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Evening Star, Issue 4265, 27 October 1876, Page 2

The prorogation of Parliament is fixed to take place on .Monday next.

Meven miles of the Waimate-Waitaki plafcelayiug contract have been completed, and the contractor is confident that in a month from this date an engine will be run through from Timaru to Oamaru. The ‘ Mount Ida Chronicle ’ some time ago drew attention to the scarcity of labor in the Naseby district. That journal again r fers to the subject, and says the demand for experienced labor is not yet supplied. Chinamen at 8a a day are difficult to obtain.

A lad named John -talker, thirteen or fourteen years of age, died after a few ujeeka’ illness at Wyndham, on the 17th inst., of gastric fever, brought on by drinking too freely on one of those hot days out of a creek in which there was the carcase of a sheep. At ihe Resident Magistrate’s Court, Port sli timers, this morning, Messrs Bauchop and Co. preferred a claim of LIOO damages against the contractors for the Port Chalmers and Moeraki railway, Messrs Allen and Kingstieot, for the stoppage and damage to plaintiffs’ sawmill, caused by continued falls of earth and stone from the railway embankment. His Worship gave judgment for the plaintiffs, with costs, and in answer to Mr Allen stated he considered the Government liable to him in the amount he was now ordered to pay. At this morning’s sitting of the Supreme Court, the special jury case—M‘Eae v. Campbell—was called on. Before the jury was empannelled, however, Mr Taylor (plaintiff s solicitor) applied that the case might be adjourned-until January next, on the ground that he had yesterday been informed of a witness who could give important evidence on his aide. This person was not in Dunedin, and it might be some time before he could be subpoenaed. Mr Stewart (for defendant) objected to the adjournment, saying counsel for plaintiff bad plenty of time to secure witnesses. Mr Taylor argued thatthe application was reasonable, as he wished to secure the attendance of a material witness. On a previous occasion he had not objected to this case being adjourned to suit the convenience of counsel for defendant. Mr Justice Williams thought no adjournment as asked for could be granted except under very extraordinary circumstances, in the face of the objection of defendant’s counsel. Mr Taylor then said that, as counsel for defendant thought proper hi assume that attitude, ho would withdraw t.o record, so that he could re-enter the case , t any future time. The case having thus fallen through, and being the last on the list, the Court adjourned sine die.

The municipality of South Invercargill is gazetted w<v;h.

iud .Uvaa ‘ ■ • .;r J.; v <j 4 ] improbable the contractor for the railway bridge there may shortly commence the sinking of aupt-ior cylinder. Four were harmed *ome months ago, and more eight ■ ave yet to be sunk. The contract time in March, by which time it is possibJo half the number of cylinders may be finished.

The circumstances of the case of the children Johnson, d alt with by the City Bench this morning, are of a very unusual character. The applicant for the admission of the children, who are orphans, was their uncle, himself the father of seven children, who informed the Bench that he was not longer able, in justice to his own family, to maintain his nephew and two nieces. It appeared from the statements of Inspector Mallard and the childrens’ uncle, and the latter’s replies to the Bench, that the children are entitled to property, to obtain or realise which is attendea with difficulty. • Their father left them three quarter-acre sections at Clinton ; and the children’s uncle stated that the Public Trustee had in bin possession between L6OO or L7OO belonging to them, but, though frequent application had been made for it to maintain the children, no satisfactory answer bad yet been received. The master of the Industrial School having now become in loco parentis , will doubtless wake up the Public Trustee.

The commanding officer of the district. Major -tavely, has ssued orders for a general parade of the Dunedin volunteers for Wednesday next, the Ist b at.

The Rev. Mr Floyd, Church of England clergyman at Levuka, Fiji, is now in Dunedin. He will be happy to give any informat on to those who may have friends at Levuka. The offertories at St Paul’s next Sunday will be g<ven to the Fijian Church.

We would remind our readers that the •Mimdm Co-operative Store has started a CLnstmaa Olub on co operative principles, and those perso's wishing to secure good Christmas bargains should avail themselves of this special opportunity. An adve-tisement appears elsewhere announcing th« fact.

A cricket match will be played at Montecillo to morrow be ween an eleven of the Carisbrook Cl-b and fifteen of the * diversity Club. I he following are the names of the players Carisbrook : Roland R., hiiven R., Pikeß.. Dixon G., Cargill A., Turton S., M'Neil H., Broderick Austin T., Austin E. Valpy K,; emergency : Morris A., Rattray C. University : i linn, Barclay, Cameron, Hardy, Mewat. Head y, I‘arnia M‘Lean, MTherson, Murray, Monday, Montgomery, Adam '.hapman, and Solomon (captain).