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Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 277, 26 November 1877, Page 2

ton Atbemeum will be closed for a week from this date, during removal to the new building. The reading room in the new Atheneeum building will be opened to-morrow evening. One of those pleasing re-unions which frequently occur with the Order of the 1.0. R. is announced to happen to-morrow (Tuesday) evening with the Perseverance Tent, No. 6, when the anniversary entertainment will be held in the Primitive Methodist school room, Sydney-street. The Tent being now fairly established, and comprising as it does a large number of members, it may be safely anticipated that there will be a numerous attendance. A beginning was made to-day in the way of extending Cuba-street to tho toreshore. The extension will be a great improvement to the city, and we only regret that it involves the sacrifice of the pretty grove of trees and shrubs which at present has such a pleasing effect. This is being cut down to-day. The case of Galloway v. Galloway, being an appeal from the Supreme Court, Dunedin, was resumed at the Appeal Court to-day. The case had been partly heard on Saturday, Mr. Macassey and Mr. Cook appearing for the appellant, and Mr. Stout for the respondent. The arguments in the case were continued during the day, and had not concluded up till late this afternoon. The City Rifles fired tho third of six monthly competitions for their challenge medal aud money prize at the Polhill Gully range ou Saturday afternoon. The weather was splendid, but the average scoring was not so good as is usual with this corps. Private M'lntosh headed the list with G8 points, which entitles him to hold the medal for one month. The five highest scores were as under : — Yds. yds. yds, yds. total 200 400 500 600 pts. Private M'lntosh 18 17 17 10 G8 Private Cording ... 17 18 14 14 63 Sergeant Harris ... 16 14 11 15 56 Private W. Bnllinger 18 18 11 8 5-j Private J. Ballinger 19 16 9 8 52 i The Artillery corps started with the famous time-gun on Saturday afternoon, bound for the top of Mount Victoria. They didn't get quite up to the top, however, but only reached the upper end of Majoribanks-street. Still this is a start, and it is quite possible that the gun may be mounted on its destined elevation in time to usher in the year 1900. We confidently hope so. Mr. A. Brunton, of Dunedin, according to notice, preached last evening at the Theatre Royal, which was well filled. Mr. Brunton will preach during the week at other places, mentioned in the advertisement published elsewhere. In the civil sittings of the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, in the. case of T. J. Mountain v. R. J. Underwood, being a claim for the sum of £-f, the defendant was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, or in default imprisonment for one month. In the case of E. J. Beavis v David Bell, a claim for £32 9s, for goods, Sec, arising through a dispute about a shop, the case was settled out of Court, the defendant agreeing to give up the goods claimed, the plaintiff on the other hand consenting to pay him £5, less costs. There wero only two other cases ou the list, both of which were settled out of Court. There was again a capital attendance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, when the historical drama, entitled " Marie Antoinette," was repeated to a most enthusiastic audience, Signora Maieroni, as before, coming in for her full share of the applause, which was general throughout the evening. To-night we notice that " Camille" will be produced, a play which will no doubt prove a great attraction, seeing that the principal characters are sustained by Signor and Signora Majeroni, who have already earned golden opinions during their present engagement in this city. There was a very good attendance at St. George's Hall on Saturday evening, when the performance, as usual, passed off most successfully. To-night we notice that the Alleen Combination Troupe will mnke their first appearance; and as the burlesque company likewise appear, a really capital entertainment may be anticipated. Certainly Mr. Cary deserves every credit for bis endeavor to provide talent to suit the public taste, and in this further addition to his stock company he is well deserving of public patronage. On Saturday evening, when the s.s. Moa went out to the Heads, she conveyed Mr; Holm, late Assistant-Pilot, who at his request was landed at the Pilot Station, as he wished to inform his family of his destination. Immediately on landing he was set upon and violently assaulted by three men ; indeed, but for the assistance of the man who went ashore with him, he probably would have been maltreated even more severely than he was. We understand that the perpetrators of this cowardly attack are known, and that proceedings will be taken against them in the Resident Magistrate's Court. Until the result is known, of course it would be improper for us to comment further upon this extraordinary affair. The above is the account given to us independently by a spectator and by Mr. Holm, whose face and head bore unmistakeable evidence of the rough treatment he had received. He has laid an information in the Resident Magistrate's Court against Lancelot Holmes, Charles Beckstron, and Charles Howard, for the assault, and the case will come on next Friday, at 11 a.m. We understand that an official report of the affair has been received from the Pilot Station to the effect that Holm, on landing, got into a dispute with one of the men who had given evidence against him in the late Customs inquiry, the result being a fight, in which Holm received the injuries complained of, while Holmes asserts that he simply tried to separate the combatants. The statements obviously are entirely contradictory, and we must await the hearing of the case to learn the truth. A cricket match was played on Saturday, on the Basin Reserve, between the United and Rising Star Cricket Clubs, which resulted in a victory for the former by one innings and three runs. The scores were — U.C.C, 82 runs ; R.S.C.C., 26 and 53 runs. The double figures were — Iggulden, 21,; .Doyle, 13; and M'Girr, 10, for the United,, arid Robinson, not out, 11 for the Rising Star. We learn that Mr. Michael Dunneen, senior sergeant in charge at Waihi, in the Patea district, has arrived in Wellington to fill the vacancy occasioned through the death of the late Sergt.-Major Chandler, ot the A.C. depot. Mr. Dunneen has been for many years connected with the police department, and having been formerly attached to the 70th Regiment of the Line, it may be safely anticipated that as a drill instructor he is well able to assume the place previously so well occupied by his respected predecessor. Fine weather prevails over the whole colony to-day, and the wind is generally light, excepting at Taupo, where a S.E. gale is blowing. The choir of St. Peter's Church, undertKe' able direction of Mr. Hamerton, will give another of their ever-popular entertainments to-morrow evening. On this occasion, and for the first time, a departure will me made from the previous invariable practice of giving the concerts in the school room at a uniform charge of Is. Thfe concert is to bo given in the Princess Theatre, Tory-street, as an experiment, with the view of enhancing ths cqmfort