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The Evening Star. MONDAY, AUGUST 24. 1874

An inquiry re the origin of the late fire in Princes street south, will be held at the Imperial Hotel at 2 o’clock to-morrow afternoon.

Mr Hugh Joseph Finn was this day ad* mitted and enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Dr Dryslale, J. P,, Alexander Fraser and William Thomas, for being drunk, were discharge! with a caution.

Messrs Guthrie and Larnach have presented Captain Wain, on beha.f of the Fire Brigade, with a cheque for the sum of LIOO, in recognition of the services rendered by the Brigade at the late fire. At this morning’s sitting of the Supreme Court, in bankruptcy, final orders of discharge were granted to K. 11. Livermore, J. Blakely, and Margaret Paterson; Achille Fleury’s case was adjourned to September 21 ; and September 7 was fixed for the final examinations of Andrew Carr and Angus Frazer Campbell. Patrick Walsh and Edward Johnson, late seamen on board the Scimitar, were rec ived into the Dunedin gaol on Saturday afternoon. They stand committed by Mr Parker, of Camara, to take their trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, Dunedin, for having, on August 14, feloniously forged a certain order for the delivery of goods. As a number of the men employed at Messrs Park and Curie’s new building were this afternoon engaged in shifting a weoden house, the wind blew it over, causing it to tumble on one of their number, named John Williams. When Williams was picked up, it was found that his legs were both injured and his forehead severely cut. Medial assistance was immediately sent for. The ‘ Mount Ida Chronic's ’ of Friday last says “ The thaw which set in early in the week has brought a pleasant change. Mining claims are all busy, and work is proceeding with vigor on the head race. We cannot, however, conceal from ourselves the fact that sufficient rain or snow has not yet falltn to promise anything more than a few weeks’ supply for the claims.”

The Dunedin correspondent of the Grey River ‘Argus.’ writing during the snowy weather experienced last month, speaks of Mr John Barneyw,ith more humor than truth. He says:—“Of all places in the Colony I think Dunedin may fairly claim to be the muddiest. We have an Inspector of Works who, no doubt, is a very estimable man in his way—say for instance as a 8 ganger ’on a railway formation—but in the forming and keeping in order street c ossings, I must pronounce him a failure. With him there is no compromise between four inches of mud, and four-inch me.'al. both equally fatal to the comfort, of the City pedestrian. However, I suppose both snow and mud aro inevitable at this season.”

Friday’s programme was repeated at the Princess Theatre on Saturday evening to a large audience. Mrs Hill’s Malge Wil ifirt and Mr Keogh’s Laird of Dumbiedykes again secured a large share of applause. Miss Willis, as Jpftuie Deans, played with great care and naturalness, “Bobby A 1 ” concluded the entertainment. At the termination of the first piece Mr J£eogh came forward, and stated that a new dyanja would bo produced this evening entitled “Three Phases of Life,” and that Mr Wiltshire would take a benefit to-morrow. He concluded by stating that Wednesday evening would be the las - night of the season, when Mr Steele and himself would take a joint hem fit, and the company would return to Dunedin about Christmas, when a new pantomime would-be presented. '''

Au Auckland paper says The Taranaki, which left the Manukau on the lltb instant, was from and to the port of Nelson in charge of Mr Fvans, the chief officer. Captain AVheeler, the well-known skipper, met with a singular accident—if such it can be called—in Nelson, which prevented him accompanying the boat to the Manukau. While ashore an enthusiastic friend saw him, and coming up behind gave the worthy cap’tgin a friendly hug, bear fashion. There Was a ©rack heard. ‘ Hullo,! did man. I’ve broken yopr wstcfc, I’m afraid,’ said the friend. 'Watch, indeed! ribs you mean,’ replied Captain Wheeler, *nd so it turned out. A doctor had to be called in, F. 4° pro nounced that the embrace had proved tq’o much for one of the ribs on the right side. The captain is laid up for a time : meanwhile he has especial reason to re-echo the proverb, ‘ Save me from my friends.’ ”

A Wellington contemporary says :—“Mr Bradfihuw is, no doubt, already informed of a weak poi»t i» the Act which was passed at his instigation last Session, the Provincial Secretary of Westland having communicated the Magistrate’s decision on the point to the Superintendent, the Hon. Mr JBonar; but the matter is also worthy of public attention. The Act provides that females shall not work more than eight hours per day, and recently in Christchurch a bootmaker was fined for infringing the law. lately, a Mrs Rose, of Hokitika, was charged with a breach of the Act, in keeping her assistants working beyond the specified hours. Mr Parkis*, fpr the defence, urged that the Act applied only tp employers of labor in preparing “articles of trude of for sale, not being contract or piece work.” ft did not, therefore, apply to Mrs Ross, or through her to the defendant, as she made up other people’s goods in which she bad herself no property. Convinced by this argument the Magistrate dismissed the case.” The ‘ Post’ of the 11th instant says .* —“In the Legislative Council this afternoon a somewhat amusing discussion was originated by Captain Fraser, who complained that bp a«d some other members were the previous even, ing in the gallery of the House of Representatives, wearing their hats, when they received a curt communication, requesting them to take their hats off. He thought thi? ap ipsujt and breach of the privileges of the House, Mr Robinson concurred, and Dr Pollen gave certain explanations to the effect that he was in ibfee gallery when he received a private note from tjjie Speaker of the Representatives, drawing ‘ attention to certain members wearing their hats Hn thoughtlessly passed the note on to the mem-; hers in question. Mr Waterhouse thought Captain Fraser was entirely in the wrong, as members of the Council had no constitutional or prescriptive right to be present in the other House, and if they went there they were simply in the position of strangers, and bound to obey the regulations of that House. The Speaker concurred in this view, and said that if members of the House of Representatives had kept their hats on in the gallery of the Council, he would have sent up and .asked them to uncover. The matter then <ir. pped.” Lactam Casey, of the steamer Lady Bowen, winch recently assisted getting oil' the ship Miltiades on the occasion of her jraiming aground at to Auckland

harbor, appears to have been getting into hot water in connection with the claim he put in forsalvagr. The ‘Tribune’ says: -“The Kev. Mr Edgar, of Auckland, has been writing to the local papers about the large sum (L 1,625) awarded to Captain Casey for salvage, to which the oapsin replies as follows, in the columns of the ‘ Southern Cross’ :— ‘ Rey. Sir. —Mind your pulpit—don’t meddle with ships, insurance, or salvage ; these matters are beyond your comprehension. But, if you must have something to do, come to the Bed Office this morning on Queen street Wharf, and pay your little freight account, which will oblige J. Casey.’ Why preachers should not meddle with ships, insurance, salvage, or other mat f ers pertaining to business, this low-minded man does not say and could not say, if he tried. We know nothing of the Rev. Mr Edgar, but if ha protested in the name of justice against an exorbitant claim for salvage made by Captain Casey, he was only doing his duty as one preaching righteousness. Captain < asey may rejoice over his gain, but the less he intrudes himself up m public notice the better.” The Tasmanian ‘ Tribune’ of the 28th ult. thus describes the result of the choice between liberty and a coat:—“Mr Daniel, who has recently returned from one of his periodical visits to the most charming of all rural spots delightful for the picturesquenesa of its scenery—Port Arthur—where he has been rus ieating during the summer months, was proceeding along Liverpool st eet yesterday morning, admiring the gny things which a'lorued the shop windows, when his eye—was it by chance ?—fell npon an elegant pilot cloth coat suspended from the door of Mr Thomas Sbirely, the well-known clothier of Leinster House. Shall I have nought to protect me from ( he wild blasts of this wintry weather ? said he, and at that moment he walked up to the door of the aforesaid clothier, drew from his pocket a penknife, gazed cautiously around, nerved himself for the acaon, and, with the words do or die on his lips, rent in twain the eord, and extending his right arm, upon which tho elegant pilot c!oth coat fell. Mr Daniel, without having informed Mr Sturdy of the act, walked briskly down Liverpool street, but the hawk eye of John Doraett, whom Mr Propsting had commissioned to take a survey of the city and some of its inhabitants that morning, fell upon Mr Daniel, whom he held out his arms to embrace, and to whom he said, ‘Oh ! Mr Daniel, ome to judgement.’ Mr Daniel at first was insulted, but prtsenly be looked at Mr Propsting’s friend, who eyed him in turn, and the recognition was mutual. After a few words were exchanged Mr Daniel was invited to the Temperance Hotel of Mr \ tkins, whose guest he now is. ” The Wellington ‘ Tribune,’ of the Bth inst., reports the following scene in the House : —“ Visitors at the House last night were amused by a ‘tiff’ between the Premier and the Speaker, in which the latter hardly maintained his dignity to the extent that is desirable. Mr Vogel thought Sir rands was rather prone to take ‘the huff,’ and Sir Francis took ‘ the huff’ all the more. Sir Francis was giving rather a back-handed kind of support to the State Forests Bill, comparing it to a gutted house, dfec. tie might have hit upon a better figure of speech —that, for example, of the hog in the flowerbed, and its vindication to the gardener See there untouched your flowers strewn, For I’ve devoured the roots alone.

It wasn’t Mr Vogel’s fault that the Bill became mutilated, and he reasonably' enough defended the parts of it that remained, whereupon the hon. the Speaker would insist upon it that the Premier was treating him as an Opposition member, although he averred be was entirely in favor of the principle of the Bill, as a statesmanlike measure, After a lull, Mr Vogel had occasion again to refer to Opposition members generally, re marking that it was the same cry on ail occasions ‘ delay, delay, anything for delay ’— and the Premier unguardedly accompanied the words with a wave of his hand, Thiis was not lost on Sir Francis ; to him, at least, the gesture was sufficiently significant. There could be uq doubt in his amid that this wave of the hand wag meant as marked discourtesy to him j besides, was it not done in a contemptuous manner ? The hon. gentleman uprose and said so, expres sing his regret at ever having said a single word upon the Bill. Mr Vogel, apparently ia sheer astonishment at this turn of affairs, said he had not even had the Speaker in bis mind when he used the peccant words or made the peccant gtsture ; but really, he continued qui-tly, if the hou. gentleman opposed the Bill, he must expect the Government to answer his objections as they would those of any other hon. member.” Mr Stout will address the electors in the drill-shed, Caversham, to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock.

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Evening Star, Issue 3589, 24 August 1874, Page 2

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The Evening Star. MONDAY, AUGUST 24. 1874 Evening Star, Issue 3589, 24 August 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, AUGUST 24. 1874 Evening Star, Issue 3589, 24 August 1874, Page 2

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