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Evening Star, Issue 3952, 25 October 1875, Page 2

The Government have accepted tho services of the Oamaru Artillery, bub declined those of the Maerewhcnua Rifles. A Victorian paper reports that a number of (.Vchohe children are being sent by their parents back to die State school a‘. Ballarat. At one school nearly all the children of tins denomination w ho wore withdrawn about six months’ a.o arc now back on the roll. Pressmen should, but do not. appear to be fitting candidates for spelling bees. In the second round «f a be lately held in Hobart Town, the overseer of the ‘Tasmanian Tribune’had to tuccumb to “gn.rw;” an exoverseer of the ‘ Chronicle ’ was floored by ‘ ‘ gauge and the overseer of the ‘ Mercury' ViCUb Ouu /• " ” J a JNortbern journal congratulates tho Ngatikuhunguua tribe on having a chief among them of sufficient wealth, "foresight, and generosity that he can afford to give away a block of laud over 38,U00 acres in extent for educational purposes. This is the most noble gilt that any man, perhaps in the whole of the Australasian Colonies, has hitherto conferred on posterity. There cun now be no mistake about the object of the M acandrew demonstration and banquet. A ‘ a, meeting on Saturday evening the committee passed the following unique resolution Wo hereby declare that our purposejs political, and based on tho following resolution, which was passed previously, viz.,— ‘ Ihar, while we admire Air Mao audrew as a public man, we especially approve of hia acdou in relation to the Aboli luon Bill ’ —all. statements to the contrary notwithstanding. ” At the Press Dramatic Club’s meeting on Saturday night a letter was read from M; Saville, thanking the Club for their assistance on boiiaif of the sufferers by the late lire at tho Princess Theatre, and staling that the proceeds, L2d, had be-m divided among twenty-one members of the company. It was resolved to recognise substantially Mr •Simile’s ftsoistanco at the Club’s last performance. Mr Mitchell was elected stage manager, vice Mr Utting resigned, and it waj decided to put “ The Tkket-of-Leave Man” *u r :-h.'-vs;',i Mr next pmfornißucs. Dm;; Hfrke ” wv.s pUyvff for the first; cur e this season at the Quean’s Theatre on Saturday night, when there was a capital downstairs attendance, Moneypcnuy Is certainly one of Mr Bates’s best characters, and the part of the irritable old lawyer was Upicßd to the life. Mrs Bates plajed naturally as Jane Learoyd ; and Mr iStoneuun capitally as Jem btarkce. Mr Bteele’s iNcah r/Mvoyd was anj thing hut a creditable representation. To-night “ Cora ” will ha reproduced, > bfe is y ; c a chance of Muowwher.u -. '•" Aa;,: u •- hc'-’g-.-, for which hb (KM was placed ma the buppltmeutary Lstimates, but knocked off because the House agreed witlj

Mr Macandrew and Sir F. D, Bell that it I was unfair in the first place to charge the. land fund with the expenditure, and in the ‘ next the money could be spent more advantageously in other districts. According to the ‘North Otago Times,’ Mr .Steward expects the Government will he able to no the work out of the vote of L20,00t) for works in outlying districts, A fatal accident occurred at Clark’s diggings last week. While a miner name ! M'Guflie was looking at a snow-reef overhanging at an angle of about forty-five degrees and about ten or twelve feet in height, the reef broke short off for twenty feet in length, and at once, and without a second's notice, kiPed him. Deceased, who was much respected in the district, was unmarried and thirty-one years of age. Among the “Intelligent Vagrant’s ” notes in the ‘New Zealand Times ’ is the following : —lt is not proper to jest upon subjects that should )>■ r-adly considered, and it is therefore in no jo ular rao d hat I point out how a case ot sodden de-t'i is r.cord-d in Auckland : —‘ .Ho tool. ri;« ton hcl w, -rnd vs" | afterwards reading the ‘ Star ’ published. J there, when he complained of feeling un- 1 ' well, and went and lay down in one of tbo j berths. Ha had hardly done so when he I fell buck and died.’ lean well believe it. The death, though sudden, cannot be held to be unascountable.” The Dunedin and South Dunedin Cricket j Clubs tried conclusions on the Oval on j Saturday, when some very good p';y was exhibited on Loth sides. The new club put together 58, Lambert with 27, and Lathbury with 10, being the only ones who obtained double figures. The D.C.C. ran up 116, when time was called, Fenwick contributing 32, M‘Donnell 30. Park 13, and Morrison 18. Macan and Glen have to but when the game is resumed next week. The Citizens met the second eleven of the D.C.C., and were vanquished by them, tho latter scoring 76 to their opponents’ 46. Some people appear to have enjoyed themselves greatly on the occasion of the opening of tho Wiutoa-Kingston railway, if the ‘ Western Star ’isto be believed. Ay eyewitness describes the scene at Daniel’s Glossing as being very lively-learned ami sedate members of Parliament, of the u.v. town councillors alternately speechifying, running a race, or playing at “leapfrog m • row in a way rarely seen, except among little boys. Southland, through ha representative men, enjoyed itself exceedingly' •borne say the open-hearted jollity was caused by tbe pure water—some think it was th - fine day. As it was, the return train cam; sweeping into Winton like a eircus baud—“As we go marching through Georgia” could be heard above the rattle of the train and shiiok of the whistle. Tee Auckland ‘Star’ has the following, with reference to a well-known resident ot that city :—“ Mr Edward Perkins, late of the Occidental Hotel, has very narrowly escaped having his holiday trip through America cut short by a bullet from a San Francisco rough. In company with a friend Mr Perkics was walking along the street when a h;vl;-tipsy man jostled against, them. Per aim-. s>)id romething to the man by way of remonstrance, when the fellow suddenly drew a revolver from Lis breast-pocket and fired. Tho bullet passed close by Mr Perkins and struck his companion, killing him on the •pot. Th« murderer was captured, and when the Cyphrenes left Mr Perkins had been detained a week in San Francisco to give evidence.”

Considerable interest was manifested in the passages of the steamers Taramki, Taupe, and Ringarooma, which hit Pori. < halmers for Lyttelton on Saturday afternoon. The Taranaki sailed at 3.-10 p.m., the T.xupo at 4,20 p.m., and the Ringarooma at 4.38 p.m The last-mentioned vessel was tlie iirst to arrive, she reaching Lyrtelton at 7.30 u.m. yoderday, followed by the Tiuipo at 9.4 i, and by the Taranaki at 10.45. The relative passages, from wharf to ■vii.tf, consequently were the Taranaki, l9nrs. nmiu.; the Taupo, 17hrs. 25min,; and the Ringarooma i4hrs. 55min. We have been informed that the instructions recently issued by the immigration authorities, by which reporters will, in future, be prevented from boarding immi grant ships until after they are inspected by the local immigration officers, will not in ordinary cases involve a delay to the representatives of the Press i i obtaining their reports of more than half an hour. We have ventured to think dniereutly, and hope our anticipations may not be realised. The instructions appear to have hj.: L their origin much nearer home than the Agent-General's office, and the necessity for them ;nay not be unknown in a quarter which now affects to be very virtuously indignant.

Keibherthe Volunteers nor the Friendly i'ocietio;* will have anything to do with tho Macaudrow demonstration. On Saturday evening tho heads of the various orders—the Foresters, M, 0.1.0.0. F., and lA'r.O.F.— mot the Banquet Committer, and, after some discussion, decided not to take any part in the proceedings of Wednesday, Had it been intended to have honored Mr Maeandrew for his past service-, as s-uporintcn-doat of the Province, the Societies would willingly have acceded to tho committee’s request, but they declined to lend themselves to a political demonstration of any kind, Tho officer commanding tho Volunteers in the Dunedin district has Lsucd orders that tho Volunteers shall not tabpart in the demonstration. The miners at Maerewhcnua are still exercised over the water question. On the 14fch iust. they held a public meeting to take into consideration Messrs Bortou and M‘Master’s notice to discontinue gold mining on the river for four weeks, and, guided by tho opinion of Messrs Sierwright and 6 tout, agreed to knock off working for a period of four weeks, provided no extension of iimebe asked by Borton and M'fdaster ; and that it is no precedent or prejudice to the righto of the miners in any way. Mr Prater, who was chairman of the meeting, and is a large employer oi labor on the field, was vigorously opposed to tho miners going away, unless mitered to do so by the supreme h’oiirb, ud when the meeting adopted the resolution given above, intimated tbit if water was available he should woik, as h e had as good a right to dirty water us they had, and warned the meeting that their action was the first step towards their downfall. We learn by telegraph from Wellington that on .Saturday Messrs J, 0. Brown, VV, A. M array, and other goldlields’ members waited on the Colonial Secretary to present a petition from members of tho Waipori Miners’ Association, praying to be relieved from certain fees which have been imposed en the miners of the district of Otago in connection with drainage works which have ii'jcn effected by Hovernm-. Nt there. It. is c-nojilaiucd tiiut these charges ate unj Uni, oppressive, and calculated Lo discourage mining enterprise in the district. Mr J. C. Brown uescribed the position in which the miner.-, were placed, and pointed out that the charges at tho present rate were oxcesaiv,, and would .end to c.rivo miners away from there, rather than to encourage them to remain and work ground which was unfit for any other purpose but gold mining. The Colonial Secretary replied that the question was one which rested with the Provincial Covet i.-ivmnt of (hj. .-itercst and cC. to: tec work sv rn charged ;.gam--t. the 1 rovmce, tie worn i, however, communicate with the Provincial authorities, and, if

they could act in concert with them, would 11 Madly recomni nd the prayer of the peli-I ■ tioncra to their favorable consideration. I A white resident at Napier writes t) ‘Tel Wananuo,’ of the Tilth insfc., on « subject I which cannot fail to greath interest the it a- _| tive readers of that Maori journal-—namely, j the decadence and eventual diav -nearance of j races. The following is nuexUait from the letter : “ When two w<;-s of unequal strength and civilisation or- * brown together, however friend!; - and veil disposed toward* each other they may be, the experience ' f ages teaches that the weaker gradually 'inclines and fiuaily disapue , rs. The pro.wnt I race of Maorir* supplanted a bss vigorous people, and now Lee Europeans contends for the mastery, The lessons that both Natives and Colonists have learned r-ince they have been thrown together have plainly taught them that which it is impassible to hide. The two races cannot preserve their distinctive features and continue for long to i-.ubsist ; side by side. Cither the European must. i li r-c-n-i i;o the T v.d of the ao*l or til" i i M.»» i rise. tut ivj.cl ot I-as It \ jis i. tuir tor -ach ouo •'if us io r.vogiii e ’ this truth and profit by it than try and put ; it one side. However unpalatable the ro j (lectio. may be. it. is m vert :eleaa tone hat j unless the Maori strives —and that sneer.is- j fully -to take Ins lace side by side with j ttie European his race is doomed to extiue- | tion. It may take many genera-,ions before, j this unhappy destiny is fulfilled, while on I the other ha.id it may take vers much less j time for the Natives to prove their mental and physical ability to rise, superior to the fate that has befallen so many other peoples, ” A general mecTug of the Otago Institute will lie held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the Sfdtb nisi. During the vast week there were twelve admiss'ona to and fifteen discharges from the Dunedin Hospital. The deaths were- Agnes Autone, aged forty, native of Dondon ; Samuel Wmshule, aged nineteen, native of England, both of consumption. Last Saturday's evening concert at the T-mperance Hall was attended by nearly COO persons, an 1 was as successful as any of its predecessors. The sinking, as a rule, was above the average; Mrs Bartlei.t’s efforts especially being appreciated. The • v:u cannot be said of an apparently interminable recitation, vhieh was at last cut shorn uy the audience unmistakeably showing that they had had enough of it. Perhaps it would bo as well for the committee in future to eliminate recitations from the piogramme, for they are nob generally appreciated. Un Saturday Messrs J. I,'. Dhnplin and Co. invited ttieir employes, with th-.’u m os and families, to a trip to the Cloth.. The party numbered upwaids of sixty, aou ;; sjmi .J train being engaged, a start was made from DnucJiu at nine o’clock in the morning, the Ciutha terminus being reached in about three home-. Here a suir.ab e paddock had been selected, iud, after disposing ef a plentiful supply ot refreshments, dancing, football, and other amusements wen-, heartily entered into, a match at “rounders,” between the married and single men, being the great abtraclion. The former won easily', the bachelors having no show at ait. A c each was forwarded from Balclutha by Mr Pittman, Ur; company’s agent there, end a number of the party took the o;.porlunity t f visaing that town. On their return, tea was next on the programme, and then a return inn .made to Dunedin, which was reached soon after eight o’clock. On the way back, a stay ot nearly an hour was made at Tokomairiro, to 1 allow the down train to pass, giving time fur a ramble over that town. A very pleasant day . was thoroughly enjoyed by the wind.- party, i and a hope was expressed tliat the treat might be an annual one.