Local Intelligence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 428, 23 January 1875, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

At a special meeting of the Tuapeka Hospital Committee held on Wednesday evening last, Daniel Corrison and wife were appointed Wnrdsman and Matron of the Hospital. There were nine applications for the ap* pointiuent.

'SlB. AND Mrs St. Vincent favored good audiences afc the Commercial Assembly Room on Thursday and Friday evenings," with their excellent vocal entertainments, consisting mostly of comic songs and duffcs of Mr. St« Vincent's own composition. Several of the pieoes were leally excellent and well rendered, calling forth warm plaudits from the audience. The recnlls were in fact so numerous, that had they been complied with, it would have taken until daylight to complete the programme. "We are requested to diaw attention to the alteration in the date of Air. Aleyer's sale of ironmongery and grocery goods to Wednesday and Thursday next. The alteration has been made owing to the races being held on the previously advertised date. John Tyson issues a challenge to George Robertson, Ben Hoare, or any other man in Otago. iv which he sets forth that he will wrestle them foi £'50 a-siile on or hefore Thursday, 28th i.istant. Thb case Gillies v. T>inne»rman says the "Times" was peacefully terminated at the morning sederunt of the Presbyterian Synod on Tuesday. The Synod declared that it whs the right of any memher of the Church, feeling himself aggrieved on any matter, to come by petition hefore the proper Church Court, aud it was the duty of such Court to give all patient hearing to such couipl.unts — principles which justified the appellant as feeling himself aggrieved in having bi ought the matter under the notice of the Church Courts ; and the Synod considered that all record of the case should be deleted from the records of the Olutha Presbytery, and enjoined accordingly. .. "iEGLFS " iv the '•Australasian* says :— " The-raicT' on tHe betting houses hasn't been a startling success. The bulk of the alleged gambling customers were soon released, Amongst the suddenly arrested were the coachman of a Minister of the Crown, and tha Jehu of an eminent soft goods *mm of Flinders-kne. Having conveyed the families of their employers to the theatres, they dropped in— for tobacco, of course. And their distress at being unable to obtain release iv order to resume charge of their teams was almost touching. I am told by one who saw the inside of that betting registrar that the publication of the names of some of the ring customers there noted would shake smug lespectability to its virtuous centre. The Wild Deer ai lived from London on Tuesday with 312 immigrants. She is under the command of Captain Malcolm. Captain Cowan, formerly of the Wild Deer, having been promoted to the Wellington, one of the company's rew ships. She made the passage this time in 80 days, and arrived with a clean bill of health.