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Evening Star, Issue 3821, 24 May 1875, Page 2

The Press Ageucy gives to the M.P.C, for Waitaki a new name, that of Mr simple ! At Wairarapa there died very recently a Maori woman, whose age was said to be 104 years. The name of the departed is as almost as lengthy as her existence. It is “ Kio to Waimahuahua.”

On Saturday, Mr Geo. W. Geddes, who, for eight months was publisher of the ‘ Guardian,’ and has now become agent for Mr Hoskins, was presented by the ‘Guardian’ runners with a handsome 8;t of studs, as a slight mark of their esteem.

The Wellington Theatre is'to be opened on Monday next by Mr Hoskins, who intends to gather about him one of the strongest stock companies that has been seen in the Colony. Mrs Walter Hill, Miss Flora Anstead, and Mr G. W. Collier are among those already engaged. The favorite drama of “Green Bashes” was well received at the Princess’s on Saturday by a large audience, Miss Colville, as -’ iami, securing a large share of applause. be performance commenced with “A Practical Man,” in which Mr Hoskins, as u ual, was irresistible. “ Leah ” will be p-educed to night, and to-morrow “ Pygmali u and Galatea” is announced for Mr Hoskins’s farewell benefit.

The Queen’s was crowded in every part on Saturday night, when the Fakir of Oolu carried his suspension trick a stage further, and exhibited what the bills termed the sensation of “ a living lady floating in mid-air.” The illusion is a very clever one and deserves to ho seen by all. The fountain, with its gorgeous and ever-changing colors never fails to call forth plenty of applause. The Brothers Sylvester are announced to appear this evening in a skating act. Ihe municipality of Queenstown appears -o be in difficulties. At its last meeting a claim of Mr M‘Gregor, 0.E., of Dunedin, was discussed, and wo find the Mayor advising the Council to write to that gentle man, thanking him for his courtesy, andasking him to wait until the Assembly met (when an Act would be brought up to obtain power to raise a loan), interest in the meantime to be allowed. After i, had been agreed to act on this ad vice, it transpired that the bank had requested payment of overdraft, and had. moreover, given notice that they would not allow any further increase. It was, there-

fore, considered there was no more me in passing any accounts for payment. Next the town clerk gravely informed the Council that he was keeping back money to pay bis own salary with.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr T A. Mansford, R. M., George H. Qucrini, for being dnr k on the railway platform on Saturday afternoon, let off with a caution, having been locked up ever thirty hours. William Mount and William James, for a similar offence, were each fined 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Edwin Stottart, for obstructing the police in the arrest of the prisoner James, was let off with a severe reprimand. A charge of drunk and disorderly conduct, preferred against Daniel Collins, together with a further charge of wilfully breaking the door of one Robert Merrick at Deborah Bay, was postponed until to-morrow.

There were sixteen admissions and a similar number of discharges from the Hospital last week. The deaths were:—Charles Bellamy, aged 57, seaman, native of London, died from cancer of the tongue ; Henry Chankas, aged 27, laborer, native of Ireland, from typhoid fever; Thomas Borland, aged 43, carter.'native of Scotland, rtin over on railway ; Ah Yum, aged 45, miner, native of China,from consumption, and George Schultz, aged 40, native of Santa Cruz, from disease of the spinal cord.

The mission of Mr G. Marsh, the General Secretary of the Melbourne Young Men’s Christian Association, now here, is to set before the public the aims and objects of the institution which he represent?. The reports which come to hand from time to time impress us favorably with its usefulness; and we hope that all who feel an interest in the young men_ of Dunedin—merchants and others employing labor, and fathers and mothers who have sons, and the young men themselves—will gather in large numbers at the First Church, on Tuesday evening next, to hear Mr tions. Mr [Marsh’s long experience in the work, Marsh expatiate on the claims of such an instituboth in America and Australia, and his thorough knowledge of Mr Moody’s well-trier, plans, should make his address of great interest to all classes. We hope that Mr Marsh’s visit will at least so bring oefore the public of Dunedin the desirability of such an association, that they will give to the society already established their liberal support.