The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 90, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4233, 20 September 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 90, 1876.

We are not surprised that our City member* are not pleased with the remonstrance given by eight hundred and sixty-four of their constituents. Our morning contemporary, the ' Guardian,' has the bad taste to pronounce them Centralists. If so, many who signed the letter are converts who, very righteously, are sick of the senseless and factious obstruction to public business which the City members have aided and abetted. fwiSR \u v he lat h rar e characteristic. One will not be bounced by the Press, another is willing to resign unless he is permitted unchallenged to continue the silly course he has been pursuing, and Mr Macandrew has nothing better to say than that if the dUTKX m - of °l»trucfciv«ness so was the Provincial Council. He forgets that jo obstructive was the Council that, unable to endure it, the Superintendent of the dav resigned m order to relieve himself of the annoyance. There are also other points of difference that he seems to close bis eyes to. When the Provincial Council set itself to work to thwart his policy, they had one of their own, and were nearfy equally S w!?r°l th \ subject - But the OpporitioJ m Wellington have never deolared a policy W a^ oU f try^OeS no \ even know what they aim ,it They are discontented with a Ministry whose principles have done more Co, * onf ? fiYe J 8 " 8 tkan Provincial Councils would have effected in one hundred. An iu Ministry supported Mr Macandrew, and has fought the battle of Otago, and now our members wish their constituents to consent to a course of action that, if successful, must paralyse trade, induce confusion in all our institutions, and ruin the credit of the Colony. Nothing can justify the tactics of the Opposition. They are fast destroying their own party and alienating the confidence tef their own constituents. Even the «Daily I, Times' condemns them, and the secessions continually taking place from their ranks prove that they are dwindling in numbers daily. The ridiculous device of walking out of the House on a vote being taken was adopted on the division on the Indemnity Bill. It is a course never pursued excepting in cases of extreme faction and coes for what it is worth—nothing in the House itself, and nothing anywhere else but at the hustings, where they can say that they have done something to realize nothing. We should be glad to have been able to have written in commendation of the conduct of the Dunedin members, but we cannot. The oommon sense of the constituency condemns it. With a majority against them of three to one, they should have had very strong grounds for such extreme measures as they ave been led into ; instead ot which they have allowed themselves to become the tools of Sir George Grey and Mr Rass-two men who have taken greater pains to make themselves ridiculous than any clown at a circus. That the member for the Thames and his lieutenant have succeeded cannot be disputed, but it is not the less to be regretted that our representatives share in their indignity through supporting them in their Since the above was in type we have had the following telegram placed in our hands for publication:— m -. „ Wellington, Septombor 20. ToMessrsE. B.' argill, B. Wilson,and Jameß Rattray. Tour telegram received. Letter referred to appeared in newspapers here three daya ago, and has most, effectively settled Otago, in as far as the Assembly is concerned. Your action has prevented our preserving Otago revenues. It would have been better had you asked us to resign months ago than have left us fighting, charged, as wo now are, with having done so against the opinions of our constituents. We are now considering whether we should remain or not. as justice to Otago is, we feel, a fc-rlornhope. Stout; concurs.—J. Macakdrew.

Irish jaunting cars are likely to be introduced into Oamaru shortly. To-night at the Princess's "Capitola" is to be replaced by "Ruby." The ' Bruce Herald' hears that thei'e is some probability of a Volunteer review being held in Molyneu.x: Gully on the Prince of Wales' birthday. At the Golf Club's meeting last night a ■very satisfactory balance-sheet was produced, and the following were elected officebearers for the ensuing season :—Captain, Mr David Baxter; Committee, Messrs w! D. Murison, G. Todd, and Adair; Handicappers, Messrs Baxter Murison, and Todd • Honorary Secretary, Mr Park. ' We have received a letter representing the complaints of many persons interested in the nderson's Bay Road, respecting the " miserable state of the road." Not only is it said to be almost impassable, but wheel traffic between Crawford street and the tollbar is rendered difficult and dangerous, and foot-passengers are subjected to much annoyance through gas-pipes lying along the sides of the road. Our correspondents express a wish that the road may be speedily formed to a width commensurate with the rapidly increasing traffic of the district. In Wellington last week the City Council elections and Haughton's case were of superior interest to matters Parliamentary Hie largest local contest (writes the « Press's' correspondent) was between Mr Gillon of the ' Argus' newspaper, and Mr Moeller, formerly of the .Empire Hotel. Rather unexpectedly, Mr Moeller had more than double the number of votes given to Mr Gillon. Haughton's case was heard with closed doors, thotigh his counsel. Mr Buckley, made a feint of pretesting against the same Mr Barton appeared to protest against the proceedings on behalf of the friends of the principal witness, but the caso was proceeded with, with the result •Jrodyknown.

The Rer. Father Donovan has been transferred from Oamarn to Dunedin.

The Hon, Mr Holmes proceeded to Wellington this afternoon to attend in his place in the Legislative Council.

Mr A. J. Headland has been appointed a member of the Oamaru Harbor Board, in the room of the Hon. H. J. Miller. At the Port Chalmers Police Court, this 5? orn ™g« before Mr W. Elder, J. P., Donald Brown, charged with drunkenness, was reprimanded and discharged. On Friday Dr. Smith, the District Coroner, held an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire that destroyed some ■J** 8 belonging to Messrs J. and T. Bruce, of To Houka, on the previous Monday. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that there was no evidence to show how the fire °"8\ n ated. The stacks, which were valued at Ll7O, were uninsured.

In reference to the instructions that have been issued to JJroeceed at once with the Waikouaih section of the Northern Trunk Line of Railway-the work to be carried on in the meantime by day labor and small contracts, so as to afford employment to all who want it~the 'Waikouaiti Herald * suggests that the men employed should be pTaced under thorough competent overseers to see that no advantage is taken. •'

The unemployed of Oamaru petitioned at the last meeting of the local Municipal Council for work te be provided for them, ihe memoual bore sixtv-seven Signatures,but the 'Times' points out that several of those signing were men holding freehold property m the town, and by no means persons in distressed ciroumstanoes. In order that those who really need employment might not be without the means of earning their bread the Council resolved to call for tenders for the supply of 1,000 yards of blue-stone and to employ those of the petitioners willinsr to do so to break the same for road metal at per yard.

At the inquest on the body of Charles Coates, who committed suicide at Christchurch last week, because he could not find work, it was stated by a relation of deceased that since her arrival in the Colony two years ago, she and her husband, though making inquiries Since, had been unable to hear anything about him until she saw his name m the paper. His friends had wished her to try and find him, as, by his mother's death, he had been left about LI 50. He was of an eccentric disposition and peculiar temperament when at home. The jury returned a verdict of " Died from the effects of a wound in the throat, inflicted while in a state of temporary insanity.'

The annual session of the Grand Lodge, 1.0.0. F., will be held this and following evenings in the Oddfellows' Hall, Albany •treet, at 7.30.

ft will be seen by our advertising columns that Mr G. P. Clifford's Mirror of the World or phantoscopic entertaiument will shoitly amp ear here. A lecture in connection with the Knox Church Young Men's Society will be delivered in the class-room this evening on " Duties and Difficulties of Free Investigation." 1 he second meeting of the Hope of Dunedin Tent. T.0.R., was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday evening, when the following officers were installed by Bre. G. T. Clarke. DC.R. :-C.tt.. Bro. G T. Clarke; D.R. Bro. A. J. Bennett; P.C.R,Bro. fcucknee; secretary, Bro. >tohr; Treasurer, Bro. Hayes; Levite, Bro Brown; Money Stewart, Bro. Porteous; Writing Steward, Bro. Hooper; G iardian, Bro. Henderson; C. Rulers R. and L.H.S., Bros. J. A. D. Adams and F. L. Clarke; D. Fulers, R. and L.H.S., Bros. C. Watson and Bedford. Several new members were initiated. The Tent is under the government of the Zealand Central District and already numbers thirty six members.