The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3770, 24 March 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1875.

We are obliged to hold over correspondence and other matter. The of the passengers’ carriages for the main line of railway has been put in running order, and to-day a trial trip was made from Oamaru to the Awamoko function. Alluding to the dispute between the General Government and the Forburj Park Company, the ‘Bruce Herald ’ says “We fancy that there will but few who, in this matter, will not support the action of the General f. ovemment m compelling a number ot shareholders to legally establish their right to run trains, or to open a railway for the running of trains, before they propose to buy and sell,.or treat with the Government 1 ay, more, remembering how much private euteiprise in the way of one line of failwav has already cost the Province and Colony we do not think any regret will be expen ©need at the temporary damper put upon the private enterprise to take people by rail to the Dunedin t races,”

At the sittings of the District Court, held at Oamaru'on Saturday, Thomas Gibson (27), who has only been nine months’ in the Colony, was sentenced to twelve, months’ hard labor for laiceny ; and Robert Parkins (41), about a twelvemonth in the Colony, pleaded guilty to stealing a watch from Lis mate, at Hampden, and received a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment. Edward May (34), for stealing a watch, was sen* tenced to nine months’ imprisonment. A man named Joseph Wansbone met with a revere accident at Otopopo on the 21st inst It appears that he went o»t rabbit shooting, and when climbing a hill laid bis gun down, which was at full cock, whi'e he jnmped on to a rock. As soon as he gob on top of the rock, he reached down an i grasped the gun by the muzzle. He then endeavored to draw it up towards him, and while in the act of doing so some grass or weed caught the trigger, and the gun went off, the whole ef the contents lodging in his left arm. The wound is a very bad one. At Oamaru, on Sunday last, the Rev. Lather Donovan, referring to the circumstance of the omission of the toast of “ The Pope” at the St, Patrick’s Day celebration of the Hibernian Society, stated that those who, having the control of the arrangements, consented out of de ? erence to any individual to such a course, were neither Catholics nor Irishmen. We (‘North Otago Times’) are sorry that Father Donovan should have felt it his duty to take any exception to the liberal course taken on the occasion referred to, as we hold that Catholicism, or say Homan Catholicism, is per r ectly compatible with loyalty to the Queen and with the patriotism of Irishmen, Next Friday being Good Friday, the usual monthly meeting of the Permanent Building Society of Otago has been postponed till Tuesday evening. It will be seen by the advertisement that the Rev. Charles Clark will lecture to night at the lemperance Hall, when Miss Christian will also appear, for the first time in Dunedin.