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Evening Star, Issue 4151, 16 June 1876, Page 2

The next session of the General Synod of the Church of England in New Zealand is to be held in Nelson, commencing about the third week in January, 1877.

The Princess’s Theatre was fairly attended last night, when the Variety Company gave another entertainment of songs, negro comicalitifts, &c. ! his evening three silver cups are offered for competition by amateurs in singing and dancing.

It is stated that Sir George Grey is going to bear the expense of sending an Auckland football team round the Colony this season The authority of an Auckland gentleman, is given, and it is stated that every effortwill be made to send the very best players. 1

The annual ball of Court Robin-Hood, No. 3,991, A.0.F., was celebrated last'evening in the Foresters’ Hall, Port Chalmers. The hall was nicely decorated with a number of nags, and dancing was kept up with great spirit until an early hour this morning to music supplied by Mr WignalTs band.

“ The White Cockade,” which was originally played here about two months ago, was reproduced at the Queen’s Theatre last evening, but to a limited audience. The leading characters were sustained by Mrs Hill and Mr Steele. The performance this evening will be for the benefit of Mr H. Stoneham, a very painstaking actor. “Behind the Curtain "will constitute the performance.

The following notifications appear in.the last number of the * New Zealand Gazette ’s —Mr A. W. Smith to be District Land Registrar and Registrar of Deeds for Otago, vice Mr D. F. Main, resigned ; Mr H, Turton to be Examiner of Titles for Otago, vice Mr Smith, promoted ; and Mr H. C. Brewer to be Clerk in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin. Letters of naturalisation have been, issued in favor of W. J. Marsh, miner, Toviot, and Wm. Moore, pilot, Otago Heads.

By latest advices, by way of Fiji, we learn that the Samoans have recognised the supremacy of British authority, and after the they have received from Capt Stevens, of H.M.S. Barracouta, seem to have retired to their normal condition, of aboriginal quiescence. At the time of the departure of the .Alacrity, H.M.S. Sapphire and the U.S. corvette Tusoarora were in harbor awaiting the daily expected arrival of Commodore Hoskins in H.M.S. Pearl and a German man-of-war, when it is expected that a convocation will be called to decide on the various matters in dispute in relation to the Samoan Government.

The departure of the Canterbury members of the Assembly is thus paragraphed by the ‘ Lyttelton Times ’:—“A few minutes before the departure of the 2.30 train on Wednesday, the railway platform presented quite the appearance of a political arena, and the . “ elect ” of the people met in the moat perfect accord—shook hands gaily as friends of ithe most undying devotion—well knowing at the same time that in a very few days they would be opposed to each other as the most bitter of political foes. The Canterbury members present were Abolitionists to a man. But Mr Macandrew, the leader of the P.’s, yesterday met Mr Stafford, the leader of the A.’s, at the railway station, and t' ey each shook hands “ with a smile that was childlike and bland,” their various followers looking on with a titter, but with an inward. conviction that they would far sooner be flying at each other’s throats (politically) than clasping the right hand of fellowship. And when she train moved off there was i>o ouo to give these men a parting cheer, for either the canfco of Abolition or IVovinctoUfln.”

The name of Jlr George Clarke, M.H.R. for the Northern Main Electoral District, ia mentioned by the Northern papers as the Native member of the Cabinet.

We report the result of deputation o! schoolmastWi who Wfcently. bad an interview With the Premier on the subject of a Colonial Education Bill, much of which ha* been made public. The following paragraph bowe v er« fresh to ns * — -"It appeared that the only real difference .of opinion between Sir Julius Vogel and the deputation was on the subject of Ibcalcommlttees. The Premier evidently . thinks that the appointment of teachers should be in the hands of those bodies, and, thAt they should be entrusted With large discretionary powers for the management of their respective schools. But he also admitted that it would be highly improper to give local com* mittees-thepower -ofdismlssing'h'rteacher without giving the teacher the right of Appeal to a higher authority for redress,”

It is easy to divine the sources from whence "the ‘Daily Times’ and AUCkldnd ‘ Herald ’ derive their Very reliable (?) infor-mation-upon Native matters, more "especially the informatibhiupon that subject that comes from the King country. A bite tele fratn says that “the' ‘Cross’, shows . that loani Farengarenga, who signs the letters to Sir Geofge Grey from Te Kuiti, in'the King country, professing to give an account of the Native Minister’s visit, is father of Winiata, the murderer bf Packer. Wiiiiata is now shielded by his father, who writes the-letters to Sir George. The latter 5 has malevolent agents at Kopua, who areinciting the Natives to misbhief. One is Alley, a person who writes untruthful letters to the ‘Herald’ and ‘Star.’ He was a former settler at Ohinemari, and wanted the Native Department to wink at certain transactions with the Natives, but was refused, and hence his animosity.” We may Add that the ‘ Lyttelton Times’s ’ Auckland correspondent cautioned that journal that there were in the King country a number' of ** Pakeha-Maoris, who were doing their "level best ” to breed mischief between the two races.

The Carnival Football eonte t between the Union and Dunedin (. 'dubs will take place.oil the Southern Giouud to motiow Afternoon. ;

Mr Braithwaito-sends us ‘The F-mily Herald’ forAp.il,; ‘The Ladies’Journal ’ h>r May, ‘The London Journal' for April,-and How Bells’■.for May, •„

A conference of the delegates from the various Fri- ndly Societies in Dunedin, to c nsiderthe ‘‘NewFriendly Societes Bill” will be held at the Oddfellows’ Hall, George street, on Friday, the 23rd nut, at 8 o’clock At the Temperance Hull Popular Concerts to-morrow Mr Sykes will give some of hi* most popular solos on a Kaps’s grand piano forte, t e only one it is stated in th« Colony. The rrogramme will be found in another column.

We have receive! from Messrs Reith add Wilkie a brochure entitled “ ihe 1 lot on the Queen’s Head, or How Little Ben. tHs head waiter, changed the sign of the Queen’s Inh t > Empress - iotel,’' and the consequence* thereof, which had reached its sixtieth thousand when the mail !ett. It was written and printed in .tleven bo rs, and its aim is to show to the public the di-advantages of the change in the Queen’s title. The author is Mr Jenkins, M.P.