The Evening Star. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4069, 11 March 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1876.

At the Port Chalmers Police Court the. morning, before Mr T. A. Manaford, K.iM., Is Jl rOWa ’ f «r drunkenness, was Jlmd »•% Mitli the usual alternative.

R.i?Sir G S d * hea ? of , the Vl ctorian Water mW y ■ Cl -? rt . mcnt > who comes to Dunedin evn-!! :e mvit ? tlon of the Harbor Board to InvVi - ie *

, L ’ le Post that no information has <T° U re< r eivetl l) y the Covermneut as to the u ream.stances under which the City of Melbourne was dispatched from San FranSc D M^i a n any rea - on been StoMor the tot“ 8lw **° eend my

Missionary Work at Home and Abroad ” was the subject discussed at the Ministers’ Association Prayer Meeting at the Moray place Congregational Church last night. The speakers were the Revs. Dr Copland and Blake. Thempers in Marlborough are at it again. The ‘ Times ’ has called the ‘ Express’ “that print,” This is altogether beyond endurance, so the * Express’ darkly threatens that it will crush the ‘Times’with the “iron hand.” Surely the ‘Times’ will now cry pecavvi. ' . On Thursday evening (says the ‘Times.’) the Municipal Council sat in committee, examining the testimonials sent in by the different applicants for the office of Engineer to the Corporation. As there were no less than seventy applications for the LI.OOO ayear billet, the Council were unable to arrive at a decision. A zealous officer has received well-de-served promotion. W.e allude to Mr A. C. Stevenson, Chief Clerk in the Post Office here, who has on several occasions acted as Postmaster in Mr Barr’s absence. He shortly proceeds to Wellington, having been appointed to the chief clerkship in the General Post Office there.

Increased accommodation to the NorthEast A alley School is now so pressing that the school Committee have resolved to canvass the district for subscriptions in aid P ro Posed addition. It, is expected that LloO will be sufficient for the present wants. The residents by contributing LSO will insure the getting of LIOO from the Government, thus making up the required amount.

A young man named Harvey Tilbury, clerk, was received into gaol to-day from Balclutha, from which he was escorted bv Constable White. He was sentenced on the 10th mat., by Messrs Smith and M‘Neil, J.r.s, to six calendar months’ imprisonment with hard labor, for unlawfully enter mg the bedroom of Thomas Trumble, of the Newmarket Hotel, at Balclutha, on the night of the 9th inst,, and stealing three pound notes from a pocket-book. , accident happened to a buggy driven by Mr H. Prince, and in.which with him was Mr \\ ilson, of the Palace Circus, near the toll-bar this afternoon. The horses taking bojkh occupants were thrown out of the buggy, but neither sustained serious injury, Mr Prince escaping with an at U \vm •® e an( l slightly abrasod face, and Mr v\ ilson sustaining no injury at all. The horses bolted along Crawford street to the reclaimed ground, where iiey got into the mud and were with difficulty extricated. Hard on the cricketers. A Victorian exchange states that the Hamilton players were defeated by the Coleraine in the match for the Murray Challenge Cup, and the 1 sers in the first innings only made ten runs. To add to the bitterness of defeat, the following advertisement appeared in the Hamilton paper “To the Hamilton Cricket Club.— The undersigned, on behalf of eleven washerwomen of Hamilton, do hereby challenge the above club to a friendly game of cricket, on their own ground, '■ On Saturday next.—Bwdget M‘Carty, mother of twelve children. Also, for sale, a quantity of duck’s eggs. A ply to the H.C.C. Guaranteed fresh from Coleraine,” Very few people, ! ’ remarks the ‘Southern Cross, have any knowledge of the pi'ogress which the belief in Spiritism’ has been quietly making in Auckland during thlee 9 r fou , r “o»ths. During this period, seances have been held almost nightly in many places m Auckland, at which many converts have been made; and the movement has spread to such an extent that searato becoming quite common. | We learn, however, that an Auckland cler--1 gyman—whose reputation stands high for wX r* m the discussion of po* lemical subjects—has determined to investigate the phenomena of spiritual manifestations, and with this object has been holding seances, to which the most advanced spiritists in Auckland have been invited,” following items are from this momtbf Pi T jmes ’Mining matters at the Blue Spur and other places are still very quiet owing to the scarcity of water —The coming Tapanui municipal election promises tL?t e -\ gre A at deal °* merest throughout the district. A number of have been spoken of as likely to contest the Mayoral chair.—At Murray’s Flat the crops are better this year than they have been for some time past, owing, no doubt, to the. fine spring and summer we have had. • They will average forty-five bushels to the acre, while some will go over ’sixty. Pheasants and partridges are very plentiful about here; very likelj they are attracted by the crops, and as there are a good many patches of turnips growing in the neighborhood, they will be able to get plenty of food during the winwr. A few hares have also been seen on tfie Bound Hill, and in the vicinity of Mount Stewart.—Mr William Hayes has sold his interest in the Beaumont bridge to Mr Henry Driver of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency for the sum of L7,35Q, A strange story is told by tbe ‘NewZea- : 7. V When the Queenland Government established a system of direct immigration they desired to bring out young IS"JV hc . arti ‘ s “ Amongst these immigrants irits one who, it Y.ds discovered, \vas subject to ‘fits/ and tdese fits were certainly unaccountable. She was placed in hospitals and refuges; where she became to all appearances cUred, but on being Sent to Service the fits returned. The Queensland Govei’nilietlt sent her back to iiiiigland. Just then the New Zealand systern was started, and the young lady was determined to make another effort for Colonial settlement at Government expense. She succeeded. When she arrived m Auckland however, the ‘ fits ’ returned. She was sent to the hospital, 'where she became, atfange to stray, free from her infirmity. She was sent to various situations, the kst one being at the Thames, but the * fits * returned, and she found an asylum at the Thames Hospital. L Itimately the Auckland authorities paid her passage to England, but the young woman vows tnat she will come back to the Colony again.”

A private letter received by the mail by a resident in Wellington has the. following passage, which is published in the ‘New Zealand Times ’: —“ You know by this time all about Harry Wainwright and his brother Tom. The latter deserved hanging more than his brother. I have heard much about it from Kev. Mr——, who took what confession Harry thought proper to make, and who is a personal friend of mine. From what he says, Tom was the actual murderer, and likewise the Actual butcher. The poor creature was made dead drunk with champagne and brandy, and then Tom shot her, while Harry awaited the news hi a public-house, and she was then put into a box with chloride of lime, and three days 'after that they buried her. When she was exhumed and. cut up twelve mouths after, Tom was to have brought a box for the remains, but failed to keep his promise, hence the employment of Stokes and the discovery of the murder. 1 ’ From further passages in the letter it would appear that, so far as the

u eceasity for putting Harriott Lane out of the ■way was concerned, Thomas was aa much, interested as was Henry Wainwright. The English papers have all noticed the latter’s [, ’remarkable elocutionary, powerp, frequently f displayed in public. It is noticeable that JLood’s “Dream of Eugene Aram ” was one 1 oL.hifl favorite pieces for recitation.

According to a telegram in the ‘ Tuapeka Times ’ yesterday, there remained but 9ft to drive to effect the piercing of the Glenofe tunnel, and the afternoon shift commenced to bore a hole through to meet the men on the other side. The manager anticipates being through by Monday at the latest. Work at the Round Hill Tunnel is still progressing Men are now employed clearing away debris the late fall 1 , A number of men from theGlenore contract are now making their way up to the Round Hill, the Glenore job being almost finished. A_ number of cases were determined in Christchurch this week, ih'which compensation was awarded to parties absent from the Colony, and whose addresses were not known, but from whom land had been taken for raUway purposes in the construction of the Northern and Racecourse and South* bridge lines. Mr Maude, who represented the General Government, said that the amounts awarded would, be paid to the. public -trustee, to be placed to the' credit of the parties, who, if they should afterwards appear and claim the awards, would be entitled to receive the same with interest.

By the latest news, Nelson appeared to be full of “the cable.” As a sample of the “ goings on,” it is stated that one day a picnic, at which about 120 were present, was given to the officers of the expedition, and on another day a large party was entertained at lunch on board the Hibernia. Even thechurches contributed to the ferment—‘a sermon on the laying of the cable being preached to a large congregation at Christ Church by the Bishop of Nelson, who took for his text the 3fith verse of the 38th chapter of the Book of Job :—“ Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and say unto, thee, here we are I”. :

Referring to the proposal to summon the Provincial Council as ft COttVfcntion, the ‘N. Z. limes’ says:—“ However, let the convention meet by all means, in the name liberty, free speech, and the people’s rights, and show its devotion to these by permitting only one set of opinions to have vent. The convention can do no harm, although it is an evident effort to maintain purely local prejudices, and the advancement of purely local interests, without regard to the general welfare of New Zealand. |t might be an appropriate subject, however, for discussion by the members of the convention, if, to their consideration of the general enormities (J of the General Government policy, they added a slight inquiry into the utter muddle which has characterised the construction of branch railways in Southland by the Otago Provincial Government, and devoted some little time to an investigation of the evils disclosed by a resolution of the Riverton Municipal Council the other day.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the St. Paul’s Young Men’s Association was held last evening in the Parochial School (the president in the -choir), when a paper on “ The Dignity of Labor ” was read by one of the members. After pointing out the great benefits which society had reaped through the introduction of railways and other improvements, as well as from maritime enterprise, the paper went on to illustrate the necessity of labor accepting science as its directing power, and the utter folly it is for people to single out a magnificent building as an instance of what can be accomplishedby labor, without giving the Slightest meed of praise to the architect who designed it, or a railway without even thinking of the engineer under whose guidance it Was constructed. Reference was likewise made to strikes as tending to detract from the dignity of labor, not merely on account of the strikes themselves, but on account of their objectionable surroundings in the shape of riots and intimidation; and it WftS pointed out that these monuments of absurdity would llevei Va- offeClkmlly .jmt Jowß until the working classes Were more refined by education, and thus enabled to distinguish between wild unsupported assertions, and calm logical arguments.

The annuaal soiree of the Kaikorai Presbyterian Lhurch wi'l be held on Tuesday next, at 6,30. *

♦ . As we were passing Messrs Anderson and Morrison’s Brass _ Foundry in Moray place yesterday we noticed a ' ery handsome brass bamicle in the window, which, on inquiiy, we were told has been made by the firm for the Union Co.’s e.s Hawea. We were invited to ins. ect the work, and must say that it reflects sr.-at credit on the makers. Au improvement has been introduced in the covers of the lamp chimnies, by which, in bad weather, a'l (.anger of the lights being ext nguished is avoided.