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Evening Star, Issue 4140, 3 June 1876, Page 2

The new paper to be started at town is to be calledthe ‘ Lakes * Child was S Wftß drowned. The out of doJ3 V row carrot, and it went .diSSy bnt f that his Honor the Superin• L heS /**? the country£r i° - re ? lyin ß to Sir Julius Vogel. Peorfo aje beginning to be prettywell tired ot M 8 political sharp-shooting, and have a f? Ve tr at conclusion that the floor of the House " will bCsts&tle the polemical differences of the Skirmishes. _ There was a moderate attendance at the & " "The Heart of Midlothian ’’ was repeated. Mr Keoghgi nng a. very'satisfactory representaUird Dumbiedifes.: In . Raising the .Wind’ Mr Byers was exceed* mgly amusing as Jeremy Diddles and was wed supported by Mr Stoneham as the un* sophisticated Londoner. For: to-night an attractive programme is provhiedi : ? Presented at the, Railway Emproyes Benefit Society’s quarterly-meeting last night - shows its present strength to toe.' “A- i <, , ur hew members: having -been made, white there are 48 (the Oamaro’bran6h) candiiiates for membership. ■ - John Hooker and Davies were elected co&mittee 1 m the room 1 of Messrs Shamin' 1 and : Gibb resigned.. The society had a bduce in band oi : Ll91 at the end of the. quarter, , Theaecond of the:.departmental: reports that has reached m is the report of Mr of the gaol at Invercargill. WQ>cii deals with the works dohe by prison Jabor in aud 'about that town. Mr Fraser remarks that “ there was a considerable increase in the number of prisoners received durmg the past twelve months; Mt looking at ,. *“® addition made during that period, by immigration, to the population of it is shall in proportion, and does not call for special remark/’ : Captain M‘Lean, of the Ringarooma, is making a novel importation this trip. If is a couple of live alligators, obtained from Queensland, we presume. On the steaiher’s arrival to-morrow they will be sent to Dodson s: hotel, and be exhibited there in the afternoon. , .These are “two mice pets?’ • and Captain M‘Lean telegraphs that hd will! if permitted, let them adnft in the Bota* meal: Gardens. ■ The jovial skipper must have been m a jocular mood wHfcn ho penned ! the. last sentencq of his telegram. Wn are authorised to correct the statement! that appeared in the ‘Guardian’ this morning, to the effect that at the-meeting of the Council of the Otago University on the 2nd msfc the Vice-Chancellbr reported that he had applied to the Provincial' Government; to have the Anatomy Act, 1875, brought into force in Otago, ; but as yet no reply had been received. No application has been made to the Provincial ment; and even had it been made, that Government has nothing whatever to do with the matter. Stack-burning is practised in. the' Lakes districts; The. Airowtown correspondent of the ‘ Cromwdl Argus ’ says “-A staCfc or two of Wheat belonging to Mr P. Kerin, of Whitechapel, Was burnt down on Wednesday last, andis really amyaterio.u£ affair. It happened in the broad daylight, and while one of the men on the farm was mg some stuff away from near the stacks. So far as ejm be learnt at present, it is the. act of an incendiary, as a child belonging to, My Stewart, of the-adjoining farm man set the stack on fire." . .'Vrj ■ An accident attended With serious results happened last night to-Mr- Chahtrey Harris, shipping reporter-bf the ‘Daily Times/ at the Port. As that gentleman Wasmaking his way to the. railway station for the pnrppae’of sending up his despatches he stumbled'over a heap of blind metal carelessly left on the 'footpath facing the Custom House,, and . received a serious wound on the cap of the left knee, which will probably lay him !up for some considerable time, J)r Drysdale, who: is in t attendance, bedng of opinion that great quietude is necessary in otder to avoid serious results. • It is high time some steps 'were taken by the authorities to check the practices of juveniles, of which complaipta reach us-dailyv. The most serious., case that has been brought xmderrour notice is that of p son of Mr.Williamff'aylor, aged six years. Who, while attending Sunday Schools af~St: Matthew’s a few weeks ago, ’ was* seriously injured by a stone thrown by some boys. The missdO atrubk-him on the'left eye With' such force as to cut the pupil perpendicularly. For the nreseut the sight of that eye is gorie; and the medical inCn, in Whose charge the little follow how is, say that it’is only a matter of time whether Jhe eye-will not have to be removed Altogether to prevent gympathio inflammation ofrthe-other eye. We are convinced that < nothing shorf of-a salutary example being made of tne first persbn convicted .of will servfe dangerouspractice. • Updep|_the<headihg of! £he Provincial Qbvenunent’s Managementi" fthe | Southland Times ’ tells the following r—MMr Thomas Price, a contractor,;sofoetime ago WOKWcentract fo*building ths'immigrants’ cottages at Otautau forDlfiS l / "AftOi* having been paid L3OO during- the progress Of tfie wpijk, he fihished the ,Sth June last year. Objection was then t taken way in which' five'Chiinifeygt ,hadjbeen built. For -some months the unlucky oontraotor could not get the red-tape officials to agree to do atiything atatydnd! of course he lost agoqd’quantity oftime which might have Wen turned to' account. At last the. Government -nobly.consented,tO' : refer the matter to arbitration, and to abide by the result. The award of the arbitrator was that the chimneys were in accordance with the plans and specifications, ahd c thkt the jeontraetor was entitled to bis money. Th© ( cost of arbitration to the Government ‘ W88; about/LfO, whilst the, whspjpoppi in dispute has been only LloS The aWd was_given four anonths; rbftok,n tractor cannot .get a shilling of his money, and is therefore placing the matter in his solicitor's hands to b? settled in C<Wrt ”

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