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The letters of “A Member of the D.C C.” and other correspondents are unavoidably held over. The opening performance of the Girards at the Queen’s Theatre last night was witnessed by a crowded audience, to whom the efforts of the dancers appeared to give the utmost satisfaction. Aa, owing to other engagements, our reporter was unable to visit the theatre last night, we must defer until tomorrow any lengthened notice of this novel entertainment.

The popularity of the Circus seems to be on tbe increase. Last night there was another full attendance, and a complete change of programme. Gilliam’s clever riding, the gymnastic feats, best of all Gonzales’s wonderful leap and somersault over nine horses, and the steeplechase which wound up the entertainment, and was taken partin by almost every member of the troupe, could not fail to please.

I hero was a very numeious response to tlie invitation by handbill to the members of St. Joseph’s congregation to meet in the school-room last evening “ with the view of eliciting an expression of feeling with regard lo strictures published in the columns of the ‘ Daily Times ’ on the conduct of the Very Rev the Vicar-General,” but in view of the legal proceedings that have been instituted, it was deemed inadvisable to elicit any expression of opinion. We hear that the Rev Father Coleman claims LI,OOO damages, A serious accident occurred at the railway works at Clark’s Flat, near Lawrence, on Saturday. James Ross, overseer of the gang working at the flume cutting, between Waitahuna and Lawrence, was the sufferer. A blast having missed fire, ho proceeded to clean out the hole, and while doing so the charge exploded. Ross was thrown up into the air, and fell over the face into a waggon placed below. Ry the explosion the upper part of his clothing was torn completely off. He was immediately conveyed t© the hospital at Lawrence, where his hurts were attended to by the resident surgeon.

At the last Women’s Congress at Chicago on the subject of dress, a new style was being discussed, in which stays or corsets should not exist. One lady roie and asked, " What she was to do, when, after an enormous strain upon her system, she had to come upon the platform* with ‘an all-gone feeling. ’ ” She was forced to wear corsets as a remedy, aud could not stand without this extraneous support. Somebody suggested she should take wine, but the reply was that she had tried wine and egg after fainting four times on the platform in one day, and though It stimulated for the time the reaction was very exhausting. It is not often we hear of the use of the corset urged, especially by such novel arguments. The accident to one of the daughters of the Rev. A. D. Kiuniraoat, who will be recollected as having occupied the pulpit of the First Church for a short time, was a very sad one, and had fatal a termination. On Sunday, the 30th January, she had occasion to go to the kitchen, and, while there, a cinder fell from the fire and ignited her muslin dress. She had just relumed from teaching her class in afternoon Sunday school, and had not even removed her gloves. Her dress quickly blazed up, and she rushed screaming into the parlor, where her mother and the Rev. Mr Ballantyne, of Brighton, were. They quickly proceeded to extinguish the flames, but not before the very gloves were burned off her hands. The unfortun -te girl lingered in great agony, and died on the 11th inst.

At the adjourned sitting of the Tohomairiro and Clutha District Court, Janus Reid, butcher, late of Balclatha, a bankrupt, applied for his final order of discharge, which was opposed. His Honor gave judgmeat suspending the bankrupt’s order of discharge for two years—generally on the grounds that the whole course of the bankrupt’s career in connection with his trading in Baldutha, and also at the Taieri, from whence he came to the Clutha, had been a systematic course of egregious swindling, end particularly on the ground that ha had brought himself under the clause of the Bankruptcy Act by neglecting to tile hia declaration of insolvency, he having b.en clearly insolvent when ho left the Taieri in December last. Hia Honor {'ho Bruce Herald’ adds) also made certain remarks upon the present unsatisfactory state of the law under the new “ Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Act, 1874.”

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Evening Star, Issue 3745, 23 February 1875, Page 2

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Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3745, 23 February 1875, Page 2

Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3745, 23 February 1875, Page 2

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