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Evening Star, Issue 3754, 5 March 1875, Page 2

Although placed at the same disadvantage with our morning contemporary, the ‘Guardian,’ in respect to not being a recognised * Gazette ’ for the insertion of legal notices under the Bankruptcy Act, it is only just to his Honor Judge Chapman that the actual facts concerning the refusal to recognise any other journal than the ‘ Daily . 1 unes ’ should bo made public, as the ‘ Guardian ’ has unfairly charged what must be considered an unjustifiable preference upon him. When the Evening Star had a circulation of 1,400 instead of nearly 5,000 daily as now, application was made at’the Supreme Court to be appointed a Gazette in Bankruptcy. As it was not then con. sidered of equal value with the ‘Daily Times’ as an advertising medium for the district, perhaps it is not surprising that the application was refused. But time wont on, the circulation increased, and when the Morning Star was estab listed, as the town and country circulation together reached about three times that of the ‘Daily Times,’ the application was renewed. His Honor Judge Chapman, in reply, stated that a resolution had been passed by the Court of Appeal, determining that only one journal in a bankruptcy district should be constituted a gazette in bankruptcy. A s the editor of the Morning and Evening Star considered the monopoly thus given to one journal, and that second in importance to that which he conducted, was unfair to himself and the community, ho addressed the following letter to the Court of Appeal, under date May 13, 1873. The letter was laid before the Court by his Honor Judge Chapman :

To the Judges assembled iu the Court of Appeal A our Honors,— 11

IJi.ue the honor to draw your attention to the ellem ol u resolution passed at the last sitting of the Gour, o. .appeal, and to lequost your Honors to remew to its being rescinded lire resolution, I am informed, was that only one .journal m each district should be an authorised °1- of legal notices under tie Bankruptcy Act. The consequence of this has , £*r n exc ' u( lo troni the autlfbrised journals, the Star, a paper ha ving the largest circulation in Now aml giVe tO , ‘ Dail y Tim es,’ with -aiclj uioio than one turd of its circulation, a monopoly to which it can have no other claim than tliat of pre-occupation ot the ground. I may remind y oiu Honors that this monopoly appears the more unjust because-the resolution dobs Hot appear llU mV °r. J T etiect . in any other distnot. In Auckland boili morning joiu-nals enioy equal privileges, iu Clinstchurch the same • iu Dimedm during the short lived existence of the ‘ Sun ’ newspaper, some four years’ ago, the same advantages were conferred upon it and the ‘ Doily Times ’ Weekly journals circulating in various districts of Otago have legal notices published in them and tins journal, the most widely circulated, both ill the town and country, of any newspaper in the Province is excluded. ' ’

1 had the honor to apply to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and to his Honor Judge Chapman requesting.that the Star, of which a morning and evening edition are published, should be proclaimed an authorised ‘ Gazette,’ when his Honor, whom I have to thank for his courtesy, brought the rcsoluwon of the Court ot Appeal under notice. I trust now that your Honors are in possession of the facts! you will either rescind a resolution so partial in its ‘it So r ftu ; l ’ ela * ay to B ive permission to tkoJudge of Otago to constitute the Morning and Evening Star a ‘Gazette’ under the Bankruptcy Act.

A reply was received from the clerk of the Court of a ppea!, declining to alter the regulation. We, with the ‘Guardian,’ regard the regulation a 3 unjust, but we cannot alow a mis-statement tending to fix the charge of injustice upon his Honor Judge Chapman to pass uncoutradicted. It will be

seen that his refusal was merely carrying into effect a resolution, passed, we believe, when v..vs not prosm 4- .

*1 ho Iliberi icon drew another crowded homo to the Temperance Hall last evening, wh-u a new programme was moat successfully gone thiough.

At the Caversham Immigration Dep6b today t-u single women were engaged as domestic servants at from L 26 to L3O, One married couple obtained L 65, and found. About twenty men have gone to work on the railway. There are now in the barracks forty-eight families and a* out a dozen single girls.

We learn that a man named George Robinson, who was sentenced yesterday, at Port Chalmers, by Mr Hansford, R.M., to three days’ imprisonment with hard labor, in Dunedin goal, for drunkenness, was conveyed to the hospital shortly after his admission into gaol, as he was suffering from delirium tremens, and had one of the bones of right hand broken during his drunken carousal at Perc Chalmers.

Mr John Reid, Elderslie, writes to the ‘North Otago Times’s—lt may be of interest to some of your “farmer friends” to know the yield of the black Norwegian oats which I got from Australia two years ago. I commenced thrashing a 350 acre paddock of them a few days ago. The first fifteen hours’ thrashing gave 480 bags of first and second, the total averaging four bushels per bag, and at the rate of ninety’six bushels per acre for the space cleared. Some parts of the field grew a denser crop .than what is now thrashed.

Another moa story is telegraphed from Christchurch. It is not Smythe this time, bjjt a ‘‘reliablecorrespondent,” who tells the ‘ Globe he has discovered moa tracks at Oxford Bush, which is about forty miles from Christchurch. Three people are alleged to have seen the footprints, each measuring Sir, distance between each footprint 7ft to 9.t, and that they followed the tracks half a mile. We wonder if the two literary wits, to whos; inventive genius we owe the Glenmark hoax, have had any hand in the concoction of this latest moa yarn ?

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr Mansford, R.M., George Adams was again placed in the dock. Yesterday he was ordered to pay a fiae of 20s for drunkenness, but he returned from Dunedin, the fine having been paid, and on entering his house commenced to threaten his wife, telling her he would either kill her or himself, for “ revenge was sweet." After hearing the evidence of accused's wife, his Worship ordered him to find bail in two sureties of LlO each and himself in L 25, to be of good behaviour and keep the peace for s>x mouths.

Mr and Mrs Case re-oponedat the Queen’s Theatre last night for a very short season, uamdy only tinee nights. There was a splendid house and the new characters Mrs Case introduced to the audience were received with great applause. Mrs Major the domineering mother-in-law of .dr Case; Sprouts, the greengrocer; Mangles, the upholsterer; and Maggie M'Dougall, the servant who engages her master, were perhaps the best delineated in the first part of the entertainment; while in tue second severs.! excellent novelties were in* troduced. Mr Case was as capital as ever in his part of the performance, and excited the v.suaiyiowe by his solos on the concertina and violin.

A serious accident occurred this morning at the reclamation works at the new pier Port Chalmers. A young man named Adam Gray was standing on the bumper of one of the empty trucks, which was being drawn by horse, and was in the act of jumping off when his left foot caught the metal rails, and the wheel passing over his left toes swung him round, and the wheel then passed over h;s thigh. He was immediately picked up and taken into the shed, where an examination of his injuries was made by Drs Drysdale and O’Donoghue, who found that his thigh was broken. After bandaging the man a thigh, the medical men ordered his removal to the Dunedin Hospital, where he was taken by the 1.30 tram.

At the Tokomairiro Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, John Droughaa was charged with stealing a silver lever watch, value LIO, from the person of Thomas Casserly From the evidence it appeared that prisoner had some time previously been made a present of a cheap guard chain, and had subsequrntly taken the watch. Prisoner was committed for trial at the next sittings of the district court to be held at Tokomairiro on April 19, Droughan was received into the Dunedin gaol at noon to-day. There are at present fourteen prisoners for trial at the ensuing sessions of the Supreme Court, via. one for rape, one for attempt at rape, one for arson, two for manslaughter, one for wound* ing with intent, two for murder, and six for felony.

The Lancashire Lass ” was repeated at the Princess’ last evening, but owing to Miss htoneham’s indisposition, the part of Tiddy Draglethorpe had to be undertaken by Mrs Stoneham. The piece will be again played to-night, and to-morrow night the Sisters Rosilie and Heloise Duvalli make their first appearance in a ballet comedietta, entitled Magic Toys.” The ladies are first class danseuses, and as such have established themselves as firm favorites wherever they have performed. The ‘Argus’ speaks of them m the warmest terms for their “ danomg, a certain smart lively kind of acting, and what may be termed the elegancies of acrobatism.” The ladies will be assisted by their husbands, of whom only Mr Charles Hall is known to us, and him we remember as a good singer and conscientious and useful actor.

A gang of twenty-two prisoners, in charge of Sergt. Duncan, commenced work tp-day at the rear of the Immigration Barracks at Caveraham. The material they excavate is conveyed in trucks and brought to town by the engine, and deposited at the extension of Rattray street jkty. V. r c understand thet uhis work tvi ’ I tj.• ■ a d a oa v r i y expodit ously b} three relays of waggons, oue at the fin, La.tray street jstty, oue rn the road to Cavcrsham, and the third tilled by the prism gang. The following was the distribution of prison gan a to-day At Bell Hill, 30: at the Botanical Gride ns, 15 ; at Port Chalmers, 20 ; and at Cave; sham, 22. At ih* tradesmen’s shops -AtBMl Hill were 2 smiths, 3 caipouters ; at (he gaol shops, 1 tai.or, 2 shoemakers, and 1 barber; and -o females at knitting, sewing, and washmg ; not including men awaking trial At a public meeting at Ba’clutha on Monday last, it was agreed to appoint a district railway committee to urge upon the Government the necessity of opening up tho main I'rfi °* r ‘ ulwa y or traffic between the Chain , l ls au!i Clulha Biver at the earliest possi bie date ; to provide a temporary station at the Baldutha termims within the muni ip dity, so as to save the extra cost of road traffic to and from Balclutha and the terminus at the township of Stirling; and to urge the immediate completion of the survey ri° 4.1- , P ro P°Bed line from Bilclutha to Oatlm s river. It was stated by the Mayor of Balclutha, who occupied the chair, that be was in receipt of information that the Government intended at once to proceed with the survey of the line of railway to Gatlin s j iver. The meeting, by a vote of 16 to ii, negatived a proposition to request the i fi rants ’ barracks at

The Railway Employ4s Benefit Society, of which Mr Coynera is president, Mr Alex. Gr.iac, the traffic manager, vice-president.* Mr Batson, station-master at Dunedin, trea sure:-, and Mr Clifford, secretary, held a general meeting last evening, in the waiting iO' ra of the Dunedin Station, when Mp **” Armstrong, the new manager of railv,_ v * who assumes control of the departr*- en *. S ’ Mr Conyers’s retirement at the er month, was introduced. Dr MurnW if]! been appointed medical office ~ of the society! The advisability of a branch society at Invercargill was discussed and the matter postponed. f or three months,’ as it was intimated that Mr Armstrong wouhi consult with the railway officials in Southl3 8 hIS next u visit to that district. The society now numbers seventy ordinary members, and gentlemen sympathising with the movement can assist by becoming honorary members on payment of a guinea sub--1 mmbS Ther ° Me alfeady ® ight honorar y It is generally supposed that agreements m writing between masters and servants require no stamp. This is by no means certain, as the question was raised in a recent civil Sltwf re i Parker * R>M -' of Oamaru, which the local paper reports. It was an action brought to recover Lll 16s 8d for wages under written agreement to serve on Ben Ohou station for twelve months as shepherd, «c., and wife as domestic servant. Durmg the progress of the case, Mr j -A i® objected to the agreement being admitted in evidence, as it was unstamped, pointing out that although it was evidently the intention of the Legislature to exempt such documents from duty under the head of instruments not otherwise charged in Schef a } e A* ct! l an gu»ge of the Act failed to exempt them from the one shilling duty, as agreements in that schedule referred to are that they are only exempt from the duty charged upon deeds or instruments not otherwise charged in Schedule I. Mr Parker thought there was something in the contention, but rather than cause delay, which consideration of the point involved, defendants counsel waived his objection and the case was heard on its merits. To make assurance doubly sure masters and servants should have a sufficient stamp affixed, until such time as the doubts exist mg on the point be cleared up*

Tipperary, with a curious sense of logic has returned to Parliament a man who is ah together opposed to the principles of Irish members sitting in the Imperial Parliament, and who considers that the only remedy for Irish wrongs in 1875 is the course which was adopted m ’4B. Mr John Mitchell, in the course of a lecture delivered in America shortly after his return from Ireland, says : course of procedure will have to be taken somewhat like O’Oonnell’a course in ’4B that of withdrawing from Parliament. We must strip off the mask of those oonstitu tienal rulers of ours. They are ruling Ireland with bayonets ; and, though there is a soft kind of drapery hanging over the bayonets, we know the points are there. I am for pulling up the ourtain, and letting us see the bare, shining steel. We know we are governed by bayonets; and the first thing to do is to destroy the pretence that we are submitting to, namely, that we are sending men to vote laws to govern us, when we know it is not law that governs na but bayonets. Now, what is to follow, once we destroyed that pretence ? I cannot tell. We have various chances for our country that may arise from time to time; but our best reliance is upon those that I have said —the quiet, resolute masses. They are the power, not only in that country, but in this country. They are strong, watching the first moment that they can have a chance to co-operate with any enemy of England. 1 confess, then, that the conclusion I have come to from all my observations in Ireland during this late visit of mine is this—that the best force, the best power, now existing in Ireland is that which is designated by the three mystic letters ‘1.R.8.’ If lam rightly informed, and if I am to judge from my own conjecture, I rather suspect that ‘ bears some kind of affinity or consanguinity to the ‘Clan-na-Gael.”’ ■

A bazaar, in aid of St. Matthew’s Church, will be held about the end of April. Fifteen new boarders have entered the Sailors Home this week. Sixteen have left, shipped. There are now eighteen inmates at the Home. Three donations of books have been received during the week.

tSo m l id ?°li j°* Ho P® Juvenile Lodge, ilnt rts annual meeting in the Milton Hall last evening, when there was a good muster of members and visitors. After the candidates in waiting were admitted to the order, the V.T. recited “ The Templar Army.” A vote of thanks was accorded to the visitors.