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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1671, 26 June 1875, Page 2

Tee settlement of the Macassey v. Bell case, as reported in our telegraphic column, should teach a lesson to enthusiastic litigants. Macassey is jast where he started save in having had v the pleasure of paying his own costs and those of the Dunedin 'Evening Star to a very handsome amount, and seeing the prosecuted journal evoking an outburst of public sympathy in the tangible form of a presentation of £500. The reparation to bis offended feelings is just that which he had obtained before litigation was begun. Nothing more, nothing less. He was not content with it then. We presume he is not content with it now. But it is the best he can get. A new trial he could have, but a new. trial he does not now want. The last one was enough for him. He retires with the explanation and apology which he formerly refused, a sadder but a wiser man. We cannot help thinking how much more satisfactory it would be—we do not say to journalists alone, but to irate laymen—if severe journalistic comments were met with fair discussion instead of bounce and threats of law. No one with truth on his side needs fear such discussion, and there is not one journal in fifty that would persist in making reiteration of statements if shown to be wrong; and if such reiteration were made, there is fairness enough in the public mind to resent it. What a contrast to the conduct of small excitable and litigious people is supplied in the conduct of Lord Coleridge, related in a telegram in another column in to-day's issueHe had in another capacity conducted the suit against and subsequently directed the prosecution of the Claimant, and in the Englishman, Dr Keneally's organ, he has since j been abused with a virulence, to which it is haul to find a parallel, being deliberately charged with having suborned false witnesses, and the judges with having connived with the prosecution. But neither the judges, with their extraordinary powers, nor the then advocate, with his knowledge of the ways and ends of litigation, have instituted legal proceedings ; but, as we read in the telegram, " Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, has issued a refutation of the charges brought against the judges who tried the Tichborne Claimant." How much more dignified, how much more effective an

the action of little fussy people who fly to the machinery of the law courts to set themselves right, and generally end iv hurting their fingers with the Cogs.

We have much pleasure in learning that the street railway question is being pushed. We understand that on the request of Mr Turner

who is returning immediately to San Franc isco, a special meeting of the City Council has been convened for -Wednesday next,

to receive from that gentleman, and consider a distinct and definite proposal on the subject. We arc not accustomed to see excessive haste in the initiation and performance of public work ; and sfter the long wrangling over the waterworks, it would be funny to see rapidity characterising this street railway movement. But,the feeling seems all favorable, and this thing puts on no taxes, and we really see no reason why

there should be any great delay We under-

stand th at a local company can bo formed to work in conjunction with Mr. Turner.

This we learn with mingled feelings, for we

should like to see this thing removed from the baleful influence of cliques andj;sets. We had hoped much from the infusion of foreign blood, and we still hope that Yankee interests will be largely concerned in the carrying out of the project.

We are very much pleased to learn that on the request of a number of citizens, Mr. Yon der Heyde has expressed his willingness to be nominated as a candidate for the vacancy in the City Council. The advantage to the Council of haviDg one of its members in the General Assembly cannot but be regarded as of great importance, and as morethancounterbalancing any evil arising from the absence of one of its members from the Council for a few months in the year. It is exceedingly gratifying to see citizens of standing and influence connecting themselves with the administration of our civic business, and we feel confident that Mr. Yon der Heyde's candidature will be very favorably received.

We think it will be admitted that none but a blackguard in heart and deed could write and publish the following, which we find in the Hawke's Bay Herald : "So far as we are aware, there is no truth in the report that one of tho editorial staff of the Wellington JSveniny Post started in life as a master of ceremonies at a casino, but tbe astonishing familiarity displayed in the editorial columns of that journal, with reference to the different varieties of indecent dances, would seem to indicate that, after all, the rumour may not be utterly without foundation.".. The cowardly way in which this base insinuation s put is characteristic of the tuft-hunting sycophant that does tbe editorials of the Hawke's Bay Herald. He has not the pluck to father the "rumour," which is solely the emanation of his own filthy brain, and his statement of it produces an irrepressible tingling in the toe of one's boot. When one compares the reputation of the Post, second to no journal in the Australasian colonies for honesty and fearlessness of independence, with tbe Hawke's Bay Herald, which has been infamous throughout the colony as the organ of the ring that has for years been systematically swindling the natives of Hawke's Bay out of their lands; and when one compares the honourable position won in journalism by Mr Gillon, of the Post, with the kind of fame the truckling editor of the Batches 1 Bay Herald enjoys, through crawling at the feet and licking the toes of those who are good to him, one feels angry at the impudence of such a fellow presuming to challenge comparisons. But the closing paragraph in the article of this skunk of journalism is more impudent still. .Says he generalising—" We do noh know why it should be that evening papers should be almost necessarily low in tone, but such is nevertheless the case in Wellington, Auckland, Wanganui, and above all, in Napier. The evening journals in these places, seldom if ever uphold what is honest and worthy, but are ever ready to become the champions of dishonesty and indecency." "Well, we can speak for ourselves, and we think our readers will bear us out in the statement, when we say that our fame here is for being pretty sharp on dishonesty, in fact some think we a little overdo it. And we do not hesitate to say that since the first day of journalistic existence there has never been a deed of dishonesty or unfairness, or wrongdoing in the public life in our little world here, on which we have not jumped, and mercilessly rent the evildoers ; while we are told by those who are regarded as the religious world, that the Star is looked on as the defender of the faith and the champion of religion and morality. We believe the same is the character borne by our evening contemporaries in the places referred to, Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier. But if to lend our columns to a wealthy ring to support it in robberies that have offended the moral sense of the colony, if this is what is "honest and worthy " then we have never upheld what is honest and worthy. And if to rout. robbers and swindlers, hip and. thigh with great slaughter, however powerful and wealthy they may be, if this is "dishonesty and indecency," then we have ever been the "champions of dishonesty and indecency." And what we say of ourselves is true, we believe, of our contemporaries referred to. The best test of this is the approval of the people. iThe evening journal of Hawke's Bay has we believe three or four times the amount of circulation of the. Hawke'a Bay Herald. The Wellington Post has at least three times, the circulation of either of its local contem-' poraries. We need not refer to our own. But when we see a person of the mental constitution of the editor of the Hawke's Bay Herald, and a paper which at present enjoys the infamy of defending the ring who have by grog debauched, and by " mortgages" so obtained, robbed the natives of that province of their wordly possessions,—when we find such as these preaching virtue and morality, we say heaven have mercy on New Zealand.

We learn a special meeting of the City Council will be held on Wednesday next to consider an application made under the Tramways Act, 1872, from W. E. Turner, Esq., for the permit from the local authority.

The meeting of the Albion Quartz Mining Company, adjourned from yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum.

A Provincial Government Gazette was published to-day, and contains a notice that the planß of a proposed road through lots 79 and 84, and the Government Reserve to the Mount Albert and Onehunga roads, that one objection to the proposed road had been received, and objections would be heard at the Superintendent's office a 11 o'clock, on the Bth July. The boundaries of the Matamata Highway district are published with with other highway and Native Lands Court notices.

Mr John Hughes, Superintendent of the Auckland Fire Brigade, has been made a lifehonorary member of the Dunediu Volunteer Brigade, as a mark of respect and esteem on retiring from that brigade after six years secvice.

An important meeting of the members of the Carlton Cricket Club will be held this evening, in the Grafton road district schoolroom, when it is hoped that all members will be present.

The1 man who bears' the name of James Dunne^ and who was committed from the Police Court yesterday, oh several charged of burglary, to take his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, had all those outer appearances of one of those heroes of the Jack Shepherd type, whose hairbreadth escapes by flood and field aid in swelling the interesting pages of the Newgate calender. A phrenologist would not pronounce a favorable opinion of Dunne from his peculiar leer and singular forehead, but whatever of truth there may be in the boasted science of phrenology ; it is, after all, the disposition of the person that to a very large extent, gives character tp the features. Dunne, like all such heroes, considered himself an injured man, the victim of police plotting, and the press, against which he declaimed for daring to associate the word "burglar," with the honorable name of " Dunne." This man, we lea^n, is a native of a town in the south oi Ireland, where be was born in 1831. He went to school until it was considered time to put him to a trade. He went to the shop of a village tailor, and entered into companionship with the thimble and goose, OTa soon, it was said, learned to cabbage. Somewhat reckless and wild in his habits, he could not sit comfortably on the shop board, so he entered,the 18th Irish regiment, became a soldier, and left his native land for these shores. After retiring from the army, he married, and started a« a hawker at the Thames, where he was wellknown with his basket, and where in course of time he opened a store. He put on a respectable, even a pious appearance, and passed creditably on without being suspected of pursuing a systematic course of robbery which was at length detected and for which he suffered. During his late incarceration, his wife thought well to take to a new love, thinking that Jemmy was lost to her, and vvith him she proceeded south. On Diinne's release from prison in March last, he seems to have turned with renewed vigour to his old pursuits, and one of his first attempts at robbery was the stealing of a dog in Hobson street, but which attempt was frustrated by the timely appearance of Detective Grace, to whom Dunne said, he merely wanted a sharp dog to keep thieves from his house ; there were so many burglaries about just now. A few of the recent adventures of James Dunne are familiar to our readers, but of these he says, he shall clear his character when brought in face to face with justice and twelve honest jurymen.

A word of comment on the following is needless. Anything so diabolical and reckless we have not before heard of. Jf some poor child were poisoned, hanging would he too good for the wretch scattering the poisonous fruit:— " Sir, —Is the Inspector of Police aware that some person in the Ponsonby district has been dropping fruit or vegetables in public places for the parppso of poisoning goats. J need scarcely say that it is a very criminal and dangerous practice where children are in the habit of playing. Perhaps some person may be able to inform you who it is.—Patbbfamalus.

To-day there is issued, as a supplement, Mr Bobert Brewin's catalogue of agricultural, vegetable, and flower seeds tor 1875, with instructions regarding the month for sewing. The produce ot Mr Brewin's seeds has shewn out most satiHfactorily at the various agricultural, and horticultural shows held in Auckland. Amateur gardeners should keep the list by them, as it will be a most useful guide to planting. We have much pleasure in acknowledging receipt of 10s. from Mrs. DeLias in aid of Mrs. Cassidy, whose deserving case was drawn attention to in our columns yesterday. The statement of the affairs of the Bismarck and French Republic Gold Mining Company is gazetted to-day. Mr G. W. Deunes, the well-known importer of sewing-machines, and the ownei of the admirable lime - light entertainment, announces through our columns that he is prepared to give his exhibitions in connection with Sunday-schools, and to return the whole of the nett proceeds to the school in the form of a sewing machiwe, to be competed for by the children. This offer is a very liberal one, and will afford schools a doixble source of entertainment —first, the exhibition itself, which is a most instructive one, and second, a, valuable prize for competition afterwards. On tramways, a correspondent writes: — "Sir, —It would be a great public convenience and add not a little to the railway receipts if the gaage adopted for the proposed tramway were the same as used by our railway, and a branch of the tramway were laid on the wharf. Railway passengers could then be put down and taken up either in the city or suburbs at their pleasure, and goods could be forwarded to or from vessels at the wharf, or stores, shops, *c, in the city or suburbs without reloading at the Auckland station. 'The wharf tramway could also be used for the purpose of forwarding goods to the stores and shops in the town. This would save the wharf a good deal ef wear and tear. There is one thing against these suggestions, and that is that the sanction of " Frank B. Passmore " might have to be obtained, and that worthy might make himself tro\xblesome if he thought Auckland would be improved by it. Apologising for taking up so much of your valuable space, I am, &c., TRAMWAY." " Woe to Europe when the Czar of Russia wears a beard!" cried the exile of St. Helena, And, lo ! the last woe is to be fulfilled ; for by imperial ukase all but court officials are allowed the privilege of wearing a beard, and the Czar will soon follow. Mr. Robert Heller and his daughter Haidee are now trying to puzzle the citzens of Edinburgh. " I believe," writes a London correspondent, "they are very successful in everything except in inducing many people to come to be puzzled." Lucretia Boyd, settled the matter with her slow wooer by simply shedding a few tears and saying, " I dont believe I have a real friend on earth." What could the poor fellow do but open his arms and exclaim, ' • Here is your refuge." A Danbury man, who bought a new pair of boots on Saturday, s»ys a ship may stand on one tack all night if it wants to. but he finds an hour and a half an elegant sufficiency. The spc.etary of the Carpenters and Joiaers Protection Society requests the attendance of ,members at a special meeting to be held in the Young Men's Rooms, Wellesley-street, on Monday evening next. We are glal to notice that Mr Eady, butcher, who has for several months been prostrated by the ill-health of himself and family, wilbemmo business on Monday next at No. 14 stall, Auckland market. Are you about to be married ? Have you builfc a house ? Do you wish to furnish economically ? If so there isj without exception, the best and largest variety of carpets and floor-cloths in the province to choose from at the City Hall, furnishing and drapery establishment. Holloway and Garlick furnish banks, hotels, offices, and private residences cheaper than any other house in town. In addition to Brussel, tapestry, Kidderminster, ana hemp carpets, they have flax, coir, and china matting, hearthrugs, woolmats (in all colors), door-mats (every requisite size), union and wool damasks, quilts, blankets, alieetiDg, curtains, etc. Before buying, inspect the stock at the City Hall. We are still selling gents' umbrellas at reduced rates : ISilk at 7s 6d, 9s lid, 12a 6d ; alpaca, 4s 6d to-6s 6d ; ladies' silk, 5s lid and 6s lid ; alpaca, 3s lid to ss. Drapery, clothing, and^ millinery at prices to suit the times—Holloway & Garlick, City Hall, 230, Queen-street. The great variety entertainment ia favour of Mrs Sextie and family will be given in the Lome-street Hall, by Mr P. Doran and his merry troupe of minstrels, on the evening of Thursday, the Ist of July. The entertainment, consisting of Bongs, dances, and comicalities, will be patronised by the Oddfellows and Hibernians of Auckland.

We' learn from an EDglish journal that De&n Stanley delivered ah eloquent address at Dundee on " Religion, Science, and Literature," which he embodied in the study of three contemporaries, or almost contetnperaries,—Calvin, Galileo, and Shakespere. He treated Calvin as the great theologian of predestination, 'which he regarded as a strained and extreme form of, but still a form of the gospel of Providential gudiance, and claimed for Calvin in this matter no less a disciple amongst modern men of genius than Carlyle. Galilei he treated as the true scientific man, aod Shakespere as the poet whose faith was all the greater for not being confined to any definite creed. The Dean ridiculed'the notion that theology vrouhl soon perish from off the earth and declaredtthat its alliance with science and literature must be eternal.

Previous to signing the bonds of the witnesses in the case of the notorious burglar, James Dunne, His Worship the Mayor expressed pleasure on behalf of himself and Dr. Home in recording their approbation of the able and efficient manner in which the detectives, especially Detective Jeffrey, had traced out the stolen property. None but an experienced officer could have shewn such acuteness, and he (the Mayor) hoped that his words of commendation would not ba overlooked by the Inspector of Police.

To-night is the last opportunity that will be afforded the people of Auckland for seeing the wonderful double headed calf and the four-legged fowl. Of all the natural, or rather unnatural monstrosities that have ever been offered for the inspection of a curious public here, these are the most remarkable, and those who have not yet seen them should not omit a visit to their room at the old Market Keserve during their Saturday's night's perambulations this evening. The admission fee has been reduced to sixpence ; youngsters half-price ; so that none big or little need stay away on account of poverty. The proprietor from here proceeds to the Thames and other districts.

Additional game licenses have been issued to Messrs. Thomas F. Masefield, G. Waller, and A. Price. ' ,

We learn that Captain Daldy has tabled a motion in the Harbour Board, " That it be an instruction to the Wharf Committee to enquire into and report upon the best means of preventing confusion and delay in discharging the cargoes of vessels at the Queen-street wharf." The motion will come on for discussion at the meeting of the Board on Tuesday next. The action of Captain Daldy in thus promptly taking up a grievance of which both the business firms of our city and the captains of ships trading here have good reason «to complain, cannot be too highly commended.

We call the attention of readers to the announcements of subjects of discourse at the Beveral churches of the city and suburbs, which appear in our advertisernesft page. Fine weather having at last favored the advocates of the game of football, matches are going on this afternoon at Ellerslie between the Auckland Club and the Ponsonby Club, and in the Domain between Parnell and Grafton Road Clubs. The high wind of the last few days has dried the gronnd after the x>lenteous rains of the pact month, and enjoyable and interesting games should take place to-day. The names of the players have been already published.