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Evening Star, Issue 4116, 6 May 1876, Page 2

Councillor ) Isaac, as will be seen from the «J.? ° U^ C £ • ord J er P a P er > inten ds moving that a paid Brigade shaft be engaged instead of the volunteer corps now givW their services. e

* man to the police at Wellington that he had been robbed of L 25 ai a certain house, at the same time giving a particular description of the notes. Inquiry was made, and the constable having his suspicions aroused, searched the gent himself, and found the 125 concealed in his clothes

The following should act as a caution to policemen. A man at the Grey, who had been arrested by a police constable on a charge of stealing a pipe, and who was afterwards charged with vagrancy, has recovered L 35 damages, and L2O 15s 6d costs from the policeman for false imprison-

The Fire Brigade have appointed a subcommittee to receive the Wellington detachment for BaUarat on their arrival at Port Chalmers by the Arawata on Sunday : and to entertain them at lunch the next y : , T^ e D?nedin Brigade will be represented at BaUarat by Lieut. Falconer (in charge of the contingent), Foreman Murphy, Assistant-Foreman S. K. Rhodes, Branchman Galland, Firemen Grant, Webster, and Bowers.

Subterranean journeys are not pleasant, but perhaps the most disagreeable was recently taken by a youngster at Hokitika. lhe btxt says that a three-year old child of Sergeant Nellys fell into the culvert near the Marquis of Lome Hotel. The mother followed the child down the culvert some yards, but the current was so strong it was impossible to overtake it. A rush was then made for the lower end of the tunnel, when several men jumped in, and caught the child m their arms. On being taken out of the water it was apparently lifeless, but fcfter proper means had been adopted, animation M r as at length restored.

Mr H. Goodman, owner of Glengarry wanner of the Taieri Handicap at the Mosgiel races on Thursday last, authorises us to contradict the statement in a contemporary that his horse carried 31bs overweight in that race. No such declaration was made, and Glengarry earned about thres quarters of a pound only overweight j in fact, if he had carried 31bs in excess of the handicap, the owner of the second horse could have claimed the stakes. In view of the approaching Tradesmen's races, it is as well that there should be no misapprehension as to the terms on which Glengarry and Haphazard met at Mosgiel.

Avery "old identity"has been visiting Oamaru, and the 'North Otago Times' gratifies his wish to have his name in print. " Old Jack," as he is called in the districtj is turned eighty-two, and has been in New Zealand, or New Zealand waters for over half a century—fifty-four years. He has visited the Aucklands, and all the islands and rocks round about New Zealand, and claimß to have killed more whales and seals than any other man now living in the Colony. He is still a healthy-looking, cheery, old man, though his face is seamed with the wrinkles of a hard and adventurous life; and, we trust, he has many more than the three or four days he counts upon in store for him before he goes aloft.

A little political difficulty has occurred in Canterbury, consequent upon the resignation of Mr Maskefl of his offices of Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, in order to take the Eegistrarship of the University, to which he has been appointed. The Lyttelton ' Times' informs us that the Executive took steps to fill up the vacancy, aud informed the Superintendent that Mr Charles Harper, M.P.C., had accepted the office. Mr Rolleston, after some consideration, refused to sanction the appointment on the ground of Mr Harper's inexpfirience in the routine of the work.- Sir Cracroft Wilson declined to suggest anyone else, and in order not to delay the payments to officials and others, his Honor appointed Mr W. Jameson to the office of Provincial Treasurer. His name was duly gazetted, along with Mr Maskell's resignation, and there the matter stands.

Screening the actora in a family quarrel may be carried too as was possibly the case in the following instance :—A man, who stated that his name was Geo. Howley, aged twenty-two years, walked into the Melbourne hospital, and requested to see a medical man. His clothing bore evidence of his having been severely injured, as the whole of it was saturated with blood. Upon examination it was found that his head had been wounded by a blow with some heavy instrument, while upon various other parts of his body were flo less than four serious wounds, appai-ently inflicted with a kmfe. On being asked for an explanation as to how he received the wounds, he said that he got them during a row in Gertrude street, Fitzroy, but would not give any further particulars. From a statement made by his brother it would seem that the wounded man went to his father-in-law's house during a quarrel between that person and Rowley's wife. He took her part, and her father then stabbed him. The police are investigating the matter. The usual fortnightly meeting of the St. Paul's Young Men's Association was held last evening in H. Paul's schoolroom; Mr R. T. Wheeler in the chair. An address or! "Culture" was delivered by Mr Jan:oi Ashcroft. After pointing out the great use of object lessons in storing the minds of the young with useful information, the essayist went on to show the absurdity of the parrot-like system of cramming the mind with things the meaning of which is only half understood, and concluded by advocating the highest possible cultivation of the moral faculties. During the discussion which ensued on the subject, one member pointed out the entire absence of any moral training in our public schools, and expressed a hope that in any future system of education to be initiated in this Colony the principle would be clearly laid down that, while it should be free from all sectarian bias, it would, at the same time, afford an opportunity of cultivating the emotion, so that the individual may be enabled to keep in subjection these base passions of our nature which have proved the rock upon which many have foundered all the dearest hopes and highest aspiration of their existence.

I Edward Gillott Bicfcerfcon, who wis aa-esced in Da;:ediD, on \v.->rr;uif. by Defective lleudersoi', was brought up at the Uamaru Court dn Thursday and committed tor tnal on a charge of obtaining Ll2 frem one Matthew Grant by falae pretences. His counsel applied that there should be a committal to the Supreme Cjurt, as he alleged accused would not get a fair trial in Oamiru TJa C( ?» .°L the * as tliere - The Beach decided that they must send the case before the District Court, and committed accord-

Th© Guiding Star lodge, T.0.G.T.. will SSIES""* ° -enin/at the

HaftfiS Jj?£ h6l< l " LOWCT foi T pra?tS ed on S 1 ? 0 " 10 ciet y meet ru Jr •£ oa r ue day evening at 8 o'clookCommittee meeting at 7.30. quSd m to m^ n ,? f - the B,i^e **> *eE e „JVfiS" 1 m working mvform at the station on Monday morning at 1130. A young men's breakfast meeting will be held to-morrow morning, at e ! ght o'clock in the room over Mr Hall sf ' Tbe All Nations Lodge, 1.0 G T will in Harper meetS ß' * therfe? Hall, Port Chalmers, every Monday evening tl J^ j^ed c m .£ etin S of thoße interested in tbe formation of the propsed Fisherv ComT E3T Wi ]Jr H h6 H at the Uall on Monday afternoon at one o'clock. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sons of Temperance is adjourned on account of the Daughters pf Temperance holdine their social Kathenng m the lodge room on Monday even-

In an ther portion of our paper appears an 1876 7 frl th AT rat^ r)ayerß re *»Mayoralty for lE b l ir ° m , M r O. o, j eeve s who cont s>ed 5 thtS!?isr r with the p reaent "*&* ihe announcement of the opening of the nncesss lhe tre on 'I uesday night bvMdlK de Aiiuvkas Company is maHe in ou£ adverting columns, ihe programme will include vocal, instrumental, and operatic selections. Ihe series is limited to three nghts. tiS f t i 1 I , e - m^ ntion , of the r rimitive Methodists of this City to hold snrvices at Oaversham among other place. For thi, purpose the Hall has been taken. The Rev. J V> ard is advertised to preach there to-morrow afternoon, at half-past two, and Mr W. Puddicombe m th, evening, at hi'f-past sk. Mr Ward will also preach to morrow morning and evening m the Temperanee Hall, Moray p ace. ' J

The Iy nc h Family of bell-ringe s and vocausts now engaged on a short over-land tour from Chmtchurch to Invercargill, will perform on Monday evening at MosgieLand Tuesday at Tokomairiro. The foUowfn* Wed nesday the troupe appear at Balclutha. On Saturday, the 13th lust., they commence a short ee*son of six nights at Invercargill, returning to Dunedin about the end of the month.

It will be seen by advertisement that religious services will be conducted in the new Oddfellows' Hall, Albany street, commencing from to-morrow, as also a Sunday School in r?L? erno sV h^ haU . havin S been secured by members of the Baptist persuasion for those purposes. We understand that the Sunday school, through the courtesy of the contractors and the Society's Building Committee, met f ™ the first time in the new hall ou Sunday last when the buildmg, although unfinished, proved 5 admirably adapted for Sunday School purposes. Ihe acoustic properties of the hall, both for singing and speaking, are said to be excellent