The Evening Star. MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4076, 20 March 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876.

At the Canterbury. College twe young ladies have passed the matriculation examination of thu Now Zealand University. There was no cutting in bankruptcy to-day, Lis Honor Mr Justice Williams having proceeded to Lawrence to attend the circuit of the .Supreme Court, which opens there tomorrow.

Wo have to aoknowledge ear indebtednoßa to the * Daily Times * for the excellent telegraphic report of the Premier’s speech at Wanganui, which we repriut In this issue. The police at Clyde yesterday arrested' two men named Frederick Fitagerald add Charles Pearson bnawarrant issued atFohuca (Victoria), charging them with stealing a pianoforte, silver tea service, and other goods, when they candied off the wife of one Schick. The prisoners will be remanded to Melbourne, via Dunedin.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court,' Port Chalmers, to-day, before Mr Mansford, R.M., John Gollisph, alias “Simple Johnny,” for drunkenness, was let off with a caution, as was Margaret Lynch, charged with vagrancy. John Baptiste, a seaman belonging to the ship Oxford, charged with deserting from that vessel, was remanded till tomorrow, for' the production- of the ship’s articles.

On Saturday the Provincial Government, through Messrs Dalgety, Nichols, and Co, telegraphed to Messrs M‘Meckah, Blackwood and Co., with a view of getting the Alhambra route altered from Hokitika to the Bluffy in order that the salmon ova, ex Durham,might reach its final destination with the utmost despatch. As it has been found this could not be done the ova will remain in the Durham’s hold until the sailing of the Arawata, about the 27 th inst.; .

Yesterday afternoon Detective Bain arrested, at Temuka, a man named Richard Milford, alias Walford, who has been “ wanted ” for some time to answer a charge of rape upon a girl eleven years old at Otepopo, on the 4th January last. The prisoner escaped into Canterbury after the committal of the offence, but his movements have since been quietly watched, and on Saturday his arrest was effected eight miles from Temuka. The case will be heard at Hampden. At the drill-shed last night Mr Charles Bright delivered a lecture on “ Free Thought,” the object of which was twofold ; first to answer some objections that had been raised against the position he had taken up in his previous addresses, and next to explain his 'dews. The lecturer defended at some length the belief of and position taken up by the Spiritualists ; referred to the charges that had been brought against him personally ; and in conclusion stated that he cared not- what motives might be attributed to. his words and lectures, his object had been to create doubt in men’s minds so that they might be induced to search for the truth instead of being content to believe blindly. Jn thanking Mr Bright, the chairman (Mr Stout) said the lectures had done this good—they had caused self-examination as to convictions held, and thereby enabled people to judge whether their belief was founded on a. rock, or built on shifting sand. The Drill-shed was crowded. *

The twelfth anniversary of the A.O.i'., Court Enterprise, will be : celebrated by a supper at the Hibernan Hotel this evening-

At the bazaar to be opened to-morrow in the Uoiveisity Hal; at two o’clock a great treat awaits tite public and the friends of Knox Church in the speech of Sir John Kichardson the choice music that has been provided, and the tasteful display of countless articles bo hj useful and ornamental. Wo belr.iy no secret when we say that the la : ia.s who are to presi te wllbe gl d to convert Ihe contents of t.jeir several s: alls into hard cash ; and as their c.blert s to increase the building fund of n-w Knox Church we wish them all success.