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Evening Star, Issue 3679, 7 December 1874, Page 2

The Colonial Government have been ad-1 vised that it is extremely inadvis able to open a further portion (now ready) of the MatauraClutha line at present Mr Haiykins, to-day, received the following telegram from the manager of the Shotover Company’s claim 70ozs. llgrs, to hand, chiefly prospecting, ” The two sealing parties which had been left at the Snares and the Solander have returned to the Bluff. The result of their, season’s huntiag is 1,0(55 skins. Mr John Robertson, the Martin’s Bay mail man, arrived at Queenstown on the 30th ult., from that district. The ‘ Mail ’ states that he reported things were going on quietly and satisfactorily when he left except in one respect, and that was, the setters’ supplies were running short. As, however, the Maori steamer is to commence from thin tk}.e forward running regularly to the West Coast, ive trust there is little "fear of a repetition of a threatened famine auy more in that small community. Mr flakier, who came to Dunedin to present and support the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce’s resolution, relative to the increased rates as per tariff, for the qonveyance of wool and merchandise by the Bluff and Invercargill and Invercargill and VVinton Railways, and suggesting a reduction of the rates, has reported that the Government did not seem disposed to alter the uniform tariff now in operation, but a hope was held out that goods will be delivered into the stores at the same rate, viz., 10s per ton. It is intended to introduce the system of delivery of goods by Government on and after the Ist January next. The Comet transaction has advanced another stage in the law ■ curbs. Mr Bathgate, i; . M., to day gave judgment, and a lengthy one it is. in Anning v. Martin, in favor of the plaintiff. The facts are fully stated in the judgment, which will he found m our report of the llesident Magistrate s Court. o notice of appeal was given. It was decided that as the case was a test one, the decision should settle the other claims, of which wo hear there are fully tiftv. _ We hear that Mr M llroy, whose name is intimately connected with the proceedings, has entered an action for defamafeion.of character against Mr Martin, damages being laid at 15,000. At the Bosidenfc Magistrate Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr Mansford, R.M., Hugh M'fla&n.and William Hawkins were lined 10s, or twenty-four hours’, and Patrick Crowley, 2()s, or forty-eight liQffrp-’, for being drunk. Hugh Harper received a sentence of three months’, with hard labor, for stealing a watch of the value of the

property of Charles Frcdericksm. RoheD Penny was lined 5s and costs for allowing a dog to stray and attack ahorse, to the danger of J. M'Dermid. A charge preferred against George Morrell, landlord of the Railway Hotel, for selling two glasses of ale on the Ist inst, while, his house was unlicensed, was dismissed, his Worship ruling that as the Licensing Bench had adjourned from the Ist till the 3rd, the old license was in force. The following is from the ‘ Mount Ida Croni cln : —“ There appears to ho either great dishorn s'y among the carters, or in connection with the Dunedin weighbridge—loads constantly coming up charged from Scwtto half a ton over weight. Suspecting the imposture, some of the sseby tradesmen have lately weighed goods on delivery, and find out that from L2 to L 5 on the load is to be saved in very cases. We do not know ; w bo is responsible for the management of the Dunedin weighbridge. The inaccuracy must wholly arise or he connived at th re as the weights that prove so erroneous are marked by the. attending clerk. One or two cwt. might he winked at ; but when it comes to half tons, it is time, action was taken to stop it. The fact is indisputable that the dishonesty is becoming notorious. Two matches were played on the cricket oval on Saturday. The principal one was the Cup match between the Civil Service and the warehousemen. From the first it was hut too evident where the victory would be, for the warehousemen were nearly as strong again in all the departments of the game as their opponents. The Civil servants obtained forty-nine in their first innings, and nine (wit lithe loss of live wickets) in tiesecond Mac Donnell with fourteen, and Johnston with twelve being the only ones who obtained double figures ; while the warelmusem n made 92, Ru-seil contributing a score, W. Lambert twenty-live, and Murray thirteen. Lambert and Rhodes howled spleudiily for the warehousemen, to whom the victory was accorded, as it was hopeless to save defeat by playing the match out. Teams trom the ‘Guardian’ and ‘ Daily Times ’ offices tried c ■nctusions, with the result that the former were declared the victors by the first innings When time was called at G 30 the scores stood—‘Guar iian,’ thirty-four and twentyfour (with the loss of six wickets) ; ‘Daily Times,’ thirty-one and seventy nine. A new, but in our opinion not improved, ver ion of “The Colleen Pawn” was produced at the Princess Theatre on Saturday evening to a very large downstairs attendance. Mrs Hill apyeared as the Colleen, and she Ljave ti nice, Vionvitil» x v ot the character. Mrs Bates’s .Ann Chute was, to say the least of it, an uneven performance. The part of Mrs Cregan proved too much for Miss Vivian ; but Miss Willis, as Sheelah, made up and played the part extremely well. Danny a I aim is not in Mr Bates s line; Mr Steele’s Myles-na Coppaleon refleeted ciedit upon him ; Mr Keoghs Father Tom was to the iife ; Air Hooper, as Kyrle Daly, played with care and judgment ; and Mr Musgrave’s Corrigan was sufficiently amusing. The remaining characters were suitably filled. Mr Williams, the scenic artist, ivc lived a well deserved call for the excellent scenery he had painted for the drama. “Green Bushes” is announced for to-night, with Mrs Bates as Miami, and Mr Bates as Jack t-iong. Mrs Hill’s benefit takes plact3 to-morrow evening, when we trust the merits of this sterling actress than whom wc know none more deserving—will be rewarded by a house crowded from fi or to .ceiling. The pieces selected for the occasion are “The New Magdalen ” and “The Conjugal Lesson,” in too latter of which Mr and Mrs Bates will appear. The Rev. Jacob Levy’s letter wiij. appear tomorrow. Mr Melville, fishmonger, has on view at his shop, in Princes street, a conger eel, caught at the Pleads, weighing 25lbs and measuring six feet in length. We have to acknowledge the receipt of Mills, Dick, and Co.’s directory for 1875. It maintains its high reputation for copiousness of information and good typography. During the week ended December 5, twenty patients were admitted into and twenty-eight discharged from the Dunedin Hospital. The deaths during the week were—Sarah Ann IP-own, aged twenty-one, native of England, from pyannia ; Mary Ann Gatcly, char-woman, aged thirty-two, nativejjof Ireland, from alcoholism ; "W illiain Morrow, laborer, aged twentynine, native of Ireland, from disease of the heart.