The Evening Star SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3886, 7 August 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875.

At the conclusion of Mr Stout’s address to hia constituents lost night, that gentleman int mated that he would address a meeting at Caversham in about a fortnight’s time. An agreeable reunion was held at the Friendly Societies’ El all last evening by those attending the Monday evening dancing classes. The company was large, and every, thing passed off very pleasantly. At the recent test examination, held in the Athenaeum Hall, a t Melbourne, two young ladies passed the standard for matriculation, one of them with credit. These two and two others passed the standard for tho civil aery Ice examination, of the Auckland Fire Brigade probably find but little sport in practising An exchange says that “at an ordinary practice the men were kept at close work for three hours, and then retired.” Mr J. Hughes, our late townsman, evidently intends to make his brigade as efficient as the Dunedin Brigade.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, before Mr T \ Vausford, R.M., Joseph Greig. William .Cotter, Henry Stroud, and Thomas Gammell,? were ordered to pay a fine of 6a. or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, with hard labor, for being drunk and incapable in George street last night.

On Monday there will be a siting of the Supreme Court in Bankruptcy, when the fol •owing cases will be heard :-Samuel Lewis. John Walls, James Todd, James George Walter -cott, Adam Sprott Clark, and He* Edward Ta'-tersfield—adjourned fin* ’ - nations, John Nichols, Alfr* ’ *"*' e * anu ' Pennefather, Thomas . Armstrong nations. James W* rii examxadjudication. ‘ r . n |' rd st , t< »*-petatmn;for Mercer G * ■^ e,, deJsohn, Robert curio** * o £ —declaration of exe-

{ The ‘ Age’ of the 17th ult. says:Lucreaia Borgia was announced for per iormance at the Opera House last evening, but owing to one of - those fiascoet which are inseparable from even the beet management it was not produced. At the last moment when fully dressed to appear in the part of the Borgia, Miss Alice Ma* was t .ken suddenly ill, and nothing remained but to apologisa ft r her enforced absence, and to substitute another work where her presence would not be necessary. The announcement was not received m good part by the audience, who might Well hwe remembered the heavy leas incurred by the management on account of the Italian artiste engaged. Probably half of those present left the brume and loudly demanded the return of their money • but after a lengthy and noisy altercation in the vestibule, order was restored by making the tickets available for this evening,” The Sheridan Dramatic Club gave one of their performances at the Lunatic Asylum Hall last night, to a large number of the patients and friends. The pieces selected were “D’ye Know Me Now’” and the amusing burlesque “1 e Babes in Ye Wood.” the .performers had evidently gone through careful rehearse!, for they played remarkably well. The characters of Dumps, the dismal gentleman with five twins ; Sol well Jolly, the lively commercial traveller • Sam Waitwell, who never forgets the cloth ; and the greatly abused Mr Sniggins, were all played with great spirit. I-he burlesque waa well put on the stage, the dresses being as outrageous as ingenuity could make them. Iho entertainment concluded with a well-arranged tableau, which with colored fires thrown on looked very well and rendered both patients and visitors highly pleased with the eveninp’s programme. °

“ East Lynne ” constituted the programme at the Queen’s last evening, a very successful rendering of this popular play being given. In Mrs DarrelPa representation ol the dual character v;e expected to find a finished piece of acting, and were no way disappointed. Whether in the early scenes as the gay, young wife, or latterly as Madame Vine, she was equally effective; her acting in the emotional parts—notably at the deathbed of little William—being exceedingly natural, bo enthusiastic did a portion of the audience become that the effect of this trying scene was considerably marred by the large amount of applause bestowed on Mrs Darrell before the close of the act Mr Darrell appeared to advantage bir F-ancia LevisLin, he playing the part o that villain in a cool unassuming manne' j whi'e a severe cold only deteriorated from what would otherwise have been an excellent representation of Archibald Carlyle b\ - .r Steele. M sa Vivian * was exceedingly amus'ng as the garrulous Coruey Carlyle ; and Miss Leake made the most of the piut of the pert waiting maid Wilson. Mr Muiagrave’s I ord Mountsevern was all that could be desired To-nigUt •* Kuth Redmond ’ will be reproduced, r.nd on Monday ‘-.As i ou L he It,” which met with »o much soccers on the occasion of its production last week, will b» played. I

j>snefit to be derived from the recent introduction of automatic telegraph communication between Albury and Sydney wag realised, remarks the ‘ Albury Rannerf’ for the fit'sfc time on Friday, the I6th ult. During the whole of Thursday the line to Sydney had been down, and Albury being one of the chief repeating stations in the ./Oiony, % large number of intercolonial megsages accumulated, in addition to the local business. All these had to be sent as quickly as possible when communicatien was re-opened on Friday morning, and the work involved would have seriously interfered with the ordinary business had the messages been transmitted in the usual manner through the Morse instruments. Here, however, the new invention came to the rescue. The lady operators are now well up in the work, and the accumulated file of correspondence being andwi over to their charge, was rapidly transferred, in the shape of an arrangement ot circular perforations, to long ribbons of presenting the appearance of linen punctured for embroidery purposes, hj. hese were then fed into the automatic instruments, and the messages were flashed through to Sydney ate-the rate—allowing for stoppages—of 156 in an hour. The messages so sent would av#age forty words each, and would have taken just three times as long to send in the ordinary manner.

The adjourned meeting for the election of office-bearers of the Roslyn and Kaikora! Institute nill be held in the Roslyn Hall on iuesday evening next.

The Ledge Pride of Dunedin, 1.0.G.T.. held a meeting at the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening, when the usual business was gone through, after which Bro. Carr, D.G.W.C.T assisted by Bro. J. Wilson, acting G. W.S., and Bro. Morris, acting G.W.M., installed the G?' fo^ th ® ensuing quarter, as follows; Sr°i J 4> Wi l son ; W.V.T., Sister Balloch; W.S., Bro. J. Davidson; W.F.S., Bro. Johns Sister Trotter; W.M., § ro * mi Sister Driver; W.J.G., Bro. Tbos. Trotter; W.0.G., Bro. Martin! After the _ceiemony a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to tho installing and retiring officers. 6