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Evening Star, Issue 4217, 1 September 1876, Page 2

The information against Mr Haughton wac not laid by the Crown law officers, as telegraphed by. the Press Agency, but by the police in the ordinary way. •- "Transported for Life" will be reproduced at the Queen's Theatre this evening. An account of the presentation to Mr and Mrs Darrell will be found on our fourth page. The performance at the Princess's this evening will be for the benefit of Miss Alice Dunning, and a programme will be submitted v/hich cannot failJfco please the most exacting. A new cofinHy, "A Life's Dream;" and the burlesque will be.played, and Mr Lingard is to make a farewell speech. ; Our chess-players must look to their laurels. The Eev. Mr Ashe has been playing against the best Invercargill players, anahaving vanquished them, put them in a good humor by saying that .he is of opinion .he could select a Southland team, which, with a little practice, would' fight the Dunedin men on even terms, and perhaps win the majority of the games, Peter Bonnell, who was arrested at the Bluff on Tuesday on a charge of forgeryj had gone on board the Arawata, at Wqjjjjngton, under the assumed namve of PhiHps. On being taken into custody, he Admitted to the arresting sergeant having committed the offence with which he is charged—viz., altering the figures in a cheque from L2 2s to L2O 2s.

There was a short sitting at thtf City Police Court to-day. Edward Foster was fined 5s for drunkenness ; Ann Kenny 4ss, or fourteen days', and for habitual drunkenness to a further term of three months' imprisonment. Neil M'Fee, charged on warrant with disobeying an order from Chrisfchurch to support his wife and family, was remanded for a wet k, till a copy of the information could be obtained from Canter;bury.

At the annual meeting oil the Bowling Club last night, the report submitted by the treasurer showed that the receipts for the year were LBB 17s 6d, and the oxpenditure L 330 6s 9d, of which L2lO was for an eight years' lease of the ground, it being intended to meet that amount by the sale of debentures. The total liabilities of the club were L 241 9s Id.. The election of -officers resulted as follows: President, Mr U. S. Reeves; Vice-President, Mr J. M'Neilj Treasurer, Mr G. Miller; Secretary,. Mr C. Harvey; Committee : Messrs Calender,; J M'Dermid, Hodgkins, : and Saunders. At the Resident Magistrate's Qourt this morning, Mr' Bathgate, R.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs in the following cases : T. M. M'Kay v. Wm. Roberts; L 35 15s ;\ John Gilks v. John Mouat, L2 17s; Thos. Richards v. Leonard Athfield, L2 Is 4d. In B. R. Gillamv. Robert; Tilford, a claim of L 5, for damages for loss of time and injuries sustained by plaintiff's apprentice owing to defendant's dog, a nonsuit was entered. In the case of Bloxham v. Smith and others, heard last week, a&d in which L 5 was claimed for injuries done to a chimneyby a barrel falling against it, it was stated that the chimney had been repaired, and judgment was given for Ll, with costs. They make it "lively" sometimes for '' wife beaters " down Nelson way. Recently, says a local paper, the Port was enlivened by a demonstration. It appears that one of the inhabitants of that usually quiet portion of Nelson indulged his brutal propensities' by a savage attack upon his better half, and his neighbors determined to express an. opinion upon thecowardlyact. An effigy was therefore prepared, and carried to the* door of the house occupied by the woman-beater.' Here a mock trial was gone through, and' the figure, in accordance with the verdict, was carried on to the beach, satuiated with kerosene, and ignited. It blazed away: merrily, and displayed to advantage a; placard, attached stating, "This should be the fate of wife-beaters. The crowd, numbering about 100, then gave three groans for the party for whom the exhibition was especially designed, and dispersed.

An illustration of how the freedom of speech which is allowed counsel may be abused was furnished in the course of the hearing of a small case in the 'Resident Magistrate's Court at Invercargill the other day. The case was one in which a storekeeper had supplied goods to men employed by the contractors for the Winton-lKingston railway; on the understanding that the latter would be responsible. The contractors failed to keep that understanding, and when it was attempted to enforce payment by legal process, it was: clearly shown that, the storekeeper was out of court, because he could neither prove the delivery of the goods to the contractors , nor produce a written order for them from him. According to the 'Southland Times,' Mr Harvey, his lawyer, was pleased to make some pretty severe remarks on Dunediu.contractors, whom ho does not seem to regard as models of morality. Indeed.he appears to attrilSljto their untrustworthiness and depravity to the town in which they dwell, for he stated that if his own brother were a Dunedin contractor !>e would not trust him without having hira bound down in black and white. Perhaps the Dunedin contractors would not care to trust this legal model of commercial piirity farther than they could see him.

In reference to Mr Bridges's retirement from the directory of the National Bank the 'Post' states that private English letters received by the last mail from persons possess* ing an intimate knowledge of the circumstances, represent Mr Bridges's retirement as caused by broken-down health, and not by any differences between himself and his brother directors with regard to his state--ments of last session. > \ Two Bills of interest have been introduced into the House of Representatives. Qn& is to give effect to the recommendation of the Petitions Committee that the. Law 3?racti- x tioners Act should be amended so as to enable Mr Smythies to make application for admission to the bar; and the other is to carry out Sir Julius Vogel's arrangement for the inscription of New Zealand stock by the Bank of England. " " A curiouß case came before the Resident Magistrate at Wellington on the 26th ult. The owner of a small coasting vessel hailing from Dunedin gave the said vessel in charge to a captain with a roving commission. The owner, after waiting in vain for a remittance, -at great personal inconvenience came up to Wellington, to find his vessel in the hands of strangers. He sued the truant captain for the balance he is. indebted (L 80), and got judgment for Ll4. ' Finding" the fellow not worth powder and shot, he comeß back to Dunedin out of. pocket to the tune of about Ll5O.

The monthly meeting of the Colonial Building Society will be held on Monday evening at 7 o'clock, "•-.. The Union of Otago Degree Temple. 1.0. G.T., will meet in the Temperance Hall at 7 o'clock to-morrow evening.

The Balclutha has been laid on for the harbor trade. She will make a late trip to the Port after the theatres close to morrow evening.

Ejatries for the first annual show of the Otago Poultry and Canary Association will be redeived at the Oriental Hotel, on Saturday evening, from seven to ten. We have omitted to mention that Messrs Keith and Wilkie have forwarded to us copies i of " Alice Lorraine " and "The 'lhree Feathers.'? The first is written by Blaekmore, the author of "Lorna Doone." and scarcely needß high recommendation. , The second is by William Black, well known as a talented novelist. Each is in what is termed and what really "the, cheapest form, M that is; theT thifle original volumes are published in one. We shall take an early opportunity 6f- giving them an extended notice. i