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Evening Star, Issue 3625, 5 October 1874, Page 2

It is stated that jSdr J. C. -Richmond was an applicant for the secretaryship to the New Zealand Agency in London.

Ta-day Thomas Cross, Charles S, Woods* and Norman Wood word 'adjudged bankrupts, and all farther business in bank* ruptcy adjourned to October 12. • The single girls by the Christian M‘Ausland were conveyed to town by an early train this morning. They will be open, for engagement at the Caversham Barracks- on Wednesday.

Mr 0. F. Black has received a telegram from Mr Grace, manager of the Shotovet Terrace Company, stating that the yield of for the last week amounts to 750z; 6dwt. I7gr. Sixteen men are at work. Charles Dodd, second mate of the Oneca. who will be brought up at Port Chalmers oh Thursday far the murder of the seaman Green, is a native of Portuguese Cory, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is therefore a British subject. The Typographical Association intend to present Mr David Stark, who is about to proceed to Oamaru, with a testimonial pressive of tbeir appreciation of his services as president, which office ho has held since the establishment of the association. The shearers have resolved to hold out for their previously agreed upon price of 20s for ordinary sheep and L2 for rams. At a meeting on Saturday night they also resolved to call a general meeting of shearers in March, and to appoint a man from each shed during the ensuing season to collect funds for a Shearers’ Union.

The Inspector of distilleries, in his report presented to the General Assembly, states that in 1873 the consumption of spirits was three gallons per head, and recently it had fallen to one and four-fifths. This, Mr Seedbelieved, was owing to the decrease of thei drinking habits of the people, Surely this fact : ought to be. . satisfactory to the-Good Templars. The competition by the Golf Club for the Bruntsfield Medal was commenced on the Moraington Links on Saturday afternoon. The first round : only was played, the three 1 beat scorers being—Mr Hopd, 58; Mr Fogarty, 60; and Mr Thomson, 61. The monthly handicap was also competed for at' the same time, and, was won by Mr Fogarty, 1 who received three points. There was an excellent downstairs attend-! ance at the Princess’s bh Saturday night, on; the occasion of the benefit of Mr Kirby/ the agent of the troupe.. The programme of the previous night was submitted, with the addition of an amusing Ethiopian farce, entitled “The Wigmakers of Paris,” the parts being sustained by Messrs Kirby, De Castro, and St. Vincent. Mr Smith has determined to prolong the stay hare of the troupe for a few nights.

Another instance of the wonderful curative properties of the-hot springs atWai- : vrera; near Auckland, is given, by the local prints. A Mr M'Sweeney, who is wellknown in Auckland, had beep suffering for several months from a paralytic stroke by which his right side was so much ejected aS to render the arm and leg almost useless, and by the advice of his friends he was induced to try a course of bathing at the springs. In twelve days he was completely cured., The course adopted was a bath of about’ twenty minutes’ duration twice a-day. There is only oiie common jury case— M*Ooll r. Muir (Messrs -Sievwright and Macassey being the respective solicitors) set down for trial, and it will be taken at the conclusion of the criminal business. The special jury cases, commencing on October 12, are—Scott (Kettle, solicitor) v. Broderick and another (Sievwright, solicitor); Dodson (Harris, solicitor) v. Macassey (Hag-; gitt, solicitor) ; North and another (Macassey,, solicitor) v. Vowell (Turfcon, solicitor;; Calder and another (Sievwright, solicitor) v. Brogden and Sons (Smith and Anderson as agents for F. M. Olliver, solicitors). The Oxford Troupe gave their first performance at the Masonic Hall on Saturdav evening, but the attendance for an opening; night was anything but encouraging. Thei principal performers are Mr Verten, Mr; Shipp, and Miss Blanche Anderson, a magicienne. The portion, of the entertainment which falls to the lady is termed “ A Night in Wonderland.” * She performs a number of tricks alike graceful and clever in a quiet unassuming manner; the bank-note and magic key tricks being her best efforts. Mr Verten’s nigger song and dance “Nicodemusl Johnson” had to be repeated. Another performance will be given this evening.

Those who in the past have felt the inconveuience of being regularly summoned, to serve as grand jurors have oause to thank Mr Q-. E. Barton, whose vigorous denunciation, during the progress of Long’s triad last session, of the smallness of the array, has led to a new and increased list being struck. To-day the grand jury numbered twenty-one, while formerly it was with difficulty that the Sheriff could select more than a dozen names.. With the exception of two, all the grand jury' to-day appeared to be new. to that > dignity.’ One of the exceptions is a jovial farmer from North Taieri, who, in addition to attending at several successive sessions, has sat upon nine juries, and been on longer cases than any two men in the Province. The expansion of the list should be the means of preventing gentlemen being so frequently called upon as they have hitherto been. In the last number of the * Printers’ Register ’ there is made an announcement at once startling and gratifying to newspaper proprietors. It is put in these words “ The combination of the Type Founding Com-, pany’s patent type-casting and finishing machine, with the type-composing machine, whereby the fused metal is within two minutes converted into a perfect type, and whilst yet Warm conveyed through the two machines into the stick of the compositor,? indicates the dawn of a new era in daily

newspaper printing, it be’ng an ascertained fact that the manuf icture of new type daily for the composer is attended with less cost than the distribution and resetting into lines for the machine. We, therefore, confidently look to the time—lot by any means distant —when one at least of pur leading daily journals will every morning app ar with entirely new founts, the Patent Type Founding Company have already delivered a first instalment of the machinery, and' being busily engaged in cutting new punches of minion and bourgeois to the order of the enterprising firm who will inaugurate this most startling of trade innovations. ”

The Resident Magistrate at Clyde (Mr Simpson) has had occasion to administer a severe rebuke to a policeman stationed in his district. Under the heading of “An Unwarrantable arrest,” the ‘Dunstan Times’ tells the circumstances (which, if true, warrant further action being taken) as follows ; —The charge, bne of robbery against two hotel-keepers—Mr Blue, of. Clyde, and Mr L. Ryan, of Alexandra—was brought by a man named Peter O’Grady. It appears that O’Grady, who was a stranger to everyone at Alexandra, arrived there by coach on Monday evening last, from tho Teviot, having, as he said, about L6O in his packet. During the evening he went the, round of the public-houses, and wound up by sleeping at the Royal Mail Hotel, whereas he thought he had slept elsewhere. On Tuesday he appears to have continued his libations till evening found him the worse for liquor at Tohili’s Royal Mail Hotel; from thence he and Mr Blue went to Ryan’s Bendigo Hotel, where a bet was made, and O’Grady staked in the hands of Ryan a LiO note, the latter sayioghe would keep it till the morning. O'Grady appeared dissati-fied with this, ’ and after some argument declared he had been robbed of tws LIO notes. Hereupon, he went put, returning in < a short time with , a to whom he laid a charge against Ryan and Blue of robbing him, of, four LIO notes. On , this statement the constable .(Pierpoint) searched both parties accused; and uotwithstanding he found pp such money- described as being stolen,, saving the LIQ stakedas a bet, the particularspf whiqh Ryan the constable, be arrested them, and book them to the lock-up, and kept them there until the following morning,’rtf using in the meant l me to call in the local magistrate, so that the accused might be admitted to bail. In dismissing the case, Mr Simpson characterised the story of the prosecutor as that of “ a man who apparently had lost or misspent some money, ’and who was : vicious enough to lay a serious charge against two respectable men,” but remarked that publicans should be careful in their dealings with meix the worse for liquor. At the conclusion of the case “the constable was called and received a severe reprimand for his precipitancy in making an arrest of the kind, on the bare statement of a drunken man; and without a warrant. Had tho accused been of thp criminal class, instead of resident business men, of whose running away there could be no fear, the constable could not hare been more hasty. There was no possible excuse for the constable. The arrest was a cruel one, and most unwarrantable.

A meeting of the Pioneer Lodge, 1.0. G.T., be held to-moprpiyr .evening, at J. 30. The monthly meeting of the Standard Pro-* perty Investment Society will be held on Wednesday evening at six p’clock. A summoned meetikg o]f the Court Pride lof Dunedin. A.0.F., willbe held in the Sodth Australian Hall, oh Tuesday (to-morrow) eVenHk, at 8 o’clock. • ; : Wc hear that Messrs North aad.ScouUar will m future close their establishment at 2 p.m, on Saturdays. . Their workmen’s pay day will be altered to .Friday. The 55th monthly meeting of the N.Z. Building and Mutual Investment Society will be held at the office of Mr W. O. Ball, on Tuesday (to-morrow) evening, from 7 to 9 o’clock. In the “Astronomical Notes” for the present month it is stated that the magnitude of the eclipse which is to take place on Sunday, the 25th, will equal nearly, the Moon’s diameter being 1. It should have been 11-20 nearly. ‘The New Zealand Church News’ in its Heine and Foreign hews comments bn the Public Worship Regulation Bill, protesting against any attempt t6 enforce uniformity in the mode of conducting Church services. The; Colonial news of' the churches is full.: Two: editorials are worthy of perusal—one because 1 it is a well-merited .valedioton on. Archdeacon 1 Wilson, who has resigned his Archdeaconry and other offices in connection with the Church in Canterbury and Christ’s College j and the other on account of its drawing attention to the re-! from a high standard of many .of the -Popular entertainments given in the diocese of Christchurch. The tendency to vulgarity is; hot confined to Canterbury, but Occasionally peeps out in Dunedin. An illustration-is given' of a programme which certainly contains a more than usual proportion of absurd frivolities. Considerable allowance must be made in! favor of those who volunteer to entertain and ,amuse an audience; but there is a limit.even to courtesy, and it is somewhat too much to expect patient listeners to what hot one would tolerate at home,'merely because a gentleman happens mot to have learnt what is and what is not wit. and humor. Should he feel aggrieved; that his assistance is declined, even although -he might; resent the slight, his angey should really .be considered of .ho moment. The other papers 1 are ecclesiastical and historical. In the Banner of the Cross the stories are continued..