The Evening Star. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1879.

Evening Star, Issue 4953, 17 January 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1879.

A earner named Robert M'George has been killed by the upsetting of his dray at Maungatua. The admirers of Thomas, the wrestler, last night presented him with a puree containing seventy sovereigns. The rateable property in the West Harbor Borough for 1879-80 is valued at L 8.644, against LiijMO last year. The surgeon-superintendent of the Warwick, now on her way out to Wellington with immigrants, is DrGore Gillon, an exHigh School boy, and a native of this district. He is the first native-born doctor who has had charge of an immigrant ship to the .Colony. At this morning's sitting of the. Supreme Court the case of Afacdonald v. Proctor was resumed. Two witnesses were examined for the defence, and Mr Haggitt addressed thejur} en the • same side. Mr Denniston then replied, and the jury retired at 4 p.m. to consider their verdict. We would remind our readers that Mr Leon's benefit takes place at the Princess's to-night, when a programme sufficiently attractive to satisfy the most exacting will be presented. The features of the first part of the programme will be " The Rose of St. Flour," and Mr Reid's ballad "Maid of Athens." The entertainment concludes with the opera-bouffe " Galatea." A full house should be the result. The 'Tablet' says the apeeoh of the Attorney-Gcneral can.have only one effect on Catholics, and that is to confirm them in the conviction that nothing but determined and persevering agitation can win for them what justice and equity demand in the matter of-education, that there is only one argument for such men as the Hon. Mr Stout, and that this argument should be plied viaoronslv.. As the best way of reaching a Scotchman's heart is through his bre«ches.pocket, so the best way of reaching the intellect of politicians is through the polling booths. ' * H kii 51 I'.. ■•■■ , . J * ™ lß '?, towupw ef Minstrels will arrive by the n«o Melbouw,* steamer, and are anncuncßd tu open at th* Prihoewft on January 22, in "tJncle lorn a Cabin," which they have been playinsr in various parts of Australia with unvarying The cricket matches for to-morrow are:Caledonian Ground : Cnmbrook' v. D.0.0 (for Cup. On the Oval : Albion v. -University I i .n----(.up); WHtohinakei> ami Jewellers v • Morniag ?flr 'i£ 00 * £act,6ry v -Nortli and 80.m11.r7 a! «•n ? T u ?, edla : Albion v. H. andC. Unit .1. 7iJu' E ' \^ ll % y r : ft nd Copeland v. iaijd v. City Guards Band. -wt«««*™

&«r n * h * S 1 ■ in "t-..*nd not .to-morrow ,nnu *- ■■ stated by us liOit night. t T** 6 Cavershana cricket club, baye elected Mr m w? ey Mr ,J- Coombe; deputy. Mr J;^ M V Lean^ r ? aa^rer ' ' M V J - secretary, and Mesws Hale and Kendfe as a committed Sortie fine freeholds are to be auctioned to. S„7- BI J *** *?n offer for sale the town»nrf«■ JfcF 1 ??* hich 8 at Klueskin, and is admirably adapted for seaside residences ft th S,A\*°r« /■"i* 8 ," choice agr«cultura jKjv TheWaahola Fark, subdivided into suitSSSSfi I T ?. e P bQr P' an <* those desirous of 3 g .W"? in tb " Pleasant locality wught to attend the sale, . *