The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1949, 3 April 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1875.

The two candidates for tlie vacant seat in the Provincial Council meet on the same platform this evening, to explain their political views. As affording a good Saturday night's entertainment, commend us to an election meeting, especial!}l" when the polling day is near at band. There has not heen much excitement over the matter to-c?ay. The chances are considered about equal, and on all hands it is believed that the polling will hs very close. The two candidates are very well matched in some respects, and something will depend upon the impression made this' evening by their ppeeches at the Theatre Eoyal. We recommend the electors to go and decide for themselves as to which they consider the most fitting "person to occupy the vacant seat. The most fitting will be the man who can. do the most for the place ; and tbatmost will, we believe, be very little. The essential element to the success of Provincialism is entirely wanting in Auckland, and that is money ; and the Provincial Government cannot get blood from a post, by any Imown process any more than other people.

Two fine samples of quartz from Oliinonsuri have been sent to our office by correspondents. One is full'of metal—;he other has only a small quanti yof metal, but this looks very like gold. We don't like to be positive, but if any one could supply us with a few tons of similar ttone we would : risk the expense of treatment at one of the numerous batteries on the field. We are requested to stato that the steamer Enterprise "will leave for Auckland to-morrow morning al seven o'clock instead of this evenicg, as previously advertised. With reference to the stone which Mr J. B. Beeche caused to be crushed—namely, a parcel of 40 lbg., which yielded some ounces j of gold—Mr Beeche informs us that the stone did not come from Ohinemuri, but, for reasons which he declines to give, ho will not cay where the stone camp from. He distinctly etates that he has never been asked if the stone came from Ohinemuri, or he would have had no objection to say no at once. Some days ago we called attention to the case of John Windsor, a carpenter who lost his arm by an accident at the Bright Smile tramway. We then suggested that the Bright Smile Company or the contractor for building the tramway should initiate a subscription for Windsor's relief, bufc it would appear t^at nothing has been done for the poor fellow's help. We have been requested again to call attention to the matter, as we are informed Windsor has a wife and four cbildred, who are destitute, owing to the poor man being deprived of the means of providing a living for himself and them. We would urge this case upon the consideration of the charitably disposed. Acute preparations are proceeding ftfr Monday's election at the Shortland Court House, which will be the central polling booth for the election to take place on Monday. A certain mine manager on the Thames goldficld, when treating with some men for a contract, displayed an accommodating spirit, as obliging as it was novel. The men having come to commence work in terms of tender, he asked them for a deposit, of whioh no mention had been made in the advertisement. They confessed to being sans the necessary monetary consideration to devote to this purpose. The manager;' however, was a man ot resource and bethought himself of the spokesman's watcb. He took the watch as a guarantee of good faith. The Presbyterian Church people have adopted the suggestion thrown, out the other day by Mr Benshaw, we believe, that they jbould turn the Karaka Creek into the ground round their church and fill up the hollows with tailings. To-day a dam wa» run aoross the oreek and the stream turned into the church property. This will answer two purposes—fill up the unsightly g>ound around the church and stop the deposit of tailings about the mouth of the Karaka.

Thb dark mystery connected with the pared of stone crushed at the Prince Alfred battery, and which by many was supposed to be a sample of stone taken from the Prospectors' claimj'has been the subject of considerable comment. We may state for the information of our readers, that the quartz was a Government teat. We are not at liberty to state where the stone was obtained; for reasons, which, if not obvious, are sufficiently good. It was not procured from within the Ohinemuri block, and to make known the locality at present would be immature and excessively harmful,

A CASE was heard in the R.KL Court this morning, in which theie appeared such contradictory statements as to offer considerable difficulty in coming to a decision. A Mrs Mclnnes charged a Mr Morris with a most ■violent assault, and Mr Morris was prepared to bring evidence that complainant had given gross provocation, and that she was drunk. The Magistrate reserved his decision until Morris,could bring bis cross action. ?Both parties appeared very respectable.

An eßteemed correspondent has furnished us with an account of the Good Templar excursion to Okinemuri on Monday last, but as it comes rather late, the interest in <he matter having waned, we refrain from publishing. Our correspondent assures us that the trip was thoroughly eajoyed by every one, the passage up and down being devoted to ■lDging, dancing, and other amusement*. Referring to the "stick," our correspondent perpetrates a little joke. He say*:—-"We were brought up rather suddenly on Te Rangehora Bank. There was a run on that bank for four hours, yet that bank was not broken." We may add, neither was the steamer, or the excunionißti would hove fartdill,

Thehe are a number of valuable dogs in the kennel ofthe Grahamatowa police etation. The Grahamsfcown coniiogent of the Thumps Borough Fire Brigade meb last evening. A wet practice ■was engaged- in, under command of Captain Wright. The wells some time since completed for the Council by Mr Rtiwdeu, Foreman of Works, were ogaiu tested, and found to confirm the opinions expressed concerning them at a previous trial.