The Evening Star MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1879.

Evening Star, Issue 4967, 3 February 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1879.

, pig-hunting should pay a visit to the country lying behind Silver Peaks. The survey party now located there have killed over 200 within the last dew weeks, Tlie death is announced in Nelson of Mr Robert Crawford, an, old and respected S i It 1 " Deceased is said to have been one of the few who witnessed the Wairau massacre, nearly thirty-six years ago. The committee of the Hughes’s relief fund to-dajf received the following sums Per V»P^ in sall>5 all > hai-bpr-master at Riverton, Ll9 16s 6d { Captain Bayidon, s.s. Star of the South, L?> 13s ; Messrs Nancarrow aid Co., Greymouth, L 9 18s-, Captain Lsys, e.s. WalJabi, L3O 19s 6d.

the Roslyn School Committee have carried a resolution affirming the desirability of the re Bible into/the schools; » m ™ Committee have granted the STi for the use ot the district schoolrooms a ace a week for Bible olafcs purposes.

I*«t evoW at S g tbii^Whad rteavid a i«4W*Uc-a, Mktftg that Mother meeting of Sr. *bouW -"be kfild for theeiectK<» k^ o^lllo *- the proceedings at SSJSL >* **“« been irregular. TwSAI a - mootji e ia to be-held on JuStL . ! ? 8 I n,^ t - In wh «t the irregularities consisted did not appear. SduiwS * M y bequeathed to Mr own personal mTsdS pounds /° r his to innuiro inV.% “ ,S .P ur geon was 11 iduced relatives nf fj?'°7 ie circ nmatanc2s * of the needy and tw “I £•’ and - finding thej were rL i, ! ‘ ,hjm ß had been beque «&»* *>»

Mr Cox, the assistant geologist, is on a workings^^ 60^011 ia * lttna and Waipori It is no uncommon thing, the ‘ Tuapeka limes is informed by those who travel to iopanm via Waipahi,' to find women at work on one of the small sections of the Waipahi* Taj aam railway. “The Hallelujah Lassies," or “Salvation Army, a body of lady preachers under the oommana of a well-known clergyman, Rev. w. Booth, have been creating some excitement m the North of England; A free entertainment was given in the Temperance Hall on Saturday night, ventriloquism and an exhibition by an individual of unusual powers Of mental calculation forming the features of it.

An accident terminating fatally happened youth Dunedin on Friday evening. Mr JNeil Keid, formerly captain of a coasting vessel, was m a paddock about 9 o’clock mustering seme cows, when a horse kicked him. He lay insensible till 4 o’clock next morning, and then managed to crawl home. tiii ~o w? ,w a * n attendance on the sufferer died” ° cloCk yesterday morning when he The “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” people gave what was called a juoilee concert last night, ihe words and music of the bulk of the hymns reminded us of the ditties in vogue amongst forecastle hands on board deep-sea liners; the solemn-faced 'darkies, however appeared to be thoroughly in earnest about the matter, and if their singing did not edify it at any rate amused the large crowd that assembled.

There seems some doubt at almost the last moment of Southland being represented at ni Interprovincial Regatta. The x>lun Club decided on sending a four-oared , crew, but it now turps out (says the • Southland Times ) that the inexorable heads of departments refuse to accord the needful leave of absence to the officials, some of whom are active members of the club mentioned.

A sad accident occurred at Shag Point on Saturday night Dan Hartstonge, a son of Mr James Hartstonge, settler, Macraes Flat, whikt passing behind a.team, of horses, was kicked m the abdomen by one of them. He was at once attended to by Dr Brown, but Sfir°K fell ° W - W “^y all Medical aid, although conscious tiU within ton minutes of fiis death. His injuries were fearful. After miffenng pat agony, he died next mornipg. He was about twenty years of age. An airangement has been made by the N.Z. and A.L. Co. with the Railway Department to carry 6.000 sheep from the 6ompany a Levels Station -at Tjmaru, to their £ d o^ dale -i Statl ° n ' s <*tWand, The distance «n 2 &^ lleS J ? e W j rk will be commenced next ’ &n 4 occ npy ten days, the , oaded waggons running down every alternate StinJT? n J y ‘ fiv ® wag ? ona wiU be used, starting at 5 a.m., and arriving at their SJjf* *l at a -m.—-nearly twenty one hours. The engine will run right through and return with the empties at once. It was to - fomard sheep by through^ 0 CoUQtry 18toodr yto travel them

biamch^o/thA 1 mee^n g of the Dunedin SmandT Amalgamate! Society of CarT preaihew member was admit*Jt 1 a C k. air ’ 006 expressed that Ik, sLrtA nSetomt law * tC xrrWe Union Act had become ~ -months past. The hearty good wishes of «ne branch were tendered to Bro. J. 6. Challis, who is leaving .New Zealand on a visit to England. It was reported that two new branches have been opened recently in the Colony, and with the expectation of another being started* at Invercargill shortly. Of the many stories that have come under notice in connection with the Glasgow Bank, the following told by the * Argus’s ’ London correspondent is the saddest. A few months ago a very hard-working literary man was released, not as usual by death, from his bondage to the pen, but by an unexpected legacy. A friend, of his, who knew how hard he had to toil for. many months, left him L 5.000, all in shares in the Glasgow Bank, The gift, which was intended to assist him in his poverty, has thus absolutely proved his ruin. Poor B. (the victim) hw the pluck of a hero, and, never fails to have an eye to (literary):business. “lam thinking, he says, “it would be a capital not : on, and quite original, to make one’s commercial man in a novel, forgive his enemy on his death-bed, and leave him L 5.000 as k proof of it—in an unlimited bank which he knew was about to break. What d’ye think- of it?’

At the conclusion of his speech to his Naseby constituents, Mr De Lautour is reported to have said i— 1 ", You must expect to see a strong array against the Government next session. If they are true to their Liberal interests, as I -know they will be, will be a probable minority, and the decision will rest with the people. Our tender-hearted friends who support us with their hearts even in their mouths and a reproach upon their lipg must, for once and all, decide. The true supporters of a Liberal Government in the House and country assert that the time has come when concessions to the Waverors must no longer be made. As a people rejoicing in the advent of Sir George Grey to power, we claim that we shall be allowed to strengthen his hands, if the Parliament at present elected refuses its duty. Do not mistake, the present Parliament is only Liberal pressure. There is not a majority in the House, whatever may be said, or how the votes may be told, that is true to the interests of the majority of New Zealand. The Liberals and Tories must be made to take sides. It hj for the electors to give the line.”

Seveial inquiries having been addressed to it on the subject, the London 4 Sportsman’ deelafefi that Trickett is entitled to call himself the champion sculler of the world, but adds “He had a perfect right ta nominate the water upon which the he»t oontest for the championship should take place, 4nd We S4y this despite the fact that in common with other lovers of aquatics we should have desired to have seen the Struggle on the Thames. ■ It may seem somewhat ungracious to remark that Trickett, by declaring that he would only compete on an Australian river was virtually securing to himself the title without the possibility of Opposition. And we are not speaking rashly when we say that we believe there are scullers in England capable of vanquishing him, although they have not the means of undertaking the long and expensive jonmey to the Colony of which ho is a resident. Still Trickett is ‘champion sculler of the world,’ and is likely to remain so, unless, as we hear, he determines revisiting England, when several notable scullers would rejoice in the opportunity of competing with him, and we believe would wrest from him the proud title he holds.”

The mention of the discovery in Sydney of a portrait of Shakspeare on panel, bearing date 1611, has led, curiously enough, to the production in Melbourne of another, also on panel, bearing date 1610. It has been in the possession of Mr Ellis, of the Duke of Devonshire Hotel, St. Hilda, for the last five-and-twenty years, and he says he can trace it back for ninety years previously. In the upper right-hand corner of the picture, where the date appears, there is an inscription indicating that the subject of it was then forty-six years of age, as he was in that year; and below it is the name of the artist —G. Lynde, orLynds. What is most remarkable about it is the rery strong resemblance it bears to the features of the bust on the monument at Stratford-on-Avon. Of course there is no. evidence to show that the portrait was painted at the date named ; .but, on ;the other hand, there was no adequate motive a. hundred yOaita ago to'forge a picture of this kind. But,.whether aportrait from the life or the oopy of an original painting, the work is certainly on interesting One, and is in a rery fab' Itate (it preservation. The ‘Argus’ »ay« that, hetipg on, Sir Redmond Barry's d&vi£&',tbo owner 6f it proposes to place himself in communication with the chairman of- the Shakspeare Terceutary Committee in London.

A meeting of the Standard Property Investment Society will be held on Wednesday next, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions, etc.

'We have rec jived the current number of tbe •‘Temperance Herald,’ * Churchman,’ and ‘Evangelist,’ also ‘ SriUlsliaw-n Gu-do to Investors.’

The annual meeting,of the members of the Otago Institute will be field in the Hall under the MHtfeum, on Wednesday, the oth infit., at 8 p.m.

The annual meetinjj of subscribers to the Dunedin Ad>e: :enhl. takes place to-night. . The annual «oir<6 of the Green Island Breftbyterian Church will be hi Id in the '.hrurchtomorrow evenimr, v '

annual general meeting of the Imperial Building and investment Society will be held ’m o/T er Temperance Hall,' on .Thursday next, at /.oV p m.- • Mr Henry YareywiU hold Bible te«d«lS|k in "f* [?° o^ 8 ll d, i ri “», tb:fl *oek, lasting chi hour, i u the hall of the Mrst Church. Add«*fci*s be delivered in the new Knox Church &t ouch evening, ; o Van "’ flgßnt ot tto British and foreign Bible Society in the Au«tiala*ian Ooiomes, and Buooesfor to the late Mr Bickhouso, is ™ in Danedia by the Turarua on Tuesday ®! Wednesday Meantime the annual meeting of the Otago Bible Society has been postponed! The Rignold-Darrell combination arrived in town tins ferenoon, and make their first anpearanca at the Princess*® to night in the histjncal play of “Henry V.” The huh encomiums Mr Rignold has earned in every part of the world he has appeared in for his impersonation of the title rS’e are warrant that a rich histrionic treat Is in store for theatre-goers. - It only requires to be added that the piece!is specially mounted.