotment of shares in the Colonial Bank has been commenced, each applicant receiving the full number applied for. “Lucrezia Borgia,” with a good cast, was played at the Princess Theatre last evening to a fairly numerous attendance. “ Jack Sheppard ” will be reproduced to-night. Ihe California Minstrels repeated the programme of the previous night at the Queen’s Theatre last evening. There was a large attendance in the lower parts of the house, and the performance evidently gave general satisfaction.

The election for a member to represent High Ward in the City Council, in the room of Councillor Bamsay resigned, owing to his election as Mayor, took place to-day. The proceedings, which were quiet, resulted in the return ef Mr Barron.

A lad named Frederick M'Nab, working at the Chain Hills tunnel, while driving one of the tip-drays, fell, and the wheel went over his leg, bruising it very much, though it is not thought to be broken. He was taken to thp Dunedin Hospital yesterday.

Th,e Evangelic/)! Services continue to be very well attended. Last night the Rev. Dr Roseby officiated at the Congregational Church, assisted by the Rev. Mr Maxwell, of Port Chalmers, At Nofth Dunedin Church the Rev. Mr Blake, of Moeraki, presided.

Mr Hyman, while giving evidence in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, in the case of Ontred v. Hyman, said that the speculation of the purchasers of the Surat had been a losing one. He affirmed that they had lost some thousands of pourjds, his own loss amounting to over L 4,000. The wages paid were very high, one man (a diver) getting L 6 a day.

Mr and Mrs Wiltshire continue their feats walking against time in the marquee, H)gh street. Mr Wiltshire last evening, after walking his distance, was seized with a nt, and medical assistance had to be immediately called in. He remained insensible for some time, and barely railed in time to enable him to complete his next mile within the hour. Mr Wiltshire baa now finished his 646 th mile, and the o £ a „ h n ke number °£ half - miles, doth walked together to-day, so as to enable them to go for a long drive as advised by Dr Bake well. Mr Wiltshire seems ra/bber weak and down-hearted; but Mrs Wiltshire ap-

pears far more fit to finish her journey than she did a fortnight ago. The attendance during the past week has been rather small, owing to the bad weather.

The ‘ Bruce Herald ’ of yesterday contains a manly defence of Mr Creighton, editor of the ‘ Otago Guardian,’ against the attack made dpon him in the House of Representatives by Mr Reader Wood. We sympathise deeply with Mr Cieighton in the family illness that has rendered his home duties 1 j 6 ’ Mr \\ ood becomes aware of the causes which have rendered his absence necessary, he will only be too giad to make tha amende honorable, not only in the House but to the constituency.

In order to be useful, the shipping board placed outside the Telegraph Office should be better attended to. The arrival and departure of the larger coastal steamers are perhaps only stated at one port during the whole trip, and sometimes no reference whatever is made of them. The Taranaki, with a large cargo and some well-known citiz -ns left Port Chalmers for the North on Saturday last, and the only intimation as yet on the board was her arrival at Lyttelton next day. The Phcehe left the Manukau on Friday, but no mention at all is made of her on the board. We have only quoted two instances, but could give even more glaring omissions. We would suggest to the Cham her of Commerce the desirability of again moving in the matter.

The monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade took place last night at the Brigade Station ; ' aptain Wain in the chair. Letters were read from the Fire Brigades in Wellington, Wanganui, Nelson, and Pictou, with regard to the petition sent to Wellington for exemolion from jury duties. Two of the members received sick allowance for injuries received at the last two fires. Dr Bakewell was appointed honorary surgeon to the Brigade, and Mr W. btewart was proposed as a working member. Mr John Hughes presented a large map of the City to the Brigade, for the purpose of marking on it the positions of the tire plugs, which was received with thanks. Captain Wain called the attention of the members to rule 12, and it being practice night the meeting broke up.

A petition from residents in the Caversha.u district was presented yesterday to his Honor the Leputy-Muperintendent, praying ihe Government to take into consideration the state of the Main South Road, with the view of metalling it to its full width, and also with the view of getting a footpath made from Hill-side toll-bar to the junction of the roads at the end of the village. It stated ihat the roads in the Caversham district are in an almost impassable state, and that near the Edinburgh Castle Hotel there were holes dangerous to life and limb. The deputation urged that the metal should be more widely spread, because at the present time there was not room for two vehicles to pass on the metal, and some of them, therefore, were compelled to go on to the clay portion. His Honor promised to lay the matter before the Executive.

The on’y business transacted at the'meeting of the H arboroßoard yesterday after we went to press, was the receipt and noting of •vpplical ions for the offices of engineer and secretary, and the cons.deration of thlinance committee’s report. The latter stated that, if once the harbor management and the plant were handed over to the Board and certain small matters in the Act amended, immediate steps could be taken to proceed with the work for which the Board was constituted. Up to the present time, however, although nearly three weeks had o.apsed, no reply had been received from th’; Provincial Ifxejntive to the letter written by Mr Davie on behalf of the Board, asking that the plant, &c., should be transferred to it; consequently the committee were of opinion that nothing could be done till that important matter was settled. The meeting was then adjourned till Tuesday next, at three p.m.

? Last evening, at a quarter to o’clock, the comet was near Zeta Argils. A line from Epsilon Argils, through (Gamma and Z ta, continued about 2 degrees, would reach the comet’s nucleus. A field glass gave a capital view of it. In a three-inch achromatic telescope, . with a power of 25, there appeared a cone of li-ht rounded at the apex. Close to the apex was a wellmarked nucleus, surrounded by a coma, round in shape, and rather faint. As is usual, the tail of the comet appeared much brighter at the outside edges than it did in the middle. In a few days the comet will have entered the “ circumpolar •’ region ©f the s -y ; and if it should not diminish greatly in the interval, will be visib e all night long. It is moving almost exactly towards Gamma ArgAs. To the naked eye the comet appears nearly as bright as a star of the third magnitude. Last night the tail appeared to be no brighter than some of the smaller off-shbots of the milky way, but this was owing no doubt in a groat measure to its proximity to the bright star Zeta Argils.

At the Supreme Court, this morning, the special jury case of Harding v. Campbell was set down for hearing, but before proceedings in it were commenced, Mr James Smith rose to move for a rule nisi calling upon Mr lames Vlacassey, Barrister of that Court, and plaintiff in the action Macassey v. Bell, to show cause why he should not answer certain matters complained of against him in the joint affidavits of Mr G. K. Turton, counsel for the defendant Bell, and Mr William Carter, managing clerk to Mr Turton ; also, that he show cause why he (Mr Macassey) shoull not pay the costs of this application; and why, in default of his giving sufficient and satisfactory answers to the complaints in the said affidavits, attachment should not issue against him, Mr Smith read the affidavits in support of the application and spoke at some length, until Mr Barton rose and said that, as counsel for plaintiff in the ca-e of Harding v. Campbell, ho must state his opinion that Mr >-mith had not chosen a proper time to make his application. Argument in it might last the whole day, and in the interest of his client and to save public time he (Mr Barton) must ask that the case set down for hearing be proceeded with, Mr Macassey then said that, as a person interested, he bad no objection to Mr Smith’s application being heard, and the latter gentleman continued his argument. The Court granted the rule nisi, as applied for. Pressure on ®ur space compels us to hold over our full report of the proceedings, and of those in Harding v. Campbell. The latter case had not concluded when we went to press.

A meeting of immigrants was held at the Athenaeum last evening, for the purpose, as notified, of “considering what steps shall be taken by the immigrants as regards work, and the Government, and to form resolutions thereon,” The hall was crowded to excess, it being calculated that 500 or 600 peoplwere present, and the discussion was con ducted ip a very animated manner. Mr J. Q. 8. Grant occupied, the chair, and stated the object of the meeting, saying that the present difficulties of the immigrants, from want of labor, was caused by tbe large influx of population. This would, however, be only temporary, and if they applied to tbe Government their prayers would no doubt be listened to favorably. Mr John M 1 Laren got up, and said the only right step for the immigrants to take was to go straight Home again; and he was continuing to speak when the meeting cried him down. A number of those present addressed the meeting, and the following motions were eventually carried ;—l. “ That this meeting pledges itself net to work for the Government under the

certified rate of wag«s” 2. “ That the newly-arrived immigrants a-e reasonably entitled to look to the Government for employment on public works, at reasonable wages, in accordance with the promises held out to them before emigrating to New Zealand.” 3. “That in the event of the Government refusing to ratify its promises made to immigrants, authentic representations be forwarded to the J London Times,’ * Daily Telegraph,’ and ‘ Daily News,’ setting forth the treatment they experienced on landing in the Colon\ r , and that a committee be formed to press upon the Govcnment the resolutions passed »t this meeting ” The following were appointed a deputation to wait on the Government in the matter : Messrs William Kirby, Cockroft, Bateman, C arke, Gibson, Hiscoke, and Mills; and the meeting adjourned. An adjourned meeting of the members of the coramitteoof theDanedin Athenaeum was held last night in the reference library ; present— Lnbecki in the chair, Messrs Stewart, Blair. Cargill. Hay, Logan, Smith, and Captain Hutton. Considerable discussion took place as to what pape r s should be admitted to the free table, Mr Blair saving that he thought one paper belonaing to each denomination, including Spiritualism, should be admitted; but he was opposed to ten Spiritualistic papers being admitted to one Catholic paper. Mr Cargill expressed a hope that the committee would not seek to introduce any papers except those which were right and proper. He had seen papers there containing rank blasphemy. He would be opnos?d to the introduction of papers containing a continued and virulent attack upon Christianity and everything sacred. Captain Hutton did not th.nk that a paper should be regarded as offensive because it advocated what ho or Mr Cargill might consider blasphemy. He had seen things in the * Yew Zealand Tablet’ which had hurt his feelings more than what he had read in any other paper, and there were some things in it and other papers which he considered rank blasphemy. The committee proceeded to consider the motion of Mr Logan, that the paper called ‘Common i?ense ’ be admitted, Mr Logan staling thut its object was to enlighten mankind. It was admitted. The ‘Boston luves 1 igator’ was next proposed, and Mr Logan said its tendency was elevating, aud that it investigated all moral things. Mr Cargill thought the paper contained a great deal of harm. He would require some further guarantee than Mr Logan’s loose statement that it taught everything of a moral character, lie would object to the Athenaeum being made a propaganda for spiritualistic papers or anything distinctly anti-Christian. All present voted against the admission of this paper except Mr Logan, and it was done away with. Mr Stewart then moved that the ‘ New Zealand Tablet,’ the ‘ New Zealand Church News,’ the ‘ Evangelist,’ and the ‘Otago Christian Record’ be admitted. Mr Smith seconded the motion, which was carried, Mr Logan objecting, on the grounds that they contained the monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment. The adjournnv d motion of Mr Stout, that the ‘ Banner of be received, was next proposed. There v ted for its admission, Messrs Smith, Logan, and Captain Mutton ; aud against it. Messrs Stewart, Blair, Cargill, and Hay, 1 he motion was therefore lost, as was also the motion for the admission of the ‘ Harbinger of Light.’ On the motion of Mr Stewart it was decided to admit the ‘ Australian Israelite,’ and the consideration of the admission of the ‘ Protestant Standard’ was postponed until next meeting.

The Dunedin Naval Brigade will be inspected at the Drill-shed, to-morrow evenin ,r at 7.30. *”

The special services in the Congregational Church will be continued this evening and tomorrow evening, at 7.30.

The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Dunedm Lodge, M.U.1.0.0.F., will be held in 7 3() I k emian evening, at