The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1874.

Evening Star, Issue 3681, 9 December 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1874.

The Invercargill cricketers leave the Bluff on the evening of the 31st inst., play hereon the Lit of January, and return home next day.

Pioneer Lodge, T.0.0.F., last night summarily dismissed their surgeon (Dr Cole), who it was alleged had been guilty of neglect Seventeen immigrants, nominated in this Province, and who reached the Colony by t he ship Soukar, were passengers by the Wellington, from Wellington, to-day. The much talk°d-of black and red game cock case Pell v. Pirie has been “ squared,” so it was statid in Court to-day; and, after all, the doings of the Canary and Poultry Association and their mode of distributing prizes is not to be made public. Mr John Logan. J.P., attended at the Gaol at no >n to day, and reminded Henry Bedford, charged with forgery at Eagle Dawk. Victoria, to a furthern term of seven days, pending the arrival of his Excellency the | overnor’s warrant for the prisoner’s removal to Victoria. Mr Mans ford presided at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day. Anne M'Namara, for drunkenness, was fined 40s, with toe option of fourteen days’ imprisonment ; and Mary O’Leary 10s for a similar offence. Che last-named prisoner was also sent to gaol for three months as an habitnal drunkard. The civil cases were unimportant. An unusually large number of persons inspected the weather board at the Telegraph i ffice to-day ; nearly all wishing to know the state of the weather in other parts of the Colony. Pretty generally throughout the Colony the sky was overcast with cloudy and stormy weather, and the barometer at most places unusually low—the extremes showing Bealey (with an altitude of 2,140 ft) being lowest at 27.87, and Westport, highest, at 30.65. At Queenstown, where the American Ob-ervatiou party is stationed, the barometer stood at 28.29, and the weather was cloudy. The demand for labor in Southland is becoming louder every clay j and it is to be hoped that a shipload of immigrants may arrive soon to appease it. The ‘ Times’ tells us that several railway contracts are at a partial standstill for want of workmen, and on the sheep stations, on most of which shearing is now proceeding, there is a lack of “ knockabout hands ” Servant girls are at a premium, that is, competent house servants, and not whilom factory girls inexperienced in household duties, to which class many of our recent female arrivals seem to have belonged at one time. At l.’iverton the railway works proceed slowly from the same cause. Men are wanted at eight and nine shillings a clay and none to be got. letter which appeared in yesterday’s Star advising parents to supply their sous with reasonable pocket money, in order to prevent their being tempted to Differ, le i to a somewhat amusing result this morning. No less than three fathers visited us from the NorthEast Valley, each believing he was the only man who had two sons’ emploj r ed in Dunedin, and that his boys were maligned without cause. We think this fact should satisfy each .them that they do not know how many neighbors they have as luckily situated as themsekes j and that most probably the boys especially on i&e mind of the writer did not belong to any of them, but to somebody else who did not think necessary to defend them. We take the following item# froa. ‘ North Otago Times ’ ; -Last week Mr Men- 5 love brought to this district from Mr Young’s. Palmerston, 900 young trout. Of these.3oo were liberated by Mr Reid, of Elderelie, and the remainder by MrMenlove, in tbe Waiai.eka and Big Hill creeks.—Sergeant Major M met with a somewhat serious accident while proceeding to the weekly drill of the Hampden Fp uuteers on Wednesday. Just as he was .entering the township, his horse shied, stumbled.’ ajyl Adi with him, throwing him off—the fall cutting, his face severely.—'l he town sections in the' township of Livingstone, formerly known as Ramsay, Maerewhenua. were submitted to pnbic auction on Friday, by Mr Barron. Government Surveyor, Naseby. Nearly all the front sections sold at prices ranging from <LS to £4O p er section. The back "sections realised each. The Sailors’ Home, Committee met yosterday afternoon, when Mr Iri ? h tendered his resignation as secretary, stating did so because he had not the tiipe to deyn/ce to the duties of the office, and because the ' object for which he originally took the oflff-e ; —raising a sum of money to start the home —had been accomplished. He, however consented to hold office until next meeting The Provincial Secretary wrote that the Goyernment deemed it inexpedient to give the site that had been proposed to be given for a I Sailor’s Home, as the section would be wanted for the purpose of the Peliehet Bay railway; and that the Government would give L2OO -toward* the Home. It was stated that the Superintendent bad promised to give the section which" it was now submitted would not be given. The ’stattgaent that the Government would contribute occasioned surprise, an it had been luideystooA khey would subsidise the subscriptions X for £ up to LI 000. Mr Prosser suggested tbe I 200 might be in lieu of the Peliehet Bay s chiiii, but Mr Fish did not think ,n. it was resolv d to communicate with the Government and to take active steps to canvass for subscriptions amoiig the wool ships now iu port. 1 Thtit prince of Aiistfciiicin liuslirruifiors Frank Gardiner, ha- almost caused " the downfall of the Parkes’ Ministry: at all events he has brought about a political crisis ui Now South Wales. After Mr Lloyd made ms {financial Statement, Mr Ooonibes on November gf*. moved “The House into a committee th,o whole to consider the Governor’s minute ,v.& Gardiner’s release laid on tbe table by command <>rj the dav of its last prorogation. The motion vac carried by twenty-eight to twenty-six .'doyen members not voting) and in committee, 1 a resolution was carried by twenty-eight to > twenty-seven—expressing " regret that tbe ■ Governor had been advis-.d to communicate ■ this minute to the Assembly, because “ it is indefensible in certain of its allegations, ami i

because, if it is consider d to be an answer to the respectful and earnest petitions of the people, it is highly undesirable to convert the records of this House into a means of conveying censure or reproof to our constituents, and if it refers to the discussions in this Chamber, then it is in spirit and effect a breach of the constitutional privileges of Parliament.” On the motion for the adoption of the resolu'ion, the voting was equal, but was negatived by the casting vote of the Speaker. The Government was thus practically censured, and two courses were open to Mr Parkes—to goto the country or resign, and he chose the former. The dissolution was so sudden that not even a temporary vote of supply was asked for. The Harbor Hoard is calling for tenders for the construction of a powerful dredge. The sale of sections at "Ban-field, advertised for Monday, the 14th, has been postponed till Saturday, the 19th. at noon. regular monthly meeting of the Otago Kilwinning Hodge will be held in the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening, at 7.30. Mr Bates takes a farewell benefit at the Princess’ Theatre on Eriday evening. As his engagement with Messrs Steele and Keogh has terminate I, this will be positively his last appearance here, and wo can safely guarantee that both Mrs Bates and he will be seen at their best. “ Caste ” and “ The Married Rake” are the pieces selected fDr the benefit, and a more judicious choice could not have been made. In the first-mentioned, Mr Bates takes the part of Old Eccles, and from our own knowledge of his undoubted abilities in this particular lino of character, independent of the favorable criticisms he lias received from the Press in other places, we look forward to a lich treat. Mrs Bates also has the reputation of making a firstclass Polly Eccles. Since Mr Bates’s short stay amongst ns, he has firmly established himself in public estimation as an earnest and painstaking actor of more than ordinary ability. Mrs Bates also has given satisfaction in every p irt she has undertaken, and wo cordially wish herself and her husband every success in their road through life.