THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2786, 18 January 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1878.

The secretary to the Parawai Highway Board has notified to Dr Kilgour, Returning Officer for election of Thames Harbor Board, that in consequence of there not being a quorum at the meeting of Ihe Parawai Highway Trustees yesterday, no member has been elected to represent the district at the Harbor Board. Only Messrs A. Hume and W. Davies attended the meeting yesterday. Parawai will therefore be unrepresented at the Harbor Board for a year, and the Board wil! consist of eight instead of nine members.

We hare recently heard several complaints at the careless way which butcher boys ride about the streets. To-day a little boy was run over by a lad working at Mr Adcock's butcher shop, and was rather badly hurt.

Amongst the additions lately made to the Queen's Hotel is a spacious billiard room, just now completed and fitted with one of Alcock's best full sized tables, with every appliance for the game. The room is lofty, and well lighted by windows on each side. This should prove a great acquisition to the Queen's Hotel.

The fire that occurred at the Willoughby Hotel one night last week was accompanied by some suspicious circumstances. It occurred to some who were present at and just after the fire, that it had been set alight from the outside. Mr T. Manning, the present occupier, seems to bo of this opinion, and he offers a reward of £200 for such information as will lead to the conviction of the perpetrator, the previously offered amount of £20 uot having elicited any information.

Pbofessoe Bbn Allah gave his first entertainment of magic and mirth at the A cademy of Music last night. The house was crowded in every part, and tbe different tricks comprising the first part of the professor's programme were cleverly executed, and afforded much amusement. Mr Hennicke exhibited the aerial suspension trick, and Ben Allah's ventriloquism concluded the performance. After that there was a gift distribution, when a number of elegant and.useful articles were given away to the fortunlte holders of tickets.

A man named David Watts, a tributer in Coxa tribute of the Crown Princess mine, met with a rather serious accident to-day. He was working in the stopes oh a stage when a stone fell out of the side, and knocking down the stage it precipitated Watts to the bottom of the stope, a distance of six or seven feet, breaking some of his ribs. He was conveyed home and medical aid sent for.

Ik passing sentence upon H. S. Meyers for fraudulent insolvency, Hi§ Honor Judge Gillies said:—Henry Solomon Meyers,—lt is with great regret that I see a man who has hitherto occupied such a commercial and social position as you have filled placed in your present circumstances. At the same time you must be aware—at least you ought to have been aware, for you were more likely to be aware than the other prisoner convicted of ft similar offence—of the nature of the law relating to debtors and creditors. In your case the offences of which you have been convicted, although not done in such a high-minded way, still they are of a graver character, not only in respect to the extent but to the nature of them, for they were done for your own benefit, or for other individuals favoured by you. Neither is it my intention to administer a severe punishment in your case. The object of the law is not so much to punish individuals as to deter persons from the commission of offences against it. The object of the bankruptcy laws is to relievo the honest debtor, and at the same to protect the honest trader. Its further object is to create a wholesome regard for honour and fair conduct in commercial matters, and to enable business to be done with straightforwardness and honesty. Seeing the facilities that are afforded by the Courts of law to the just debtor for relief from misfortunes that may overtake him in the legitimate course of his business, there is greater reason that dishonorable practices should be punished. The sentence of the Court upon you is that for each of your offences you be imprisoned for six months, without hard labor —the sentences to run concurrently.

The following is the way the New South Wales Government do things. The Town and Country says:—A correspondent writes : " On the Kichmomd line, at one of the stations near Windsor, a pane of glass is broken. A report of this event is mado in due form, and by the proper authority. After the paper or

papers linro passed through the usual and circuitous course, in the Sydney office, an ofiiccr aLSydney is made acquainted with the fact, and is seat up to report upon tho same. On his return, this officer reports to the proper authority in Sydney that tho event is true, that the glass is broken, and that it is a proper and legitimate expenditure of public money to hard the glass put in. Some day following this report having been made, a man is sent to take the measurement. It was out of the province of No. 1 reporting officer to measure the pane ; his office was merely to report. No 2 messenger having returned to Sydney, reports as to the size of the glass required, and on some future day returns to effect the necessary repairs. Wo are not told whether the man took up enough putty, and all the required tools. If a casualty of this kind occurred, a fourth day would be consumed in the putting in of one pane of gla.-s in the serrice, and under the direction of the Government. One would like to know the cost of such work as this. The official report No. 1 will cost at least 12s 6d one day. The workman's one day, spent in measuring the glass, will cost at least 8s more—in all 28s 6d. Then there is the cogt of tho glass, putty, and six rides up and down to and from Windsor and Sydney, together with pen, ink, paper and sundries. What private firm could stand such officialism, and waste and robbery P "

Ex-Pbesident Grant, in a letter just received by his relatives, states that he has found the labour of accepting the hospitalities of his English friends more arduous than the cares of State, and that he has determined to accept an invitation to visit the Mediterranean in one of the vessels of the European Squadron. He does not expect to return to the United States till December of next year.