The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1952, 7 April 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1875.

His Honor Mr Justice Gillies took his scat on the Auckland bench for the first time on Monday, when he received the congratulations of the Bar through Mr F. Whitaker, father of the Auckland bar, on his elevation to the judicial scat. His Honor is reported to have replied in the following terms :-— " I do sincerely thank you for the kind welcome which you have given me, and the kind wishes which you have expressed to me in the position I now hold. Coming, as they have done, through one whom I hare ever looked up to as the leader, par excellence, of the Bar of New Zealand, I feel these kind wishes more deeply. And I can very truly say that I would not have been sorry had your position, Mr Whitaker, and my own been reversed on this occasion. Called upon to occupy this Bench as the successor of one so peculiarly fitted to fill and adorn a judicial office, I may well experience pardonable timidity ; and I feel I must rely upon the consideration, forbearance, assistance, and co-operation of the Bar in the discbarge of my duties. From my knowledge of the Bar I think that that will not be denied me, nor do I doubt that the cordiality which has hitherto existed between the Bench and the Bar will continue. If you and I, gentlemen, will remember that we are integral parts of this Court for the administration of Justice —that you are not merely advocates, and ought not to be merely advocates for your clients, but their representatives for the purpose of obtaining Justice* and that you ought not to foster technicalities, but render them subservient to the administering of Justice —that Justice to be valuable must be speedy, and that in no business or profession is it more necessary that a high sense of honor should be maintained than in the Bar—l say, if we remember these things we will raise the character of the profession, and win the confidence of the public. That I shall satisfy you with my decisions Ido not expect; that I shall not err Ido not expect either. But Ido expect that when I err you will give me credit for errors only of judgment, and notof motive. I again thank you for 3 our kind wishes, and assure you I shall endeavour to deserve them?'

If any reliance is to be placed on the telegrams published in another part of oar present issue, from the Daily Southern Cross, the Auckland Evening Star has been egregiously sold. One day last week the latter journal published a long letter from its "special" at Te Kuiti, giving details of the preparations for the great native meeting, the nature of the road to the Maori King's territory, and other matters. It would now appear that the special has ne^er been to Te Kuiti at all; but obtained his information second hand. Now that we are informed who the " special" of the Star is, we are not surprised at this. John Nott was for a short time a teacher on the Thames, but it was discovered that he had mistaken his vocation in life. He w«s acquainted with a man named Moffatt, a resident at Kuiti, and on his invitation he started to visit that terra incognita to Europeans (except of a certain class), but got no further than Kopua, a settlement but a few miles from Alexandra, and accessible to Europeans generally, where he picked up certain information which he transmitted to the Auckland Star. The Gross correspondent states that Nott is supposed to have left Kopua for Auckland on Friday last. We are sorry for the Star, because it has always displayed a praiseworthy spirit of enterprise in catering ! news for its readers ; but the proprietors could have known very little of Mr Nott when they entrusted him with a mission as " special" to Kuiti. With the exception that he has done certain little friendly offices for Moffatt, the King's pakeha, he does not possess a single qualification for the post of a " special" correspondent, and to those who know the man it will be difficult to account for the Star's being im« posed upon in such a barefaced manner; which it must have "been if the Cross correspondents' communications are veracious. This matter would not have attracted notice but for the bombastic manner in which the special's first letter (and la3t, it appears) was heralded. The enterprise of the Star was likened to that of the New York Herald, which equipped Mr H. M. Stanley for a mission to Central Africa in search of Dr Livingstone, and which has accomplished other feats of journalism never attempted before. It will be a source of chagrin to the spirited proprietors of our contemporary to find that they have been duped, but the lesion will not be entirely lost. In future enterpriie» of the kincl Jthey will not ohooit

a man for a mission of importance until they have some better guarantee of his fitness for the post than John Nott can possibly have given them.

Thebk were no cases set down for hearing at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

Thb Thames Natal Brigade met for drill in the Hall, Brown street, lost night. There was a good attendance, band and company, the memberg rolling up in unifona.

It may be infinitesimal, but tliore must be something more in. homoeopathy (says the Geelong Advertiser) than a great; many give it credit for. We are informed that during the recent measlc epidemic 59 deaths have been reported in Goelong by allopathiij medical men, whilst not one has baen reported from the homoeopathic dispensary or surgeon."

Thb Thames Naval Brigade opened the •Ptson during whi-h they hold the r weekly dancir g parii. s last evening. Tho attendance was fair, the music g^od, and a very fair erjoyable evening was spent. This i« a capital source of amusement, and one which is patronised to a largo extent by thopc who are not so cramped in their ideas to think it frivolous and evil.

We notice that Mr William Green has commenced the manufacture of hits and caps at luis premises, Brown street, Grahamatown. Mr G-reen has for a long time successfully • carried on business as a dealer, and in turning old ha*s i;<to new, but he has now." been induced to commence making hats and caps. Those who know the comfort of wear ing a well fitting hat will be able to be suited in any style or make.