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Evening Star, Issue 4297, 4 December 1876, Page 2

The scarcity of female servants is still much felt in Oamaru.

A fatal case of sunstroke occurred in Christchurch on Friday. “ Our Cousin-German ” gains popularity, and will be played till Thursday. The audience on Saturday night was as enthusiastic as ever.

The entertainment at Waihola on Friday night, in aid-* of the Regatta funds, was very well attended, the principal performers being Messrs Denovan and M‘Farlane, and Mr and Mrs Morrish, &c., from Dunedin, who acquitted themselves very creditably.

Sergeant Hanlon, who has been connected with the Police Force for the last fourteen years, the greater part of which time he has been stationed in Dunedin, and the last few months has had charge of the Port Chalmers station, has been promoted to first-class sergeant, promotion dating from Ist inst.

At the Queen’s on Saturday night “ Chilperic ” was preceded by “ The Waterman,” in which Misses Howarde, Novaro, and Nye appeared. To-morrow “Chelperic” gives place to Sullivan and Gilbert’s musical farce of “Trial by Jury” and the burlesque of “ Lucia di Lammermoor.” So good a bill ought to attract a large attendance. At a meeting of the Otago Railways’ Employes’ Benefit Society, held on Saturday night, the quarterly report for November was adopted. It stated that during the past quarter fourteen new members had been admitted to the society, and three unfinancial members’ names Biased, leaving a total of 175, including seven hon. members. In addition to the above the Oamaru branch numbers fifty. The receipts for the quarter (including L 349 from last audit) amounted to L4BO, and the expenditure to L 63, leaving a balance in hand of L 417.

The Maerewhenua correspondent of the ‘N. O. Times,’ writing under date the 30th inst., says : —“A public meeting was held here last evening re raising a subscription for the purpose of sending Messrs Macandrew and clique Home. But the result must have been rather a damper on the Provincial party, very few seeming inclined to put their hands in their pocket. In fact, it seemed to me that the feeling of the meeting was decidedly contra, the Provincial feeling not showing so strong here as some people would have us believe. Through the courtesy of Mr Monson, immigration officer at Port Chalmers, we have been favored with the following returns of immigration and emigration for the month ending Is ovember 30, from which it appears that 412 males and 200 females have arrived at the port of Otago during the period mentioned, while 74 males and 68 females have left the port for Europe and the sister Colonies. The total number df arrivals amounts to 612, and the departures to 112, leaving a balance in favor of immigration of 500 persons.

Mr Macandrew, in apologising for his inability to attend the De Lautour banquet at Naseby on Thursday, wrote ;—‘‘l may say that, in my opinion, affairs are at present in anything but a healthy condition, and that, unless the policy which Mr Do Lautour so ably and intelligently advocates acquires the ascendancy, this Province will shortly find itself under the very worst description of oligarchy, and may bid farewell to the hopes of progress which it might fairly indulge in if permitted to manage its own affairs without the interference of the North, and to apply its own resources to its own benefit.”

At a meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club held on Saturday evening it was decided that from the year 1879 the Dunedin Derby shall be abolished, an arrangement having been come to with the Canterbury Jockey Club by which the Derby—to be called the New Zealand Derby, of 250 so vs., added to a sweepstake of 20 sovs. each—shall be run annually at the Christchurch Spring Meeting, In return, the Canterbury St. Leger will be done away with, and the New Zealand St. Leger—algo of 250 sovs., added to a sweepstake of 20 sovs, each —will be run annually at the Dunedin Autumn Meeting in March, The two clubs have taken a wise step in thus amalgamating the two great classic races. The Wellington and Auckland Derbies will remain distinct events, as at present.

The Provincial Council library is to be handed over to the Council of the University.

It is expected that to-day’s ‘Gazette’ will contain a notification of the dates on which the county elections will be held. The Postal department has renewed Mr Traill s contract for the weekly conveyance of mails between the Bluff and Stewart's Island.

At the Port Chalmers Police Court, this morning, Louis Christian was charged with assaulting Hannah Christie on the 28th ult. After hearing the evidence, his Worship reserved judgment until Friday. Log-hauliug is now being done by steam at Mr Holmes’s saw-mill in Akatore bush. The locomotive iu use was constructed by the manager, George Mackie, and exhibits considerable engineering skill in its application to the particular circumstances under which it has to work.

In the course of his speech at Napier the other day Mr Ormond said, “The policy of Major Atkinson’s Ministry would be one of economy, evidence of which had been already given. It was a policy that would be troublesome to carry out, because they would have to face the discontent of numbers of people whose friends were deprived of office j but it was a public duty, and however unpleasant it might be, it would nave to be done, and the people of .New Zealand would thank the men who did it.”

A match at bowls was played on Saturday on the private green of Messrs Godby Bros., at their brewery. It was an invite to the members of the Dunedin Club north of Albany street to challenge an equal number of the members south of that Une, and resulted in an easy victory for the northerners, who won by ten points. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent, and at the close of the game Mr Reeves, in a few appropriate remarks, proposed the health of Mr Godby. Ample justice was done to the liberal repast that had been provided for the guests. The following players were for the North:— Messrs Callender, Reeves, R. Wilson, Whitelaw, Eva, Sinclair, and Jones; and for the South—Messrs Scoular, Sanders, Park, Austin, Wright, M'Dennid, Spalding, and Miller.

The usual monthly meeting of the Standard rroperty Society will be held on Wednesday evening. J

'V.! are requested to remind our readers that * an relief fund subscription lists are now in the hands of mayors of municipalities, &c„ ■aua also lie at the various banks in Otago*