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Evening Star, Issue 3786, 13 April 1875, Page 2

~ Davie, M. P.C., was a passenger by the.China, but remained in Melbourne for a few days. The following sentence in the leading article of the ‘ Tnapeka Times ’ of the 7th mst. is worth quoting. The writer is talking of the lamented death of Judge Gray “It must ever be a red letter day in the history of Lawrence that his Honor Judge Gray breathed his last In it” (I!). The writer may be weighed down with weight of woe, but, to quote the immortal Mr Chucks, he has “a blanked way of showing it.” Two hundred miles in twenty hours is not bad travelling. That is what a member of the ‘Bruce Herald ’ staff was able to accompush last week. By dint of expeditious driving, he came from Milton to Dunedin—-thirty-six miles—in three hours and ten minutes ; caught a steamer at Port Chalmers and was thus able to reach his destination—the Bluff—at eight o’clock the following morning. “ Larrikinism has now reached such a stage of development that the magistrates feel compelled to visit it with the utmost punishment the law allows. In one issue of the ‘ Age * to hand appear reports of five cases of larrikinism, in which the offenders were sent to gaol for terms of imprisonment varying from one to three months without the option of a fine, and in addition in some instances were ordered to find sureties for keeping' the peace. It appears we are not likely to be troubled with the presence in the Colony, so soon as was expected, of SuUivau, of Maungatapu ® o tt°ing the publication in th ® P°U ce Gazette* of Canterbury of a notification that should Sullivan voluntarily or otherwise land in New Zealand, he will be at once placed under strict police surveillance, and subjected to all the delicate accorded to one so circumstanced, the] Age says :—“ The fact is, our Government find it a difficult problem to get rid of the incumbrance. Power is, only given to convey him to the place from whence he came, and as this happened to be New South Wales, and as any overt; step of the character indicated would, beyond a doubt, lead to unpleasant complications between the two Colonies, the murderer is likely to remain in his present quarters in the Melbourne Gaol tor some considerable time to come.” Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr T. A. Mansford, R.M., Dennis Brodrick was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Mount street yesterday, and was ordered to pay a fine of ss, or, in default, to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours. He was further charged, upon the information of Dn, chief officer of the ship Margaret Galbraith, with disobedience of lawful commands on the 12th inat. Prom the evidence of the chief officer it appears he was ordered to lend a hand in pressing the wool on board the ship, when he refused, at the same time stating he would not press any more wool on board the ship. The accused, who bad nothing to say in defence, was sentenced to be imprisoned for four weeks, with hard labor.

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The officers and members of the late Scottish Company have determined to give a baU in the Drill-shed, on Friday, the 23rd inst. A special general meeting of the Otago Bailways Employes Society will be held to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock. From the printers--Messrs Mills, Dick, and Co—we have received the appendix to the votes and proceedings of the Provincial Council from 1861 to 1869. Mr Jewitt’s Stewart’s Island oysters, the first shipments of which have arrived, have proved of excellent flavor and quality. They remind one of the delicious class known in England as “ natives,” being equally well fed and plump. Some would even prefer them, as through not being artificially fed they possess the genuine relish.

The Oaversham Band of Hope held its regular meeting in the School-room on Friday evening. The president (Mr Morris), and Mr Thomas Yates (the treasurer), addressed the meeting on temperance and Band of Hope meetings. Several recitations were given by Miss Caroline Yates, Eliza Yates, Thomas Yates, Sarah and James Carline, John and Biohard Gulliford, Frank James, Miss Annie Blackwood, and Mrs Gulliford, the superintendent.