THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2514, 26 January 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1877.

We would remind our readers that all those who are anxious to have their names placed on the list of electors of members to represent them in the General Assembly of New Zealand must see that they are duly registered at the registration office of the district in which they reside some time during the first three months of the year, that is, between the. Ist of January and the 31st of March in each year. While drawing attention to this point we might also add that the electoral roll itself, though supposed to be revised every year, is in sore need of. a thorough revision. Either through apathy, carelessness, or from its being no one's business in particular to look after it, scores of names are left on the Thames list which have no right to be there, names of persons some of whom have long since left the district, while others ( are dead, and others again no longer retain the necessary qualification to vote which they had when their names were first placed on the roll. This sort of thing ought to be looked into, and we hold it to be the duty of every one who looks into the list and sees there the name of any person whom he knows is disqualified from any of the causes we have referred to above, to give information of the same to the proper quarters, and thus considerably lighten the duties of the Revising Officer, besides withdrawing from the unprincipled any, inducement to personate a voter whom he, the said unprincipled man, can chance to know cannot come forward himself.

It will be seen by a calogram that" the Marquis of Salisbury has left Stamboul, and other representatives will follow. According to the same message, which, when received, was only two days old from London, showing what a great boon the recently laid submarine cable is to us, Mr Gladstone says that the question narrows itself down into whether Turkey shall continue to enjoy the advantages of the treaty which followed the conclusion of the Crimean War. Those advantages, which she has bad and enjoyed for upwards of twenty years, were purchased, for her at an expense of a hundred millions of English money, and a vast amount of French blood and treasure, and in return she has shamefully violated her privileges, perpetrated and allowed to be perpetrated gross oufrages on her Christian subjects, and shown herself utterly undeserving of European sympathy. We hope that England and all the European powers will answer Mr Gladstone's question in the negative.

Oub readers will probably recollect the "patent aluminiumj pens " fraud perpetrated in the southern provinces of the Colony a few months ago. About the same time an individual successfully palmed off upon a number of housewives in the country districts of "Wellington a re-silvering solution, warranted to mate articles of electro-plate as good as new with one application, and sold at the low price of five shillings a bottle. This individual, or some one of his kind, has paid a visit to the Thames, and to-day a wellknown publican who is not generally "had"' (as he termed it) very easily parted with five,shillings in exchange for a bottle of re-silvering solution. We don't know how many more were victimised, but in case the. gentleman vendor is still here, we wish to do him the kindness of preparing people for his visits. We hare

reason to believe that the solution sold at j five shillings per bottle is worthless, rather calculated to remove what little silver may attach to electro - plated articles than to replate them ; and having inspected a bottle we should say that it is a weak solution of some powerful acid —probably nitric with a little silver dissolved in it. The itinerant vendor has perhaps just kept within the bounds of the law, but his " solution." is a fraud, and he will probably not wait to be interviewed by any of his indignant victims.