The Evening Star MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3988, 6 December 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1875.

To ensure the strict registration of dogs in Napier, the police receive a premium of one shilling per head, or 20 per cent, of the fees. The Macgregor this trip brought the largest, mail ever received by the San Francisco route. It comprised 272 bags, con--35,000 letters and 77,000 newspapers. At the Port Chalmers Po ico Court this morning, before Mr T. A Mansford, K.M., Thomas Summers, Samuel Nelson, and James Kirby were each fined 10s, with the usual alternative, for drunkenness. We are given to understand that in consequence of the accepted tender for the Kartigi contract not having been taken np the contract is to be readvertised, and that the date for receipt of fresh tenders will be the 15th instant. I 'uring the sitting of the Supreme Court in Bankruptcy this morning, Mr Justice Williams intimated that, as there was a large amount of banco business to come be fore the Court and as he woul i be absent from Dunedin next week, lie would sit in banco on Wednesday and Thursday next. At the Oval on Saturday the Artillery had a scratch match, and the d orth Dun edia played >outh Dunedin. The Artillery Band, under the able leadership of Mr M, Hume, played some excellent operatic selec tions from “Norma,” “ Mariana.” etc. etc., which tendered greatly to niako the afternoon a pleasant one. The different Colonial Governments received orders from Mome by the last mail disapproving of their flying special colors of

ir own The despatch from the Colonial 1 ffioe distinctly states that merchant ve-sels must still continue to use the old hnglisti consign, while the Government flag must be blue, with any distinguishing badge they may choose in the fly of the flag. On Saturday evening “The Ticket-of-Leave Man” was played at the Queen’s Theatre to a large audience. Mr Steele appeared as Bob Briorley, the Lancashire convict, Miss Leake as May Edwards, and Miss Vivian as Mrs Willoughby. Mr Musgrave’s Melter Moss would have been .he best played character in the drama had he not indulged in slang quotations only to be heard amongst the lower classes That so old and well-known an a' tor as Mr Musgrave should have so far forgotten himself is surprising, and it ia to be hoped the text will be followed for the future. To-night “Flowers of the Forest ” will be played. The revenue officers of this Colony are not often troubled with the receipt of conscience money, as was Mr Hill, Collector of Customs at Auckland, the other day, who received the following letter “ I now enclose you herewith a t 20-note, which please pay to the Customs revenue as duty on tooacc > which I allowed a shipmaster to deliver to me some years ago without being passed through the Custom House aua duty paid Trusting to your honour and integrity, I am ar, Ho.nesty. Matthew, 22 chapter, 21 verse.” If he had signed his name Dishonesty it would have been more applicable. During the late session of the Assembly Andrew Thompson troubled the Lower House with his grievance re land he purchased in the township of West Hawksbury. of which toe Provincial Council has heard annually tor more sessions than wo cire to remember, Hi« petition was characteristically worded, and con luded with this line sentence :—“ Know-ng that your Honorable House, without shutting its doors to any merit in any c ass, is, by the sure operation of adequate causes, filled with everything illustrious in rank, in acquired opulence, and in cultivated talents, y..ur petitioner therefore

rests in assurance that his prayer to have his grievance examned and redressed wdl be duly considered,” Yet the House ‘shut it. door y to Andrew Thompson. An instance of the misleading statements made by some of the emigration agents of the Colony in the Horae Country, has been brought under our notice. One John W, White, a draper at Laceby near Crimsby, who advertises mm elf m his dual capacity of “agent for North Lincolnshire for Government emigration to New Z aland,” and agent for the Colonists Aid Corporation, the society which has to do with what is known as the Man Chester b!o. k in the Province of Wellington, tells intending emigrants that they can get immediately on arr.val >n the Colony “ pos session of house and acre of garden,” have “work guaranteed at wages 8s to 15s per day, and “ forty acre freehold farmsteads on easy conditions.” A g-am of fact to an ounce of lies. We loam that Mr Caldwell, governor of the Gaol received this day a warrant, signed by ms Excellency the (Governor, and countersigned by the Hon. the Minister of Justice, for the discharge of prisoner Kobert Hunter who was convicted at the late sessions of the oupi erne Court, on the 6tu i 'ctober ult and sentenced by his Honor Mr Justice Williams • v*" ca l ent lar mo tbs’ imprisonment, with hard labor, for arson, viz. ; seuin ; nre to the shautus of some Chinese mmmg on the fch g Valley tliver. Immedi ately after prisoner’s conviction and sentence a very numerous and influentially signed petition by the inhabitants of the i'almeiston district was p!ac .d in the hands of Mr tout who forwarded it to the Hon. the Minister of Justice praying for the liberation of the prisoner; nonce his discharge to-day.

Of la to the I elegraph Department has been displaying much anxiety to serve the 1 resa Despite the fact that the Department loaea L 12.000 a year, it suddenly awakes to the consciousness that it can afford to keep open stations beyond regulation hours for the transmission of Press telegrams. As tin public reap the advantage we cannot complain, though on some other occasion w,si.ail ecdiavor to show, beyond the pos nihility of disp.t of, how u fairly the pieseut tariff opera-es upon and clucks the enterprise of evening papers, while greater Wha 1 w ai ’ e BraUted . t0 mon * in 8 j ourna's What wc are now desirous of doing is to acknowledge the efforts of the Department to hasten the transmission of news in which a fS s ?? :,lr “ °? Public is interested. Pr Ig the tLns s chllrc b race meeting unite egrams were despatched with unusual thp C n y ’ t - !le Utfc meetiu ß to-morrow the Department intends to show what it is capable of doing. It was intended * first £ J ave ercc ed a station on the course b,t thoUrm-M d Th bC D Wn(,onud ° u BCCO « ut one (Aj,u,EC. Uhe Department will have a • cceivmg box on the ecu,sc, au.l mounted messengers employed letwo. n it “ a

Meeting of the Dunedin Golf Club will be held n.t Wain’s Hotel tomorrow evening, at eight o clock.

The Dunedin Gun Club will hold its monthly meeting at the Empire Hotel this evening, at o. 01/«

r\ George's Hall Saturday Evening bjnadrille Assembly will, on and after Tuesday next, be held on Tuesday evenings. fThe married and single men immigrants per Waimate, will be open for engagement at Caversham to-morrow (Tuesday), at 11 a.m. The single women may be engaged on Wednesday, the Bth iust., at the same hour.

Entries for the Royal Horticultural Society’s hj lower Show will be received at the Occidental Hotel on Saturday evening next, between 8 and 9p m. Exhibits will be received at the Arcade on Wednesday, December 15, between 12 and 1 noon.

During the week ended December 4 twelve patients were admitted into and seventeen discharged from the Dunedin Hospital. No deaths occurred during the week. The number of i atients at present in the Hospital is 154, of whom 36 are females.

. Wheeler, agent for the sale of Melbourne Punch’ in Otago, has forwarded to us a copy of ‘ Punch’s Almanac’ for 1876. The engravings are excellent, and humorously hit olr the men and manners of tho day. The jokes are racy, and among the best of their

sort, i wenty two pages of artistic and literary wit, got up in the best style of typography on paper, would have been an expensive affair a few years ago. It is now purchasable for a trifle.