Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1875, 6 January 1875, Page 2

Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1875.

The Colonial Prize -Firing*.to commence I on the 2oth instant,, will possess an I interest - outside the district of the Thames, in which the contest will take place. The site fised upon for the firing is more than a mile from the town— nearly two, we should think, from the Telegraph Office; yet we do not hear of any preparation, or even intention to effect direct communication by telegraph between the rifle range and other parts of the Colony. This matter has been brought under the notice of Sir Donald McLeao, we believe; but he appears to have forgot fc»n or has left it in abeyance. The latest news of the progress of tho firing will be looked for in every town in New Zealand which csn boast of volunteers ; and the forwarding of this news would be greatly facilitated by the construction of a telegraph line from the Grahamstown station to the PaTawai Eange. In the interests of their constituents the Anglo-Australian Press Telegram Agency ought to urge the construction of this line on the Government. Evening journals should lend their assistance in tho game cs,use,or else they will have to put up with news second hand. To keep up -communication between tho Colonial Prize Firing liange and tho Telegraph Office, so as to. give evening papers the news they should get will be impossible, : and unless the wire be stretched as indicated the morning papers will be able to give tbe best and most interesting details of each day's shooting, thus anticipating their evening contemporaries. There was no difficulty in extending iho Telegraph for facilitating matters in connection witli ihe Transit of Venus, - end we do

not apprehend tliero will be any objection to an extension of the line for the convenience of the press in giving publicity to proceedings in connection with tbo Colonial Prize Firing, which possesses a wide spread interest. We trust the matter will bo seen to at once, so that, if the work is to be done at all, no delay may occur.

Hrs Wobship the Mayor has convened a public mfictin* to.taVo into consideration tho best means of receiving tho Southern Representative Shootists expected here about the 22nd or 23rd instant The meeting will take place at the Pacific Hotel on Friday next at 4.30 p.m. ' ■-

We aro informed tliafc-OQiisi'Jcr*blo disappointment was Mt-fej^aSi-umbor irf persons, who attended at the surgory of the Public Vac-cinatorto-day to huvc their children vaccinated end found no ono in attendance. Tho Yacciuatiou. Inspector will r.o douhfc make au inquiry into this matter, as it is eimpiy absnrd to expect thot the provisions of "Tbo Public Health Act" can bo carried out; if'the paid officials uner the Act neglect their duty.

At the Eeeident Magistrate's Court to-day tho bueineps was left to two justices, one of whom was in attendance at the usual hour. The second, who had been duly warned to attend, put in an appearance at eleven o'clock, having thus kept everybody in attendance at> tl.e.Court waiting for half an hour. Justices of the Peace, we think, ought to mate aom* FiierifiVe fhensselyea inatead of keeping a number of persons waiting their convenience f r half an hour or co at a time, as was the case to-day.

Companies of men with, swags cro daily taking their way to the upper country. Thia morning another gang of men, numbering about twelve, were seen struggling under. Urge provision bags in the direction of Shortland wharf. Whether it is owing to this exodus of the people, ov whether holidaymakers hare not yet returned from their tripe, ifc is a fact that the greets at present wear anything but a crowded, or moderately populated appearance.

We would attract the attention of the authorities to a plac3 in the Albert street footpath near Dowden's Auction Marty which has become very dangerous to passenger". A plank being entirely lcose, the unwary pedestrian treading ,upo.i it will find himself suddenly precipitated, and most prcbably with a broken leg as the result.

In the District Court to day t'e cue Hoekins t. Thomas was adjourned to Auckland by consent. A be»u«iful and truthful illustrstion was given of the fact th'it men can always rrjoieein the midst of misfortune, co long as that misfortune docs not; touch them. The moTrimemfc iritbe Court to-day wiw quite infectious while the professional "limbs of the law" were settling up the amount of foats to come out of the plaintiff's pocket—a trifle of £14 7s. Tbi* is paying .rather dear for the recovery of one's own, or what one conceives to ba one's owa. But it does good to 6omc ore The money is pub in circulation. Acd as^for the little jokes of the learned gentlemen, it has been accepted as an incontrovertible and therefore kindiy rcocived fact that " What ill soe'er king* do the Greeks must pay tho piper." Tho king* thus Erealring would be represented by the legal gentlemen, and the Greeks might bo taken as representatives of a confiding public. Not that lawyers neccsscrily do ill, but people who do not understand the mystores of the law aro jomctimes inclined to rebel againsfc the—'o them cnigmatiu process of piling up the ngony in the matter of costa.

A young woiritm named Marian Paul, who appeared in the .dock with an infant iv her arm?, was tbia morning charged with stealing a silver wafch f-©vn a busbbian at the Melbourne Hotel yesterday. The bnsbman, a foreigner named Henry Austin, gave his evidence in a manner which suggested that after giving information to the police of hia loss he had repented the act, and wished to screen the accused all ho could. The cvid^nca og inst the young woman, -although, vsry eisspiciou?, wi<s comi'lpred insufficient to warrant a conviction. The accused, a young person of fair Rddr^'s and appearance, made a statement, to the effect that slio had sold her hair to'buy bread for her children. She also made ono or two statements which did nofc reflect murh credit on the character of the house in which tiie alleged robbery to:-k place.

Tim Melbourne corses pendent of tbe.Ballar&t Star, cays ': —It i* to bt» feared that there is jusjb new a suicidal ciaze, for yesterday a bt»y named Abraham Lewis, who was birched for some trival fnulf, left his licma declaring that-he would c^eatroy hiui3elf, and has not yet been heard of. It. will shortly come to this thut if rarenls correct their children for misbehaviour, tho next place in .which they may cxptct to find the:n will be the morguo. If they only knew bow disgusting a body looks fished out of tho Yar a, and how l.ttlo sympathy life, hiis wuh d^at'vineucha shape, they would certainly heeitale before making such cbcap ard rns^y ex' ibi'fcna of them-

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At the Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday night, 2nd instant (says the Melbourne Telegraph), Mrs Truesdell delivered a lecture in expl»oalion of St. James'.t., 14 15., In openirg her subject, she said that no wordi could be plainer thiJ-n iLo.sp of the vtrsesiu question, and shs had always found, through a long experience of five ycßi's, that the words of the Bible* were the true remedy against a'l the ills to winch flesh U heir. Her first ©jperienca was gained personally, she having suffered for years from disease for which clio could find no cure. She put away ali medicines and' simply p.-nyed to Q-od for relief, «nd fler eocse time obtained it. Since then'tho Iwd cured by prayer diiseaecs of all sorto. As ex amplcs she stated several fonderful cases of curee of sciatica., rbeumatifm, whitlows, scarlet fever,'spinal disease, and others which had 'been given up as hopeless by medical 'me n At ihe cloee of her lecture she mvi ed anyone ,pr eont to come on the pint-form and try the cure, which was simply eff. cted, ehe eaid, : l>r anointing the head with one drop of oil, and proying. "No oi c, .however, seewr d inclined lo take the opportunity. A ger.tleinan in the andieHce asked Mrs Truesdell if she were a Spiritualist, and said that her method of healing was similar to that known among them a3, the heal jrg by touch. She said her m?ng was r.ot by Bpiiitualigra, but simply by i|Ml iting ore! using the words-;-* In the naiu im ;d jtroi'gth of Jesus 'Christie healed."

An outbreak of bo&yital gangrene stud pyrmia is reported in tho Portland (Victoria) Hospital. By'this ismefint a ppceies of gangrene peculiarly characterised by its contagious and infectious tiaturo —:v disease occurring en* deuiically in hospital's from defective ventilation or the ovt r crowding of surgical cibcs. Tho resident medical - officer .ealia on tho authorises to toko etrps to premit. i'e spread.

A omMrGGXKD soldier, a Mormon, recently a?ked Brigham Youujj lo supply, by n roimclo, the missing limb ; bub t'ho apostle, not to bo caught, made this i*ep'y . —" I can in an instant; produce a new leg in pUca of tho old ono ; but then, you sep, if I do, ifc will causa great inconvenience *o you in Ifeayou, for aft-v your exultation to glory, tho original Irq vrill come ba-jk to the spiritualised body, Tnino n\«o being of divine ori.in becomes immortal, ani in this case observe how vory avtkwar! n, thrco'legged sngcl from T3tah would appear among tho inhabitants of the eternal w -rid ! "