The Evening Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875.
In accordance with our usual custom, there will be no publication of the Evening Star to-morrow.
Judge Harvey is gazetted as District Judge for the Otago Goldfields. Mr Harvey is also appointed a Resident Magistrate for the Oamaru District, with extended jurisdiction.
The only case heard before Mr Bathgate, at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, this morning, was Baylee v. Steele and Keogh, a fraud summons lor L 57 Bs. Mr Joyce for plaintiff; Mr Turton for defendant. The case was adjourned for a week.
In consequence of the great anxiety displayed as to the fate of the schooner Euphrosyne, Mr M‘Lean has placed his yacht, the Jessie Nichol, at the disposal of the Government, and she has sailed under the command of Pilot Stephens to search for the Euphrosyne. The immigrants per ship Dallam Tower, from London to Wellington, arrived per Taranaki yesterday evening, and were conveyed to the Caversham Barracks this morning. Thirty-three of the number were transhipped to the Wanganui last night for Invercargill. The immigrants will be open for engagement at Caversham depbt on Saturday. The late Captain Pearce’s life was insured for LI,( 00 in the Australian Mutual, and the ‘ Post,’ speaking on the subject, says “ He was induced to insure by the sudden death of his follow commander, Caotain Rouse, of the Claud Manrlton. It will be remembered thiv: Air a house andfamily were left very badly off. Captain Pearce determined to guard against his family being similarly left, and so effected the insurance in question. It is stated that the Mr Clevo who went down in the Gothenburg was Mr Alfred Cleve, well known in mercantile and Volunteer circles in Dunedin.
If there are any sho.tcomings in our report ef to-day’s races, it must be laid to the account of the stewards, who, with great forethought, moved out our reporter from the only place on the course where there is convenience for writing—the weighing-out room—while they considered Mr M’Eay’s riding in the steeplechase. This line of conduct has been pursued before, to our great inconvenience, .nd there can be no valid reason for it At all other public meetings, where anything o? a private nature is discussed, reporters are merely requested not to make public what takes place- and are not ordered out of the room.
At a Bitting of the Supreme Court in banco this mornin his Honor Mr Justice Chapman granted a rule nisi to Mr Stewart, on behalf of defendants in the case Calder and Brother v. Brogden and Sons for a nonsuit, or in the alternative for a new trial, on the ground that the manner in which the case was put to the jury was calculated to mislead them. Mr Smith, on behalf of defendant in the ease North and Scoullar v. Powell, applied for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and of the verdict being against the weight of evidence. Hia Honor took time to consider the application. The Court then adjourned till Wednesday next. At twelve o’clock last night the fire-bells tolled out the alarm for a fire ait the Water of Leith, and with customary promptitude the Brigade, with their appliances, were on the scene, which proved to be a wooden bakery in Great King street, nearly opposite Marshall and Copeland’s Brewery. Bpfore (he Brigade’s arrival the brewery hands had hi ought their hosa to bear upon the flames, but their efforts and those of the Brigade could not save the building from destruction. The bakehouse was owned by Mr W. Uoyce and tenanted by Mr W. Campbell, who left it at nine o’clock, with a small fire burning in the oven, and intending to return at two this morning to commence the day’s operations. The damage is estimated at L 250. °
The cause of the terrible disaster to the emigrant ship Cospatrick, says the 4 New Zealand Herald,’ will perhaps be for ever shrouded in mystery. But will not the little episode that took place on Christmas Day on board the ship India, whilst on her voyage from London to Auckland, furnish a chuT? A number of sailors, comprising the starboard watch, were found to be intoxicated upon the watch being called out. It was discovered that they had been broaching the cargo, and several cases of wine and brandy were found to be emptied of their contents. The captain acted with firmness, and, in spite of their threats to take his life and to scuttle the ship, he had the ringleaders secured and confined till the arrival of the vessel, when he gave them into the charge of the water police.
A man named Samuel Hood, residing in A uckland, claims to have made a great medical discovery— nothing less, in fact, than a cure for cancer. He has issued the following invitation to the medical men of Auckland: — 4 ‘.Having discovered a new and effective cure for cancer, I take the liberty of begging yon to appoint a deputation to examine certain patients of mine who were pronounced by medical men as incurable cases of cancer of the womb, and who have been this sometime restored to perfect health. I beg to add that my preparation will not only cure cancer, but also ulceration of the womb, as I can show by a remarkable case that 1 w 11 submit to your examination." The ‘Southern Cross says that although Hood is an iIU-
terete man, the testimonials as to the sac* cess of his treatment are both numerous and genuine, and urges the medical men to accept his and investigate the matter. The ‘ Herald ’ gives the same advice, and speaks of Hood’s cures as marvellous.
Referring to the hitch in the construction of the Forbury Park Railway, the * New Zealand Times’ says no one is to blame but the promoters. If they had taken proper precautions there would have been no hitch whatever; but a railway waa to be built in four months without authority of law, and it waa to be completely equipped and open for traffic without possessing a ton of rails or any rolling stock, because the company not only required the use of the Government railway to make good its promise, but it required its rails and rolling stock as well. Let the shrewd business men of Otago consider this matter a little, and they will find more deserving objects of indignant censure than the Minister for Public Works, or his colleague, the senior member for Dunedin.
The following items are from yesterday’s * Waikouaiti Herald’:—The race meeting has been fixed for April 14.—As an instance of the productibility of the soil in this district, under such a favorable season as the past summer has been for the growth of cereals, we may mention that as high as 105 bushels of oats to the acre have been obtained in East Hawksbury, and 102 bushels were threshed from an acre paddock, the crop being the ninth in succession without manuring. We also hear from other parts of the district that as much as ninety bushels of oats have been the product, and the lowest average we have as yet beard has exceeded fifty bushels to the acre.—A ' magnificent trout was captured iu the Shag River on the IBth_ inst., Mr Qlasstord, of the National Bank.iPalmerston, again being the successful angler. The “ finny stranger” was caught a short distance below where the one we mentioned la«t week was taken by him. The dimensions of this fine trout (a male fish) were: -Length, 28in ; girth, 16in* and weight, 9Ub. The Church of England parishioners were unanimous in favor of the Rev. E. Williams as successor to the Rev. Mr Dasent, but, notwithstanding this, the nominators have appointed the Rev. E. H. Grainger. As yet we have beard of no opposition to Mr Geo. M'Lean in his candidature to represent the district in the General Assembly, in the room of Mr Gillies, resigned. The only local gentleman whose name has been associated with the election, is that of Mr T. Calcutt, and we (‘ Herald ’) learn on very good authority that Mr Calcutt has no intention of contesting the seat. In his parting address to the electors of Waikouaiti, Mr Gillies says, “Before sending in my resignation as your representative in the General Assembly, I had hoped to have been ab'e to arrange my public duties and private affairs so as to have enabled me to have met you personally. It was my desire that at a public meeting I should have given an account of m y. stewardship, and[ explained the reasons which have led to my resignation. This I may yet be able to accomplish; but as it would appear that there are those who are solely exercised in spirit lest I should not carry out my expressed intention, 1 feel constrained to forward my resignation without further delay. With regard to my action in the General Assembly, I may briefly claim that I did all that lay in my power for your local interests; and, in regard to matters of general policy, upheld those which during a long public career I have been an ardent supporter, and amongst which I may enumerate—Progress, with due regard to economy and efficiency—the settlement of the people on the Waste Lands of the Crown —the education of the rising generation —the extension of the permissive principle, both in regard to tfce working of our licensing laws and in. the development of local taxation, together with the desirability o? a complete and radical change from indirect to direct taxation as the mode of raising of onr public revenues. Other principles I might enumerate, but will only add that while I have .endeavored to do full justice to those rights which belong to property (and they are both many and important), I have neither been blind or silent in regard to the duties of property to the country—an aspect •f the question which, in my opinion, has been too little regarded by the people’s representatives.”
■ A te lfg r aph station is now open at Tokatea in the Province of Auckland.
Messrs M’Landress, Hepburn, and Co. >lll offer at their rooms, on Saturday next, at 2 0 clock, the township of Killarney, situate near Burke s brewery, We have received a copy of Dr BakewelTs pamphlet on 1 Some of the common causes of ? 5 ull ??^ ry sumption.” and from the Chief 1 ost Office some handy cards showing the dates of arrival and departure of the San Francisco and Suez mails, &c.
In addition to the sacred air, “ 0 rest in the Lord, Mias Christian will sing Brunton Stephens s Colonial National Anthem to-mor-tow evening (Good Friday). This will be Miss Christian a only appearance in sacred music in Dunedin. A great improvement has been effected ih the seating arrangements of the Temperance Hall for to-night.
A cricket match will be played on Good 1 nday between the firms of Messrs Asher and .Fulton and Co., timber merchants, wickets to be pitched at half-past twelve o clock. The following ate the names of the players Fulton and Co. : Collier, Bonny, Graham, Mitchell, George, M'Allister, Haigh Bussell, J. Russell, Stronach. Asher and Co. • Strachan, WeUs, J Aitcheson, W. Aitcheson, Williamson E. Williamson, Arthur, Graham Kennedy; Keenan, Tillett.
The Rev. Charles Clark will preach in the Jrnncesa Theatre on Sunday next, in aid of the funds of the Benevolent Institution. A meeting of those willing to act as a committee to make necessary arrangements in connection with the lecture will be held in the City Council Chambers on Saturday, at 11 a.m. We underetand that the lessees have given gratuitously the use of the theatre, and it is only necessary to remind the public that every pound contributed on hunday evening is equal to L 3 to the credit of the institution, as the Government gives a subsidy of L2 to LI.
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