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Evening Star, Issue 3832, 5 June 1875, Page 2

1 HE annual debate took place last night in Committee of Supply as to the proper management ot the Dunedin Hospital. When Dr WEBSTER helda seatiutheGovernment it will he remembered lie was anxious to put the Hospital on a different footing to what it is now, but owing to some hitch of etiquette between the members ou the Government benches as to the proper mode or channel of obtaining information from Melbourne (after it was got) as to the system there, the much-needed reform fell through. Mr Bastjngs, if he had >etained office, was prepared to consider the whole question during the_ recess, and bring down to the Council a distinct recommendation. As a Chair of Anatomy has now been founded in the University, the nceessicy for change is much move imperative, Mr Reid’s idea that as the Provincial Surgeon holds a seat on the University Council, there might be no need for a change of system, but only for a little arrange • ment between the Council and the surgeon, and possibly a setting apart of one ward for the instruction of pupils is out of the question. In the first place, it would be thrusting a most invidious position upon the surgeon, and practically placing him at the bead of the medical school. If classes are successfully established, it will be necessary that not only a single ward but every bed shall be open to pupils and lecturers, in order to enable students, at the end of their second year in Dunedin, to take rank in the Home Universitiis as entered third year’s men. The piesent position of the Hospital, as has been more than once a dd—virtually as a plose borough to 'medical men—is most unfortunate. _ Numbers of medical men are now settling in the Province of considerable professional attainments, and are practically on a level with all the latest European improvements in surgery and medical science. A- it is, the patients are deprived of the collective experience of the profession. At the same timo, the medical men generally are deprived of witnessing the effects of the skill and pat ent perseverance which’ for many years has been (ieryiejl on in the Hospital as at present. This expels ne'e, evolved tfm careful oVgemticfc of

c ises under treatment, is the very thing clever young practitioners stand most in nevd of, for the benefit of those they attend in prvate practice. It is not too much to hope that Mr Keid will not carry his expressed conservative principles on the Hospital m magement to such an extent as to impede a reform very much needed in the public interest.

At the Resident .VI agistrateV Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr T. A Mansford, R. M., a young man named Canid Creed, a new arrival by the ship Ka l of Zetland, was dmi-ged with being d> unk and disorderly on 'he railway pla'form yesterday. : After a severe reprimand from the B nch, he was discharged. Ihe had weather last evening had a marked effect at the Queen’s, the Fakiraudience bung but small, However, Dr Sylvester and the ouner pei formers went through the programme with the usual completeness aau spirit. This afternoon a performance was given, which was attended by a large number of children. r l hough over iour hours were unsuccessfully spent on Thursday night by those who oppose the headquarters ov the Goldfields’ Department being sUtio' ei at Cromwell, they intend making another effort to carry their point ; and on Monday Mr De Lautour will distinctly ask the Provincial Council to affirm the policy of the present arrangement. The first quarts ly meeting of the * tago Railways Kmployd Soci.ty, held at the Dunedin station last evening, wes atte (led by Mr Conyers (president), Mr Grant (vice president), and about f rty numbers. Ib society now numbers mue y three working and six honorary membeis, and branch societies are shortly to be establish d in Oamaru and Invercargill. Messrs Clifford and Matheson were appointed to go to Invercargill to inaugurate the branch there. Messrs Styles and Gaw were elected auditors.

It is unfortunate that the Ci*y Gauds anniversary is so seldom favored with go d weaih-T Had the elements last night be o propitious, tho celebration of its sixteenth anuiversuy would have been attended b> one of the large t gatherings seen in t’ <• Head quarters drll-sbed for some time But the hundred couples who braved the wet enjoyed themselves well, to the excellent music of Messrs Anderson, Svkes, and Lamb. Among the volunteer officers pres nt we noticed Captains Wales, Btavely, and Goldie.

The atmosphere of the planet Venus wa* distinctly iisib e lin ing the rec-nt transil, and w.'.s seen by the astronoini al party rtatio .ed mar Tiieb-s, in Egypt, as a pale white circle around a part ot th; panel's * dge, totally diderent, from the brilliant -uu i-ght. ‘‘ The g ueral rt mark,” .-rays oe < f tho observers, “ was that it reminded us ot moonlight.” It is the opinion of ma v astronomers tliat the atmosp"' re surrounding Venus is much deeper than the atmosphere { the earth.

We have to complain, and not by any means for the first time, of the discourtesy with which the Evening ."ta“ is treated in the matter of the Acclimatisation Society’s meetings, hj o notice of them is ever given to us. but our moruin ; *oi-itemporaries are carefully supplied with leporta of the proceedings. As the indivi dual who furnishes the .atter finds it too much trouble to provide a copy for this journal, we should like d e of our reporters to be pre-ect at the Council s meetings ; but inordertodo that it is requisite that wesnouhl receive some intimation of them iu the early part of the day on which they are held. “ Eait Lynne” was produced at the Princesrs last night with a stion- caste, Mrs Bates appearing as Lady Isabel and Madame Vine; Mr S'.eele as Archibald Carlyle ; Mrs dtouebaiu as Cornelia ; Mr Hu grave as the Kail of Mount Severn ; and MrJ H. Stoneham as Captain Levisou, Owing to the inclement weat er the audience was nob lar, e, but the piece was re cuive.d with many manifestations ot approval irom those who were present. Mr Bates, not having fully recovered his health, will n't appear till Monday, and to-night * Lucretia Borgia ” will be given, 'lhe principal notices on the City Council Order Pap-r for Wednesday n-xt are iu the names of Councillors Prosser and Grant. The fusL-meuiio -eO intends to m-ve that for the present the Water iiupply Camunttee’s recom uendation of a new upper ivser*oir, at a cost of i 3.997 should not be acted upon, but that the water engineer (Mr M'Uregor) should consult with Mes-rs Barr and Oliver, who have already advised the Council as to the desirability of bringing in a permanen. direct supply for the higher parts of Dunedin and a more liberal supply for manufacturing and aanitaiy purposes. Cr Grant wid move that a ouncillor from each ward should be associated with the Works Commit ee with the view of having the footpaths put in a proper slate of repair as soon as possible. At the afternoon sitting of the R< si lent Magistrate’s Court yesterday an action was heard, brought by the Turkish Baths Company a_aiust UrqubartMacpherson, formerly secretary to the Company, to recover the sum of LG7 10s 4d, alleged to be due by dtfeufendaut to plaintiff*. Prom tne evidence given it appeal ed that defendant had retained in his bauds whao ho considered due-LlB7 17a 10J—to himself for services rendered and commission on shares sold by him ; but that the directors of the Co npauy considered him entitled to only LI 19 7s 6 i. They therefore brought the present action to recover the balance from the defendant, aud on the conclusion of the case hia Worship gave judgment for plaintiffs for the amoum claimed, with remarking that he had never heard of a secretary, or a person acting in that capacity, being aole to do with a com pauy’a money as he thought fib. The ordinarily calm atmosphere of the Provincial Council chamber was sadly disturbed on Thursday night. When in Com miti.ee of t>u; ply Mr Bastings succeeded in properly arousing the ire of the leader of th Government. '1 he sen or member for Tua peka having claimed credit for sending soraeoue to Waipori to look after the sludgechannel there within thirty-six hours afte he took office, Mr Reid explained that he had, bi-fo e leaving office, left instructions that the matter should receive immediate attention, and, in concluding his remarks, made reference, in a style peculiarly his own, to some members blowing trumpets of brass. Up immediately jumped Mr Bastings with the wrathful exclamation that the member for the Taicri dared not repeat outside the Council what be had just said ; but Mr lleid did not appear to be much frightened by the threat, aud brought to a close a very unpleasant scene with the remark that henceforwaid he would cease to have any intercourse outside the Council i hambet with the member for Tuapeka. The affu is more fully alluded to in our report of tUe Council proceedings.

Dr Carr will give his entertainment at Port Chalmers on Monday evening, instead of tonight. A meeting of the ratepayers of Caldervilk will be held on Monday evening at the old water mill. t he quarterly meeting of the Sous of Tetnperance will be held in the Temperan ;o Hall on Monday evening. , monthly meeting of the National Building Society will be held at iSo. 1 Chambers, ou Monday evening, at six o’clock. A lecture in aid of the funds of the Dunedin Servants’ Home will be delivered in the Temperance Hall, Moray Place, on Tuesday evening, by Mr John Bathgate. Th<» chair will I* tajwn by JJjr'B, B. Cahill, at eigut o’clock,