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Evening Star, Issue 3726, 1 February 1875, Page 2

“Der Freischutz” was produced again on Saturday, and gave satisfaction to a large audience. It will be repeated to-night.

We are glad to learn that the cricketers intend to mark their appreciation of Paramor’s play in the recent interprovincial match, by presenting him with a parse of sovereigns. If ever “talent money” was fa>riy deserved it is in Paramor’a case. The Pr-ss Agency contrives to tiah out stale news. I bis morning we hud intelligence of toe arrival of a v-sselat Auckland from Adelaide, and immediately the Agency forwards to us an account of the loss of the Mongol and some particulars re the Cospatriok. all of which had been sent from Auckland the day before. Wiltshire, the pedestrian, is again before the public, and at Oatnaru issues a challenge, in which he offers to walk 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, on condition that if he completes the distance ia the time, he is to receive LIOO, but if he fails, to get nothing. He also offers to walk 1,506 miles in 1,000 hours, and is willing to walk against any man in New Zealand, for any sum to J>e fixed on.

A man named William Sheans almost poisoned himself at Clyde last week. He had been treated if or some time by Dr Stirling, and his ailment necessitated his taking measures for internal and external application, the latter kind being poisonous. On Wednesday night last (so says the ‘ Dunstan Times’) he went into hia room without a light, and in mistake took a draught of the poison The prompt application of emetics by Dr Stirling, who happened to be close at hand, saved the man’s life.

In our telegraphic columns to-day will be found particulars of the total loss in the China >eaa of the fine steamer Mongol, which, it will be recollected visited our harbor sometime back, and made a name for herself by doina the run out from England to Port Chalmers in the unprecedentedly quick time of 494 days. She foundered with a number of hands, including her captain and his wife, but whether Capt. Flamank commanded her in Japan we do not know. “A Presbyterian * authorise* us to state that he is prepared to present ten pounds towards the expense of the first organ introduced into a Presbyterian Church in Dunedin. We are glad to find the improvement of music in Presbyterian churches is attracting so much attention, for we are quite at one with those who Relieve that every department of public worship should be conducted in the most perfect manner possible, and efficient instrumental help is a necessity in congregational singing. On Saturday evening, a fisherman named John Mills left his house at Pleasant Point, Portobello, with the intention of going to Coneys’s Hotel, but not returning during the night, his mate, a man named Nicholas \zzeriti, went in search of him, and found him lying in an old hut, very much bruised about the body and left arm. It appears that shortly after leaving home Mills took the wrong track, and fell over the cliff, which is of considerable height, on to tho beach, where he lay for some time, no assistance being at hand. When the tide rose he managed with some difficulty to era vn to tho hut where he was found. Ho was brought to Port Chalmers in a boat this morning, for the purpose of being conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital The nature of fris injuries could not be ascertained, as there is no medical man residing at Portobello. At the civil sittings of the Supreme Court this morning, tho ease of Malaghan v. Weukheim was commenced. This is an action to recover damages to the amount of Ll 00U for alleged slander, plaintiff being a merchant at Queenstown, a Justice of tbe Peace, and late Mayor of that town ; while defendant, formerly a storekeeper of the same place, has, as Mr Macasscy observed, obtained an almost historic reputation from previous proceedings in the same Court. MrMacassey, j who appeared for plaintiff, stated that his client was a man o! swbjtanCc, and did not '

wish to fiii his parse with the proceeds of this action; but that if, at the doe of the case, defendant would make him an amule apology, he would be willing to leave it in the bands of the jury to decide wh it amount should be given by defendant to some public institntidn Cn the other hand, if defendant would n >t apologise, plaintiff would seek to recover the full amount claimed.

An inquest was held at the hospital at noon to-day, before Mr T. M. liocken, coroner, on the body of C. L. Adame, cordial manufacturer, of Invercargill, who died suddenly at the Shamrock Hotel at 1.15 p.m. yesterday The principa witnesses examiwere the second steward of the Wanganui, Mr Hetherington. proprietor of the Sham’ rock Hotel, who had known deceased intimately for a considerable period, and the sergeant of police who searched the body. The evidence showed that deceased was subject to apoplectic fits. A verdict that deceased died from that cause was returned. While in the Mount Ida District Mr Ulrich visited the Rough Ridge, the Naseby workings, and the Duke of Edinburgh reef at Macrae’s. Of Lloyd’s reef, at the Ridge, he is reported by the ‘ Chronicle ’ to have expressed himself as agreeably disappointed—the reefs having a better appearance than he had been led to expect—remarking that the comparative flatness of the spurs was very much against prospecting, mining being rendered naturally more difficult and precarious. The great Eastern reef was most favorably noticed, as being unsually promising. General indications of the hill claims were thought sufficiently good to reasonably encourage a work upon a large scale, with the best goldmining apparatus, and economical management. At Naseby he was pressed as to the question of deep leads. Although, as he told the gentlemen who interviewed him, his special mission was to report upon the reefs, and his time, he was sorry to say, was not sufficient to do justice to them, yet he felt confident, from a cursory observation, that the Maori bottom would hflve gold concentrated at its bottom—being composed of deposits of the same nature as, but of a finer character, than the auriferous drift above. Boring appeared to him the only way of testing the matter. Boring was indispensable in ■*'■ ustralia, as an aid to deep lead development, and he could not but think that the apparatus used at Naseby must have been very deficient, unless it was badly worked. The best course of boring would be to begin near where the rock was last seen and institute a series of bores, gradually coming into the presume ly deeper grounds on the flats At Macrara Mr L'lrich was surprised to find how much money had been spent—said to have been about L 3,00O —and was rather at a loss to understand why the workings had been abandoned; as, though the processes used had been, it appeared, wasteful and costly, it was evident that very good quartz existed. He did not feel justified in expresing a strong opinion that the reef would be worth working unless some much more economical process could be made use of.

Dr Copland will deliver his first lecture on Egypt and Palestine to-morrow evening. A meeting of the Standard Property Investment Society will be held on Wednesday evening next.

A Ejecting of the United Otago District, A O.F will be held in the South Australian Mall, to-morrow evening, t> p°kl en Age will make an excursion from 1 ort Chalmers to Dunedin to-morrow evening returning after the opera.

The monthly meeting of the Third New Zealand Building and Mutual Investment Society will be held at the Society’s office to-morrow evening.

The p.s. Golden Age will make an excursion trip to-morrow evening, leaving the Old Jetty Port Chalmers, at (1.45, and returning from Dunedin after the Opera.

1 he‘Evangelist’ for February, in addition to the usual ‘ Short Notes,” contains “ Notes on Travel,” by the Rev Dr. Copland, and an unusual number of pithy articles on current topics. I'he Missionary intelligence from the New Hebrides is interesting. The admissions into the Dunedin Hospital during the past week were 27, and the discharges 30. There were four deaths : Catherine Ryder, aged 49, native of Scotland, died from injury of the bowels ; Charles Plummer, miner aged 19, native of Tasmania, from disease of the brain ; Colin |M‘lntyre, seaman, aged 23, native of Scotland, from injury of the head; and William Sharland, laborer, aged 18, native of Tasmania, from disease of the heart. The latest, neatest, and cleanest of lemonade and soda water bottles has been adopted by Messrs C. S. Reeves and Co. It is a most ingenious contrivance, combining safetyin bottling and opening, with perfect closure of the bottle when filled. Everyone remembers that, a few years ago, accidents through bursting bottles in the process of filling them were of constant oc cur range. Corks were forced in originally by striking them with a mallet ; then by pressure of a powerful loycr. The last invention renders both unnecessary, A form of bottle has been patented that may be said to cork itself. It is almost as curious as those Chinese toys which contain balls within balls. The smaller one has been got into the larger, but cannot be got out again. In ingenuity of construction the bottles exceed the toys. A purpose was to be served beyond exciting wonder, and it has been accomplished. The problem was how to insert a stopper that shall secure perfect closure, perfect sweetness, and cleanliness, and allow rapid partial or complete emptying of the bottle and need no renewal. These ends have been accotnpushed thuswiselnstead of a cork the stopper is a glass ball, which travels in the neck of the bottle between the mouth and the shoulder. The neck is oval-shaped near the shoulder and circular near the mouth, the openmg of which is • contracted in a curve corresponding with the circumference of the ball stopper, A rim of elastic is placed just within ths mouth of the bottle, to form a cushion for the stopper to rest against. As the neck of the bottle descends, jjt diverges from a circular to an oval form, and two grooves conduct the ball stopper into a chamber into which it is pressed, when the bottle is opened, leaving ample space for the discharge of the contents, so long as the bottle is retained in a position to keep the ball in the recess. If it is desired to reserve any portion of the liquid, a rapid turn of the wrist brings the ball on to the side of the neck on which it can travel freely, and it is only necessary to slope the bottle with neck downwards to secure perfect closure. As the main material is glass, and as water can be freely used for cleansing both bottle and gtopper, we think the end is accomplished in an elegant, and perfect manner.