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Evening Star, Issue 4035, 1 February 1876, Page 2

a meeting of the Kukorai School Boam, held last evening, ft was deeined advisable to re-open the school; no fresh cases of. scarlet fever in the district having' been reported. •

We hear that the people of Oamaru intend entertaining Mr Steward at a banquet,, to testify their appreciation. of the services' he rendered to the district while, he was; its representative in Parliament.'r ,> / v .

There was but a short sitting of. the ResiS dent Magistrate’s Court this mo'riixng, before Mr J. Bathgate, R.M. The ease Hyman v Cortais, which had been'previously adjourned till to-day, was again adjourned indefinitely. ’ . The Oamaru municipality not seeing its way to undertake the proposed constfu'ction of saltwater baths, it is intended {sayS the ‘Times ’) to' hold.a public meeting on Friday evening next,, ;with a v yiew, to raising Ll,ooo.for the purpose, in Ll shares.

€ A novel feature has been ifctroducedinto the firing air the Thames this: year for Colonial representatives/ It was the competition by a corps oi Mak>ri Volunteers, and sixty-four was the highest score made by them, which is hot bad considering'that the corps has not been in existence twelve months.- ■ ’ * -i ; There is sure to be a lengthened sitting,of the’ City Police Court lottery case against Messrs Ihglis and Co., in which the right to- hold the late Art Union will be questioned, is to be gone into, and thp. adjourned charge ofembezzlement against E. P. Corley will come on for hearing. A number of summons casea ; have also' been issued; r - ' 1 •

Instructions have been given to the Clerk of the City Police Court that, for the future in all cases of breaches of the by e-laws ,or summon cases if the fine is not. paid immediately summary jurisdiction should follow within three days. Pines could".'Hot be allowed to accumulate as had been-the case lately. Such was the fiat'spurided forth by the Chairman at the Court this morning.* Cigarette " Was repeated at theQueeh’s Thdatre last evening to a capital down-stairs attendance, but the performance could not be pronounced a success. It will be again placed to-night. For Mias Willis’s benefit on Friday evening a capita! programme : Will be submitted, * ‘ Faust afid, Marguerite, ” Which was last played -here about four' years ago, forming the chief attraction. The season closes on Saturday/ .

An example 'was made of & man' at this City Police Court..to-day who was charged .with allowing his horses, to trespass r on. the Clujbha railway line. It appeared thaV-in consequence of the trespass,. the train had to be stopped and the hbrseS’ driven' off the 1 line. The Bench,' in inflicting a fine.bf 810, in default one month’s impmbttmeSit -With hard labor, stated that the full penalty impeded by statute wasLSO. -At the recent criminal sittings at Christchurch there was a perjury case—Regina vM‘Nicol—in which the evidence was perfectly clear; but the Case virtually .broke down and has gone before the Appeal .Court because, as Mr Justice Johnston pointed out, the, form of oath set put in the indictment as haying been used. in the ;Magistrate’s Court was different from that sworn to by the R.M., while even the bailiff testified to a; third formula having beenused. . v Ratepayers of Bell Ward and others who have for a long time been agitating for a thorough system of drainage would do well to elect as their representatives in the City Council men of Mr Pyke’s stamp... Li deal-: ing with a case this morning he complained that although nuisance cases-were daily codling before the Court the Corporation declined to open, their eyes to the iact and go Sn for drainage of the. whole City.' Row in the face of this thetown was tp be kept clean he for one could not understand.

The 1 Christchurch correspondent of. the ‘ Waitangi Tribune’ 1 wntea’V-*-* 4 Private news has been received that Sir Julius Vogel, who is now on his way, tb the Colony,! isi suffering from a complication of disorders, which may prevent his reramjuiur the control of affairs when he returns. . The account given, of the . accuracy of there is no doubt, tends :, to prove, that- Sir. Julius’s health has quite broken down, and that Ids constitution is completely, shattered. The Hon. John Hall returned from the Hbjne country a few days ago, much recruited" in health, but still suffering sufficiently' from his old complaint to prevent him froin taking any active part inpolitics for some rime to come.” • '

‘ (“Are Provincialists’ figures reliable?” is a question one R. Jones asks in the . ‘ Bruce Herald/ He points out that; in & semiofficial return published in December last the cost bf the mperiiitendeut and Executive Council qf Otago for 1874-5 Wai set down at L 4,460, add repaarks-'—'“The cost of 'that department for,thb last quarter was L 1,363 Os, which, if maintained throughput the year, would be Ifis; or lSi55 '6s Td. ; more than last.year. - If ; we add to this .the cost of the Provincial Council, 1A, 037, we, shall find that in this Province alone the cost of Superintendent, Executive, and Legislative Departments -is L 9,382 165.0r nearly a third of the amount which Mr •Macandrew allows to cover the. expenses of those departments throughout the Whole Colony, viz,', L 32.000. I think that these' figures disprove Mr Maoandrew’s, assertion, and justify us in thinking that, Proyinoialuitj figures are not reliable.”

The meeting of the ratepayers of Wakari, convened byMr C. Davies, for tht purpose of protesting against the townships of Lome; Broughton, and Anderatpn, being included in the proposed now municipality of Cnwimbre or Maori Hill, was held in the school-house, and was well attended,-Mr W’. Hepburn oc-* cupying the chair. Mr Davies’s proposition that the proposed mumoipality should be, confined to the township of Maori Hill was' met by-the following amendment> ‘‘.That .the proposed municipality be that included;, bpnndariea, represented, by the' Superintendent, vis., commencing, from fhb Waikari tollto Bunting’s istere,'and thehbe* by the district road and thb -Waterworks'to the Water of Leith, including Woodhaugh, to the Town Belt, apd to the Waikari toll "-—Which Was .carried by 20 toll. . '

v The fever hospital on the Belt is now more Slha&.convemently foil, and the City Council fWyl noon have to consider the question of it. To-day there were seventeen upon whom there are three adiflta as nurses. is |aid that during the Buller elSurohi •tyffty feeling ran so high at the Lyell tlmtjj ■as the' result, a little affair took place 'twej3U a resident of the township antr-mB editor of the local journal. The encounter was not 1 serious, but the editor in order to prevent further insults being offered, placed the following notice on his door Persons whose, business is doubtful are informed that the editor has purchased a revolver and borLittle by little are we~*approachi6g ther time when railway communication between Otago and Canterbury will be an acoom* three-days hence., ns. our the establishment of'* hdtidntifdcation be* tween Christchurch and Timaru; Therefore, there is only the section between the Waitaki andWaihoto.be completed, and then the tyro provinces will bp joined by thejrcgi, . horse- 1 And conceftMhg thils laatmeritionfed '■ section. the * Waitangi Tribune ’ writes that it is j alrfeady fbrihShhnd that thd bridge across the Waitaki and r Waiho are fast approaching completion!/' last few. days, no definite conclusion could be arrived at as to the tiihe When : the' Waitaki'bridge would be .completed, owing to the. non-arrival of ” the necessary timber iri>ih Australia, but that question was fortunately set at rest on Wednesday last, wheh the Bialeyfarriyedju.Oamaru.j consequently.,ff noTinforaeen circumstance occurs to delay the Work, it may the grand connecting-link between Canterbury and Otagb willbe fihished Within four weeks. But it is not necessary to await the completion of this bridge for the conveyance of rails from Oamaru to the Canterbury side, for the reason k ’^lf j ''^e s lh^'"cCidd^M^' i ttmk ■across the northern end of. the. structure in dpodt a week'OrtenatysJ om ' ' A{ “ big drunk at-the Maori Kaih” is the titlej given by the ‘Bruce fierald’ to the description of the festivities at the Maori Eaik on Friday last; and its special does not appear to have been overpleased with what he witnessed; of the after-dinner proceedings.Bh bays’; “ As ‘soon aa'thh ladies began td ' retire (from the ball-room);a large number of the | men went iifpir Isqttkre ■' drinking, r 7 . number than were.present at and it was,- deemed thah .it should. be drunk for: that it ,mighb,.deterioraW in

duality by being h®pk - The Mhories, they been left to themselyies, would no doubt - have imbibed freely and thengone peaceably td sleep, but ; the presence of a few-dozen tbirpty iMpiir'ted'h livelier .characterltd the :;: At ahdut fiW , 'ih ’the morning .ffierl aflß this lasted until tiie tdo drunk to stand*? '-. SeyerSil ttose -who. fiooh part in the i . encounter had. their, > qohnteuances - Severely wdaiUagechhut , lflnly 3 ,onf seemed to have sustained-injhries that would givs cause for alann;; At daybreak the flat m trout or the meetihg house was sfiewn prostrate forms/ahd it would seem that . some iprimtical - Joker had been at work on thejfaQen. One had: had part off a tussock y ( placed .in his mouth,;/another, held a? large piece of raw beef between his . teeth, and a

b third appeared to .hid in.theact, of endeayori ingj to swallow oiie of his I boots. Several k ~6£her men were'also-' peacefully alum* L henng, uncohscibus'of the ;fact that ’ their persons had been artistickUy deborated it during the morning... At,nopn pn .Saturday 3 the, residents of the'; Kyle ’ evidently suffering a , recovery indpbrs, £b!r the plhce j was quiet, , and ■ only three human hemge [ . were to he seen about the, settleineht;” V,

, pllhe North Dxmedin Rifles -will parade tor ; inspection at .the Caledonian Grounds to*' iaofrow ev«nibg, at 7.30. :; r;r i : y • , . ; i? Tjhe monthly meetiug of the No* 12 Ixm4. Orange Lr-dge: will be held 4n< Jmenqly • SocieteS'-Hail tomorrow, at 7.30 p.m. .u. .• ; li ThrJnigh the influence of the Dunedin! Grocers Assistants Association; the «enr merits will close at 6 and on Saturdays at, 10 p.m. ■ ■ ' - ■ tv r j Mr Nowell ‘itib removed.his -valuable -Art? UnSonprize display to nibre'cbmmbdious premises, next the .Qhefett’s Theatre, where they . may he seeii’daily. ,J ’ i ; v 'chack Clifford, the Olutha guard, for £o aga&st any one mm on the Otago, EailwaysV follo'wing games, viz :—IOO yd&, ■ 200 yds,^quai-i 1 ter mile, one mile, one mile numing high jump, and quoit*, at' the pdfdbniati ina time.' , ' ; vOn Auckland, correspondent’ fßgiet to lean* of the misfbriiihe ~tb’ Mfesarrfti..'' irown and Sons, of your .<?ity,, by the partial destruction by’ me of the 1 * braiid of flopr was highly esteemed in this mar, ket, r but hope they will shortly be able 1 d resume work, and so continue tot 'ship to this maJhet.”*r-[Advt,] >. . ;y y ; On Sunday, uefi the Sunday , JSchpol cpm, nested with St Paul’s Church was held in the hev building lately erectpd for; schoolrnqr-; poses. The superintendent (Jdjp TL T./Whemer) gafe an appropriate aind congratulated : the teachers on .being relieved from the' ' felt inconvenience o^msuffidentschool 'accdm- 1 ' . modation. J There was a'' full attendance of ■children and teachers. ‘ ‘ '