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Evening Star, Issue 3815, 17 May 1875, Page 2

-Sir J, L. C. Richardson has been appointed a member of the Southland Waste Land Board.

. The Mikado left San Francisco on the Ist mst.—’five days late—so she need' not be looked for at Auckland earlier than the 28th inst.

The Mount Ida Pastoral Investment Com* pany is a good thing. As the result of its last year’s transactions a credit balance was carried forward of L 4.060, or a net profit of 40 per cent, on the capital invested. It is stated that the Disraeli Government are anxious to secure the services of Sir James Fergusson as : nder-Secretary for the Colonies, but our ex-Governor finds a difficulty in procuring a seat. The sitting member for North Ayrshire does not seem disposed to retire.

Evidently Mr Ulrich carries with him a remembrance of the rich resources of Cromwell district in quartz reefs, ard has net failed to make them known to capitalists in the sister Colony. The Cromwjell paper informs us that a wealthy speculator last week visited and inspected the various mines at Bendigo and Carrick Range, with a v ew to nyestment should favorable inducement offer.

We take the following from the ‘ * ge’ : A spec al meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Association was held on the evening of |-he 6th inst, at the Polytechnic Hall, to bid bon voyage to the indefatigable secretary of the society, Mr W. G. Marsh, who is shortly to sail for Dunedin, where he will remain for six weeks. Mr Marsh starts on his evangelical mission at the request of the Dunedin Board of Management, to assist in placing the kindred association there on a secure basis.

The following items of theatrical intelligence are not without interest “Barry play Hamlet on the 24ch March, at Birmingham, Mrs Gladstanewas to play in London on Easter Monday, in a new Srench piece, entitled Rose Michel, but was unfortunately taken ill. George Ire was playing Robert Audiey at the Crlobe, London. Miss Juno still keeps a lengthy advertisement in the * Era,’ informing managers that she is disengaged. Miss Rose Evans had been ill for some weeks, and died on Ist March, at the early age of twenty-five. On her return to England she caught a severe cold, which never left her. and resulted in consumption. The young actress was playing in the pantomime at Newcastle when taken ill. Mr Claremont,

her husband, vfaa playing at the Prince of Wa’es Theatre, Birmingham, when the sad event took place. Salaries are very low as a rule, there being good us: ful men playing in London for LI 5s per week ; and with regard to an actor or acrress getting a position in London, it is all a lottery. “Marrying in haste and repenting at leisure ” is the experience of a Mrs Jones, whose domestic troubles engaged the attention of the R.M. at Rangiora (Canterbury) the other day. She made application to the Court for an order to receive her two boxes of clothing from her husband, as he had left her in Christchurch, and was going to Oxford. In the course of her examination, the com plainaut stated that she was only married three days befere; she had only known her husband about an hour before the wedding, and met him in a hotel in Christchurch, where they agreed to get married at once Since the day of her marriage, her husband had subjected her to ill-treatment, and blackened one of her eyes that morning. He had now left her and she wished to get her boxes back. His Worship declined to comply with the request.

The following extract from a letter by the Hon. S. D. Hastings, who is at present in Adelaide, has been handed to us for publication :—“What is the reason that newspaper correspondents will be so untruthful ? Ihere is no truth whatever in the statement of the correspondent of the ‘ Guardian * that I have not been received here with all the warmth I expected. Ho one could have been received more kindly than I have been, not only in Melbourne, but in every part of the CVlony where 1 have been. The statement that I went out of my way to correct the impression that I was not satisfied with the honor paid me is untrue. The only allusion I have made to anything of the kind was at the first meeting held in Melbourne, when I received a most enthusiastic reception, and when I repelled in the strongest language I could use the statement of a New Zea:and correspondent of the ‘ Argus ’ that I had not been well received in New Zealand.”

A Land Settlement League ac Oreti is an accomplished fact. In his opening address the president referred to some of the causes which had led to the temporary defeat of the deferred payment system implied in selectors not getting possession of the land after pay* ing for it. One in particular, he main* tained, was that some of the Waste Land Commissioners were playing into the hands of the squatters. To counteract this evil influence the working men who watted fair play and a home in the country, needed unity of action and a system of mutual support, such as that aimed at by the League. That there wag abundant work for it to do was proved by the numbers who were wanting land about the Oreti, and the many who had already left the south of Otago for Victoria. '1 he land was good, there was plenty of it for all, the climate was genial, there was everything in nature to attract population, but it was absolutely driven away. A searching inquiry into the working of the Waste Lands Department should be at once instituted by ihe Government, for there was a strong impression that some of the Commissioners had done a good deal to bring about that result.

Last night, in the Congregational Church, Moray place, the Rev. Dr Roseby delivered the second of a series of Sabbath evening lectures on week day religion, the subject of last night’s lecture being “ Modern Idolatries.” After referring briefly to the varied phases of heathen idolatries, ancient and modern, the lecturer went on to say that “ human nature in the days of Moses and the Pyramids, in the days of Ezekiel and Hosea and now ; in China, Japan, h'iji, and here, was ever and always the same, and a little scrutiny of modem society would show that modern idolatry in society around was as prevalent, as foolish, and as cruel as that of ancient times or heathen lands. For what was idolatry?-no better definition could be given than that of the Apostles. It was the worship of the creature rather than the Creator. What, then, were the objects lof modern idolatry ? Money, pleasure, customillustrated by three ancient heathen gods ; Diana, or voice of the multitude heard in the cry raised against innovators or reformers ; Great is Diana of the Ephesians;’ Rimmon, or the compromise of the coward who despised the custom, but feared to be singular j and Moloch, or the beedlessness to the suffering by which fashion justified itself—formalism, or the exaltation of forms and ceremonious agencies and instrumentalists above the great truths which these are designed to set forth and teach, which was the offering of sacrifice to the net and incense to the drag.” The doctor then said he would dwell, not on the folly but the guilt of all this idolatry, and closed an able and impressive lecture by an earnest appeal to his congregation to substitute the love of the Father for the love of money, and in other ways to abandon the abominations of modern idolatry and live to high and noble purpose, to the glory of God and the good of man.

The meeting of the Poultry Association has been postponed for a week. A social gathering will be held in the Christian Chapel, Great King street, to-morrow evening.

The Governor and Lady Normanby visited the establishment of Messrs North andScoullar on Saturday.

An announcement from W. Edwards, pedestrian, which may prove interesting tp some people, will bo found in our advertising columns. The adjourned meeting of the Reynolds Testimonial Committee will be held in the Provincial Hotel to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock. The adjourned meeting of the Dunedin Canary and Poultry Association will be held this evening at 7.30, in the Bull and Mouth Hotel.

The admissions into tho Dunedin Hospital during the past week were twenty, and the discharges fifteen. There was only one death Daniel (Jlaffey, laborer, aged thirty-five, native of G-alway. Ireland, from internal injuries. Bachelder’s Miltonian panorama of “Paradise Lost” will be produced at the Masonic Hall, Port Chalmers, on Wednesday evening, under the management of Mr Eastwood. As the prices charged for admission are very moderate there ought to be a large attendance. The * Australian Sketeher ’ this month is profusely illustrated, and a more than averagely readable member. There is a full-paged engraving of Dunedin, as seen from the head of Pitt street, but it is as unlike the view it represents as the woodcut of Dunedin which adorns the rages of the official handbook of the Colony. Miss Alice May is included among local; primme donne,” but those who know the original would fail to recognise the engraving.