The Evening Star THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3800, 29 April 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1875.

Previous to his departure from Waikouaiti, the Lev. A. Dascnt was presented with a purse of fifty-five sovereigns, the joint contributions of St. John’s Church, Waikouaiti, and St. Mary’s, Palmerston. It is stated that two of the civil servants, who a'; Nelson gave the Pope precedence to the Queen in health-drinking, have been officially informed that the Government does not approve of such conduct. The Council of the Ride Association met last night to receive entries for its matches on May 1 and 8. The first match (400, 500, and 600 yards), for Mr Mason’s Cup and other prizes, will be fired on Saturday next.

A poultry farm is about to be established hi’ a resident of Wellington. He proposes to stock it with 2,000 fowls to start with, and professes to have discovered a process for preserving eggs fresh for any length of tim°.

The Athenajum Committee last evening temporarily appointed Mr Lebatt as assistant librarian, Mr Wilding expressed his wish to resign the office of Secretary, but it was pointed out that the committee had not power to accept the resignation. The legality of the building regulations are again questioned. Yesterday (afternoon Messrs Anderson and Godso, contractors for the erection of Filler’s new hotel, in Stuart street, were summoned at the City Police ( ourt for infringing the regulatior s, and Mr Stout, their counsel, contended that his clients having once been summoned for this offence, and the case having been dismissed, other proceedings in respect to it could not lie. Judgment was reserved till Saturday by the pr siding justices, Messrs Fish and Leary.

The Wellington City Council is occasionally lively, like the civic body of Christchurch. Lately there was a rather excited dfbate, when the Inspector of Nuisances, after giving in hia report to the Sanitary Committee, replied to a remark (of course very injudiciously made) by one of the memners, and pronounced it a lie. Be afterwards improved the occasion by giving it as his opinion, that two of the Councilors on the Committee were the d dest scoundrels unhung. The two Comic illors referred to, at the next meeting of the Council, requested to be relieved of their duties on that committee—they found it “ rather warm.” Two more sly grog cases were heard at the Police Court to-day. Iu the adjourned case against Jane Collins, of Green Island, the Bench overruled several law points raired for the defence, and indicted a penalty of I ‘ZO and costs, dhe other charge was against Henry Uenwood, who it will be remembered served the drinks in Boland’s case, heard on Tuesday last, and by swearing that he did so without the latter’s knowledge, but merely acted as a friend (or, as Mr Fish put it, ''a fiiend in need”) caused the case to be dis missed. Henwoid did not appear, and the Bench inflicted the full penalty of J 50. Mr lurton, who defended Collins, stated his intention of taking the matter to the Superu r Court.

During the past year the Southland Acdi matisation Society have deposited 2,700 trout iu the various rivers of that district. At the Society’s annual meeting last week the president (Mr W. Wood) said he thought that both the General and Provincial Governments should be strongly impressed with the desirability of assisting the Society to obtain a further importation of salmon ova. In the course of a conversation on the recent shipment, it was questioned if it made any difference whether the ova were brought out in a steamer or a sailing vessel Mr Howard (the curator) stated that some time ago he had brought salmon ova from Hobart Town in a sailing vessel, while Mr Huddlestone, acting for the Nelson Society, had brought some from Melbourne in a steamer, and the ova so conveyed yielded as good a return—about eighty per cent. as that brought by Mr Howard. The Southland railway committee have * ear .n c stly ” requested the members of the Provincial Council for the district to support the system of direct immigration to Bluff Harbor, in accordance with the basis of the re-union of Otago with Southland, and to bring forward, and endeavor to pass, a resolution affirming this prii c : p’e in the ap preaching session of the Provincial Council The committee at their last meeting also adopted the following 'resolutions ! fiat in 10 “ c ‘ e ff uale wharf accommodation at Bluff Harbor be mad 3 the subject of their most serious remonstrances, with the view to a large and suitable addition being made thereto at the earliest piac icable period. I hat so vitally essential are these matters to the well being of Southland, this committee is of opinion that unless under sureties of their receiving early and liberal consideration, no Executive should be supported by the vot.s of Southern members.”

lucmdiaritm appears to be becoming rife m Southland. A second case is now reported at Long Bush, On the 18th ir stmt, a barn a quantity of oaten hay, a chad cutter, and other property belonging to Mr Frcgoatt were destroyed. A shade of peared to attach to two boys who were hording tattle in the neighborhood, and who admitted hav ng been playing close to the water-wheel. The eld r of the boys had a. box of matches with him after the fire had broken out, which ho accounted for by saying that he had kept them ‘since he had been burning tussocks on his father’s land. Against the suspicion was the testimony . a juror, that the boys were in their father’s paddock, twenty chains distant from the barn, avhon he was on his road homeward after passing it, and all bein» apparently safe. The mother of the boys testified to their not leaving home again until alter the tiro broke out, - There were no

matches (as was believed) in the barn, and nothing that could spontaneously ignite, and the shortness of the grass and tussocks for some distance around proved that the fire could not have originated from an outside cause, and the budding not being locked, any passer-by might have turned in, yet no strangers had been seen in tbo neighborhood during the day. The jury returned as their verdict, “That the fire was wilfully and maliciously caused by some person or persons unknown.”

. The monthly meeting of the Imperial Building Society will be held on Friday evening next, at 7 o’clock. The usual monthly meeting of the Permanent Building Society will be held to-morrow evening, at 7 o’clock. The quarterly meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters will be held to-morrow evening, in the South Australian Hall, at 7 o’clock, A notice from the Town Clerk appears in our advertising columns, stating that residents in the higher portion of the City will be supplied ; with water on leaving a written request at the City Council Chamber.