The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1879.

Evening Star, Issue 4969, 5 February 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1879.

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x,i?n S^ ecti " g I>lr accident, Br M Cafter reports this morning that he is still improving.

A J n i t case of incendiarism at the Adelaide Police Court it was giwn in evidence that the accused and five companions consumed twenty-two bottles of rara in twenty-four hours.

' fe 8 infcimft ted to the secrofe r V of the Henley Regatta Committer his intention of proclaiming the 21st inat. a public holiday, in compliance with a wneiSy. signed j«auißitioo to that eiFect. fIWOUB v

Mr "Varley continues his services in Knox Church, Mr W T m. Blagdon has been appointed captain of the Caversham fir© brigade. Ml w TeWß fry has been appointed organist, and Mr "West choirmaster of Bt. Paul's in the room of Mr Kelsey, who proceeded to England to-day. The St. Kilda Borough Council at their meeting laet night decided on going to the ratepayers for approval of a loan of 13,000 for borough improvements. It is rumored that if the strike in Kent and Sussex among the agricultural laborers cannot be settled, Mr Simmons, tho secretary of the union, will endeavor to como to some arrangement with Sir Julius Vogol by which 6QO men may be sent out to Now Zealand.

A collection was made on tho ground for Bannerman at tho conclusion of the Sydnoy match, and in a voy short time Ll4O was obtained. Ho „a<i docided not to accept tho engagement with tho Melbourne Club, and has accepted, au engagement from the Association at Sydnoy at L 3 a week, and gets besides a Government situation. Electric lighting appears to have taken another step in advance, namely, tho possibility of adjusting tho brilliancy of any particular light in the circuit without waste of current by so doing. Mr Edison, it is said, has stated that each elo6tric burner can independently fee raised arid lowered. Tho utility of this achievement is obvious.

Tho Mayor yesterday afternoon received the following telegram from the Governor's pnvate secretary :—" His Excellency the Governor will leave here in tho Ringarooma on the 17th, arriving at Port Chalmers on the 19th, and will hold an uudress levee on that day at 1 o'clock. His Excellency will proceed that day in the Ringarooma for Victoria." •

The South District Rifles will, in all probability, be represented at the Nelson prizemeeting by the fivo men who have become members of the National Association, viz.:— Captain Samson, Lieut. Miller, Sergt. Kennedy, Vols. Mill, and Mann. Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed at the programme of matches and prize-money not being published before this. It i 3 generally understood that entries have to be made before this day week, but notwithstanding this intending competitors are entirely in the dark as to what amount of prize-money is to bo apportioned in the different matches.

The occupants of a first-class carriage next to the express train from Dunedin oa Monday were considerably astonished when neanng Chertsey to hear the rattling of stones and gravel against the sides of the carnage m which they sat. This continued for nearly five minutes, when the train was stopped, and it was found (reports the 'Press') that the iron bar which connects the break attached to the tender had become disconnected, and that one of the ends was Dressing into the ballast between the rails, 'his seems to have acted as a plough and thrown the Bhingle on to the wheels, which m their rapid revolutions had flung the stones with great force against the carriage. Fortunately the accident was remedied before anything seriduß had resulted. As we anticipated, the announcement of the discovery of rich quartz reefs in India turns out to be exaggerated. The 'Pall Mall Gazette ' of November 29 says :—"The excitement created by Mr Brough Smyth's report upon the gold-bearing quartz reefs in the Wynaad district of Madras. appears likely to subside as the facta come tobe more closely inquired into. Already those who have tested the quartz by the crushing mill and the amalgamators find, as usual in such cases that the laboratory assay is one thing and the amount of gold actuX realised another. A return of from 2dwS to lOdwts of gold per ton, which «- * }" have been the result of workir- , is probably far nearer th" ' -6« sin co 1874, to 200oz to the ' . • --' crut h than the 2oz dazzled in +1 * ,n w * tn which we were p . telegrams, to the portrait of Shakspeare recently discovered in Sydney, the ' Evening News' of the 16th ult. writes :—" A magnificent picture of William Shakspeare h»s turned up amongst the lumber of a private family resident of New South Wales and Victoria for yearfe past, and the date, 1611, with the initials JON, or something resembling them, is on the picture, which is apparently the portrait that was so much sought for by the Centenary Festival. It is painted on an old oak panel, and is in a marvellous state of preservation the only detriment to the picture being a slit down the side of the panel which, happily, does not touch the face. The owner sent a photograph of the picture Home for an opinion, and Mr Hnme, of the National Gallery, expressed his belief that it was the missing picture, desiring the present owner to send it Home and to insure it for 5,000 guineas.

The Rev. Mr Lewis will deliver bis lecture on John Buuyan" in the Linden Wesleyan Church on Thursday, the 6th fast. ABocial ball in connection with the Loyal Outram Lodge, M U.1.0.0.F., mil be held in the society's hall, Outram, on Friday evening. The postal authorities desire correspondent' to adopt the plan of giving the number attached to City addresses, where available, as so doine greatly assists delivery.