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Evening Star, Issue 4106, 25 April 1876, Page 2

There was no sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. The Temperance Hall was opened last night by a variety troupe, who have returned from a Provincial tour, and of which Miss Annie Beaumont is principal. The performance was of a motley description.

We are glad to learn that Mdlle. de Murska is recovering from her indisposition, which proved more serious than was at first anticipated. She is now improving so rapidly that there is every reason to believe the concert announced for next Friday will be given. The District Court case Copeland’s Trustees v. Sims was fixed for hearing to-day, but on Judge Bathgate taking his seat Mr Aldridge, counsel for plaintiffs, said an important witness was absent and there was no appearance of counsel on the other side. His Honor adjourned the case until to-morrow, when it will be heard in the Provincial Council hall.

“East Lynne ” was played at the Queen ’ Theatre last evening to a moderate attendance. Mrs Hill gave a fair rendering of the dual character, her acting in the emotional parts being especially good ; and Mr Steele’s Carlyle was a most creditable performance. “ My Young Wife and My Old Umbrella ” was the afterpiece, in which Mr Musgrave was irresistibly funny. To-night “ Lucille’ will be produced. At the Supreme Court sitting in banco this morning, before Judge Williams, the case Glassford v. Beid and others was commenced. This was an application for a rule nisi to enter up judgment for plaintiff. Messrs Macassey and Haggitt appeared to move the rule absolute ; Messrs Stout and Smith to show cause. Mr Stout addressed the Court at considerable length, and the case wJ.U last over to-morrow.

Kailway work is being pushed ahead so smartly on thav oortion of the Southern line running through Canterbury, between the Pareora and Makikihi, the formation of the line from the Waitaki *° th® " e ®P Creek—Pratt and Martin’s contract Will be completed in a few days, so that to the no. ® and south of Waimate the earth and bridge works are rapidly approaching Waimate township.

In alluding to the testimonial proposed to be presented to Mr M‘Gavin, the contractor for the Waitaki Bridge, the ‘ Waitangi Tribune ’ suggests that the promoters should raise a subscription on behalf of Mrs Hunter the widow of Mr M‘Gavin's late partner—and content themselves with presenting to Mr M ‘Gavin an illuminated address for successfully carrying out what his partner so cleverly planned.

• \r T M e ‘Herald' learns that Mr J. P. ’ u . ]il i el . v , to be appointed Chairman voi the Wasco hoard.

Mr Elder, of Port Chalmers, one of the o\ *ners of the whaler Splendid, received a ta gram this morning informing him that tin vt vessel had taken two whales off the Slanders. Phis makes three fish taken by 2“ X^i Binc , e Bhe left Port Chalmers on the* JOth of March.

>rh.e first number of the ‘Mail,’ the new evcuung paper published at Oamaru. has reached us. It is four pages, “double crown, is well edited and most creditably printed, and we wish our contemporary the success Ins enterprise deserves. As indicative of the good feeling that exists in the trade at Oamaru, we may mention that the first issue of the ‘Mail ’ was printed at a few by the proprietom of

Information has reached us (‘Southland Times ) that MrDavid Proudfoot, the contractor for the Western Railways, has commenced an action for libel against the proprietor of the ‘Western Star’ newspaper on account of some remarks published in that journal respecting the delay in completmg the railways. Damages, it is stated, are laid at LSOO. The journalist’s solicitor, Mr Harvey, has agreed to accept service of summons, and Messrs Wade and Macdonald have been retained for Mr Proudfoot.

On Easter Monday ar.d Tuesday the longpostponed race meeting at the Lakes was held. The weather was fine but the attendance small. The Maiden Plate was won by Mr R. HowartVs Devonshire Lass. Mr Parson s mare Mystery won four races—the Publicans Handicap of 30 sovs., Flying Handicap of 15 sovs., District Handicap of 30 sovs,, and Hurry Skurry of 10 sovs. Clyde won the Novel Handicap of 30 sovs., but Mr M‘Nulty, owner of Ballarat, the second horse, received the stakes on lodging a protest against Clyde on the ground that he and his rider were disqualified at Tokomariro races.

We (Southland ‘Times’) understand that it is likely that a public meeting will be called in Invercargill tq urge upon either the Provincial or the General Government to afford considerable additional accommodation at the Bluff Harbor. The local members are quite willing to join in agitating the question, but being Provincialists, they consider that the proper course is first of all to apply to the Provincial Government. With regard to the ways and means, one wealthy squatter offers, if the Government is hard up for money, to Eurohase thirty-thousand acres of land On is own run for L 30,000.

The residents of this district, says the ‘Bruce Herald,’ will regret to learn the death of Mr Alexander Sutherland, of Waihola Gorge, a very old and much respected settler of the locality, and the father of a large family, resident in this and the Waitahuna districts. Although seventy-three years of age Mr Sutherland rode to church every Sabbath, and very frequently to the township during the week. He was extremely active in body and mind, and had every appearance of proving a long liver. About three weeks ago, just after leaving his home on horseback for Milton, a young bull which had been feeding in a ditch on the roadside suddenly leaped out on to the road, rushed before the horse which M Sutherland rode so unexpectedly that horse and rider were thrown to the ground, and to the effects of the fall the death of Mr Sutherland is to be attributed.

We take the following items from our Oamaru contemporaries The mail coach between Dunedin and Oamaru broke down on Friday morning near Palmerston, but no particulars are given. The passengers escaped unhurt.—What has long been urgently wanted, and long asked for, viz., the running of passenger trains to the wharf, was inaugurated on Friday on the arrival of the Union Steamship Company’s s.s. Maori from Dunedin. As soon as ■the Maori hove in sight, a first-class carriage was despatched from the railway station to the wharf, and the whole of the Maori’s passengers with their luggage brought up to the railway station. This will be a great convenience to persons travelling between Oamaru and Dunedin.—Madame De Murska has arranged to give two concerts at Oamaru. —Another case of typhoid fever in the town is reported. The Wakatip district is in a high state of fever over the proposed sale of the commonage there, which is fixed to take place on the 29th inst. The following extracts from the ‘Wakatip Mail’ help to make clear the telegram in our columns in reference to the sale :—“ Some action has been taken to prevent or oppose the virtual extinction of the Wakatip Commonage. . . The telegrams recently forwarded as an appeal to the Colonial Government are the result of the deliberation of those whose interests are those of the district. Laugh we certainly could at the conduct of the Provincial Executive for its folly and undue haste and forgetfulness of promises, but we cannot afford to do this just now. . . The conduct and general action of the Provincial Government cannot command any support or respect, and the best way, in our opinion, is to appeal to Wellington for protection.”

A meeting of the Pride of Dunedin, 1.0.G.'i'., will be held to-morrow evening to elect officers.