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Evening Star, Issue 3797, 26 April 1875, Page 3

There will shortly be issued from the Press here a book of travel, by M r H. A. Cowper, entitled, “ Five Years in the West Indies.” The remaining common jury case, Leary v. Walker, having been settled, the trial of special jury cases will be proceeded with tomorrow, commencing with Barrowman v. Stevens, Macpherson v Shaw, will be taken on Wednesday. By the Timaru arrived a box containing a thousand trout eggs and a thousand char eggs, tho gift to the Colony of Mr Parnaby, of Troutdalc fishery, Keswick, and tboie are to bo forwarded to Dunedin. But very little business was done at the Immigration Barracks on Saturday and today. The engagements effected were:—Three ploughmen at L 52 per annum; four female servants, one at L3O, two at L2O, and one at Us per week ; a married couple for station at LSO per annum, and a boy at 7s per week. Thirty men will be forwarded to Oamaru by the Maori to-morrow. To-day the Hon. Major Atkinson, accompanied by Mr F. M'Glashan, visited tho Boys’.and Girls’ High Schools, the Albany street School, the Botanical Gardens, and the Reservoir. The latter was found to be very low, there being but seventeen feet of water in the well. The hon. genth man expressed himself greatly pleased with the condition of the three educational establishments. The police have been making quite a raid on persons who at one time held licenses, but, having lost them, it is believed have secretly carried on sly-grog traffic. To detect these persons two recent arrivals were sworn in as revenue-constables onthe.7th inst., and immediately after pounced upon a number of unsuspecting parties, all of whom have been summoned to the Police Court. Last week two men were each fined L2O and costs, and today two more were fined in a like amount. Four cases are to be decided to-morrow.