The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1790, 28 September 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1874.

The Cute Company are reported to be getting a little gold, the reef improving. The Cental Italy got thirty poundn of specimens on Saturday night, ■which.will help the crushing now going on to a fair average.

The monthly church parade of fcfco Thames Naval Brigade was held yesterday. The members mustered at their shed in good numbers, all the officers being prerent, and marched thence to the English Church, headed by the band of the Brigade, who discoursed Home excellent march music by th« way.

A Ci.T?BCraMAK says: —" I once married a handsome young couple, and as I took the bride by the band, afc the close of the ceremony, and gavo her my warmest congratulations, she tossed her pretty face, and pointing to the bridegroom replied, 'I think he is the one to be congratulated.'"

In another portion of our present iwue appears an abstract of the new regulations for volunteers. Those -who are in possession of the old rules and regulations will bo able to discover wherein they differ from the new. The regulations affecting " dress" would appear to be imperative, and must materially interfere with such a corps as tho Thames Scottish, for instance.

It was noticed this morning that from the foot of Mary-street down to Grahamstown there wai a trtiil of blood, distnetly defined, and in some places the depoiit must have been tolerably copious as the patches were very large, and of a good sanguinary color. If the unfortunate who parted with so much " existence" wns a human, he must feel considerably weak this morning.

Lately, in one of the streets of Hokitika, near the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, the leading horse of two which were attached to a dray suddenly disappeared from sight, only his head appearing out of the ground he had broken through. On examination it wte found that the ground had formerly been mined, and it is supposed that drives extend in various directions, into which quadrupeds or other heavy bodies of aiay other kind may fall..

At the E.M. Court this morning Mr. J. Stewart was charged with having committed a breach of the licensing Act, by exposing liquor for sale without possessing a license. It appeared that Mr. Stewart had taken over tho good of the Queen's Head hotel, but had failed to put in the necessary noticp, and thus rendered himself liable to be charged with a breach of tho Act. Mr. Sub-In?pector Bullen stated that the case had been brought chiefly with the view of giving publicity to the nnw Act. If the measure is so strict in its operation, persons obtaining trausfers of pub» lie-house licenses will be compelled to be more guarded than has hitherto been deemed necessary.

The following is a veritable petition, signed by »jxteen maids of the town of Charleston, S.C., and presented to his Excellency Governor Johnson, of that province, in the year 1733: —"The humble petition of all the maids whoso names are underwritten :

Whereas we, the humble petitioners, are at preseat in a very melancholy disposition of mind, considering how all the bachelors are blindly captivated by widows and our own youthful charms thereby iseglccted; the consequence of this, our request, is tfcat your Excellency will for the future order that no widow preeume to marry any young man till the maidi are provided for; or else to pay each of them a fine for satisfaction for invading our liberties, nnd likewise afino to belaid on all such bachelors as shall be married to widows. The great disadvantage to us maids is that the widows by their forward carriage, do snaj^ up the young men, and have the vanity to think their merit beyond ours, which is a great imposition on us, who ought to have the preference. This is humbly recommended to your Excellency's consideration, and hope you will permit no further insult a. And we poor Hiaids, in duty bound, will ever pray."

Wiktkb clothing, consisting of gentlemens' overcoats, real macintosh, coats, are being sold to euit all purchasers at Joseph Moso3 Thames Cloth Hall.—Advt.

Eveky description of Dyeing and Gleaning, done on the shortest notice at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, near corner of llichmond and Rolleston-streets. —Advt.

Thj3 Nelson Mail understands that a gentleman who is on a visit to the colony for the g#od of his health, and who is connected with the Portland penal establishment, having heard of the system of prison labor in Otago, made some enquiries on the subject with the following results :—A gang of 30 immigrants were at work at a spot on Bell Hill from which a gang of 13 prisoners bad a day or two before been transferred —the 13 prisoners working seven hours a day (the hours of labor are ecvtm per day in winter and nine in summer) actually lent out two more waggon loads of material per day than 30 immigrants did— the immigrants working eight hours to the prisoners' Beven.

Attention is thus directed by a contemporary to a simple safety lamp recently invented at Horns, and which may ba of service to miners:—"Take a phial bottle of the whitest glass you can find. Insert a piece of phosphorous of the size of a pea. Pour upon the phosphorous as much boiling oil as will fill one-third of the phial. Cork the phial so as to exclude all air. This is the safety lamp. When it is required, open the phial to adn it the atmospheric air, immediately re-corking it. The lamp is alight, and will give at least as much light as nn ordinary miner's lantern. When the lamp becomes dim, merely open the phial for an instant, carefully re-stopping ifc, and repeat the operation when required. It is said that these safety lamps last six months without further trienming."

Mb. B. K. TxliEb's prize medal wrs ngaia competedfor ©n Saturday last at the Parawai Butts. It will be remembered that the conditions upon which this prize was to be finally obtained were that some member should be the highest scorer three times consecutively, The previous winner was petty officer STewdick, who ou ibis occasion gavo place to Seaman Grundy. Grundy also won a gold locket which was not given on the same terms as the medal. The weather was extremely unfavorable for shooting practice —indeed, it has been little bolter since the commencement of this month: however, »ome excellent scaring was nvido. Capital taste is frequently shown in ihe bestowal of prizes among our volunteers. In order to afford the lowest scorer on Saturday an opportunity of coming off with a certain amount of glory, a prize of domestic utility was given, namely, a baby's rattle, the happy winner being Seaman Jennings.

Db. BeowN'Seqttarp, in a late lecture delivered by him in Boston, United States, states that there are many facts which ihow that morbid phenomena of respiration can always be stopped by the influenca of arrest. Coughing, for instance, can bo^ stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lip in the neighborhood of the nose. Pressure there may prevent a cough when it is beginning. It is generally known that sneezing may be stopped by this plan, but it ia new to mary that it can check coughing. Dr. Brown-Sequard, however, is a great authority, says the Medical Press and Circular, and asserts it. He adds that pressing in the neighborhood of the ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is also preventive of hiccough, but much less so than of sneezing or coughing. Pressing very hard on the top of the mouth inside ia also a means of stopping roughing, and to show that the will has immense power, he mentioned that there wai a French nurse who used to say, " The first patient who cough* here to-day will be deprived of his food." It was exceedingly rare for a patient to cough.

Somb time ago was chronicled in this column the untimely death of a goose through its flying too high. Another instance of stupidity on the part of the goosa has had a fatal termination—but lot the gander who witnessed the ecene tell his own talc: —A goese came to an untimely end ths other day in Shortland : cut off short, and, lite many other geeeo of ». higher order in tho scale of animal life, came to be so entirely through its own folly. A gentleman was passing down Willoughby-street with a fine black dog—a young retiiever, and tbis dog was floundering along in gleeful frolic, whicbi a poose standing in the psth took exception to: it. commenced to yaw and gasp and excitedly to throw out; its neck. The dog stopped still, and waited the goose's coming with open jaws, into which the head of that goose presently intruded. The dog closed his snappers, and tho goose was cooked. The dog looked proud, but his master wore a troubled expression of countenance, because the own.fr of thaS goose had just emerged from his door. "Is that your dog ? " said he. "Yes," said the other. "Well, this is my goose, and gee.«e is scarce juet now, so you'd better hand over the market value." He did go. It is not eaid whether that, dog suffered any, bvit ha hasn't caugbfc any more fowl since. Moral, to bs remembered by all sorls of geene: let sleeping dogs lie.

The Wellington correspondent of the Otago G-uordian, in a paragraph on recent telegraph scandals, after refering to tho Ward-Chapman eaquiry in the Houße, has tho following :— With regard to tho aforesaid committee, we very seldom hear it a'luded to; but I regret to see that there has been another Tory disreputable scandal relative to telegrams, as exposed by Mr. James Mackay'a letter to tho Evening Star at the Thames, and -which, you have/of course, got in full detail by this time. It hss had a most damaging effact on the minds ef the public as to the reliability of | telograms a» published in the papers, as, although it is not likely that any respectable paper would knowingly lend its aid to any such nefarious attempt at extortion us that indicated in Mr. Wilson's letter to Mr. Vogel still the fact that the fabricated telegram was published remains, .and the public do not hesitate to draw conclusions more or less wisely. We often hear a great deal of the censorship of the Press, as indirectly exercised by the operation of the present " law of libel;" but when a newspaper pledges its guarantee for the " (substantial correctness " of what novf turna out to be an undoubted fabrication, and one, too, tending to bring the G-overnment of the day not only into contempt, but also into possible collision with an excitable body of men, like the Thames miners, the evil results of which to tho colony generally it might bo difficult to estimate, surely no one, not even the most ardent lover of liberty, could think that Government. overstepped , the bouuds were they to prosecute such conduct to the uttermost. ' , »