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Evening Star, Issue 3637, 19 October 1874, Page 2

Mr Peter Gunn’s tender of L 5 :256 for the erection of an export shed in Dunedin has been accepted. Mr Deas Thompson, C.8., of Sydney, has been gazetted a Knight Commander of it, Michael and St. George. The Oxford Variety Troupe performed at the Princess Theatre on Saturday evening to a numerous audience, and will repeat the entertainment this evening. Shareholders in the Shotover Terrace Goldmining Company may be congratulated on the improved prospects ef the mine, the yield for the past week being sixty ounces for eleven men’s work. At this morning’s sitting of the Supreme Court, the case of Scott v. Brodrick was commenced. As this action is likely to last for two days, that of ?>orth v. Vowell has been adjourned till Wednesday next. We(‘Dunstan Times’) hear that through the inclement season most serious lostes are being sustained by the squatters amongst their lambing flocks. One gentleman informs us his loss will be fully 20 per cent. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr Mausford, 11. M,, John Price, Alex. M‘Neil age, Olof Ohlson, Andrew Zeuile, and John White were each fined 10s for drunkenness. In consequence of Mr Fulton, 8.M., being absent from the Mosgiel district, there was no inquiry or inquest held touching the death of Caleb Butters, who was gored to death by a hull on the 14th inst. Deceased had been 1 in the employ of Messrs Robertson for I years. The funeral on the 15th was largely ! attended. >

It is not often in this part of the world, | where everything is proverbially dear, that i a horse can be bought for the small sum of five shillings. 1 Nevertheless it is a fact that on Friday last a horse—and not a had one either—.was sold at the Oamam'Pound for thatamount. . Messrs L. Ryan and A. Blue, who, it will be remembered, were submitted to th; indignitary ef incarceration in the Alexandra leek-up for a ,whole night, have instituted proceedings against the apprehending constable,'whose action was so adversely commented on by tha R.M. at Alexandra. The U.S, sloop Swatara, which called at Otago Heads yesterday, brought to the Bluff the American Expedition, which comprises—chief astronomer, Professor Peters, of Hamiltou College, N.Y. ; assistant astronomer, Lieut. D. W. Bates, U.S. Army; chief photograper, C. L. Philip; assistant photographers, J. Russell and H. Aymr. It is understood that the American party will establish a station at Queenstown. The Artillery had shot and shell practice on Saturday, the range being from Logan’s point to Grassy point, a distance, of about 2,000 yards: There were two detach- - ments, No, 1 gun being directed by Sergeant Lambert, No. 2 by Sergeant Goxhead. Some very good- practice was made, especially by -No". V gun, which . shattered the target by the fourth shot. No. 2 gun spl ntered the target with the sixth shell.

A large number of single men were en gaged at the Immigration Barracks to-day, twenty finding employment as farm servants, at from L4sto L 52. o married couples were engaged. Fifty fouls will be sent to Invercargill to-mptrow. The (single girls will be open for engagement at Caversham tomorrow, and as the d-maud' still continue! early application • wilt be necessary. On Saturday there .were in the barracks : at Oaversham, 2dß souls ; at Dunedin, 88. This includes the Invercargill s immigrants. I A Press Club is likely to be added'to the' institutious of Dunedin. A meeting of par" sons connected with the Press favorable to the project was held on Saturday evening, when its features wore explained by Mr Fred Humphries, of the ‘ Wito'e-a;’ who ischipf promotor. Fifty .members ato required to start the affair, which will have its locale at the Provincial Hotel, and judging by ths feeling with which it was leceived by those present at the meeting, there ought to be a Press Club in existence before very long. About forty persons expressed their willingness to become members, and a committee was appointed t > canvass the various offices. The police courts of the Province are now daily fumbhing instances ‘of ’the utter worthlessness, to use the mildest term, of some of the immigrants we are receiving. At the -Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Mr Ba hgate had to deal with au Asiatic,” James Vi‘Donald by name, who, it transpired, had been in trouble at Home] aud was now sent to gaol for a fortnight, an i ordered to have a whipping besides, for stealing from a dwelling. At Invercargill, a few days ngo, the police arrested an arrival by the Buckinghamshire. Frederick Middleton by name, for house-breaking ; and we note by the papers that some G irrick Castlb passengers are giving the pdiici and Mr M'Cultoch. some trouble. The farmers in the Western district have experienced the truth of the old adage, “it’s in ill wind, &c.” The late rains, which caused the inundation of all low lying land, caused the death of thousands of rabbits! This jgst of the settlers is also buffeting from au epidemic, which is carrying them off in large number. A correspondent of the ‘Southland Times’ says:—“ Thousands of them are lying dead in the tussocks about the Waimatuku Bush, on high and dry land; My informant is Mr Benjamin Wymack, of the Waimatuku, who is considered a good authority on the manners and customs or these animals. His reason for concludin' that this unusual mortality among them must be the result of disease is that the majority of those he examined were in very grod con dition, proving that want of food was not the cause.” ' , The following letter from Mr Adam, dated’; Wick, July 27, has been banded to us for publication;—“l am at present in Caithness, aud leave this town for Thurso and: Halkirk, where 1 have meetings. I intended last week going across to Orkney and Shetland, but I have just received letters from] these places warning me that the men of the islands are away fishing at various parts of; the east coast of. Scotland. Ugder . these circunjistauces I will leave this district next week, " and move further south by the west of Scotland. J am surprised to find American p»mphlets*'Bftbttered about this district and elsewhere, combining New Zealand and Australia together as places that are burned up with hot winds. I have also seen a letter in one of the papers here, writ ten by an American agent, warning peiple of the cannibalism of Stewart’s .sland ! ! > think ray visit here will remove some of these errors.”

Au example of the brutality displayed by some men when actuated by jealous rage was shown by George Eskdale, a professional diver, living at Mott street, y.wlndge, when he discovered an opposite neighbor, one James Frederick Molton, a pork cutter, visiting his (Eskdale’s) wife at hep own house. The visit is said to have been a 1 thoroughly harmless one, the partus b ing old acquaintances from having at one . itne lived next door to each other and Melton had merely gone there to tell the woman about fetching some money due to.her when the husband entered, and, crying out that he had long suspected the pair of improper intimacy, and would now have his revenge, blacked Melton’s eyes, knocked him down, and, seizing his nose between his teeth, chewed it as a dog would gnaw a bone. When at length Melton was thrown out of,.the house on to the sand, Eskdale repeated : tho outrage, and has succeeded in reducing his victim’s nasal organ to a hideous pulp, fle is summoned to appear at the and ridge Court to. answer the charge of assault, provided au access of erysipelas does not prevent the attendance of the injured man.

Under the heading of “ What may happen to a man in Victoria,” the ‘ Age ’ narrates the followingp la the month of April last, Mr W.' H. Heggiabottoin applied to the magistrates at the-District Court to have his name placed upon the electoral roll, in pursuance of the provisions of the Electoral Act. Ha had previously given notice to the town clerk, Mr Fitzgibbon, of his application. The magistrates directed Mr Hegginbottom’s name to be placed on the roll, and ordered the town clerk to pay 10s 6d coats. When the application came before the bench, Hegginbbttom stated that when he served the notice on the town clerk, the latter treated it with contempt. This action on the part of Mr Fitzgibbon perhaps led to costs being awarded against him. Mr Fitzgibbon then applied to the Supreme Court to have the decision of the magistrates set aside. His efforts were successful, the result being that Mr Heggio bottom was mulcted in the costs of the suit, Having years ago made a transfer of his property to his wife, be was sot in a position to pay the costs. A return of nulla bona was xpade against him, and oa the Ist October Mr Hegginbottom was arrested and taken to prison.

The Artillery Baud inspection has been postponed till Thursday next. Mr Wales will address the electors of Dunediu on Wednesday evening, in the Temperance Hall, at eight o’clock, P: '

We have been particularly requested to notice that the Concert iu aid of the funds of St. Matthew’s Church will he held on Friday evening and not this evening, as announced in a morning contemporary.