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Evening Star, Issue 3610, 17 September 1874, Page 2

The Rev, S. D. Salmoud, Free Church minister, Barry, Forfarshire, has been offered the Professorship of Theology ia the Otago University. We hear that Captain Hutchison intends to prefer a claim of L2OO against the Government for injuries sustained by his mare ppritsail, in the recent accident to her on the railway line. The Anglican Diocesan Synod meets at the Temperance Hall on the 29th inst. On the next evening a concert is to be held under its auspices for the purpose of raising funds to establish a denominational school in connection with St. Pauls. ,

jThe rumor is again current that Mr Chas. O’Neill is about to resign his seat as M.H.R. for the Thames, but we place very little reliance upon it. We may add that the names of Messrs James Mackay an I Rowe are mentinned as candidates when the seat shall be declared vacant.

At the 1 ort Chalmers Resident Magistrate s Court this, morning, before Mr T. A. Mansford, R M., Robert Lindsay, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 20s, or fortyeight hours’ imprisonment, and for using obscene and indecent language, 40s, or seven days’ hard labor.

From a private telegram placed at our disposal, we learn that the steamer Tuapeka has been successfully raised. Her cargo consisting principally of potatoes, has been re agge I, and will not suffer much damage, fhe however, of which there were thirty bags on board, is spoiled. In the case of Edmond aud Co. v. White (captain of the ship Hindustan), an action for the recovery of 1.23 ss, through the alleged abstraction by defendant’s crew of a quantity of platedware from a box of merchandise, judgment was yesterday given for the plaintiffs for the sum of Lls 19s 6d.

.Notice of the following motion was given by the Mayor of Westport at the last meeting of the Borough Council “That an address bi prepared and forwarded to the Honorable the Premier, expressive of the satisfaction of this Council at the initiatory action taken with a view to the abolition of Provincial institutions.”

I t appears to have been established to the satisfaction of the people of Sydney that th< ir capital is built upon a great coalfield, the depth of which is ca’culated at 960 ft It appears probable that an attempt will be made to work the field, as the depth is trifling compared with those of many coal mines now worked profitably in England. Fart of the brick portion of the chancel arch of St. Thomas’s Church, now in course of erection, fell down a day or two ago, the timber framework having been removed before the brickwork was thoroughly set and this morning an additional, but only a bulling portion followed. Although a num ber of men are employed inside the structure no one was injured on either occasion ’

J. A. Fronde, the eminent historian, is about to leave England on a visit to the English Colonies all over the world. Mr Fronde will begin with the Caoe of Good gope and he will end with Canada Mr Froude’s absence from England will extend over two years “I have no doubt,” says the London correspondent of the ‘New Zealand Herald.’ -that you will welcome Mr flroude to New Zealand ere many months are over.” J

I he Combination Troupe gave another successful performance last night at the Princess before alargeaudience. Young England’s somersaults from the high trapeze met with great applause, and Yal Vose repeated bis illusion with the talking hand. Airec and the De Castro family were as good as usual iu th-r respective feats To-morrow evenine beiug set apart for a fashionable night, there will be a select programme, and on Saturday another mid-day performance.

The ‘ Syuey Morning Herald’ publishes a long letter from Sir Alfred Stephen, in which ne analyses the evidence in the Tichborne case and holds it to have been completely established that Castro and Orton were one person, and that person “the claimant.” He adds to his letter an affidavit, sworn in «agga Wagga by a resident there, who swears that in conversation with Castro who was then engaged as a butcher, the latter introdneed the subject of VVappiug, and said that his parents had lived in High street there, and if they were living were there

At the Waitemata nomination, Mr Staines an elector, asked Mr Von der Hyde if he voted against the clause introduced to regulate the hours of barmaids. Mr Von der Heyde said ; I voted against it, because I believe that barmaids, just as well as anyone else, knew when their work is done.—Mr otames : Does not the Legislature interfere with factories?—Mr Von der Heyde : I have no doubt that the young women engaged in factories, &c., would work after hours if they were paid for it. Ido not think it is a question for legislative interference. There are domestic servants who receive 15s per week, and frequently work from six t® twelve. Barmaids receive from 30s to L2 per week, and work from eleven to eleven • and if they choose to continue to do so Ido not see why we should interfere. *

The Camara Presbytery held its quarterly meeting at Hampden on the 9th instant. It was agreed to recommend the Synod to appoint Dr Stuart and the Rev. Mr Watt as theological tutors. The Presbytery having heard that the session of the Lower Waitaki had applied to the Church Extension Committee to get the Rev. Mr Russell to supply that district for a month, cordially agreed to support the application, but recommended that the time be two months instead of one, Mr Todd was appointed to visit the Upper Waireka to endeavor to make arrangements to retain Mr Gilbert’s services for that district. The Presbytery expressed their gratification at the manner in which Mr Gilbert had discharged bis duties as mis ionary in the Lower Waitaki, and would rejoice at any arrangement by which his servic> s could be retained in connection with the Presbytery at Upper Waireka or Maerewhenua.

The following extract from a Police Court report in the ‘ Southland Times’ of the 14th mst., speaks for itself Mary Goff, a Garrick astle immigrant, was charged, with Uiing obscene language at the old immigration barracks, Esk street. Accused, who had appeared in court before on a charge of drunkenness, said, touching the present case, that she was ‘ just speaking to her husband, for his good, as he was drunk. She might say that she was drunk too.’ Inspector Fox stated that the immigrants in the Esk street barracks led a dreadfully degraded and drunken life. Government had no one in charge of the barracks ; if they had, immigrants coming in drunk oould be locked out and they could then bo dealt with by the police. As things were, however, they were continually drinking, swearing, and fighting, a nd. it was difficult to know hew to deal with them. They did very little work, and whatever money they made was spent in buymg intoxicating drinks. Prisoner said she had only one day’s work since she came to the place. Having been fined 40a, or ten days imprisonment, with hard labor, she withdrew, exclaiming, with a strong Irish accent, * Uh, thank your Worship J’ The remarks of our Wellington correspondent on “sensational telegraphing,” form the subject of an editorial in the ‘ iSew Zealand Times,’ which observes “ The cor respondent is, perhaps, too wide in his allusion when he asks the editor to whom he writes whether he has read the columns of contemporaries North and South. His remarks, fortunately, are not of universal application. He speaks of excep ions, not a rule ; although it must be admitted that the exceptions are becoming so numerous as to require pointed attention aud marked condemnation. It is painful to peruse the columns of some papers, in which there is permitted the publication of statements which, on the face of them, are pure inventions, ©r, at the least, suggestions of minds of a depraved and evil character. Individual members of the two Houses have been equally subject to this annoyance with members of the Ministry : no man in public position, or discharging to the best of his ability public duties is safe from the slander of these so-called special correspondents ; and the system of slander is so continuous and unchecked that it seems almost a hopeless task for anyone affected to deny or rebuke the assertions or aspersions that are made. It is, however, a duty which the Press owes to itself to denounce practices which are a disgrace to it, and which are becoming in this Colony so prominent as to reflect more or less directly upon every member of the profession. It especially devolves upon the Press of Wellington to make remark upon the matter, for Wellington correspondence evidently represents the head and front of the rank offence to the public sense, and to the institution the character of which it so intimately affects. \ • • • It is not from the Press that the first suggestions should come as to any restriction in that particular ; but it miy be fairly questioned how far the Telegraph Department should be permitted to be made the medium of libel, or the medium of trans mitting mere individual opinions under the plea of such opinions being news. At present the department is certainly chargeable only with liberality, while some of the correspondents who make use of it, and the app iauces placed at their disposal at a trilling cod;, are chargeable with possessing souls suffused with envy, hatred, malice,' and all nncharitableness.”

An announcement in our advertising columns states that a branch of the Bank of New Zealand will be opened at Tapanui on the 30th es tablishment of this institution will confer a great boon upon the inhabitants of this flourishing district.

We observe from our advertising columns that arrangements have been made with Mr Connell, of Messrs Connell and Moodie, to accompany intending purchasers to the Township of Roseneath to-morrow, by the 2.30 p.m. train, for the purpose of pointing out the position of the various sections.