The Evening Star. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1874.

Evening Star, Issue 3649, 2 November 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1874.

The * Echo,’ a new evening paper, will nake its appearance in .uukiand during the asuing mouth.

The visit of the Eirjish Opera Company o Wanganui was uol, a success, and the ,-(nt.emen on whose ;->iart«ufea the. went

’.ore lost heavily. ho company was to leave W eliiugton for C .-istchnrcb per Puce be -o-day. The Fourth School s a decided sncce s. Already it numbers 2f- scholars on its roll, •cl the cry is, Stili '.hey come.” To-day the Education B >ard was called upon to •.notion the appo nto mt of an addiiioua t-'acher, widen it did.

As it is now just ..vv Vo month 4 that the Meara-crane has been .naoloyed in ay mg blocks for the Oamani Harbor Works, it i*.iay be interesting to Wc that the mnr cr of feet added to the or ,‘:water iu tiiat time bus been ICO. At th ; r .te it would take ree years to carry th; wall 550 ft further ut. The contract let to Middleton and Co , of

- -amaru, for laying the permanent wav o i ;ho Waitaki contract ( am am to the river.rovides for its co npleu-m by February -1-1 uxt, and the junction of the < oim au ■'rtion with the Awomoko branch line, within seven weeks from the date or e.oatract.

The Bishop of Waiapu, in opening the iocesau Synod lately said, with regard to ..iyuina, Ancient and Modern, which have been tdeped in some ot the churches or his

••■•iocese : The compilers of that, boon have introduced a number of hymns which are. objectionable j but withal, there is a large infusion of other hymns which clearly tend in a homeward direction, 'i here is a cover: attempt to bring in dootiines novel to th--. L. unh of England, a d which promote a restoration of practices winch were remove.) by the b’eb-rmal ion. ’ The fo.lowing hymns .-.re then referred to as objectionable : Par 2 of hymn 280; hymns 84, 203, 206, 93, and 376.

The Princess Theatre, which had he-n olosed for some nights, was re-opened by the Ateele and Keogh Company on .Saturday evening. The lower parts of the house were rowdtd, but the dress circle was rather indifferently patron sed. he opening piece was the “ !’hc !lug*not Captain,” the piiu- -’• pal parts being sustained by Mrs lull and ■lr Steele Tim various performers were veil reociv. >1 on making their first app- ar - -ce. but t, Mrs Hill and .or MusgravcV. n -

T’tu-n giv:-a such as is only accorded c. very »rd favorites, The piece was j; iri edly olayed throughout. ami there \ia.f i general cad at the close of each ac". in •he afterpiece Mr Musgravc was seen to ad vantage. here wi ibe no change of progt tame to night.

Mr T. Hardy Johnston, C.E. (writes the Kvkamii corre pond ;nr, of the ‘North uta-o Times ’) is at present here, making llio cossary mu vey lor the long-contemplated harbor works. it is expected that he wilt bo fourteen days occupied in making oil Unnecessary soundings, &o. Mr M "Gregor, C. E., who is engineer to tfee Oamarn Herb >i !i:ard, was here some time ago, and suggested that a s-un circular s;a w r all should be run from the south io the north if that were done, it would give about four fathoms of water inside the wall at low tide

o c e acquainted with the town ..nd distiici, and its requirements can doubt that this work, if carried out, will be a gr at boon—in fact, it would be the making of the place. Trade and commerce would spring up, and in a f w years, at least, Kakanui would rival Uamaru in size and importance. The day of departure of the Northern Goidii Ids Escort from Clyde is altered from the first Monday fo the third Monday in * acli month, and the next escort will not be despatched till the 16.ii of November. We (Hunsian Time*) tliiuk it would have been only considerate had the g -Id-producers, or at any rate the banks through whose hands the whole of the gold pa-S's, been consulted prior to the change, i'hr, question is, will id interfere with the ar angements of the

'Usiness men of the northern districts to keep locked up and perfectly useless for trade or speculative purposes 4,000 or 5,0,10 ounces of gold, representing a money value Ready 1/20,Gu0, for a whole fortnight? if it will not, wo can only sly they are a very great deal beltgr off than they have credit for, and must conclude that the croaking of dull times and shortness of money we have heard of for the past year or two wore without foundation.

The contributor of ‘ Musical Gossip” to the * . Z i'imes’ writes “ A sensational scene occurred at the Opera House, Melbourne, the other night during the performance of the opera bouffe, entituled 4 The Daughter of Madame ugot.’ We have no operatic prima donna at present in Melbourne, and the two lea ling female parts were aec rdingly allotted to Ms< Jeannie Winston (who has not long risen from the raulen of the chorus, and whose name wi l be familiar to Dunedin residents) and Miss Clara Thompson, a good burlesque actres?, and Wife of the stage-manager, Mr Bracy. r Jhe most effective scene in the whole opera is the quarrel scene between the two her ines in the fourth act. From the drst night it was evident that a strong feeling of rivalry existed between the two actresses ; eaoh night the vocal wordy-war became mote reabstie, until the other night Miss Winston woond and shook Miss J'hompaon r.o such ai; ■ xleut, that t e lady \who is in an interest ng condition), had to it-ave the stage, and wa, unable to appear lor two or three nights, it was the most dis iracef.tl scene ever witnessed in a Colonial or ay other theatre.— t the beginning of ■>ext year New /eala...] may expect a vi-it rom the most charming vocalist in Australia Miss vhrisouui. -She rec -ived an oiler om the manager of He Allan t >pera Comany ; and quite recen.ly she has declined a cry luera ive off r fn.m another quarter, ic Chris'nn < onct -t Company not long nco conn de ed a L'lidiaut tour of five .-oaths durat on in Queensland, where ■0 ke r e,c;nal hono —as the critic of ihe

Vuslrala '..in’ remail. s, 4 tlie lady gave a uinmtahle concert in every town save one that she visited.’ Mr T. B. Hill, professor of elocution) talks of visiting Now Zealand, ”

We observe that passengers f°r the p.s. Samson. for • ! ;i’oavn, are to go on board by the 8.10 a.m. train to-morrow, instead of by the 6.80 as usual.

The boat-race between the Excelsior crew of Dunedin and the PLneer crew of Port Clndmers lias been arranged to take place at St. Leonards on the oth November, the distance to be about three miles.

_ On examination of the reprint of two quotations the ‘('hri.-tian Record,’ which appearsd in the Evening Star’s leader of Monday last, we find two typographical errors. In one the word “ if” is omitted ; in the other the word “in” is inserted. In neither case is the error material, for the omission is so palpable as to lead at once to its being detected by the most careless reader ; and the insertion of the “in” scarcely injures a bad sentence. \\ e regret that the mist dees have been made.