The Evening Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 404, 27 April 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1871.

We regret to hare observed to-day the head of the Executive, Mr. Hurst, proceeding along the street evidently in a disabled state, and suffering considerable pain. It appears that this morning in riding in from Stokes' Point to North Shore, in order to proceed to his official duties, his horse had taken fright at some object adjacent to the roadway, and, suddenly starting, had effected a separation

bein^* -precipitated with some violence to the ground. Mr. Hurst wu3 enabled subsequently to mate his way to the Worth Shore, and attended to his official duties, although (lie difficulty experienced by him in progressing along the street, leaning on the arm of an attendant, produced a general feeling that the claims of duty should have been waived for the time, and that the Executive Minister would have been better in his bed, and under the care of his medical adviser. There will be a meeting of the Nevada Luncheon Committee at the offices of Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane to-morrow, at half-past two o'clock. A singular development in ephemeral literature is thus alluded to in the London correspondence of an Australian journal: —The most animated feature of the hour-is the war of little pamphlets now going on about the Franco-German conflict. " A little cleverlywritten skit, called " The Fight iv Dame Europa's School, showing how the G-erman boy thrashed the French boy, and how the English boy looked on," has been sold to the tune of nearly 200,000 copies. This bit of special pleading has taken immensely with an unreasoning public, so that the nominal publisher, after refusing to bring it out, and only publishing it at ths cost of the writer, has cleared over £500 by the thing. Then came a rejoinder, "Why Johnny didn't interfere," sold over 15,000 copies; "John justified," 57,000 ; " John's Governor visits Dame Europa's School," 19,000; " Which should Johnny have helped?"—" The Break-tip of Dame Etivopa's School, or what came of making Johnny join the Fight, " —" What Johnny thought of it all; a brief review of his treatment at the hands of friends and foe," — "Dame Europa's Report to the International School Board on the Fight in her School, after hearing both sides," —have since come out in quick succession. And now we have a new absurdity, entitled "St. George and the Dragon," in which the lovely " JJrances," tlie joy and delight of the world, is set upon out of pure malignity, by a horrible dragon, and St. George, the sweet beauty's selfish and cowardly brother, turns a deaf enr to her shrieks for help, and allows her to be torn lioib from limb by her enemy. Ehrata.—lu out leader of yesterday the following typographical errors occurred:—lnstead of "to his bittter chagrin they nil presisfc in ignoring its existence," it should read —"they still persist in ignoring his existence." Instead of " meet out to him," it should read— " mete out to him." Instead of "He assumes that at length the morning papers has recognised its existence," it should read—"lie assumes that at length the morning paper (referring to the Crass) has recognised his existence." To the extract headed " Laws of Nature," fro:n " McCosh's Method of Divine Government," there should have been appended " McC'osh" instead of " M. Cash." We are informed that there will be on view 250 pairs of earrings on Saturday, in the window of F. H. L;v,i=son, jeweller, Queen-street, next door to Cater, the bootmaker.—[Advt.l J. Cosgrave and Co. are now holding a large drapery and clothing sale, aud have opened the newest and most extensive and by f-ir the largest stock ever exhibited iv Auckland. They also beg to inform the people of the province they are not retiring from the drapery trade, and regret exceedingly that respectable houses li.'.ye to resort to snen sublorrugcs tir order to sell their goods. .J. Cosgrave and Co. would wish some person to inform them where arc all the retiring drapers to go ? The recent astronomical observations have not discovered any new heavenly bodies in which those gentlemen could reside without having any opponents to contend against;. By the arrival of the City of Melbourne we have received no intelligence of any new land being discovered, no more people to be clothed, no Elysium where those modem Jobs could spend tin; remainder of their days in pence, a<id, alas ! where are they to go?—" the shy, the dull, and the gay." It is a pity we have no gifted bard among us to composn somn plaintive poem upon the departure of those modern Pilgrim Fathers.— [Advt.]