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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2659, 25 August 1871, Page 2

Religious.'— We hear that the Rev. Mr Gow, of Hokitika, is to receive a call'to St. Andrews'. OnTht.— The .. ■; gentleman of the long robe” will shortly have to decide the merits of a rather extensive breach of promise case from Bendigo Gully. New Rush. —A Naseby telegram in the Cromwell Argus states that a new rush has set in to the Deep Stream, where two men got 30 ozs of gold in six week-. To Correspondents. —Mr J. L. Gregory’s letter is of a personal character, and deals with 'matters which the person alluded to in it is unable to reply to. We must therefore decline to insert it. The Dock Trust. —A faceting of the Dock Trust was convened for twelve o’c’ock to day, and adjourned to three this afte.noon. The proceedings took place too late for report in this evening’s pap r. Presentation. —At a meeting of the. Star of Ot.ago Lodge, A. 1.0 0. F, held at White’s Queen’s Hotel, Albany street, last evening, Brother Wi'son, the lodge’s secretary, was presented with a handsomely-made jewel, as a token of appreciation of the manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office during the past nine months. The presentation was made in a few well-chosen words by N.G. Brother D. White. The Result of Opposition. —The Municipal Council of Milton have for some time past restricted the insertion of their advv rtisemeuts to the columns of the Bruce Standard Such favouritism naturally evoked the dire displeasure of the proprietor of ihc'Herald, who, after giving vent to much righteous indignation regarding the “slight” cast upon the oldest (and certainly the ugliest) "up country newspaper in the Province, “ capped the climax” of his wellknown liberality by offering to “do the Council’s advertising for six mouths free of charge !”—an offer which was at once accepted. Fashions. —The latest fashion adopted by the Jiritish fe-jnalo is ,uot Ihe least wonderful of her many recent -innovations. In imitation of her learned grandmothers and great aunts, but for a different reason, she has donned stockings of a cerulean tint, and has become in fact, as well as in name, a bas-bleu. The Spanish hidalgo who boasted of his sangrcazul is completely cast in the sha lo by the girl of the period, who shows her partizansbip for Oxford or Cambridge ly. the color of her nether integuments. As they are not intended to be seen, the wisdom of the proceeding is questionable unless, like the actor who used to black himself all over when he played Othello, she wishes to thoroughly enter into the spirit of the part. There was a time when the maids of merry England displayed their devotion to the rival houses of York or Lancaster by the tints of their complexion. The modern Englishwoman is less poetic-in the display of her predilections. First Church. —The annual meeting of this congregation, held last evening, was largely [attended. The report of the kirk session dealt with the year’s transaction*, referred to the large increase in the attendance at the Sabbath schools in connection with the Church, the successful working of the Young Men’s Association, and the increased interest taken in the weekly congregational prayer meetings. The statement of accounts submitted, snowed a falling off in tho receipts from all sources, as compared with last year’s receipts, of L 172 8s lid. Into a long discussion that followed, a proposition to increase tho salary of the pastor to L4oo, and ultimately to LSOO, when the funds permitted, much .. p«rsond feeling and acrimony were imported ; and at times the meeting was totally carried away by the angry feelings which appeared to predominate. An amendment, calling on Mr Sutherland to resign, was moved, but the chairman ruled that it could not be put. A proposition to raise the salary, and one to fix it at L2OO, with the allowance from the sustentation fund added, were negatived, ami one by Mr Begg, fixing it at L4OO as before, wrs carried. Before the proceedings closed, the chairman said that in justice to himself he had to state that if LSOO a year had been passed he would not have accepted it.

Attempted Suicide. —A Chinaman named Wong Meng, being disappointed in his love matters, last eycning made several determined attempts to put an end to his existence. It appears that an abandoned character named Minnie Crawford, had taken compassion on this “Heathen Chinee,” but lastly she made up her mind to sever the connection that existed between them. this step aroused John’s ire, and he took a purely Asiatic mode of dealing with his false mistress, namely, to administer a severe corporeal punishment. A police court case was to have been tho result; but John not liking that his disgrace should be made public, made up his mind to put un end to his woes by suicide. Hu made a determined attempt to cut his throat, and indicted a severe wound on his forehead. Tho matter being reporti d to the police, he was arreste I and conveyel to the lockup. In order that ho migh not be able to do himself further injury, his hands were fastened behind his back with a strap when ho was placed in tho cell; but ho appears to have succeeded in loosening it, and, with the strap ho tried to hang himself from the cell door, when the constable on duty happened to look in, lie found him hanging, and in a few minutes he would have been in He

was at once cut down and conveyed to the Hospital, where he favorably. When convalescent, up at the Mayor’s Court, on the chttgo of attempting, suicide,: i-v.;, •"y The hoiu .member for the Duns'an is beginn ng to be appreciated in tha,North. . The Advertiser speaks of him id-this manner j— Mr Thomas Luther Shepherd is generally considered in Otago, we believe, to be a decided bore. His propensities in this direct 1 on are perfectly understood in the Otago. Council, and he has shovHi unmistakable sighs of a desire to bore the House of Representatives. Whether the House of Representatives is a less patient body than tho Otago Council, we know not, but we do know, that probably,. having receiveddue warning, the House has shown pretty clearly a determination to rebel, and not submit to the Shophe d infliction. In fact, Mr Shepherd was. coughed down, quite politely of course, and .accepted the inevitable with mild resignation, mattering something about more favourable opportunities. And the Press's Wellington correspondent informs us, in connection with the proposal that the Waste Lands Committee of the -House of Repressutat ves should in future report separately. Mr Shepherd’s inaumr was inferior to his matter. Reason- i able and salutary as was this innovation, the exceeding bad taste and the insolent demeanor of Mr. Shepherd very nearly succeeded in inducing the House to reject it. The House took- an opportunity of marking its appreciation of Mr Shepherd, by leaving him to exp ml his turgid impertinences on the bare walls, when ho rose to addresa it on a later occasion in the evening. The Fenian Prisoners. —In /the House of Representatives, on the 16th inst., the Hon. Mr Station!, in reviewing the reply to the Governor’s speech, said the ac tion taken by the Government in reference to the convicts landed at Lytttolton was a proper one ; but it was a very unfortunate oc- ’ currcnci that, amongst those convicts, there wore four prisoners wjio were political often ders. In these days of fa ling dynasties it was difficult to say who were disturbers o‘ the p?£tce, and although lie did not understand Fenian ism in Nep r Zealand, he could understand it in Ireland. They wanted a republic, and he was not prepared to say that it was not-a patriotic wish. .The very sympathy which had been evoke-l by those calling themselves Fenians showed how unfortunate it was that the Government had to act in this matter. If thosa prisoners came by themselves, he should have taken no cognizance of them. He thought harm rather than good resulted from the deportation of persons who, while thty bad mistaken views, had shown earnest sincerity in giving effect to those views. The Hon Mr Fox, referring to these remarks, said lu was glad the lion, member had expressed bis concurrence in the course the Government had taken. They had i o other course to pursue. It would never do for them to draw a distinction between the ordinary criminal and the political offender. It might be that they were not transporte 1 for their political action, but for criminal acts arising out of I that,. The Government Iml no means of : ascertaining their offences, but a rumor readied them that there was one who was concerned in the blowing up of Clerk on well Prison, and ho could not think they would have been transported for a long term of : years if it were not for crimes associated with their political offence. The Government could not .apply the thermometer ars to the degree of their criminality, and the only course they could adopt was to remove them. They did this in the most lenient manner. They took the course of shipping them to another colony. They had no choice in the matter. They had either to send iHom back or keep them here, but the captain of the vessel positively refused to take them, and there was no course but to Jot them take ship for New South Wales, taking care to intimate to tbs Government of that colony the character of their visitors.