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Evening Star, Issue 3884, 5 August 1875, Page 2

Only one case was beard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, and the facts were of no public interest. Mr Neill, of the Beaumont Station, has stocked the Talla Burn and another creek on his property w.th trout, an example which, the ‘ Tuapeka Times ’ thinks, is worth following in many equally suitable streams in that and the neighboring districts. At the Police Court this morning Hugh Montgomery was finsd 10s for drunkenness, and Mary Ann Harris|2os, with the option of seven days’ imprisonment. On a farther charge of habitual drunkenness Harris was sentenced to* three months’ imprisonment. Several robberies from clothes-lines have been brought under our notice. Last night a quantity of clothing was stolen from a house in Hope street, and other robberies from the same locality are reported. The police should keep a sharp watch on the night prowlers who commit these thefts.

The Pukekaroro correspondent of the ‘ N. Z. Herald’ reports that “ pigs are eating the early lambs in this and neighboring districts. It seems pretty clear that an old sow will devour more lambs in a day than a dog possibly can. Owners of pigs at large had need have an eye on them.” The railway authorities have decided to run a special train from Dunedin to the Port to-morrow evening for the purpose of giving the Port people an opportunity of attending the performance at the Queen’s Theatre. We feel sure that if the Port people only patronised these special trains there would be a late train every week during the summer months.

An inquest was held yesterday at the Parkside Hotel, Caversham, before Mr Hocken, Coroner, on the body of George Holmes, who was killed by a waggon passing over his head on the 3rd inst. After the evidence of the waggoner and other witnesses had been given, a verdict of accidental death was returned.

The local paper says an old public effi ler, who has lately entered into the lucrative line of hotelkeeping, was lately heard to say in Lawr nee that “ he had seen more roguery in the last three months than in a previous experience of some forty years, most of which had bean passed in Her Majesty’s service.” At the Queen’s last evening, a second performance of “ Money ” was given, equally successful with that given at the late Princess’s about a week ago. Aa we gave the drama a full notice on that occasion, we can only now add that the respective characters wore again well played. Tonight “ Eube Redmond ’ will be repeated, On Saturday there were despatched by the San Fraud-co mail 4,276 letters and 5,850 newspapers; and an Monday, by the Suez mail, via Southampton, 2,979 letters, 4,500 newspapers, and 57 books; and via Brindisi, 1, 111 letter’s and 68 newspapers. The inward Suez mail, via Southampton, contained 506 letters, 1,416 newspapers, ard 690 books ; and that via Brindisi contained 1,411 letters, 954 newspapers, and 216 books. The Thames ‘ Star 1 has the following seasonable remarks:—“lt seems to have become fashionable with newspaper editors and proprietors to do a little ‘blowing’ about the amount of telegraphic matter received and published by them. These littlo bits of trumpet-blowing may bo all very wsll for a few readers, but they do not impress the majority with any additional sense of the importance of the papers sounding their own praises.”

The nomination of a councillor to represent South Ward in place of Mr H. J. Walter, elected Mayor, will take place at noon to-morrow. The only probab’e candidates we have heard of are Messrs Rossbotham and Gray, who, at the close of the late election, intimated their intention of contesting the vacancy. Since the above was in type we learn that requisitions are being got up in favor of Messrs E. Quick and Wm. Jenkins, asking them to become candidates. The undermentioned prisoners were received into the gaol yesterday evening from Oamaru. George Morris, an old offender, convicted at the District Court, Oamaru, on the 20th July, before Mr Justice Ward, for enter ng a dwelling-house by n ! ght with intent to rob. He was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, with hard labor • and on the 2nd iusb., by Mr Parker, R.M.,* to six months’ imprisonment, with hard labor, cumulative, for stealing from a dwellhous 3. Peter Garrity, alias M‘Gregor, an old man, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labor, for an indecent assault upon a child; and also to twelve months’ hard labor, cumulative, for another similar offence.

The following is a summary of the trades and occupations of the immigrants per James Nicol Fleming, which arrived at Port Chalmers from London last evening : —Farm laborers, 42 ; navvy, 1 ; general laborers, 19; ploughmen, 13 ; farm manager, 1 ; gardeners, 2; joiners, 3; carpenters, 12 ; basket-makers, 2 ; boiler-maker, 1 • blacksmiths, 3 ; bricklayers, 3 ; brickmakers, 2 ; miners, 2 ; painters, 2 ; shoemakers, 2; carman, 1; upholsterer, 1; coopers, 2 ; taHors, 2 ; warehouseman, L Single girls : General servants, 26; housemaids, 2; nursemaids, 3 ; lady’s-maid, 1 ; dairymaids, 3; housekeeper, 1 ; mantlemaker, 1; cooks, 2 ; quilt-maker, 1. Summary : Male adults, 26; female do, 96 • male children, 30; female do, 37 ; infants’ 7 ; total, 296 souls—equal to 2554 statute adults. Nationality .- English, 128 : Welsh 3; Scotch, 47; Irish, 118. * The ‘New Zealand Herald ’ of the 28th ulfc. says;~'*An instance of Colonial life was exemplified iu the Polios Court yesterday, Three men were in a public-house

drinking, when one of them dropped a coin, the next one endeavored to place his foot on it, but the third one was too quick, and picked it up, and laid on the counter a shilling. The one who bad tried to pat bis foot on the fallen money said that it was gold, and that the other had ‘ rung the changes,’ He had been drinking ambercolored beer, and the coin looked ‘ yellow,’ bat he couldn’t tell whether it was a sovereign or a ‘half.’ For prudence sake be inclined to the latte - . And so a row commenced. The man who had dropped the money was in a happy state of ignorance He neither knew nor cared whether it was a shilling, half-sovereign, or sovereign, so long as it ‘ went. ’ The person who was accused of appropriating the money indignantly denied the soft impeachment, and certain it is that unless ha was the ‘Fakir’ in disguise, it seems incredible how, in the presence of the motely group he could have prestoed the supposed half-sovereign inside two notes which were inside his purse, which in turn was in his coat pocket. After a patient hearing the Bench could hardly do otherwise than dismiss the case."

The O’Connell Centenary Commemoration Public Dinner will taka place at Watson’s Dining Booms this evening. # We have been shown a photographic production of an interesting nature, the work of Messrs Clifford and Morris. It is a large six-sided group of seventy medallion likenesses, those represented being Mrs John Allan, of the East Taieri, and her descendants down to the fourth generation. All these persons are living, the oldest being seventy-four years of age, and the youngest about a twelve-month. The following Inscription appears at the foot of the group “Mrs John Allan, her sons and daughters, with their families, as they met at Bellfteld, East Taieri, October 13, 1874. ■