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Evening Star, Issue 3948, 20 October 1875, Page 2

At the Queen’s Theatre, last evening, “The Man in the Iron Mask” waa played to a good house. This evening “ R.che ieu” is to be performed; to be followed by “ Two to One.” According to the ‘ Inangahua Times,’ it has been reported, but on what aut : oriiy the ‘Times’ knows not, that a digger named Patrick Rough, at cue time a resident of Rcefton, has been fortunate enough to draw the first prize of L 24.000 sterling in tho great Austrian and Hungarian Loan Lottery. A large seal was captured on Sunday morning at the Ocean Beach by Messrs J. Bii’t, D Wilson, and J, Bowen, The seal made a do perato resistance, but was shot through the head by its captors. It measured between Oft and 12ft long, and proved to be a specimen of the sea leopard. The skeleton was purchased by Captain Hutton for iho mus* urn. Another seal was captured by the same party yeater fay, but being in a dange cua place they Inve not unnamed to laud it. he party had to di sc nd IfiOft to the beach by m ans of llux and ropes to secure it.

Mcs ra Brown and Fulton, J. P.’a, presided at the City Police Court this mornme. Johanna Brown wa? lined 5s for drunkenness. an 1 Thos. Cross, for being drunk while inch ige of a horse and cab. was fined 85, or, in . eiault, fourteen days’ impr snnmont A charge against a. boy named William McCarthy, of wilfully a. d maliciously pl acing a st'>ne upon the rails of the Dunedin and < lutha raiiwa ,on ctoher 12, with intent to endangc-r the safety of persons trave lin j upon the said railway, was called on, but as accused fared 'o put in an appearance, the charge was ad journed till next day. Sun e important correspondence! was considered at the meeting of the Waste Band Board to-day. Cases for submission to the >up’onie C; urt with respect to the ILrio. undr ds aimtmen’s aid the am ion of LhLaurence District Land Ollicer. were o nsideml. The Provincial Solicitor, writim. iu reply to tim Hoard’s resolution, requesting him to nmve Judge Johnston to give Lijudgment iu re the motion oa attachment against tcrhiiu >minfers of tho Board, pointed out t at his Honor had been waiting Justice Williams’s decision iu the motion for ir.j li.e.mn in t-.e m tier of the licriot iiuudr ds ; and this having uo.v been given I ho attachment decision would douutles.-. shortly follow.

Tho Auckland. ‘Echo’has (he following: Lovers of good doas will be pleated to loaru that Mr J. S. Bai ey, who is a - resent on a visit to Auckland, has at New Plymouth two pure English mastfT dogs ot the celebrated rivina Hall lirccd. Mr Bailey’-, dogs ate named Adam and Lve, and are by the. groat English prize taker Barry oat of Ain, and were bred by Mr ti. L*. Kicgdon, W illhayue, Colylou, Devon, Barry’s pedigree dates bacu as fur ns the year 1415 He is fawn color, with black points, weighs 162 pounds, and stands thirty-one inchi s hmh. Ue is deseende.l from the bitch said to have lefended fciir Percy I eigh, of Lyme Hall, as he lay on the field of Agin omt. Mr Cco. Earl, the great animal {.sinter, has painted Bury thro* times as a study cf ma-tiff j.u ily, an 1 has put. him in the place of honor in his grand national painting “The Crack Dogs of England Mr BaileyL dugs are therefore connected with the beat blood in England, and as a proof of ho estimation they are held in wo may meutio that their owner refused L r o for either of them when they wore five moutrs old. iho concert given at the Octagon “rillhod list evening, in aid of a young man who has for some time past been out ef employment owing to illueoa, w r as no; vay numerously attended. The entertainment

was of a Baa ewhat motley description, if ‘icing explained that several ladies who hj. T<<mised to take part had fai'ed to put m a apneararce. Much amusement was cause, hy the effort« of a well-known knight of >t ‘ Lapin, who attempted to r-cita th funeral soliloquy from “ diehard I! I.” him a si'ifle word at ered by this gcntlemv could be heard, and the audience th-'rougid'. ear'd at the peculiar gestures he made Although he remained in occupation o f the stage for fully a quarter of an hour all at--empts to cry him off were futile, and at length some oi.e at the back of the stage ha to request him ro wuh ba v. His eir - m nt was hai’ed with considerate satisfaction and no s all amount of applause. Th re were some good songs bv Messrs Connolly and Denovan, and a capital cornet duet by Messrs Oliver. Mr fcJykes presided at the piano. The second annual meeting of the Mosgiel VVoollcn Factory Company will be-hekl iu the Lower Hall, Athetuenm, on October 2S, at 3 p.m.