The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1873.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1193, 19 November 1873, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1873.

$ For tho cause that lacks assistance, l-'or the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that wo can do

We have been furnished with the folk)wing letter addressed to the Returning Officer with reference to the omission of the names of certain leading electors from the Pakuranga roll: —To 11. C. Balneavis, Esq., Registration Officer for the province of Auckland : Sir, —My name with that of many others has been omitted from the Pakuranga electoral roll, and as I have been a propertyholder and duly-qualified elector in the old district of Franklin and Raglan since the beginning, and the omission no fault of mine, I claim to have my name enrolled prior to the 2Gth instant, the day on which an election is fixed to take place. Whether you can. so enrol my name or not I intend tendering my vote. If refused, and the votes of those, parties taken who now appear on this roll for the first time, and who have nota single qualification, I shall protest against the whole proceedings as illegal and tyrannical in the extreme. To have done the settlers justice the old rolls should have been cancelled, the boundaries of the new districts advertised for a fortnight in all the provincial newspapers, and the electors called upon to re-register themselves within a given period under pain of being disfranchised altogether ; had this been done the people would have shown themselves alive to their own interests ; or if the chairman of' the various highway boards had been applied to, I venture to affirm that within one month you would have had information enough to have enabled you to compile a tolerably correct roll, but instead of taking either of these courses the old rolls, surveyors' plans from the Land Office, Mr Joseph Crispe, from the Mauku, and others were applied to, and judging now from the roll information the most erroneous must have been given. This is where your clerks, and presumably by your orders, laid themselves open to be imposed upon by unscrupulous partizans, for instance enrolling some of the Waiuku settlers who have no interest whatever in Pakuranga, and transferring Mr Goodwill from the village of Otahuhu to that of Papakura. That many names are on the Papakuraroll that should be on that of Pakuranga, I don't deny, but having no property in this district it would be decidedly wrong for anyone to interfere in the choice of a representative for a district in which he had no stake. The enclosed note I sent to the Star newspaper on Friday last, and in the Editor's remarks a .suggestion is made which I am told would be quite legal to carry out. A similar circumstance occurred in Otago a few years since, the particulars of which you may learn from his Honor Mr Gillies. With regard to political trickery and partizahship no one who knows you could for a single monfent harbour the thought that you could connive at anything so unworthy ; but there is no hiding the fact that by shunting so many of the '■■".old settlers" from the centre of the 'district that your clerks were imposed upon. This is the impression abroad. I shall be delighted if the difficulty can be rectified quietly.—l am, &c, Jno. Wallace.—Flat Bush, November 17. *

The approaching colonial firing-is brought to mind by the preparation how'being _ade at Napier for the meeting. We cannot conceal the fact that the marksmen of Auckland have not shone hitherto at these annual gatherings of the citizen soldiery of the colony. Yet there is no reason', so far as we can see, why our Volunteers should continue to play third or fourth fiddle in these tests of nerve and: skill. There are now three or four months before the Volunteers for practice, and we would suggest that an organised party should be formed to go into training together. Excellent results might be anticipated from frequent and steady practice, and now that the rifle range is within a reasonable distance from the city such an arrangement would not result in any great tax upon the energies of the competitors. We hope a meeting of marksmen will be at once convened to consider what can be done to raise the standard of our representative men in view of the approaching contest.

Oiiv special correspondent at Christchurch furnishes a capital telegram descriptive of the inter-provincial cricket match played yeslerday, -which we publish in another column. The Auckland men made very good average scores. It will be observed that only three or.t of the eleven were bowled out, the remainder being caught or run out with the exception of Yates, who unluckily got his leg before the wicket. Notwithstanding their misfortunes the score was creditable to our men, and we fully anticipate they will improve upon it in the second innings. It must be conceded that the Auckland team labours under a disadvantage owing to the want of practice, which the Canterbury team enjoyed up to tlic day chosen for the match. Canterbury, hf"** been regarded as furnishing the most formidable opponents the Auckland team was likely to meet on its invading expedition, and i£ our men are successful there wo may reasonably entertain good hope of their success in other parts of the colony yet to be visited. We must not halloo till wo are out of the hush, but still there is no cpicstion our cricketers notwithstanding unfavourable prognostications have begun well.

Mr Hesford's benefit entertainment will take place this evening in the Prince of Wales Theatre, when a variety of dramatic sketches will be produced, and dark faces exhibited on movable bodies, illustrative of African life and manner, dances, jigs, breakdowns, and reels will be performed ; a new local song wi'l be introduced from the pen of a local poet, whose unpublished works are likely to give him a Tennysonian popularity in the colonies. The "Poacher's Doom" will be aeted,| and the " Little Wonder" as well as the " Great Giant " will bow to the patrons of Mr Hesford. It is necessary therefore to say to our readears, In the language of the Bartholomew Frir showman of other days, " Be in time !"

Peter Finne, an old man with a white head and patriarchal beard, was [sentenced to-day to one year's imprisonment for pilfering a watch. Peter Finne was once a soldier, and afterwards kept a store for the sale of butter, bacon, and eggs, and was tolerably com fo i table and contented. But tho old man and his dame took to the fatal habit of drinking, which turned them into the downward path; and from selling butter and eggs Peter went upon his knees and took to polishing boots, aod Mra Finne took to selling oranges. Wc 'find that Peter Finne has altogether passed over two years in Mount Eden, and has paid enough money in fines and costs for drunkenness: and vagrancy to purchase a neat allot-" incnt, and that according to fair compilation he has within three yean spent an amount of money that would have built a snug cottage and saved the country the expanse of. yeais of prison fare.

The Hope of Auckland Juvenile Rechabito'sTent was formally opened last evening at the Wellesley-street Young Men's rooms by Messrs. Graham, Can*, and Brown. Much interest was felt in this new colonial movement, and there was great talk among the little boys, who spoke with beaming eyes of the day when thoy, like the Lord Mayor's of London, should successively li'l. the master's chair. Eighteen of these aspiring youths were initiated, and appeared to enter heartily into the business.

The interest taken in Provincial politics differ? very much sometimes in adjoining districts. At Eden the other day there was some difficulty in getting a second candidate pioposed. At Tamaki, on Monday next, a keen contest is expected between Mr Kerr and Mr Reybuin, the friends of both parties being sanguine of success. The district of Tamaki, as now constituted, includes the whole of licmueraaod Panmure, and extends from East to West from Tamaki river to the Croat South road, and from North to South from Parnell to the Otahuhu portage road.

Tho Orakei land case—Tautaii and others v. Paul and others—an outline of which we published in a reecnt issue, has been again adjourned. It is probable that a settlement will be effected without the further intervention of the Court.

The Licensed Victuallers' ball, which is fo come off on the 27th inst., promises to lie a very successful affair. Tenders for the supper, etc., arc to be sent in by to-morrow morning, and committee will be held at one o'clock at the British hotel, Queen-street.

The committee of the projected United Methodist Free Church Bazaar announce that they have decided to hold the bazaar in the market-house on the 27th, 28th, and 29th days of the present month. We shall take an early opportunity of giving a descriptive; sketch of this undertaking, which we have reason to believe will be worthy the cause the promoters seek to advance.

' To the Editor : Sir, —I notice that an entertainment in aid of the prize fund of the St. Matthew's school is renounced for to-morrow evening, and I regret to see that it is to be in St. Matthew's school-room, becauso of all the public buildings in and around this city the St. Matthew's schoolroom is the worst and most inconvenient both for hearers end speakers. I should be sorry to reflect upon the designer of this school-room, who, I understand, closed his mortal career at the Whau. Now it docs seem strange that the men who get up the St. Matthew concerts will persist in having them in this school-room, where it is impossible for the audience to hear tho speakers as the place is deformed with wooden impediments. On one occasion I was literally hoarse for nearly a week after a serious endeavour to give utterance to a strain which the listeners could not hear, and which elicited a groan of dissatisfaction. We " can't hear, wc can't hear " bawled half a hundred voices at the end of the room. I mentioned to the late minister that it was a pity the committee did not venture to take the City Hall or some other place where people might hear with comfort, when he replied in his honest way, " The committee here go on the penny-wise and pound-foolish system." I notice in the programme the name of Mrs Mitchell and others who will give songs and readings in this detestable place, only to be lost to the listeners. Fortunately, however, the chief part of the concert will be instrumental. St. Matthew's is considered to be the llchcst church in Auckland ; and yet the congregation is periodically asked to contribute to amusements in which they can take no real enjoyment because it is impossible to hear either singers or speakers.—Yours, &c., B.

A case of genuine distress has come under our notice, the particulars of which may be known at the office of this journal. A poor woman afflicted with a painful malady, which it is feared will prove fatal, is left with two children under thre¥<?years, land for whose support she is totally unable to provide. Her husband is unavoidably absent in Samoa and unaware of his wife's perilous condition, whose third , child (an infant) was consigned" ,to its grave a week ago. A few friends desire that this deserving case should be publicly known in order that temporary relief may be forthcoming. We shall be glad to receive donations for the object of this appeal. [Since the above was in type we have learned that the poor woman is dead, and that a few friends of the deceased will provide for the children until some definite arrangements can be made. J

A requisition to Messrs John Buchanan, David Goldie, and James Coupland. inviting them to become candidates for the representation of City West, is being largely signed. There is every prospect of the keenest contest of the season centreing in this electoral district.

A sad domestic tragedy was enacted in South Brooklyn recently.' Mrs Ann Roderick, aged fifty, residing on Ninth-street, witnessed a sad quarrel from her parlour window between her son George and James Corcoran, with whom he had had some former difficulties. Mrs Roderick ran out and stepped between the combatants just as they had drawn their revolvers. She besought Corcoran, who was under the influence of liquor, to go away, and was urging her son to enter the house, when Corcoran made an effort to push her aside and obtain possession of his opponent's weapon. During the struggle the revolver held by Roderick was discharged, and a ball entered the right eye of his mother, who dropped dead instantly upon the sidewalk ; horror stricken at the terrible fate of his mother, he threw himself upon the ground beside her body, weeping bitterly.

Mr Hemus delivered a very impressive lecture on total abstinence iv the Church at Riverhead last night to a crowded audience, and the following programme of music enlivened the proceedings. The music was well rendered by the local amateurs, and a very pleasant evening was spent. Mr John Lamb was in the chair. Tho following was the programme :— When the Swallows Haste Away, Mrs Sheaf; Beautiful Isle of the Sea, Misses Lamb ; Softly Falls the MoonTisrht, Miss Lamb ; .lust After the Battle, Mother, Mies E. Lamb ; Duke of Atholl's Courtship, Miss E. Lamb and Mr Mitchell ; address, Mr Lamb; I'll Speak of Thee, Miss Sheaf; Ring the Bell, Watchman ! Misses Lamb ; Old Folks at Home, Miss Lamb; Officer's Funeral, Miss E. Lamb ; lecture by Mr Hemus; Cheer, Boys, Cheer! Mrs Sheaf; Cod Save the Queen !

Wo read in "The Hot Springs (Arkansas) Courier," a story of vendetta which might have come from Corsica. About one year ago a trouble arose between the tribes of Wimbcrley and Flynn about a horse race. It began by the whipping of Flynn by a Wimbcrley. Then two of the Flynn8 *, father and son shot at Wimbcrley, who returned the (ire, and killed both of them. The I .lack well, son-in-law of Flyrn, seizor, took out lotters of-administration on ]:s filthe in-laws estate, and the Flynn's being opposed to his selling the property, shot him. The Flynns were then arrested, and one of them imprisoned, wli'le the other prove 1 ,-"i alibi, but was shot as he w.-s commg out of tho Court house. Tho imprisoned Flynu broke jail last Christmas, and lias been making trips back audfoitli to tho Indian nation Lately he was heard of in the old neighbourhood, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The party in search of him encountered him on a Sunday morning. He made flight and was shot through the head. Me was the last of the Flynns ; nor should we think that anybody in that vicinage would be sorry.

Mr 11. Ellis will address the electors of City East this evening at the Mechanics' Institute for the purpose of stating his opinion on things in general, rud giving an account of his stewardship during the pa*jt four years in connection with the Provincial Councd.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, No SI, \\'\\ be held this evening in St. Patrick's Hall, for the admission of members, and other business.

flood Tcmplarism is permeating the western suburbs of this city, and this evening a meeting will be held in connection with the movement, previous to the opening of a new lodge, in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Sheridan-street. Adilre'.-.es will be delivered on the immediate subj jt by Messrs Hemus, sen., Carr, and Atkin, commencing at halfpast S3ven.

The Coromandel election h?** resulted in the return of the old member, Mr Cadman, by a majority of 53 over his opponent, Mr ('. McLood. The numbers being, ('adman 1(50; McLecd 107.

At Papakura, yesterday, Mr W. Hay and Mr C. O'Neill were proposed. On a show of hands being called for 24 were held up for Mr Hay, and 5 for Mr O'Neill. The po 1' v 'H be taken on the 21st hut.

Tho Congregational Chapel in Albeio-strcet will henceforth be used by the friends of total abstinence for the promulgation of their principles, and the opening festival will be held on Tuesday next, the 25th inst. ; A. Clark, Esq., in the chair.

The complaint made in the following letter demands investigation by the proper authorities :—-" Sir,—Will you be so kind as to say a word for a few poor immigrants that came out hero in the Hydaspes, hoping to do better for ourselves, but find ourselves very much mistaken. We have tried to get work in the town and out, and when we ask they will say 'You are a new chum,' and tell us to call some other day. They have stopped all our provisions, and ordered us out with no money in our pockets, nor a friend to borrow a shilling from. We are all willing to do something, but cann it get it. One or two went to Dr Pollen. Ho said it was out of the question to give us food, and here we are starving. We think we should do far better in Canterbury, and we have said so, but tho big people don't wish to send 'us! Perhaps it would make too big a hole in their pockets. If you cm spare room in your paper you wiH greatly oblige a few immigrants. "

The Rojal Exhibition was well attended yesterday, and the soiigj of Mrs and Miss Gourlay passed off with echlt, and were much praised by the company. We need to remind readers that Mr Gourlaywill close his excellent exhibition on Saturday next in order that he may meet bis engagement at Wellington, according to bis busine-s programme. On Saturday Mr Gourlay will admit the children of city schools to Hs school of marvels and natural knowledge from twe 1 ye tofive at greatly reduced prices, in order that the children may have a treat and receive impressions which will serve to enlarge their views and make them happier and wiser in their future life-travel. The monstera I'it-ator, Bigßen and family, the New Guinea chief, kings, queens, statesmen, poets, and orators of present and past ages are not without immense h;stoiical significance to the young mind. Wc notice further that during the evenings of the present week the proprietor will give a characteristic concert in which ladies will appear and gratify the audience with choice songs of England, Ireland and Scotland. Mrs Gourlay's rendeiing of these ballads are truly delightful, and the "Military Style," with side-drum accompaniment by Miss Gourlay, is worthy something more than a dozen bouquets of fading flowers.

A match between|the Standard aud Cotele Cricket Clubs will come off on Saturday next in the Domain, play to commence at half-past two sharp. The'following are the names of the Standard :—D. Snodgrass, J. Woon, A. Beale, A. Mears, E. Castelli, C. Ibbetson, W. Brighton, E. Stone, T. Hull, W. Mears and E. Robertsbaw. Cotele :H. Pollen, C. Pollen, G. Ridings, W. Ridings, H. Gilfillan, B. Green, T. Biggs, R. Biggs, A. B. Morrow, H. Orchard and G. Orchard.

To-morrow evening a grand variety entertainment will be given in St. Matthew's school-room, Hobson-street, in aid of the Prize Pund of the day schools. The proceedings will open with " Crown Diamonds," an overture by the band. Mrs Walter Hill will read Hood's "Bridge of Sighs," and Tennyson's "May Queen," two of the choicest poems in English literature ; the first written on a young woman who committed self-destruction from Waterloo Bridge, and contributed to an early number of Punch, and the latter composed among the fens of Lincolnshire when the author was a very young man. A gentleman amateur will sing "My pretty Jane ;" and Mrs Mitchell will give "Robin's Return;" and acompanied by Mr Hoy den "When ye gang awa' Jamie," a pretty Scotch ditty; also the " Bonnie new Moon." The brothers Messrs Hunter will play a cornet and horn duet, from "Norma," and Mr D. P. Fox will sing a comic song and will dance. The entertainmeut will conclude with a laughable negroic sketch by Messrs Fox and Buckley, and with several instrumental performances, a good evening'sjentertainment will be enjoyed.

Mr Heighten has called to say that his son was not ashamed to appear at the Police Court in connection with the charge of stealing a fourteen-pound weight preferred against the boy John Henry Evans. He was not subpoenaed as a witness, and did not consider it necessary lo attend. He states that old iron is frequently purchased by blacksmiths from children who are usually despatched with it for sale by their parents.

The Mount Eden range has been secured for Saturday next in order to fire a friendly subscription rifle match of live shillings each, open to all comers, at ranges of 200 yards, SCO yards, and COO yards, seven shots at each distance.

The name of Mr Lloyd, in the case of Llyod v. Grattan, was yesterday misprinted Lord.

It is reported that Mr Thomas Cheeseman will be a candidate for the representation of Newton in the Provincial Council, and that Mr McMillan, of tbe firm of McArthur, Shera and Co., will contest City East.

Mrs Caroline Howard, formerly of Dunedin, has been engaged by the A«ent-General to promote female emigration to New Zealand, and proceeded to Limerick in August to endeavour to obtain female emigrants in that quai ter. Mrs Howard advertised announcing where and when she will be found, that she w.ll answer a)' enquiries free of charge, and making known the fact that free passages wj'l.be given to all respectable single females. Altogether she seems to be gobig about her business in a business-like way, and this, coupled with her long experience in Dunedin, would seem to show that in her the Agent - Ceneral bar: secured a valuable coadjutor.

A typographic."l error, of a rather stupid kind, occurred in an advertisement in our yesterday's issue, referring to Messrs Grant and Morton's sHe of g.*ocei.es to-day. The MS. said "To Grocers and the Trade," but the devil made it "To Traders and the Trade."