The Evening Star THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1879.

Evening Star, Issue 4940, 2 January 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1879.

The Rev. J. S. Smalley, of Christchurch w eisleyan Church on Sunday next. fI,;H! e £! rCas . W , a 8 lar g?ly attended on both the holiday nights, "Spin's ride to York" forming the chief attraction. The last performance will be given to-night, and those n ° fc thLhowehoud not lose the opportunity. PrI hj r e . W i 8 *. ve . r y lar « e attendance at the Princess's l„ t night, when the Kelly aid Leon troupe repeated the programme oi the SET very successful m "Sweet chiming bells?" "rhn,V n '°» e Xr loudlv demanded In i Choufleun," Mr Courtwriaht as th? ! waiter, fairly divided the h 3\* hj «g 1 ? Jf Ed "A Urg £ and T its Stories " w »s the subE ° f th s, Rev> In B lis ' s Year's Eve lecture. The rev. gentleman is happv in Mm S ft 3 f Slon of * faat fa °«lty which enables nim to at once gam the entire sympathy of his audience Several of those present we 1 acquainted with the locality treated of, and the lecturer, constituting himself jmide conduced them over the city, notinfeach particular building and street/and narrating mA«I TT°-*\ With them ' the Canongatf and its historical memories being fully and ably treated. The anecdotes wit? S the told "xT 8 ?" • T erc wcll introduced and Si' i d * M 5 I nglls s P° wer of mimicry was mg the itinerant preacher who, when put into gaol, would not leave it until-like St laul-the magistrates had beeged him to come out. « Edinburgh after Flodden" was finely recited by thelecturer, who concluded by wishmg his hearers a Gude New Year The Rev. lughYs final lecture was glTen kst evenmgon "Robert Burns." wasgnenlaßt

T}?? Napier correspondent of the ' Oamaru Mart' telegraphs:-« A fire has beerS for the past two days between Waipnkura? n. K. Kusoell. It originated throueh a spark from one of the railway engines Such was the danger on Thursday that £, entertained lor the safety'of WarpuLSu and the residents had.to exert themselves vigorously to avert the impending cakmitv So mtenao was the heat on the rSiW "ar' nage platforms that passengers hJSbeat a retreat underneath the carriages. Itdried up-the grass, which was and on the journey to Waipa^thTSß Sl£SS rtfo S ed - te *?«'*" engine to I standstill. J)u„„ g .Saturday the area of the hre was extended, and uovr the bu<h on The fi fi o ri h K Side of^; ai ? awariTOr i 3 in flamed The fire has reached close to the edge of the Wa.pawa river, and the houses on the south The whole of his paddocks of feed have been destroyed and Mr Russetf mustbe a con aiderable loser. However a« tC f„ 1 tb..slightestdifficulty TfeacLg 1 hi of the fire ,t is probablo that %overnm£t wiU be called upon to make good tj£fo£ Two houses have been buried and «£ occupants of others have ha? to ,firoX Mr& 88fall ? P ? din 2 in the Erection 0 f Mr HaroW of Mount Vernon. A Mao? settlement has had to clear out of tS cfurch' a Tt h r S T ght ctiurch The grasu fares on Mr Purvis Russell's Wobum estates, Waipukurau, K been much more dirastrous than T x l £ first led to beheve. In addition t / a W e paddock of rye grass, saved for seed, tE Hr portion of t>° feed on the run as t« A .ecessitate an Sm' Ante reduction of RmrXoZJS sheep and fo,fcy head of cattle have at c £ ce

Supplementary mails for the United Kingom \ c * c -' via San Francisco, will be despatched by express train to-morrow moraine ;° 1 , conne ct with the B.b. Tararua at Lytteiton. For particulars see mail notice. 4.v ln^i r i. A * A * Cameron's consultation on the Melbourne Champion Race, Mr Alex. Oraham of Kopua, Hawke Bay, drew \\ eUington—firathorse ; MrW. T. Barnett, of Timaru, drew Warlock—second horse: Mr Daniel Bryant, of the Railway Hotel, YYinslow, North Canterbury, drew Bosworth —third horse. The nicceasful winners in Drake and Collin ß 's consultation are:— Wellington, Thomas Dryden, Dunedin; Warlock, J. Abrahams, Dunedin; Boßworth. J. B. Taylor, Port Chalmers.

Dunedin is .not. the only place which suffered from Jarrikinisni on New Year's morning. At Wellington a large number of roughs assaulted a couple of Chinamen, who ran mto the Pier Hotel for protection, followed by a crowd of about a hundred. The police several times dispersed the crowd and rescued the Chinamen, but the crowd always collected again, and as the Chinamen were on there way home they were again assaulted, and had to seek refuge in the Empire Hotel, where they had to remain till about four in the morning, during which time the crowd remained outside waiting for them.

The match North Tunedin Rifles v. Artillery will not take place on Saturday morning. The adjourned summoned meeting of Loyal Dunedin Lodge, M.U.1.0.0.F., will be held tomorrow evening.

We thank Mr Brett, of Auckland, for a copy of his Auckland Almanac for 1879"-a most useful work, fni-y justifying the title of the tatranger >-..Jemccum." It contains a vast amount] < f 10ca1,., statistical, and general informal-- M & w illustrated by portraits of some *> »ne leading men of the district. The typography is beautifully clear, and as it contains about 210 pages of advertisements strangers will be easily abie by its assistance to supply every

The principal gathering yesterday was at the Caledonian grounds The various trips down the harbor were also well pat-onised, while rfoo persons took advantage of the Hawea's cheap trip to Oamaru. The Comarang unfortunately |stuck in the harbor, and her passengers were conveyed to Port Chalmers and brought up to town by train. There were also a number of picnic*. The Conr^T 1 ft**,. Bchool went t0 Hastings; Campbell and Crust, express proprietors, enterlt^T% of **•» employeVon the Town Belt; the Baptist Sunday school chrildren vXv* ™A raholida ? do ™ the Northeast Valley; and there were several other parties.