The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1732, 22 July 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1874.

A vra*; interesting summary of European and American news will be found in our proBent, istue, to hand by tho arrival of the Cyphrenes this morning. In consequence of the extreme longth of the telegrams and financial statement several local matters remain over. Ik our present iesue will be found a carefully prepared digest of the Premier's Financial Statement, delivered in the Home of Eepre■eritatives lvst nigbt. It will be seen that Mr. Vog-1 has made out a good case. The statement was much shorter t uan those. of preceding years, and ss soon at it was com* ' pleted the Houso adjourned. Owing to the * pressure upon our snnce by the San Francisco ■r nail news comment upon the statement has been excluded. Is the Warden's Court to-day a number of cases were called, in which the United Pumping Association sought to recover drainage ' contribution from a number of claims in the Mountain and Waiotahi. On the application of Mr. Macdonald these cases were adjourned till the 29th inst. One—against the. Crown Prince—was strack out, that company '" having agreed to contribute. Mr. Brassey, on behalf of the Golden Calf Company, intimated that that company intended to defend the action. .

Fbom the Otego Guardian we learn that Mr. and Mrj. Wiltshire have commenced their feat of pedestrianiarn, in a marquee besido the Princess Theatre: Mr. Wiltshire walks 1000 miles in 1000 hours, and Mrs. Wiltshire walks 1000 half-miles in 1000 hourj.

A OBAVB jolce :—The energetic mombers of theWesiport Cemetery Board officially notify that they have ".duly..authorised " two of their number to coll en nil pjr'soiia holding or " occupying " burial plots to pay the purchase-' mor.ey. " How," asked tho Times, " will they bring'remiss own piers to book? Will they blow vigorous Gftbriellian bias's on trumpets, oi will they just burrow holes in the. ground, and bellow down tho •haft, ' Come up and pay your rent?'"

Thb Ovens and Murray Advertiser reports that a lively scene recently took place at the Wesleyan Church, Wangaratta. When a marriage ceremony was about bring concluded, an irate lady attaoktd the bridegroomJn the most virulent- manner, and the officiating clergyman and tha bride had to take refuge from a shower of bricks under the verandah of an adjacent dwelling. The bridegroom had acted the role of a " gay Lothario" in New Zealand, and his first love had followed him to Victoria to claim him as her own.

" At the Hobart Town Police Ooiirt, " says the [Launceston Examiner, ''Mr. , Henry (Jroyes was fined 20s. 6d., or in default, to be imprisoned for one .month,,for the heinous offence of declaiming, on the,'previous day in the public streets against the present. Administration, and offering for sale * a very nice lot—viz., the Tasmanian Government.' He stated that Although Messers. Kennerly, Fyeh, Chapman, Giblin, end Moore were unfitted for (heir present positions, yet those gentlemen could be put to some employment that would prove remunerative to thtir purchasers."

On Saturday night last after dark, lays tho Otago Times, a gentleman who lives at least five miles from Tokoinairiro, was in the townsliip, and was obliged, by business to stay all sight, wishing to let bis wife know of his intention, and wanting a document that he had left at home, he wrote to.her, and tied the note round his retriever dog's neck, ahdj sent him off to his home. There were five or six witnesses to this, and a good many bets wero made for or against the return of the dog. In three hours, however, tho faithful creature came back to his master with a note from his wife and the desired document, made up in a pared and tied round his neck.

If en are now busily engaged in faking down the wire tramway lately connecting the Shooting JStar claim, on the Moauatairi, with the Moanatairi main line of tramway ; so far as the wire rope is coccerncd it appears almost as good as new, as # is also the iron work, but that portion of tha wood work that hat been* fixed in the ground appears to be useless for further purposes. The wire tramway is*being taken down iknd will be reerected under Government supervision. Its future site will be on the Lord,' Nelson ground, to connect several minea in the vicinity of Greenville's on the Hape Creek, where it is stated plenty of stone can be obtained that will give remunerative returns, even at a very low yield of gold per ton.