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Evening Star, Issue 3979, 25 November 1875, Page 2

The only business at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port ChMmers, this morning, W’S a charge of drunkenness preferred against John Cooper, who was fined 10s, or 24 hours’ imprisonment.

The “ s hsughraim” will positively bs played for the last time at the Queen’s Theatre to-night. Those who have not seen tins latest production of B ucioauit rhoula not lose this opportunity of doing so. A strange freak has bee > play d by a lunatic named Henry Coe, at re.y mouth • •Suffering under seme delusion as to ihe powder magazine, lie was caught chopping ■ ■.own the door and tearing sheets of i ou fr m the walls. He has been sent to the Hokitika asylum.

Our readers will recollect a sensational tolegiam from Mauawatu, to the effect that a box of human bones had been found lodged in the fork of a t'ee, whence a h< md.murder was info red. The exp'anation proves to be very sim,.l>*, the bones being those of aq old Maoii chief who died many years ago, after expressly directing that his remains should b disposed of in this str >nge f *sh on, Th re w. s again a pretty numerous attendance at the IVmperance Hall last evening, wh n the Au-tra iaii Bellringers, a c sist.ed by Mr C' ar'e Koeley. went through a diversified and well a r ranged programme 'he compa• wiM aipuir this evening and again on Saturday, these being heir la t e formances in Dunedin. Tnere wili be av afternuooH i.erh-nuance for the convenience of schools an : fanuli son aturday return i pubbahe in the ‘G zat'e’ of the business done by the telegraph denar - incut for th- qu trier end ng September 25 : Number of telegrams f rwarded. 230,834. bein ' an increase of 21 585 > n the corresponding quarter of 1874 The revenue received amounted to LL4 697 9s, being an increase of LI 664 10s sd. The value of overnment telegrams was JL3.394 13a Sd, being an increase of ! 357 6s 4d on the c >rrespon dug quarter of 1874.

Sir F. D. Bell and Mr Curtis are much of the same opinion as to what is to follow abolition, which the latter is convinced will lie effectually carried out next session. Mr Curtis is of opinion that no new institutions will be proposed, but that municipal councils will receive enlarged powers, and that the residue of the functions hitherto exercised by Provincial institutions wi I be dr-ided between educational boards, road boards, and the Gtneral Government.

We hasten to make the amends, to Mr Cuthbertso", .VI. U. K., the reliability of whose information in re.specfc to >ir Julius V gei’s movements we took leave to doubt a few evenings ago, upon vhat we, at the time, ih rnght to be very good grounds. It appears that aiter all ir Julius does no return to the Colony via mm Fran iso >; and that ids medical advisers forbade hi ■ travelling across America, lie comes out in the Zealan da Ihe first of th ■: new stea oeis from the C'yde fo toe Californian mad s< rmcc and may be <xp< c‘ed in Dunedin about ’he 10th of January next. an application was made in the Cmy Police Court to day to hav ■ the evidence of a defendant taken on oath under the Evidence Ac?, which was • a-s d during ihe ate s "-don o, the s einbly. Ihj bench had some doubts as to whether the Bi 1 had oecoiue law, it not baviug been received by the tiers of the \ omt. Mi Chapman said the Act had already been made use of, and in reply to the Bench, Inspector Mallard said he had perused a copy of it, and that be had no doubt it came into force from the day on which it received assent, ihe Beach, uader the circumstances, thought it would be better for the defendant to make a stat - ment, saying that they did not believe it would make the least difference, as whether sworn or not his version of the affair wou.d bo the same.

>pecchea (observes the ‘N. Z, Times ’) tin re have neon in ph my. from the ins ired utterances of the Dunedin banquet to the impertinent inanities of i okomamro, and the balancing fm.-at VVaikouaiti. .But nothing <1 servm- tne name of a sound pol ticai ex p siti <n baa yet »v en made. Mr fchafford has to sp“ak at timaru It is only (air to ort su oe :hat be will rise to the occ stun, and give the country somethin* more than ' ft- .gue general!.ies. ;Sir -.jitoi ge oiey is so wrappe up in'schemes for “ ihe happiness «f mankind ” that he has no time left to face the h-.rd and ary f-usts •■£ the present. Mr Macandrew, on he <th riiaud, is so •n----proased with the present that he refu ea to h«-k beyond bis nose into ibe future; and Mr doll atou, with a tact and discernment wnich do him infinite c.edit. puis forward a pol-tical fence to test the C mterbury electorate. - 'hould public opimou declare eith r fir two or lour produces, or for the Doveinment policy or abolition, no man in Mr Kolleaton’a position would be mad enough to go against the popular current. It is a sale position to take up, and one eminently characteristic of tuo duperintendeiat of Canterbury.

The Hope of East Taieri Lodge. 1.0. G.T., Kiccarton, celebiated its first anniversary last evening by an open meeting o f the. lodge. Bro. the Rev. Win, Wifi - ecup ed the chair, and in his opening remarks congratulated the lodge on its progress during the past year. It had opened twelve montus ago with thirteen members, and .f it had only held its own against the many adverse influences iu society it would have don wed.; bit the lodge had ot only done th.it, but hj id made satisfactory progress, and now numbered seventy members good on tho

books He spoke of the very marked oou effected uy Ihe Urdei <>f Good lemplars, and said ho had i eeu induced to join, it so that he might have the pleasure of assisting in the good which was teing done, fie urged vhe members present to use their influence in the toithcomiug general election to return to Parliament men who would strengthen and sus'ain legislation in the direction of temperance and so 'l’iety The meeting was also addi eased iy Bio, Jago, District D. puty G.VVG. 1., Bro. lies . r presenting the Mosgiel Lodg . ml Bro. Loudon, from the Hawn of Liglo Lodge, Hrcen Island, Several songs, r. aclin .s, recitations, and insMumental selections were give during the evening.

A. i egro entertainment by an amateur colored minstrel troupe will be given ui the Temperance Hall, on Jb'uday (t.,-monow) evening, at 8 o’clock.

_ T* 1 , 0 . monthly meeting of the Permanent Budding So ue’y wi 1 b» • eld at He R"cre*-ary’s office t« morrow (Friday), from 7 to 8 p.m.

A picnic in cnnnect on with the Dunedin Young Men’s 'h'Hi.an Aasoci-tiou wip be Md at Waihola on Tuesday iuxfc. Particulars will he found in our advertise g columns.

Subscription and Redemption Payments to th i Tmperi d "Building Society are payable at, the Secretary’s office, ou Friday next, from 7 to 8 p.m.

l\fr T. Mitchell, as agent for the patentee, has shown ns some specimens of the work turned out by the Victorian I diarubher Stamp Company, which, for simplicity and ■ •I'u.-ss. is the best of its kind w e have sr'on. Idle characters come out with the distinctness of letterpress.

_ ** A collection of the licensing laws in opera tion m tago embracing the ( h<finances of th* Provincial i ouncil and the Acts of the A’s scmbly on tin subject, with notes and memoranda ’ is the title of a handy and useful pamphlet issued by direc'ion of the I’rovincial (yovernment. The compilation is by Mr sessions, olei k to tin Provincial Council.

An excursion, which if the weather pr ves fine will no doubt be greatly availed of by pie sure seekers, will be made on Tuesday next ("it. Andrew’s I’at) to Portohello, under the auspices of and for the charity of the Ayrshire A-sociation :he s.s. Ba iy'of the ake wdl leave Ratio ay street' jetty at 10 a in., returning in 'he evening. ' programme of sports and dancing will Oe p ovi ie .