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Evening Star, Issue 3809, 10 May 1875, Page 2

. Ondit that a requisition is in course of signature, calling on the Mayor to convene a meeting of the citizens to consider the Princes street arbitration award.

• T? e JF on *. W - H * Reynolds took his seat m tho Provincial Council this afternoon. The Marchioness of Normanby will hold her reception on Tuesday next, between the hours of 2.30 and 3.30 p.m.

There are now seventeen female telegraphists employed in the Wellington office; the greater number being learners. The ‘lllustrated Australian News’ for April contains the following happy announcement of a birthGrady. -On 25th March, at Ballehgarook Saw Mills, the wife ° f Mr p. Grady, of a daughter. Father delighted.”

The body of a man was found by the police m the Maolaggan street quarry, early this morning. The deceased, who is believed to be a French bottle-gatherer, though he has not yet been identified, must have fallen over the cliff from Arthur street.

.“Lancashire Lass” was repeated at the Princess’s on Saturday evening, and passed off even better than on the previous night. There was a good audience notwithstanding the bad weather. To-night Bulwer Lytton’s “ Richelieu ” will be pepatwed. At the comnetfbion on Saturday f®r the A. R. A.’s medal Vol. Richardson, N.D., was the winner vrfth the sc we of 40 point.!. The conditions were 200 and 500 yards, seven shots at each. Ihe extremely unfavorable weather accounts for the poorness of the score.

Mr Registrar Ward held a short sitting in bankruptcy in the Supreme Court to day, when the following were adjudicated bankrupts, aud first meetings of creditors fixed for May 18John Robert Wiley, George M Lean Smythe, Henry Edward Tatterafield, and John Nichols.

Again have we to go from home for news, lo the Christchurch Star ’ its own Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that “Stall greater consternation is being caused in commercial circles by the failure of a well-known, because old firm in Dunedin. Further particulars will no doubt ooze out before long.” ,

An Auckland,telegram in the ‘Lyttelton limes says:—“Sir'George Grey is said tp Sr- V ij. OT ? a ? ged a programme with the large Middle Island party. It is understood they have agreed to the general abolition of Provincialism if the land fund of the Middle island remains local revenue. Large constitutional questions will be raised in the Assembly relative to the suppression of Sir George Grey’s petition to the Home Governmentregarding the aholitionof Provincialism. Jhe Ijmd fund questions will be raised in the opening speech in the Council on Monday.

-f? S female prisoner and well known chawwter, named Catherine Looney, when veSfe, Ba °- da y had a sod*- witter bottle filled with brandy secreted on her person. One of the officera defected her in 'he act of passing it to one of the femah n>i aoners when passing through the yard to the cell to be searched.

A fire broke out at Mr Hud-on’a b'scuit shortly after twelve o’clock last night, and the fire-bell rang out for some mxuutes. The services of the Fir j Brigade were, however, not required, as Mr Hudson was enabled to extinguish the blaze with a hose he keeps on the premises. The fire originated in the office, but no cause is assigned for it.

We are informed that the Goldfields Secretqry to-day received a telegraml from the Warden at Arrow, intimating that a ton of quartz from the lately discovered reef at Macetown yielded soz. 2dwts, 12grs. It will be remembered that the quartz was carted hjom Macetown to Carricktown, Cromwell ditowt, and crushed at the Royal Standard batteay we believe. This result betokens 9wet “ ofptoßp6rityfor

, The death of a little lady who figured prominently in one of the episodes of the last* Maon war is announced. Miah Minnie Parker obtained the New Zsaland< Cross for bravery at the Poverty Bay massacre, she being at that time thirteen years old. Her pother having escaped from the house, forgot to take the baby, which was left inits cradle. After the family had proceeded some distanoe m the scrub, Mrs Parker missed the child, and was lamenting, when Miss Parker returned and brought it away, although the house was blazing and the Maories around it.

The Harbor Board’s Ordinance, which, was laid on the table of the Provincial Council this afternoon, repeals sections 4, 5, 6 and 9 Ordinance of 1874; declares that harbor of Otago” used in the previous Ordinance shall be read to mean “port of Dunedin ;* gives power to the Board|to raise upon hypothecation of its debentures a sum not exceeding L 50,000 ; and provides for the yearly election of members ot the Board in this manner—three by the Provincial Conncu; three by the City Council; three by the Municipal Coiroca of Port Chalmers ; and three by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. Che Superintendent continues to be an ea: officio member of the Board.

Writing of Captain Rowan, the newlyappointed adjutant of the Otago Militia and Volunteers, the ‘ Taranaki News’ says : “Captain Rowan, of the Armed Con skabulary, is about to leave the Province to enter upon the duties ef Adjutant of Militia in Otago. Socially, as an officer, and as a host, to those who have visited the post at Uif ton, he has gained the respect and esteem of everyone who has known him. But he is entitled to a wider appreciation in this Produce, on the occasion of his leaving it. He has not only bravely fought for it, but has more severely wounded than any other st> suffered, and has recovered ; neither the medical man who attended him, nor any ohe else, ever expected that' he would reco.er, and that he did so was due to his splendid constitution.”

Information has reached ns from Waipori that the Drainage Channel has received considerable damage by a heavy flood in the river a few days ago. We have not been supplied with the exact nature of the damage, farther than that the channel has beqa completely blocked np in one or two low-lying, places by the sides having been washed in. We (‘Tuapeka Times’) can learn the Government is >adly to blame in not appointing some properly-qualified person to take charge of the channel and see to its being kept in order. At present, Tom, Diok, and Harry can do with it whatsoever pleases them. Surely a work which has cost the Government about Lll.OO» is worthy of having some authorised individual to look after it. Had there been some such person, it is very questionable whether the damage to the channel would have taken place.

A singular circumstance in connection with the death of Grattan M ‘Cabe, who committed suicide at Auckland very lately, is told by the Auckland ‘Star.’ a. few days previous to his own death, M'Cabe called at the ‘Star’ office, and offered a piece of special news at the usual rates of remuneration. He was told to write it out, and the intelligence proved to be the determined attempt to commit suicide made by one Phillips, who jumped from the wharf, after wards endeavored to leave an hotel in a nude state, and who was subsequently committed to the Lunatic Asylum. The fact of Phillips staying at the same hotel as M‘Cabe brought the circumstances directly under the knowledge of the latter. The account was written in rather a jocular vein, ani on being reminded that it was a serious matter to joke about, he said, “Oh ! it’s best to make light of these things, and when the poor fellow comes to his senses he will sec what a fool he made of himself.” What must have been his own thoughts during the brief hour of life accorded him after bis terrible fall of forty feet

We have the bast authority for paying no attention to post prandial speeches, but some of those made at tho banquet at Oamaru, to commemorate the opening of the breakwater there, deserve passing notice. The Superintendent was in one of his most sanguine moods, and spoke of the time when Oamaru would be “one of the most important parts of the Colony,” and * there be seen “hundreds of acres enclosed and docks rivalling London Docks.” The Hon. Dr Pelleu was self-accusatory, and took shame to himself that, although one of the oldest settlers in the Colony, the present was the first occasion on which he had visited the Middle Island, where, said he, he had seen such evidence of its resources and energies of the people as completely justified the Public Works policy, and was a sufficient reward to him for having assisted in carrying out that policy. The Superintendent of Canterbury is reported to have said that ‘‘ if he had not been aware that politics were eschewed on such oc casions he might have thought that among the political changes possible, considering the way that Otago was pushing works forwardbridging the chasm separating this Proving from that of Canterbury with the magnificent structure they had the day before inspected, and pushing railways to the North foi ward—the people, of Otago contemplated asking those of Canterbury to annex their Province to this one. He could assure them that, seeing the prosperity of the districts he had travelled through, and knowing the energy of the people, he would be prepared to do his utmost to promote such a result; or if not this, that the people of Otago pass themselves over to Canterbury—but not only the working men, the ladies must come too, atad he would promise them a good welcome.”

Several letters are unavoidably held over, A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held on Wednesday, at 3 p.m. The programme for the Dunedin Harmonic Society s concert will be found in our advertising columns. A meeting of the Reynolds Testimonial Committee will be held in the Erovincial Hotel to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock. During the past week there were 23 admissions into and 21 discharges from the Dunedin Hospital. The deaths were:—Michael Austin, stevedore, aged 44; native of Liverpool, from erysipelas and delirium tremens; James Glen, laborer, aged 35, native of Galway, from typhoid

Swi&.W’t W »rer. H m«to ot Wellington, N.Z., from oonßumption ; Thos Cotton, clerk, aged 60, native of EdinburriL Ti e 3 m t Tlj“s Robert Byers, from fall of earth; and Thomas Pettley, laborer heart; 62 ’ Bat * Ve ° f iteia disease of the

„J? h j D an ,a Ual “ eetin ß °t the Dunedin Canary m 7 s o ciat i°b will be held in the Uull and Mouth Hotel this evening, at 7,30. to acknowledge the receipt from Mr xJraithwaite of a work by Mr H. A. Oowper, of Wtukonaifci, entitled, “ Five years Sn ht* H'**-” tbe » f "Mel “o WIU take an early opportunity of noticing. p3l? b jf erve fromour advertising columns Mr Lmm 9UnC ? S , ha y in « P*™b“»®'l at BroSwTMfnf” 8 ° f i and > where he intends to an ext«riaw er^* an(l “f™ 0 B tore, combining Sh mint iflf ?? tiy yar 4nt nd bah-curing estabwe undar«tan<i tbe fS* 11 ?* p b® P ro Perty abounds, t d ’ lagoons andcreeks, offerit^ t h! P °^| n ?i ena - Bupplyof "ibi d ock, and it is beautifully situated as regards scenery Soft. CaSy 800638 from to ™ by road £