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Evening Star, Issue 3986, 3 December 1875, Page 2

Ifc is expected that Oamaru will be lighted by gas by March next. Hares ara becoming very plentiful all over the Tokomairiro plain, and the ‘Brute Herald reports that at the Gorge over twenty were seen in one paddock a few days ago. Ihe report that scarlet fever had made its appearance at Love l’« Flat appears to be authentic. The disease is said to have attacked a member of the fam ly of the stationmaster there. The ‘ Bruce Herald’ understands that a heavy civil action, between two Milton residents, will coaio before the Supreme Lourt at its sittings in January next. Damages are laid at L 6.000. Five sheep to the acre are being fattened up tor market on the paddocks of tbo Meat Preserving Company at Woodlands. which nave been d r esacd with bone manure ob- ■ a nod from the works- thus proving the Vuuc of bone dust as a manure. Three publicans who e lie nsos had been forfeited for various causes at meetings of the Licensing Court, were summoned at the City Police Court to-day for sly-grog soiling. The Bench cousidered all the charges proved, and in each case inflicted a pen iby of LlO. Hitherto the fine has in all cases been L2O, and some of those tb-clay fined in the smaller amount have before been convicted. Mr William Butchart bas b?en appointed station-master at Dunedin, vice Mr Battson resigned. Mr Butchart has always been ' rc° u as a civil, obliging, and hard-working officer, as may be evidenced by the rapid advancement he has made, it being now exactly three years since ho was first employed as rai.way porter here. The ap-oiut-meat dates from the Ist ihst. r the lomp-ranee Hall was well attended last night, when the Bellringers, assisted by Mr Kealey, repeated their performance Io morrow afternoon the troupe give their ast matinee for schools and families, which no doubt, will be largely availed of by tho e who are unable to .attend the evening entertainment. At night they make their final appearance in ! uuedin For this evening and to-morrow a Well-selected programiae has been prepared. H the Queen’s Theatre last evening “The Idiot Witne»a ” was reproduced, and was well received, Mr and Mrs St. Vincent afterwards appeared in the comic duet Gaslight Swells,” and the performance coucluded with the amusing farce of Advice Gratis,” in which Mr Musgrave appeared to capital adv-ntage as the lawyer, lb-night Mr Bates will take a farewell benefit, the performance consi ting of “ Last Lynne and two acts of Robertson’s favorite comedy “Caste.” At WelUngton. after Eiwards had walked his 105 miles in twenty-four hours, and by way of diversion added another m.le, r.is friends put him into a cab, which they to bis lodgings. Hero worship with a vengeance. Apropos of pedest> ianism we bear that a local pedestrian has expressed hiswillingnoss to ret form thefeat Kennaway, f Alexandria, was unable to accomplish, viz , to walk 112 milts and to errry half a hundred weight, A few figures illustrative of what the Timaiu ana ’ladstono Bo«ard has done witli its fundsduringthe seven years it has been in existence will not be without interest. Its l even " e duriu g that time has been L 350.000, of which Ll9B 000 was derived from the district share of its land fund ; LI 11 000 came from the Provincial and L 28.000 from the General Government, She total expenditure was 1330,000. L 192 ddfi being distributed to road boards and municipalities, and L 135,000 expended on works in the district; while the cost of management during the seven ye irs amounted tojonly LI, 225. W e commend the last item to tho attention of^Provincialists. The decision of Mr Bathgate in tho test case of il argreaves v. M'Kenzie (tess-e of the manure depot) if upheld by the Supreme Court, will be hailed with delight by tho residents on the i<’lat In the first place his Worship holds that, as the law at present stands, the Corporation stand in the same position as an ordinary landholder who cannot create a nuisance to the prejudice or injury of the lights or property of his neighbor ; and in the next, he expresses the very emphatic opinion that the question of cost cannot for a moment be considered as a justification. There is no absolute necessity for the depbt being continued wlvn'e it is at present It is the Corporation's duty to abate tho nuisance by rem ving it further afield, away from an increasing population, or to try deodorisation or any other means in their power A nominal fine of Is and costs was imposed. Mr John M‘baron announces himself as a candidate for tho representation of Dunedin in the General Assembly. . The monthly Yo -mr Men’s Breakfast Meetmg will be bold at Murray’s Hotel on Sunday morning next, at 8 o’clock. JohnLeckie, cabdrivcr, Cavoraham, asks us to state that he is not the who was charged at the Police G.mrt on Wednesday, with endeavoring to rescue a prison v. The e> tcri-rising proprietors of tho ‘Satur Aiheru’se; ’ announce (heir intention of nlermg a prize of fire guineas for the bes f essay on “I) ess,” with special reference to tho style best suited to tho Colony of New /jeahm.'h to be competed for by ladies only " n '' a teu guineas for the best on ‘ The form of Local Government best suited to New 2oahmd,”

- In reference to the oaso of the Police v. 1 'hustle, heard in the City Police Couit on the 2 r Jch ult., Mr Christie requests us to state that lie is the holder of a slaughtering license, under which he'is a'lowcd'to have a slaughter-yard.