The Evening Star SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1879.

Evening Star, Issue 5014, 29 March 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1879.

Yesterday it took close upon two hours to send us a telegraph message from Mosgiel, with the not unfrequent result that it came to haud some time after we had published. But we must continue to grin and bear it.

The sea-elephant lately given to the Museum by Messrs Elder and Co., of Port Chalmers, is so large that it must be stuffed in the large hall; consequently the Museum will be closed to the public until the elephant is ready for exhibition.

At the half-yearly meeting last evening of the Working Men's Club, Mr H. Spears was elected president, Mr Woodland reelected treasurer, and Messrs Eyre and Macmillan were appointed auditors. The receipts were L 1.561 and the expenditure 1.1,541.

While in Christchurch Lord Harris gave some of the prominent players to understand that on his return to England he would endeavor to arrange for getting together the strongest team of gentlemen players in England, to include Grace, Steel, and the Hon. Mr Lyttelton; and that if the projected negotiations came to a successful issue the team would come out in two years from this time and play in New Zealand before going to Australia.

The following notifications appear in the ' Gazette ' :—Seven hundred and seventy acres of land in the Blackburn, Idaburn, and Naseby survey district liave been set apart as a special mining district. Power is granted to the Council of the University of Otago to borrow LIO,OOO, to be repaid with interest at a rate qf not less than 8 per cent, per annum. To be members of the Board of Conservators for the Henley River : Messrs E. B. Cargill, J. Shand, James Allan, Alex. Fleming, Henry Campbell. Thomas Leahy, M.D., t) be surgeon to the prison at Clyde. The committee of the Melbourne Asylum for the Blind had recently to consider an application from the Government of New Zealand through the Victorian Government, on behalf of a little boy who, when about five years of age, became blind through the fiendish brutality of his father, who, when deserted by his wife,- chained and locked up the poor child in a dark room, into which the only light that entered came through a gimlet-hole. All this the poor child stood till cold and inflammation set in, and almost total blindness supervened. Pending the resulb of the application to the "Victorian Atylum for the Blind, says the * Argus,' the boy remains in one of the charitable institutions of New Zealand, the Government of which Colony proposes, we believe, to pay for the maintenance of the boy here. A favorable .reply is to be sent to the applied toon.

We regret to hear that the R»v. Av tt» Fitchett met with an accident -breaking one of his ribs—which will confine him to his room for « ■>ma days.

\* e believe the amount of the loss that Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen will sustain by Thursday night's flood has been tfre&tly over-estimated; and that probably a little over LSOO will cover it.

The Tlumcß Advertiser' states that by the last mail Mr Addey, of the Thames, received intelligence of the death of a relative in England, who left him property to the T^, u^ f - a . bout L2o >oo°. Of this amount IjII.OOO is in consols, and the remainder of the property is in th« town of Hull, Yorkshire.

scarcely bo remarked, has strong Ministerial prr-cuylties, dismisses the WaJmate Plains nflair in tins manner *-" A Wellington telegram says Te MftUna, with a party of rsatives, haswmoved a camp of surveyors from W«imate Plains ; but he did so in a perfectly good-humored way." Love of litigation, or blundering, has cost a corporate body a trifle, According to a contemporary, it is estimated that the legal costs m the <xm of Doherty v. the WeiCRtW Board vill amount to nearly IM®, amount which would have built two comfortable teachers' residences. in other Words, Greytown had a teacher's >" j UOe whicn was sold for Ll2 » whil e the Coird could uphold the dignity of their Inspector to the tune ef L6OO.

The gift of the ladies of Sydney to Lady Robinson took the form of a gold and diamond bracelet, containing over 3oz. of fine gold, and with a depth of 2in. On the. front are her ladyship's initials, N.R., in raised gold ornamental cipper, studded with thirty brilliants in pipsy star, burnished settings. The gold under each stone being left open adds considerably to the lustre of the gems ; the lower half has the inscription "Sydney, March Ist, 1879," nicely engraved on its inner side. The bracelet, was fitted into a very choice crystal casket, with nickel silver mounts, and rests upon a bed of red velvet. Owing to the heavy state of the Oval cau /?ed by the late rains the Cup match, Albion v. Dunedin, was not continued this afternoon. Most of the players put in an appearance, but as neither of the captains had shown up at 3.15 p.m. it was decided to play a scratch match. No sooner had sides been selected, however, than Mr Spring came on to the ground and expressed his willingness to finish the match, but as the Albion's captain was not in attendance it was decided to proceed with the scratch game. As by the association rules the cricket season ckses at the end of March the Cup match cannot now be concluded. Those who have the arranging of next season's games should see that these matches are set down earlier in the programme. The annual meeting of the Dunedin Football Club is to be held this evening. The Queen's Theatre will be re-opened on "Wednesday by Professor Scott's variety company. The Assessment Court for Mornington District will sit in the Town Hall there on Monday, at 3 p.m. The anniversary supper of the Court Enterprise, A.0.F., will be held in Carroll's Hotel on Tuesday evening next at 8 p.m. The original Georgias will arrive in town by the express train tonight, and perform at the Princess's immediately afterward?. They have been doirrg excellent business in the North. The first battalion are reminded that battalion parade is appointed to take place on Monday evening. Probably Major Withers will be present. A good muster is expected. Judge Bathgate will open the Wesleyan Methodist bazaar at Caversham on the 14th prox. The ex-president of the Conference is also expected to take part in the proceedings. Mr Thomas Bracken will give his popular lecture "The Glory of the Press," under the auspices of iho Grand Lodge, 1.0.0. F., in aid of tho Kaitangata Relief Fund, in the Temperance Hall, on Monday next the 31st inst.