The Evening Star. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1888.

Evening Star, Issue 7623, 28 May 1888, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1888.

There will be a delivery of tho San Francisco mail over the counter between nine and ten o'clock this evening.

At this morning's sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court, hefore Mr Carew, judgment was given for plaintiffs in the casc3 of Nelson, Moate, and Co. v. i. Hamilton, a olaim of L2 6s for goods supplied; and in 3ame v. G, Kelly, a claim of L2 9s sd,

The Wellington branch of the Irish National League have forwarded LIOO to the parent branch. The electors at the northern end of the Peninsula electorate are very desirous that Sir R. Stout should staad for the vacancy. The Princess's Theatre was well patronised on Saturday night, when Mr John Foley gave the last of his highly amusing entertainments.

There were about seventy persons present at Mr Laurie Wilcock's lecture last night on «Conditional Immortality.' Mr Aldridge occupied the chair. The audited balance-sheets not having come to hand, the statutory meeting of the City Council, convened for to-day, was further adjourned. Mr H. J. Baker, a brewer, well known in Napier, Wellington, and Auckland, was killed at Waipukurau on Saturday. He had been on a visit to Waipawa, and when in the act of mounting a horse he was thrown heavily on his head, and the scalp lacerated dreadfully. He was rendered unconscious, and died at one o'clock in the morning. A fire broke out about two o'clock yesterday morning in the shop of Messrs Sharland and Co., chemists, Shortland street, Auckland. The premises were gutted; the stock was als destroyed. The fire, which occurred in the rear of Sharland's, extended to the warehouse of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., where considerable damage was done, a good deal of property being injured by water. The stock of Mr T. Peacock, M.H.R., was much damaged by smoke and water, a number of instruments being destroyed. The insurances on Messrs Nathan's properly are : Building, L 2.500 in the Royal; stock, LI,OOO in the South British, L 3.000 in the Northern. A policy of LBSO in the New Zealand Office is held on Peacock's, and other amounts in various other offices. The insurances on Sharland's are unknown.

Anniversary services were held in the North-east Valley Presbyterian Church on Sunday last, when Dr Stuart preached in the morning, and the Rev. J. Gibson .Smith in the evening. The Rev. D. Borrie, the pastor, conducted a service for the young in the afternoon. There was a good attendance at each diet of worship, and the organ was used for the first time during public worship. The annual social meeting was held on Tuesday evening, when the church was crowded. Addresses were delivered by the Revs. Dr Stuart, Porter, Kelly, Cameron, and Smaill. The choir sung a number of anthems with considerable taste. The ladies of the congregation provided the tables ; and the proceeds of the soirde were for the organ fund. After the usual votes of thanks, a most enjoyable meeting was brought to a close with the benediction.

Tho Invercargill papers record the death of Mr Duncan M'Arthur, who was for many years Inspector of Forests in Southland. Deceased (says the 'Southland Times ') was, from the time of his arrival in Southland, in the latter end of the " fifties," a prominent public man. He was a member of the old Provincial Council, of the Makarewa Road Board, and also, almost continuously, of one or other of _ the governing bodies of local institutions. He was an enthusiastic supporter and office-bearer of the Southland Caledonian Society from the time of its inception at Appleby in 18G3, A few years after the foundation of the Free Kirk settlement of Otago Mr M'Arthur decided to emigrate, and soon after arrival he came to Invercargill. The deceased is survived by three daughters —Mesdames Mueller, Geisow, and Forest—and two sons, James and Duncan ; the former being a surveyor resident in Auckland, and the latter a C.E. and managing a mining company on the West Coast. The Dunediu Presbytery entertained the Rev. Dr Stuart at the Coffee Palace on Friday night. Twenty-five sat down to dinner, and apologies were received from five more. After justice had been done to the good things provided by Mrs Ross, speeches were made by Revs. W. Will, W. Bannerman, Professor Watt, Dr Dunlop, Ryley, Lindsay, J. M. Sutherland, and other ministers, also by Messrs Keith Ramsay, Juhn Duncan, and Thomson, all expressing their good opinion of Dr Stuart and the many services he had rendered to the Church and State, and wishing him a prosperous voyage and safe return from his well-earned holiday. Dr Stuart replied, and advised the younger ministers especially to look well to their own spiritual health, and to take an interest in all that concerns the welfare of the people as well as what belongs specially to the church. The Rev. Mr Porter, the Moderator of the Presbytery, presided on the occasion, and mentioned the purpose of the meeting in a few appropriate words. The meeting was suitably closed by Dr Dunlop engaging in prayer. The majority of tlte churchwardens and vestrymen of St. John's the Evangelist, at Roslyn, have issued to the parishioners a circular explanatory of their action in resigning, and in it they say :—" We have felt that for some time past the conduct of matters at the parish church, and at one of the mission churches in the parish, hae not beea in atwrdance with the views and desires of a majority of the parishioners, and our representations to that effect to the incumbent not having a satisfactory result, we have decided to resign our trust in order that tho parishioners may have an opportunity to express themselves, A parish meeting will shortly be held to elect a new churchwarden and vestrymen : and o,s it must be apparent to everyone that this'is a crisis in the affairs of our parish, we desire to earthly request the attendance at that meeting of parishioner of either sex of the age of tv/enty-or.e years, whether at present an attendant of the church or not, so that ther,e may bo ?, elefc. and unmistakeable expression of opinion as to what future course appears desirable to the minds of the majority."

Notice to members of Gaelic Society on third pace. A notice to members of the Dunedin Highland Rifles appears ta this issue.

Prayer meeting in connection with Bcv. J. S. Hill's mission in Y.M.C.A. Rooms this evening at eight o'clock. An error occurred in the last advertisement concerning the Oriental Rink. The admission at night >3 Is, not Gd. The Early meeting in the Garrison Hall to-morrow owning will be addressed by Sir Robert Stout, Rev. R, Waddell, Professor Til. Brown, and several other gentlemen.

The induction of a successful uo*il has advantage's the direct employment ii gives to printers and booksel ers Wo learn from the publishers of'liolomsts' that several vendors about Dunedin havobeen earning from us to 7s per day by the sale of this book alone. fixteen patients were admitted into the hospital during the past weok, and nineteen discharged. Four deaths occurred-™., Eliza Been, Thomas Hodgson, Ah T;ick, and William Page Cardozo. There are at; pi-es/jnt in the institution 106 persons, or seven Itsa Van at the beginning of last week. The fortnightly meeting of Loyal Excelsior Lodge, No. 41, of the P.A.F.S. of A, was held on Friday evening at the Baptist Chapel, Green Island. There was a largo attendance of members present. It was decided to have a lecturo to aid the funds of the lodge Professor M. Watt having consented to deliver one on 'What to read and how to read.' One candidate was initiated.

Wo need only remind theatregoers that the BroiiKh-Boucicault burlesque season will be inaugurated with 'Ali Baba' at the Princess's Theatre this evening. It is more than a decade since Dunedin Jits .enjoyed a visit from a good burlesque company; a~d we hope that Mr Drough'B troupe, who como turalded by excellent reports, will have no difficulty 1» establishing themselves in the good graces of our theatregoers. Every piece put on during the season will be given wiih the completeness of detail that has been the characteiristic of the firm s management in Australia. At the conclusion of the meeting of the United Millers, Mill workers, and Engine-ilnyera Society on Saturday night, at Kattray Btrcct Hall, the president (Mr Robert Macdonald) presented Mr Harry Dudfield with a handsomo illuminated address (executed by the Oaxton Printing Company), as a token of the high esteem in which hj& U held by the brethren, and in recognition of t»v& aeyvtees he had rendered the society as honorary for three successive terms. The prensnteijoj; vaa suitably acknowledged by the recipient. At tj;e same time and place Mr Dudfield was also the re*ipient of a valuable trophy from the Operative Millcrsjand Bakers' annua! p ; enie committee.