The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1874

Evening Star, Issue 3579, 12 August 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1874

We thank the Government Printer for Parliamentary Papers received by the Wellington. By our Australian telegrams it will be seen that Mr Eedwood’s horses have arrived at Melbourne iu “ fine order.”

Mr Wiltshire hat now completed his 800 th mile, and Mrs Wiltshire a like number of half-miles. Both are still walking well.

Mr John Archibald Duncan Adams was this day admitted and enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

On Saturday morning a valuable horse, one of the leaders in Duncan’s coach, while on its way to Dunedin, Jell suddenly dead when near the Tetara;

The * Southland News’ states that the settlement at Martin’s Bay is likely to bo abandoned, owing to the difficulty of saving grain crops from the ravages of small birds aud the effect of the prevailing wet \veather. The Californian Minstrels repeated the programme of the previous evening a£ t)je Queen’s Theatre last night to a fairly nu. merous audience Messrs Kelly and Sutton announce their benefit for to-morrow night.

The ‘Provincial Government Gazette’today contains the announcement that Mr A. Mercer, of Dunedin, has been appointed a member of the Utago Harbor Board in the place pf Mr Keith Ramsay, resigned, who, as Mayor, is a member of the Board by virtue of bis office. Some persons have cause to be thankful that we have a police force. At the Eeai. dent Magistrate’s Court this morning a man named Daniel Stephenson was charged with drunkenness on the previous night. When arrested he had a deposit receipt for L 290 on him. He was let off with a caution.

Some of the up-country coutempories are apparently not very well up in astronomical matters, for they will insist on the fact that there are at present two comets visible here. One pap@r goes into an elaborate account of >;he few occasions ou which mere than one of obese ei ratio bodies has been visible at the jarne time ; while another comments on the extraordinary coincidence of one comet’s being seen in the east early in the morning, and of a second one appearing in the west in the evening. The ‘ Lake' Wakatip Mail ’ 'till further matters by Teport•ng that of the “,£wo comets now visible iu the azure field, the later arrival may be seen n the east at night. ”

Hi* Honor Mr Justice Chapman delivered Judgment to-day in Healey v. Heeuan. It vas a rule nisi to arrest judgment, or, iu the ilternative, tor a now trial The rule was liacharged with costa, j[u the Dunedin Waterworks Company (appellants) v. the Jalfway Bush Road Board (respondents), he appeal w.as dismissed with costs. His lonor als® gave Judgment iu Kitching v. VDCarthy. His Honor was of opinion that the plaintiff's declaration showed no equity to entitle him to specific performance the

alleged parol agreement which he set up, and that the defendant’s demurrer thereto must be allowed. Judgment was given for the defendant. Some six or seven of the cases on the list were indefinitely postponed in consequence of the temporary absence fr<m Dunedin of Mr Macaasey, he having been summoned to Wellington The Press Dramatic Club give another entertainment at the Princess Theatre tomorrow evening, in aid of the funds for the establishment of the Scott Scholarship. The principal piece will be the comedy of the “Serious Family,” which will be preceded by a prologue written and delivered by Mr V. 1 yke Mr Bracken will then give an address written by himself to the memory of .'ir Walter Scott; and the performance will conclude with the farce of “ Urgent Private Affairs.” 'i he Club will have the valuable assistance of Mrs Walter Hill, and the

'iisaes May, Willis, Martineau, and Vivian, and the pieces are being actively rehearsed under the management of Mr Mitchell. We hear that one of the ladies will perform on the trapi ze.

A special meeting of the Dunedin School Committee was held in Mr James’s office last evening ; present —Mr C. H. Street (in the chair), Messrs Stout, Hay, Livingston, Sherwin, Robin, Wright, and S, James (Secretary). It was called to consider a letter received from Mr Hislop, Secretary to the Education Board, stating that on Monday next the Albany street School will be ip a sufficient state of completion to allow of Mjp Montgomery’s class being transferred from the Oddfellows’ Hall into it, which would enable Mr H»lliwell to transfer some of his classes from the Middle District School into the Oddfellows’ Hall. It was agreed that if the School was dry, advertisements be put in the papers announcing ita opening < n Monday. It was also resolved that application be called for a janitor to the School, at a yearly salary of L2O.

Another case of drowning has occurred in .our harbor, the deceased being John Walker, ’atejy a boarding-house keeper in Stafford street. l£ appears that a mau named Samnel Woods/ $ recent arrival had a box lying on the Anderson’s Bay beach last evening. Between four and five p.tn. his attention was attracted to a box in a dingy, which was being rowed towards town by two men. The boat upset, and one of the men swam ashore. Woods, with the survivor, Charles O’Brien, an immigrant by the Janet Court, then proceeded to search for deceased, but were unsuccessful. Constable M‘L,augljlin, who lives in the district, was at once on jbhje spot, and arrested O’Brien, the survivor, ogi thje charge of stealing the box. Search for the body wa§ commenced this morning at six o’clock, and it was recovered at ten o’clock by the police boat, in which were Constables Hendergop and Hartnett, near the shore where the prisoners are working, and about 200 yards from the Anderson’s Bay beach. The box was found an hour earlier, about fifty ya v ds off O’Brien was brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, and the charge adjourned to next day. Both men seeip t-e have been the worse for drink at the time of tfee §,ccf4ept. We understand that an inquest will b.e held %-i£9rrow.

The regular monthly meeting of the Otago Kilwinning Lodge will be held in the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening at eight o'olobk. The second entertainment, under the auspices of All Saints’ Young Men’s Association, will b.e held in the Schoolroom to-morrow evening at -eight o’clock, A meeting of Dungctin shareholders in the New Zealand Titanic apt! Iron Company will be held in the Provincial to-morrow afternoon at four o’clock. “ "