The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4018, 12 January 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1876.

Hospital Sunday at Lawrence realised L4O

An inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the Lady of the Lake will be held at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at eleven o’clock to-morrow before Mr Bathgate, R.M., and Captain Thomson, Nautical Assessor. A foot race for L4O a-side is arranged to come off on Saturday next in Mr Reece’s paddock, Gatlin’s River, between Henry Hoburn and Alexander Baird, distance 300 yards. Both are local men and the match arose out of the late New Year’s sports. Austin, the pedestrian, is looking after Baird, who has slightly the call in the betting. A buggy {fecident happened on Saddle hill road yesterday, whereby Dr, Inglis and the driver, Mr George Dickson, received very serious wounds and severe bruises. When coming down the hill near the hotel the horse commenced kicking, and became quite unmanageable, and the occupants of the buggy were thrown out. The horse bolted, leaving the vehicle a perfect wreck.

It is astonishing to notice how a large field of horses entered for a big race is gradually thinned down by accident or otherwise. We have already had to chronicle the breakingdown of two Dunedin Cup horses, The Cloud and Medicus, and now Mr Devine’s Young Captain fecott is in extremis. It appears this colt has been attacked by the disease which carried of his sire, Captain Scott, namely an ailment affecting the hoofs ; and this has made such progress that he cannot stand up. The colt is out of Lady Teazle, and three years old. Millar, F.S.A., whom the Australian papers delight to dub “ Engineer-in-Chief” of Nelson, is reported to be- going in for a big thing. He is getting up a series of highly illustrated volumes containing photographs of men of the time (1875) resident in the lintish or other dependencies in the Southern Hemisphere. The photographs will consist of the Governors of different Colonies, members of Ministries, mayors, town clerks, &c. ihey are intended as an illustrative contribution to the Philadelphia Exhibition, and will be subsequently presented to her Majesty the Queen. n Th f r olioe business at the City Police Couit did not occupy more than five minutes this morning. Ellen Matthews, Geo. Campbell, and Malcolm Cameron, charged with drunkenness, were each fined ss, with the option of 24 hours’ imprisonment. The last-named offender was picked up in the Devil s Half-Acre. This part of the town bias tair to regain that notoriety ■which it some time ago possessed as the rowdiest portion of the city, for it has each day this week furnished at least one delinquent for summary punishment by the sitting justices Messrs Fyke and Street. dhe ambition of Victoria to secure an ocean service via the Cape of Good Hope in forty days has been all but accomplished by i the h.h. Osyih, which lias just arrived in Hobson s Bay after a forty-three days' run from London, the quickest Voyage ever accomplished. Mr A. P. Seymour, Superintendent of Marlborough, is a passenger by her It will be seen by our telegrams that the San 1* raucisco steamers, the Mikado and Gitv ot San Francisco, made very rapid passages across from Auckland to Sydney. Both loft Auckland on the afternoon of the -nd lust,--the City teU minutes before the Mikado-and they arrived in Port Jackson early on the morning of the 7th. When onr files come to hand we shall be able to oomparo the performances of these two fine ■vessels m the ocean race just completed. , ,^ Ir J- Rattray, who a few weeks since retuined from his visit to England, has prosonted to the Province, through his Honor a , romai 'kably well-exc-tulod cony of the portrait of Captain Cook, now m the Greenwich Naval Gallery Wo fr,!rVi at a™-only tWo oriuhi.il porta aits of the celebrated discoverer known to be m existence, of which that at Greenwich is considered far best. It Was painted at tiie pressing request of Sir Joseph Banks, one ot i ook’s companions during his first vovJK?- , <lu ! not i ,MII bin: his V V’* ex i'J"i'mg expedition, but a -uort Brno poforc sailing he induced Captain Conk to sat to Nathaniel Dance, R.A., who produced _ the beautiful portrait, M ." n | ] > y ./ lf which, with great difficulty, - i rattray was allowed the privilege o acquiring. Sir Joseph Banks at a eath bequeathed the portrait to his uiutuy, and it was placed in the Green- [ tbdlcrv. Ah Rattray hud u 1 M AH B. s. Marks, 40 Fitzroy • qu.ue, tor presentation to tlie Province, and n b CJ ; (H: t a fac simile lias Jioen produced by if employed, not only of the picture sc. , hut of the frame, that able judges . nlU),l i ],L '°d it difficult to say which eyas the r,-I''j inn which the copy. Captain sen'tM 18 qh naval uniform, ihoimiit'"-? 1 ea *- v lmt in ear I nast ;f'«W«iace 4 ciarwte *r-

Whether as a work of art or as a memento of the historical connection between Captain Cook and the Province, Mr Rattray has presented a handsome gift, that will bo appreciated by his fellow-colonistfl. A wish has been expressed by a large number of up-country cricketers to meet a Dunedin eleven, and our Tuapeka contemporary reports that several gentlemen are trying to get a team together to. play a match about the time of the Dunedin annual races. A meeting of the Society of Artists will be held in the AthoniDum, onFiiday evening next, at eight o’clock. James Edwards, bricklayers’laborer, requests us to state that he is not the James Edwards who appeared in the Police Court yesterday. Professor Coughtrey will deliver his first Inc ture of the summer course in the University Class-room, on Thursday, the 13th, at eight o clock. The annual meeting of Shareholders of the National Permanent Building Society will be held in the Temperance Hall, on Tuesday next, at 7.30 p m. Ihe annual meeting of the members of All Saints’ Church will be held in the Schoolhouse adjoining the Church to-morrow evening at eight o’clock.