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Evening Star, Issue 4039, 5 February 1876, Page 2

The final returns of the Wairau polling gave Mr Seymour a majority of twentythree. The petition to the City Council praying for a free supply of gas to the Athenaeum hj being signed largely by the members of that institution The Christchurch papers contradict authoritively the statement that Mr de Malet has refused the preferred appointment of Registrar of the Supreme Court there. Messrs "Waterhouse, Travers, and Hector have been appointed Governors of the Now Zealand Institute ; and Messrs Bonar, Crawford, and Kirk have been elected Governors by affiliated societies. The Simonsen Opera Company intend performing five nights in Invercargill if suffi cient inducement offers. The dramatic company which was recently at Invercargill is how a tour of the Otago goldfields. Owing to the numerous counter-attractions it was. hardly- to be expected, that there would have been a large audience at Mr Bright’s lecture at the Temperance Hall last night; but we certainly thought the re-duced-prices would have ensured .a fuller attendance than there was, ; Tp-night Mr Bright lectures for the last time. Judging from the ‘Taupeka Times’s’ report, Mr T. L. Shepherd, when addressihg the miners of Blue Spur the other night, did not spare his political opponents. With the name of one he associated the manufacture of sausages and saveloys, and another was introduced in connection with grave doujrts as tp his lawful visible means <3 support. The salmon ova 1 expected by the- Durham is to be placed in charge of Mr Howard, the curator of. the Southland Acclimatisation Society. The. * Southland Times’ informs us that the Provincial Government has authorised Mr Howard to proceed to Melbourne per first steamer, in s order to receive the ova on its arrival there, -and bring it on to the Bluff with the least possible delay. The experiment of shipping ova by a steamer will thus be practically tested. ’ What, on the face of it (says the ‘Southland News ’), appears a great hardship has been inflicted on Messrs Proudfoot and Co., contractors for the Western District Railways, by a decision of the Waste Lands: Board, at a late meeting. From the re-: port, it will be seen that the firm in question purchased from various parties some 40,000 posts and rails, omitting: by ah oversight to make sure the splitters were duly licensed. Thereafter, the Inspector of Forests, acting up to the letter ofhis’instructions, seized the bulk of; the timber;! on the ground that Messrs Proudfoot and Co. could only show that licenses for 4,000 posts hs4 been taken out. -A sum of, say LSOO, seems ceitainly a heavy penalty for non-compliance with regulations under which the fees would not have amounted to more than L4O, the more especially as it’waa not shown that there was any deliberate intention to defraud the revenue.

The fining of William Lloyd in the sum of 5s for drunkenness constituted thb business ■at the City Police Court this morning. Lloyd, who is an old offender, was fined m i the minimum penalty in consequence of its 1 bemg his first offence this year. ~ . Mr M, W. Green, the Evangelist, ; who is about to return to Victoria, was entertained ; ' last evening in the Christian Chapel-house? : i Great King street, to the congregation s of; which he has been ministering for . the pa£t i three months. There was a very^lapgh' attendance, and during the evening addresses were delivered and some anthems nicely sung. Trout has been most successfully acclimatised in Southland. The ‘News’ states that Mr Frank Hankinson, of Te Anau run, has :dafee • * January, that in consequence of information received from one of his shepherds he went down to the White Stone Creek, winch runs ’ into' the 'Kokapo Oeek>where-the«young,.. trbut were at about 300 yards distance from the junction dt' the creeks he ■ found two big trout, the larger of the two fully 2ft long, and weighing at least 9 or Hi lbs. jj |The S6uth*'Dunedin Working Men ? s i'Lite-1 rary Institute and Library is to be opened) td-night, in Mr Melvyn’ay new building. Wja, are glad to see such praiseworthy efforts .made towards providing meansof intellectual advancement as this fact indicates, and still further pleased to'deam that several who cannot strictly, be termed working men bave joined in the ; mbVement, and may' -be expected to be present at the opening. It is intended to commence at 7 p.m. and remain i dpen t0.,10 p.ip.• this evening, and after■wards,' we believe, the hours will be fifod' B;a.m. to 10 p.m,,. andon Sundays from 2 to 6 .p.m. We wishthe ‘institute success. \ The Queer’s Theatre "Was ; Well filled in all pkrts on the occasion of Miss Willis’s benefit , last night. “ Faust and Mangueritb ” formed the chief attraction. Miss Stephenson appearing as Miss Willis as Marguerite' —both parts. e being,. very .creditably .repre-, sented. Mr Keogh has a good d'einohi-* acal laugh, buy, he ..failed . ..to give a proper rendenng of ‘the '‘character of Mephistopheles. Mr Clinton, who appeare as one of the villagers, should have been cast for the part. Mr Musgrave’s Siebel supplied the comic element, and the audience testified their appreciation 'of his acting by repeated calls for him at the close of the play. Mr Bates made his re-appearance as. “Toodles ” in the comedy of thatualhe, iSind was accorded a warm receiptidn. ' To-tiight' “Dick. Turpin” will be 1 Next week Mr Bates will appear in around of • Shakesperian characters. ' / ' :; ; •..■.. t A meeting of' the ; coal miners , of the Green, Island .district was held yesterday ; evening iii the Walton Park schoomouse, tp . take, into cdnsideratibn- a notice which MrSamson had given his men at the .end Of last week to reduce their wagesi MrMackay,, who was called to, the. chum, said that at the end of last week Mr’Samfion put up a nojice on his pit-head- stating that he wanted ah interview with his workmen.' ; The. men assembled at the appointed time, and he in-' formed them that ho was going to reduce the wages of, every man in .his. employ, and gave them .a certain time to consider Whether’ they would. acft'ept ; his offer or clear ' out. After cohsultatidh, the'men agreed to the latter, course, unless ./Mr Samson, agreed to advance their wages 6d per tod, instead of reducing it that amount. After considerable timh bad been spent in' considering what was best to be done, a resolution ’ was proposed and carried unanimously “ That Mr Samson’s men resist the unjust reduction of their wages, as the present rate of wages paid By Mr Samson is below what is paid by the Other coalmasters in the district.” A committee of pine was appointed to carry out . the above resolution.' It was also agreed that a report of the. meeting be sent to the ‘ Otago Guardian’ and the ‘ Evening Star ;’ also an advertisement inserted in eadh of these, papers, for a week, warning miners 'against going to work in Mr Samson’s pjt? till the dispute was settled. , ; The other miners of the district have agreed to support Mr Samson’s men during the strike. The prizes, won, at the late meeting of the .Rifle Association r were.distributed in the ; Drill-shed last night, to their winners, -by- : Mrs Walters. The shed was very prettily decorated, and’ at the southern end of the room * the-prizes and the challenge shield ' were exhibited to, advantage., Before-the presentation the Artillery Band, which oc t: cupied a platform in the centre,-of the room, played half a dozen of its choicest selections. The prizes having been handed over to the winners; Captain Wales,' on. behalf of the' Council of the Association; requested' Mrs Walter to present Captain Stavely with a very handsome plobk (obtained from (Eohn and Co.) as a mark of their esteem and re cognition of the services, he had rendered the Association.: Captain Wales stated that the Association 'was originated in 1865‘by three gentlemen, two, of whom, Captain M‘Farlane and Mr Devore, had nowletlthe Province, and the third was Capt. Stavely. It was to; Captain Stavely that the Association mainly owed its existence; and< but for his energy in collecting prizes for "every annual meeting, it wbuld v have flagged long ago. . Since , 1865, there had been prize meetings: of the. Association, and at them prizes to the value of 'Ll',2oo had Been distributed. The; Council thought it was due to Captain Stavely to present him with some token of esteem, because great success of the last meeting iwas due to him. At Captain Stavely’s suggestion, it was determined that the. prizes for the last year; should be in kind,, not in money, and this had been found to be. very successful/ Three \ cheers for Mrs Walter and Captain Stavely were called for and given;: and, for three< hours afterwards those present enjoyed * greatly the programme :of dance music plaved by this Artillery band.. : * An Orange Lodge will be qpehed at AllSaints’ Scbeolroom at right o clock on Monday: evening.-; • , • ■ A meeting of the Grocers’ Assistants Asso-! dation willbe held at the Glasgow Pie Home ; on Monday, at 8 p.m, 1 The monthly meeting of. the Gun Club mil. be he'd at the Empire Hotel at eight, o’clock: on Monday evening. A special meeting of the Yorkshire Club : will bi held at eight o’clock on Tuesday even*: ing, at the Empire Hotel. The Ladder of Hope. Juvenile Temple,) 1.0. will in future meet at Milton HallJ Stuart street, every Friday, at 7,30. . 1 A meeting of residents in Rpriyn deshwus of being included in the proposed municipality will be held in the Linden Schoolhouse on Monday evening, at. eight o’clock. ■ We have to acknowledge the receipt of thq * Evangelist ’ for • February, : ahd of • ‘The Church Magazine;’, i;he latter (so the introl ductorv chapter tells us) is published “ in order that churchmen may have the means of ve'dtij lating their , ideas in a .periodical entirely free, from restriction, and, as far as may be, from the one-sided coloring of .party views.” , 1 The Ladder of Hope Juvenile ■ Teinplel 1.0. has for the Inst eight months met in the Temperance Hsll, Moray place. During that time several..members bave, on their attaining the age of drafted ■ by transfer cards' into-the Adult Pji <e of Duni ’ edin Lodge! The Tpmple has bewi very sue 1 1 cessful in gaining membeis. Last, evening, .tot the secr>nd time since th.;ir engagement vt ihf ' uceHallroom;*thoy wore crowdvd ’ and a committee p-ev.ouJy elected to gejt' apbthir hall- arranged tO have Ihe meetings held in futtue in Milton Hall, Stoait ltroU< |

1311 . The mrmblls%l tins Wbiit ; ing, at the Amefamum. . , iradSKd Laws were and oflmera CMKiw year Honor the.,^wSfotmdeuc BrofefafeasUrriV and Mr ’ Hutto n setfetaryj; a bf ten m€tobei&,^n%ting n, |Bi. B.John fessor Coughtrey, guideits affadrsT . Ajtw the transaction of the formaJ'lMMineM-<Hr oorvjial vote of thanks was igran to the gentle man ’who had initiated the miovoment out of v rhidi the Society had sprung,% and arrangemei its were made for the future meetings, which,« >wl ng to allowid to take place erected for the Scnool of Art y A few words upon the scope and inttnti ton! M the Society just formed may not be out of plSEfe:"cdlors only was proposed, but thnise to v-'iiom ti work of formation .was eutirusted ♦ »n----ered that any association Which,. cxglf med II to the practice of one dfmria' mm uld fail to enlist the sympatifltti and «a£me the co-operation bf those wher derired to ohAqurage and foster the tastejfo.r art m ail’ltiti branches. They tiurefoie detddedi tljink wisely, to form a; society: upon pr inripwb analogous to . those upon; whicll . t ihe • art academies of yietoria and Sydkby akuoctoitt* tuted, and they rightly adopted tha mi rii sUn* dard by which these societies are apd we feol sure the result will: j'ust ify ths anticipations! of the projectors. ■ Tiho m .embefs number aiming themselves artists , 01, conndgiable abilrfcy, and amateurs of gtpt it pjcomlsA I The officers appear to have been - w» si I chbfeefa, kabd the prasehoei upon the cotSmti: I of [ Society of so many gentlemen oLhic hj rbriw vstoidlngjand'known artistic feelingia an Indk ck'ion of the great interest frit in it s futudSf {welfare. We shall look forward wft hj much' mtereat tq the; first . exhibition, which* we understand, is.to he hridhext Juhe. " ’ / { * ' i,■ ~ ■ , •'-.*< V