The Evening Star THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3955, 28 October 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875.

Tho four Superintendents, several members of the Provincial Executive, and a number of gentlemen proceeded te Tokomanvo- this morning to attend the drainage plough competition there Dr Smith, Messrs F. Roberts, of Kuriwoa, and Mr G. W. Hutchins, are to represent the Clutha in the luterprovincial Pigeon Match on November 5. the single mea by the ship Auckland were landed at the rai way pier this afternoon, ami conveyed to Dunedin by the 3.30 train. Iho remainder of her passengers will be landed to morrow. |ijlbe gross proceeds of the promenade concert in the Arcade on Monday evening were ; L73 odd, which, after deducting expenses and a donation to the Artillery Band, enabled Mr Farley to hand over to the Bene’v010.,t, Institution tbe respectable balance of Lo3. '■ome election rumors come from Tuapeka and the < lutha. _ / ccording to the ‘Times ’ the Clutha will invite Mr J, Macandrew to return again to his old love, with an assurance that he will be cordially received by a large majority:; and Captain Baldwin will contest Waikaia with Messrs Bradshaw and Mervyn. At tho Queen’s Theatre last evening “ Victorine; or, 111 Sleep on it ” was played for the first time to a moderate attendance. Owing to other engagements our reporter was unable to be present during the greater part of the evening ; but we may state th it the piece was received with sufficient enthusiasm to warrant its repetition to-night. There was only a short criminal calendar at the City Police Court to-day. Ellen Adams, Edward Adams, and James Wilson, charged with drunkenness, were each fined 40s, in default seven days’ imprisonment. On a further charge of destroying Government property in a cell at the Police Station the male offenders were discharged with a caution. H. S. Eish, Eiq., and A. Mercer, Esq., presided.

The circumstances attending the death of a Waitahuca resident named Burnett M ‘Whiney, which look place in Lawrence Hospital on the 21st iuat., are altogether peculiar, and should act as a caution to parties engaged in outdoor pursuits. A thorn accidentally stuck in deceased’s thumb. After getting it extracted be proceeded to clean out a® ditch in which some putrid matter had lod.ed. While so engaged the wound got poisoned, and mflammivt oiTset in. tpnn his removal to the hospital everything medical skill could suggest was resorted to for alleviating his sufferings, but without avail. The ‘ Tuapeka Times ’ adds that he left a wife and eight children, who much require substantial sympathy. The Superintendents are accused of having converted a quiet gathering at Temuka to celebrate a railway opining into a semipolitical meeting ; and Mr Rolleston, who is regarded as chief conspirator, is charged with having carried matters with a high hand. No one who road our report of the Suporintendental speeches can have a doubt of their intended hearing. According to a Press Agency telegram, immediately the speeches were Over, and before anyone had a chance to speak on the other side, Ivir Rolleston vacated the chair, saying Sir George Grey wanted to go for a walk, and tho wh-do affair came to an abrupt termination. The affair certainly took the people by surprise, i here were scarcely any of the leading settlers outside of Temuka present, the luncheon having been intended as a quiet little local demonstration.

An old olfendor nuntp.d Robert Angus, alias oforgeoforge -'.lideidon, wna received into the c:v.;l Uiis morning troia .BuJb'utha, under tomby Mr Maitland, .11. M., on the LUch .I/':': ‘or i"-o ;>t the onsu;’!'* amioiiH of the District CJoui { , Tokoeiairi. o to be he .a on ;lio "JO; ii /oeei iet r, foi’haviL" ", on the IL’-h met., at f>r-,eh;th ■, while"“l b.-i'leo o; a ;\ty ui siodlc. .•)■«.} hrci’.c, (be u] John \ > wiuioii, iiv( -j stable keeper, fraudulently coaverted the

mare, saddle, and bridle to his own nee by to •lehu Durjn, a hotel-keeper, Biilcaitha ; aud also for having, by means of a valueless o eque, fraudulently obtained from btewart and Gow, merchants, Bal■ ° •i.uu ,^ods to fcbe value °f L2 12a 6d, and with having obtained fraudulently, by means nr a l alue * e ® cheque, a sum of money from ■L . Turu kull and Smith, of Kaitangata with intent to cheat and defraud. At the next Saturday Evßning Popular Concert, which is the fifth of the series, Mr Keith Kamsay will preside. The quarterly meeting of the United Otago District, A.U.P., will be held in the South Australian Hall, to-morrow, at 7 p.m. A general meeting of the Dunedin Royal and Albion Quadrille Clubs will be held at the Glasgow Tie-house, on Friday, October 29, at 0 p.m. A spelling bee in aid of the Church of EngJanet hmldmg Fund will be held in the Masonic Hall, Fort Chalmers, ou Thursday, the 4th prox. Notice is given by the Immigration Officer that the immigrants ex Zealandia may bo engaged at the depot to-morrow at eleven o’clock. Imm grants ex Auckland on Saturday, at the same hour. Adam S. Clark writes to us in reference to his case before the Bankruptcy Court on Monday that Messrs Esther and Low’s name been substituted in his schedule by mistake for that of Messrs Asher and Co, j Miss M .1. Corcoran wishes her friends to : know that the reports in circulation that the , money lost by her had been round and returned 1 to her, and dwt the amount had been made I un by subscription, are without the slightest foundation, nnd are calculated to do bier injury.—[Adi,!] The first of a series of monthly open entertainments in connection with the Star of Freedom (Linden) Lodge, I 0.G.T., was held in the schoolroom last evening, and notwithstanding the weather being very unfavorable, there was a good attendance, both of the public and members of the order. In the unavoidable absence i»of |D G W.C.T. Bro. Jago, the ’chair was filled by G W.V.T. Bro. Cameron. The songs, recitations, and readings were very successfully gone through, and after the usual votes of thanks the meeting separated. Cue notice will be given of the next entertainment.