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Evening Star, Issue 3833, 7 June 1875, Page 2

The Brothers Maokay, who work at Skippers, are lucky fellows, as, according to the ‘Arrow Observer,* they have had a fortune of L 1,500 left them.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr T A Manaford, R.M., George Crawford, charged with furiously riding in George street on the 29th ult. was let off with a caution,

At the Press Dramatic Club meeting on Saturday, Mr John Dungan was elected a member of committe, in the room of Mr F. Nicholls, resigned; and it was stated that the recent entertainment had resulted in L2l odd being added to the library and wardrobe fund.

The Fakir had a fair house ©n Saturday evening at the Queen’s. To-night is announced as set apart for the benefit of Miss L'aisy Sylvester, “ the entranced lady,” and a first rate programme is provided, which will include a number of new and most startling illusions. To-morrow will be the last evening of Dr Sylvester’s season and the performance will then be for his benefit. “ Polly Plum ” (Mrs Colclough) writes to the Thames ‘ Star ’ that in Melbourne no one wears strings to their bonnets ; everyone wears falls ; everyone wears a kick-up to their hats ; that you must wear your dress as tightly drawn around you as is consistent with decency in front, and to “ pile on ” the fulness any amount behind; that a jacket with sleeves is an abominati n, and black, loaded with jet, the distingue wear. Messrs Birch and Brown, J.P.’b, presided at the City Police Court to-day, and disposed of six charges of drunkenness, with the following results :—James Thomson, Robert M‘Leod, and Benjamin Farrawere discharged with a caution ; Peter Young and Peter Reid were fined 6s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment; Edward Dunbar 10s, or 24 hours; William Farrett, an inmate of the Benevolent Asylum, was sent to gaol for 14 days on a charge of obscenity. The immigrants by the Earl of Zetland were open for engagement at the Caversham Depdt to-day, and those who were engaged found employment at the following rates Single girls: Four at L3O, three at L 26, one at 13s per week, and one at 7s per week. The single girls were engaged in a very short time, and several persons were unable to obtain servants. One married couple—the man as ploughman, the woman to do housework—was employed at LSO per year ; and of the single men three were engaged at L 55 and oue at L 52 per year—all as ploughmen. At the Princess’s on Saturday night there was a capital attendance, especially in the lower parts of the house, to witness the production of “ Lueretia Borgia.” The plot of this piece and its highly dramatic nature are so well known that they need not be enlarged on; but the company may well be congratulated on its successful performance of the play—to which success nearly every member contributed, Mrs Bates as Lueretia and Mr Steel as Qemuro wore in the most pro-

minent parts, and both well merited the applause awarded them. “ The Alabama," a laughable extravaganza, was the afterpiece. To-night Mr and Mrs Bates will both appear, the former having recovered his health sufficiently, and Boucoicault’s sensational drama “The long Strike" will be given. The same afterpiece will conclude the performance. «

A man in Blenheim was recently summoned for arrears of school fees. In Gourt he commenced to abuse the School Committee, saying that rank spite was at the bottom of the case, because he Would not send his children to the Borough schools. He further stated that he would* sooner rot in gaol than pay, upon which the Bench ordered the constable to take him into custody for contempt of Court. He subsequently apoligised and was liberated.

A humorous correspondent of our Tuapeka contemporary thinks that an Executive comprising the following names would stand for ever:—“ Steward, chief instructor of ‘sitting; on rails’ department; M'Dermid, follower! of the Ten Commandments; i Armstrong, ; took extractor and convenor of pio-nics;i Manders, abolisher 6f gold dust and other imperishable nuisances ; Brown, wire-puller m general; Stoat, dispenser of law Mid (trJactß.”

Dr Stirling, in his report to the local board of health, Cromwell, dated «,he 22ud May lust, states that daring the past three nionths he has had under treatment six cases 0! typhoid fever, of a much milder type than. characterised that epidemic last autumn. Dr Corse, in his report of the 25th of the same month, testifies that he has not any special cases of infectious or’ contagious diseases under treatment at the present time. The ‘ Dunstan Times ’ is our authority for stating that both gentlemen now deem the town of Cromwell to be perfectly healthy

The Australasian Hotel, Maclaggan street, had a narrow escape from being totally destroyed by fire this morning It appears that at two o clock a lodger (ex Detective Farrell) was m bed at the western end of the hotel and smelt fire. 1 broking it might proceed from the stable he looked out of his window, which overlooks it, but seeing no signs of fire went to bed again. Finding the smell getting stronger he went downstairs, and on going into the dining-room observed the ceiling to be on fire. The floor of the room immediately above was also found to be on fire, and a brisk fire had been kept in the grate in this room during yesterday and last evening.' Immediately the lira was discovered water was played upon it by means of a hose kept the premises, &nd it was soon ex tingnished. The hearth in the, sitting-room is composed of a plate of iron, resting on a raft of iron, and a subsequent examination' showed that the fire was caused bv ashes (lignite) getting down upon the flooring joists. Mr Patterson's house was insured for LI,OOO, and the furniture for LSOO. The' damage done was merely nominal. A charming contrast to the fierce denunciations of the Roman Catholic dignitaries and Episcopalian clergymen on the subject of State education is furnished by two recent speeches by clergymen. The Anglican Bishop ef Newcastle(N.S. W.) has been giving his annual exhortation to his clergy, and he delighted some and distressed others by his liberality in respect of the education law. He said that the denominational system years ago, while it achieved some few successes, was in the main a failure; that the Government was perfectly justified in introducing the Public Schools Act; and he warned his clergy against speaking in terms of untruthful disparagement of the public schools of New South Wales, which were neither £,cdles_B _nor irreligious. And at Cola Congregational clergyman'of "som4 S’ote’ repudiated with “energy and scorn the notion that because our public education is secular, therefore it is ‘ godless.' ” All this rhodomontade, he says, “is me re priestly clap-trap, as wicked as it is silly,’' The religious education of the Colony is proceeding as satisfactorily as in the happy days when denominations of Christ’s Church scrambled for the grant and ministers “had theprivi-lege-a privilege, by the way, which they rarely used, and ohly learned to value as s °°* a 8 aß } ‘of administering crumbs of the confession and draughts of diluted catechism to the children’’in the midst of their other studies.

Captain Hellish, the stipendiary magistrate at Christchurch, is getting a severe castigation from some of our contemporaries for some extraordinary observations he made from the lat el y:-A man named IJand Jobson violated one of the railway bye-laws by riding some distance on the step of a railway-carriage, and the guard property gave him in charge at Christchurch. When the case was heard in Court, the accused s counsel admitted the offence : but in this case the law-breaker was a “ wellknown resident,” and, we believe, an M. r.C,, and, therefore, instead of the utmost punishment allowed by law being meted oat to him, the case was dismissed. The Press reports that his Worship said the .Bench considered it a most unwarrantable piece of arbitrary authority on the part of the railway authorities to give a man into custody who was so well-known. The constable who had taken the man (into custody should have shown more discretion, and on previous occasions the bullying which a constable stationed at the Christchurch railway station had been guilty of had been reported to him. Both constables and railway servants should remember that they are theseryants of the public, and he trusted the inspector would inquire into the matter A constable ' should not take a man so well known as defendant’ into custody merely because a guard wished him to. It was a most arbitrary proceeding, and more ought to be heard of it.” Our Oamaru contemporary charges Captain Hellish with snobbishness of the rankest type.

A meeting of' directors of the Caledonian Society favorable to an entertainment to be given to Mr John Barr, Craigielee, will be held in. W &in s Motel to-morrow evening l . The admissions were twenty-one and the discharges nineteen at the Dunedin Hospital last week. The deaths were :-William Auld, laborer, aged sixty, native of Scotland, from disease of the heart; and John Fisher, seaman, aged forty-two, native of Scotland, from consumption.

The concert at the Oddfellows’ Hall on Saturday evening, was withdrawn, owing, it was stated, to thejillness of the pianiste. The pubhc were admitted free to the Hall, when the matter was explained; and after hearing a few songj the meeting closed. Next Saturdav is announced as a “ Caledonian Night,” with a special programme.

r ladder .°f H°P e Juvenile Lodge, met m the Temperance Hall on Triday, and there was a fair attendance, notwithstanding the bad weather. Ten candidates were initiated, and some alterations in the unwritten work announced in accordance with a communication received from the J.W S The lodge has shifted its quarters and changed its night of meeting, as the Caledonian ht 8 claBSeS are beld on Thursday, its former