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Evening Star, Issue 4067, 9 March 1876, Page 2

Ministers’ Association services have been held in Knox, Hanover street’ Baptist, and St. Andrew’s Churches, and each service has been well attended. The Volunteers who return from Wanganui to-morrow will be met at Port Chalmers by Captain Stavely, Acting-Adjutant Douglas, and others. The Volunteer ball takes place on the 24th.inst.

As instances of a good and a bad crop it is stated that a farmer, at Halswell, Canterbury, had threshed 600 bushels of bats from six and a-half acres of land, while an adjoining paddock of barley averaged only five bushels to the acre.

The only business at the Port Chalmers Police Court this morning was a charge of drunkenness preferred against Richard Peebles, who pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay a penalty of ss, with tbe usual alternative. Mr T. A. Hansford, R.M., presided.

A much needed improvement is now going on in the paving of the roadway of Rattray street wharf, and also alongside the railway sheds. Considering the great amount of traffic that passes iii those localities the alteration‘ will be found a great boon daring the ensuing winter. : The ‘Tuapeka Times’ of.yesterday pub-, lished the following telegram:- “ Manuka Creek, 7th March. A portion of the Round Hill tumiel fell in yesterday, and the men employed had a narrow escape. Only 30ft of the Glenore tunnel- now remains to be driven, and the manager expects to have it through next Week.” Wilson’s Circus was again well filled last evening, when the previous night’s programme Avas repeated,, ;the 'various feats of horsemanship being well received, and the, tumbling by nearly all the members , was excellent. There was another grand S recession to day, headed by the Excelsior land, under the able directorship of Mr Baker. Mr Kingsley takes a benefit tonight, when a capital programme will be put forward.

At the Kakanui Harbor Board meeting, on Tuesday, tbe tenders for the construction of the Harbor Works were opened, and were found to- be much in excess of the Engineer’s estimate; and it was resolved that fresh tenders should be called for. It was also resolved that the names of the following gentlemen should be submitted to the Superintendent as members in place of Dr Webster and Mr C. De V. Teschemaker,,who have been absent from the, Colony over six months, viz., Mr M. Morton, Kakanui; Messrs Elder and Williams, Maheno ; and Mr Campbell, Kakanui.

Mr H. Clarke,' M.P.C., this morning introduced to the Superintendent the following members of the Balclutha Town Council and Matau Road Board—Messrs Gramond (Mayor), : Fleming, Hogg, Hope, Inglis, M ‘Donald, and Smith. The deputation wished the Government to vote a sum for the metalling and widening of- the road from Stirling railway station to the railway terminus at Balclutha, about a mile in length. It was stated that the road was so bad that farm produce or goods from town could not be taken along' it, and that the railway returns would be considerably affected. The cost would be only about L4OO or LSOO, but the Road Board had already laid out so much money that they would require assistance from the Government. His Honor agreed that there was a great necessity for the work, but said the Government had no money. The members of the Executive sat for hours yesterday with the estimates before them, trying to apportion the money at their command, and they found the amounts for actually necessary works would have to be considerably cut down. Instead of LIOO,OOO Government required L300,000t0 lay out in various parts, of th'e Province. He would-submit the re--quest of the deputation to the"Executive,' but could not hold out much hope of a sues

oeeaful result, The deputation thou made mention of the apparent selling of some of the Balclutha reserves by the Waste Lands Board, which matter his Honor promised to bring under Chief Commissioner Thomson’s notice.

The filthy lake that has so long been an eye-sore and a danger to the nefpborhood v ■ Copeland s Brewery has beOn' emptied, mid is in process of filling up ’ earth. Energetic measures seem to have been tsen at last, for we notice numerous feverd&Oedmg places have been levelled up and others are bemg gradually filled.

, 7 n reference to the little public interest m . tke Dunedin Sailore’ Home, it is (Iff 1 > °l me “ tion tkat the annual meeting of subscribers yesterday the only nonpresent was Mr James Mills. to? y ) e f ®2 feseei F ,!^-^ d * .. Th ® ae Present acknowledged Mr Mills s action by appointing him a committee man.*

—At-thfr jrnommg the caastqf Fidler v.;Basch came on for hearing, but Mr Aldridge said a client of his had aleo an action agaiUst Batch, andflih must object to Fidler’s case being heard .unit. Plaintiff’s evidtnfee f was, however jn tjie latte? case, Mr Bathgate, R.M.,i reserving judgment tilh the action in which Mr Aldndgeus interested is heard. r

As showing how quickly It is possible now to communicate .with .Home .and With Australia,..* the .‘Horth Otago Times ’ mentions that to a message sent ' to Melbourne from Oamaru on Monday, at 12 o’clock noon, the reply was received at 5 p.m, same day; and that, to a message to England, despatched from Hampden at noon on M6nday of last week, the reply was received oh Wednesday ; at 8.20 p.m. • I ' , *

_A. meeting of the Protestant Alliance .Friendly Society wiil be held in (he North Duned n Brill Shed on Friday evening, at 7.30. A bazaar, in aid of (he building fund of 'he new Knox Church, will be opened ia the UniHalf on Tueoday, the 21st inst, at tito

Messrs Reith and Wilkie have forwarded to us a copy of the Publishers’ Circular, for which they are the t itsgo - agents. . When it is Stai ed that the circular contains the trice-list of the latest published wo< ks in every department of liiera'ure, ite value to persons of literary tastes will bi understood ■ • v

meeting was 1 eld ac the Cattle Mar set Ho", el, S.E. Valley, last night, of persons who have enrolled t&emselvi d - to become mm bars of the new i.odge of the Protestant Al iance Society, about to be established at that ehd ■of the ,tp\vn. Xt was decided to open toe lodge on Friday e.vehitig next, when th6‘officers of the Pioneer Lodge aro expected to he present, •

We hoiica by advertisement that a .special tram will leave Dunedin at eleven o’clock thi-t eveniao', retuming from toe poi V at llJO’ which .will euable tljio © who tuay not be able (o attend the soirde an opportunity of visiting Dunedin; whil-pers ns desirous of being present at tbe soirte dan re torn to their homes by the spec al train, r n Oiw readers hardly roqm?e to be told that Hlondxn is here, or that hewill make his bow to a I tunedin audrencs bn Satutd-.y af ernoon At Kensingtonh s “monster enr-losu e”—:ent it cannot be Called—is rapidly appr acKiirg completion;. It is 280 ft long and 200 ft wide, tod m capable of hold ng morepeople, we think, than will he seen within its wailfhf re. ' Ohe rope on wh ch Blond n perfonns is fixed at an altitode of about 50ft. Its patrons have toe choice of cabs to the ground or cheap trains. 1 -