The Evening Star. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1876.

Evening Star, Issue 4271, 3 November 1876, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1876.

The Caversham School Committee have elected Mr Hugh Calder to represent them at the Provincial Convention on the Bth inst. The only case of importance heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day was J. B. Bradshaw v. the Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway Company, which was a cla\m for L9O for services rendered as secretary, &c. Judgment was reserved. The trustees of the Dempsey Fund have resolved to grant the sum of L2O towards the purchase of instruments for ths formation of a fife and drum band among the boys of the Industrial School, Caversnam, provided other subscriptions are obtained sufficient to enable a complete set of firstclass instruments being bought. It has been ascertained that the cost of the necessary instruments will be about L 35 or L4O. There are surely a sufficient number of persons interested in the youthful inmates of the Industrial School to render the fulfilment of the conditions of the grant of easy accomplishment. We understand subscriptions will be received from the friends of the Institution by Mr Titchener, the master of the school, and by Mr Hislop, the honorary inspector, at the Education Office.

The «Tablet' informs us that Fir Small was the sucessful tenderer for the conventual buildings, his estimate being 14,507.

In a letter dated the 23rd, the UnderSecretary acknowledges the receipt of the resolutions passed by the Kaitaugata portion of t'ie Bruce electorate, requesting his Honor the Superintendent "to violate the law."' A serious accident occurred this forenoon on the Purakanui side of Deborah Bay tunnel to a young man named Robert Sutherland, son of a storekeeper at Purakanui, who received a compound fracture of the right leg immediately above the ankle joint. He was riding on the "bumpkins" of one of the in the tunnel, in company with the blacksmith, when the horse became I frightened. The blacksmith called out to Sutherland to unolog the truck, but he lost his presence of mind and failed to execute the order, the consequence being that the truck came into contact with another at the bead of the tunnel, crushing Sutherland's leg. He was immediately placed on a stretcher, and carried to the railway station at the Port, where Dr O'Donoghue, who was promptly in attendance, after examining his injuries, recommended bis removal to the Dunedin Hospital, whither he was taken by the 1.30 p.m. train. It is worthy of note that Sutherland has met with several severe accidents, and about a year or two bapfc had his right arm torn off by a fiaxmiU at Blueskin.

At a special meeting of the Bibenran Fete Committee last evening Messrs ' • Hani* aud Co were the successful tenderers forb -orbs, * o. Judges for the various events were appointed. The time for receiving tenders at thr Town Clerk's office for laving sras main pipes, has been extended till Tuesday, the 'th inet. A notification of the extension aypeirs in our advertising columns. We desire to direct attention to an advertise ment sailing a meeting, i". the Oddfellows' Hall, Albany street this evening, to consider the advisability of establishing a di«pen*ary in connection with the Faendly Societies Of Dunedin.

A cricket match will be played to morrow on the Oval batween the University and t v e Standard Cricket Clubs. The following are the teams:—Univei sty: W. M'Lean, G. Mundy. J. H. Chapman, T. C. Farnie, J M'Pherson. E. Hewat, A. R B relay, A. Cameron, J. Adam, E H. Hardy, J. He. dry, Emergency men: O. Low, G Montgomery, T. R. Smith. Standard: 1.. Foal (captain), W. Crawshaw. L. Israel, P Jones, B. Martin W. Beid, F. Stilling, J. Hadfield A. T hher, J. Mallard, and D. Emergency men : A. Paul, H. Ligains, andT. Malcolm. Wickets to be pitched at half-past two o'clock.