THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1973, 1 May 1875, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1875.

Both tlilShdftlarid arid Grahamstown Fire Brigades met for practice last evening. The wells in Grahamstown were tried with the hydrant.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Board of Education, held on Thursday afternoon, amongst other business, a letter was received from Waiotahi asking approval of Mr B. J. Mopro 5 as teacher at the Thames School. Approval granted.— A letter? was received from Kauaeranga, asking authority to purchase other sections for £20, in lieu;of.those bought from Mr Edwards Tor £160 — The arrangement ,fbr the purchase**pf Mr Edwards' land is not complete, and the deeds are at Mr Edwards' disposal. The original)amount voted by.the Board is at the disposal of the committee for a siteand building, but the Board are not in a position to increase the grant at present.

A letter from a miner on the .Palmer has la'ely ; been published in the.'.Waikatip ;Mail. This is one of the cheerful items he narrates :—" One person here cleaned £500 by following up the rush, digging graves at £l per ..grave.; Directly, a man dies (a common-occurrence).there; are, lots, of people to be seen hurrying towards the debased imari's tehfc to try and find any gofd that he might have left. In nine cases out "of ten - the dead body ;is thoroughly searched.".,,' , . „.. — TmFlatest development of newspaper enterprise in Englarid Tis Tthe'ruriningTof a special train from London to Liverpool via Birmingham,! for "the'special purpose of delivering, the Times newspaijer at the i breakfasbtables 6i its subscribers along: that line of railway. The train leaves 'Eustbn^quare' every morning at 4;55| and reaches Birmingham at 7.30, which is one houivand'SObiinntes^earlier than the time at which the other London dailies reach that town, ©n the way, the papers are made up into parcels and thrown out at the; various .stations, p^ssed^; those for townis *■ few miles'! away from the line being dropped at the nearest places.

Two or three years ago (says the Sydney Morning/Herald) people *were beginning vt'o "think that the mining interest was about to overtake the pastoral, if not to •exceed i£ in importance ; and some of the most sanguine amongst us were anticipating the time that the gold yield of .New South' Wales, which in the three years from-1870 to 1873 inclusive had doubled itself, should equal or surpass that of VieI toria. Those anticipations have proved 1 fallacious. The yield of 1873 showed a , considerable decrease upon that for 1872, | and the yield"for 1874 a 'still larger deI crease upon that of 1873. The returns for 'Victoria during 1 the last nine years I hare shown somewhat le t ss of fluctuation, i arid have indicated rather a'steady though gradual decline ; but we are a very long I way below the -Victorian level. Last year's falling off in Victoria amounted to about one-ninth of the previous jearls, product. —Tirtfew ,f?ouxh";\V ales the dej crease amounted tp about one-fourth, and late acc®unts from New Zealand show that the yield in that colony has diminished in about the same ratio. The Queensland returns are not before us, but it may be* said that,~ with a slackening, supply from'Victoria s New Zealand, and New South Wales,' there 'is less ground | than ever for the apprehension that; the I production of gold will exceed the demands of the world's expanding commerce.

• '" Oxygen " writes to the TinTes as a plea for fresh air:—" It has been my practice never io t sit or' sleep in a room without a portion of .-my window being open at all times. My. children with one exception, of which I will speak presently, have not suffered from the numerous diseasps to which childhood is most liable, I, such as measles, scarlet or other fevers, whooping-cough, &c. The exception occured^in Canada, when I was serving my regiment. /In that country as well as at .home, it wiis my j#bit to have a small portion of a windowaeft open in each room, even in the coldest" weather. 'At the commencement of'one winter, however, yielding to the advice'of well meaning, but m^taken friendsj I departed from my usual custonw Every window was hermetically closed,' and to this I attribute^ 'what followed. A short time ►afterwards I was attacked by asevereand dangerous bronchial disease which I did not recover for months. My only'daughter died of measles,.of a most malignant type ; my wife's health, was not good, and my servants and the children of two of them who lived in my houses were all very,ill. At no other time during my service in Canada, which extended over ' some years, did' we suffer from any sick ness."

Tn^Bruce Herald says :—" A contemporary, somewhere or'another, has given its authority to a canard that trouble has arisen between Mr Vogel and Mr Thomas Eussell."

The Alexandra correspondent ot the Tuapeka Times, writing an account of a school feast, relates how a few of the thoughtful ladies present, tired of the games and frivolous amusements peculiar to tke occasion, retired to a sheltered spot and resolved themselves "into a Social Science Congress, and the first subject discussed was the " lords of the creation." The proceedings commenced, says the correspondent, with an interesting lecture on ' The. inferior quality of colonial husbands, with some suggestions for their improvement.' The lecturer, in the courre-of her remarks, drew attention to the miserable quality of colonial husbands, especially in our own disrict. She said that it was necessary that the subject should be dealt with purely on scientific principles, and hoped that none of the members would allow : their judgment to be 'warped by false sympathy,for fathers, husbands, or brothers, and they would be obliged to .confess that the men are a bad lot, in fact so bad that, although, it was her original intention to have offered some suggestions for improving them, calmer consideration had convinced her that they were past redemption. The lecturer concluded with an eloquent peroration in. which she said, I 'Search the past history of the district, and, amongst the men whose bones are now mouldering in the dust, your memory 'cannot recall one fitted to be the companion of women'; examine the men in our midst, and there is not one who fulfils his duty as a husband and a father, or a citizen, and

it is sorrow that I draw this logical inference that there will be one in the future.' At the conclusion of the lecture a discussion ensued cliarqgjjerised by a calm tone of philosophic thought; several of the.members demurred to the inferior male creatures; but the meeting ad*, journed without coming to a decision."

Messes. Turquand, Youngs, and Go., accountants, have certified (says the Printer's Register) that they have examined the books of the Daily Telegraph, and found that during the ten months ending Oct. 31,1874, the number of copies of that paper_ printed was 45,981,405, giving a daily average ,of 176,174. The Telegraph will be permanently enlarged this month, and will ,be printed on several of Hoe's new rotary machines at the rate of 100,000 an hour.