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Evening Star, Issue 3634, 15 October 1874, Page 2

The Chief Postmaster informs us that the General Government has arranged for continuing the San Francisco service. A steamer will call at Auckland about the 3v)th inst. from Sydney, en route for San hj rancisco. Mails for the United Kingdom, itc., via San Francisco, will close at Dunedin on Friday, the 23rd inst. The Suez mad will only contain correspondence specially so marked. The Comerang took twenty-five immigrants ex Christian M ‘Ausland to Invercargill yesterday. The * Southern Cross ’ is responsible for the statement that Mr T, B, (billies is negotiating for the purchase of his Excellency’s yacht the Blanche, with which he purposes to enter on an extensive cruise in the Pacific. The tidal of Dodd, the second mate of the Oneco, for the murder of the seaman Green, was concluded at the Supreme Court to-day. Two witnesses were called for the Crown, and none for the defence. A verdict of manslaughter was returned. The eldest son of our future Governor is the Earl of Mulgrave, who is a parochial and hard-working clergyman of the Church of England. He was one of the two “ missioned ” who fecently held a ten days’ mission in a parish of Derbyshire. An odd lusus natures is now op exhibition at Invercargill. It is a diminutive monstrosity of the sus scrofa ; has eight legs, one head, three eyes (one at the back of its neck), four ears, two snouts, double tire ordinary number of teeth, and two tails. The crew of H.M. S. Blanche are giving the police no little trouble, and this after noon one of her marines was arrested in Princes street for assaulting a sergeant of police. He will be called upon to give an account of his misconduct to-morrow morning. The sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court did not exceed ten minutes this morning. John Black, a sailor, was fined 20s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours imprisonment, for drunkenness. Abraham Myers and Geovge Sinclair were each fined 5s and costs for allowing their chimneys to catch fire. Last evening the Harmonic Society met for practice in the school-room of Ail Saints’ Church. The weather prevented the attendance of many ladies, but the gentlemen mustered in force, and, being mostly musicians, under Mr Morrisch’s direction they made good progress in several glees. From the enjoyable evening passed, the new society promises to be most successful. Papers by the mail notify the death of two noted ecclesiastics of the st of Scotland—the Hey. Dr Leishman, and Principal Fairbank, of the Glasgow Free Church College. The dea‘h of both divines was very sudden. The name of the latter is well known in this Province, and to the Presbyterian Church here he has been of great assistance in executing numerous commissions. The installation of .officers of the Lodge of Otago, 844, E.C., tools: plaae last night at the Masonic Hall. The following officers were installed by Bro. A. H. Burton, IP. M • Bro. T. Fordyce, W.M. ; Bro W. M.’ Weston, S. W. ; Bro. L. Court, J.W, ; Bro’ Eldridge, treasurer; Bro, S. N, Muir, secretary ; Bro, D. K. Rhodes, S.D. ; Bro. R, Greenfield, T.D, ; Bro. Hiram Rhodes, I.G- ; Bro B. Singer, steward. The annexation of Fiji did not come a day too soon. The utter bankruptcy of the kingdom may be assumed from the fact that in a Levukan Court recently, when the harbor-master prosecuted in a case for sailing without a license, upon being pressed to state his reason for having initiated the proceeding, Captain Hedstrom candidly stated that his instructions were to “ sue the beggars ; every one of them. We want our screws.”

Mr John Allen is the new keeper of the Pelichet Bay baths, which have been improved by the addition of fourteen dressingboxes. On Sundays the baths will be open to the public from daylight until 10 a.m., and on ordinary days from daylight until dark. Before 0 o’clock in the morning, and between 5 and 6 in the evening, no Charge will be made for admission. From 10 to 11 a.m., and from 2 to 3 in the afternoon, they will be open exclusively for ladies. The charges are to be threepence per bath, or Is per week ; season tickets, 10s. The following is a list of the trades and occupations of the immigrants per Invercargill, which left Glasgow on July 16, and arrived at Port Chalmers this afternoon General laborers, 6 ; ploughmen, 20; gardeners, 3 ; farm laborers, 5/ ; joiners, 8 ; carpenters, 2 ; millwright, 1; blacksmiths, 4 ; tinsmith, 1; iorester, 1; millers, 2 ; masons, 7 ; tailors, 3 ; shepherds, 10 ;' carter, 1 ; bricklayer, 1; quarryman, 1; painters, 2 ; fitter, 1 ; horseshoer, 1 j baker, 1; fisherman, I—total male labor, 138- Single women—general servants, 51 ; bookbinder, 1; milliner, 1 ; nurses, 2—total female labor, 55. Nationality—English, C : Scotch. 369 ; Irish, 23. ' An escape from death in the snow is recorded by the Upper Taieri correspondent of the ‘ Waikouaiti Herald’ “ A youth of about seventeen years of age left Rocklands Station last Monday morning for StrathTaieri, when a thick fog set in which caused him to miss the right track and wander on to the southern portioif of the Rock and Pillar Range. For three days the unfortunate youth wandered about in that inhospitable region, without food of any kind. On the evening of the third day the fog cleared away, when, to his intense joy, the lad descried a woolshed in the distance, which turned out to be Rocklands Station. This may b® attributed to the fact of bis having

travelled in a semi-circle back to the place of starting. In an exhausted condition he reached the homestead, where he received prompt attention to his pressing wants. His feet were so much swollen that his boots had to be cut off.”

Judge Richmond, having be n detained in Hokitika, says the * West Coast Times,’ owing to the steamer Tararua passing the port without being tendered, took occasion to visit the Gaol and Lunatic Asylum. The appearance of a Judge of the Supreme Court within the walls was too much on this occasion for the notorious Chamberlain and Levy, who poured out their individual grievances at separate intervals, Chamberlain respectfully informing his Honor that he (the Judge) had been entirely misled at his trial, that the witnesses must have been bribed, the Bar hoodwiuke 1, the Government misinformed, and the ‘ Wed Coast Times ’ paid by his enemies. In short, he was an injured honest man, and but for his getting in contact wi hj “ villains like Levy ” he would not now be in irons. It would appear that the friendship between the two, Chamberlain and Levy, must have been broken by some cause or other, as Levy, when he got an opportuuy, assured the Judge on the other hand that he should never have tried to escape from the establishment he now inhabits had it not been for the promptings of “ that scoundrel Chamberlain.” His Honor afforded them both a patient hearing, but omitted to certify that either of their statements was, to his mind, truthful, or that he had yet become convinced that they were the injured, honest innocents they described.

We have been requested to draw the attention of passengers to the alteration in the time of. sailing of the s. s. Beautiful Star, for Camara. Passengers are to go down by the 6.30 p.m. train to-morrow.

We have A. J. P.’s letter commenting upon a transaction which he describes, and which may be a compromise of felony. We dare say it is true, but witli the “Bumble ” warning in our experience, we must decline to publish it.