The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.

Evening Star, Issue 3609, 16 September 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.

Mr William Baldwin, of Patearoa Station, Hamilton, and Mr A. G. Mathias, also of Hamilton, have been appointed sheep inspectors, without salary. flia Honor the Superintendent has received a telegram from the General Government, stating that the Agent-General bad advised the sailing of the ship Auckland for Otago, with 3bo immigrants. Yesterday afternoon as two fishermen—one named Charles Sullivan—rwere proceedmg down the Lower Harbor, they noticed something swimming across the channel towards the Heads, and on proceeding to it discovered it to be a deer, which, after some trouble, they succeeded in capturing. It now remains at their residence, Lower Harbor, awaiting an owner.

The * rinoess Theatre last sight was again crowded in every part, to witness the performances of the Combination Troupe, which were gone through as successfully as usual. Young England’s flights from the trapeze were greatly applauded, and the young members of the Do Gastro Family introduced a number of new agile feats in their portion of the programme.

Mr Bathgate, during the sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, said that he had noticed a paragraph in one of thfe taptre referring to she bod adonstlo propfmvs o{ tbfc and tfcb incog.

venieat position in which the reportet s' desk was placed. He said that if one of the reporters was deputed by the others to confer with the Clerk to the Court, and would state the most convenient place to have a gallery put up, their request would be at once attended to.

Sly grog-selling finds a very determined opponent ia Mr Woolcomhe, the Resident Magistrate at Timaru. On the 11th instant, ou-> Neil M ‘Cowan, who keeps an accommoda ion house on the Canterbury side of the Waitaki, was fined on two informations i.IOO for gelling without a license. An outcome of the case was that a witness named Wm. C> ilvie has been committed to take his trial before the District Court for perjury. Three single girls {the in the barracks) were engaged at the Oaversham Dep6b today, at L2O, L 26, and L3O respectively Since the arrival of the four vessels —the Corona, Otago, Parsee, and Tweed—in the early part of the month, 104 single gi Is have found employment, the wages ranging from L! Bto L4O. In addition to this number, several girls have obtained situations for themselves in business establishments in town as dressmakers, Ac. Almost alt themarried men by tho Corona and < Jtogo have found employment (the majority being tradesmen obtaining work at the current rate of wages); while of the Tweed’s passengers nearly all the workmen have found situations. Ten families lefl the barracks this morning. There are now in the barracks from the three ships about sixty-six families, while there are only about twenty men unemployed. Mr T. L. SHepherd is not alone in his strong condemnation of the existing Gold fields .Act. In the ‘ Mail’s’ report of a case heard in the Warden’s Court at Queenstown on the 4th inst., Mr Warden Beetham “ does not hesitate to express an opinion that the Act of this Colony a complete hash a bash that was peifectly inexcusable. It deprived him, and he would venture to say the same for every brother Warden throughout the goldfields of the Colony, of the benefit of the precedents laid down affecting mining laws in the other Colonies. He intended io speak strongly, because he was so frequently asked to consider cases, when he found the New Zealand Acts would not allow him to apply them to matters. He saw the same thing occurring in the District Court, and the sooner the Legislature relieved the goldfields of this difficulty the better it would he. The .'lining Acts of .New Zealand were a jumble, and a disgrace to the Colony.”

Mr Stout will address the electors in the District Mall, Moruington, to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock.

A meeting is advertised to be held in the Universal Hotel, to take stops for the opening of a marine store.

Ike Dunedin Journeymen Painter’s Society will meet in the Hibernian Hotel, to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock.

The Colored Opera Troupe will give two concerts in the Princess Theatre on the 28th and 29th inst. The tirst performance will be in aid of the Sailors’ Home fund.