The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4257, 18 October 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1876.

Thirty-two fishing licenses have been issued by the Treasury.

We have received a letter from Mr M‘lndoe which, through regard for him, we will not publish. Tlhe main point in it is that he denies having furnished the report with which the ‘JJxnce Herald’ credited him in the article we copied yesterday. We are glad to be informed that he was not the author of it.

At the Christmas sports at Greymonth a I pedestrian handicap of LIOO forms *' principal attraction of the T '~ • which in all L 266 is to v . in The ‘Press' . f ™ intentior , understands that it is the env nn mi. the crack shots the Christchurch Volunteers to visit Lmuodm on the occasion of the forthcoming B&feetmg of the Otago Rifle Association. 8 According to a telegram in the ‘North Otago Times, it is stated in Wellington that Mr Macandrew has telegraphed to the Otago members to know whether they will support mm in active steps to frustrate the Abolition Act coming into force.

Hokitika will be represented at the Firemen a Demonstration on Boxing Day. The captain of the brigade there yesterday telegraphed to the Dunedin Brigade, stating his pleasure in sending a team if they could be supphed with apparatus here. Captain Atkinson replied that such could willingly

A case of some interest, and the first of its Kind ever held in Dunedin, was heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this mornmg. A man named Burt, recently a patient in the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, sued Mr J IU ??Jv? u P erintendent of institution, ior Llo° damages for aUeged assaults committed on him while under defendant’s charge. A full report appears in anosher portion of tins issue.

. accident of a most unheard character is reported by the Southland ‘News’ as having occurred in the New River district “ ornin ß of the 12th inst. While one or the daughters of a settler was engaged in reeding cows with turnips, and in the act of stooping down, one of the animals somewhat suddenly turned its head round, and its horn entered the young lady’s mouth, splitting her tongue from root to tip. Dr Butler, of Hyal Bush, and J9r Hannan of Invercargill, were summoned to attend the sufferer, and succeeded in sewing up the tongue, but up till Saturday last it was with the utmost difficulty she could either articulate or partake of anything.

Bishop Neville’s lecture last evening, under the auspices of the Otago Institute, on “ Inductions in support of the argument for the direct creation of the primordial types, * was listened to by an audience which filled the large hall of the University. We have not space for even a resumi of the lecture, which was an admirable one, and would, we should think, pay publication in pamphlet form. At its close there was a discussion, in which Professors Salmond and Opughtrey, Capt. Hutton, Mr J. S. Webb, and the President of the Institute took part. Next week’s meeting is for the election of governor and honorary members, and several papers will be read.

Two of the oldest offenders known to the police—Mary Allan and Mary Thomson—were severally charged at the City Police Court this morning with petty larceny and with drunkenness, and so freely did their clatter run that the Bench were not without difficulty able to restrain their volubility. The latter denied the soft impeachment of drunkenness, and set up her old plea of having a sore foot, though appearances were certainly against her, for she was found in Princes street south at 3.30 o’clock this morning; while the other’s grievance was that her daughter’s having married a Chinaman had goaded her on to min, but that now having become reconciled to t.hia paragon she wished to end the rest of her days quietly with the happy couple. Unfortunately for the accused the Bench were tolerably well acquainted with their antecedents, and each in turn received her deserts*.

The Prince of Wales Hotel, Princes street south, having been replaced by a substantial three-storey brick building, a number of gentlemen were to day entertained at lunch by Messrs Waters and Ryan, the proprietors. I/*6 hotel contains over thirty rooms, including eighteen bedrooms, and there is a capital billiard room, fitted up with one of T hurston’s tables.