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Evening Star, Issue 3818, 20 May 1875, Page 2

Thirty-seven candidates in various parts of the Colony have presented themselves for examination under the regulations of the New Zealand University. The Dunedin candidates are Messrs Solomon. Low. and Wilding. Captain Boyd, who is about to leave Dunedin, kindly forwarded to the Hospital yesterday a large parcel of books, numbering about 160 vols, for the use of the patients, on whose behalf the Hospital authorities desire to thank Captain Boyd for his handsome present.

The geography of some of the American pa; era is often sadly at fault. On March 9 the San Francisco ' Bulletin * published as a telegram from London, that “ Many women and children were drowned by the wreck of the steamship Goth nburg, in ‘Bois Straits,’ between Australia and Van Dieman’a Land.” The performance of the Fakir of Oola last night at the Queen’s was patronised by his Excellency the Governor and the Marchioness of Norraanby. Everything went smoothly from first to last, and during the evening Dr Sylvester sated that on Saturday night he will remove both poles from under the “entranced lady”—supporting her in the air in a horizontal position by his hand alone. “ Formosa ” was repeated at the Princess’s last night, to a good house, aud passed off very successfully. It will be given again ti is evening for the last time, and to-mor-iow, for the benefit of Miss Florence CoLille, “ ygmalion and Galatea” will be produced for the first time this season. This capital piece w ill be remembered as having created a great sensation when brought out last year by Mr and Mrs Hoskins at the Queen’s Theatre. The undermentioned prisoners were received into the gaol this morning from : uunaru, escorted by detective Henderson : i !iam Barker and Patrick Brennan, alias Jo in Swanton, sentenced on the 14th inat., by Mr Parker, R.M., to. eight calendar in > ntbs’ imprisonment each with hard labor, for stealing L 9 in bank notes on the 11th in st., from the person of James Millar, in the Queen's Hotel, Oaraani.

Two Dunedin youths, aged respectively fifteen and fourteen, becoming impatient of p 'rental control, lately started • ff with a little money in their pockets for the goldfields, in or ier to make a fortune. Unhappily the v. eather was against them, and after a few d -ys’ absence they have just returned to their ! aiernal roofs looking much the (worse for wear. They got as far as Waitahuna, but did not find much attraction there, and begin to think that “there’s no place like homo. ”

■Some hard things about the management of the now defunct Submarine Boat Goldmining; Company were said at the meeting I i t night by persons who had been induced to invest their money in the concern. Calls were made, but were not paid, as LiO information concerning the company’s position was forthcoming; Moagiel “ victims ” and levanting shareholders were a'luded to, and ultimately two committees were ap; ointed—one to take legal advice ; hj . other to make all the inquiries possible nto the financial posTion of the company, and, particularly, what had become of the L4OO paid for ■ he boat. The * Globe ’ speaks out against the inefficiency of the “ u ress Agency, ” and with the conclusion of hie observations we

agree most heartily, “That the Agency is n<it to be'moved by the complaints of any ot the newspapers which they supply with telegraphic news (?), we are well aware, and the fact remains that until the different journals combine together and insist on the proper management of the Agency, they will re* main at the mercy of an institution which sends i uch items as we have mentioned.. It is idle to suppose that such a state of things can las", and the means of remedy lie in combi -.ation. This must come, sooner or later, and wo think the public will agree with us when we say the sooner the better.” Ibe popularity of the Williamsons and of 11 Struck Oil” in Sydney appears to be even greater than it was in Melbourne. The piece had at the end of last month reached the »ighth week of its representation, and drawn the astounding sum of L 17.000. Well may the ‘Stockwhip' observe that “happy must * stars' like the Williamsons be. when, by travestying a poor, semi-stupid Dutchman, they can reap a moa’ gulden harvest. They can afford to laugh when Kouc cault declares pathetically that Shakesperc is an excellent synomym for ‘ruin;’ of course, theatrically speaking. It is anything but fla tering to the taste of the time; and the correctness of the statement would confessed by none more cheerfully than by the • stars’ themselves.”

ihe Hospital report for the year ended 3Ut March last, presented to the frovin cial Council, shows that 1,198 patients were admitted and 1,337 cases treated during the year or about 400 more than were treated during the previous year. This increase is attributed to the large number of immigrants landed in Dunedin during the year, many of whom had to seek admission to the Hospital. Of ihe number treated in the i.capital, 1,681 were discharged cured and benefited, and nine y-eight died. The mortality was 7 3 percent. The greatest of deaths was from the result of diseasflK the heart (twenty); consumption, t phoid fetpr, thirteen; and affections of the head, eleven. The accidents admitted appear to have been unusually numerous anu severe. Fifty-one fractur. aof the leg, arm ribs, &c., were received. With the extensiun of machinery, manufactories, &c., the admission of these cases will become more numerous. Intemperate drinking appears to be steadily on the increase soventy-ti' e persons suffering from delirium tremens were treated during the year, as against sixty-three last year, and forty the year before. One hundred and one pers- na were admitted to the lying-in-ward, as against fifty three the previous year. Many of these cases were uew arrivals. ihe daily average number of resident patients throughout the year was 161, and the largest number receiving treatment in the Hospital at oue time was 186

A general meeting of the Dunedin Harmonic k.ociety will be held in All Saints’ schoolroom, this evening, at eight o’clock.

A meeting of cricketers will be held in the Shamrock Hotel, this evening, at eight o’clock, to consider letters received from Victoria and New South Wales.

The thirteenth anniversary of the| u Loyal Dunedin Lodge, M.U.1.0.F., will be celebrated °y a concert and ball in the Head-quarters Drill-shed on Monday evening.

A meeting of the ratepayers in Bell Ward will be held m the Oddfellows* • all to-morrow evening, to hear an explanation from the members relative to the widening of Princes street.

A meeting of ratepayers in Leith Ward will be held in the Caledonia Hotel, to-morrow evening, a( eight o’clock, when the members for the Ward will explain the position of affairs with regard to the Princes street widening case.

Mr A. J. Towsey’s benefit, which takes place at the Temperance Hall this evening, will be honored by the presence t»f the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby. Independent of Mr Towsey’s personal claims upon the musicloving portion of our community, the advertised programme in itself ought to be a sufficient inducement to secure a large attendance.

The first fortnightly meeting of the Kensington Band o: Hope was held last evening, instead of on Tims !ay evening. There was a very good attendance, ov«.r sixty persons being present. Mr Morris occupied the chair, and during the evening a number of little girls competed for a book, which was awarded to Miss Edith Evans. Several recitations and addresses were also rendered. Afte. the meeting closed twenty persons enrolled themselves as members. The Band of Hope will, in future, meet every alternate Tuesday evening.