The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1888.

Evening Star, Issue 7613, 16 May 1888, Page 2

The Evening Star WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1888.

It is stated that Captain Lake is not to remain on the Australian station in command of the flagship Orlando, but only brings her out and takes the Nelson Home.

The laborers employed by the Oreymenth Harbor Board have received notice that their wages will be reduced to 9s per day, and platelayers on the railway to 7s. Sir George Grey addressed a crowded meeting at Auckland last night on the Chinese question, and intimated that he was going to Wellington to do all in his power to prevent the influx of Chinese into this colony. At this morning’s sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court the only case heard was that of M. Joel v. J. Johnston, a claim of L 25 9s Bd, account due. Mr E. A. Joel appeared for plaintiff, for whom judgment was given by default. Notice of motion has been given in the Christchurch City Council that, as the Gas Company are opposed to granting a renewal of the contract for street lighting on more favorable terms, an estimate be obtained of the cost of a complete gasworks plant suitable for the requirements of the city. Dr Lindsay, house surgeon to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, in reply to the recent complaints that the late Mrs Sharpe was iil-trcated during her stay iu the Old PcopK.V, Rh.mu.-p, says the st tements that blm k; :ibtr>: b/1 or : ■ yb.'ctvd are unwarranted. M;• \V.liter, m-nager of the. Renee, di,mu!.-.h an in-, airy. The iu-.Tcasc i.;v.;iiil<; crimp lately in Auckland has I. - a remarkable, Eight !.,>ys, whose rangi •! from nice to twelve years, were charged before Mi Had b ley at the Police Court, yesterday, with stealing a quantity of lollies and treacle. It transpired that the boys had removed the shutters from the window of the shop in order to take the goods. Seven of the boys were discharged, and George Peters ordered to be Imprisoned for four hours in the police cells. . . The usual weekly meeting of the Trinity Musical and Literary Society was held last night. Mr Harris occupied the chair, and about ninety members were The business of the evening was the reading of an essay on the poet “VA hittier.” The essayist, Mr Jenkins, was applauded for the able manner in which he handled the subject. Readings from the same author were given by Mrs Lane and Mr Harlock. A piano solo by Mias Grey; duet Mias Sears and Mr Edwards ; songs. Miss Cooper and Mr Henry; recitation, Miss Bently—were all well received. Miss Marsden and Mias Henry accompanied daring the evening.

‘ Engineering * of a late date states that the destructors which have recently been tried in Bombay for disposing of street sweepings, etc., have not proved a success, as the working expenses have been very high.

The weekly meeting of the Benevolent Trustees was held this afternoon, there being present Messrs Gourley (in the chair), Rennie, Carroll, and Eagan. The Hospital Board wrote that maltine could not be supplied to outdoor patients. Accounts amounting to LI 23 10s 6d were passed for payment, and about forty cases for relief dealt with,

Among the latest batch of retrenchment victims is Mr W. 13. Harlow, of the Crown Lands Department, whose services will be dispensed with at the cud of next month. Mr Harlow has served the Government ainca Abolition, and has proved himself an efficient, trustworthy, and most obliging officer. We know of no better man in the service. Wo have reason to believe that Mr J. P. Bell, of the Police Office, will be reinstated.

A deputation of the unemployed waited this morning upon His Worship the Mayor, and represented that there was urgent need for something being done in their behalf, as fully 100 married men have made application to the Labor Bureau for work. His Worship at once despatched the following telegram to the Premier Great number of married men, mostly with largo families, unemployed, of good character, many of them on the verge of starvation. Work must bo found at once, or there will be severe distress.”

The following extract from a letter received from a late Oamaru resident has been handed to the ‘Mail’;—“l have now travelled pretty well all over Melbourne, and my first impression of it is that it is a grand city. 1 got work the second day after I arrived ! I think anyone who requires work can got it here if they look for it, but wages are not so good as they are in New Zealand ; house rents are much higher, consequently it costs as much, if not more, to live here as in New Zealand. New Zealand is by far a better country for a laboring man than Victoria, as there they can live more comfortably on their Cs or 7s a day than they can on their 8s or 9s here. There is plenty of work going on just now for bricklayers, there being large buildings of nine or ten storeys in course of construction in nearly every street in the city. There is also a demand for carpenters, but I would not advise any to come, as there are about 350 employed at the Exhibition who will lie out of work as soon as that building is finished. At other trades they take on occasional hands, but the wages are so low that it is better for New Zealand tradesmen to stay at home if they can get three days a week than to come here. The majority of the situations vacant arc for improvers and turnovers. I have met but few Oamaniviana here, but those I have met have all been very lucky in getting employment,”

‘Colonists,’ a novel hy a colonial ■ horn author, dealing with goldfields and city life in Australia in the " digging days,” is being published by Messrs J. Wilkie and Co., and will be ready in a few days, Cadbury’s Cccoa Essence is absolutely pure. Ask for it, and do not take a substitute. Wholesale agents; Mackerras and Ilazlclt, and It. Wilson and Co.—[Aim'.] The people of Oamaru have presented Mrs O’Biicn with a silver tea and coffee service as a recognition of their appreciation of her husband’s services as detective in that district for several years. The service, which weighs sixty-four ounces, was presented r.y the Mayor of the borough. The Dunedin Horticultural Society’s Chrysanthemum Show will hu held to-morrow at the Garrison Hall. An efficient orchestra has been engaged, which will ensure a pleasant promenade concert during tho evening. Besides local entries exhibits arc coining both from Oamaru and Invercargill.