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Evening Star, Issue 3720, 25 January 1875, Page 2

A gas company is projected at Oamaru,

Mr Denniston, C. E., has been appointed Engineer for the Mount Ida district, in the room of Mr George Duncan, who formerly held the office, and who is now engaged m preliminary surveys of railway lines. The mm Holmes, who was stubbed at -East Valley on Saturday morning died at eleven o’clock last night Walter was charged at the eaideui} Magistrate's Court with the murder an<l remanded pending the decision of the Coroner’s mque i which wid be held at the Hospital, at noon, to-morrow.

“ Martha” was repeated at the Princess on Saturday night, aud gave thorough satisfaction to a numerous au lienee. To-night, the ever-popular “ ’in which viiss May will sustain the part that she has been heard in to the most advantage in Dunedin, will be produced. At the Port Chalmers Police Court this' morning, before Mr T, A. Mansford, K. M James M'Gill, for drunkenness, was fined ss, or twenty-four hours, and Alexander M‘Galium, for using indecent language on the railway platform, was fined lUs, or twenty-four hours.

In the Supreme Court, this morning, it was intimated that the slander case of Malaghan v. Wenkheim could not be taken before Wednesday, and that his Honor intended to proceed to Lawrence on circuit on the Bth prox. His Honor fixed March 12 as the data on which to move the nonsuit point reserved in the case of Robinson v. M ‘Gregor. Mr G. R. Taylor, an old resident of Oamaru, and whose name is intimately connected with the Maerewhenua, and who is about to settle in Southland, has been pre sented by the citizens of Oamaru with a hand some gold watch, and by the local jockey club, of which he was a permanent member, and for some time bon. secretary, with a silver claret jug.

We have much pleasure in noticing a case of very deserved promotion in our police force—Mr Mallard, who has held the position of Sub-! nspeetor for a considerable period' having been appointed Inspector. In the former position, Mr Mallard was always comm n iable for the courteous and gentlemanly manner in which he conducted his bus ness, and in his now appointment he will doubtless give equal satisfaction. His Honor the Superintendent hj iving requested the immigration agent, Mr i.oliii Allan, to forward a number of immigrants to Queenstown, wh re adepbt has been built for their reception, seven families, num ering thirty-six souls, or twenty-eight aud ahalf adults were transhipped from the Wild Deer into the steamer xpress for Invercargill on Saturday. They will be forwarded by rail to VVinton under ojrect on of the Invercargill Immigration i ifficer, and thence by waggon to their destination. They are very suitable for the district, having been trained to agricultural pursuits. The domestic servants by the Wild Deer were engaged to-day at from L3O to L 35 each.

At Naaeby the police have made a raid upon Chinese gamblers, half-a dozen of whom were on Friday lasb seuten.ed t*y Mr Robinson, R.M., to forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. On the previous Saturday, reports the ‘Chronicle/ Sub - Inspector M‘Cluskey paid a visit on* one Chjng Chong, and detected a crowd in an inner njoin, too intent on the game being played to notice him. Stationed behind two of them, he observed money staked, the chance played, and the sucejssful one paid. Then putting his friends in front on one side, he placed his hand on some of the money on the table, and with the assistance of 9 constable marched a few off to the lock-up that could bo identified with the game. The lottery mos' fivor d appears to be a square board, divided and numbered into four divisions. The banker thr>w< down a heap of co ns. The habitudes of the haunt stake on their fancy .-'umber. Ihe banker then forks away the coin from the heap by fours. The last remai. der, 4, 3, 2. or I. gives the winning number, the stakes upon which are paid in duplicate by the bank. The Nelson correspondent of the Auckland ‘ Echo ’ is responsible for the fo lowing : —* f> \ true and rather good story is going the rounds just now. To appreciate it you must know that the General G .vernmeut officesare in the Provincial Government buildit gs. Tne Registrar of the Supreme Court, minus a leg, walks with a crutch ; the Commissioner of Crown Lands supers from rneumatio gout and requires the assistance of a crutch and stick; and the Registrar under the Land Transfer Act labors nuder some disease which compels him also to use a couple of sticks. The other day two Germans came to town for the purpose i f transacting some business at th® buildings, and one of them who had been in Nelson before volunteered to show his companion the place. VV hen they reached the buildings the first person they met was the Registrar of the •"■upreme Court, and by some chance, before they had got inside the door tlie other two officials above mentioned cam® forth. The strange German turned to bis companim, lifted up his bands, sud cried, “ Meiii Gott Hans, y. u’ve brought fo th ■ hospital ! ’ This little narrative has the advantage of being true.” At tfie Oamaru District Court on Thura- 1 day. James Roy laud case was referred ' to in our issue of siatufdiy) was brought, up' for sentence, ,aud in answer to the usual question, said :—“ I have to say I .am quite mnoi eut. I only asked the wyimn to leave, lasted Sutherland to take his wif a.vay Sutherland wouldn’t pay for her bed, uur „ would she, and she would' not go away, 1 ■ did not assault her in any way. Iw s perfectly careful of the woman. It is a very unseemly thing for a woman to bo hoard making a noise in a licensed house.” Several witnesses as to character were called, and th»y one and all spoke in the highest terms of hoyland as a respectable, hard-working, quiet man, and Mr Palmer, his counsel, pointed out to the Court that sentence o imprisonment meant the loss of his license, and consequently deprivation of his means df Uvmiliwa; Watty £a jawtffiog a

sentence of three days’ imprisonment, and ' ordering Boyland to pay ihe costs of the prosecution, observed that ‘‘it was a most :ortunate thing for him that the jury had negatived the more serious charge against him. their finding being in effect that though he ejected the prosecutrix he did nob use any great violence, an i that he did not inflict uy serious, in fact any bo dly inj try t the same time although the iquor traffic, the evils attending upon \vh ch have recently occupied a large share of attention, frequently brought about some strange ou cum stances, he (the judge) did not remem her in his last twelve yea s’ experience a oore degrading picture of humanity t ian that laid before toe C mrt in this case. Fir t ‘hey had the husband lying on tue oed sodden with drink, and to utte~ a craven to nt rfero wbiie the pub ic h«>u-e - keep’ r ragged his wife from the room ; and then tfiey had the publican turning lb • worn m out of the house sobbing, with a baby at her breast, into the streets of a strange town ar midnight without telling her where to go, or heeding er caring where she went. It was evident enough that the prisoner was a most unlit person to hold a license.”—George Welsh was acquitted on a charge of stealing a saddle. The attention of Volunteers is directed to the general orders in our advertising columns. During the week ended January 23rd, there were twenty-four admissions into, and an equal number of discharges from the Dunedin Hospital.

An adjourned meeting of the Court Pride of Dunedin, A.0.F., will be held in the South Australian Hall, to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock.

As will be seen by advertisement, Miss Aitken, the well-known elocutionist, will ap pear at the Temperance Hall, Moray place, on Wednesday evening The pe-for . anc- is undei the patronage of the Caledonian Society, and il is a graceful acknowledgment on the parr, oi that body—seeing that Miss Aitken has especially devoted herself to the study of Scotch readings, her rendering of which has nevei been excelled by any reader who has yet visited this Colony. This lady is going Home by the Waikato, which sails in a few days, so it will be the last opportunity the public will have of hearing her. The promoters of the entertainment have succeeded in securing the services of the best local talent obtainable in the City, including Mr Sykes, who will act as accompanyist. As a performance, there is no doubt of its success ; a liberal response by the public will make it successful pecuniarily.