The Evening Star MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3714, 18 January 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1875.

It is stated that the Rev. C. Clark has already been inundated with invitations from various parts of the Colony requesting his services both in the pulpit and on the platform. We are glad to learn that Miss Alice May’s health is completely re-established, and that from the cast of the characters there is every probability of “Martha” being performed the Princess Theatre most successfully this evening. The latest development ®f Spiritual sm is truly wonderful. In one of the American >tates—Vermont—the ghosts have been put upon the scales and found to be very substantial spirits. Hereto ore a ghost has been thought to be impalpable and wholly beyond gravitation, but the yhost of “Hontc” is palpable to all the senses, and weighed eightyeight pounds ! Mr Hollowav has reached his native place, Oxfordshire, and reported hinne f to the Agii cultural Laborer J Urnon He speaks highly of the "out hern Island as an emigration field, and declares th >t, consider ng its agricultural ca abilities, mineral resources, fine climate, and pr< sent prosi eritv, no other Colony off rs equal advantages. He strongly advises industrious agr cultural laborers, domestic servants, and skilful mechanics to emigrate. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society were unsuccessful in their importation of birds by the Menlora, The full shipment of twelve nightingales and twenty-two whitethroats died on the voyage, while out of eighty hedge-sparrows only eighteen were landed. We notice by our English files that young Bills was to leave London at the end of December with a shipment of partridges for the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society.

It is but just to the citizens of Dunedin who so cheerfully responded to the call nia.te upon their gen.ros.ty on behalf o Mrs Adams, who. a stranger in the Provii c lost her husband sopn after arrival in the ship Mairi HKtn, and was left penniless with four children the youngest being th'ee months dd—tb t the amount subscribe! c me to ih79 I : (K Of that mm ISIS was collected by Mr Meadi.rshausen, Pieces atre. t and the balance by Vlr Win. Fantie. ' he money is -o be lodged in the Post hi ie Savings' ank, and trustees will be appointed to see that it is ju Uciously expended. Messrs John Logan and James Browja. J. P.’s attended at the gaol this afternoon, and investigated a charge pm'err d against prisoner Charles Heller of stealing, on or about the 10th November nit., from out of a bed’com in the Sussex Hotel. Ceorgo str. ot, one pair of riding pants, nf fche value of 25s the pro: erty of ' motor Honeywell. Prisoner was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, with labor, cumulative on aprevftruß atetfcntfe eff twelve aottotiis for eight

separate robberies in various places in Dunedin. Sub-Inspector Mallard prosecuted on behalf of the Crown.

In the course of an eloquent sermon delivered by Bishop Moran at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church last evening—the subject being the marriage fea-d at Cma his Lordship adm matured a severe rebuke to those advocates of the temperance n overaent who he said would debar their fellow-men from the moder to use of wine and other alcoholic liquors. He remarked that while no one viewed with greater detestation and horror the crime of drunkenness than himself, yet the teaching and example of Christ Were totally opposed to the fanatical tffo-ts of those who endeavored to interfere with the undoubted right of persons to the use, > ut nor- the abuse of vinous and spirituous 1 quo's. The ladiesof New York, U.S., have earned th ■ admiration of the sterner sex. • he opening of the opera season there was sig iiabsed not so much by the triumphs of the singers, or the sp e ulid ap tearance of the theatre, as by the singular sight the female portion of the audience presented. < very female head appeartd shorn of chignon, rat, friz, and many other nameless simiiar contrivances. The ‘ Graphic ’ says, and we can well believe it, the sight was exbibratiug ; heads were quietly and chastely glorified in natural hair alone, simplex munditiis. A flower, perhaps, and a ribbon here and there; but the simple grace of flowing or plaited locks. Husbands rejoice at the change, however barbers and dealers in human hair deplore it. From Poverty Bay comes the story of the successful transplanting of teeth. The patient, a boy of about thirteen years of age, possessed a left lateral incisor, which was evidently a superfluous tooth, whilst the corresponding tooth on the right hand side was decayed and useless. A local dentist named Wilson, thinking that it would be a most favorable case for transplantation, removed the decayed tooth, extracted the lateral incisor, and iuserte i it in the space lately occui ied by its decayed fellow. ibe tooth which was duly pressed into position, at first caused some slight inflammation, but in about a week after the operation all pain subsided, and it was as firmly rooted in the jaw as if it had grown there from the commencement, The name of the child is John Brunskill, and his parents live a short distance Irom Napier. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, Mr Harris, in referring to the night license question, asked his Worship whether, at the meeting of the Licensing Bench fixed for to-morrow, it was contemplated to hear the applications for night licenses in the face of the appeal in the case against Mr Barker. His Worship replied that he was not aware whether Barker leally intended to appeal, whereupon Mr Harris said that he understood the appeal would be carried on, but he was nob quite clear as to whether the Court intended to receive applications for night lic-nses or to suspend the qu stion of renewal till the appeal was decided. His Worship said there would be no necessity to proceed with the applications for night licenses, as they would have to be suspended till the Bu; reme Court bad determined the appeal, though he did not know .whether an appeal was the proper course. \ppellant might have tried a mandamus. The matter then dropped.

During the week ended January 16 there were thirty-three admissions to and twenty-seven discharges from the hospital. Thomas Spence, farmer, aged thirty-two, died from injuries received from a dray going over his chest. Mr Braithwaite sends us the January number of “Bow Bells” (double part), and the November number of the “Family Herald.” With “ Bow Bells ” is an admirably executed engiaving of Wilkie’s “ Peep o’ Daj Boys.” All Saints’ Parochial School re-opened to-day. New arrangements have recently been made by which the work can be carried on more efficiently than heretofore, and under them the school should continue to sustain a high place among the educational establishments ot this City, The first regular meeting of the Union of Otago Temple No. 2, 1.0. G.T., was held on Friday evening in the Temperance Hall. Bro. J. A. D. Adams, D.V.T., presided in the absence of the D.T., Bro. C. de L. Graham. The following lodges were received into affiliation with the Temple, viz., Pioneer, Pride of Dunedin, and British Hearts of Oak, Dunedin, and the Star of Freedom, Linden. Twelve members were proposed, and signed the constitution, after which the degrees were conferred, Six members from the various lodges took the Degree of Charity, and four the Degree of Fidelity.