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Evening Star, Issue 3812, 13 May 1875, Page 2

The principal business at|the Resident Magistrate’s Court, to-day, before Mr J. Bathgate, R.M., was the continuation of the pase of Barr v. Simpson. Eight or nine witnesses were examined, and the case was then further adjourned to 10.30 a.m. to-morrow, to enable another witness to be called. His evidence will conclude the case.

His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by his Honor the Superintendent and the Hon. Dr Pollen, to-day visited the Girls and Boys’ High Schools, and made a thorough inspection of both. His Excellency expressed his gratification at the discipline observed, and on his suggestion a half-holiday was given to the pupils attending both schools.

A Clyde corr»3pondent telegraphs to our Tuapeka contemporary the following tragic items A Chinaman was frozen to death at the Nevis during the late snowstorm, and the body of a man who died from, the effects of hard drinking at the Garrick has just been discovered. He, with two companions, drank three gallons of grog. His body was not discovered for some time after his decease.—Mrs Beck has poisoned herself with prussic acid. No cause can be assigned. The affair cast quite a gloom over the Dnnstan district, as the deceased had a number of relatives in the neighborhood. At the inquest a verdict of “ Temporary insanity” was returned.

Our readers will probably remember read* ingin our columns in June last the Lotharian adventures of the gay young cavalier and romancer of crime, “John Morrison,” whose adventures created great excitement at the time, who was convicted at the July sessions of the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on several charges of forgery in various parts of this Province, and sentenced to six years’ penal servitude. It appears that during his adventures he committed some forgeries of cheques in Southland, and to-day he was removed from gaol, per Judge’s warrant, to Tnvercarfil. gaol per steamer Wanganui, in charge of 'olice Constable Boyce, in order to have the charges inqu red into before the Southland magistrates.

There was an important omission from the article on Classification of Prisoners, which appeared in our Tuesday’s issue. The concluding sentence should have read thus “ Separation of prisoners by day would be a great obstacle to remunerative labor, and financial considerations would deter the Government from adopting it. Separation at night and separation among the untired prisoners, with whom contamination might be serious, is a different thing. If in every prison a moderate number of cells were provided for separation at night, and if cious selection of prisoners likely to corrupt others be made for those cells, it would be sufficient. Prisoners, after as much labor as they have out of gaol, on going to bed go to sleep and do not talk. It is easy, therefore, by weeding out the worst prisoners, to prevent corruption at night.’’ The second meeting of the Law Students’ Debating .Society was held at the Supreme Court t'ouse on Saturday last; Mr E. Stout occupied the chair.„ The effect of st ppage in transitu was warmly discussed by several members. The next meeting of the society will be held at the same place on Saturday the 22nd instant when Mr James Smith will preside We wish the Society every success ; and if it is supported as i should be by those studying for the legal profession, its influence for good cannot be over-estimated. Whilst on this subject we may mention that the law lectures at the f niversity this session are largely attended. There are, we understand, some twenty students, who form two classes The junior class is enga ed on the Law of Contracts, and the senior on Equity, Criminal Law, and the Science of Jurisprudence. We congratulate Mr Stout on having snob a strong body of pupils. His Excellency tho Governor visited the High School to-day, and reviewed the Cadet Corps recently formed.—About sixty boys were present, and were put through some evolutions hy Captain de Montalk. His Excellency expressed himself as highly pleased with the efficiency displayed by the corps. On his Excellency taking his departure the boys gave three hearty cheers We take the following items from the ‘Tuapeka TimesAt a pigeon match in Tapanui a few days ago, a well-known sporting man residing there killed twenty, two birds consecutively. The formation of a gun club is mooted.—Yesterday a very sud ■ den death occurred in Lawrence. Mrs Lis to n (widow of the late George Liston) a very old and much respected resident, was seized with a fit of apoplexy about three o’clock in the morning, and died after three hours’ illness. She leaves q young family.— The Otago Company lodged their first cake of amalgam in the bank yesterday. It weighed 71ozs. and is the result of ten days th'rteen hours’ crushing. They are at present employing seventeen men, and the above result therefore gives a return of about 3 0b a mau P er day.—lt appears that the chief cause of an the mischief to the drainage channel at Waipori is attributable to a dam giving way through the amount of pressure brought to bear against it by the flooded state of the river. For a distance of two miles, the channel is filled up with silt to a depth of three feet. It is estimated that it will cost L 350 to repair the damage. . The good old comedy “ Paul Pry” was given at the Princess’s last evening to a fair house, which we expect to see largely increased to-night. This piece, in wfiich all the great English comedians since the days of Liston have appeared, and which has delighted innumerable audiences, went off well, but the whole credit for this must be awarded to Mr Hoskins, who hit off the curious meddling, garrulous Paul Pry to the life. He entered thoroughly into the humor of the character, and played with unflagging spirit from first to last Miss Colville, as Phoebe made an interesting lady’s maid, full 0 f little plots and stratagems for the successful carrying out of a love affair; and Miss Willis, as her mistress El za, left little to be desired. Mr Musgrave’s Colonel Hardy was a fair representation of the blustering, domineering, but good-hearted old soldier, and his efforts would have been better appreciated but for his curious habit of chewing over his words instead of -delivering them clearly aud quickly, Mr Booth made a “ashing young sailor as Harry Stanley ; aud Mr Huntley was sufficiently disagreeable as Grasp ; Mrs Stoneham’s Mrs Subtle, the designing housekeeper, was in keeping with the character; and Mr Clinton certainly did not give any undue prominence to the part of old Mr Witherton. Of the rest of the company nothing need be said, except that the representative of Frank Hardy appeared nueasy. “Paul Pry” will be repeated this evening, and those people who stay away will lose a good night**f amusement.

The Artmety will parade at the Drill-abed for shot and shell practice on Saturday afternoon, at two o’clock.

It will be seen from an advertisement in our advertising columns that, a preliminary meeting of citizens opposed to the widening of Princes street south will be held in the Lewer Hall of the Athenaeum this evening, at eight o’clock. We notice that Mr A. J. Towsey will give a concert at the Temperance Hall on Thursday, evening next. The entertainment will be under the patronage of his Excellency the Governor and the Marchioness of Nonnanby,