The Evening Star MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1892.

Evening Star, Issue 8808, 25 April 1892, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1892.

The Hod. J. M'Kenzie, Minuter of Lands, is expected to arrive in Dunedin by the South exprew to-night. He will remain in town for two or three days.

Captain Lloyd haa bacn appointed stationmaster temporarily a 5 Port Chalmers. He haa had several years' experience in tho railway eervice, atd, having prcv«d himself a thoronghly efficient officer, it is to be hoped that the appointment will be a perjnanent one.

Mr 1. Brydone, J.P., prodded at the City Police Court thh morning. For drunkenness, Thomas Keating and John Henry Brown were each fined ss, in defau.t twenty-four hours' Imprisonment

The Prince of Naples will, it is said, start shortly on a tour throngh Australia, and utilise his visit for the purpose of ascertaining whether Australia ctt\:ra a promising field for Italian immigration. Since the lynching of Italians ni, New Orleans the United States have fallen out of favor with Italian immign ns; while the Argentine lijfublic, having been rather overdone by ltaliacF, is beginning to complain of their increasing irruption. Under tho circumstances the Italian Government have turned their attention to Australia, as offering possibly a good outlet for the superfluous population of the Peninsula. In the Hot of salaries paid to Governors of llrilish colonies Canada and Viotoria stand first with LIO.OOO a year each. Last in ordtrare tho Virgin Inlands L3lO, and St. Helena, Montaorrat, and Turk Island, LSOO a year each. The descent from tho highest to the lowest of theao extremes U gradual. The Cape of Goo J Hope figures for 1.9,000, New South Wales L 7,000, Jamaica and British Guiana L6.0U0 each, and Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Mnuritiu ■, Gibraltar, Malta, and Trini. did L 5.000 each a y.ar, '1 he Governors of Sierra Leone and Ligos, which, ou account of climate, arc not in u!l eyes very tempting appointment*', get L' 2,500 a year each.

A sentence was omitted from the report of Hon. J. M'Kenzie's speech at Gore on Friday nu;ht in v> hich seferencc was made to the management of education a* endowments in the South, What the Minister of Lands actually said on this point was : " He passed tho other clay through blocks of 70,000 and 8,">,000 acres in tho hands of two individuals, all cf which was endowment laud. The lease of one property had eight years to run, and the rent was '2 i per acre, but he would be willir-g tc-iri"i'row to give 9J per acre for it. The tease of the other had no leas than thirteen years to run, and the land, which was the finest grsziug country in the cslony, was let at 4d per acre, while it was worth Is every acre of it. |

Savage Clnh hold thru opening meeting in St. Matthew's S-'hoolrcom on Kay 3. Shorthand writers are requested to meet in tho Ch;ral Hall on Thursday evenirg next. We are kdebted to the ' Daily Times' for the repoit of the Minister of Lands' meeting at Milton.

Au obvious error crept into our report of the meeting of Mr Walter's creditors. When tp-aking of his Colonial Bank Bhaio 3 , Mr Walter said that their present selling prise is from 43j to 44?,

Ah tho;e interested In yachting and the formation of a yacht club are invited to attend a tneetiDg to bj held at the Harbor Board Office to-morrow evening, when A proposal to form a club will bo brought forward. The admissions to the DuccJin Hospital last week Wi?re twenty-two, and tho discharges therefrom fourteen. On Saturday there remained seventy-seven, The deaths during the iweek were two (James Fraser and Apollos Dale). Tho two parties who were promoting an international" tug-of-war entertainment have come to an amicable arrangement wbereb/ tho Duuedln Ordnanco Band have retired from the fie'.d, siid havd bfen fprcially engaged to p.ny the national airs during the contoits. 'I ho) contract for the erection of the stage haß bcenl let tj Mr H. Nec.<, win ha? juit arrived from Melbourne, where he hsd some experience of these coatfsk. The tug-of-war will commence in the Ganiaon Hall on Saturday evening next; aud we ate rt quested to state that Mr K. B Hayward, secretary, will bo in attendance at the Choral Hall, Moray place, f torn seven to ten o'clock this and to-morrow evenings to furnish any information desired. Intending competitors aie invited to attend.