The Evening Star. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1891.

Evening Star, Issue 8451, 27 February 1891, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1891.

The Waitahuna Farmers’ Club subscribed two guineas to tbe Kakanai fund.. Mr Oscar Meyer, who represented New South Wales in the Mining Exhibition, is arranging a tour to Australia in September. Though 70,000 rabbits were destroyed last year on the Clifton and Carterhope estates, ,f bunny ” is reported to be as numerous as ever.

The Tokomairiro Sehocl Committee have declared for the ‘ Southern Cross Readers,’ and intend to introduce Whitoombe and Tombs’s copy books. The Fort Molyneux and Warepa School Committee voted for Messrs Fraer, Borrie, and Jago; the Kaitangsja Committee for Messrs Fraer, Macgregor, and Jago; and the Tokomairiro Committee tot Messrs Fraer, Borrie, and Macgregor. The Pomahaka is now teeming with fish, and some splendid baskets have recently been obtained by Victorian and Dunedin anglers. The ‘CJutha Leader’ has been informed that about HSOlb pere taken by four sportsmen in two days of this stream.

The Kakanui fund will benefit to tha extent of about L7O by the Relief Stakes, on the first day of the D.J.C. races, but a much handsomer sum would have been realised if the event had been ran off before the great majority of the people had left the course.

The Collector of Customs at Dunedin has received instructions from t»e partment to hold a magisterial inquiry into the Uca of the Kakanui. This inquiry, we presume, cscupt be held until the return of the Hinemoa, and, bs we find that Captain Fairchild is not due at Napier until the second week of March, the inquiry cannot very well take place before the end of that month.

The ‘Bruce Herald* is responsible for the following; —“Last Wednesday a fishing competition was held on Lake Waihol.a under the auspices of the Otago Anglers Association. Only two competitors put in an appearance—Messrs William Fraser mid James Nelson, both of Lovell Flat, ft ws matter of conjecture how the prizes will be Neither of the contestants secured n fish, but one had a decent nibble, and neither is chpnped jyith the lake as a place to make » big basket/'

J. Mill, J.P., presided at the Port Chalmers Police Conrt this morning, when Mary Dow was fined 20s, or in default seven days’ imprisonment, for drunkenness. . Rev. J, Chalmers gave one of his interesting missionary lectures at the John street Baptist Church on Wednesday evening last. Considering the fact that the day been kept as a holiday there was a capital attendance. The Revs J. T. Hinton and D. Dutton took part in the proceedings. There was a holiday audience at the City Hall last evening, and now that the season is advancing the merits of the Pinafore Opera Company appear to be better appreciated. The two operettas were charmingly rendered, and in Mr Densem we have a comedian of no mean ability. The season terminates on Saturday night, The Princess’s Theatre was very numerously attended last night, when the London Bellringers and the Faust Family gave another of their acceptable entertainments. The programme contained a number of new items, among which might be specially mentioned the playing by the Bellringers of ‘ The watch on the Rhine ’ and * Les Cloches de Corneville.’ Herr Von Mehden, the Faust Brothers, and the other members of the company also contributed their usual share, and the pantomimic sketch * School Days of Nicholas Nickleby’ brought the evening’s enjoyment to a close. This afternoon there was a matinee performance, which drew a capital house, The proceeds go in aid of the Kakanui relief fund. The company appear again to night, when, as a compliment to Herr Von Mehden, the Engineers’ Band will be in attendance to play several selections, under the direction of Mr T. Chapman. To-morrow night closes the company’s Dunedin season. The second representation of the choral and floral festival, in aid of the funds for a new parsonage for the Wesleyan body, took place yesterday evening in the Garrison Hall at Port Chalmers, the hall being densely packed. The arrangements were excellent. The march of the children—-to the number of about 150—from the floor of the hall to the stage was very prettily performed, the whole of them being neatly dressed in white and carrying bouquets and small banners. The entertainment commenced by the opening exercise and Lord’s Prayer by the adults and children, the conductress being Miss Johnston, The Port Chalmers Orchestral Society were heard to advantage, while in tiie vocal part of the entertainment both children and adults acquitted themselves admirably. The effect of the display of palms, flowers, and flags was very fine. The full choir having sung ‘ God be with you,’ the Rev. Mr Jory proposed votes of thanks to all concerned, and a special vote of thanks was awarded to the conductress and her assistant,

A correspondent informs us that a roadmaking party are cutting a road two chains wide round Rere Lake, near the Wakatipu, probably the most attractive spot to tourists in the whole lake district on account of the exquisite beech forest which frames the turn. Such a proceeding must utterly spoil the beauty of one of our most valuable picturesque assets, and that such vandalism is contemplated seems beyond credence to those who have visited Rere Lake. Those who ate familiar with the spot state that tbe road is quite unnecessary, as a horse track has existed for twenty years round the margin of the lake sufficient for the purpose of taking supplies through should the route to Milford via the Greenstone ever be opened up. There is also a cut horse track, which could be widened if necessary, along the Greenstone Itself, passing within a quarter of a mile of Rere Lake. It was intended to have made this lake and its surroundings a public domain when the lease of the run falls in; but unless the Minister of Public Works instantly stops the work in progress the scene will be ruined and Otago will lose one of the most charming of her tourist attractions. Even allowing that a dray track to the West Coast is contemplated, the part beyond Rere Lake will take years to form, and there is no immediate occasion to destroy the unique beauty of the plaoe. Even admitting that the widening of the road along the Greenstone River from M’Bride’s to Rere Lake would involve greater expense, the increased cost would be more than counterbalanced by the reservation of the picturesque forest now in danger. Pirates Football Club annual meeting in City Hotel on March G. Entries for open tournament, lawn tennis, close on March 10. Dunedin Orchestral Society’s fourth concert la Garrison Hall on Tuesday evening. Those i&ttrcAed in the scholarships examinaticnatthe Uoivem’y should read the notice appearing in this issue. See advertisement in this istue regarding sale of j wellery, etc., in tho assigned estate of H. P. Thomson, which closes Wednesday.— [ 4dvt ]