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Otago Daily Times, Issue 275, 6 November 1862, Page 4

A summoned meeting of the Loyal Dunedin Lodge of Odd Peliows is advertised to take place at half-past seven, this evening, at the Shamrock Hotel.

The Immigration Officer gives notice by advertisement iv another column, that the female immigrants just arrived by the Star of.Tasmania, will be ready to receive engagements as domestic servants to-morrow. Applicants must attend at the Immigration Barracks between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

A very interesting feature is proposed to-be added to the Fancy Bazaar in the shape* of an industrial museum, or exhibition of local arts and manufactures, and natural products. It will be a species of Great Exhibition ou a small scale. It is hoped that persons having any articles worthy of exhibition will contribute them, A committee has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements.

The Cricket Club played their first game yo - terday on the old ground. Its condition is much ihe same as last year, but it promises to be speedily improved as Government have placed a large number of men on to drain it.

Tliere was no change of performance at the Princess' Theatre last evening ; nor-was any needed, seeing that " The Fiying Dutchman'" and " The Nymph of the Lurleyburg" attracted a very good house. This evening "La Sonnambula " is to be repeated ; and on Friday, if favor goes by merit, the house will be thoroughly filled, a new drama and a new comedy being announced for the benefit of Mr Tom Fawcett.

The case of Williams v Anderson occupied yesterday's sitting of the Supreme Court. Tho plaintiff depastured a cow in the defendant's run in 1852, under an agreement for an indefinite period, on tbe usual terms ; and he sought compensation for the non-delivery of her and her increase—verdict for the plaintiff: damages, L2OB. To-day, Butter v Chnlmsrs is to 113 taken, unless it be arranged, as to wliich tliere has been some talk. A soiree was announced to be held last evening at the East Taieri schoolhouse. We received yesterday an invitation to attend, but too late to enable us to make arrangements for sending a reporter. We notice in the Wellington papers that the Emerald Isle, which started from Dunedin a week or two ago with the exploring party for the West Coast, had to put into Wellington on the 22nd October to procure medical assistance for one of the seamen.

" The Hose of Castille," which was produced at the Theatre Royal last evening is a pleasant and stirring operatic drama, the plot turning upon the protection afforded to the Qu»eu, Elvina, during one of her romantic adventures, by the muleteer, Manuel. Miss Harriet Gordon played the Queen with very effective vivacity ; and she sang so well tbat she was unmistakably encored in the cavatina " With Rapture Dwelling," the aria " I'm but a Simple Peasant Maid," and the song "The Convent Cell." Mr Hydes was Count Tonibo. The drama was thoroughly successful, with an excellent house ; and the burlesque "The Honeymoon," was received with plenty of applause and laughter.

The iron safe which was stolen from Duncan's shop on Sunday, has been found by the police in a sequestered gully, near the Maclaggan-street quarries. The spot selected for concealment, is perhaps the mo3t lonely nnd hidden in the neighborhood. It had heen broken open with a 261b weight hammer, which was found close by. The safe vvas lashed to a pole, which must have been carried on the shoulders of two men. It is supposed that'four men were concerned ; and that two of them got inside, nnd lashed the safe to the pole by a rope made of calico flour bags, cut up. The two confederates, it is sua posed, made a disturbance outside, and one was taken to the watchhouse by the two policemen on duty. As soon as the constables were away, the men-inside must have carried off the safe, which weighed nearly two hundred weight. T.icy must have bad some difficulty in getting it to the position where it was discovered, and then for their pains they found nothing inside but some books, which they left behind.

Great measures were shortly expected to emanate from the. Port Chalmers Town Board, but tbat interesting body has suddenly collapsed, and nt a time when their services in advancing th*? improvement of the township were most required. A loan was recently obtained by the Bdard from the Government, for the improvement of tbe streets, and great were the debates as to the most recommendable manner of expending the rnoncv. At one meetiug it was resolved to proceed with a general opening up of the street lines throughout the town. At a subsequent meeting, a minority of the members determined that the works should meantime be confined to the improvement und lowering of the principal thoroughfare George-3treet. Both expressions of civic wisdom * were duly minuted, and on Tuesday evening, a monster meeting, rare by the circumstance of its nearly including all the members of the Board, was held for the purpose of testing their relative merits. Mr Taylor proposed that the minutes of last meeting as to George-street, be not confirmed. Mr Kilgour moved that they be confirmed. Mr Taylor won; Mr Kilgour lost. Mr Kilgour immediately, placed in the hands of the clerk a written intimation of - his resignatior, and the simple result is that the Board, as a body, either for good or evil, have practically ceased to exist. According to the Ordinance they have no power to act until after due representation, the Superintendent, or Sheriff, appoint a substitute, or until the election in January. As the same step may be taken on tbe next opportunity by another member, when the body is reconstituted, there is no saying when the greatly needed, and greatly neglected, implement of Port Chalmers will be initiated.

Speaking ofthe proposed line of electric telegraph through the Middle Island, the Nelson Examin r says:—« The cost of carrying the scheme out from Nelson to the Bluff, is estimated roughly ac L 20.000. The-distance is, in round figures, 500 miles, taking the coast in Nelson and Marlborough ; and, as tbe number of stations would be email, the whole, on a modest scale, may be constructed- at L4O per mile average. The line from liobart Town to Lauu ceston cost L 52 per mile, some years ago. - Of the above distance, about 50 miles are in South- 4 land, I^o in Otago, 170 in Canterbury, 100 in 'Marll)orough;,ana,50' in Nelson. The whole pro- > portionate contribu ion of Nelson would be -i-"i * about L2,000,a sum quite 'insignificant for so great a-benefit as this."