The Evening Star. THURSDAY JULY 27, 1871

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 482, 27 July 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

THURSDAY JULY 27, 1871

" For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do."

It appears that others think and write as strongly about the Morning News ai ourselves. But we have not yet come out so plainly as the following tit bits, which we extract from tho Coromandel "Own correspondence" of the Thames Advertiser o\ ye. terday : —" _.n Tuesday's issue of your paper I have read a very strange article, taken from the Morning News, headed ' Paternal Provincial Government.' The said arii_;!e is the most lying piece of rascality I've ever se.-n inserted in any newspaper." * * * * " '.this is the truth of the w^io'.e affair, which has given cau.o tj the conductors of the Morning News of Auckland to insert the lying, scurrilous arlielo they did. It is strange people are not more cuuliuus in respect of inserting falsel-co •; •-."

Mr. Perkin?, of the Occidental Hotel, with Yankee pluck, Ueeps his weather-eyo open to anything li.i y to touch the bump of wonder of his friend., and pi irons. He has got hold of a won ■'... i-i'ul calf, -. 1.1 __. two beads, two tails, two windpipes, tuu meal pipes, though with but a single back bone, and ad other internal arrangement sin 71'- 'Ihe animal, born at tho farm of Mr. Uunningha, near Howick, has been prepared for exhibition by Mr. Yandlo, of Grey-stn■■•(, and i3to be seen at the museum of wo.il.rs at the Occidental, where Mr. Peri.it.!>' ancestors were recently exhibited. Mr. i'si'kiiw'bas also got, wo understand, an eight-lagged pigj which lie holds in reserve till the calf has been duly and sufficiently to.isled in Tommy Dodd and Brandy Smash.

The next lecture of the season in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association will be delivered tomorrow evening, by Mr. G. ?.[. Reed, the subject being " The Influence of Colonial Life on the Formation anl Development of Human Character."

It will be observed that Mr. Maeff-irlano is indefatigable in his efforts to commend the Government Life Assurance system to tho people. He is here, there, and everywhere. To-morrow he lectures on the subject at the Hall of the Newton Academy. No object could bo more beneficent, and no system could surpass that established by tho New Zealand Government, which has an. extraordinarily active advocate in Mr. Macffarlane.

Members of the Auckland Educational Society are informed that the next ballot for instruments will take place on Thursday evening, the 3rd proximo.

A meeting of persons favorable to tho establishment of a school in tho Devonport district, under the Common Schools Act, will bo held' in the schoolroom at seven o'clock on Friday evening.

A Provincial Government gazstte published yceterday, contains several applications to register companies,. financial statements of several companies, and. a number of mining and highway board notices.

The Blue School Cadet Corps mustered at the Drill-shed. last evening, and wero instructed in company drill by Sergeant-Major Molloy.

" How many regular boarders have you, madam ?" aaked a census-taker of a lady. "Well, really I can't say as any of'em is any too regular. They stay out/ " I mean, madam, how many steady boarders bavo'y'bu ?" " Well, really, out of nineteen, there's not more'n two that I'd call steady."

Wedding Songs Wanted.—South Africa publishes a Kaffir Express, in the English and also in tho native dialect. Ono of tho early numbers expresses a desire for the corning of a poet who could write songs for Kaffir Wedding parties. The Psalms of David, which are usually sung al, these festivities, arc found out of tune with the jollity.