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Evening Star, Issue 3917, 13 September 1875, Page 2

The b.s. Taranaki may be expected at Port Chalmers with the Saa Fraucisco mail early to-morrow morning, Saturclay’s-concert at the Oddfellows’ FTa'l was, as is always the case, largely attended. Mr J. Black presided, and a capital programme was gone through- by various vocalists.

i he pedestrian Wiltshire finished walking 150 miles on -atari-lay evening, doing ’he distance in 3ihf. ; . idmin., o» three-quart:rs of an hour un br time. There we e o stakes on the affdr, it being merely an exhibition match against time. On Saturday afternoon the selected football team met for practice on the Town Holt above Maitland street, and were divided into two sides of about twelve each A spirited contest ensued, the game being heartdy entered into all round. °

The “Colleen Bawn ” was played to a well-filled house at the Queen’s on Saturday nigld, Mrs Darrell making a charming ; dy 'Connor, and some of the other charactois being fairly rendered Mr Darrell afterwards gave some of his popular songs and recitations, wh ch were well received.''’

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court. Port Chalmers, this mornum, before Ids Wnrshin the Mayor (A. M‘Km non K:q , J P.). William i homson and John Brown, charge I with being drunk and incapable in Mount street ye-terd-iy. were oa !i ordered to nay a tine of l(h, o l 'm d f mlt twenty-four hours’ iaij.ir aonrneiit.

1 he Thames correspondent of the ‘New Ze land Herald ’ reports that by rec-ntex-i Ujf, retook lixen : o at tlie 'lh-<UK;s his received a shock that will take it

some time to recover. The system of dummying has been exposed and torn open in a manner that will rankle [sic) the existence of an association that, hitherto, has been reckoned t ■ carry on its operations in an honorabo way towards its own members, and with satisfaction to the punlia. At a meeting of the numbers of the Dunedin Synagogue, held yesterday, Mr J Hyman was unanimously elected Pro idem,for the next year. The election of treasurer uni committee-men takes place on timidiy. A proposal to borrow LI,OOO to enlarge th Synagogue was postponed for a week, so that the balance-sheet might be laid on the table.

The Wanganui ‘ Herald ’ notices that Dr Bradford, whose recent elopement with a Victorian heiress will be remembered, has advertised his intention to ap ly for permisson to pract’se as a medical man. The same piper comodeis that being-omethiiu' o: a hi.m Ur Bradford will a on s-ouic a

j numerous conuect;ou*esoccialiy as his quaii--1 ilcatioas have aready been well advertised ’ gratuitously. j (! . Wellington ‘Tribune’ remarks that jan opinio,i so-ms to be growing tat the IJu f ge3 of the Supieme Court will -ho tly he concent rated in Wellington, with ueriodical | circuits thiouglmut the (Jol ny, 'out adds : | ** Wcpsro not aware that there is any rcaso • j i' o1 ’ Hiis opinion at tw■■■sent, levoud the osas vir'ion that sue a a, ch.r.g-fwoul I be vor\(d> ■ j ''able It will come, b-.;t hardly for some • little time yet.”

It is (seldom that persons become fond of gaol liie, hut that this is the ease with a few, wa. exempli I]--d yesterday morning. says the ‘hew Zealand Herald' of toe 7th m.st, at the police station, when an old lady, not in.Unown to an m d 'sirahio kin I oi fame, prose, ted hers elf before one < f tin uliieuils engaged in the conservation of her Majesty’s peace, -.vitli a request for admission to the lock-up. Mrs Boodle, that is the lady’s # n .jp?, had just finish i-d a term of impr;s mmeut, and had apnnrant’y got dis g'isted M’uh the monotony of lite outside the prison walls, Pin was admitted, and will pi obably spon L the rest of her life in gaol if the choice

'i lio Dunedin t mcs Oiub have issued their rul“8 fur the forthcoming hnnd'oap tournament, which is exciting considerable interest amongst chess-players, and entries for which close uu the 21st inst. hho tournament is ' P ci to all chess-players, wheilier members ot the club or otherwise.. It is desirable that playeis intending to take part should give in their names to the secretary as early as practicable, so as to give the committee appointed to handicap the play rs an opportunity of judging of their respt olive merit", the winner of the liiat three games in each round will be de dannl the victor in such round, and he will then bj drawn, for the succeeding rouudf. The her: m a fishing scorns to bo an established i.ade now in so 1 - c parts o the Colony. At Picton, on Cook’s .-traits, it is very prosperous. '1 his season it s.ems to be more than usually profitab l e. A contemporary says : —'mmeose shoal-', with corresponding takeh of fish, arc repo t-d, the latest being a haul < f four tons weight made in the tide of the sih August. The steamer aranaki was then at Pic'.on, and as she went up the ■sound drove an immense shoal of herrings before her Lt was out of this eho 1 that the above-mentioned haul was made. hj" listiermeu'.i ■ ots wore again full on the night’s tide—so fall indeed that the men decided to delay hauling them until the fed lowing morning.

There wn a t,ood attendance at the Tom i'eranoe Hall on Saturday evening, and fr-itn the repeated applause the audience mut have been well pleased with Mr i avie-Ts elforfs to amuse, them. Young Scott, the pedestrian, wait'd his mile in first tat •=tyle, although the sharp turns in the 1-all caused him to -tumbl-' scv< ral times >. t tiie finish Mr Davie> presented him with a -i ver cup, subscribed for by Scott’s name •oil' admirers, telling him t -at his feats a? a pedes'nan would bring him word-wile tune 'I h-> en»ertainm.o.t was brought, to ;> com by the lent: en (Hi Vide n-rlonni ;g s-un ■ e'ever on the ho \?. mt ll b.-.r, ami bv Mrs Hmpson singing a very pretty ballad. Molly Darling,” which was loudly encored. Mr Davies re-opens on Wednesday evening, iufro luciug for the first time m Dunedin, “JSatator, the Man-fish.” Two prisoners were revived into the gaol on Saturday night. <ne was William Wood, sentenced o i 'h- lOtTi instant by Mr Pa.- .ter, ii. d , atDama u. t. three c den-lar monf - s’ imprisonment, hard !»b r, £o. "tea dug a swag coutaming a quantity of wearing apoarel. The other was theory M'Cartliy, alias Stephen Toomey, who was sentenced at- Oamaru, on the Oih'instaut, by Mr Parker, K,M., to four calendar months’ imprisonment v. ieh hard labor, for stealing a wa'c i chain with p.-uti ..up and a pockethandkerchief from the pa’son. Toom-’v was tried at the Supicme Tonrt. Dun' din, ab.ui; two years ago, on a charge <>f robbery from the perioa in Vv'-dkcr stre t, but acquitted Suijsc-qiieut.y hj i remo.oi t,- Timaru, where he couuaittc-. ' ’ tor v>nich he wan convicted, ana f r which he did twelve mouths.

Tli« first anniversary of the An cl;’and Fire Brigade was celebrate;! on the 6th hist, by a torchlight procession and a supper. Af the latter Inspector Hughes, who was in the chair, made the following remarks in the course of his reply to the toast “ Success to the Brigaie’’: —Organising the Brigade has not beeu, I assure you, easy work. The plots and jealousies i have bad to contend with have been numerous, but I shall refrain from particularising them, Imping that they will bo no more, and that their memory may be buried in oblivion. Wo arc united here with one object - to form an efficient Brigade, ihe s hv>- ila or tin Brigade is now thirtynice, including r.fficus. At the present time I oaunot say that the offic rs and are as proficient as I snouid like them to be ; but ■ have no doubt that when tney aim called on to meet the foe they will do so satisfactorily. We arc looking anxiously forward tor the day when the waterworks will be finished ; nor, only that we may haw wab r for fires, but also a plentiful supply to piactisu witn.”

The following Pres-: Agency telegram date i Dunedin, 9>-h mat., a pears in tin ‘ . Z Turns ’ot the Jo:h :—“ Mr (fen v■; resident engineer and manager of the. gaHorns, has wntleu a long article on Counts s re; ort to tho Council, ad.i-ing that body 10 erect new works, Gi never, by his sounn practical knowledge, prove? tlie report of dr Co srtis to be throughly unreliable am comparatively worthless ; it is not so good as a gaslit ter would furnish, and gives general di. satisfaction. Me showed that the present works are quite capable of supplying the town ” (he ‘ A. Times ’ comments on

:his as follows :—“'.'he Press 'gen ay -hou' , ex'-reise some care in the Bi-lection of its subgen's Wc have a telegram from its Dun. edit: representative in our present issue, ir. widen Home extiv.o dinary st t-im n’.s in respeet to gas supply there aie made I'MDu .-cdm in; s agent- coolly pronounces a”, opinion on the niei’.ts of a quest ..•n. instead of U-L-graptiiutne fact i an I leaving people to j.-Mg) lor theuist- 1 vea . . . Wo know that the Cen-.ral geucy dm-s its best, an I wo do not wed to biauic ir, -, but, wo urn-t lay before it our piot»-j,c having to pay for ibis kind of thmgW Amusing incidents wrl oe air on the most

iiIK-N.fi 000 K10;18. t tilo 801 VlO ■ Ot ill the Wesleyan Church, Wellington, ..a Wed-

nesday night, says th-3 ‘ Tribune ’ o! the 9th inst., a gentlemen of the fourth estate, who is rather near sighted, on enteri g his seat looked for a spot on which to deposit hi- 1 hat, and pi ce i it upon what be took to he the pst at the cirnmoe o ; the pew. Bat. <ii I • •is eye doc-: ve hnn ? )he hit nKW ! ci ..'(Vitly. Be'oro e denn: the church Inhad list, ned to a graphic acc mat by an earl' settier ot the great earthquake a quarter of . century ago, and it instantly llished upon hi<>* that he was in th° midst of a tremendous q lake. Another shako and the hat rolled • ft, and what lie mistook .for an inanimate pi t turned out to be tho head of a nice young lady. Mis fears of bci-g eugulphed by an earthquake were dissipated, but a thousand eyes had 1 ecu and were looking upon him. He was the hero ot the no 'asion hut he did not e joy the service of eaered song a hit. Me would have preferred if his chief had sent him to the reporters’ gahry of the Homo, • Vt n f tic bad been coo pcli-. d to listen to tlm einquen -e of the drearii st of toe dreary members of Otago touching a Waste Lands Bill. Touchstone ” wri-es in th- ‘Cross’ as follows:—"There is nothing to he gened by any racing club revoking a decision c one to on good evidence, and. therefore, when an application was matin to the i-unediu Jo key Club to rescind its judgment in the Mabil case, it is not surprising tbe> should have determined to uphold the decision of the committee which considered the quution ■'Mi at is surprising is, that with the ex option of the present owner of the marc awl ilia ‘ 1 riends ’ there should have Deen I uni anyone to ask the removal ( ,f the diaqaal;eat'Ou. 'I ho case catti; before a full meeting of the Dune :iu J ckey Club about a fort night ago, and was then fully considered and finally, 1 hope, disposed of. A petition, s gtied by a large number of poisons, wa handed in, and the presenter of it laid partial ar stress on the fact that ho ki/ew Dr Murphy—the owner of tho mare—to he a iiost honorable man. Now, that has not the least bearing m the world on the case. Because A ‘ pulls' hi: l horse, aul is disqualified therefore, is it to he permitted that he can sell the auim-d, perhaps to his next friend, and still go on running it, only under another man’* name? Not for a moment. Dis qnalilio itiuu of tho owner, without di-quali-fiea'ion of tho horse, is about as ‘rotten’ a punishment as you could inflict.”

The Mount Ida ‘ Chronicle’ reports: 1 here has been no satisfactory imoimaMoo yet received as to the disappearance of the :nan Hepburn at Hyde. The facts are the-e : —The missing man, accompanied by Mrs Mardling and another woman, went into the 'ownship late on the afternoon or evening of the 24th August—first visiting i he Commcr cial ilotel and thou the Hyde Hotel, which they left about 10 pm. Mr Reed gavetb m a lantern. It appeared they went on together until arriving at a point where a track di verges to the right. The lantern had gone ont, and Hepburn insisted on taking the right hand track, while the women ollowe i down the road to the ferry, which they reached about twelve o’clock. They cooed, aud Mardling brought over the boat. Tfc. y did not see anything of Hepburn. Mardlina returned with a lantern, and went down the west bank, but could find no trace of him. Ho then again cross-d the r ver, hanging.up •i bm ern as a >.uide to the ferry. A bon l , one oVock bo went out again and cro sed Hiiffoi over, who was returning from th< Land Court at Na-eby. Early in the rm-ru-'in; ho searched down the river. V few hundred yards from the bank he found Hepburn s hj >t, a half crown, and a sixpence I here was an appearance as if Hepburn bad. slipped, and lost his hat. The prol-abiHic are that he either walked over tho bank down the right hand tiack, r straggled up the bank, aud was drowned coming to th ford.

The ‘Tribune’ (f the 8h inst. has the fallowing Mr Stout, last night, made the statement that, .ur .icynoids would not

tgain hj miurnei f--r Dunklin Po-haps hj did not, moan To -ay so. perh.ps he bit ashamed of h.viiv,: sod it; whichever we', if .may have 1 eon wh n Mr Reynold' iv ferrod to the statement Mr Scout deni d hj" 'dug ma le it. >uoh a ei.ial was iuor. creditable to the better feeling than to tin strict voracity of Mr Sio.t because tiiore is not a shadow of doubt that he included the name of Mr Reynolds in a list of Utago memb rs who would not again be returned to Parliament, her. use o' their sup o-t.ng the A'olnion Hill The electors will decide that point, not Mr Stout. The reference wai certainly in bud taste, under any eir cmnstancoa. and i" the case of Mr Reynolds it must bo reganbd as specially so W. however, have a tar higher opinion of the constituency A Dnntdiu than (o suppose that they would, for some difference o! npiidmi (assuming that e-.j a diff.renc ivally exists) with an ..lo and tiied and Girted representative, bo prepared to tormi a oounecdon which has been honorable a.-iica to tbo electors and the « vexed, It was no doubt in the heat of debate that Mr .'stout permitted him* It to say what he did say, and it would be wrong therefore lo make much . f it ; but we will venture to assert—taking the liberty for once of speaking for the Dunedin people that Mr Reynolds is as sure of his seat at the next election as Mi Stout.”

A deputation of clergymen waited upon his Honor the Deputy. superintendent at uoon today, They were introduced by Archdeacon Edwards, who apologised for the unavoidable absence of Bishops Moran and Neville, and thortly stated the ohj.ctsof the deputation. They wished to ask the Government if they would giant to all ministers in the 1 rhvince free passes on the. railway when on duty. It was a privi ege gran'ed to ministers in America; and in tago th y were not charged when pissing throm/h turnpikes if on duly. The Rev. Dr mar. reminded his Honor th d when the late Mr John Jones owned nearly all th • steamers here he gave clergymen free passes, amt alth -imh it was not a movers 1 p ivilege on he railways m America, return tickets were granted to ministers at single rates onsime lines, while on others tree passes wete g anted. Archdeacon dward mentioned that Rishop Neville had seen the Sup. riu'en* deni mi tiie subject, ami that Mr Mammdr. w cas favorably disposed to (he prop. al Aife’ - lurtli, r d-ctissio , during which it cue sv-nei t!i T when Messrs Uli er and i’roudi ... < wued the Dunedin and Rur. Cu Jmc s line ministers bed free passe.-, out that theie were taken away wbm die lice was banned over loth- Government im Honor premised to fuliy pi me the m it,tor mfureibe x-.cuiive. Personally he might say that he was not in f .vor of tiu- stepfas there would be considerable difficulty in do termiumg where to draw the line He tail.d to see if clergymen should be graded the privilege why pm sous having benev dent missions to perform should not he birnd uly treated. Ihe deputation ihauk-d his Honor and re ired.

Hu j Ibmedin Harmonic Society will ,ive i iti ii 1 liiill concert at i In- Temperance Mall, tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. Mio monthly mrtmg of the Union Perm Aii nt building Society aib lie held at the otiiee this evenum, funn 7 to 8 o'clock.

Tlie usual fortnightly meeting of the : 'omnierotal bulking mid Mu'mo li»v.*«r.i: S ei.'t’, will he I, !•' this evening f'.om tj i,,g o cioclt.

A meeting of members of the Otago Tn-tiuite will bo held to-morrow evooing, when ii.- K Gil'ies will iva I a paper on the habits ot the trap-door spider.

have received a letter from “ • nuticue ** condemning the plans of the Engineer to the arbor Board for im ( .roving tin Harbor. As “ I/.( ( ' Ulu ii upon a misapplication of the lerni s u 'i'y, an I as th- - hole of the argument ••;* lui-oa tVlt :mi- vi.plio Wo oa.met inj.,V '-''''p U'” 1 " I‘i‘li in Ihe Kn hirer's 11 1 C’l'ic who can cumi.iit so aial an error.

d wn e i ioT ki n. ,V ' tl, - ,! ' V,> I’"*" completely ren rt ’ i " c 1,1 f,sut working order. Hip liberal patrona ~ 1,,-toacd upon these baths, mdopoic.en ~ t th.-irourativ.* properties, is ma g ya. m as,, due to the attention paid to too yisitois hv Mr aul Mih Burton. In connection With th- baths there is a. Wo sai mug basin, winch may lie Pi lorn advantage ot by those who have enjoyed the luxury of a I urkish ‘bath, mid we believe that no institution in the Australian Colonies can surpass the oco We have in this City. Fmm personal experience we can rccomm-uvl those who have not \et -iveu those bath* a trial to do so, and they wdl not regret having ♦.aken our advice.