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Evening Star, Issue 3717, 21 January 1875, Page 2

The May Howard-Collier company were passengers to Christchurch by the Taranaki, After playing a season in Christchurch they visit Dunedin.

At the Supreme Court, this morning, the examination of witnesses in the case of Robinson v. Macgregor was concluded, and counsel on each side addressed the jury. The case had not concluded when we went to press.

The House of Representatives is to under go another metamorphosis before Parliament meets this year. Economy is to give way to elaboration. The draping of the Chamber are again to be changedfo- other , which are on their way from England, and the seats are to be covered fa maroon rep. The effec cannot very well be /conceived until the alterations have been effected, hutfc is still questionable if the present green curtains will be very much improved upon

A serous accdent occurred this morn.i >g on board the ship Auckland, at the new pier, to Mr Fitzer, her chief officer It ap pe >rs the crew were busy dumping the wool on deck, and had just put in two hales, the door of tho pre s not bring fastened, when by some means the table on top of the piston canted, and the bales fell out of tho press. One of these fell on Mr Fitzer’s left leg, fracturing the same. He was immediately attended to by the ship’s surgeon, Dr Allen, and was afterwards conveyed by traia to the Hospital, Dr Allen accompanying him. The Wild Deer, which arrived from Glasgow yesterday after a smart passage of 81 days, brings 302 imm grants—equal to 2434 statute adults. Sub joined is a list their trades and occupations : Farm laborers, 24 ; general do., 10 ; ploughmen. 2 ; carpenters, 4; cooper, 1; joiner, I - blacksmiths, 4; engineer, 1; bricklayer, i ; quarrymen. 6; stonecutter, 1 ; masons 4; navvies, 3 • coachmakers. 2 ; carters. 2 ; shoemakers, 2 ; baker, 1; goods guard, 1; painters, 2: groom, 1 ; mechanic. 1 ; coachman, 1; printer, 1 ; plasterer, 1; tailors, 7 ; coppersmith, 1. Single women—Nurses, 3 ; servants, 28 ; cooks, 2; housemaids, 6; dressmaker, 1. Summary—Male adults. 109; fenule do, 93 ; male children, 35 ; female do., 48 ; infants 17. Nationalities—English, 316; Irish, 65; Scotch. 12; iraoish, 2; Italian, 3 ; Vlaitvfle, 3 ; We’sh, 1. The experience of Caotain Andrew, of the Ladybird, o i New Year’s Day, i hould act as a warning to owners ot steamers. On that day the Laclyb rd made an excursion trip from Wellington ft> Picton, ami .parting on the homeward journey half-an-hour before hie time, left b -hind seventeen passengers who had to stay three days in Picton, at a cost of about LSO. Having obtained a Ihgal opinion that they had good grounds of action against tho company, they sent in a written claim for the respective amounts, and threaten! d in default of payment to take proceedings forthwith in one case, which should rule the others. It appears Captain Andrew supposed he bad al his passenger on bourd, having rung the bell and whistled tfcVbral tkowy tmd tngtol tor dfr «* (tbu

incessant heavy rain making the situation of the drenched excursionists one of extreme d scomfort and wretchedness), started for Wellington, having staved at Pioton half-an-bour less • ban the advertised two hours. The company state that Captain Andrew had distinct orders to remain two hours at Pictoa, and that as he disregarded thoseexpress orders on his own responsibility, he must be prepared to stand the consequences of his conduct

America is the land of big things, and “Uncle Sam” is not to be done by either Neptune or Germany, although the latter boasts of a savant who has discovered that by the use of carbonate of sodium in connection with steam an amount of pressure can he obtained that will materially afftefc the price of coal and reduce expenses several hundred per cent. A Philadelphia man says he has invented a motive power that will revoluti nise the commercial world. It ia machine that by means of two gallons oi water will drive the largest engine in the world, and ho was fourteen years perfecting it. The San Francisco correspondent of the ‘ New York Herald ; states that at a recent trial at Philadelpha the inventor produced a motive power equal to a pressure of 7,000 lbs to the square inch. He asserts that no •heniical of an kind is used, and that elec tricity has nothing to do with his invemion The water, which is placed in a pear-shaped cylinder, was tested before and after the ex periment and found unchanged. It is sup posed that the new power is produced by th decomposition of the water, by contact with the machine. Of coarse there is a grea"’ deal of mystery about the affair; nevertheless seveial wealthy men have placed their moue upi>n it, and :t is now pat -nted. The blent >r claim* that by attaching his machine to an ordinary engine he can drive a i rai

from New York to ’Frisco “on time without any expenditure of power, save tha generated iu bis machine by the two gallon of water. What next, we ask ? A pretty little temperance story of th' ordinary kind was lately published by the ‘Youthen Cross,’ and tran ferrei into our columns. A correspondent of the same journal thus comments on it;—“ I was reading a story this morning in the ‘ Cross ’ for the truth of which I can vouch. It was respecting a young lady whose father died from drink, and who in consequence refused every offer of marriage from suitors who indulged even in the least in strong drinks, laying temptations in the way to try them At last a fascinating gentleman, at her own table, refused wine, and delivered a homily on its dangers; and shortly afterwards she blushingly said ‘Yes.’ 1 know the parties wed, but the writer in the ‘Cross’ omitted or forgot the sequel. The fascinating gentl - man had i eard of her resolution, and had only pretended Good Templarism. He had resolved to win her pretty face and handsome fortune, and she foil blushingly into the trap. Ihe honeymoon passed delightfully for they we*e away among the mountain where grog was not, but in a few months he was at his o d practices. n a short time she too got fond of the bottle, and when I saw them last they were op jolly a pair of o d topers as I have known, .Nevertheless, they are happy and prosperous, and many a time have a hearty laugh over the trick that won her a good husband and him a jol'y genial wife, l hey have four or five olive branches around their table, and are as happy as th day is long. I was struck with the story when I read it this morning, but the writer should nut have kept back the end of the tale. As I was quite familiar with the parties in question, I challenge him to contradict ray account.”

A special meeting of the H.A.C.B. Society ?vill be held in St. Joseph’s School Room on Monday evening next, 25th inst., at 8. A challenge appears in our advertising columns from John Tyson, to wrestle George Robertson, Ben Iloare, or any ocher man in Otago, for LSO a-side. We have received from Mr Joseph Br&ithwaite, corner of Fleet and High streets, a copy of ‘ Tom Hood’s Comic Annual.’ It is what it professes to be : the letterpress is comic, and the illustrations are comic. The stories are well told, both with pen and pencil, and there are p'enty of them. We will not quote, but leave our readers to select for themselves those passages which please them best. An official visit was paid l ist evening to Lodge Prince of vVales {So. 5.251), M.U.1.0.0.F. Port Chalmers, by the district officers, P.G.M. Bro. Stewart, D.P.G.M. Bro. Anderson, P.G.S. Bro. Sligo, D.T. Hro. Robin, and about forty Brothers from the various lodges in Dunedin, who syere conveyed from town by special train. !P\mhg the evening the secretary stated he had received a cheque for L 3 3s 2d from the Palmeston Lodge,' for the benefit of Bro. Parkinson, who is an inmate of the I,unatic Asylum in Melbourne, which has increased the snhscriDtiou list to nearly L2OO. After the ceremony of the purple lecture and a few speeches from the visiting Brothers, the Bodge ytras closed, on account of the return train leaving the Port at 11 p.m.