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Evening Star, Issue 4128, 20 May 1876, Page 2

Tbe Dunedin School Committee last night appointed Mies Jennie Adams mistress of the Albany street s hool, in tbe room of Miss Fraser resigned. Messrs Turnbull and R. Wilson were very successful in their canvass to day in aid of the carnival to be belt! in Messrs Guthrie and Larnach’s new building next week. It will be remembered that they were deputed to wait upon the Insurance Companies and professional gentlemen, who have subscribed very liberally. In less than two hours Messrs Turnbull and Wilson collected LUO.

The Immigration Officer here has received intimation that Messrs Skidmore and R. A. Wilson, two of the survivors from the wreck of the Strathmore, are passengers by the Albion, which is due at Port Chalmers. A resident of iSt. I eonards informs us that a distinct shock of earthquake was felt there at twenty-seven minutes past four this morning. Its direction was from North to South, and it lasted from six to eight seconds.

Last night Professor Salmond delivered in the class room of Knox Church the second of his lectures on “The Christian Evidences,” the subject of his discourse being the grounds for believing in the Divine existence.

The Executive have determined to abolish railway passes to children attending the public schools, after the Ist of July; aud thenceforward will issue yearly tickets at L2 each to children travelling by rail to and from any school. Mr Titchener, master of the Industrial School, informs us that the Hon. Captain Fraser has provided fifty tickets to allow of some of the children of the Industrial being present at one of the concerts in aid of the Benevolent Society. The only case at the Port Chalmers Police Court this morning was a charge preferred against John Donald, who, for using insulting and indecent language in a railway carriage on the 19th instant, was fined 5s and costs. Mr Hansford, R.M., presided. The only important notice on the Order Paper for the next ordinary meeting of the City Council is in the name of Cr. Woodland—“ That the Surveyor be instructed to have filtering beds placed in the reservoir as soon as practicable, so as to supply the citizens with pure and wholesome water.” The very boisterous whether of last evening no doubt militated against the attendance at the Queen’s Theatre, when “Richard III,” was played. Mr Byers’s representation of the deformed Duke did not tend to remove the unfavorable impression which his first impersonation had produced. His ranting has certainly nothing to commend it. Mrs Byers made a good Elizabeth; Mr Steele has previously appeared as Richmond ; and Mr Stonoham’s Buckingham was a creditable performance. To-night a sensational programme will be presented, and Mr Byers will have an opportunity of displaying his merits as a melo-dramatist.

Mr Rolleston has contradicted the report that he was to be made Under-Secretary for the Colony. Those confounded servants have evidently been playing tricks with Jenkins again. Still, Jenkins should he more careful, and if he must manufacture news, he shoidd let it be of a harmless description, and not derogatory to the character of honorable public men. It is easy enough to disseminate slander, but less easy to prevent its effects. We notice, for example, that the Melbourne ‘ Argus ’ mentions as a piece of ordinary news, and as a matter of fact, the false rumor that was lately in circulation to the effect that Mr Rolleston bad agreed to accept the office, as yet uncreated, of Under-Secretary for Edu cation. Now, the chances are that the ‘ Argus ’ will not record the authoritative contradiction that was given to that statement. Mr Rolleston might think it worth his while to ascertain who is his secret enemy.

The Bill prepared by the Christchurch licensed victuallers, a summary of which we published yesterday, does not even please the organ of the trade here. The ‘ Gazette,’ however, makes a good suggestion in reference to sly-grog selling ;—“ Let there be two revenue officers appointed for the Colony, one for north and the other for south of Cook’s Straits; their duties to be the employment of competent assistant officers for the suppression of illicit traffic. These assistants to be removed from place to place continually, and to be discharged and others substituted as frequently as might oe desirable, so that they should not he too w ell known as revenue officers to enable them to be successful at detection. It would be useless to have them permanently appointed to districts, as they then would become marked, and sly-grog sellers would be on their guard against them as they are now against the police. The chief officers should be Justices of the Peace, empowered to swear in as assistants such men as they might deem desirable. The duties of both chiefs and assistants would require to be laid down, but considerable latitude should be given the former.” Apropos of sly-grog selling, the ‘ Gazette ’ calls attention to a circumstance that demands the attention of the police. It says that on a recent Sunday there was a drunken orgie in the township of Green Island, and on another occasion a man was sent to the hospital here suffering from excessive drinking ; while in each case it can be satisfactorily proved that the men were not supplied with liquor at either of the hotels in the township.

The Port Chalmers Colored Opera Troupe will make their debut at the Foresters’ Hall on Wedne day evening next.

Mr Skinner will lecture at the Caversham School House on Tuesday evening, at 7 30. on ‘ Po -ular Theology c mtrasted with Bible Truths.”

The Loyal Dunedin Lodge M.TT.1.0.0.F. will celebrate its fourteenth anniversary by a concert and ball < t the Temper nee Hall on Wednesday next. We understand the New Zealand Insuranco

ompany intend erecting another storey to th-ir present building with a view to father office accommodation It will add greatly to the appearance of the pre ent building, and be in keepi- g with the handsome structures in its vicinity.

To the list of amus ments for the evening of the Queen’s Birthday must b * added the concert and ball, to he he'd at the T mperanee Hull, to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary o ■ oyal Dum din Lodge, M. U. 1.0.0, I’. The cn cert pr gramme includes the names of severa’ well-known amateurs.

■‘’-.The entertainment given in St Paul’s school room la t nig tby the memb rs "f the Young Men’s Assoc ation connected with th * • hurc'i wa< largely att-nded Songs \.ere sung by Misses hi own, awkins, ant Kinvig. Messrs o vsey and A nder on,and recitations deliv. red b. M ssrs HolmeJ avie, M‘Carthy, Barrett, and Wnthen. On the 2nd prox. Mr J. P. Arm-trong wilt keture.

We have been requested to direct attention to the programme of the Leith Lodge’s grand dedication ceremony, co cert, and ball, which npp ars in our amusement column. The (led - cation ceremony "ill commence at 11 a m. on t’e Queen’s Birthday, when addresses will be del vere I by P.G.M. Bro B. C. Haggitt, Bro. 1?. Stout, and 13: o. T. Brac'-en. Several of our leading amateurs have kir.dly volunteered their servic-s for the concert 'i he final rehearsal wdl ta e place in the new Oddfellows’ Hall Albany sir et, on 1 u sday evening next, at 8 o'c’oclr.