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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 820, 21 December 1865, Page 2

The Savings Bank will not be open on Monday, the 25th December, and Monday, Ist Jan., but will be open on Tuesday, 26th December, and Tuesday, 2nd January, instead.

The Government publish the following part of "The Protection of Certain Animals Act, 1865," for general information:—"No deer of any kind, hare, swan, wild goose, or wild duck of imported species whatever, partridge, English plover, rook, starling, thrush, or blackbird, shall be hunted, shot, taken, or killed at anytime whatever, before the first day of May, which shall be in the year 1870."—Penalty, two to twenty pounds.

The meeting of the Kilwinning Lodge postponed last week is to be held this evening. The Directors of the Caledonian Society will meet on Friday evening for general business. There is now on view at the shop of Mr D. Henderson, ironmonger, Princes street, a wellexecuted painting in water-colors of Mount Flagstaff, as seen from the grounds of the Acclimatisation Society. The artist is Mr G-. Browne of the Survey Office, here. We are requested to state that the bullock referred to in our issue of last evening was the property of Mr James Forrest, Glasgow Farm, East Taieri, and its weight was 2779 lbs instead of 2000 lbs as stated.

We observe that all the shares in the Shag River Water Race have been taken up, and that consequently the list is closed. The charge against Gibbs Lockhart Ross was being heard when our reporter left the Police Court at a quarter past four.

The business to be transacted at the Resident Magistrates Court during the remainder of this week is unusually heavy. To-day the Court will likely sit until a late hour in order to get through the cases set down for hearing. For to-morrow the list contains no less than 65 civil cases, and on Saturday a large number of adjourned cases are to be heard.

The second class firing of the Artillery Regiment will take place to-morrow morning at the Kaikorai Butts.

The Argus says :—The Intercolonial Exhibition, to be held in Melbourne in August 1866, promises to become a great success. At a meeting of the commissioners, held yesterday, the secretary's progress report was read, of which the following is an abstract:—" The principal bus.' ness done since the last meeting has been of a preliminary kind. Between the printer and the stationer, my time has been chiefly occupied, and there is yet much to be done before the project can be considered as thoroughly placed before the public. Arrangments have been made for giving a short advertisement to every newspaper published in Victoria, and lam following this up by preparing to supply the press with such information as will procure for us the same liberal support, by leading articles and favourable notices, as was given to the Exhibition of 1861. In the course of a week or two our placards and other papers will be seen in every townsliip in. "Victoria, and similar placards "will Toe £orthwith sent to the other colonies. From the inquiries already made, and the general tone of the public with regard to the project, I am fully satisfied that the exhibition will assame such, proportions as will render the present building inadequate for the purposes in view. On this subject I shall shortly submit my calculations in a definite form. lam happy to state that the committee of the Beechworth Museum have promptly volunteered their assistance, and as on the last occasion the collection from Beechworth was the most complete of any forwarded to Melbourne, it is gratifying to find the local authorities again ready to support us."