The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1778, 14 September 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1874.

The regular fortnightly meeting of the Hibernian Society will be held at' their Hall tbis evening, at half-past seven o'clock.

. A sumbeb of logs—about thirty or forty— were brought down with the late fresh yesterday* amd more were expected to roach the Ts9:mi to-day.

Thb Tararu Gardens were full of life on Saturday afternoon, a number of people having been attracted thither fey fee announcement that the Scottish Band would perform there. Dancing on the grass and other amusements were participated in by the Moreationists.

Wb are in recceipt of Parliamentary Papers bearing the following titles:—Gold Mining Legislation (further papers relating to) ; Immigration (further correspondence) ; Report by Mr. Blactett on the Wanganui River, with papers on the same inbject; W»tive Reserves Account, Tar»»aki, for the year ended 30th June, 1874; Ninth Report of the Marine Department, for the year ended 30th June, 1874; Selection of Sites for proposed Coastal Lighthouses (correspondence relative to) ; Excise Duties (report of the Select Committee oti). Alio, Nos. 15 and 16 Now Zealand Parliamentary Debates.

Wb ar» in receipt of the following Acts of {the General Assembly passed during the last session:—The Excise Duties Act, 1874; The Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption Act, 1874; The Licensing Act, 1873, Amendment Act, 1874; The Conveyancing Ordinance Amendment Act, 1874; The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act, 1874; The Colonial Bank of New Zealand Act, 1874; The Electric Telegraph Act Amendment Act. 1874; The Justices of tbe Peoce Act Amendment Act, 1874; The Offences Agftinstthe Person Act Amendment Act, 1874 j Tho Supreme Court Judges Act Amendment Act, 1874; The Westland Loan Act Amendment Act, 1874; The Wellington Hospital Loan Act, 1874.

A PAETY, consisting of Mr. Holloway, Mr. E. W. Puckey, Mr. James Oorbett (Grahamstown), and Mr. A. Porter, left for Ohinemuri to-day at niue o'clock, for the purpose of pivinpf Mr. Holloway an opportunity of seeing the country the opening of which i» soon expected. The party return tljis evoning to allow Mr. Holloway to accompany the Superintendent to town by the Golden Crown ta-morrow.

Pkinob Louis Napoleon (Prince Imperial) is imported as quietly and steadily pursuing his studies at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, applying himself diligently to his duties, apparently indifferent to the strife now prevailing at Versailles. He has recently been visiting the Eoyal Arsenal for purposes of study, and is always accompanied when walking abroad by Count Clary and other attendants. The Prince will probably finish his studies at the academy at the close of the year.

Two children, a boy and girl, aged respectively seven and eight years of age, recently came to their death at Tuross River, near Cadgee, N.S.W., from drinking rum, which had been inadvertently left within reach. From the evidence we gather that the two children on Sunday afternoon, after drinking the rum, got lockjawed, and were afterwards seized with convulsions. Dr. Gentle gave it as his opinion that two glasses of spirit would produce coma and death in children of the age of deceased. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict that the deceased Albon Hunt and Sarah Ellen Hunt came to their death through takiiig an overdose of alcoholic stimulants.

When the alarm caused by the fire in the Academy was at its height on Saturday night, a lady took the opportunity to perform an aerial flight from the gallery to the pit; and performed the feat as successfully as might be expected under the circumstances. It is matter for speculation, however, whether sho could have done the same trick without a serious result had the audience beneath not formed a kind of "soft" break to her fall. Ifc would be impossible to describe the surprise of the Pitites in the immediate vicinity of her fall, when they found themselves "oppressed" with their lovely burden : that is left *■ o the imaginatien of the rearier. Some mon, also, in their hurry to make an exit, dropped from the gallery into the pit, fortunately without doing any damage to themselves or others.

" JEfIH-EB," writing in the Australasian says :—ln a comparatively small community like ours, a press writer is very likely to be identified —sometimes erroneously, but very often correctly. Men who ought to know better constantly take the unwarrantable liberty of connecting a writer with some particular contribution. It seems to me that there is but one way of meeting impertinent inquisitiveness, and it is this, "I decline to gratify your curiosity. You have no right to ask or to preiume anything. I might be able to satisfy you now, but the next time you inquired I might not be abJe. I therefore neither deny nor assent to your assumption. If you feel aggrieved there is a responsible name on the imprint of the paper."

A dtjel was fought somo time ago at Dresden by General yon Kotzebue, the Russian Minister to tho Court of Dresden, and Count Luckner, a Saxon nobleman. • Count Luekner had been engaged to General yon Kotzebue's niece, but the engagement wbb broken oiF in a manner which was offensive to the lady's family. Her father being prevented by illness, the Russian Minister sent a challenge to fight with pistols, which was accepted. Tho seconds and umpire, however, prevailed upon the general to alter the distance proposed from five paces to ten. The seconds on the port of M. yon Kotzebue were Colonel van Fedoroff and Herr yon Krotkoff, both Russiaoß. Count Luckner's seconds were Herr yon Arnim, a Prussian officer, and young Count Bismarck, the German Chancellor's son. On the signal for the first shot being given the Russian Minister's pistol missed fire and the count's bullet went into tho air. 'Xhe count's second shot"went through tho general's hat, while the general missed his aim entirely. The general was for exchanging shots a third time, but was overruled by the umpire and seconds, who considered the demands of honour fully satisfied.

Mb. James Eekshaw has written the followisg letter to the Thames Advertiser. We republish it as the matter is one of public interest, and has been referred to in our columns: —Sir, —afe the Hospital Coma it cc meeting last Wednesday, when showing thab it would have been much better for us to hare had the complete evidence of oacb. person before us, us one remark sometimes modify or may strengthen another, I, as an instance, said that we in the report had quoted from Bailey, that he had seen Power's wound, and it was a bad cut. I said, in order to give the full meaning intended, we oughb to have finished his remark, which was; "in'fact it was a very bad smash." Mr. Frater immediately rose and said that he distinctly remembered that the words just named were not used by Bailey. There is no man on whose word I could place greater reliance than Mr. Frater'f, and not having my notes of tho evidence with me I refrained from further remark. But on looking at them I ' found as follows : " I saw the wound; it was a very bad cut, not a clean cut, but a bad smash." The morning after the meeting I saw Mr. Prater, and explained this to him, and he looked at hi* own notes, and there has it, "I saw the wound; It was a bad cut, ragged, badly sniashed." Mr. 3?rater was sorry for having spoken so hastily and so confidontly, and there it might have rested, but jl have been so repeatedly spoken to about it since, ft*d as every man values his reputation for truth, I thought it might be beat thus publicly to explain.