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Evening Star, Issue 4009, 31 December 1875, Page 2

According to our usual custom there will be no publication of the .Evening Jjtar to morrow. At Auckland a bachelor named Cullington has been sentenced to fourteen days’ hard labor for omitting to pay his ten shilling education tax. The firing for representatives by the No. 1 Company and D. N. B. fixed for this morning had to be postponed in consequence of the inclemency of the weather. Despite the weather, there were good attendances at the three places of amusement last night. We would remind our readers that at the Circus to-night, Mr Gardner, its business agent, takes a benefit. If report speaks truly the Typographical ociety will not. have occasion to infl c.. on Dunedin a third evening paper. It is now said that the proprietors of our contemporary in fuluro have agreed to pay their compositors the current rate of wa^es. At the annual meeting last night of the Dunedin branch of the H.A.C. 8.5., the f .1Dwing were elected officers : I'Tesident, Mr J. Brennan ; Vice-President, Mr A. Leary ; ■-Secretary, Mr J. C.nt ell; Treasurer, Mr M Connellan ; Medical Attendant, Dr Murphy ; Chemist <, Messrs Howard and Raymond.

'• he lessees of the theatre in Wellington tried a novel experiment on Christmas night. They announced a sacred recital and concert which took well. Mrs Darrell, assisted by her husbar dand Messrs Burford and Haville, gave sacred and seen ar readings, while the vocal part of the entertainment fell to Misses Lizzie Morgan, Rogers, and Marion Moore, the latter singing, “lie was despised.”

The statistic'of Aew Zealand for 1874 have reached us. The delay in publishing the volume was occasioned, as explained by the Hegiatrar-Gencral, by thcnocefsity uf first issuing the census volume, and to the block caused by the Parliamentary printing for three months. The estimated population of iSew Zealand on the 31st December, 1874, was 341,860, being an increase of 45,914, or at the rate of 15 5 per cent, for the twelve months. The natural increase was 8,633. ( he increase by immigration over emigration was 33,106.

What might be considered a thorough “.sell” occurred during the examination of the witness Kent at the inquiry into the George street fire jesterday. Kent, who was in the employ of Jenkins, in whose shop the fire occurred, was subjected to a searching examination as to whether his master had lately removed much furniture, the object being to ascertain whether Jenkins by so doiua had, at the time of the fire, lessened the value of his stock in trade to below that of the insurance policy. Kent replied that very little was removed till the nidit before the fire, but then a very large business was done. At this the coroner, ihe police, and the jury readily pricked up their oars ; but t'-eir surprise was great when the wums j , on being asked to explain, added that on his master bring told that in his shop on Christmas Eve 30s bad been taken he said th-t in the shop wuero the lire attciwards occurred he had tak< n three times that amount ! The Coroner did not trouble the wicness any farther. Tins re was a s'tting of the Vevident Magistrate's Conn this morning befoie Captain L’heiust.n and Mr .1. Logan; J P.'s, but from the .subdued tone of voice in which thelmsitu si was carried on by the presiding J ustici s and the Court officials it is impossible fonts to furnish a report of what was done. The following casts were called on, but what the amouiv.s claimed were and whether the cast s mere adjourned or judgment was given for plaintiffs or dtfi-uoants we could not •u-;.r ; - Mven-iu ami .nno.her v. Kin;; ; same v George Keith ; nine v. Eon j imin 1 hatcher; r-eott ana Smith v. iliiam Luuday ; Wo-t v. Betheri ge; • sLton v. Collins, p.ucl Zaile v. v. atson, J Collins v. Stodnart was a claim of LS, the value of three geese alleged to have been

’'hot by flefendant, Plaintiff and witne s ■lmposed to seeing defendant put his gun over plaintiff’s fence and shoot into a flock of killing three of them. Plaintiff seat tvo of them into Dunedin to Mr Jewitt, tor sale, and the third, which “ was uneatable,” she ate. Defendant, for whom Mr Denniston appeared, said he shot the geese because they were trespassing on his land. Judgment was given for defendant.

Those of mercantile an 1 shipping pursuits who are in the habit of frequenting Watson’s Din ug Rooms will be glad to know that Messrs Watson Bros, have made arrangements with the Chamber of Commerce for exhibiting the Chambers’s snipping telegrams in their rooms.

Should the weather to-morrow prove fine the CaU’doniau Soc ety will, as usual, form the principal a traction for holiday makers. The Union Company’s fine steamer Taupo is laid on for an excursion tiip to Moeraki, and affords an excellent opportunity of visiting that pleasant watering-place and the surrounding district, the harbor steamers will make their customary trips to I’orl.obello, &c. On the oval a team from Oamaru will try conclus ons with the D.C.O, At St, Leonard’s the Oddfellows will hold their ffite, postponed from Boxing Day, and the Taieri Caledonian Society hold their gathering at Mosgiel. In evening the Theatre, the t lircus, and Smith’s company at die temperance Hall will d.vido public support.