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Evening Star, Issue 3793, 21 April 1875, Page 2

The boy Wm. M'Kenxio, who was some tims since injured hy a truck loaded with material frem Pitt street knocking him dome and pas: ling ever him, died yesterday.

re *y e , no/W only two criminal oases awaiting trial at this sessions ; and In both the prisoners are Chinese—Regina v. Ah Toi for larcsny, will be taken after Bissett’a case; and Regma r. Tsong Tsi, weundiag with intent, en M onday next.

The Superintendent of Auckland has made application for the police of the Province of Auckland to he transferred from the General Government to the Provincial ant rities, to which the Colonial Government haa consented, and ar ajigements for the transfer are now being nude. The circumstance of the prisoner Blssett, now being tried for manslaughter, net being defended, excited the surprise of the Chief Justice, who observed that if he had seen in Court a member of the bar i costume, he would have appealed te him 10 undertake the man’s defence. We may mention that Messrs Stesvart and Taylor gratuitous! \ defended Walters last week.

The whole of the prisoners convicted at the present sessions, with the exception of Mary Fleming, are to be brought up on Saturday morning and re-sentenced. It ap pears that in sentencing them his Honor ordered their confinement in “ her MaieafcvV Gaol” at Dunedin, and to avoid any po2i bility of the sentences of the hard labor prisoners being questioned hereafter, he will on Saturday order them to be imprisoned “in the public prison at Dunedin,” which was the gaol designated by him in sentenciutMary Fleming. 6

London Assurance,” as presented at the Princess's last evening, was, on the whole a highly creditable performance. Miss Howan. made a dashing Lady Gay, and delivered with great spirit the familiar description #f an exciting hunt. She was most ably assistod by Messrs Steele and Musgrave, who in their respective characters of Dasslo ana Sir Harcourt Courtley could not have been improved upon; while a word of praise is justly due to Mr Power for his assumption of Dolly Spanker. To-night, for Miss Howard’s benefit, “ The School for Scandal” will be produced.

The eagerly-expected Timarn, with the salmon ova, pat in an appearance at the Bluff late last night, hut with ecarlet fever and typhus on board, which have rendered her detention in quarantine necessary Nevertheless, the ova will be at once transferred from the ehip’s hold into a steamer and conveyed without delay to the breeding ponds at Wallaoetown, where it will bo unpacked. The success or otherwise of the shipment will then be ascertained; but there is every reason to fear from the length ©f the Timaru’e voyage, 108 daye, that very few oJ the thousands shipped will be hatched The Oamam correspondent of the * Waifcaagi Tribune’ writes:—“Mr Menlove, of Windsor Park, Waiareka, deserves well of me country. He has made his farm produce this season 120,000 bushels of grain I No welder that the Oamaru people should throng to church on Thanksgiving Day. No wonder that the fortunate grower should, in return for such bounties, be liberal in his offering towards building up a temple to the “Lord of the harvest.” He had 2,800 acres of grain this year ; his white crop next year will be rather less iu extent, but he will have 1,300 acres of rape for stook feeding, and is now sowing on his ploughed stubbles 708 aores of Rnglish grasses and clovers.”

Prom the official meteorological report for Mareh it appears that the mean height of thp barometer at the Dunedin Observe!»*y wm 29 792 in.; the highest reading being 30.340 on the 10th, and the lowest 26.917 on the Ist. The mean temperature of the air was 56.9, the greatest heat in the shade being 72 on the llth, the greatest cold at S5 on the 23r<L The total range of temperature in the shade was, therefore, 37 the mean daily range being 1,4. The maximum sotar radiation was 144 on the 3rd. the minimum terrestrial radiation 33 on the 23rd The extreme range between the reading of exposed thermometers was, therefore, 79. The total rainfall was i.910. It Ml an ten days, the maximum rainfall in any twenty fear hours being 0.680iu. on the 14th. £ and W. winds mostly prevailed. The moan diurn.d horizontal movt-mont of the air wa, 136 miles, a#d the maximum vdtailtv the month 466 miles, -on the 22ndv V

At this moraines meeting of the Waste Land Board there wa* read and adopted, in addition te the business reported in this issue, the report of the committee appointed by the Board to inquire into the sale of certain. sections of land at Reidstown, A long discussion ensued with reference to the duties and responsibility of the- Board, but we are compelled to hold over our report of the matter.

A number of Captain Peek's friends, and other residents of the Port, proceeded outside the Heads yesterday afternoon in the tog Geelong, to bid farewell to the captain oft the ship Waitara. Amongst those on board the tug was a boy named Andrew Donald, and while the steamer was alongside the ship outside, he by some means managed to get on board the Waitara and to secrete himself without being observed. His absenoe fr m the steamer was not remarked , until she was some distance ina de the Beads, and then, of oourse, it was too late to think of overhauling the ship, which was standing away with a fa’r breeae The motive of the boy is supposed to have been a wish to join his father, who is in the old country on some business relating to an inheritance.

This morning a deputation of inhabitants of the Inch Clutha district waited upon the Superintendent with the object of petitioning the Government to erect a bridge over the Vlatau branch of the Clutba river, to join the island with the main land. Amongst the members of the deputation were Mr H Jlark, M. (\O. for Matau; Mr Henderson, M.P.O. for Clutha; and Mr J. L. wilder-, M.P, 0. f<>r Milton. Mr Clark handed the petition, signed by 160 residents, to hi<Honor, and urged the importance of the matter, as the present accommodation was totally inadequate to the growing wants of the district. Ihe only way for the farmers 0 send their produee to market was by sea. and the movements of the steamers were sc irregular that quantities ef giain used to 1 till it rotted. Besides, only on - third of the islaud was cultivated, owiti. to the impossibility of transporting pro luce, and if the bridge were granted ihe remaining land would be put in crop, A bridge would bring in a considerable amount tellage, more (Mr Clark was of opinion) than enough to meet the interest on the cost of it. It was proposed to erect the bridee near where the railway strikes the river, and he hoped the Government would see its way to grant the request ef the petitioners. His Honor j The application is similar to last year’s. Mr Clark ; Every year the urgency is more apparent. Mr Gillies :We consider nothing has been dene fer this district, as compared with the north and south of the Province; we have waited very patiently, but no Government money was spent there. His Honor thought the district had not been neglected. The Government were now engaged in framing the estimates for the ootnin year, and it was evident that soma of the intended works would have to be cut down greatly. If the Government could borrow money, there was no doubt the bridge would be undertaken by the Government; but it was impossible to make bricks without straw, and they were not flash of m nay Last year the Government spent > 70,000 more than it received. Supposing the overnment did mot see its way clear to erect the bridge, would not the Road Bard be inclined to do so f A member said they would not get power te. They had calculated on the receipt of L 1,500 -or at least Ll,ooo—pemnum from traffic over the bridge, and thought the Government should carry out the matter, flii Honor said he would bring the petition urgently before the Executive? The district was entitled to a fair share of . the amount to be laid out on public works, hut whether that would come to L 5,600 remained to be seen.

A lecture will be delivered in the lower hall of the Athsnseum to-morrow evening by Mr 8,. Stout, in aid of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund of the Leith Lodge, 1.0.0. F. The title of the lecture is “ The Future,” and in the hands of Mr Stout it is sure to be made a very interesting subject. The chair will be taken at eight o’clock sharp, by Mr B C. Haggitt, who is Past Grand Master of th Order.

A ‘Bradshaw’s Guide’ for New Zealand is about to be issued from the press. If the publisher fulfils his promise to furnish a monthly guide, similar—as far as circumstances will permit—to the well-known ‘ Bradshaw ’ of the mother-country, containing time tables, compiled with every possible regard to accuracy and from inlormotion obtained from authentic sources only, of all railways, coaches, steamers, &c. t &0., with, full information regarding postal and telegraphic arrangements, general. Provincial,and municipal Governments; publi.institutions, banks, insurance companies, complete descriptive itinerary, &c., he will confers very great boon on the mercantile and trave ling public and be sure to meet with substantial support. *