The Evening Star. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1879.

Evening Star, Issue 4941, 3 January 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1879.

Messrs John Studholme (Opposition) and D. R. Buckingham (Ministerial) have been nominated for Gladstone. The poll takes place on the Bth.

The gross takings of the Caledonian Society are likely to exceed L 1,600. Already L797—on the first day L 451, L 346 on the second—has been taken as gate money ; and the receipts from other sources bring up the total to L 1,217.

The circus was attended by a very large and appreciative audience last night, and the various items on the programme, particularly “Turpin’s, Ride to York,” were cleverly gone through', Mr Burton has decided to remain in Dunedin until Saturday, and new feats are announced for this evening.

The picnic in connection with the Kew Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, was held on New Year’s Day at Clifton, near the Ocean Beach. The children, to the number of eighty-five, with about the same number of friends, spent the day in a thoroughly enjoyable manner, being plentifully supplied with “good things,” and entering into a little sport with spirit. • We are informed by F. Goodfellow, the Australian short-distance. runner, that ho has severed his engagement with Shepard, owing to the latter’s strange proceedings at last Saturday’s sports. Shepard returned to Melbourne yesterday by the s.s. Albion, but Goodfellow intends continuing his projected tour through this Colony, and now that he has got rid of his partner he tnay meet with the success which was seriously jeopardised by Shepard’s conduct. The damage to the Ran£itata railway bridge is being quickly repaired; and Mr Lowe, the resident engineer, is sanguine of being able to have it ready for ordinary traffic at the end of next week. Paffengers walk across without difficulty; and light parcels are portered. The opinion is general that recurrences of last week’s accident can only be prevented by the building of a cylinder bridge; end that the Government ought to at once look that question fairly in the face.

The nomination of a candidate for election to the office of City Councillor of High Ward in the place of Mr H. J. Walter, elected Mayor, took place at noon to-day at the Fire Brigade Station. At the hoar appointed a crowd consisting of three persons, had assembled at the station, and to these Mr J, M. M'Dowall, returning officer, announced that Mr 11. H. Leary was.the only candidate nominated, and that the said gentleman was, therefore, duly elected to fill vacancy. Mr I/eary did not deliver m? addr«w.

nu* I f_. a h f al *hy sign that since before the Christmas holidays up till this afternoon only one notice of bankruptcy has been • a jT °, n a P etition f°r adjudication obtained at the bankruptcy sittings to-day, W morning,- Mr Smith ohramed a rule nwi .to show cause why the Judges order in Oayford v. Carruthervthe breach of promise .case, should not be rescmded. The rule Trill be argued next week. The only business at the Port Chalmers Police Court this morning was a charge of Preferred against .Joseph King. Reason 8 C ? nßld T atijh the fe9tiv e season the Bench cannoned the defendant hlm , Mr w , niftt Jp ‘ a , luers for the boroughs and counties of the Otago Provincial district, as ded v y th ® Deputy Land Tax Commissioner, have been approved by the Government, and they wiU shortly receive the necessary documents and papers for distnbution in their respective districts. -3?° Clut b a ,bridge is growing “-small by i e S 3 : and beautifully Jess." The‘Bruce Year'a l n!t y ! ° n tllG evenin g «f New awS-'anJ t Wg » T)ortlon of i . fc was carried _ ‘ y ’ rorn manner in which it is : - Qd oauin g> the remains of alter aee ” 8 hkel y 80011 to disappear. xho Dunedin Fire Brigade have consigned to them through the Corporation in®the recently arrived ship Wanganui a supply of the new uniform cloth and helmets. By the same ship there, also: arrived a quantity of Mmets, belts, and axes for the Morningtbh r ire Brigade, whose first consignment was lost in the Ann Gambles. * '

The programme put forward by the Kelly and Leon Minstrels continues to draw large for tTSV*'• Ch ? fle ™ ” is be performed Orchestra is one of the best that has been in these parts, and the overture from “ Tancredi ” is atone worth listening to. To-morrow night the winner of the champion wrestling match is to be presented with a silver cup by Messrs Miscocks and Hayhxan.

The travelling portion of the public will be glad to learn of tke return to the road of one of'Cobb and Co.’a oldest and most popular drivers. .This is Harry Nettleford, who used to drive between , Pigroot and the Dunstan, and was always known as a careful and attentive whip.* Mr Nettlefold left the road for a year or two and turned Boniface, taking the Clyde:. Hotel at the Dunstan, but he has now re-engaged with Cobb and Co. and will drive their coach between Palmerston and Naseby. i A* 10 . * Evangelist ’. informs us that on the }4th inst. the Presbyterian Synod commences its session; that the Rev. A. Blake, M.A., is appointed to Ravensbourne, Rothesay, and St. Leonards; the Rev. Mr Boyd, to Winton and-Fareat Hill; Mr Blaokie (student of diviipty) to Cromwell, Bannock, burn, and Bendigo • _ the Rev. Mr Lothian is continued at Alexandra, Clyde, and Blacks. The following home missionary appointments were made:—Mr Morris, Catlin’s River ; Mr Gilbert, Upper Waitaki ; Mr Anderson, Tapanui outfield; Mr Stewart; Saddle Hill, Biighfcon, and Kuri Bush. The .arrangement for the future supply of Mount Cargill district is still under consideration. A letter from the Rev. Dr Wilson,,.of Limerick, announces the appointment, by the Mission Board of the Irish Presbyterian Churoh, of the Rev. David Gordon, of Sion ■ Mills, . Strabane, to labor in Otago. Mr Gordon and his family were to sail from Glasgow in December. The Rev. R. G. Balfour, of the Colonial Committee of tho Free Church, reports that the Rev Mr Sutherland, recently licensed by.the Presbytery of Edinburgh, was to sail from Glas. gow in November; and that Mr Graham, an experienced Home missionary, received an appointment to the Church of Otago and Southland. '

We have to acknowledge the receipt of the current numbers of,,the ‘Press News’ and ‘ Prices Current,’ .

We are informedthat the Caledonian Society will offer an extra prise in wrestling at their sports to-morrow, for “Cornish and Devonshire ” style.