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Evening Star, Issue 3853, 30 June 1875, Page 2

It is proposed to form an Artillery Company at Oamaru. At Moonlight, near the Shotover, Kane’s party of three shared sixty ounces between them as the results of eight weeks’ work. The Minister for. Immigration to day advised the Superintendent of the sailing in May of the Christian M‘Ausland, for the Bluff, with 330 emigrants. We hear that a proposal to get up here a celebration of the centenary of O’Connell is under consideration, and no doubt such a proposal will receive the support of all lovers of civil and religious liberty. A late Wanganui paper before us contains accounts of one suicide, one rumored suicide and two deaths, all said to be caused by excessive drinking and all occurring in Wanganui or its immediate neighborhood.

A meeting of the Law Students’ Debating Society was held last evening, when Mr H J. Webb occupied the chair. Messrs Purnell and M‘Gregor will open the debate at the next meeting on Saturday, 10th July when Mr Stout will occupy the chair, The Superintendent has proclaimed between this date and the 31st of July—from sunrise to sunset only—an open season for taking or killing hares within that area bounded on the south by Stoney Creek, and ««rfi ag K° U Qu n east by the Bea » on the north by .Shagßiver, and on the west by a district road. J P* a y/‘Fanchon” was repeated at the PnncessTs last night to a good bouse and. was as warmly received as on the nrevious evening. To night “ The Merchant of Venice, with Mr Bates as Shylock and Mrs Bates as Portia, will be produced, the pertheccapita -

Chambers yesterday Judge Johnston granted leave to amend the information of the Solicitor-General against the Manse tenants by striking out certain irrelevant passages, and gave the defendants further time to plead. It is probable that the whole matter will be argued, when a motion is made about a fortnight hence for a decree. In to-day’s ‘ Gazette ’ it is notified that M Oonyers has been appointed inspector of railways m the Province, the appointment ArS 6 fro “ the lat in *t; Mr Alexander Armstrong to be engineer of permanent wav and rolling stock; and Mr Alexander Grant to be traffic manager at Dunedin— the two Aprin ntloned appointments to date from Dunedin city ratepayers complain of their taxation, and not without cause, but we are hardly so bad off as our neighbors in San Francisco. There it coats to run the municipal government of San Francisco 3 500 000 dollars per annum-about 16 dols. 64 cents [hd Bs}, for each man, woman, and child in the city They have a heavf state tax fo pay in addition to the above.

A very narrow escape from a serious fire occurred this morning at Port Chalmers. It appears that m an old store at the side of Clarkaad Son s, ship-chandlery establishment, Mr Pearce, contractor, had been permitted to store a quantity of lime which by some means got damp and fired. It was luckily discovered before any serious dama -e K“r d lv“ d tbe lime waa immediately shifted from the premises. Referring to the projected establishment MafJf u mil ° n the east bank of the Mataura, where raw material for the manufacture abounds, the ‘Southland Times’ states that there will be no delay in Tommencmg the works. The machinery is in construction, a practical manager is on the spot, and the company will aim at secunng the bonuses offered by the General and Provincial Governments,

wlS.l. Wa J Stated afc be Conference, which has recently closed its sitting in Melbourne that there are now in Victoria eO Wesleyau circuits, 373 churches, 152 other preaching places. 554 class lexers 717 local preachers, 3,614 Sunday school teachers, 33,375 Sunday scholars, 10 417 church members, and 73,871 attendants on public worship. Many of the circuits were unable to meet their expenses, some having not more than sixty members, and some only about thirty. The grants made to these circuits vary from L2O to LIOO per annum, Jp m v° n CT Meeting of the members of Court Robin Hood, No. 3,991, A.0.P.. was held last evening in the Masonic Hall. Port Chalmers, for the election of officers for the ensuing six months, and for receiving a report from the Building Committee. The following scheme for building a Foresters’ Hall at fort Chalmers was adopted “ That the Court should invest from L2OO to L3OO, and the balance be borrowed for a term of three nmnl!/f earß, A cor ? mittee of five was appointed to carry out the scheme, and it was f - th , e ; l arra l n ? ed that the sum of L2OO should be placed in the National Bank for three months.

Referring to the statement that the Premier had placed his resignation in the hands of hu colleagues, the ‘Grey River Argus*

says “ that it was incumbent upon him, under the circumstances, to have done so. If in his absence a hostile vote should be carried against the Ministry, the members of it in the Colony could not as a Ministry resign without leaving the Souse in the unpleasant position of having to ask the Governor to dismiss the Premier. Mr Vogel, with his usual forethought, has placed his colleagues in a position to resign as a Government the event of a vote of no confidence being carried against them.” The fallowing is a copy of a telegram received by the Government from Mr Ihomas Russell; Pollen, Wellington.—San Francisco Service. —The Sydney Government is responsible for the delay. We now have satisfactory tenders L 90,000. Your service is secured in printed conditions, sent to you, under which all vessels to San Francisco sail from Port Chalmers, and vessels from San Francisco sail to Sydney— connecting at Fiji. We hope to make a contract in a few days for a speedof eleven knots.—Thomas liussell.” The printed conditions refer to the route, which will be from San Francisco to Sydney direct, and from New Zealand to San Francisco direct. The mails to New Zealand being transhipped at and forwarded from Kandavau, and the mails from Sydney being forwarded to and transhipped at Kandavau.

The Governor of New South Wales (Sir H. Robinson) has let the cat out of the bag, and disclosed whence we get all the fellows who are breaking stones in this Colony. At the last Sydney University examination ho spoke as follows “ Real life is essentially a race which teste endurance more than speed. The dashing, clever young fellows who have the reputation at school or colie re of being able to do almost anything, are often nowhere, whilst the dull, slow lad comes to the front, and attains success and a name. What is more common, when a man has achieved distinction in any walk of life, than to hear old schoolfellows say, ‘ How well So-and-so has got on ; is it not odd? We none of os thought there was anything in him ; on the contrary, we thought him decidedly stupid—and look at him now j whilst there is poor So-and-so, from whom we expected such great things, who could carry all before him when he tried—there he is, poor fellow, breaking stones in New Zealand, or doing odd jobs ia Fijil’”—(Laughter.) Henceforth, know all men by thesa presents, that many poor fellows now stone-breaking in New Zealand are college-bred. An example of the inconvenience caused by the extraordinary inactivity of the Government with regard to the Philadelphia Exhibition, is brought under notice by our Oamaru contemporary. A gentleman came in from the country to ascertain what steps he should take regarding some exhibits of stone he was willing should be forwarded. He had inquired in many quarters, but no one could give him any information, while some told him he need not waste his time over the matter, as the Government had abandoned all idea of sending specimens to the Exhibition. This he was told so positively that he was nearly persuaded to give up all thought of exhibiting his stone, but remembering that reference had been made _to the formation of committees in Canterbury and Wellington, he inquires through the ‘North Gtago Times for information upon the following points ' The measurement or weight of the blocks he will exhibit should be—if there is any specific size or weight decided upon; whether the blocks are to be sent to anyone authorised to receive them in Oamaru, or Dunedin, or whether he must forward them to Wellington; by what time they must be sent'in ; whether any particular piece of redtapeism has to be carefully attended to—in fact, he wishes to know what he has to do, in order that his exhibits may reach the Exhibition, The gentleman referred to is not the only one in Oamaru willing to send in contributions, but there will be few who will take as much trouble as he has done, when they see how lukewarm the Government is on the subject.

A. concert in aid of Geo. Turnidge, who was injured in the Chain Hills tunnel, will be given in the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening, July 8. The adjourned meeting for the formation of a lodge of the 1.0.0. F. at Kensington, which was to have been held this evening, has been postponed till Friday. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Kensington Band of Hope was held last evening, when the attendance, despite the bad weather, was very good. Recitations, readings, songs, &c., constituted the programme.