The Evening Star THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1891.

Evening Star, Issue 8479, 2 April 1891, Page 2

The Evening Star THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1891.

Mr Fyke’s friends will regret to hear that he is suffering from a nervous affection of the right baud which prevents him from writing, For discharging a blank cartridge at the Oamaru encampment, Volunteer Beasley, of the Waikouaiti Rifles, has been dismissed the service.

James Hook Csad, a brewer of Wellington, has been fined L2O and costs for neglecting to cancel a stamp on a barrel of beer sent out from his brewery,

A new clause has been added to Government contracts in the direction indicated by I the Minister of Public Works-, of (baking and letting sub-contracts without the consent of the Minister is illegal. The TarAnaki j ubilee demonstration continues to be attended with success. There was a large audience at the opera last night, Llls being taken at the doors. The Exhibition was crowded all day. The produce show is a great success. Thomas Fry alias Floyd, arrested 6n a charge of assault and robbery of the old man William Veitch, who has since died, was brought up yesterday at the Auckland Police Court and charged with the wilful murder of Veitch. On the application of the police the case was remanded for a week. One of the results of Lord Onslow’s visit to the Uriwera Country is that many of the chiefs have decided to bring the whole of the tribal lands under the operation of the Native Land Court, and have made application accordingly to the authorities, besides appointing Mr H. Mitchell, of Rotorua, to carry out the survey. Mr A. Thomson, J.P., presided at the Port Chalmers Police Court this forenoon. Thomas Gower was charged with using insulting language towards Thomas Hinchcliff on the 26th ult. Mr Platts appeared for the complainant, and the defendant was fined 5s and costs, or in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. In answer to representations urging that work should be found for the unemployed in and around Dunedin, Mr Hutchison received the following telegram last night from the Minister of Public Works; “ Will, I hope, soon be able to deal with unemployed question in a practical and satisfactory way.” To-day, in conjunction with the other City and suburban members, Mr Hutchison informed the Minister of the extreme urgency of the case, and asked him, if he were not about to visit Dunedin, to give instructions at least for temporary work at once,

District Grand Lodge, S.C., meet at Masonic Hall to-morrow evening. Dunedin Branch of Otago Educational Institute meet on Saturday morning. The New York Life Insurance Company sand us the holiday number of the ‘Now York Newsletter.’

We have been shown a monster mushroom, measuring Sin across, found in Mr C. White’s garden in George street.

The Eakanui relief fund is now closed. The Committee request all persons holding Kata or collecting books to forward them at once to the secretary. Nominal ions of candidates for election to the licensing committees in the Musselburgh and the St. Kdda Park districts will be received next Wednesday; and the elections and local option polls will take place in these districts on the 20th and 21st inst. respectively.

We remind our readers of the entertainment to be given to-morrow evening in the City Hall in aid of the Dunedin Tailoxesaea’ Union’s Convalescent Home, Considerable preparations have been made in order to make the evening a most enjoyable one. As the admission to all parts of the hall is very small, we trust that the public will show their thorough appreciation of the girls’ efforts by greeting them with a bumper house.