The Evening StarD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1890.

Evening Star, Issue 8157, 5 March 1890, Page 2

The Evening StarD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1890.

Lord Cranley has gone Home to be edu cated.

The Primacy dispute is as far off settle ment as ever.

Beautiful rains, enlivening the pasture and swelling the winter feed, have descended on the Waimea Plains.

The St. Kilda Borough Council held a meeting last night, but the business was of a formal character.

There were nine competitors for the Bowen Prize, the result of which is announced in our report of the Senate proceedings. The Elam Art School, at Auckland, opened yesterday with an attendance of eighty, of whom fifty-five are girls and young women.

The Hon. T. Fergus will only remain in Dunedin a few days, ha,v.ing merely come down for the purpose of attending the Mining Conference.

In consequence of a rupture having occurred between certain sections of the Dog and Poultry Society the show which it was proposed to hold at the Exhibition has been abandoned.

Information was received by the police this morning from Palmerston that a man named Dennis Daley was killed on Macraes road yesterday evening by a dray which he was driving passing over him.

The North Taieri inquest yesterday resulted in a verdict of manslaughter against Mr Peters, who had attended Mrs Adam. Messrs R. Charters and D. T. Shand became bondsmen and accused was liberated. Information has been .received in Auckland that the Premier, having sanctioned the regulation by which the jpay of friendly society secretaries was reduced .for compiling statistical returns under a mistake, has now given instructions to restore the former scale.

The Union street School Committee met last night, and transacted a good deal of business, mostly of a formal nature. The head-master reported the attendance to ;be: Boys, 340; girls, 201. The chairman and Mr Selby were directed to interview Colonel Wales as to getting the schools' cadets gazetted a distinct corps. At a meeting of the congregation of tho Ravensbourne Presbyterian Church last night (the Rev. D. Borrie presiding), it was unanimously resolved to ask the Presbytejy to moderate in a call to the Rev. Benjamin Huttson, of Whangarei. Itmaybestated that this gentleman had charge of the di atriet for a time about seven years ago, when his services wer,e very much appreThe Governor vißited some of the primary schools m Auckland yesterday. He remarked that the standards compared very nearly with town schools in England. Having heard that many children left school after passing the Fourth Standard, he remarked that he thought a boy having passed this standard had obtained all the principal education he need have if he thought of going to learn a trade. If every boy or girl could do as good and as clean work as he had seen in that standard, there was no reason why that boy or girl should not enter npon any career he or she chose for him ß elf or herself. He was struck by the fact that all the children seemed well nourished, which must be of great assistance in the work of education. With regard to the attendance of very young children, if they did not learn much it kept them out of mischief and out of the way of the mother working at home.

Members of Loyal Prince of "Wales Lodge, M.U.1.0.0.F., meet at lodge room, Port Chalmers, to-morrow, at 8 a.m. Tho p. b, Osprey will run an excursion to Maori Kaik tomorrow at 2 o'clock, and a moonlight trip in the evening is proposed.

Members of M.U.1.0.0.F. and A.O.F. meet at the M.U.1.0.0.F. District Chambers, Stuart street, to-morrow at 9 a.m.

A drumhead cabbage weighing 211b after being stripped of exterior leaves has been grown at Allandaie, St. Clair, by Mr Hicks. The following are the team Selected by tho Dunedin Rifle Olnb in the match against tl e Portobello Club next Saturday afternoon : Messrs Law, Gow, Hardy, Wales, Alves, Fairbairn, Monson, Vivian, Fenwick, Hanna ; emergenoy, F. B. Smith* :

The City Hall will be tenanted to-morrow night by the Liliputiaa Minstrels, a juvenile band of whom the Belmont Triplets form a consequential part. Speaking of their performance one of our Auckland contemporaries says that the children ''are without doubt exceedingly clever, well trained, and well worth a visit." Mr Hany St. Maur, the English comedian, left Melbourne yesterday en route for New Zealand. Owing to the Princess's Theatre being encaged, Mr St. Maur and his comedy company will play overland through Oamaru, Timaru, and Ashburton to Ohristchurch, ttience to Wellington. His repertoire inoludes the farcical comedy ' The Candidate' (in which he made his first appearance in Australia), 'The Arabian Nights,' 'Brighton,' 'Betsy,' 'Bootle's Baby,' and ' Jim the Penman' (the play which oreated such a sensation when last produced in New Zealand). We feel sure that it is only necessary to remind our leaders that the opera season begins at the Princess's to-night, when the 'Mikado' will be performed. The company is an unusually strong one, including several old favorites with Dunedin audiences. The conductor's baton will be wielded by M. Leon Caron, the well-known composer, and the scenery is from the brush of Mr George Gordon; while the general appointments and Btaging will, it may be confidestly anticipated, be fully up to the reputation which Messrs Musgrove, Williamson, and Garner have obtained for completeness of details. As the box plan shows a large letting, we expect a full house to welcome the company.