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Evening Star, Issue 4012, 5 January 1876, Page 2

The Cromwell Company’s last crushing of 521 ounces was from 240 tons of stone. We are informed that there is at present on view in the claim stuff, equally good as that now being put through the mill, which is likely to last for over two years. Meanwhile the fortunate shareholders are receiving very handsome dividends.

At Oamaru, the police have arrested a bigamist named Martha Coyne, who is charged under warrant, issued by the Christchurch Bench, with having in December of last year married one Sydney Campbell, alias Craig, her first husband (Patrick Coyne) then being alive. Her defence is that she is not married to Coyne. She has been forwarded to Christchurch.

At the nomination yesterday for councillors for the newly-created of South Dunedin there were no less than thirteen candidates, whose names appeared in our issue yesterday, proposed for the three wards. The polling takes place on Saturday. Messrs T. M. Henderson and T. Eason were declared by the returning officer (Mr James Wright) to have been duly elected as auditors.

The Rev. W. P, Oldham, who, for the last eleven years has been located at Riverton, and is about to be transferred to Dunedin, was last week presented by his late parishoners with many tokens of their esteem for himself and wife. The Sunday School teachers and their children gave him an address and a graphoscopic instrument, and the parishoners handed him a purse of sovereigns with w r hich to obtain a piece of plate as a souvenir of bis connection with Riverton.

Some tall writing appears in the last number of the ‘Waikouaiti Herald.’ In its description of the Palmerston races appears the following unique sentence :—“The course was quite gay with ladies, escorted by their friends—indeed, it is asserted that there was quite a galaxy of beauty present, and that many a heart of adamant was pierced and wounded by the rays of fascinating and bewitching black eyes, and its owner placed hors cle combat. Between flirtation and horse-racing, a by no means unpleasant day was spent.” We wonder if the adamantine heart of this exceedingly gallant scribe was wounded on that occasion. After the business of the Harbor Board was finished yesterday, Mr Jenkins’s model professedly for facilitating reclamation of land in tidal harbors, was inspected. The model is very neatly constructed by Mr Marsdcn, of Princes street, and has so much claim to originality as to lead to the regret that Mr Jenkins’s time has been spent in working out a scheme that a more extended knowledge of mechanical laws would have shown him involved waste of power and needless expense. Very little calculation is needful to demonstrate that superior results are attainable by far simpler and comparatively less costly means. We should have been glad had this been otherwise, for the sake both of Mr Jenkins and the public;. A very unusual prosecution—we believe only the second in the Colony—was heard before Messrs Murdoch, R.M., and Calcutt, J.P., at Palmerston, on the last day of 1875. One Adam Sutherland was charged with trespassing on the lands of Edmond Aymes, at Shag Valley, with a dog and gun in pursuit of game. The principal witness was a sou of the prosecutor, who stated “that on or about the Bth of November, 1875, he met the accused in a gully on his father’s pi operty with a dog and a gun, The gully

where he met the accused is remarkable fo its prolific covey of game. When accused first saw witness he* endeavored tohidu under a flax-bush. Witness asked accused fj?,™ tiers. It you let me aim this time, I will not mne back again. ’ Witness ordered accused off the ground. Afterwards bird the accused fron L tlle direction which accused had taken. He saw no same in fbp possession of accused at the time He fredo^dS^n” CCU A d ° U „ ailcl As a warning to others SutteJfWLß a tc ' lden . cies the leach fined hi Slrn dl 5 i Co3ta > 101(1 intimated that L Se9 i^ y WOuld iaflict the full slx SSt!S P r ed - by the law > vi*., LSO, or six mouths imprisonment.

We notice that the Goldeb Age will resume her Saturday afternoon trips from Port ChalI fj ds > iu conjunction with the railway oa Saturday next, on arrival of the 2 30 p.m. tram from Dunedin.