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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 783, 8 November 1865, Page 2

The athletic sports at Vauxhall to-morrow will doubtless induce good appetites to the competitors, and we see by an advertisement in another column that Mr Watson of the Royal Hotel will provide luncheon during the day at a moderate charge.

We observe that the Brethren of the United Otago District Ancient Order of Foresters will assemble at the Royal George Hotel to-morrow at ten o'clock.

We are informed that the officers of the Colonial war sloop Victoria have been invited to the Assembly Ball on Friday evening.

The Theatre Royal will be re-opened to-mor-row night by the performances of Miss Edith Palmerston, (Mrs. Alexander,) whose entertainment has received very high encomiums from the public press in all the places she has visited. The Theatre is being thoroughly renovated, and the various contemplated alterations nearly completed. Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop Victoria, 587 tons, 150 horse power, is moored close to the Port Chalmers Jetty to receive her coals and provisions previous to starting for Melbourne on Monday or Tuesday.

The various Lodges of Odd Fellows will assemble to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock at the Odd Fellows Hall, to take part in the procession to the Foresters' fete.

The members of the Volunteer Artillery Regiment will meet for uniform parade at the Drill Shed this evening. The City Guards will parade to-morrow morning at a quarter to eleven o'clock in the Octagon, prior to the general parade in front of the Custom House.

The tender of Mr Hyman, silversmith, j Princes street, has been accepted for the medals to be given by the Caledonian Society at the forthcoming gathering. The Port Chalmers Naval Brigade will come out in full force to-morrow to celebrate the Prince of Wales' birthday. They will fire a salute of 21 guns from their 4 gun battery in front of the harbor office, at noon, together with afeu de joi. They "will afterwards proceed to their butts in Sawyer's Bay, and fire for £ls in prizes, and presents given by the residents of ■6b.e port to the Brigade. Mr. W. H. Mumford the lessee of the Princess' Theatre, takes his complimentary benefit this evening. The programme includes pieces of acknowledged popularity '' Time Tries All," " The Dumb Belle," and the burlesque of the jj" Invisible Prince." To-morrow evening there will be a special holiday performance, an attractive feature of which will be the exhibition j of the new Magnesium Light. ' The annual sweep on the Melbourne Cup will Ibe drawn to-morrow evening at the Empire Hotel.

The bonus offered by the Provincial Government for the manufacture of paper from the pJiomium tenax is still unclaimed, and the Government Gazette of to-day announces that the 10th June next is the last day for claiming it.