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Evening Star, Issue 4282, 16 November 1876, Page 2

A bowling club has been formed at Lawrence.

A miner named William Tretheway died very suddenly, from Heart disease, at Switzers on Tuesday. We believe the Hon. Capt. Fraser has no intention of proceeding to the Home country, and, therefore, is not likely to accept the Convention’s nomination as one of its delegates. At Invercargill a well-known bookseller, named Rodgers, has been fined LSO and costs for selling by auction after nine o’clock at night. He had taken out an auctioneer’s license with the view of so disposing of some of his surplus stock. Instruction and amusement are pleasantly combined in the American War Diorama, which is shown nightly at the Queen’s Theatre; to say nothing of the additional attraction of a distribution of gifts. The entertainment wfcs fairly patronised last evening.

In some parts of the country the shearers are obtaining the price they demand. At Lear Bonn, Pudding Hill, Dr Webster’s, Easton’s at Fapakia, and at other places in the Oamaru district, they are getting LI per 100. We notice that at the Levels some Maoris who had commenced work at the reduced figure threw in their lot with the shearers on strike when they learned the facts of the matter.

The inhabitants of Dunedin generally will regret to learn that Mr John Millar, C.E.F.S.A., whose name is so intimately associated with most improvements in this City which have taken place during the last fifteen years, died at Nelson yesterday afternoon. The unwarrantable proceedings against him by the Provincial Government though proved unjust, inflicted a blow on him that he never recovered, and from the effects of which he gradually sunk until death set him free.

Like the portions received in .Auckland and Canterbury, the Southland part of the shipment of American salmon is a great success. Great numbers are hatched in the moss, and therefore dead ; but (adds the (‘Southland Times’) the chief feature Is the thorough fecundation of the ova—not ten unfecundated eggs have been detected in the whole lot, and there must be at least 10,000 ova on the point of hatching, or hatched, as many of them burst the shell whilst being shifted into the boxes. It is noticeable that at this early stage the. ova and fish are very distinct from those brought from Britain.

An important error in the Counties Act is pointed out by our Queenstown contemporary, which if not rectified in time will practically disfranchise for the first election a large number of property-holders. In the clause setting forth the qualification of County electors, among others enumerated as entitled to vote are those who have a right to vote “at an election of a member of the House of Representatives upon a qualification in any outlying district in the riding.” Commenting on this, the ‘Mail’ says :—“ Now, as a borough is not included in a County, it is equitable that any person simply the owner of a borough qualification should not be an elector, but there are numbers of persons on the electoral roll possessing large property both in a borough and in the County who will be disfranchised because they have been content with qualifying themselves merely on borough property. This is very unfair, and must be set down to the confusion created by the fighting over the Rill and the numerous amendments md erasures that took place during Its passage through both Houses/

We understand that step;? are being taken i •;■ ' bra*: t<> vecovov "l/i,OOO -iv';;;K'-'r fi*•ri'i Air Abraham SoMrnou r-ir-nnav. R.i .‘i;o jury, in the case of tire lace Mr Alfred Deuduey yesterday. bas ! ’-°w been definitely arranged that inv roargill Cricket Club ■will plav against Dunedin upon the Dunedin ground on the Ist of January and against the Balclutha Club, at Balclutha, on the- following day. We notice that the clock at the Provincial corner, on Mr Sibbald’a hotel, which has told the same hour with unflinching consistency for many years, has at last been prevailed upon by the clock-cleaner to record with regularity the flight of time. The various war vessels attached to the squadron on the Australian station rendezvous at Sydney ia December, to meet the Wolverine, the new flagship, and in the event of a declaration of war a frigate will be •kept cruising off Cape Otway. During the course of a drunken spree at Kensington, yesterday, a fisherman named Edwards received some wounds, necessitating his removal to the Hospital. As the matter will doubtless be brought before the Court in the usual way in the coarse of a few days, the particulars will then be madej public. A case of an assault of a most unwarranted nature was heard in the City Police Court to-day, in which the defendant is the owner of the racing horse Sultan, engaged in the St. Andrew’s Handicap on the 30th inst. A term of imprisonment was not asked for, but the Bench considered so unprovoked an assault had taken place that they deemed it their duty to commit the defendant to prison for one month.

, Vincent County has been divided into six ridings, returning eight members—Hawea, Kawarau, Nevis, Matakanui, Earnscleugh, Manuherikia; and the Tuapeka County into nine ridings, named as followsTeviot, James, Tapanui, Beaumont, Gabriels, Waipori, Brown, Clark, and Waitahuna. It will thus be seen that the member for Tuapeka fnrn'sbes the names of three ridings in that County. “ Susan flopley,” an ©ld-fashioned and amusing drama, was produced at the Princess’s Theatre last night. Between the _ pieces Mr Dampier read from “Oliver Twist” that well-known descriptive selection relating to Bill Sykes, the housebreaker, and his consort Nancy. Mr Dampier gave an intelligent and vigorous rendering of the great author. This evening “The Dumb Man of Manchester” will be repeated.

The evidence adduced at the Coroner’s inquiry at Oamavu touching the drowning of the boy Milligan, referred to in our issue of yesterday, showed unmistakeably that the deceased was pushed into the water by one of his playmates, named Slins. 'One of the lads made following statement;— “Bobby Milligan and"Pat Shns were sitting near the water’s edge. The other two boys and I were standing some distance away from them. Milligan had his jacket off. I heard Milligan say that he had caught a fish, and saw him stand up to put it into a bottle. Slins also got up, put his two hands on Milligan’s back, and gave him a good push, Milligan fell on his back in the water ; he tried to get out, but failed. Another boy and I brought a railway sleeper which was in the water to where Milligan was for him to try and get hold of, but he was too far away to get hold of it. When we pushed the sleeper in, Bobby was going up and down in the water. He was not long in the water till we brought the sleeper. The sleeper was about ten yards away. The other boys tried to get hold of him, but did not go into the water to do so. Slins denied point blank that he either touched or pushed deceased; but in cross-examination he admitted that he had been told by his mother not to say anything about the matter, and when she was called upon by the police she denied that her boy had been near the creek. After half-an-hour’s consideration, the jury returned the following verdict“ That Bobert Milligan was drowned in the lagoon of the Oamaru creek by being pushed 'into the water by Patrick Slins, a boy aged seven years.”

In consequence of the funeral of the late Wm. Find Liter, secretary of the Caledonian Society, taking place on Saturday, the High School athletic sports have been postponed till the following Saturday. The second number of “ Words of Grace,” the pictorial monthly magazine issued in Mel bourne by Mr W. C. Johnstone, formerly of this City, has reached us. It is well worth perusal, and we specially commend it to the young.

A course of popular lectures on the “ Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain, &c.,” will be delivered by Professor Coughtrey in connection with the University. The first lecture will be given on Monday evening next, at 8 o’clock.