The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3740, 17 February 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1875.

There were despatched by the outward Smz mail to-day 4,500 letters and 5.000 newspapers.

The sum of LOO 14a fid was handed to the treasurer of the Building Committee of Knox’s Church, being the proceeds of the late congregational soiice. The final lecture by Dr Copland on “ Egypt and Fal-stine,” delivered at the orth Dun-din Church last eve-iing. was most attentively listened to by an audience numbering a little over a hundred persons. The Rev, Mr Russell presided.

The team that does battle for Victoria in the Intercolonial. Match at .‘•ycln y on the sth (i’ii, and Bth - f next month are Klackh.un, Boyle, Campbell, Cooper, Co-stick, Conway. Goldsmith, Hastings. Horan, Midw inter, and Slight. The odds are in fat or < f the WeV.hrren ”

The Great American Circus have pitched their tent on the Market Reserve, Frinces street south, where they give the r opening performance to-morrow evening. Titer ho"sos are highly trained, and the company, bo-nrb.-a including many who have already appeared before Dunedin audiences with success, possesses a boat m young Gillian., who, ns ;m equestrian, has no equal in the C 'lonics,

Persons desirous of obtaining letters of naturalisation, conferring upon them the privtli'j./o-’. of na ural-1)-m British subjects in New Zealand, are notified, that they can obtain fall j’-irti/nlars <>f the necessary ste.pa to bo taken by them on application to the R«ai'lent .V arbitrate in any district, or to the ' ■ ■ •(' "ry at Wellington The fee payao,-.- u. !• 'na Act. ?« LI, ;;nd n >

Oulier expuuiii) ij euliiiiiu ou wh>i anulv as directed.

The young man Harry Bedford (a pedestrian), who was lately arrested in Dunedin on a warrant from Victoria, on a charge of 'orgery, and sent back in custody to that Colony, was brought before the Bench at Sandhurst and charged with forging and uttering a cheque in the name of the Ellenborough Mining Company for L 25. The defence was reserved, and the prisoner released on bail. Joyce, the constable in w hose charge a prisoner named Stewart arrested an vV ellington was when he escaped at Sandndge, has been reduced. After die distribution of the prizes to the winners at the. Colonial Competition, a meeting was held, when it was resolved that a ree >muieiidation bo forwarded to the Government in favor of each competitor loading in front of his squad officer. A report bv Hr Severn on the relative weights of different bullets, showed that in eighteen fcuihits in Eley’a cartridges tested, there was a variation from 506 to 643 grains ; thirteen bull its of 1870 ammunition weighed showed a variation of three grains enly. It was resolved that the report be forwarded to the Government.

At a meeting of the Central Board of Health, held to-day, there we;e present his “ > ! he Superintendent (in the chair), Dr Brown, ~ ' v ; . s rs Turnbull, Reid, and Stout. Report yc from the Health Officer, Immigration O.ii , ■ master of the vessel, and the-surgeon at Quarsntim Island were road, and it was resolved that if no case of fever bre?ks out among (he single men on Goat Island in the meantime, they be released on Monday next, the 22ad iust. ; the people on Quarantine Island to bo detained until otherwise decided. The Board then adjourned till to-morrow morning. in a late telegram from Sydney, published by us it was stated that Thomson, the surveyor connected with Hume’s expedition for the recovery of Classan, the reported survivor of the Leichardt expedition, had arrived at Borneo. It was difficult to understand how he could have got down the Gulf of Carpentaria and crossed the Aurifura Sea. From the papers which have now come to hand, we see that the place from which his arrival was reported was Dubbo, in New South Wales. He says that the report of the finding of the body of O’Efca is untrue ; and so the whole story of Hume and Classan has become more extraordinary than ever. Where is O’Hea ? and, still more, where is Hume?

From the official meteorological report for January it appears that the mean height of the barometer at the Dunedin Observatory was 29.533 in,; the highest reading being -9.935 on the 10th, and the lowest 29.014 on the 24th. The mean temperature of the air was 58 3, the greatest heat in the shade being 72 on the sth, the greatest cold at 42 on the sth. The total range of temperature in the shade was, therefore, 30. the mean daily range being 16. The maximum solar radiation was 159 on the 30th, the minimum terrestrial radiation 33 on the 24th. The extreme range between the reading of exposed thermometers was, therefore, 91. The toted rainfall was 3 790. It ftII on fourteen days, the maximum rainfall in any twentyfour hours being l.OOin. on the 2nd. S. and NJ. winds mostly prevailed. The mean diurnal horizontal movement of the air was 116 miles, and the maximum velocity for the month 345 miles on the 25th. Victoria finds considerable difficulty in relieviog herself of Sullivan, and has discovered that it is not at all clear that her Magistrates possess the power legally to deport him to this or any other Colony ar country. The question has arisen over the arrest of another convict “illegally at large” -cue David White, of New South Wales The Melbourne ‘Daily Telegraph’ writes: , 13 au un P lea sant probability that the difficulty about the murderer Sullivan may be solved by his having to be turned adrift in Victoria without there being any law by winch he can be forced to leave the Colony. From a case which has come before the City Court, it appears that an important condition in the Act for the prevention of the influx of criminals has been overlooked, and if the point raised on behalf of a prisoner who has been arrested for being illega ly at la -ge is made gnod, we may not only have to put up with Sullivan, hut also with a great many other objectionable characters. It is submitted that the Act only applies to men or women who were not lawful residents in the Colony at the time it was passed, or previous to its passing, and as the law is only twenty years old, «ud '-ullivan was in Victoria, at least twenty-two years since ho may Jay claim to ‘ the benefit of the Act' in a way which has been little expected. ” On the subject of immigration to Southfu ° •" —** Iho continued evasion of the Reunion Compact for direct immigration to the Hluff is without excuse. The Provincial Executive cannot shift from itself if- J . ia 0 or GWn promises, without which Southland would not have surrendered the independence J had fought for ten years before. When, however, Mr Lumsdcn became a member of that Evecutive, there was reason to hope his efforts would succeed in getting justice done : they seem to have been m vaiu. Ido not say the General Govern:ncat is free from blame : on the contrary, they too have disregarded their assurances, disappointing the just expectations with which we looked to Mr Reynolds, who was himself so personally answerable for the reunion. But if the General Government had failed ten times over, the Provincial Executive always had it in its power, and baa it uow to keep its word to ■-onthlaud. .Nothing on earth has prevented the Executive from sending on in a body forthwith the whole number of immigrants arriving by every third ship. Nothing has been wanting but the will. Parliament alone can, and I shall certainly whether it will, forbid any more excuses and compel for you what you have vainly ; ' e ged from both Governments as a favor, i cverthel ss L shall not in the meantime refuse to make another effort. Toe cause you advocate can lose nothing by a fresh appeal, and I am writing by this mail to Mr Vogel and Dr FoatbersW But Ite l you plainly all the same, that it is to other things than reliance on promises that districts lying outside the power and influence of the Provincial capitals must look. Last year I warned you against placing the immigration business in the hands of Provincial Executives. ''° on, that is to s<iy at the usual time of meeting my constituents, they will hear why I think that any reform of the system from within has now passed out of hope.”

The Easby will make au excursion trip to Lyttelton, on or about Thursday, returning on Monday next. Dr Carr will perform at Green Island this evening, in aid of the widow of the late Thomas jj Kerr, who was killed by the recent accident at the Chain Hills Tunnel, The Ladder of Hope Juvenile Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars was opened in _Milton Hall, Stuart street, last evening, with about twenty members. The fol--1 owing officers wore elected and invested:— Acting P.T., Bro. Geo. Carr: C.T., Bro. Geo. Stewart; V.T., Bro. Isaac Selby ;C. Bro. John Benfell ; S., Bro. tred Benfeil; E.S., Sint. Margaret Wilson; M., Bro. John Sutton; J.S , Bro. Robert Grant. The R.H.S. Sist. f'bleu Coats, andL.H.S. Sist. Jane Carr were appointed by the C.T. ; and A.S. Sist. Rose 1 liver by the Secretary; D.M. Sist. Elizabeth Selby by the Marshall; O.G. Bro. Alfred Grant by the LS. Various rules having been adopted, Thursday week was fixed for the next meeting, and the Lodge was then closed.