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Evening Star, Issue 3923, 20 September 1875, Page 2

l lio '■ r>aily ' r imcs : often treats its readers to a lew quotations from Latin <»uthora, sup posed to throw the light of an unknown Longue upon our barbarous and inexpressive language ,-vi.l he kindly say whether be has quoted Horace correctly in his le der this morning, for our reading is Car (bant quia vate sacro," not “ Carent," &c., as in the ‘ Daily Times.’ An extraordinary hailstorm has occurred at Uhaupo, Waikato, some of the pieces «f ice that toll being r.o less than two inches in diameter.

Both the af tcruoon and evening performances at the Temperance Hall on Saturday were well attended, the children at the former receiving presents from Mr Davies. During this week valuable gifts will be distributed amongst the audience by lottery.

The football match at Montecillo on Saturday between the Otago representative team and fifteen others, was spiritedly played despite the unfavorable weather. The result was that all the goals obtained fell to the team chosen to meet the Auckland players.

The whole of the immigrants by the ship Waimoa, with their luggage, were lauded at the railway pier this morning, under the supervision of Mr Colin Allan, and conveyed to Dunedin by the I 30 train. Unleaving they gave three cheers for the captain and doctor. Early on Saturday a hawker named Hoberb Stephens was found dead in a yard adj.lining the Universal Hotel, Maelagcan street. Deceased, who was about fifty \ ears’ of ag,; and a native of I icvonshire, bad bei u drinking heavily of late, lie was posso sed of considerable means, i ho following liable request from an apparently i: jand individual appears as an advertisement iu the ‘ Tmnut rimes ’ “ I hereby ex ress my desire to relinquish the obriquet of ‘ (German Brown.’ lam a Norwegian ; and if people will not cad me by my roan .me, let them cdl me ‘r- orwvgian Brown. ’’

The ‘ '■ hrouic’o’ reports that at Namely a heavy fad of snow occum d on I u-sday morning, quickly covering th ground to a depth of six or eight inches there was a break in the weath r in the evening, f ( lowed by a thaw on Wednesday, i esterd.iy, howev r. too snow agdu set in very heavily. It is to be feared that the storm will bo followed by floods. A number of police eases were dis osed of at the city Court oh is morning by Messrs F.sh and Buvh, J.P’s. Feter Johnson, having been looked up smeo Satmday night for being drunk, was dhchargod, and Ibury Cooper was lined 5s ; Uobert Muir forfeit*cl bis bd! ; John May was fined 10s; and Aisi-wa M ‘Donald 40,3. Alay was further

punished with a penalty of 20s, with the option of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for usiog obscene language. Marion M‘Donald, a deplorable creature, was fined bio, ia default throe months’ imprisonment, for a similar offence. At midday yesterday a lunatic named Geo-ge Williams, a woodcutter, living at tine id. wan found in London street will) his throat cut. He was immediately taken ro the. Hospital, where Ur Yates dresne I bis wound, which was not a fatal one. This would-be suioidalist thought some men were ioing to carry him off to America, and had aitemptad,.to cut his throat to thwart their object

The chair at Saturday Night’s Concert was taken by Mr H. J1 Leary, who, in the course of the enteitainaient, took the opportunity to deny the statements that hj id been circulated to the effect that the proceeds of the concerts w> re not devoted to charitable purposes. The whole of the surplus over expenses will be used in aid of some cha itahle institution. There was a larg-i audience ai d an attractive programme was arccessfu ly gone through. Toe Inspector of Works appears to be required in the Wang ami district. The

■ Chronicle ’ o : the 10 hj inst. says:—‘'The condition of the Turakina bridge is becoming a serious matter. I earns cross daily, the drivers of which arc in utter ig oracce of • lie fuct that at the Tutakna end the be ms rest upon about two feet of undermined and dang KUi.dy treacherous soil. We may expect at any moment to hear of a U ranic catastrophe occurring th^re.” Leieriiag to •* an old Greymouth resident, who is a’so the most remarkable m m m the courtly through having be. n nursed by the great Dan OVonnell, and kissed by that sarac dride of Kerry hundreds of times,” a cmtrbutor ( ‘ utolycus”) to the local < '-tav’ writes:—' I always imagined <he Liberator was a man of taste a-i well of fcahxx’, bnt if be kissed bis boys in where pr.-tty girls abound, then the great ban is not the man I imagined him.” Tnc Gr. ymouth * Star ’ of the 10th inst. repo.ts a stra - '• «*n•' as follows :—“A fatal accident u.ieu at the Waiho on tve-’iieslay last, Amm named Samuel Kennedy, an old settler in the district, was engaged in splitting a log, and having driven ia two iron wedgeo, attempted to introduce one of wood. This last, on receiv mg a blow, flew out with great violence, and struck Kennedy in the groin. He fell to the ground, but afterwards succeeded in crawling to his hut, where he died the following evening.” The annual election meeting of the Dunedin Jewish (Congregation was held yesterday at the Synagogue vestry-room ; the President (Mr B. Isaac) in the chair. The treasurer read the balance-sheet, which was received, adopted and ordered to bo yriated. It was resolved that immediately" after the New V ear holy days the extension of the Synagogue shall be commenced, and the trustees were empowered to rune a sura not exceeding 1.-1,000, 'the election of officers for the ensuing year then took place with the fo lowing results : vlrJ. Hyman, president) Mr VI. Joel, treasurer; Messrs E. Nathan, M. Moss, S. Jacobs. G. Harris, L. Mendelssohn, J. Moss, B. Newman, and R. M. Marks, members of committee.

Another new township is about to spring poa the Waitaki Ciain. The name of this additional centre of population is, says the omit Ida ' Chronicle,’ to be Duntr on, and the site is on tbs west bank of the Caerewhenna, on the opposite side (and very nearlj alj cent) to the terminus of the Awamoko railway Being so near the ! e-nnnm of a railway, of the extension < f which there exists little or no pr-oba ili y for sears to come there can be litCe doubt t at • unt non will have an unusually nuce-ssbu caret r. Already are the amaru eop'e oa the aler: to secure the best sites and r port aUo has it that some cf 'he present resident' of Macrewhonua are contemplating a removal thitherward.

The ‘ Chronicle ’ states that at the nquiry regarding the eircumstv. ces attending the alleged drowning of migh Hepburn in the Taieri liver at ; ydo, held there on Wednesday last before H. ■■■•. tiobiahou, sq., K. M., the only additional evidence elicited w s that the missing man and the women w re under thi intiuei.ee of liquor, but not dmnk. f iepba*n told the wmiiej when at the juno tin -.f the track a- d the road lea ing to the river cros mg, that as vlardling would be in bed he won d ford the river and bring the bo t. Mrs ardling tried to persuade him not to venture; but he went, 1,-iking a lamp with him, an 1 , carrying a pair of gum hoots across bis shoulders. As she did not sae the ILht shortly afterwards she supposed that he must have fallen. It was als:> stated that he had on several occasions pievioucly forded the liver ui foot, hut not when it was so high. Although the liver his dragged, and the banks searched by 'ln police and others, no trace of the body or tuo lamp cr boots have been found. ■

Officials and others appearing in public courts havehiOdv f-v-u g tang, gratuitously, much instruction as to their manner and mode of procedure. This has been the case on the 'Vest Coast in the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Johnston, and in the District Courts, before Judge Weston. It is noticeable, however, that it is not always on the same points that the judges pronounce passiug judgment. A barrister leaning on a witness-box, or approaching the Court-house fire, were lately circumstances to which attention was directed, though not by words, in the Court at Oreymouth ; and at Reef bon, we are to'd by the ‘limes,’ Judge Weston suggested to counsel the propriety i f not leaving the barristers’ table for the purpose of handing documents to witnesses in the box He said that there rvas m officer in attendance whoso duty it was to perform that service, and it was more becoming the dignity of the profession, no less than in respect to the Court, that the latter course should be adopted. Ilia Donor continued, “ The proper practice and forms of the Court should be adhered to as closely as p ssible, othtrwu-o we shall degenerate, and lict’e by little all ceremony will disappear, and as young men grew up they will follow' in the same course, and eventually there wilt lie no practice at all, ”

His Honor the Deputy-Superintendi-nt was this morning waited upon by a dopu tation of residents of ot. Kdda and Musselbur, hj, i hey were imroduced by Mr i ax'cu, who pre anted a rocmonul signed by I: ly-eight i e idv,uis of the abut o <.iisti’icc>, pirijing tout ihcy might be excludid irum the proposed municipality with Forbury, South Dunedin, &e., as intended by the ‘ Biovincial Gazette’ of August 25 last, and proclaimed and incorporated as a separate municipality Mr Fax ton explained tha: ihcie were only sixty-four hou.iCoo.d.; in the two districts and th ■ reason the other six ha I not signed was that three houses we e imteiuiniod, ana tne bends of ihe fami ies in the ocher three were away from th ir homes It wou d be to their advantage o be proclaimed a separate munieipa’ity. hr townships of t Kihla and Musselburgh w< re p sscssed of a school reserve, a buren ie-servo, ami a maniei rose ve ; so tha* th.-y nul not n quire any grant ior ihe purpose ui carrying out their m nicq.aiity. His lion u : ttu you think it better ; 0 r the whoio di. triet that two municipalities be form d . Mr i'axtou : L th nk s >. That is the woh of the whole of ihe inhabitants. t woulo bavi bueu butter to ha\e been j iued in with Dune-, in tuau with Forbury. t is u onor

promised to take legal advice on that part of the Ordinance under which the deputation wished to be formed into a separate municipality.

On Sa'urday evening, at iho Qnee i’s Theatre, Mr and ' ; rs George Derreli o-n----eluded a successful nine weeks’ engagi-nr-nt. i ho Frump Card” being rep ated, and .vir.- 1 Darre l reciting ‘‘The amb er’s ■•Vito. ’ Mr ■iunell received a loud call at the end of the : lay, and on coming forward delivered a sh >t a hlrtss He thank "! the Dunedin pulahc for -be support accord d or-» ‘hr pH and himself, andacku *»v cd-wd the knid-ne-s o! the theatric d m•• aymmnt ‘ml the assistance of the omuiOvTs ot th: c- mu *ny 'S an old i’. sulent in Du odni In- felt v ry proud that his iff > ts hj ,d m.-t with so mu :li succe t=, and when Mrs Darrell h-.d u ly recovered her h-alth th-y intended to return here and win, if possible, oven more laurels. Mr Darre ; l retired amidst euthusi mtie ap plause. Among the must snc-c ss’.ul pices played during the Darrel a’ eiiga.-euient w" may menrion, in the o'-der of luir p 1 ying Mr Darrell’s ‘ vSr-nggl. for Fee dmn •” ■ ‘ .s You Like it” (Dm slice a o', the sc r-.o -.) ; am.el “ Man ■<■ ** I Wi'e an.! Mr arrell's “ Frump <arl’ M-s oure'-Fs Hosal nd in “ You Like • was a finished and ch rmiug piece of acting. We ■ wish Mr and rs ! arroil every success in the ‘iburc and tmst soon to sec them tu-am on Duimd n boards. 10-nicht. -«r ami ’.!» F. Ni. Bates reappear in “ Ei ziii- th.”

In noticing i\lr Mucau bew’- aoiendnmms on the •. Gr ition Bill after i s sno r' d i ;v i ing, Dm M anganui * Herakl ’ o: he I lib inst. rem ir.-.a Vhe seal c-ntoome «..l tl.-so proposals will probably b* leyod.tiou 1 hisession on points which the Dov' rumeut oi“ not intend dealing with until the ucx . version. I’he ffect of Mr Mscaudrcw’s aofc.ov will be seve cly felt by the Opposition. , v. u wore his proposals entirely .v.»ta- i ,oc , »tic to the Government, they ;nc of such a ruv .ire that we .< mbl. whether Sir George Grey’s immedulo followers coni.! .icoopt tin in They are certainly in direct opposition to iSir eorire. for\ir Dacandrew accepts aho'itimi, while the leader ot the Oppo ition. subsequently to tie nmice of motion, has reiter tod his intention of opposing the Bid word for word. PeDiapa the loss to his party made him smart, but he will find that his conduct will drive from him a number i.f the few supporters that still cliug to him. Before the «ession is over we may pr -b.iblv sc.Giis following reduced to one Superintendent and four Provincial officials Mr Macandrew, although he is somewhat imprac ticab’e in the Bouse, is nevertheless possessed of a good deal of influence, and has at any rate the gift of lookin ■; ahead a quality in which Sir George Grey appears to be remarkably deficient. .But while we give Mr Macaudrew credit for the position be has assumed, we must not take it for granted that ho will support the Government for the temainder of the cession. But he is not likely to work un-ier :-ir ' merge Drey. He-will probably take a stand quit independent of both parties.”

A summoned meeting of the Pioneer Lodge 1.0.0. F. will be held to-morrow evening, at 8 p.m.

The drainage machine competition will be held at Springfield Farm, near Miltmi, on i hursday, the 30'h September, The adjourned meeting of shareholders of the Duned'ii Land building, and Investment C >m- , any will be held in the Temperance Mali ibis evening, at 8 p.m, Members of the Hearty Welcome Ledge. No. 1, Free Order of Oood templars, are requested to attend the lodge-room on SVednesday next at 7 p.m. Entries for the Dnmdin Chess Club ir andi c qj 1 ournsment will close, and a general meeiing will he h—ld, at the Athenaeum on Tuesday, Sep l ember 21, at 8 p.m.

The sing'i? men and married coupler! by the Wuimea. will be ep>n for en airement at the barracks to-morrow, an 11 o'clock ; vbe sim- 1women on Wednesday at hj" same hour.