THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2611, 22 May 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1877.

The report from the Moaaatairi mine to-day was of such a character that the upward tendency which the shares had for a few daya past exhibited was more and more confirmed. There were received two hundredweight of picked stone from the winze on the No. 9 reef, and one hundredweight specimens taken from the stopes, leaving a good show in the faces. The interim retorting yielded 9070zs of gold. The shares rapidly advanced, and after the meeting of the brokers were quoted at from £13 10s to £14. This was, we believe, in a great measure owing to its : becoming known that the directors had decided to drive from the winze on the run of gold, which, it was represented on 'Change, had been determined upon. ■

Me Alex. Hume is a candidate for the office of Borough auditor, making the fourth in the field.

And yet another! Captain E. K. Power is a candidate for the auditorsbip of the Borough, and solicits the suffrages of the burgessec.

To-day we -^mi the first instalment of Mr Stanley's last contributions on explorations in Central Africa, from the Daily Telegraph.

-An advertisement appears in another column convening a meetiDg of the friends of the Rev. James Hill, to take place in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock.

The s.s. Hero arrived in Auckland yesterday evening before the Eotomahana left for the Thames, and the Rotorua arrived in the Manukau. The gale y.t.s blowing so fiercely last night that '.he Enterprise was unable to face it on her trip to the Thames. Several other steamers were alsopreventedfrom starting at their usual time for northern and east coast settlements.

The members of No. 2 Co., Hauraki Rifles, are reminded there will be a parade of the compa?jy to-night at half past seven o'clock for all members who can make it convenient to attend.

The rainfall of yesterday — which was not very heavy, being only a trifle over an inch, in twenty-four hourscaused a fresh in the Kauaeranga and tributary creeks, which brought down a large number' of logs to the Shortland Saw Mill Company's booms. It is probable that the rain-fall was much heavier on the ranges than on the flat.

They are having "a bad time of it" in San Francisco, says a private letter received by the last mail by a gentlemen resident on the Thames, and, the writer gives the following reasons :—^ First, utter failure of the crops in the southern portion of the State (California), making our surplus wheat for export fcr next season only 200,C30tons instead of 500,000 as expected. Feed is so scarce that all the lambs were killed as born ; they are now killing the flocks for the pelt only. Secondly, stocks have fallen -to a about one-fifth of their value one year ago, and every other man is ruined." The writer further advises all who are making bread and butter in New Zealand to remain here. If they can't do that then he says come.

The Rev. Pelham Dale, rector of St. Yedast, foster-lane, not Laving made his submission to Lord Penzance as directed under the Public Worship Eegulation Act, and his three months' suspension having expired, the Bishop ol London has sequestrated the living, and au official notice to that effect was posted on the church doors last Sunday, and was guarded by a policeman all day. It is addressed, "To our beloved brother in : Christ, James Horwood, gentleman, greeting," and authorises him to collect rfl fruits, tithes, and other payments due? 10 the rector ; to pay. out of the same the sum of £25, being a quarter's salary due to the Itev. Carles Tabor Ackland, the curate in charg ■, and to account to the bishop for the residue thereof.

The French papers say the discovery has; just been made in the environs of Pont-Anthou (Eure) of a young woman whom her parents have kept confined in a cavern for nineteen years. TLoy fed her, on the refuse of vegetables and stale bread. The unfortunate creature had nearly lost all resemblance to the human being. The nails of the hands and toes had grown to an extraordinary length, and curving r.ound had penetraJsd into the flesh. The state of the cave -. ::,s indescribable. She- has completely lost the*faculty of speech, and only utters groans and cries most horrible to hear. Great precautions had to be taken in bringing her from the den into the light. An investigation has been commenced.

Mk 11. M. Mitchell, one of the Borough auditors, is, we notice, a candidate for reelection, his address to tne burgesses appearing in our advertising columns. Two auditors are required, and there are already three candidates in the field.