The Evening Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1889.

Evening Star, Issue 7821, 29 January 1889, Page 2

The Evening Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1889.

The strike at Hannah’s boot factory at Wellington is ended. It is expected that it will be quite two months before Wellington is lighted with electricity.

We have been informed on good authority that the Minister of Justice has decided that it is inadvisable to grant the Supreme Court for the meeting of the Anglican General Synod next month. A West Coast paper states that Mr E. Shaw, the well-known barrister, and erstwhile one of the M.H.&s for the West Coast, is now on the reporting staff of one of the Melbourne dailies. At the City Police Court this morning John Tunnell was fined 7s fid and costa for allowing two cows and a calf to wander on Cutten road, Anderson Bay, on Thursday last. Messrs R. Chisholm and A, Christophers were the presiding Justices. A house in Union street, Milton, occupied by Mr N. Campbell, was burned down on Saturday morning ; and the same morning a barn and stabjea on the farm of Mr J. Robertson, Craigie, Waitahuna, were burned down. The ipsprapee on the latter was L 175.

At the request of several of the City volunteer corps, Dr Fitchett, M.H.R., wrote to the Defence Minister recently re an Easter encampment, and has been advised that in consequence of the shortness of funds Government do not propose to hold the naufl encampment this year. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt at Christchurch hww the Kaikoura’s mails were not landed and sent flu immediately on arrival at Fort Chalmers, The aesretary of the New Zealand Shipping Company telegraphed to the Dunedin manager and received a reply that the postmaster did not want the mails landed, as he said that nothing would be gained by doing so on Saturday. A special meeting of the Land Board was held to-day to fix the upset rentals of the runs which are shortly to be placed on the market for competition- The members present were Messrs J. P, M.aitlftndjChief Commissioner), Duncan, Dallas,ynd M>3n. There was no general discyasioy, the list being gone through and the upsets without any division of opinion. Owing to tl)e protracted nature of the proceedings, the qlt.ting not being over when we went to press, unable to give the decisions arrived at.

To-day’s mail brings tidings of the death of Mr William Meluish, at his r*»dence, 3 Gipsy Hill, Upper Norwood, London, .op the 2bth October last, of paralysis. Mr Meluish anivftd in Dunedin about 1g59, and purchased from Mr James Wilson a photographic plant, with which fee set up business in a wajl-remeipberecj shop on tiufi site of the Australian Mutual .Provide,ut Sqcieyp &ew premises. Mils Meluish, ah active, businesslike woman, assisted in fee taking of photographs, and occasional to°k 5 share of the outside work, one (4 exploits being to tramp along toe o,ulloc£ track that led to Wiekliff Bay to photograph the remains of the Victory after the wreck had been purchased by Mr R, B, Martm. It is, perhaps, hardly correct to say that Mr Meluish was the first photographer m Dunedin =r- that distinction, we understand, belonging (to Mr J. Wilson (the brewer) but the Meluishos were the first to set up a regular business exclusively in tne photographic line, an.d it is .to the negatives taken by Mr and Mrs Metulsib WP/ire indebted for scenes of Dunedin in fee Mays of the Gabriel Gully rush. These negatives subsequently became the property of Mr Irwin, now of the London Rooms. Mr Meluish and his wife were universally respected, and many old identities will regret to learn that their old friend has passed away before attaining his sixty-sixth birthday. He left Dunedin about 1865, and had since resided in England. Mrs Meluish still survives. There are no children.

Ladies’ Te Tau-runanga usual meeting at Girton Hall this evening.

M.U.1.0.Q.F., Otago district, half-yearly purple lecture and degree meeting in lodge! room of fee liQyql Ofpqrshaip Lodge to-morrow evening.