In: our telegraphic columns will be seen a telegram stating how a great scandal has come to light at the Thames, to wit that certain leases over lands at Tairua for 40 and 90 years had been completed the day before the freeehold was purchased by Government. The statement is simply untrue, and the Thames people are busting with excitement over a mare's nest. A leader which we have written on the'subject, we are obliged by lack of time to hold over.
Our attention has been called to a ca«e of distress and destitution, which we believe requires but to be told to awaken a kind and sympathetic feeling. The husband of Mrs Ca^sidy for a long time irregularly, or not at all, employed, went up country for emp oyment, and by cold and exposure aggravated disease of the heart, of which he died a few ago in the Hospital. The widow with two children, the one of three years, and the other of nine months, is wholly in destitute circumstances. We understand that the widow is most anxious and determined to live by her own industry, but it is needless to say that with her two infants, it is very difficult to find outside employment, and it is believed that, if through the kindness of the charitable she were enabled to purchase' a sewing machine, she could earn sufficient to support herself and her little ones. As we are informed that the case is really a deserving one, and that Mrs Cassidy is most respectable and in dustrioudy disposed, it will afford us much pleasure to be the medium for receiving aud transmitting to her any contributions which may give us for the purpose. Dr. Kenderdine, whose hand is found in all such works of kindness, has handed us a pound towards this object, and wo would warmly solicit similar sympathy with a case of bereavement and penury combined.
The charges against the house-breaker Dunne, arrested at Cox's creek, were proceeded with at the Police Court this morning. The prisoner manifested the utmost familiarity with his situation, exhibiting considerable shrewdness in his questions to witnesses and great bitterness against his natural enemies, the detectives His intention in the first case—stealing from Mrs Grattan was evidently to connecf the offence directly with M rs Johnson upon whom he passed the shawl. This should be a warning to that good lady in future not to lend strange men money on articles that may be presented for her inspection. The residents of Ponsonby may congratulate themselves upon having got rid of an unpleasant neighbour, at anyrate for a season. Yesterday evening, after the monthly inspection of No. 2 City Company, Lieut Skinner presented the prizes won at the late competition of the Company. Volunteer Cooper is for the present the holder of the Cup for the Ist. class, also the gold medal, along with which he took 20s ; the second prize of 15s being awarded to Volunteer Goudie. In the 2nd class, Volunteer Burke took the first prize, namely the Cup and 15s; Volunteer Taylor the second prize of 10s. The next firing for the gold medal will take place to-morrow at 2 p.m.
The meeting of shareholders of the Albion Quartz Mining Company, called to-day in Mr Tothill's offices, after waiting one hour and failing to get a quorum, was adjourned until to-morrow at the same hour.
The half-yearly general meeting of the Templar Benefit Society was held last evening at the Newton Hall, Mr James Cox, Chairman of Committee of Management, in the chair. . The secretary's report and balance-sheet was read and adopted. There was a good attendance of members, and the proceedings were of a highly satisfactory nature. After paying all expenses, including sick benefits to members and one funeral allowance, a balance remains after discharging every liability of £60 12s. Taking into consideration the heavy expense necessarily attending the formation of the society, which has only been in existence nine months, the affairs show a very healthy appearance, seeing the small number of members who have enrolled themselves, and that the outlay in future will be trifling. Many of the members are availing themselves of the opportunity offered by the Government Industrial Life Insurance, for which Mr Worms the secretray to the Society is agent; thus • securing to their families a provision in case of the death of the breadwinner, as well as a weekly allowance and medical attendance during sickness. A cordial vote of thanks was given by acclamation and ordered to be recorded in the minutes to Messrs S. Worms and T. Walker, the secretary and treasurer of the Society, for the manner in which they have conducted the business since its commencement.
Early this morning a cab belonging to Mr Cook bolted from the pump near the Prince of Wales Theatre up Queen-street, and finally came into collision with the water-trough opposite the Queeu'p Head Hotel, Upper Queen-street. One of the wheels was knocked off and the carriage damaged but the horses escaped unhurt.
The Newmarket Literary Association held a miscellaneous entertainment last night; but owing to the meeting not having been duly published the public were not duly cognisant of it, and there was not a very large attendance. Mr J. McColl was voted to the chair, and after a brief introductory speech, called on the members of the Glee Club for their first selection ; this was followed by a reading from Pickwick, and after another plee, Mr Cromwell gave a recitation in a style which reciters generally would do well to imitate. Other pieces were rendered, and Mr McColl gave a very interesting sketch of a trip to the North — with a. few months' Btay among the "Maoris —which was listened to with evident pleasure. At the conclusion of the programme, Mr McNeill proposed a vote of thanks to the gentlemen who had taken so mnch trouble to get up the musical part of the entertainment. This was carried by acclamation.
In the football match, Auckland v. Ponsonby, to be played at Ellerslie to-morrow, the following will be the teams :—Auckland —T. Henderson (captain), G. Dunnett, R. M. Clark, W. Clark, H. W. Henderson, W. Philson, Whitaker, Woon, George, Abraham, Balueavis, Carter, Gudgeon, Claverhill, and Russell. Ponsonby—W. Jones, J. Mackay, T. Mackay, Herries, Glossing, Sutton, Ibbetson, Caldwell, Lewis, O'Sullivan, Blandford, Dignan, Owen, Dunnett, and P. A. Jones. 'Busses will leave the Post Office at 2 15 p.m. ■ ■"■' i '
To tho Editor : Sir,—l see in the Daily j Southern Cross of this morning another wonderful bit of English news, which is of a piece with that veracious journals special paragraph of " latest" information about the Marquis of Hastings and Lady Florence Paget. Under the heading of " Mail Items" appears a lengthy paragraph with the title "An Extraordinary Scene at Evans'." It contains the exciting details of a rowdy scene at that favorite _all of song and sappers, in which Oxford and Cambridge men are said to take part, and is introduced by the words : " A. correspondent in Land and Water gives the following account of the most extraordl nary scene at Evans' on the boat race eve." Now anybody, on reading this, would immediately suppose that this elegant extract gave a full and true account of what occurred at Evans' on the eve of the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race of this present year; and it is highly probable that in futnre years this paragraph may be turned to and quoted by careless historians as a sample of the manners and customs of University men in 1875. I read the letter in " Land and Water," and have a distinct recollection, although the paper is not now at hand, that it began by the writer trying to disabuse people's minds of the popularidea that every boat-race night was still made the occasion of such freaks on the part of Oxford and Cambridge students as those described. The writer then proceeds to give his recollections oE a scene whioh occurred years ago. This ia what the Cross gives as a picture of London life " on the eve of the boatrace." I think a public journal should enaeavour to convey to future ages a more cot re-1 impression of society a& it is in its day. If this kind of thing goes on we shall expect to see Thackeray's description of the same resort dated as yesterday and given in full, with the gallant old Colonel Newoome and modest Olive turning their backs on the indecent song-singer.—Uni-versity.
Two men of the Wanganui po^ce force were suspended for their manner of treating a drunken man ; but they have been reprimanded, fined, and reinstated. The punishment would have been of a more severe nature had the fact not been taken into consideration that both had but lately joined the force, and probably erred through ignorance of police duty. Complaints of the illtreatment of prisoners by the police are not of infrequent occurrence.
Mr Attwood, the donor of £1000 notes to London charities, seems to have found a successor. A gentleman walked into the London Hospital the other day, and said he wished to leave a small donation. He was shown into the Secretary's office, and there handed the House Governor a banknote for £1000 for the Hospital, asking it to be put down as a donation from "J."
Twenty-seven iicen-ses to shoot cock pheasants have, up to the present time, been taken out at the Otago Treasury. The slaughter by sportsmen, however, has not been very great, although we hear of one or two fair bags having been obtained near Tokomairiro last week.
By a fire at Cambrian, Otago. the New Zealand Insurance lately lost £1300.
A wonderful discovery was made in the Waratah tunnels, Newcastle, a short time ago. Two minera, were ..ndermining some coal, when Anderson found, at a depth of G9ft, and in a place without any outlet whatever, a frog of a most peculiar species. The creature was endowed with a pair of eyes of amazimv and extraordinary size, but notwithstanding this, it was totally blind. The place where Mr Anderson cut is three inches in length, and about the same height, and was a hole in the solid coal.
A miner named James Glew died very suddenly at Mercury Bay, on the 17th inst He had been drinking heavily, and on the 11th instant drank a small bottle of chlorodine to procure sleep, and seemed to bo in a bad state afterwards. The jury returned the following verdict: —" That on the 17th of June, James Glew died, but from what cause, for want of medical evidence, we cannot say." The following rider was added : — "We, the jury, unanimously agree that any publican that shall keep or encourage a man to be, or remain on his premises in a state of intoxication, should forfeit his license."
A correspondent writes from Onehunga : — Sir, —Two shillings and half-a-erown respectively seem long prices for coffee and butter. Can you assign a reason for the continuance thereof? But not a word about meat-as I can never understand how in a country possessing millions of sheep to thousands of consumers, mutton should be so horrid dear. — Yours truly, An Old Dad.—[The old gentleman must ask his grocer. Prices are governed by laws that pass our comprehension.— Ed. MS.]
Writing with reference to Sir Geo. Grey's now famous letter to the Wairarapa Standard, " Simplex " puts the case in the most elementary form :— " Sir,—l had intended to have passed over the many remarks on this letter as worthless, but even worthless often repeated is annoying. To the many criticisms (!) and jokes on this matter, I can make only the reply uttered by a cynic to a simpering woman who said she could not ' understand Tennyson.' ' Madam, that is no fault of Tennyson's.' Those who do not know that Sir George Grey's observations on the Venetian Ten were merely illustrative of Sir George Bowen's references, must be fools ; and those who know it, but perverted their knowledge to mislead the ignorant, must be knaves. "With such people it is a mere matter of classification.— IMPLEX."
With reference to the forty-acre immigra" tion scheme the Wellington Times does Auckland tbe justice to say: —'"Although Auckland did not sell land for ready moneys as the South has done—notably Canterbury —it gave land to bona fide settlers, who paid their own passages to the colony from the United Kingdom and British North America, and in that way got full value for every acre alienated. The greater number of the forty-acre settlers remain in Auckland, although some of them are to be found among the most enterprising settlers in other provinces Moreover, very many of the assisted immigrants, introduced by Auckland with its half-million loan, are scattered over the colony, which has been a large gainer by Auckland's unproductive expenditure. We are aware that scores of families, not to speak individuals, are enriching by thair industry other provinces, who were brought out at the cost of Auckland."
The barque Comet, Hokulele, which left Dunedin for Hobart Town in February last, and has not been heard of since, was insured in the Standard Insurance Company, Auckland Branch, for £2,000.
Winter Evening Entertainments. —The time of year has arrived for lectures, concerts, and entertainments of various kinds. To aid the Good Templars and afford caterers of public amusement every facility, the present proprietors (Messrs Holloway and Garlick) have determined, after the Ist June, to let the City Hall at much lower rates than formerly. * This Hall, the best situated of any in Auckland, and unsurpassed for its acoustic qualities, will be let for ten guineas per week, or two guineas for a single evening. These low terms prove the proprietors are doing their share towards proving cheap amusement.—Umbrellas are necessary companions on winter evenings, and Holloway and Garlick,'having a very large stock, have resolved to clear them out at unheard-of prices, and have marked down : gents' good silk umbrellas to 7s 6d, 9s lid, 12s 6d alpaca to 4s 6d, 6s 6d ; ladies' alpaca to ,3s lid ; silks to 6s lid. Call.early on Holloway and Garlick and secure one.—City Hall, 230, Queen-street.
Dotjb-- Kobe.—All day To-morrow, at Bettany's, No. 17, the Market, the best Nelson Fresh Butter at Is lOd per fi>; first-class dairy-fed Bacon, 9d and lOd per „.-Udvt.]
The second of the winter course of lectures in connection with the Young Men's Christain Association will be given this evening, the subject of discourse " Customs and Traditions of Palestine;" the lecturer, the Pev R. S. Hassard. Mr Brown, of St Matthew's, and the choir will sing several pieces of sacred music in illustration of the lecture.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1670, 25 June 1875, Page 2
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