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Evening Star, Issue 5760, 25 August 1881, Page 2

The Danedin Curling Club yesterday elected Mr James Allan a life memoes The Dunedin School Committee have decided to discountenance the practice of candidates for school appointments interviewing the head-masters. In future the Committee will be glided by testimonials ocly. John Gillieon and James Gilchrist, rabbiterg. were reoeivod into the Dancdm Gaol last night from Paimereton, under aentence of fourteen days' imprisonment each, for drunkenness and riotous conduct at Palmerston. The Union Football Club last night decided to order a supply of new uniforms for next seasos. Mr C. Haskell was presented with a dresstog-oiwe, in acknowledgment of the successful munsr m which he captained the Club's second Gtteon last season.

There are at present elx male and two female prisoners for trial at the ensuing aossions of the Supreme Court at Dunedir. Three of the men and one of tha women are rm bail. A3 is one prisoner for trial at the ensuing amiaa d the District Court at Oamaru. According to a telegram in the Oamaru Mail,' Whitelaw, of Mount View Asylum notoriety, after receiving about L. 0 which w7a subscribed for h!m In Wellington, winded his way to Sydney, where he asserts a Governaieufe appointment awaits Mm. His mother la au inmate of the Refuge lor the Destitute at Wellington, and In his last interview with her he is reported to have behaved most cruelly to he;-, &b»s;n ß her In the foulest language, The " Pirates " are about to bring their highly successful career to a close. This and to-morrow evenings are the announced last nights; and we strongly recommend persons who ha-e not yet seen the operetta, l( there be any, not to neglect this chance. To-morrow evening Mr Cary takes a benefit, and Misses Leaf ac£ Murielle will exchange parts for the occasion, Mr Gary is sufficiently popular in Dunedin to require no recommendation from us ; and we e?peot to see a full house in recognition of his enterprise in so worthily putting « The Pirates on the boirds. A deputation from Clarkaville re railway matters was yesterday informed by the railway manager that ha was aware that more accommodation for loading and unloading trucks was required at (Mr\cav\lle, and he would forward the petition to the hoad cf the Department, with a recommendation that the requeat it contained should be complied with. The preaenfc traffic did not in his opinion warrant the appointment of a atation-master; but he would make further Inquiry, jaud, if it proved otherwise, he would support tho application for a station-master.

An entertainment was given yoat-rday evening in Morkane's Hall, Port Chalmers, by tho Dunedin Headquarters' Band. The Port Chalmers Naval Band received the visitors at the railway platform on the arrival of the 020 p.ra twin. The united bands having played several lively tunes through the principal streets were marched to the hall, and after a short interval the evening's entertainment v/c,v. commenced by the Fort band playing several selections, which were followed by that sparkling comedietta'' Witho.ed Leaves." The Headquarters' Band opened tho aefj-jnd part of tho programme with a aalection of Scotch aire, for which they were loudly applauded. Th„ entertainment was brought to a close by the farce of " More Free than Welcome," At a largely-attended meeting of trade delegates, h%\d at tba Furopean Hotel last evening, the following resolutions were passed :—" That the time baa now arrived when it ia decirable that a traces sud laboi council should be formed in New Z aland." " Th&t a committee, consisting of Messrs Bradley arid gioddart (engineers), Tnorn carpenters and jolnaw), tow if***™ • Diokson (printers), Hogg itwlors). Marshall (bootmakers), Mockford (laborer*), Gordon, and the secretary, bo appointed to draw up a code of rubs suitable to the requirements of a trades and labor ccuncil ht New *ealard" The thanks tl tha meeting were accorded t* Mr G, H. Gordon to cop.es of the rules and balance-sheet of the hydnoy Twdeaand Labor and to Mr J. L. B adsLwforcopieaof his on the labor question. The option wapconudently expressed by those present toafc the Council would In in full working osrde,' before tho pej'.t general election,

Letters of nasalisation have be?n issued in favor of Ah Hack, a Chinese storekeeper at Cromwell. Mr Alexander Bathgate has been apt olnted revising barrister for Otago under tftu Building Societies Act. Mr Ei:o v ,t, J.P., disposed of the police business at the City Court this morning. John Ainsley, charged with drunkenness, was fined sj, with the usual alternative; John Giblin wa3 convicted and discharged. The Wellington papers report a very sudden death there on the evening of the 19;h inst. The wife of Mr David Band, engineer of the steamer Oreti, whilst proceeding along Cuba slreet was taken ill and died she could be conveyed home, Apoplexy was the oause of death. At the Young Men's Christian Assoo'ation Rooms last night the Chinese question was debated by the members present, with the result that the majority declared themselves in favor of the Chinese being entitled to all the privileges enj iyed by other alien races who oome to the Colony. The remains of the Rev. W. Johnstone were interred in the Port Chalmers Cemetery yesterday. The funeral was largely attended, and the whole of the business places in the Port were closed. In the ohurch the services were oonduoted by the Rev. L. Mackle, and at the grave by the Rav. Dr Stuart. The monthly inspection of B Battery of Artillery took place in the Garrison Hall last evening. Present—Lieutenants Lambert and Peake, 4 sergeants, 1 trumpeter, and 33 men. Major Jack was the inspeotin<r officer. Tho Battery have now 52 men on the roll. Of that number 40 man were present and 7 men were on leave. The latest freak of fashion at Home is the re-vacoination sleeve, There are so many fortifying themselves against the smallpox infection that in London and the great cloies a demand has sprung up for what is called a vaccination shield—a fabric resembling a small wire meat-cover. To make room for this the log of mutton sleeve haa been re-introduced.

At a meeting of the Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney, and Shetland Association In the Athecieum last evening, Mr W. D. Sutherland in the chair, the late disaster in Shetland was brought under notice, but in view of the scanty information aa yet to hand, it was thought advisable not to take any definite stepi in the matter ; bub it was agreed that the Association wsuld do all In its power to further the raising of funds on behalf of the sufferers. At a meeting of anglera held at the Athenieam last night, Messrs Munro, Chisholm, A. C. Begg, Stoddart, Wilkio, A. Ewing, Denson, M'Laren, Thomson, Eglin, Marshall, Arthur, and Gregory were appointed a committee to take atepa for the formation of an angling club, to be called tho Okago Angling Association. Mr R. M'Kenzie was appointed hon. secretary, It was decided that the head-quarters of the Association should be at Dunedin, and the Committee were empowered to eatabliah country branchea. Sir P. D. Bell Bays regarding his work at Home :—" I know what work is, and I may say, with the exception of tho West Coast Committee, I have not for eighteen yeara done so much continuous work aa since I came to England." Considering that Sir Julius Vogel was heard of through the Press by his articles, aa well aa by his speeohea at public dinners and meetings, and did all the work Sir F. D. Bell is doing aa well, the exchange our present Government haa made in the Agent-Generals is certainly not an eoonomioal nor an advantageous one.

The Otago playera who take part in the Interprovincial Football Matoh leave for Christchuroh to-morrow morning. A telegram was received in town by the hon. secretary of the Ocago Rugby Union this morning, stating that it was raining a perfect deluge in Chriatchurch, and that not a dry spot of ground could be found within miles of the town. It was consequently suggested that the match should be postponed for a fortnight. The telegram was considered by the Committee of the Union, aad it was resolved to go on with the match on Saturday. But for the bravery of some Maori women the four Natives who occupied the boat that capsized in Akaroa harbor on Friday last would have been drowned. Somo < f them were the worse for drink. When about half-way across the sail beoamefcul, and one of the Maoris climbing the mast to set it right caused the boat to oyerturn. It was dark at the time, and those on ehore did not see what had happened. All four ccaupants climbed on to the bottom of the boat, but after hanging on for an hour two were washed off and drownod. The cries of the other two were heard en the Bhore by two Maori woman, who lost no time in launching a punt. They had not gone far when they found that the plug watf out, with no means of stopping it, so that one woman had to plug the hole with her finger while the other worked the oars, They were but jasfc in time, as ths two Burvivors were on the poind of giving up, being so exhausted that on trying to get them into ths punt off the bottom of the boat they went under tho water, the women just catching them by the hair, both men being unconscious. The women then made for ttie Manga and got the men to their houses, and by the aid of blankets anj a good fire consciousness was restored,

In a very Jntere3tiag letter written by the Rev. Alexander Held when on his way to Eogland, and published in the l Now tf c o'and Wesley an,' the rev. gentleman says cf the Sau Franoisco tramway system:—"ln all the principal strcebstram-oarorun, diawn by horses. In four of the longest streets the cars are moved by traotion engines, which are stationary at one end of the Hoe. You set, the car gliding along, up and down the deepest gradients at which no noree or ordinary locomotive #ogld look, and the descant of some of whiyh' is t trial to unaccvutoweJ and weak nerves, ?n«i yo>j can discover ii 6 ajotjve power. In thp centre of the space between the rails you perceive an Iron groove, ynder whloh Is & wooden box, in which is a wire rope, exteutlins all » l O n g fcne I,n . e - This rope is kept in perpetual iuofci&n engine, distant three and a-half miles. The engineer ot your car, by moving one of these two cranko, whinb he holds, gripa the underground rope in motion, and away you go up the hill, down the other side, and along thp level, rejoicing like a strong man running a race. Isn't it nice? Don T t you feel vour humanity ennobled by such a triumph as this '! Now this lady at the corner to get on. The engineer simply loosens hold of the ropo by moving one band, and applies the brake with tho other, and we are still. Her ladyßhip is seated, tend W3 are off, like a bird on the wing, a rido of threp and miles for five centß (*2£ d)."

We have received from Messrs Reitk and Wilkie a pamphlet entitled " Our railways and how they are managed; or a sequel to the 110/al Commission report on railways," by Mr ,). J, Atkinson.