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Evening Star, Issue 3950, 22 October 1875, Page 2

‘•it the Port Chaituers Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, James Nixon, for a'lowing a cow to wander within the municipality, was ordered to pay a bne of Is, with costs. T. A, Mausford, Esq.. R. M.’ presided. *’ Young Scott intends doing a pedestrian performance on Saturday evening, in the Drill-shed at Mosgiel. He goes out there at the request of several residents, who wish to compare his style with that of Edwards, who was trained in the district. ’ At the Queen’s Theatre last night an old drama was produced under a new name—- “ True Hearts ” The piece went wed, and was followed by the capital farce, “ Two to One.” This evening a farewell benefit will be given to Mrs Bates, when “Cora,” a novelty, will be played, followed by “Poor < illicoddy. ” We imagined yesterday that the reported passage of the Bingarooma, from Melbourne to the Bluff, was too fast <o be true ; and such proves to be the case. Our shipping report states that she left on the 16th. not th • 17 h,as teleg aphed ; consequently the len th of the passage was 4 days, 14 hours, 10 miu. ; or, deducting the 19 hours during which she was hove to, 3 days, 19 hours, 10 min. Even then the Kingarooma has made the fastest trip on record from vielbourue to the Buff by at least 13 hours. The well known Australian jockey, Wm Euders o. who early in the present year came • ver from Melbourne i; charge of Mr ■J. ieend’a horse Ho;y u’More, was received into the gaol this day from Melbourne en route, for < hristchurcb. He came per steamer Kingarooma. in charge of Sergeant Burtenshaw, of Malvern, and is charged with stealing on or about the 26th April last, from the City Hotel in Christchurch, a gold watch and chain, with appendages, the property of William Aitken, of Ashburton.

At a meeting of the Press Amateur Dramatic Club last evening, the balance-sheet of the late ence tainment in aid of the sufferers by the destruction of the Princess’s Theatre was brought forward. It showed that the evening’s receipts amounted to L 7415--, half of which goes to the lessees (Messrs Steele and Keogh) ; advertising, printing, and other expenses came to M2 Is, so that the balance •’finally iu hind was 125 13 • 6d. Uiis, .vo uiMers'.-.nd, was handed to Mr Savdle! to be divided amongst the members of the company. The Dunedin Jockey Club, at a meeting held last evening, decided to institute a I 'erby race. The firot is to be run at the March meeting, 1877, and entries for this and for the Derby of 1878 will be r.cdvedat fc “« March meeting of 1876. The amount of is or ' V et foed, but we tnut rh it the Club will strive to make the stake C i\ Qt y - ,ar « e to Ket 'P U P prestige of urn- U6(ila anru,al races. Canterbury, llington, and Auckland have for years pest had their Derby races, and this movement of our local Club is one iu the ri ht direcdou.

At a few minutes past eleven o’clock last a tire Woke out in the preiris s of Mr Weob, pointer, Moray Pac , and Win-* of w. , the adjoining shop used by the American lltibber Stamp 0 soon (audit. This was toe first occa ion on which the new Fire o’liaae h*» been tried, and, rho-u'h some it e time seemed to be iosfc at the commencement of the and a short uelav was ■■aosed a: let-wards b, the burs min of the nose, the members worked well tog- ther and id twenty minutes the fire was extinguished. The buildings next to those damaged were of brick, so that there was >m . rot h’rc spreading far. Mr Webb estimates bis Joss at Ll,ii(,o, but is insured m tbo hii. w Zealand office fur L7(.'o and in tho Standard for L4O i; Messrs ..Jusg ove oi Stamp factory, have lost ■-OuU, and are uninsured. ™ Til " , ’ A '* ‘bat. during a s-arcb mom b> .v, , u0 „ 4 the officials ;,t the -hi; (Hugo Siocku-.te recently for s-nne to !) ‘ lcco had been stolen from the ■•tores, certain appearances were disco-vn-cd which clearly indicated that sonic or the pi i-ionera coat-nipfatcl an nt -empt to escape from confinement. Int.iimiation having Iven irlvcu lout a ounnfciu f -he tobacco was planted in the prison ■mspir.-d Wove not w-e- • to ; v J Kar f tf * I-V-. ... .d ..film . Oil, so toe-. »<>lifid i-ocro-c.i u\ of the a un-ui ..... : . i; . .g, , iiM;: cxpontctir. . v.'-u- ■- Me vd.!, T ] u . ke \. ? w,u ' Vi *« iVi «nd i.o u ha-.; {.he u. ;i;il ,' (r , w f k*d hospital an i a ;:m anodurgab " r ' Jn h' d nvn (o-.v.irds -i. \ .iiv.sioii, which ' 1 's' ' >' '• ‘o t this por o'V‘. SU - : •••=■ l-.-Ccd, <iy litti uibicalty would i..-a expen«uced by the priin scaling the bpogdary walla,

Ihe ‘Timaru Herald’ says:—"lt is not generally known that there exists in s outh Canterbury an uu iiuited quantity of the finest ttiarb’e. Our attention has been drawn to two splendid procured from the tCakahu, and polished by Aif George Munro, sculptor, of . m edia On specimen is green, and tho other of a dove color, a handsome grain running through each. Our informant states that the marble, of which there are several shades, is equal to the best ■Sicilian and French sorts, and that is by far the best discovered in the Southern emirpbere. Mr Munro has taken a lease of a ( neCe of country onth:- K-ikahu, and intends to convey the mar-de to Dunedin, and polish it here. If the uift»-V»le is ms good as it a described to be, it ca not fail to become an important article of export from Mouth anterbury. To-morrow afternoon the 0 fined n Cricket Club play a match at the Oval against the South Du' edm Club. The teams are, for the former, Collinsou, Fenw ck Glen Macan, Morrison W., M‘Donnell, Paramor, i’ark, Rhodes H., Thomson J., and Turton O. K., emergency men, Johnston and Vlcares ; for the latter, -.Hen i lark Fuitou F., odby H. E., Godhy a., Kettle C. C.. Lamberts., Latbbury, MacfaHan. Marshall, Muir F., and Hose. \ match will also be pLyed heiween the Citizens’ • -oket iub and the second eleven of the 0 C. C ho following are t e te ms :-VC C. ; Fa-an, Peake, ‘nderson, West, Shepherd, Wells F., vl Kee, P edgor, ■•’t.-kes. Leith, A. MCSeil; emergency men, J M‘Millsn and Uibt>. D.C.C : Au-t n, Brown K., BothamUy, Cleverdon, Diokao <, Fuller, Kettle A., Morrison R., Reid, Russell D., .-iutcAffe , emergency men, Kennedy and darns. The concert in aid of the library fund of the Juvenile Contingent of rbe H A. 0.85., giv- n in St. Joseph’s schoolroom last evening, was largely attended and proved a decided success. The programme was a long one, and comprised songs, du .ts, gl-es, recitations, and flute and piano solos. o far as the vocal portion of theente-(ai m-nt is concerned, Miss Hesford is entitled to the greatest praise, her rendering of "Sweet spirit, hear my prayer’’ evo-ing loud applause; Mrs Connor, Miss Hill, and Miss Fleming are al o deserving of special notice f r the admirable manner m w ich they acqui td th inselves. The recitations given in the course of ihe evening were flat, with the tx -elation of that delivered by Master Vorman—" he song of tha hirt”—which fairly took the audience by storm Mr >. arroll s tenor voice was heard to advantage in several of his favorite songr.; and a ge .Meman whose ame does not appear in the pro gramme sang " Wild Bebs” an.i "Nil Uesperan urn” with excellent effect Mr in addition to acing as accompauyist, playidtiie b aut.ful 010 '* Hells f the Monastery” in Mplend d sty e, and was leud.y applauded. The aingi gof t ! e National nthem, as a solo and chorus, brought the entertainment to a close.

An Arch Purple meeting of No. 9 Star of Otago, L.O L.j will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall this evening, at reven o’clock. The Dnnedin Bowling Club commence their season to-morrow with a match, I drectors against the Club. Play begins at 2 p,m. “ Home Missions” will be the suhjec 1 of the addresses on Sunday next by the Rev. J. Upton Davis, B. A., at Hanover street church. Lodge Loyal Albion, M.U.1.0.0.F, will celebrate its anniversary by a ball at St. Oeorge’s Hall this evening, commencing at 8.30.