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Evening Star, Issue 3601, 7 September 1874, Page 2

By the Southland papers we observe that Mr John Dalgleish has been appointed manager of the Invercargill branch of the Colonial Bank. Mr B. F. Glides has received the appointment of manager of the branch of the Bank of .New Zealand in the same town. At the Port Chalmers Resident Magistrate’s Court, this mornimg, James Sinclair, Cornelius Ryan, and Daniel Ryan were fined IGs or forty-eight hours’, respectively, for drunkenness; Alexander M'Leod, 20s or forty-eight hours; and John Mitchell, Joseph Caul, Nicholas Stavely, and vVm. M'Carrow, 5s or twenty-four hours each. The only encasement made at the Princes street Immigration Barracks this afternoon was that of a young man who was employed ■as a general servant at L 52 per year. It was advertised that the ploughmen, ex Tweed, would he opened for engagement; but they were not brought to town. The single girls by the Paraee were forwarded to the Oavershaw depOt this afternoon, and may be employed ®n Wednesday. Mr Grant, legal manager of the Terrace Gold Mining Company, has furnished ns with the following information :—A telegram from the working manager at the mine announces that the yield for last week was 20~>z. sdwt. 13gr. Fifteen men at work ; mine looking better. The returns for the previous four weeks have been comparatively light, owing to the intense frost and the consequent scarcity of water. They amount to 4lb. 3dwt. 22gr. His Ilonoi Judge Chapman held a sitting in bankruptcy at the Supreme Court to-day. Charles Alexander Martin was adjudged a bankrupt and a meeting of his creditors appointed for the 15ihiast. Henry Growdeu and Angus Fraser Campbell passed th-ir final examinations and were granted orders of discharge, and the case of Andrew Carr was adjourned to the 28th instant. The applications of Oliver Lucas, Alf. Wo -d, and John Graham for final examinations, were adjourned to the 21st current. His Honor Will sit in banco to-morrow.

A large number of golfers turned out on Saturday at the Morningtou links, to compete fur their Monthly Club Handicap. There were a good many entries, and the handicap was eventually won by Mr P. Adair, who was playing in fine form. He and Mr D. Hood tied with fifty-five in their first round, but in the short round that was played off Mr Adair came in first by two strokes. The Bt. Andrew’s Cross has again b -en taken by Professor Shand, who tied Mr Holmes on Saturday, at the end of the first round, but won the second by four holes. \Ve regret that we have to announce that intelligence has been received of the death of v, r Henry Person Morse. We learn that Mr Morse d ed on the 15J t August on the voyage Hump, when the ship was off Duugeness. Me had left Melbourne in the Lady Jocelyn, which arrived ip the i hauies on the J4f.h August. Mr Mo s% who was well known and respected here, was for some time Clerk in the Kesideut Magistrate’s Court Cuiiediu. He was a deacon of the Hanover street Baptist Church for many years, and had held the office of hon. secretary to the Bible Society. -

The annual general meeting of the Dunedin Jewish Congregation was hel l in the vestry rooms yesterday. The balance-sheet as read was adopted. It showed the affairs of the congregation to be in a flourishing financial position. Mr B. Isaac was elected president, Mr Maurice Joel treasurer, and the following gentlemen were elected com-mittee-men Messrs M. Moss, M. Lazarus, R. M. Marks, and G. Harris. A vote of thanks to Mr E, Nathan, the retiring president, for the valuable services he had rendered duiing his three years’ service to the congregation, was unanimously carried. There was quite a field-day at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, there beiog no less than seventeen prisoners before the Court, thirteen of whom were charged with drunkenness. There were also a charge of being illegally on the premises, several cases of theft against one prisoner, and a number of charges of obtaining money by fraudulent pretences against another. ] n the last case it appeared, as stated by Sub-Inspector Mallard, that the prisoner had gone in for wholesale swindling, lettiug-in numerous parties. His case, which seemed to occasion a great deal of interest, the Court he ; ng crowded while the case was bei'.g proceeded with, was adjourned till 1 hursday. In a town in Victoria laiely, a resident there having repeatedly missed wood from his yard, resorted to the means of placing gunpowder in a billet or two, so that the effects of the same, when exposed to the action of. the fire, would also expose the petty larcrfner, 'lhe result of this was that, on the same ev n n/, an explosion look place in a cottage not far away from the owner’s of the wood, and in one of the apartments of tfie then actual possessor. The explosion caused consider hie damage to the chimney, and created very much surprise and alarm to the occupants of the room in which the llreworas took place, the domestic boiler bei: g considerably elevated above its suspended hooks, and coming down with a crash.

The Greymouth ‘ Evening Star ’finds fault with Fox as follows :—“ Speaking against the new Licensing Bill on the 24th oc last month, Mr Fox stated that the bellman on the West Coast announced : ‘ Ten new barmaids just arrived by the Alhambra I Koll up, gentkmou -roll up and see them !’ We sincerely wish the honorable advocate of total abstinence would be a little more explicit. From the way he mentioned the subject', his heir era were led to believe that the announcements of the arrival of barmaids was a common practice with us, and we really must protest against this wholesale vilification of a community because on one ooc s on, in years gone by, some enterprising publican chose to make his business arraog ” meat public by means of a bellman. Our experience of We.-t Coast affairs is large, but it dois not embrace the circumstance almded to. Ten young ladies seem rather a wholesale importation at any time, and the bar for which they were intended must have been capacious. Ten barmaids in one bar, m this age of crinoline and dress improvers ! The idea is preposterous, and the great Fox has proved himself a still greater goose by giving credence to such an improbable story, ° The entertainment given by Smith’s Combination Troupe, at the Princess’s, on Saturday night, was an unqualified success, both financially and otherwise; the lower parts of the house being crammed, and the circle well attended, while the performance itselt was far superior to that of the earlier part of the week. Mr St. Vincent saug “A. country life for me” in good style, his imitations of operatic singers being capitally done Madame de Castro afterwards gave a seriocomic song entitled ‘‘ Walking out on Sunday,” but it proved to be a failure. Mr Val Vose, the ventriloquist, again achieved a great success. He introduced two smaller models in the place of those formerly med, and the quaint sayings which they were made to utter were very mirth-provokmg. During this part a well-deserved rebuke was paid to a person in the pit whose interruptions were far too frequent to be pleasant. The De (.astro Family, in their acrobatic fea m, were as well received as heretofore After the interval, Airec balanced himself on a ladder on the aerial bar without the slightest support. This perilous fed was undoubtedly the feature of the entertainment, and must bo seen to be thoroughly appreciated. The sentiments expressed in th-; duet, “ Flags of all uati-ms,” were well received. Some difficult evolutions were performed on the treble trapeze by the young athletes Alb rto, Young England, and Annette. The same programme s announced for to-night.

. meeting of the Court Pride of Dunedin A.0.1*, will be held iu the South Australian. Hall, to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock. The ‘New Zealand Church News’ for September contains a vast amount of information calculated to interest members of the AngloColouial Church. Its leading columns comment on the report of the General Synod, suggesting improved methods of preparing business for Diocesan Synods, and invite the hospitality of Church members to the Clergy attending Synodical gatherings. Amongst the contributions is a humorous report of a meeting of parishioners of St. Enoch’s, Arktown. Where Arktown is, or who St. EuocV was, we cannot tell. Possibly the geography and biography inay be discoverable by those better acquainted with the Church matters with which the meeting was galled to deal. The ‘ Banner of the Cross ’ must be under the joint editorship of the Mr P. Namby and Mr N. Pamby, who are said to have addressed the meeting. It however contains a pretty love story, which redeems it somewhat from its usual dulness.