THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2063, 14 August 1875, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1875.

Owing to a pressure of advertisements, &c, we are compelled to omit a leading article, telegrams, commercial and other interesting items.

The Cricketers' Dramatic Club will sustain a great loss in Mr H. Butler, who leaves the Thames this afternoon.

The Lord Bishop of the diocese will preach in St. George's Church to-morrow and ho;d a confirmation in the evening.

It will be seen by advertisement in another column that the members of the Grahamstown branch of the H.A.C.B.S. purpose celebrating their anniversary by a soiree dansante, to be held ia the Academy of Music. Host Curtis will cater on. this occasion, and a sumptuous bill of fare will be provided. We h«wre bo doubt but that the forthcoming entertainment will be as great a success as those which have preceded it. _

A Pkovincial''Gazette published yesterday contains further lists of Chairmen and Auditors elected under the Highways Act, and Fence Viewers under the Fencing Act, and Collectors under the Education Act. The districts of the latter are also defined.

The parable of " Five Barley Loaves and Two Small Fishes" will form the subject of Mr Cartwright's discourse in the Karat a schoolroom to-morrcw evening.

The Tairua has by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette been constituted a Special Licensing District, under the provisions of the Licensing Act Amendment Act, for making provision for granting licenses on goldfields.

We have received from the Government Printing Office, New Zealand Gazette No. 45, The Financial Statement, and Nos. 2 and 3 New Zea^nd Parliamentary debates, bringing down the debates to August 4.

Those who patronise the entertainment given by the Airec Troupe to-night Trill certainly not he able to. complain of not getting their moneys worth. In addition to the wonderful feats-of Airec himself and the other attractions which make the performance well worth the money charged for admission, Airec announces that immediately after the performance gifts will be distributed without fear or fa ( vor to those of the audience holding the lucky numbers, nor are these gifts of the usual flimsy character of those which are sometimes given away on these occasions;, but will be real substantial presents to those who obtain them. We cannot mention all, or nearly all the gifts which Airec at great expense has provided for the occasion but we may mention, that they include packages of tea, 50 lbs of oatmeal, live chickens, tins of salmon, coffee, and preserves, a calf's head ready dressed for cooking, electro plated coffee pots, sets of plates and many other things, all or portions of which he will distribute in proportion to the numbers who are present, ie., he will, we believe, give one prize for every 7 or 8 persons present. The manner of drawing will be as follows : —Each person on entering will be presented with an envelope containing a ticket, either numbered or blank, those having numbers will be sure to obtain some prize at the end of the entertainment. Two envelopes will be given to those in the stalls, and should anyone wish to obtain farther chances of a prize, he can purchase additional envelopes at a shilling each or three for half a crown. On Tuesday Airec gives an entertainment in aid of the funds of the Hospital, and the generosity thus displayed by him entitles him to a double, claim on the public for support to-night. --

It is stated that there is a ring established to acquire all the available areas of agricultural land atph'inemuri, by men who.have not the remotest idea of settling op the same, but who look forward to making a " the" out of them. We have: no doubt the regulations will be strictly enforced, and it is quite possible the object, of the ring will be defeated. It would have entailed some expense, but it appears only reasonable to suppose that a belter allotment of the limited area of land would have been secured if the land had been previously surveyed. Then when the tid-bits had been chosen) the indifferent land might have been let in larger areas, with advantage to the public and the Government. .. .^.. -.

We are informed that the Maori Chief Eapana is making a claim for damages sustained by him during the prize firing at Parawai in January last. It appears that to make the range it became neces sary to pull down a few panels of his fence; which were ■ not put up again when the firing was over. This, when mentioned, was remedied by Major Cooper, but some of the portions of the fence were put up in a manner not exactly the same as before the removal, and Bapana now claims £30 as compensation. What the Defence Minister will say to the claim we cannot say, but it appears to us very like an attempt at extortion.

Fbance has heen avenged at Jast for Goethe's taunting reference to the geographical ignorance of Frenchmen. A countryman of Goethe's, writing in a widely-diffused paper, the Berliner Tageblatt, prefaces a thrilling description of the wreck of the Schiller with an account of the place where the disaster occurred. The Scilly Isles, he tells us, with scrupulous precision, are " a not very well-known group of islands in the South Sea, between Cook's Archipelago and the Society Islands, in the'l6'2B deg. of south lat. and the 105*50 deg. of west long." The fact that the catastrophe was known immediately afterwards in England, and that the survivors at once found refuge there, arouse no misgivings in his miud. Full of his idea of the South Sea, he sagely speculates upon the probability of assistance being afforded from " the neighbouring Tahiti, where most European vessels call on the homeward voyage from America I"

It is some time since we wore called upon to record anything in the way of " selling off " or " immense reductions ". in the clothing department. But we are now reminded that Messrs J. Cosgrave and Co., are calling a sale of-, drapery and clothing at their establishments in Owen and "Albertstreets. The stocks in these establishments embrace £20,000 worth of goods. Cheap drapery and winter clothing will now be the order of the day.—Advt.