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Evening Star, Issue 4068, 10 March 1876, Page 2

The new evening paper at Oamaru is to be published early next month.

From the bluebook we leam that the Otago Provincial Council has passed 547 Ordinances since its creation in 1853. Of these 461 were.brought into operation, and 86 were annulled.

At the inquest at Balclutha on the body of Mrs Macrae, whose sudden death was reported in our Wednesday’s issue, a verdict of “died from disease of the heart” was returned.

The tender of Messrs Meikle and Campbell, for the erection of the new telegraph offices at the comer of High -and Bond streets (next to the Custom House), has been accepted. The amount is L 8,891 Bs. lln his Lenten Pastoral, Bishop Redwood, of Wellington, thus indignantly remonstrates against secular education :—“We cannot permit without an indignant protest, nay, without anunflaggingstruggle, the conscience of Catholic parents to be violated ; we cannot allow the rights of fathers and mothers to be wrested from them for the sake of a portion of society falsely calling itself the State.”

The movement in Invercargill for opening the Athenaeum there on Sunday evenings appears to be gaining ground. At a public meeting Sir John Richardson spoke strongly in favor of it, and joined the committee appointed to secure united action on the subject. The committee have written to the secretaries of all the kindred institutions of the Colony, asking them to state their experience on the Sunday opening question. A painful scandal has arisen about Mr James Wood, the founder of the ‘ Hawke’s Bay Herald,’ whose death in Fiji or Now Caledonia was recently announced. It is alleged that his name was Boyle, not Wood, and that he has a wife, an old blind woman, whom ho deserted many years ago, still living in Victoria. It is stated that she was in New Zealand prior to the late Mr Wood’s departure from it, and that she then produced satisfactory evidence of her marriage and identity. She is now asserting her claim to a participation in the estate of the deceased.

Lodge St, George, Lawrence,' this year celebrated its anniversary by a ball instead of a supper, and the change was most thoroughly appreciated by the youthful, and particularly by the female portion of the community. Last night the Town Hall there wore a very animated appearance. It was nicely decorated, and was filled with a company which must have numbered eighty couples, who enjoyed themselves thoroughly. If the Masons of Lawrence act wisely, they will make this ball an annual affair. Anything more successful could not be devised. Bro. E, Williams is the W.M. for the ensusing term. This week the ‘Tablet ’ feels itself called upon to explain that it has been the innocent cause of filling certain of our country Contemporaries with alarm. In its issue of January 21, a paragragh, which had been clipped from an American exchange, appeared, stating that a at Ballinasloe, Connty Galway, Ireland, named M'Cormack, had taken the foot-and month

disease from drinking the milk of a cow suffering from the sickness in question. This fact was quoted by some of our contemporaries, with this slight alteration, that the town of Ballinasloe, where the melancholy occurrence took place some six months ago, instead of being in the West of Ireland, where it undoubtedly is to be found, is B^PP 03e d afl d asserted to be in the Province of Nelson.

Mr Omer Kingsley took a complimentary benefit at Wilson s Circus last night, and, considering the wretched state of the weather, there was a capital attendance in all parts of the marquee. It is needless to speak of the merits of the company and of last night s performance; it is enough to say that throughout it was, if anything, better than any of the previous ones. Mr Kingsley introduced two new horses, which went through some astonishing tricks. The performance concluded with the “Harvest Home,” the steeplechase creating a deal of excitement. Airec takes a benefit to-night, when a new programme will be presented. The annual tea meeting of the Congregational Church at Port (maimers was celebrated last evening, when there was a large attendance, which included a number of visitors from Dunedin. The building whs tastefully decorated with ferns and flowers, and »n abundance of good things in the sh?,pe of cakes and fruit, to which ample justice was done, was provided by the ladies of the congregation. Among the invited Sieets we noticed the Rev,' Lorenzo Moore, r Roseby, Captain Peek, and Mr Jago. At the conclusion of the tea, the Rev. Mr Max* well (pastor of the Church) offered prayer and delivered a brief address, during which he alluded to the necessity of building a Sunday school in connection with the Church. From the Treasurer’s annual statement it appears that the. income from all sources had amounted to L 364 11s Id, while the expenditure, including a payment of LIOO towards reducing the debt on the church, was L4Ol Is 4d, showing a debit to balance of L 36 13s 3d. The meeting was afterwards addressed by the. Rev. Lorenzo Moore, Dr Roseby, J. W. Jago, and Captain Peek, and during the course of the evening several hymns were sung by the congregation. The usual votes of thanks were passed and the meeting brought to a close by the benediction, and the visitors returned to Dunedin by special train.

_We have received a copy of the ‘Family Herald ’ for January, from Mr Braithwaite, of the Royal Arcade, which arrived to day by the supplementary Suez mail.

A meeting of theKendngton ratepayers will be held in the Kensi. gton -chod oi Monday ev-en ng next at 7.30, to consider drainage aui other important matters.

•The regular weekly mee'ing of the Dayspring L- dge, No. 97. 1.0. G.T., was held in tbe Kensington sch olroom last evening, when three members were initiated.

At the Queen’s Theatre to-night, Mr W. J. M orrish takes a compliments y benefit tendered to him by a number of musical friends. A capital i rogramme is put forward. We would again remind onr readers that Blondin’s opening performances take place at Kensington to-morrow, and that to-no.-row evening the opera season c mmences at the Qnten's with “ 'lhe Grand Duchess,” Madame Simonson appear ng in the'title rile.

As Wilson’s Circus la to remain over Sunday next, the committee of Air Bright’s friends have made a raugements. for the deliveiyol another free thought lecture by that gentleman on Sunday evening. The subject of this lecture will be “ Infidelity and the' : od Satan.” As it is the hist Mr Bright can give in Dunedin there will doubtless be a great attend ance. . ’ .

We have received from ttr Clerk of the Provincial Council (Mr a synps s of the Ordinances passe 1 by the Provincial Council, which is in continua’ion of the compilatun recently un ’ertak->n by hm, and carrkd hj . schedule, which brines the synOpsis down to 1875, down to the -nd of the ses-ion of 1870. The work to hand is published because the first one proved ir-aVlf oi such gre;.t convenience as a means of reference to the several matters dealt v-ith by the Oidimvn. es. It is intended to.bind up a number of the supplementaly schedules with the previous schedule, and so make a complete docum. Nt