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Evening Star, Issue 3797, 26 April 1875, Page 2

Several correspondents’ letters are uuavoidably held over. . P ar agraph appeared iu the LI 'a T, meß OQ ® day last week:- r Hardy Johnston, marine engineer, left in the I hoe be on Tuesday to pay a visit to Otag > iu connection with the proposed Kaka> ui harbor works. It is probable that the pr. . posed survey of Dunedin harbor will also occupy Mr Job os ion’s attention.

The football match on Saturday, between sides chosen by the captain (Mr A. K. i-mith) and the deputy-captain (Mr J. C. Thomson), resulted in a draw, neither side succeeding in scoring a goal. The criminal session was brought to a close to-day. There were seventeen cases set down for trial; and of these convictions were obtained in nine, there were seven acquita’a, and the Grand Jury ignored one bill. The Queensland Government has applied to the Commissioner of Annuities here for full particulars relative to the working of Life Assurance in this Colony, with a view of introducing a similar system in Queensland. The Working Men’s Club committee have confirmed the action of the sub-committee re the formation of the Club, and appointed a sub committee to take immediate steps to fit op the premises already secured for Club purposes. Mr F. Napier Bro nm, well known in Canterbury and other parts of the Colony, has been appointed Colonial Secretary for Natal. Mr Broome was principal descriptive writer for the ‘Times,’after Or Hussell, and is married to Lady Baker, the editress of ‘Evening Hours.’ Miss May Howard completed a thoroughly successful three weeks’ engagement at the Princess’s on Saturday evening, when she played Nancy iu “ Oliver Twist,” to the satisfaction of a full house. To-night Mr nd Mrs Hoskins make their re-appearance in “The Serious Family” and “The Jealous Wife.” This morning police constable Coffey, stationed t Port Chalmers, arrested a man named Alexander Crossman on a charge of committing an assault upon a female named Lockett, in Dunedin on the 23rd instant Accused was conveyed to Dunedin, and will be brought up at the City Police Court tomorro o g. It would appear from a notice given in the l egislative Council of New South Wales, by Mr Samuel, for the production of certain papers, that a correspondence bad been commenced between Mr George R. Dibbs, on the part of the Pacific Mail Company, and Mr Parkea, on the subject of the San Francisco and New South Wales and New Zealand mail service. The first of the Saturday evening concerts under the auspices of the Good Templars, hold in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Saturday evening, was largely attended and decidedly successful The Mayor, who presided, addressed some well-chosen remarks to the company, and expressed the hope that the committee would succeed in its intention te provide two hours’ rational amusement. The following instances of the indepeuddence of servants in Auckland are vouched by the ‘Cross':—“Master, sitting with friend in parlor : * John, I want another jug of water.’ Servant: * Why thin, if you had to carry the wather as far as I have, you wouldn’t dhrink so much av it.’ Young lady to maid-of-all-work : ‘ If you don’t wash pa’s collars cleaner, I shall put them back to the wash without being worn.’ Servant; *lf your father would wash his neck clean, his collars would not be so dirty, Miss.’ ”

In a letter in the ‘ Amw Observer’ appears a statement that the Catholics of Queenstown have introduced the secular system of education into their a hool The writer says the number attending Mr Sproul’s school is seventy, of whom thirty-five are net Catholics, but “belong to otherdenominations, and therefore no religious teaching whatever is introduced during school hours but before and after that time a bell is rung to summon the Catholic children to short devotional exercises, after which others are admitted.”

A very singular action for libel is said to be new pending against the ‘ Southern Cross,’ in Auckland. Some time ago a young girl named Cecilia Allen was arrested on a charge of incendiarism, said to have been confessed. Prior to her trial the ‘ Cross,’ in a must unjustifiable article, endeavored to excite public feeling against the child, asserting her guilt, and regretting that such a dangerous creature could not be “chloroformed out of existence.” This article excited general disgust throughout the Colony, and the want of feeling and bad taste it exhibited were loudly condemned in Auckland. When the girl was brought to trial she was acquitted, it being proved that she could not possibly have committed the crime charged. The ‘Cross’ however, instead of apologising and retracting, made a second attack, assuming her guilty, despite tne verdict, and she has now instructed Mr Rees to bring an action for libel

A skating rink is announced to be opened shortly. A special meeting of the Court Enterprise of Dunedin, A.0.P., will be held to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. The next meeting of the Daughters of Temperance will be held on Monday evening, 3rd May. The Port Chalmers milkmen will raise the price of milk to 6d per quart on the Ist of May. The Artillery Band will parade for Adjutant’s inspection, at the drill shed, at 7.30 tomorrow evening. We have received in pamphlet form “The Addresses of Sir George Grey, K. 0.8., to the electors of Auckland/’ During the week ended Saturday there were twenty-nine admissions into and twenty four discharges from the Hospital No deaths occurred. A correspondent informs us that “ pleasureseekers going to the Ocean Beach to-morrow about 3 p.m. will have the opportunity of witnessing an exciting footrace between two wellknown “ gentlemen of the wires,” for stakes Ll* a-side. Both aro in good form. Fifteen new boarders entered the Dunedin Sailors Home during the week and an equal number left, leaving twenty in the Home at present. During the ten weeks the Home has been open for admission, 130 seamen have been entered in the register kept for that purpose.