The Evening Star. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 257, 4 November 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDA Y, NOVEMBER, 1870.

We understand that Mr. Mcßae has been appointed head master of t,he .Auckland Grammar School, in place of the Rev. Dr. Kidd.

A pair of Soloman Island- pigeons have been presented to the Acclilnatisation Society by Captain Jacobs, of the Mission schooner Southern Cross. .':

It Is reported that Mr. Gisborne will be asked to contest the seat for Parliament for the Farn*ll district.

Mr. Thomas Leigh White has been appointed legal manager of the Inverness Gold Mining Company.

Chang, the Giant, appeared to a moderate audience, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, last evening. We would remind our readers that Chang will leave here for the Thames on Monday,, and those who have not yet seen him had better go early to-night. To-morrow is positively his last appearance.

It is with much pleasure we have been informed by Mr. Stuart O'Brien that he intends devoting one-third of the receipts of next Tuesday's (November Bth) house at the Prince of Wales Theatre towards the relief of; the wounded French and Prussian soldiers in I the present war. Messrs. O'Brien and Lord, are only following the/ example'set them by their brother managers in file adjacent colonies, Sand need we say we wish their praiseworthy effert may meet with that result for whicti an Auckland public has never failed to respond to.

The Steamer Samson will, leave for Wangarei this evening, at 6 o'clock. J

One of the most painful instances that, we have ever seen of moving the machinery of the criminal law for purposes for which it is not intended, appeared in the Police Court to-day. A respectable! woman, who from her appearance should hare been on a sick bed instead of in a criminal dock, appeared to answer a charge of larceny. The prosecutor had frequently allowed her to take from certain broken wood, and had never shown the smallest objection. Last night her child was at the point of death, and a hot bath had been ordered. Though having plenty of firewood, she took a few dry bits of stick of no value whatever, and from the lot from which she had been helped before. Without speaking on the subject, the prosecutor went down to the police station, and obtaining a constable, had the poor sick woman, for she had just risen from a bed of sickness, dragged away at midnight from the bedside of her sick child, and fhut up in the watch-house. The Magistrates would not listen to a defence, but at once dismissed the case. We cannot s-y that there has come under our notice in the colony, a case of such cold-blooded cruelty.

We leai'n that what we have no doubt will be an interesting lecture will be delivered to-night, at the Catholic Institute, by the Rev. Father Carden, the theme being " The British and Irish Poets."