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Evening Star, Issue 10767, 31 October 1898, Page 2

Toe Nat lot** 1 Association meeting at GUhnrne unanimous!? decided to request Mr Fiizroy, Mayor of Hastings, to contest the Waiapu seat at the next election. The lease of a third part of the Port Chalmers Freeing Works was submitted 0 auction this afternoon by Park, R-ynoldt", *nd Co., and purchased for Tonkin and Co» at a yearly rental of £I,OOO. I'he (piestian of toll chaigcs at the Wavprley trill will come beforo the Portobello Road Board next moDth. One member (Mr Milne) has given notice to abolish all tolls except on bicycles. Another member (Mr Raynbird) has given notice to reduce the toll on bicycles to 6d. The last will of Sir George Grey was executed in November, 1896, and is a very brief document. His whole estate totals £5,000, whioh goes to his niece, Mrs Seymour Thome George, of Parnell. Messrs Wm. Campbell and Seymour George are trustees. A codicil provided for Lady Grey in case Sir George died before her. Messrs R. Wilson, J. Wright, and W. Wood were the presiding justices at the Police Court this morning, when El zibelh M'Causland was fined 53 for drunkeness, in default twenty-four hours' For adding to a building in Hanover street without the permission of the city surveyor Edward M'Millan was fined Is.

At St. Paul's Cithedral yesterday afternoon the senior ocholars of the .city and suburban Anglican Sunday schools attended service. Over 700 were preeenl, and a boyb' choir of about forty-five voices led the singing, Mr Taylor officiating as organist. Bishop Nevill gave an eloquent addie« on 'The gtoryof the Child Samuel' aLd the instruction of Eli to him to eay "Speak, Lord, for Tby servant heareth." - Mr Walter Ibbotson, of the Corporation Oilice, had an unpleasant experience this morning. He was walking along the Victoria wharf near where the ship Norwood is berthed, when a gust blew off his hat. In making a clutch for it his foot tripped on the raised plank along the edge of the wharf, and he fell into the water. There was no one about at the time, arid the end of the wharf was about sixty feet away, but Mr Ibbotson pluck ily settled down to swim the distance with all his clothes on and in rough choppy water. On reaching the rocks he was so exhausted that he had to rest a while before he could climb up on to the wharf. When he had recovered breath he went along to the Norwood and got a boat-hook, with which he fished out the truant bat.

WBWWg TOP* wgisteftVat Bunedfo nuAbfefrtfttlO, the, marriages .31, And the death* Wthe corresponding month of last yea* thtf numbers were 90,30,56 respectively.' ' * • A telegram received by the Police .Department this afternoon from Waikftia ititimated that Thompson's ftotir-mill was bpjfcefl d6*i; at two o'clock this morrung. Tbi insuraactt amounted to £425, but in what office was .not stated. ■;. The adjourned quarterly "meeting of the Dunedin Licensing Committee was to have been held to-day, but as it was impossible to get a quorum the sitting was further adjourned by Mr Carow, S.M., until Wednesday, November 16, at noon. Ddgety and Co., Limited, have received a cable from their head offioe, dated London, 27 hj Inst., advising that they purpose declaring a divir'eia of 4s per share, and making (with interim dividend paid) 8 per cent, per annum, and carrying forward a balauce of £20,433. The proprietors of the • Weekly Scots-

man,' being mindful of their Brither Slots abroad, have forwarded packages of heather to the principal Scottish societies in Indie, America, and the colonies as a ' hansel' for Sc. Andrew's Day. The secretary of the Dun(din Burns Club has received advice that one for the club is on the way. Tho anniversary of the Dundas street Primitive Methodist Sunday School was celebrated yesterday, wh< n '.! e Revs. R R. M. Sutherland, Dr Waddell, M A., and J. M. Fraser conduoted the services, there being large congregations, especially in the evening. The scholars, under tho conductOThip of Mr C. E-Jgar, sang special choruses. The entertainment ie to 03 held en I Wednesday evening. : The arbitration proceedings between the City Council and theiHarbor Board over iae sewage difficulty were to have commenced today, but they have been postponed until January. The arbitrator is Mr C. Napier Bell, C.K., who was appointed by the Go- . vernment. The two bodies and Mr Bell met in conference some time ago and arranged I the mode of procedure and all preliminaries, j so that everything is in readiness to go on , with the taking of evidence whenever the ' Commission sits. I The members of the Mosgiel Band relumed home from the country bands' contjst nt j Ri vert on on Saturday evening, and were accorded an enthusiastic reception. A l * tlw ■ train slowed down at the station, a scratch j band in uniform struck up ' See, the cononicr- ' ing hero comes,' and as the bandsmen stepped from their carriage they were warmly v. elcomed by their friends and fellow-to unpeople. The Mosgiel Band did nothing brilliant in the quickstep competition, but tl:ey took second place in the test selection, 'cin.r only one point behind Queenstown. The Dunedin Presbytery met in First Church this evening at seven o'clock.

A special meeting of the Bakers and Pastrycooks' Union will be held in the Trades Hall to-morrow evening, at eight o'clock. To-morow (All J-aints* Day) there will b9 communion at 7.30 a.m at All Santa' Church, and ft stiva! evensong at 7 30. Try the late firm oi Burton Bro».,r,owunderthe management of Muii and Moodio, tor artistio photos. Highest class of work.—[ADVT ]

It will be seen from our advertising columns that the question of union, which has been before the Presbyterian Synod for some years, is involved in new troubles through the rejection by the Northern Assembly of tho basis sent to it by me Synod of a year ago. Tho talk of the town u Mollison and Co.'s 4}l rib'inns— worth Is 3d to 2s 3d ; white washing d>e gloves, 2.6 d. Mollison an I Co.— [Anvr] Scotsmen are proverbially an intensely iialional people. This year the Scotsmen of_ Dunedin, under the auspices of the Bums Club," are to celebrate St. Andrew's Day (November 30) with a puunc dinner. The menu card and toast list, which have just come to hand, is a perfect puzzle to the Sassenach. The front page is devoted to a most singular and effective representation of Scottish emblems, whilst (he inside is devoted to an elaborate menu written in the Scottish Doric, which is veritable Greek to the average citizen. Here are a few specimens of the dishes to be partaken cf: " Drams galore, sheep kail and hen bree, haggis and doo tairts, trumlin Tarn, kaps and fades, skeichen, and Athol brose." The card is a work of art, reflecting credit on the designer and printer, and ought to form a souvenir to all patriotic Scotsmen.