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Evening Star, Issue 4058, 28 February 1876, Page 2

It is anticipated that the Waitaki bridge) will be out of the contractors’ hands in a fortnight hence. ’

1 At the Police Court to-day Geo. H. Campbell was brought up on remand and discharged, the Court refusing to grant a further remand. Mr Pyke commented strongly on Campbell’s arrest at Wellington. The Marionettes had another good house on Saturday night; and this evening -the management announce a change of programme, the burlesque -of “The Babes of the Wood” and “Little Red Riding Hood.” The opening programme was repeated at the Circus on Saturday night; and the trained horses, the tumbling acts, land the marvellous equestrian acts of Messrs Gonzales and Morgan, elicited the hearty applause of a very large audience. Mr Henderson, the defeated candidate for the Wairau, sought the suffrages of . the working classes.because he began life as a carpenter at 18s a week. ,To this the local journal opposing him said,. “If low wages are a virtue, we began at 45.” Our Oamaru contemporary learns that' there has been discovered on the Knrow run a good seam of coal, which bums well. Professor Black’s analysis of it states that the coal is of a quality closely approaching that of Shag Point; ’and it is therefore a valuable deposit, if present in quantity and easily accessible. Firing in the first set for district prizes was commenced this morning, and will be concluded on Wednesday, when the full scores will he published. " The ranges are 200, 600, and 600 yards; seven shots at each. Vol. Provo, No. 1 Co. (a recent acquisition to the Company) heads the list at present witty the capital score of . 71; Vol. Stewart, also of No. 1, coming next with 67.

Mr W. S. Medcalfe, agent for Madame de Mursha, has addressed a letter to us in reply to an inquiry inserted a few days ago. We can quite Understand Mr Medcalfe: must feel himself placed in an uncomfortable position through the uncertainty of Madame de Murska’s movements, and that the public will fully approve of the steps he has taken in respect to the promised concerts.

According to the ‘Wellington Argus’ peremptory instructions were forwarded to the Agent-General by telegraph on January 17 to stop all foreign emigration to the Colony, wherefore it may be expected that the only further shipments of foreign immigrants which we shall receive, will he those whose passages had been arranged before the receipt by the Agent-General of the instructions referred to.

Mr Webb, waterman, has fitted a small rowing boat with Stevens’s patent paddles and with hand connecting rods, by which means two little boys were yesterday able to tow his largest sailing boat, with men in it and all sails set, there being no wind: at the time, across the harbor, one and a-half miles. They afterwards palled the paddle-boat back to the jetty in ten minutes. Gentlemen fond of rowing should try Webb’s paddle-boat, the action being the same as rowing, only a groat deal easier and pleasanter.

An Auckland telegram in the *P6st,’ dated, the 23rd inqt., saysA young man named Percy Nowell, recently from Wellington, where he married eight weeks ago, and living iu Grey street, alarmed the' neighborhood by discharging a revolver in his bedroom. His wife went out yesterday for a ride with someone else, and during her absence the young man got drunk, fell into .a deep slumber on, a conch, and on being aroused in a half dreamy state, let ‘ fly, ’ ia common parlance, with the revolver that had Jain by, his side Nowell was charged to-day with attempting to shoot a Mrs Skirving, but we believe there will bo no evidence forthcoming to show that such was his intention. It is supposed to be merely a drunken freak.”

All Auckland was decorated with flags when the Governor arrived there, but those usually displayed above the Provincial Buildings were conspicuous by their absence, as Sir George Grey was from the crowd of gentlemen who welcomed' his Excellency’s arrival. Apropos of Sir George’s action on tho occasion, the ‘Wellington Argu'B ’ remarks that before he was childish enough to complain of being slighted in the matter’, or illmannered enough to refuse to accept tiT 0 ordinary announcements through the Press a'nd so become conspicuous by hia absence whb. n Lord Normanby arrived, he might have ca\ ' r * e d his memory back to the custom of a cert of this Colony, who delighted to Jrop in at a place without any announcement, or who, if he knew that people were waiting tp receive him at, any one spot, invariably lan ded somewhere else, if there were two la»djsg to choose between* ....

The Kaiapoi clerical scandal continues to occupy a great deal of attention in Canterbury, and Churchmen await with some anxiety the publication of a final pastoral by the Primate, which, it is understood, will beissued very shortly. ' The special Services at the Queen’s Theatre night were under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association,' and were well attended. The -speakers were the Rev. L. Mackieand Mr Wright (missionary). The chair was occupied by Mr T. Dick. *

The Resident Magistrate’s Court sat for a few minutes this morning, but there was not much business to transact. In Knott v. Cooper, a claim of L 9, the value of a saddle and bridle, judgment was given for plaintiff by default. The remaining cases were adjourned. , .

The excitement over Mr Malet’s appointment to the Supreme Court registrarship at Christchurch has subsided, and according to a telegram in.a northern journal that man " has entered on his duties, which he is discharging more satisfactorily than was expected by many.” The Southland ; papers state that Mr M‘Kerrow,the Chief Surveyor, will shortly visit the Western, district to make an inspection of the country between . Riverton and the Waiau, preparatory to the muchneeded survey of land in that quarter for agricultural lease or sale on deferred payment.

Prior to the adjournment of the City Police Court to-day Mr Cook, on behalf of the Bar, complimented Mr Pyke on the able manner in which he had presided over the Court during the last two months, and concluded by expressing the hope that his Worship might be again seen on the Bench on some future day. A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held to-day to pass some accounts. The revenue for the month amounted to L 2,307 5s 3d, and accounts for L 1,907 5s lOd were passed. _ It was stated by the secretary that L 4,800 in debentures bad been paid to Hawkins and Co. on the completion of their c mtract for extending the wharf accommodation 01 Rattray treet, making a total of L 11,600 paid in debentures to the firm.

Mr H. Prince’s Cocksure was scratched at eleven o’clock this morning for all his engagements at the ensuing race meeting, his owner having received a telegram from his trainer stating that the. colt had lamed himself sufficiently to cause him to be thrown out of training. Cocksure is by Towton ;out of Certainty, and was bred by Mr Red-' wood, of whom he was purchased by his present owner after the Christchurch Spring Meeting. He ran with varying results at Wellington and Auckland, being slight.lv addicted to bolting. It would be well u ail owners of horses that they do not intend to start showed the same readiness to draw the Sen through their names that has Been exibited in this instance, instead of allowing ' them to be used as a means of getting money out of the public.

The latest of the series of ‘‘Goldfields’ Celebrities ” appearing in the ‘Mount Ida Chronicle ’ is devoted to Mr Bradshaw, and' the justness of the foliowring will, we think, be generally admittedMr Bradshaw’s public career has -been distinguished for sterlmg integrity, industry, and dogged de- • termination. A little sluggish in disposi tion yet, what he determines to do that he generally succeeds in doing, or getting done. A ipore generous politician does not exist. What he knows, or has gathered, at great expense of time or labor, is freely anyone’s who will make use of it. We do not know any member out of office, whose time has been so devoted to the interests of the Goldfields. His labors havs not been altogether fruitless.. To him the miners have owed the receipt of a greater price for.their gold than what they would have got.' To him they have, in a great measure, owed the only facilities for some years offered them to settle on the goldfields; and to him, perhaps, more' than any other in Wellington, they have owed a ten years’ intelligent and influential representation of the Goldfields interest.”

There appear to be some unsatisfactory features about the boxes of Mr Gallagher, of Dunedin, which were reported; to have gone a-miasing at Wellington on the .last tnp of the Phoebe. It will .be remembered that when, the boxes went astray their owner •made a verbal claim ior compensation, based on a valuation of the two boxes at Lll6, they being alleged to contain L 66 in gold and LSO worth of other property. The ‘ Post ’ tells us that when the boxes tamed up their appearance by no means indicated such valuable contents, they being in truth seedy and dilapidated in the extreme, only just help loosely together by some careless cording. Disappointment gave place to doubt in the official minds, and Mr Gallagher was requested to open his boxes and show that that they really contained what was asserted to r be therein. He, however was equal to the occasion, and boldly replied that he had already opened one box and. taken opt the sixty-six sovereigns. * Unfortunately, however, a strict watch had been kept on the boxes from the time of the steamer’s arrival, and the watchers declare that no Such opening took place. The police were sent for, but as no money actually had been paid towards the compensation demanded, nothing could be done.

The following items of mining intelligence are from the Tuapeka and Dunstan papers :—Mining at the Blue Spur is almost at a standstill owing to the unusual scarcity, of water.-r-Mining at Waipori still remains dull. The Claims on the fiat are nearly all in the hands of Chinamen.—ln our issue of the 17th inst., we reported a cake of gold weighing 40oz 13dwt, having been obtamed from 39 tons of stone in the Nil Desperandum, claim, Waipori. Another cake weighing 650z 2dwt,{obtained from 40 tons of stone. Was lodged in the, hfapk oj New South Wales, Lawrence, on Thursday, from the same claim. —The late find in the Cromwell Company’* claim at Bendigo puts in the shade every* 'thing- previously found in that claim, a sample of stone yielding on the average 33ozs to the ton. —The chief excitement at Queenstown this last week has been the news from the newly-opened quartz reef at Macetown, which has been named the, Cross reef, from the fact of its running diagonally with the Homeward Bound, while the stone itself very much resembles that from the celebrated Cross reef atJPleasant Creek, Vic-, toria. It is certainly the best find of the sort ever made in the Wakatip. The reef is exceedingly well defined, and is 3ft in width; its course being almost due north and south, the stone striking down Vertically. Gold has been traced on the surface and a little below it for ever a I,oooft. It will of course be some little time before the exact value of the reef can be ascertained, on account of the inaccessible nature of the country.

Members of Court Eote' pise A.O.F. are requested to attend a special meetirg at the Hibernian Hotel to-morrow at 8 p.m. .

The quarterly meeting of tho Otago Li Victu diets’ Association will be held at the Ere .Brigade Booms tomorrow evening at 7 30. The membe> s of the Yorkshire Oluh are requested to attend a special meat ; n; in commemoration of Shrove Tuesday, at the Em* pire Hotel, to-mrrow, at 8 p m. During the pas f . week‘there were twenty ad- : missions to and twenty-three disohaig s fropi the Dunedin Hospital. 'The only death wat william Adamfc, laborer, a native of Leadon, from disease pf thp liver, v 7 ,