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Evening Star, Issue 4001, 21 December 1875, Page 2

We learn that the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court is postponed till Tuesday, the 4th proximo, owing to Monday, the diy originally fixed, being a holiday. Ihe alteration of the gauge from broad to narrow on the Bluff and Wiutou railway has been successfully completed within two days, about 200 men having been employed on the work. At this morning’s adjourned sitting of the Licensing Court, before Messrs Bathgate, Strode, and ftislop, a night license was granted to Thomas '''Donnell, Koyal George Hotel, An application lodged by John Elder for a bottle license was refused, it not having beenjodged in time, ® Yesterday afternoon an accident happened to a man nam-d William Sagiaon working at Poole s railway cutting, Purakanui. He was breaking down tho face, when a quantity °i eait h slipped away and struck him on the lower part of the body. He was brought into the port in a spring cait, and conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital bv the 7.15 p.m. train. The Phoenix Company at Skippers is yielding well, though according to the * Mail ’ not so well as was anticipated. On Tuesday last the manager lodged with the Bank of New Zealand a cake of amalgamated gold weighing I27«zs, as the result of the Ja-t crashing from the claim. This brings up the total to BJ7c2s fivxu a paddock of 400 tons stone, being an average of 2dwts to tho tou, * At the criminal sessions of tho District Court, hr Id at Tokomainro yesterday, before Mr Justice Ward, Robert .augus, aliai Doctor Carr, pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining money and goods under false t retenoes, at Baiclulha j a'so, to a previon-i con vict on for laroeny at Oamaru, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labor. Serge ait Watson, of lliogaol, was in attendance to prove prisoner's lormer conviction.

Two accidents at the Taieri are reported by tho ‘Eruco Herald ’ m Monday last a son of Mr Charles Whyte, of North Taieri, was assisting in sdosiug a colt in Mr Fowler’s smithy, when the animal was very res tive, and kuo-.ked the boy over, breaking hia arm. A chi dof Mr <i. Turnbull, eakor, of the Junction, Fast I aieri, aged eighteen mouths, was playing near the biscuit machine the other day when it injure I its hand to such an extent that three of the lingers will have to be amputated. The District Court sat this morning, aud Judge Bathgate delivered judgment in the case of th i Otago Harbor Board v. Henry Houghton and others, an action to recover LI6U 18i 4d, jetty dues on a cargo of timber landed within the Port of t dago. Hia Honor was of the opinion that defendants should have intimated their intention not to pay the dues, instead of asking plaintiffs’ collector to present the account j aud gave judgment for plaintiffs for the amount ola med, with costs.

The complaint against the cessation of traffic on the CJutha line on Christinas Day sppea's to be general. The * Bruce Herald* ’ this morning says the arrangement that no trains will run on Christmas Day on the Dunedin and Glutha line, though the Sunday time-table wiil be observed on the Port Chalmers line, appears to be a rather extraordinary one, aud it can safely say that hundreds of country residents will bo disappointed, as they r had locked forward to a trip to town on Christmas Day, while doubt* l. ss a large number of Dunedin residents would have availed themselves of an expccted opportunity to visit the country. la the course of au election speech at Rangiora the other day, the Minister of Justico paid a high compliment to the bodies of the various Friendly >odeties. Me stated that next session he int-ndoi, with the heip of the ocieties themselves, to introduce a measure, putting them in a better position by giving them the best actuarial assistance in carrying on their business Considering the number of savings entrusted to these Societies, it was right the publicshould be quite satisfied regauliug the management : and those who gave their time to conducting them were entitled to professional -.dvi e, so that tho business could be conducted on sou :d principles. He paid a high compliment to the managers of the several friendly Societies in the Colony who, considering they were occupied for the most part in their own business, yet conducted chat of their Societies in an admirable way.

This morning a deputation frni householders in the municipal district of St. KUda anl Musselburgh, consisting of Messrs A lieu, Rough l on, Galloway, an- Blakely, waited upon the Superintendent to lodge with his Honor certain complaints. The first wa ohat the citizens’ roil had not been made public for the full term required by the Municipal Corporations Urdm.incf of 1565 ; eo ondiy, the two clear days between th. nomination and the emotion of the Mayoi iid nut give sullicunt time; thirdly, the polling-place in furs, Warn WiS so' badly arranged that voters could tot mark their

owda uaob»«y«d, there being no nrirtto room for them to retire to ; and lastly, the nomination paper of the eheted Mayor (Mr J. I*. Jones) was alleged to be informal, in ftsmuch as there was an error in the date and hi? proposer had not signed his name to it—sotn- o'her person doing so and making a cross for him. His Honor said he could not take any cognisance of ex jwte statements, verbally offered to him, of the nature made bv the deputation ; they must put their complaints into writing, with affidavits attached.

Ro one was better known, or more generally liked in Dunedin musical circles than Acbille Fleury ; and it is with feelings of deep regret, which wo feel sure will be largely shared in, that we received the intelligence of his death, which occurred at Calcutta on the 3lst of October last -> member of Mr Allen’s Opera Company, writing to a Indy friend in Dunedin, who kindly paced the letter at our disposal, says ; *'boorold Weury ia dead. H*.*. paved a few nights before he died. He bad a very severe attack of gout for over two months, and had just got over it, and commenced playing again, when he had an ara.k of dysentery, which killed him ” From the same source we learn that though there were two other opera companies performing in Calcutta at the same time, Mr Allen's trvnpe did better than the other tw > i ut together ; and that on the whole they have been very well received in India,

< "We have been requested to draw the attention of those who may be suffering from rheumatism, gout, etc., to Giiodah’s Indian Cures, of which pa ticulars may bo found in another column.

The entertainment by the Press Dramatic Club, in aid of the Sailors’ Homo, will be given at the Queen’s Theatre to-morrow night. Taylor’s comedy “ The Victims” will bo played, and the female members of the Queen’s corps dramatique will assist;. The performance will be under the patronage of His Honor the Superintendent; and the s s Portobolio will convey passengers from Port Ohalmors, leaving town again sfter the perfoimmcc.