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Evening Star, Issue 3929, 28 September 1875, Page 2

The bridge across Spottis Creek, near Black’s, is completed and thrown open for traffic. At the Port Chalmers Police Court this morning, before Mr T, Taylor, J.P., Thos. Lopell, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, was ordered to pay a fine of five shillings, or in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. The local paper states as a sign of the scarcity of labor in Riverton that a working foreman for the Corporation was advertised for, salary ten shillings per day, when at the expiration of the time for receiving applications for the office, it was discovered that the situation had failed to attract a single applicant. Bro. J. Bathgate delivered a lecture last night in the Temperance Hall, under the auspices of the 1.0.0. F., and in aid of the funds of the Benevolent Institution. Bro. Haggitt, P.G.M., was in the chair. The subject of the lecture was “ ©ld Times in Scotland,” and Mr Bathgate treated it in his well known genial manner, supplying plenty of amusing anecdote o . The large audience received the lecture with repeated marks of approbation, and a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer was passed at its close.

A meeting was heldjast evening in the Mayor’s room, City Council Chambers, when the members of the new Fire Brigade elected the following officers :—Mr Thomas Johnson, captain; Mr John Atkinson, lieutenant ; Messrs Brown and Bowers, foremen ; Mr W. Sinclair, treasurer ; and Mr Robert Robertson, secretary and enginekeeper. After transacting business in connection with the new organisation, the meeting broke up shortly after midnight. The accidental omission, by the writer, of three words from the letter we published last evening on “Sectarian Assumption,” rendered the sense of the sentence in which it occurred, obscure. We reprint it, with tke omitted words italicised “if either of the terms with which I find fault is justly applicable in this Province—which 1 deny it is applicable to the so-called ‘ clergy of the Church of England’ resident amongst us, inasmuch as they do not conform to, but dissent frqm the principles and practices of the Church of the majority. ”

Ihe committee of the O’Connell Centenary Celebration are requested to meet to-night at 7 o’clock, at Watson’s Hotel B

Papers on “Ships’ Boats” and “Otago’s Budding Materials ” will be read at a meeting of the Utago Institute this evening, at 8.

Members of the Dunedin Harmonic Society are _ requested to attend at the Friendly Societies’ Hall this evening. A. social gathering will bo held on the conclusion of business. Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows has granted the application. for a charter to open the Linden Lodge, Kaikorai district and appoint Friday evening, Bth October, for the installation of the same. The Dunedin Press Dramatic Club announce October 8, as the date fixed for their performance of Robertson’s comedy “Society,” at the Queen’s Theatre, for the benefit of the sufferers by the late fire at the Princess Theatre.