THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2541, 27 February 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1877.

By the arrival of the European mail we are enabled to lay before our readers fuller, though not.later news than we have already afforded. The calograms received by us, and duly published have given the pith of what we publish to-day, which is a carefully prepared digest of the items of news contained in the various papers we hare received. It cannot of course be expected that at this distance from home any New Zealand newspaper can profess to give long calograms of that which happens from day to day. Even the newspapers we ourselves receive are but epitomes of what has transpired, and out of these again we have to take the portions most likely to be read with interest. But the cable does this for us. It tells —of course, not exactly—what has oc-curred-a couple or three days ago, and so prepares men's minds for the fuller details which the next mail steamer may bring. The time may come when a calogram from New Zealand to England will be thought no more of than a similar message /ent now from London to Amsterdam, Paris, or Naples would be, but until that time does come New Zealand readers must be content with such scanty items as are sent until the mail arrives to give them fuller details. From the calogram now four days old, published by us to day, it appears that Lord Harrington and his following are not prepared to go to the House oa a question involving the approval or disapproval of the policy of the present Government, which seems to show that the Conservatives, notwithsland the alleged split between their leaders alluded to by us yesterday, are still much too strong to be ousted from the office they have now held for some time. The Emperor of Germany, in one of those carefully guarded speeches for which he> or his ministers, are noted, thinks that peace will be preserved, and yet. protection to the Christians in the, Turkish Provinces insisted on.

In yesterday's issue of our contemporary appeared an account of a difficulty which has cropped up at Parawai regarding the ownership of a piece of land there, and commenting onwhaJfc. are no doubt lawless proceedings on the part of some Maori women. We have been in possession of some of the particulars of this business for some days, but refrained from giving publicity to the same until we were able 1o ensure the reliability of our version and give both sides of the 1 story. It is well known that the point in dispute ia the use to which I a certain piece of ground at Parawai known as the tapued bush should be put, the natives alleging that as it had been an old burying ground it could only be allowed to be used as. a church site, and we are informed, that the Church Missionaries have all along known this and had no wish to violate the implied agreement. Lately, however, the ground has been sublet, and the lessee (to whom no blaino can be attached) proceeded to utilise the ground. The Maories did a foolish thing in taking the law into their own hands, but neither this nor the subsequent proceedings can justify the Advertiser's use of the indecent terms applied to one of the prime movers, namely, Mrs Wi Turipona, the wife of a regularly ordained minister of the Church of England in New Zealand., A gentleman who assures us that he knows the particulars of this business throughout has promised to give us the same in a latter, and we have no doubt that he will be able to show that the article published in yesterday's Advertiser was not only intemperate and ill judged, as coming from an interested quarter, but as wrong huregard to facts as it was unbecoming in tone and choice of terin3. »

We have been requested by Mr H. J. Weeks lo state that he has not written a letter of apology to a certain gentleman as stated in the Advertiser'this morning. ..;..'■ .'.-;.■ ■ ; Tasnis were no cases brought on for hearing before the Resident Magistrate at tho K.M.:Court this morning. ; ■ _

A schools a, 1 am in New Bedford has been censured by the Committee and suspended for the rest of the year for boxing a child's-ears. The Standard says if a child must be struck Jet the blows be laid upon that part of the body which nature has kindly provided for that purpose, but not upon the portion containing the most delicate machinery of the human frame.

Insertion of the following has heen requested hy!lMr John Graham: —" Constabulary Office, Auckland, 24th Feb., 1877.—Sib,—With reference to your letter of the gist inst., complaining of Detective Brennan having made a statement to tho effect that you were the executioner {of Martin Curtin, I have jthie honor to inform you that it has been ascertaiaied after enquiry that tho Detective did not make sjich a statement. As I was present at the execution of Curtin I can certify that you were in no way concerned in it.—l have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant (signed), W. J. Parity, Sub-Inspe^tiQi' A.C.—Mr John Graham, Upper Albert street, Grahamstown. '

The Grahamstown Fire Brigade had .a practice last night in yievy of their match with the Shortland Fire Brigade. The aoftditions of the match are to run 200 yards with the. hose reel, fix the hydrant to the fire pljj£, run out 80 feet of hose, and a second delivery of 80 feet of hose. One point is allowed fos? the run out, one for first water, and one for second water. Last night's practice

was considered satisfactory, but the date of the match 13 not yet definitely fixed. The following will reprosfnt Grahamstovvn: —Messrs Wright (enptuin of the team) and W. Young (runners up), J. Williams (hydrant), Laurie (Ist \ coupljng)j Pearce and Jones (2nd coupling), Coombes (Ist branchruan), Tonge (2nd branchman).

We have a distinguished visitor by the Zealaudia from San Francisco, in the person of James Mace, the Champion of Kngland. This well-known pugilist is en route for Sydney and Melbourne, where he will give sparring exhibitions. Mr Mace is a hale, hearty, and even gentlemanly man, 43 years of age, and of pleasing appearance. Upon landing, he went to Pevkins' Occidental Hotel, and partook ,«f a refresher. He was soon recognised through a portrait in Mr Perkins' collection, by a number of persons who followed him through the streets. Mace is accompanied by Mr Harrison, his agent. It is related of a famous dean, who flourished in the early part of the century, that he, on one occasion, gave great scandal to his cloth, by being seen, one day, in animated conversation on board a steamer with Mendoza, who, in his day, was as famous a pugilist as Jim Mace was a. few years ago. Being taken to task by a brother clergyman, for his affability to a member of the prize ring, the dean, who was an enthusiastic sportsman at heart, rubbed his hands and replied, " Ah, I knew he was at the head ot" his profession, and I meant to get something out of him." So with those of us who may not approve of pugilism, and there, are few now who do, the presence of Jim Mace in Auckland may be interesting as bringing us back, in the shape of the last veritable champion of England, a glimpse of those by-gone days when the prize ring was a national institution, and Jim Ward drank his sherry at the tables of the nobility.—Auckland Star, Monday.

A besident on Block 27 writes to us as follows:—" Sir,—Cannot some check be put on peach stealers, as I must say they goat it wholesale, as youwillseefrom the following :—A friend of mine who lives on the Hape, had saved for jam-making two well-laden late peach trees, and was congratulating himself on the quantity of jam they would produce, when a friend called on him, begging a few of the said peaches, when, lo and behold ! on the owner going to get a few. not a single one was to be found on either tree, they had all been plucked' by some of these marauders. This is not the only case I could mention."