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Evening Star, Issue 3862, 10 July 1875, Page 2

At the Princess’s last evening “Fanchou ” was reproduced to a good house. An excellent performance of this favorite play was given. To-night will be another Shakespearian night, “ Macbeth ” being announced, with Locke’s music. The young pedestrian Scott commenced his match at 5 p.m, yesterday at the Queen’s Theatre, going off at good speed, and doing the first mile of the hundred m ten minutes. At 9 59 p.m. be had completed twenty-five miles, and then had a half-hour’s spell, sfca'.ting again as fiesh as could be wished. Fifty mi'f-s were completed iu 10 hours 52 minutes, raid 75 miles in 16 hours 34 minutes from the start. . ‘The only case this morning at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Cha’mers, was a ( barge preferred against James Scotland for being drunk and disorderly in Geoige street, for which offence ho was ordered to pay a fine of ss, or to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours. Mr T. A. Mantford, ii.M., presided. At the City Police Court to-day, Henry Aitken, for being drunk, was fined 5s ; and Jiannan lielly, on a charge of vagrancy, was sentenced to two months’ impria ament, A charge against John Gray of embezzling L2 8s (M, the property of Ephra.m Machin, was .iclj..nvu-;d till Monday. Messrs j yke and Mt-lliauu, J.P.’s, piesided. A Wellington contemporary, iu noticing a performance of “Hamlet” at the local theatre last week, in which Mr G. Darrell (Hami t), Mrs U -.rrell (the Queen), Mrs W. Hill (Ophelia), and Air H. N. Douglas (Laertes) took part, says the Ghost, played by iVir Hoskins, was as appropriate and appalling as any fictitious visitor from the land of spirits could be. A committee meeting of the Dunedia Jockey Club was held at the Empire Hotel 1 ,st evening, when the action taken by the Auckland Racing Club iu the matter of the disqualification of Kelly the rider, and Huntley (or Barron), the trainer of Maori Weed, was fully endorsed. The alleged foul ridi’.-g took place at Auckland about a month ego, m a match between Maori Weed and Daybreak. ?tcw Zealand has its Dr Gumming in the shape of the editor of a journal, named • Enoch, ’ published at Grahamstown, who predicts that another ten years or so will bring all things to an end. Wo are not informed whether the proprietor of ‘ Enoch ’ has followed thejexamplo of Dr Camming, who, after having piophoaied that the world v. ould come to an end in twenty years, renewed the lease of his house for thirty.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the St. Paul’s Young Men’s Association was held in St. Paul’s vestry [last evening, Mr JR. T. Wheeler in the chair. .After the meeting had been opened in the usual manner, one o{ the members read a paper on “Youthful tociety,” upan which a spirited discussion ensned. Mr R. T. Wheeler was elected Vice-President, in the room of Mr P. Rankin, who lately left for Balclutha. About twenty members were present.

Tho ‘New Zealand Times’ of tho 6th inst. has the following :—“ The * Otago Daily Times’s’ own correspondent is at it again. In a recent issue of that journal we find a telegram from him : ‘ The ‘ Age’s' report, re Sir J. Vogel’s return, finds general credence.’ We have on more than one occasion noticed with admiration this gentleman’s progress in the art of falsehood. As usual, his latest effort is beyond his formeworks. He rises stage by stage. Beginning by inventing untruths, he improved his style into plagiarising them. Now he makes other people responsible for the inventions of himself and his fellows. His position in the social scale havingits highest point in an hotel bar, and not being limited as to its lowest, he telegraphed for the community at large. The opinion lie might with justice claim to represent being that of a gutter club, he steps beyond the circle of his serial knowledge, and favors a tolerably linrtpd circle in Otago with the public opinion of Wellington. To add that in doing so he disregards truth, would be a superfluous tribute to his talents, his reputation in this way being so fully established as not to need notice. We have, however, a suggestion to make to him, namely, that in future he should, when sending communications of any kind, jiffix to them the seal of that society of which he is a member. Let him stamp them with the bottom of a pint pot. There will then be a trade mark for genius such as he possesses,”

A skating rink is to be established in Dodson’s Bond, Port Chalmers, open every Monday evening.

Ihe regular monthly meeting of the Daughters of Temperance will be held on Monday evening.