Untitled

Evening Star, Issue 4028, 24 January 1876, Page 2

The man Philips, who is alleged to be Cunningham, the Ohau murderer, has been further remanded for a week, as the Commissioner of Police in Dunedin was not perfectly satisfied as to the evidence of identity at present obtained.

At New Plymcmth on Boxing Day it would seem that the only amusement appears to have been afforded by a picnic party, which passed through the town in a donkeycart, “amidst general cheering.” What must it be in ordinary times ? A coroner’s jury at Alexandra which inquired into the origin of a fire at Manuheriheri on the 15th inst., returned the following verdict That the hou=e of Denis Buckley was maliciously and wilfully set on tire, but there is no evidence to say by whom,”

The Provincial Secretary, accompanied by Mr M'Kerrow, Chief Surveyor, passed through Lawrence on Wednesday, en route for the proposed hcav hundreds at Tapauui and adjacent districts. Our Lawrence contemporary says this visit is understood to be one of inspection. The performance at the Queen’s Theatre on Saturday night consisted of the sensational drama of “Sin and its Shadow,” and the burlesque of “Willikinds and hys Dinah.” In the latter the dancing of Misses Vivian and Willis secured a large amount of applause. To-night the same-programme will be presented. Going from home for iicavs avc learn from one of the Southland papers that the Home Agent, Mr Andrew, has sent word to His Honor the [Superintendent, that a quantity of salmon ova has been shipped aboard the steamer Durham, which is expected to reach Melbourne about the sth of March. A telegram Avas received from Balclutha by the Commissioner of Police on Saturday evening stating that authentic information had been received there that James GarroAvay, hotel-keeper at the Molyneux, had been drowned in the Clutha river on Saturday. No particulars have been received. The Lyell ‘Argus’ must be a paying paper. A recent issue Avhich has come in our way is a curiosity. It contains only six lines of ordinary reading matter, the rest of the paper being occupied by advertisements. The reading matter Avas a local appealing to everyone to attend an amateur performance. We may anticipate a variety of amusements next month. Di Murska and Chas. Bright have already been notified ; and now avc are to look out for M‘Donogh’s troupe of marrionettes, Avhich has been astonishing the natives in Australia. The last-men-tioned company are expected to arrive by the Omeo, and will first {appear in Invercargill. Mr G. W. Geddes is their business agent. Larrikinism appears to have made its appearance in the quiet tOAvnship of Gore. The local correspondent of the ‘ News ’ tells of some fast people there pulling down a brick chimney at a time they believed the Rev. Mr to be in bed; and next morning Avhen the Invercargill train Avas about to start it Avas discovered that the break van had been filled Avith young cows and calves during the night. Sir George Grey, avo are given to understand (says the ‘ Coromandel Mail ’) has offered to pay an accountant the sum of one hundred pounds if he will explain in an intelligible manner what is the actual indebtedness of the Colony, as shoAvn or otherwise not shown by the statement of the ActingColcnial Treasurer in his Budget speech in the session of last Parliament.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port Chalmers, this morning, the following cases of drunkenness were severally dealt with : - Charles Heron was dismissed with a caution. John Davidson and Charles Rook ■were ordered to pay a fine of 5s each with the usual alternative. Michael Shanahan and ■lames Massey were each fined 10s with the option of forty-eight hours’ hard labor. Mr Mansford presided.

Tiio reports in the Wellington papers of the proceedings of the Wesleyan Conference are exceedingly meagre, and it is through private sources that wo learn the standing committee have presented their second draft of stations for the consideration of the Conference. The Rev. A. E. Eitchctt is to be transferred from Christchurch to Dunedin ; ami the Her'. C. W. Rigg from Dunedin to >S(, Alban’s (Canterbury.) Balclutha circuit has been divided, and Milton appointed head of the new circuit.

The Minister for Jivjtiec has addressed a letter to Mr V , Pylvc, J.P., in which he pro mines to consider the advisability of amend ing the Petty Sessions Act, which only permits monthly meetings, in order to meet the case i.i Dunedin; and adds:—“l wish to lake this opportunity of expressing the thanks of the Government to the Justices of the Peace at .Dunedin for the assiduity with which they attend to the ordinary Police business of the town, thereby relieving the Resident Magistrate's Court of a large share of its burden.”

Mr Shaplcy, the representative of “ The Australian and New Zealand Cable Company,” was a passenger by the Eingarooxna, to make the necessary arrangements in connection with this important undertaking. The precise site at which the New Zealand end of the cable will be placed has not yet been definitely lixed upon, but it is understood that it will bo in the vicinity of Nelson. The Australian end of the cable will be laid at some convenient place in the vicinity of Sydney. Tbc ‘ Post : says' The shore ends will he laid first, from both the

Australian and New Zealand coasts, while the deep sea portion will be laid afterwards, and a connection made. It is anticipated that the operation of laying the Cable will be commenced and completed within the next three or four months. From inquiries it has made the * Tuapeka Times ’ is satisfied there would be no difficulty whatever in getting the railway finished to the mouth of the Round Hill tunnel by the end of April or beginning of May. That would bring railway communication within five wiles of Havelock and eleven of Lawrence. At a trial trip one of the two engines intended for use on tnis line-—the one known as “Tuapeka No. 1 ’’—hauled along a grade of 1 in 60, at the highest rate of speed, thirty loaded waggons, equal to 260 tons dead weight. It has been suggested that the completion of the Glenore tunnel should be marked by a public demonstration of some sort. The following is the text of the address presented by the employes of the ‘Guardian’ to Captain Baldwin, on Saturday:—“Wm. Baldwin, Esq.—Dear Sir, —We, the undersigned employes of the ‘ Guardian ’ Printing Company (Limited) desire to express our regret that private circumstances should have induced you to relinquish the editorship of the ‘Guardian ’ and ‘Southern Mercury.’ During the time we have had the pleasure of working with you, we have found you on all occasions gentlemanly, straightforward, *and obliging ; and whilst zealously looking after the interests of the company, yon have always been careful to deal justly with those under your supervision. Wishing you, dear sir, a prosperous erreer, we beg to subscribe ourselves, yours very sincerely.—There verj thirty-five signatures. According to Mr Travers, New Zealand jurisprudence is unique. In the Supreme Court at Wellington the other day, during argument in a case, he stated that his client had been sued for LSO damage for breach of contract. Practically the case was decided in his favor, but the judgment of the court —the Wellington Resident Magistrate’s Court—was appealed against, and while the appeal was pending his client was sued in the Dunedin District Court and directed to pay Ll3O, and so carry out his contract. As the matter now stood, two courts were in direct antagonism to one another, and a man was being sued in Wellington, for non-fulfilment of’ a contract which had been enforced against him by the District Court of Dunedin.

Dr Carr has been lecturing at Taranaki on its public men. Sir Donald M‘l.ean he pronounces sagacious, the perfection of selfreliant power, the tact which has averted war, plastered over the native ulcer, brought to justice Kereopa (one of the bloodiest miscreants) who has acted with a sound policy and noble judgment when the voice of the people and every instinct of his nature would have impelled him to the rifle and the sword to enact retaliations, solemn, terrible, and complete, and extermination as effective as that by the French in Algiers. Of Sir Julius Vogel the doctor says : This man could make a shoe or a locomotive engine as well as frame a law. Better fitted for mathematics than divinity, for an astute lawyer, and a keen and subtle debater. Self-esteem, individuality, calculation, firmness, destructiveness, combativeness, concentrativeness, and order were to be considered his greatest organs.

The Battery and Band of the Volunteer Artillery will parade for monthly inspection on Wednesday next at 8 p.m. The usual monthlymeeting of the Lodge of Dunedin will be held in the Masonic Hall tomorrow evening, at 8 o’clock.

At the Kensington Band of Hope’s last meeting the following were elected the committee for the ensumg term: Mr George Sutton, president; Mr Thomas Johns, vicepresident ; and Mr F. W. Hadfield, secretary. The admissions to the Hospital last week were 27, and the discharges therefrom 19. The deaths Avere Julia Steel, aged 22, native of Jersey, from consumption; Ah Lee, laborer, native of China, from cancer of the eye; and James Morrison, miner, aged 46, native of Aberdeen, from disease of the brain. We thank the Secretary of the Field Naturalists' Club for a copy of the report for the season _ 1874-75. It is now more than four years since the club Avas formed, and its members seem to be gradually increasing, in the list of members we are glad to see the names of some of the ablest scientific men in the Colony. With such aid as they are able to afford, not only are the excursions of the society rendered pleasant, but they must be beneficial through the cultivation of habits of patient observa ion in the Avide and interesting investigations embraced in its objects. Jt is gratifying that notAvithstanding the trifling subscription of 2s 6d annually unlike many far less useful institutions it is not likely to be dissolved through debt, although there are arrears amounting to L2 10s, which should not figure as a debt. We sh 11 be glad to see the advantages offered by this&ociety largely availed of and a large increase of m-mbers recorded.