The Evening Star TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3757, 9 March 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1875.

The Duvallis are, to-night, to appear in a new entertainment, entitled “,The Shah of Persia.”

JgWe are obliged to hold over our reports of the Harbor Board, Port Chalmers Town Council, correspondence, and ether matter. Mr John Robert Sinclair was this day admitted and enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

The formal commencement of the Port Chalmers waterworks is to be marked by a public demonstration on Monday, the 15th instant.

A public meeting, is to be held at Port Chalmers “to hear the explanation of the Port Chalmers representatives at the Harbor Board relative to the proceedings of that body. The Hibernicon Troupe have now entered on their second week, but their popularity shows no signs of diminishing. Last evening they submitted an entire change of programme, and the Temperance Hall was well tilled in all parts.

Intimation of the scratching of Flying Dutchman for all his engagements at the forthcoming Dunedin meeting was telegraphed to town yesterday afternoon by his owner Mr Coombes. From to-day’s ‘ Bruce Herald ’ we learn that the horse broke down yesterday morning in doing his customary gallop, fracturing his near fore-leg, and it is thought the j jint is irretrievably injured at the pastern.

At the Athenasum Committee’s meeting last night attention was drawn to a number of books which had been on the library shelves for years and are considered obscene. The Library Committee were appointed to report upon the desirability of removing such looks, and pending report they have been withdrawn from circulation. The Rev. Mr Stanford, Messrs Stout and Sale were appointed a committee to report on all recommendations appearing in the suggestion book.

The following telegram has been received from Hokitika by Messrs Webb and Fulton, from the working manager of the Kanieri Lake Water Race Company: “An important rush has set in to ground near the Hau Hau, which is commanded by the Kanieri Lake water race. The prospectors bottomed in seven feet washdirt, giving a result of a pennyweight to seven dishfulls. The ground is pegged out for a distance of over two miles. The race commanding the ground enhances the former’s Value greatly.”

The first of the meetings for United Prayer was held in the Wesleyan Church last night. The meetings were postponed from January 4, at which time they were observed by most Christians. Rev. Mr took the chair, and Dr Copland gave an address on “ Thanksgiving and confession of sin to God.’ Mr Wright led the singing, which was well rendered by the congregation. The subject for to-night is “ The Family, the Home, Day and Sunday Schools, and Seats of Learning.” Chair to be taken by Rev. Mr Gow. Hardly any business of importance was transacted at the monthly meeting of the Education Board yesterday. A second pupil-teacher was appointed to the Mornington school and- one to the North-east Valley school, and the salary of the schoolmistress at Bluespnr, to which a pupil-teacher was also allowed, raised toL7S a-year. A school was sanctioned at Glenkenich, and in reply to a deputation from Pine HUI, who urged the claims of that district for a school, it was explained that the Board was willing to give a teacher with a salary of L 75 a-year, but had no funds to erect a school building, nor dwuld they proceed further without a vote from the Provincial Council. The following were reported to have passed examination very creditably as third-class teachers: ■—J. H. Chapman, Middle School, Dunedin ; Joseph Scoullar, South School, Dunedin • P O. Duthie, Highcliffe School ; Miss A.’ s’ Shand, East Taieri ; Miss J. Hill, Dunedin • Mr J. Glasgow, Dunedin; Miss M. Lanemuir Caversham; Miss W. A. Sinclair, Bluoskm; and Miss S, Smith, Long Bush. As probationers, Mr J. Lumsden, Mr J Murdoch, and Miss Cooke, all of Dunedin! qualified themselves. Two failed to pass. - M, be , • North Dunedin Rifles will meet at tbeir anil-shed at 8 o clock to-morrow evening, for Government inspection, A specia! summoned meeting of the Court Pride of the Leith, A.0.F., will be held tomorrow evening, at 8 o’clock. A summoned meeting of the Court Pride of Dunedin wifi beheld in the South Australian Mall, Princes street, this evening, at 8 o’clock. According to advertisement ameeting was held at the District Hall, Moraington, to hear a lecture from a working man on total abstinence. Ihere was a very good attendance, and the Jecturer was loudly applauded at its conclusion, ihe chairman, Mr Hardie, intimated that it was the intention of the committee of the Band of Hope to have such lectures periodically. During the evening Miss Crow and another lady favored the audience with recitations.