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Evening Star, Issue 5959, 18 April 1882, Page 2

Mr W. Elder, J.P., presided at the Port Chalmers Police Court yesterday, and sentenced two colored men named Louis Henri and John Sun to one month’s imprisonment each, with hard labor, for indecent exposure. The case of Keastand M'Carthy v. Thomas Farrell, after being partly heard at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, was adjourned to enable a witness for the defence to be called. Judgment was given for LI 18s and costs in the case of J. M‘Laren v. J. Renwick, which was a claim of L 5 for rent due and damage done to property. With reference to the statement telegraphed yesterday afternoon as to the Ministerial crisis, and appended to onr leading article, the Hon. Major Atkinson has requested the Press Association to state “that the reasons given for Mr Hall’s retirement arc so imperfect and inaccurate as to be entirely misleading. ” The facts stated in the telegram were given on an authority which re-affinns them to be absolutely accurate. About a dozen interested gentlemen from Dunedin, with two of the directors of the mines and representatives of the three Dunedin daily papers, visited the Wanloch-head Antimony and Waitahuna Copper mines during the last two days. At Lawrence they were joined by Mr J. C. Brown and others. Favored by beautiful weather, the trip, particulars of which will appear in an early issue, proved a very enjoyable one.

Two fatal accidents in claims are reported. At Bald Hill Flat, on Saturday, David Halley whilst at work in his claim was overwhelmed by a fall of earth, and it is surmised was instantaneously killed. At the time he met his death there was no one in the vicinity of the claim. James Kelly, a miner working at the Blue Spur, was killed by a fall of earth on Saturday while working in one of the claims. He was extracted immediately after the accident, but life was extinct. On examination it was found that his neck was broken and his body bruised, so that it is surmised death was instantaneous. Kelly, who was an old resident in the district, was much respected among the miners. He leaves a wife and four children.

A correspondent sends us the following;—“ After hearing the Quintette Club again, I cannot abstain from telling the public what kind of impression their concerts made upon me. It has been said already that their performances altogether have not been equalled in this Colonj, They put their audience in the greatest state of delight; and it is not saying too much that nobody before played these simple airs as “ The last rose of summer,” “Robin Adair,” etc., like they do. They understand greatly how to arrange the programme in that way so as to have popular music as well as classical. Everybody who wants to get an idea of chamber music and what can be brought forth from musical instruments, should go and hear them.” In addressing a meeting of the Christchurch Working Men’s Political Association, Mr C. J. Thorn, president of the Otago Trades and Labor Council, stated that many of the Otago members had signified their approval of the eight-hour system, and one of them (Mr Green) was preparing a Bill to legalise this system as the only one to be allowed in New Zealand. It was the wish of the Council to see the unemployed in work by everyone being allowed to work only the eight hours. He said that experience had shown that it would be impossible to carry on the system without an Act of Parliament. He also enunciated a platform for the working men of the Colony to adopt. “They should demand,” he is reported to have said, “ that the expenditure of the proposed L 5,000,000 loan should be distributed over a certain number of years; that immigration should be kept down to a point consistent with the interests of the working men in the Colony ; that more attention should be paid to technical education ; that an Employers’ Liability Act should be passed ; and that skilled labor should not be employed in prisons.” After some further discussion it was decided to postpone the consideration of the advisability of amalgamating with the Otago Council for a month. Lodge Dunedin, 931, E.C., meet to-morrow. We have received Messrs Whitelaw and Co.’s ‘ Share Investors’ Guide ’ for April. We have received the annual report of the Otago Education Board, but too late for notice in this issue. Mr John Hyde Harris’s library will be sold by auction on Saturday by Mr Pym. A very large number of valuable works are included in the catalogue.