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Evening Star, Issue 3910, 4 September 1875, Page 2

.richer local p-destrian has sprung! up in the person of a lad named Gle son, w ho,

according to the ‘ Herald,’ walked twelve miUa in I hour 53 minutes at s t Georg e’a tail, Tokomairiro on Tuesday last C'el : ny, the long-distance runner, was Gleevon’s trainer.

'ir Davies’s entertainment at the Temperance I T all was not so well attended Istst night, owing doubtless to Mrs Darrell’s

aetit at the Queen's attracting so many oii’tr. The performance, hj >wever wan g'.-no through with spirit. A large number f people were to be seen wending their way to tty- Hali this afternoon, when a performance • as to be given. A Southland paper notices that “Mr L. D. Keaoo, barrister and. solicitor, from Dunedin, intends permanently to establish himself in his profession at Riverton It may be fairly surmised that an extensive and profitable lidd is before him in the Western list riot vh' surprise being that no gentlem.m of the long robe has thought it worth li im while to settle there before now.”

The monthly meeting of the Schoolmasters’ ■iK-cciatiou was held in tbs Alhejias tm Hail 10-day ; Mr M‘Lauchlin, president, in the chair. There was a lar e attendance of

combers. Mr ‘■•eiah reported on the coniiri uof the library, Arc. Mr H. White, of Mirth '.'‘nuedi-. school then read a paper on ‘ due r.i ;n,” whica led to m animated and i ... :hy dD ussion, A vote of thanks to r A'bhe conclude i the proceedings.

’•t the ity Police Court to day Daniel ‘-■tidica »ud Jaiio Manuel were each fined 5s for drunkenness; Archibald MMallum, J .n "8 May ban, and James Bannan, all 10s. oi forty-cght hours. A charge of vagrancy •igni.ist Mary Davis was adjourned till iues'tay to enable accused to “ clear out.” Ellen Dal.as, charged with petty larctny, was dismissed, the evidence not being sufficiently conclusive A. C. Begg, Esq,, and J Brovra, Esq., J.P.’s, occupied the .Bench. Pho fo lowing paragr.ph appears in the ‘ Daily Time*’ of this morning :—“ The Oove-r.ment has decided that, in future, the Hospital shall continue under the management of the Provincial Surgeon, Dr Hulrae, MM that there shall be associated with him '■ Us Ft r .-usson, Hocken, and firown as Hos-ph-al physicians and surgeon*.” Wear® au-thorht-,d to state that although such an iau ,ein>nt has been conti m luted, it is not y>_t, eom; ie<ed, and that, therefore, the announcement is premature.

As mi Jit have been expected after the opening of the railway, the coaches to and fiora Milton did not loa i very well on ursda i . The I truce ‘Hera d * that ■ i llsll <»bbs mid-lay coach from Dunedin ■ ■r ve.i at i okum iiriro there appeared to bs eerae earn, oily to tee the numb.* of pat sen gers it would bring. As Southall inn his

oT*‘hor»« team in At a dashing pact, it b#» oame evident that there were no passengers outside ; and when the coach was pulled ur at the v\ hits Horse, the only occupants of tl • inside seats turned out to be three sedate* looking Chinamen.

It will be remembered that an exciting race fmm Port Chalmers to Gamaru between the steamers Albion and Taupo t ■«•■ place last Monday, m which the first nan - ' d steamer was the vie or by ab.ut a mile. The result was very disappainting to the friends of the Taupo, as it was exp ct d sho would be able to show the Gbifn the road, notwithstanding that her bottom was in a rather foul state. The Hawea has, however, quite retrieved the laurels of the Union Company, as she had an opportunity of testing her powers alongside the Albion on Thursday morning, when the} both entered Wellington Heads together. The Hawea is in better fettle than the Taupo, and showed that she was more than a match for the Albion by completely outstripping her. Considerable interest was taken in the race in Wellington.

The District Court was occupied till a very la*e hour last evening in hearing the case 0 1 Graham and Co v. David Proud foot, a claim to recover L2OO for an alleged breach of agree neat connect d with the building o r two bridges— one over the Oreti uiver and one over Jacob’s Kiver, Southland The plaint stated that defendant had agreed to supply pla ntiffs with all toenecessa.y labor, yet ho had wrongfully prevented aad bin dered the p'a.ntiff•, from finishing their contract, and w»ongmliy refused to supply plaintiffs with the necessary material. After hearing the evidence of several witnesses, the jury retired for haft au-hbur, and then returned into C mrt and asked for directions in regard to < amazes, saying tha : ’hey ban no doubt that the work had been <ion properly, t-ut they could not get over th nffi alty with tlie engineers His Houoi having told them that he coa’d not help tuem in that respect, the jury again retired, and eventually brought in a verdict f n plaint) ffi for 5 ; 100.

The City Council, at its special committee meeting last night, resolved to adopt th Finance Committee's report, which was submitted as fol ows l hey recommend (L that a municipal six per cent, loan 1 1 the extent of i. 100,001) be negotiated on th. London Stock rjiehauge as soon as pr*cti cable, the money to be borrowed under th' authority and provisions of sect on 98 am. succeeding c auses of the “ .umcipal Coiporations rdinance, IS’s,'’ and “ r h Sorrowing .'owers Kx-eusion • ! r 'i ianc 187 A" (2) i'-iat, acting under advice 'h ■ reutia. Government be appli d to to intr duee n Bi ! 1 into ihe General Assembly of s,; ew Zealand to assimilate thn form of Municipal bonds authorised to be isiued uadei the aforesaid • rdinan es with the uuedin Corporation Wat rwo ks debentures alroa-t ■ authorised under ‘cos of Assemby. (3 ) i hat in the Bill thus to be introduced inio Parliament, provision be made to increase f’he Council’s b rrowing powers for Municipal purposes from L200,(00 to L4'lo 000. 1 here was a good house at the Qa* en’s last night on the occasion of Mrs George i larrell’s benefit, and the performance passed off well with the exception of there being some wearying int rvala between the ac t of the first play. “King John" and “A Rough Diamond ” were the pieces produced, and the characters in each filled by Mrs Darrell served admirably to display that lady’s varied powers. Three acts only of “ King John ” were played, and Lady Constance is the character most prominently brought before the audience. Ttabling sarcasm with which the wid Wrd lady addresses Queen Eleanor iu the second act, and the pathetic and natural grief at the loss of her child in the third were fore bly ex pressed by Mrs Darrell, and long rounds of applause greeted her throughout the progress of the play. Mr Darrell was at honuin the part of Philip Haulconbridge, giving a capital picture of the reckless, daring braggart. The other characters were fairly represented, “ The Rough Diamond ” cau ed a great amount of amusement. To-night “ bob Roy ” and “ A Mexican Tigress ” will be produced. %

An ordinary general meeting of the standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company will be held at the Athenomna Hall on Monday, September 6, at 4 p m. The third concert of the i ’unedin Harmonic Society will be given in the Temperance H I) on Tuesday, September 14. Programmes may be obtained at Messrs Begg’s and West's,

Messrs Yeend and Co. have made some very important al corations in their southern line of coaches, in connection with the newly-opened Balclutha Railway, as to which we refer out readers in our advertising columns.

Another event in podestrianism is announce d to take place next Wednesday at the Drillshed bet ween Hobert Bird and George Bedford (who is a Good Templar) They will walk twenty miles against time for L 5 a-side, the conditions being that each shall carry a hod of twelve bricks. The start will take place at 7 a.m. We observe that the annual general meeting of members of the Dunedin Cricket Club will be held at Wain’s Hotel on Wednesday evening next. The ground of the Club is being pm pared for the season’s play, and the nailing, done to the tuif bv the football players repaiien as far as practicable. The coming season promises to be a lively and interesting one.