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Evening Star, Issue 4277, 10 November 1876, Page 2

Anglers for trout in the Kuriwoa have been rewarded by catching fish weighing 41b

We see by late telegrams that the Queensland Parliament has decided on the publication of a daily ‘Hansard.’

It is intended to again issue the * Palmerstou Times’ as an eight-paged weekly, in which form it appeared originally.

It speaks well for the behaviour of the people of Dunedin that, notwithstanding yesterday a holiday, not a single case of drunkenness came before the City Police Court to-di-y.

A very fair share of business is being done at the Queen’s Theatre, where the “ ponip and circumatance ” of the American War are very pleasantly illustrated by Mr Rainer’s excellent pictures. Last evening the house wai crowded. •*

It was recently reported by the Public Woika Committee of the Wellington City Council that coffins containing the bodies of children who died of scarlet fever and other contagious diseases had been carried to the cemetery in licensed cabs. The Mount Stuart Road Board has recorded on its minutes a vote of thanks to the ‘Ciutha Leader’“for the earnest and consistent efforts it has made to atop the evil effects that the Abolition of Provinces Act will have on the Province of Otago.”

About ten days ago a fatal accident occurred atWaikaka Station. 7he ‘Ciutha Leader says a man named Harris, employed on the station, was leading a horse by a rope, which was wound round his wrist, and the horse taking fright, bolted, dragging him a considerable distance, and bruising him so severely as to cause his death, after lingering two days.

We hear that Mr George Darrell will shortly enter upon a lesseeship of the Princess 8 Theatre, which he intends opening with a strong company.—The Halls have, after all, accepted an engagement with Mr iioskius, and are now on their way to Christchurch.—The Lingards have, with the assistance of Bates and Howard’s company, introduced “ Our Boys ” to the notice of the theatre-going public of Wellington with mutually satisfactory results.

As might have been expected, the Princess’s Theatre was well filled last night. ‘ ‘ Mephistopheles,” with Mr Dampier as the hero, was reproduced, and the company generally played considerably better than on previous occasions. “ Braganzio ” was the afterpiece, and seldom have we seen a farce so thoroughly relished by the audience. Mr Bryan and Miss Vivian contributed greatly to its success, and the incidental songs and dances were of a better class than usual. To-night Mr Dampier plays Jeremy Diddler, and on Monday night that deserving actor Mr Steele takes a benefit, for which a great MU ia announced. 8

Attention to the extraordinary case that has been engaging inquiry by the committee of the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne was first called by “ Ogles’’ in the ‘Australasian.’ It is that an operation for removal of internal tumour, after being declined at one public institution as undesirable, was attempted at another. The tumour was partially removed, and the wound sewn up. the patient?—a woman—died. There was a post mortem examination. And now comes the astounding part of the story, which is that a sponge and a pair of bulldog forceps had been inadvertently left in the body of the patient by the operators ! Dr Carr, the mesmerist and phrenologist, has been exchanging civilities with the editor of the ‘ Wairarapa Standard.’ The following letter from Dr Carr, said to have bcfen forwarded to the offending journalist, has been published;—“ Sir, —I beg to return, in hall-penny stamps, the one and fourpence you paid me four months ago for a chart of your head. In doing so, permit me to eay a word in explanation. During the twenty-five years I have been in active prac--1 ice I have examined all kinds of heads, from the head of a sucking pig to that of a barber’s pole, but your head is, without doubt, the most extraordinary phenomenon of the kind I ever witnessed. But for the fact that you presented the thing to me poised upon a pair of human shoulders, I should have imagined that you had made a mistake and brought mo the fore-quarter of a jackass to be operated upon. 1 have often heard your readers complain of the unmitigated twaddle with which your columns are filled, but if they had read your head as I did, they would not be in the least astonished.—l am, &c The Docron.”

As the Fire Brigade have been urging the City Council to import fire-escapes for their use, we commend to the notice of the Fire Brigade committee of that body the following description _ by one of the New South ales commissioners, of what he regards as the best of the fire-escapes shown at the Philadelphia Exhibition:—“Talpey’s selfrogulatiug fire-escape and hose elevator appears to me to best meet all the conditions of a fi' e-escape. It resembles a pulley in appearance, and is hung upon a bracket at the top of the house. The contrivance is only eight inches in diameter, and about au Inch and a-h»lf thick. ‘ The block or pulley around which an endless chain runs, eontain a brakes so arranged that the centrifugal force caused by the weight of the person throws the brake outwards so as to bear against the inside of the outer rim in such a manner as to regulate the speed, which will he the same whatever the weight of the persons descending The chain when not in use is placed in a box within reach from the top window of the factory, and may be swung across the face of the building. A wheel and racket is fixed near the ground, and when the chain is placed around it, firemen may be wound up with their hose and moved about in front of the building almost as occasion may desire. Persons ascending or descending the chain sit in a strap and hook themselves on. A great merit of this escape is that it can be supplied at that several persons hooking themselves on one above another can descend at the same time if need he, and that it is impossible for them to came down at a dangerous speed. The cost of these fire escapes fitted to a building and having 120 ft of chain is 150 dollars United- states currency. Xam told that this contrivance is coming into use in New York and in the New England factories, wbtrg a large number of pcr.ons are employed. As Tar as I oan judge, it is the best contrivance exhibited, and probably, the best yet invented.”

It is believed close /upon 6,000 people travelled on the railways from Dunedin yesterday; and that fairly 1,000 more must have been booked at country stations.

No further interview has yet taken place between the Hon. the Commissioner of Cua-: toms and Mr Macandrew. It is understood that the former will, in consequence of the' attitude taken up by Mr MacandrCw. con-’ salt his colleagues before taking any further steps in thematter. /" <■;

The adjourned meeting of the 1.0 G.T, Convention will be held in tbe Temperance Hall to-morrov evening at 7.30.

A veneral me. tins; of the Artil’ery Band will be held in the Douglas Hotel on Monday evening,-at eight o'clock. ■ .-v-.v .......

k We Ji ave receded No. I of the " 1 Temperazice rimes. It contains a number of very readable articles on gan ral subjects, in addition to the special subjects be»r<ng upon the tem-eranca cause. It is well printed, and should command support.. > v We would remind our readers that the first of the senes of lectures Professor .Coughtrey propo«es to deliver during the summer Vaca* tion on ‘‘The Anatomy and Physiology of the Bnvm and f ’rgana of special Sense.** will be oenvered on the evening of Monday next, in the University Hall. The lectures' should interest many, as they will be popularised as much as possible, while the admission fee has been fixed at a reasonable, amount.