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Evening Star, Issue 3647, 30 October 1874, Page 2

At a sitting iu bankruptcy this morning, Eeorge >eish, James Cheesemau, and James C. Lewis were adjudged bankrupts Information was conveyed to the police some time ago that a man who had forged a bank order in Victoria was supposed to have made his way to New Zealand. Detective Shury while on duty to-day came across a man who answered to the description given and he arrested him. The accused’s name is Hf'nry Bedfo d alias Henry Brown alias Albrougb, and the charge pietarred against him is that of uttering and forging a bank cheque for the payment of L 24. at the Eaglehawk, _ Sandhurst, ou the 2 fid May last. Ho will be formally brought up at the Re-ideut Magistrate’s Court to-morrow. Mr Bathgate gave judgment this afternoon in the case of Aiming v. M rtin. After electing to take a nonsujt, Aiming, on behalf of those who had come down with him from Lyttelton, made application to the Bench for a warrant against M’llroy, for obtainin'-* money under false preteuc.-a, but Mr Bathgate said he could not interfere Mr Martin declined to apply for costs, and hia counsel placed at the men’s disposal correspondence that mi-ht assist tlnm in their further action, and his W or&bip a i(leu i hvre was no doubt the men ha I l) f ’on grossly deceived. Proceedings are to be taken againstiMlltoy! The bush fire at Blueskin, after raging for two or three days, and doing considerable damage to stacked firewood, was, we learn from Mr Holland, a settler there, extinguished last evening by a number of men woiking for the Government in the neighborhood. Ihe total damage done is estimated at LI,0(J0 ; Messrs Martin and Watson, who were insured for Lltjfi In the South British, hj vmg firewood to the value .f about LSOO destroyed ; Mr Speight, clerk to Messrs Wilson and Co., brewers, lost a'.ou' LIUO ; while several stacks, the properly of the settlers, were partly destro ed Bush fires in the district have been very prevalent of late.

The following specimen of musical criticism is unique. It is only necessary to the complete enjoyment arising from the perusal of the passa e that the ordinary reader be a'.med with an attendant pocket dictionary <f scientific terms, ft is supposed that the passage relates to the music at the recent periormance of “ Fau.t ” at Wellington by the English Opera Company and that (the surmise is somewhat huzu dous, but we must not confess to ignorance) the language though learned is intended to bo laudatory ; The opeia (it is said) “is not of the class usually deemed ‘popuLr’ music, heim* characterised by a certain lack of melodic continuity, and a tendency to quaint ami bizarre harmonies, remote m dulaiio.s, and chromatic progr ssions, and to a lav sh use of the diminished seventh, t.bc augmented sixth, and, abov_> nl>, tie chmd of tlm niu.h the lat<r a distinctive feature in M. Coni od’s compositions.” It was the same .m.-di-ing critic who stated the other day that Mr Haliam rendered one of the principal Minor solos in “ Trovafore ” better than Mario.

ihe intelligent vagrant” in the ‘ Hniee Herald to-day writes:— 1 There is a ier tain class of announcements in which tS letters i). V. (in biackets) are not a t: "■ether inappropriate. In.ieed, i dare siy as at-.pl ed to all notices of events to he brought ab'.ut by human agency in this world they cannot be characterised as quite out of place. A»'d yet it does seem to me curious to read an advertisement from Mr G. Ireland, M P C stating that he will (D. V.) address his constituents in the school-house, boxhurgh, at such a date. This argus a sincerity of faith, which 1 fear, Mr Ireland is singular amongst the Provincial Councillors iu possessing, and indicates also a belief in Provincial matters being under a protection which circumstances and the nature i f Provincial Councils certainly do not warrant. In the country I came from there is an expressive and complimentary saying, “ More power to his elbow.” That is 'what t desire to say of a certain Christian clergyman. A little baby <i a poor family of new arrivals died, and there was absolutely no means for procuring a conveyance of any kind to talcs the body to the cemetery. The clergyman I write of put his horse in his buggy, and thus himself carried the coffin to the place of burial, where he read the service that to so many gives comfort. ‘ Ami of such is the kingdom of heaven.”’

Is it any use complaining of the delays which occur in the transmission of telegrams ? The evil appears to be intensifying 1 hj - shortest of messages from Wellington or Nor hem stations take hours to transmit, when they should be sent through in almost as many minutes. Wc have had a table prepared of the messages received by us during the past mouth, and it shows that the average time occupied in transmission was jus* threo hours, **nly on one day, when W'C had a solitary message, and that a remarkably short one, was the average under an hour, while there were days on which the time of transmission averaged eigh l , and in one case nine bom s. There wAs another day on which none of the mes.-ages were sent under six and a-half hours and there was one occasion on which it took nearly thirteen hours fo; a message to come Tom Wellington, from which place we may explain the bulk of the Press messages are sent. We have not the slightest doubt that the delays in transmission are felt with equal force bv those of the public who are much in the habit of using the wires. W e have before pointed out the reasons why messages are de-layed—-one is that the department does uot pay salaries sufficiently large to enable it to command the services of men likely to become skilful operators ; the other, and principal, is the paucity of wires and instruments compared with the work the department is called upon to undertake.- It is, we believe, contemplated to erect two additional wu»B north and south. Until they are at woik, and when that will be no one knows, we suppose we shall be called upon to exercise a greatdeal of forbearance.

1 lie concert at the Princes* Theatre last evening attracted a pretty large audience bin, we have no doubt that if the public had had any idea of the excellence of the entertainment there would have been a much larger attendance. Owing to the length of the programme the space at our disposal will ”1?I? OUI Mot ’ c ’ u g each item ; we shall therefore only refer to the principal features in their order. “ Kathleen MavourBee “» as snn S by Mrs ( arson, was a very ci editable effor , but upon the aunience demanding an encore, Mr S}'kes came forward and stated that it would be unfair to impose upon the good nature of those who had volunteered to assist him by asking them t#

repeat any song, more especially as the ! various items on the programme would take up the entire evening. The trio “Te Prego,” by Miss Hcsford and two gentlemen am a- i terns, being well given, was deservedly ap- I plauded. Master B yley (in introducing ! whom Mr Sykei remarked that his proficiency reflected great credit on his teach :r, Miss Bell) followed with a piano solo, consisting of selections from “ Norma,” and g&ned an encore. The first part concluded with the glee, “The stars that above us are shining.” As a kind of interlude Mr Sykes gave his well-lnown “ Reminiscences of Robert Heller,” and performed some feat' 1 of magic in a very clever and dexterous manner. But the treat of the evening was his rendering of “The Last Rose of Summer,” with variations, a id “ Sunshine and Tempest.” for which he received considerable applause. The glee “See our Uars,” by the /company, was well rendered. Mies Bedford's song, “Juanita,” would have been a much greater success had she displayed % little more animation. Mr Denovan's “ Laird o’ Cockpen” took the house by storm ; and the aria from the “ Barber of Seville,” by a well-known amateur, convuls d the audience with laughter, and although it was evident th at a certain portion of those present asked for an encore by way of a joke, yet as the selection was of a comic nature, it was the greatest praise that could be accorded to the perforn er. Wo had almost forgolt u to mention the valuable services o Mr Bracken, who gave a reading in the first part, and recit-al Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” in a masterly manner in the third, the latter meeting with an unanimous demand for its repetition, whereupon.ne substituted “Ladv i ; lara Vere de Vere ” Pr - vious to the singing of the iNa ional Antbem Mr Byk-s thanked the audience for their patronage, and said be felt all the nmre gratified as the entertainment sto d simp’y on its merits and as he had made no effort to posh it beyond the circle ot Ida personal friends.

Mr A. Findlater, Princes street, has requested iis to draw attention to, the fact that applications for publicans’ licenses must be made on or before the 7th proximo, the day previously appointed for receiving the same (Monday, the 9th) being a holiday.

Messrs. Driver, Stewart, and Co. will submit to auction, to-morrow, in their rooms, the Township of Clydesdale, situated midway between Dunedin and Caversham. A fuU description of the advantages possessed by this township will be found in our advertising columns.