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Evening Star, Issue 3907, 1 September 1875, Page 2

• f?We are compelid te ho d over our report of this moruiog’s meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery.

There was no business of any public importance transacted at the ; 'ity Police Court or the .Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning.

There was a crowded house at Mr Davies’s entertain ent at the Temperance Hall last evening. Bevoral novelties will bo produced this evening.

Pee > o’ Day " was ' repeated at the yueena last evening, ar.ct will again fecra the programme for to-night, owing to it* great success.

Tho weekly of the Waste Lan Board was postponed from to-day until Friday morning, in consequence of the opening of the Clutha rail wav.

The fortnightly meeting of the City Council has been - goaf p mod from this even ing until next Wedrusdey, in consequence or the opening of tfco Dunedin and Clutha Railway to-day.

I hia afternoon we received a telegram from Mr W, N, Biair, stating that the train from Dunedin, e. utm ing about 400 persons had arrived safely at Balclucha at half-past one o’clock.

The Wakatipu district has fortunately not beon visited by the late floods. The ‘ Mail ’ says that, io fac ; ,, with the exception of au occasional rainfall, tho seasfn has been the fii est and mos.. open ever known there. The annual meeting of tho Dunedin Bowling Club was held at the hamrock Hotel ls>o evening. The following were elected olhce-bearers for tbe en-uiug year : Preside nt, Mr Hodgkins; vice-president, Vlr Butterworth ; treasurer, dr o hilelaw • secretary, Mr Caiknder. Committee—Messrs M‘Aeill, \oung. isaundsiß, and ?-coular.

A general cneet'Dg of the Union Football Club was held at tbe Hibernian Hotel last evening, Mr Barber in the chair. It was decided by the ca ting vote of the chairman, “ i hat the members of the Union Club, who houl > play with tbe Ounedm Club in the match with the Aucklanders, eh uld not play as representatives of the Union Club, but simply as individuals asked to assist.”

Judge Carvey, the ‘Wakatip Mail’ informs us, cviduitiy dots not wrap him.-e f up in the stolid mantle, a* much as t - say “It is not my duty to give advice ” He | freely expresses bi« opinions either to the legal genCem.n piaeiismg, to suitors, and • veu to wi nessc--, Hv sb o(iimon». which are given uuos' ent,'iti"Usly, often prove vers acceptable. Hus is au aureeab e future to note in one of our courts of law. Half ad"Zru valuable .(Unions were thus given durb.g the last ailtr-g of the district Court. Yesterday's ‘I'J, 0. '’hues’ contains toe fobowiug; *•, u i yoking race, causing mom y to he freely r d by the passengers, took pi ICO between iin; sa Albion and the s.s. laupo, yes e> day i ot.h bound irom !’o v l Chalmers. The hitter cleared the wharf seven minutes before the .•'■lion, which came alongside ihe Taupo ei-ht minutt s a:ter clearing the Heads. One hour 5 aft*r.vaids the Ai» ion Lai left her riv-.I a I mile stem She then came on u der easy j s .eam. and kept the b-a I all he way to i -.M rru, which she made ’our hour* -.ftor l-aviug Port hj do.er.i wharf th is keeping up :v spe d of tnir : c , k’-'^s.”

Wo notice iu the • f’-u I<sh Mechanic’ of June 25 a contribution f.om a Uumvliu resident, containing ;ira' T ugs of the sp. c'ra of certain southern stars with a letter press de cription of than The principal stars exa r ined were Cauoom, Alpha Gentauri. Antares, Gamma Gm. is, ; psiion Argus, and No. 3,679 of Hersoieds catalogue, it was found that Canopus Las a spectmn like that of Sirius, the hydrogen lines bei-g remarkably clear and distiu t. The photosphere of Alpha Centauri ■,< lauud almost b<y.u' doubt to contain livlrogen, iron, magnesium, and sodium, and the Mar ia m all probability very similar to our own Sun. Patous who take an interest in astronomical matters will find in this contribution much interesting information which is therein published for the first time.

The Greymouth ‘ livening Star ’ of the ISch imt. <eports ;—“a still, with ail the appliances access-ry for the trade for which it was evidently i:icui:'ad. was siizrl by th Custom House authorities yesterday m the transit shed. It via packed with some, few articles of a miscellaneous description in a case addressed to Mr Thomas Waddell, care of Mr llnuc.au M‘Loan, Greymouth, and came by the Mauri from Port Ct•/ rners, at which place it was receiva' under bond trom an English vessel. The local agent for the Maori, acting ; wnder

mßtmctions, passed a tight entry for tht -’■•se, of course without the slightest knowledge • f a contents. I s detention, pendug instruction* from Wellington, followed a matter of course. The most singular Kart the. affair is that there has not been .lit ‘dighte t attempt made at concealment, 0 ;b t possibly in the end the consignee may bo able to explain some special purpose •f a strictly legal character for which the •t-ange importation is designed.” 'fhe All Saints’ Young Men’s Association hold their usual weekly meeting in the All .'hunts' ochool-room last evening, the Kev. Mr Stanford, president, in tbo chair. The committe •• appointed to arrange the next evitm tauimenfc brought forward its report. ‘ he entertainment is to take place on the 1 ith October, and the charge of one shilling for idimss ais to bo made. The committee has determined to initiate a spelling boo ou the occasion as part of the programme, and a prize will be given to the one who holds out longest. Mr W. J. i’ercival then rrad a v.-ry interesting paver on the “ Phy.i.cal construction of the - - ' un,” entering into a description of the sun, and remarking that the object of observing the transit of Venus was to .-determine more accurately the distance between the sun and the earth. He mentioned particularly the solar spots, which arc of a bright rea c dor and not black as may be generally supposed. They become in an instant disrupted, and are continually changing ; the evolution of a gas with which we are ;;ob yet acquainted causes the disruption of the photosphere and the body of the sun becomes visible, showing the internal mass to be red hot. That the radiation produces the envelope called the photosphere has been determined beyond doubt by means of the spectroscope, an account of which, by request, Mr Percivalhas kindly consented to give on a future occasion, a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer brought the proceedings of the evening to a close.

We acknowledge the receipt from Mr Braithwaite of the “Young Ladies’Journal ” for August ; “ Bow Bella ” for August; ‘ -Family Herald” for July; and the “London Journalfor July. The installation of the officers of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, 1.Q.0.F., will take place this evening at eight o’clock in the lodge room, Hibernian Hotel, Octagon. Members of the Grand bodge are particularly requested to attend; also members of the' Onhr having attained the fifth degree are invited to be present.

Mr F. Beissel, hairdresser and perfumer. Pi inces street, has received a large consignment of goods per mail steamer. They comprise tortoiseshell combs, sprays, bows, pius, and sddes; also, p> arl combs, pins, flowers, &c., of very handsome designs and patterns. We have no doubt the ladies of Dunedin will pay a visit 10 Mr ••■eissel’s establish merit, and that the patronage bestowed upon him will reward him for his enterprise.