The Evening Star SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1874.

Evening Star, Issue 3684, 12 December 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1874.

Mr Delamaine’s two horses, Templeton and The Belle, changed hands at Wei —the former selling lor LBOO, and the latter for L 250. The Phoebe left Wellington for the South last evening. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman and the Rev. Dr Stuart were among the passengers. While we are threatened with a rise in the price of gas, the gas company at Clmstchurch sees its way to announce a reduction from the first of the new year, when the price will be 15s per thousand teet, and an allowance of twopence per hundred feet when accounts are paid by the tenth of the month. I An accident occurred this morning to one of the crew belonging to the barque Glimpse, which is lying alongside the hulk Henbury! A young man, named George Dinnain, was coing a oft for the purpose of sending down the main royal yard, taking up a line to scud the yard down with ; and as soon as he got to the main-top he stood on the crane line, which broke with his weight, and he fe i right down on to the deck upon his feet. Medical assistan e was soon procured, and the injured man taken to the hospital. His feet and legs are very much swollen and bruised, but the extent of the injury he has sustained we ha\ r e not been able to ascertain. Potty thefts from clothes lines have been j made in many parts of the City for some | nights past, and tliis morning Detective ! 14am arrest' d a Gorman named Charles ! ! Hiller, whose predilections to tend to ; I theft of this,nature. Early in the day infer- ! 1 nation reached the police that two shift?

bad been stolen from a clothes line in a housa off Walker street, and Detective Haiti arrested Hiller on the charge within half an hour. On being searched a quantity of stolen property, including the shirts, was f»mnd on him, and on Monday he will be called upon to answer quite a host of charges. Detective Bain’s promptness in the matter ought not to be overlooked. A. remarkably shrewd bnnkcr (at least he thinks so) was waited on the other day, says .Egles,” in the ‘ Australasian,’ by a prosperous Mew Zealand settler, who wanted a hundred pounds or so for personal expenses. He stated his business, but the Melbourne managed poohpoohcd the applicant—in fac r , would hardly listen to him. The New Zealander telegraphed to Sydney, and got what he wanted instantly. A few days afterwards a stock and station agent incidentally mentioned to the shrewdest of managers having snld a station on behalf of the same New Zealand gentleman for L9O OUO. That manager almost fainted. To have refused LIOO to a man wortli LOO 000 ! He wanted his address to smooth matters, but t was too la e—the New Zealander had shaken from his feet the dust of that city and departed.

Mr Bates’s farewell benelit at the Priness a was largely attended last evening, all parts of the house being well filled. Mrs Bates ma’e a capital Polly K'c.des, and Mrs Hill as esther fairly earned the applause bestowed upon her efforts. Mr Bates’s Did

ccles surpassed our expectations ; it was one of the most natural pieces of acting we have seen for years. He received a call before the curtain at the termination of the piece, and in thanking the audience for their patronage, trusted that Mrs Bales and him self would meet with as warm a reception upon their next visit to Dunedin. The performance concluded with “The Married iiake, which was played with great spirit and. liveliness, Miss Lilly May as Susan Twist particularly distinguishing herself. “Temptation,” aud “Gilderoy” are announced for production to-night. Late files of the ‘ Age ’ give particulars of the Wagga Wagga aud other recent race meetings. For the Wagga Wagga Cup, of 500 sovs, Haricot (6st 13 b-) and The Diver (7st lllbs) were first favorites, the former being most fancied Haricot jumped off with a lead of four lengths, evidently desiring to cub down his field, but threequarters of a mile from home The Diver orept up and w.m easily by two leugthsdo'iig the two miles in the extraordinary time of 3min. 33jsecs. At the Bendigo meeting, in the Flying Handicap, Polidori heat .'"tockbii-lge The winner must have been in good fettle, for he broke away three times, running a quarter-of-a mile on each occasion, knocked down a man who held him at the post, and also bucked bis rider off before he elected to make a start. For the Sandhurst Cup, Lurline (7st 121b) only ran fifth, being beaten by Imperial. Stockbridge, The Hook, and King Tom, who came in in the order named. Calumny started at odds of five to two on her for the Epsom Handicap in a field of three, but came in last. Mr M'Culloch, at Invercargill, the other day, had to deal with a r. ffiauly son, who, we were glad to see, received his deserts’ Koger Hait, described in the report as an able-bodied young man, was charged with assaulting his father, who gave the following evidence : He and his sou lived alone together, and had no housekeeper. Was in bed when his son came home. Accused went up to witness’s bed and said, ‘ Well, old Rtan, you can take things a litt’e easier in future witness used to rise early in the morning to get breakfast ready—“ for I am to get married in March next.” Witness asked who the girl was, and accused replied “That’s known to myself.” Witness then said that he would not have any girl coming into the house without knowing who she was, or something about her. Accused said, “ This is not your place ; it belongs to me now. ” Witness remarked that it did bib mg to him, that the deeds were in his box, and a few words ensued, resulting in accused seizing witness by the top of the head, and striking him three or four blows with his shut fist. Witness begged for mercy, and accused went away, but soon retimed. Thereupon witness remark id that 1m would have to pub accused where ha had been before—in the watch-house. Accused then assaulted witness again, and marked his face with blows. Accused then locked f e back and front doom, and took the keys out, in older to prevent witness from going for the police. Witness, however, went through the window after accused had gone to bed, in which ho lays with his clothes on, be (accused) being very much the worse of liquor. Had he been otherwise, he would not have treated witness as he did. Accused had struck witness on two fo mer occasions, but he had never ill-treated him so much as he had done on Friday night. He had also in times past threatened to kill witness, and to burn the house over his head. Still, when sober, accused was very k nd o witness, and one of the finest fellows in the world ; but when be was in drink, wiincs had no room in the house with him. Accused eagerly desired to get possession of the house, 0 bub he would not get that till witness was dead. The old man pleaded with the Court “not to press the child very hard.” His Worship thought that he had never heard of such a case before ;it w r as a most cruel thing for a son to assault hisagid father as prisoner had done. He would be dealing very leniently with the case in giving the prisoner one month’s imprisonment with hard labor ; aud after that requiring him to find two sureties in L 25 each to keep the peace for twelve months. The prisoner cried bitterly on hearing the sentence.

The Artillery Band will be inspected on Wednesday evening at the Drill-shed, The usual monthly meeting of the Union Permanent Building .Society will be held on Monday evening. A meeting of Church of England residents will be held in the Morningfcon School-house on Tuesday evening.

We ha.ve been requested by the Harbor Steam Company to announce an alteration in the time at which passengers by the steamer Bruce are to embark to-morrow. The steamer will leave Rattray street wharf at p.m and passengers will go on board in town, instead of going to Port Chalmers by the four o’clock train.