THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2823, 2 March 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1878.

The meeting of householders, of tho school districts of Hastings and Ohinemuri for electing school committees were held—the former last night and the latter to-day. Condensed reports of the proceedings appear in our columns to-day, received by telegram and pigeongram. Ak officer of the County Council, accompanied by intending contractors, went over the Tapii road this morning to show the different sections of work to be done. This work is to be let in eleven sections to suit-the convenience of the small contractors. Mb Davis, of Mount Pleasant, has sent to the Hospital for tho use of the patients a bag of splendid kidney potatoes. Some of them are the largest and finest specimens of tubers we have seen, being four or five inches long.

A young man named Beaumont met with a terrible death on Christmas day. He was among the players in a football match at Walkley, a suburb of Sheffield, in which there are several extensive and deep quarries, and the field in which tbe match was played was at the edge of one of them. Beaumont was either unaware of this or in the excitement of the game he forgot it, for on the ball being kicked over the wall he jumped over at once headlong into the quarry below, a distance of perhaps 30 feet or 40 feet. He was taken up in an insensible condition, and was removed to the nearest house, where he died soon afterwards. A fractured skull, both legs broken, and a fractured arm were among the injuries deceased sustained.

Sic Gahuet Wolseley, writing in the Nineteenth Century, says of English army organisation that tho one great tactical superiority which our army possesses over all others at present, and which most, undoubtedly will go far towards helping us to victory should we erer be engaged in a death struggle with any continental nation, is, that whilst our enemy's battalion of 1000 men will be divided into four unwieldy companies commanded by four captains, assisted by only a small number of officers, our battalions of a similar strength will hare eight captains leading eight handy companies, assisted by several subalterns. It is the firm belief of those who have themselves commanded British infantry in action, and who are therefore the best judges on this point, that the foreigner, with his four clumsy companies, and without a proper proportion of officers, would be nowhere in such a contest.

A eecent number of the Bockhampton Bulletin, is responsible for the following:—On the morning of the 12th the sub-editor of this journal received from Bishop Bugnion a business letter, written on the 11th, appended to which .was a postscript stating that, on the previous day, the 10th, the writer saw the Turks marching out of Plevna, and that it had been captured. The bearer of the letter stated that the bishop had informed him that the time of the capitulation was between twelve noon and two p.mi Just seven days afterwards our cablegrams announced that Plevna was captured about noon oil the 10th. In reply to inquiries made from the bishop afterwards on the subject, he stated that " the angel showed him Osman Pasha surrendering and the Turkish troops marching out as prisoners." He also adds that this is but one of many cases in which he has been caught up and informed upon the mysteries of the future. The bishop is firmly convinced that revelations are made to him periodically for wise purposes, and quotes numerous, instances from his, own experience in which bis " prophecies "—if he may use the word—have been fulfilled to the letter. We can vouch for the bona fides of the Plevna prediction, at any rate. The more we encourage the use of fruit as an article of food, says an- Exchange, instead of so much flesh meat, the more we shall destroy the taste for strong drink. In a recent number of the Journal of the Society of Arts, we find Shirley Hibberd, the great horticultural authority, saying:—" Those who smoked and drank generally disliked fruit, whilst on the other hand the eating of fruit created a distaste for alcoholic liquors, and ho defied any man who was a real' fruit eater to take to drink. He was satisfied that the more consumption of fruit was promoted tho more you would promote tha sobriety of the people. Not that every apple contained a Temperance society ready made, or a number of good resolutions; but whilst farinaceous and vegetable food generally was antagonistic to the use of alcoholic liquors, the use of fruit was still more so, because it brought the palate into that delicate condition that strong drink was distasteful.

2Egi.es in the Australasian writes: — A medical man in a leading country town of Victoria a few weeks ago. desired to visit the seaside with his wife. Business was not very brisk, and he saw his way clear for a pleasant holiday. He had, however, one female patient whom he deemed to be past all hope of recovery. Considering it to be useless to remain to see the last' of her, he considerately left in the hands of her friends a certificate of the cause of death, with the date blank, and having thus made everything comfortable, started for his favorite watering place. Strange to say, the patient from that time began to improve, and is now convalescent. TnE title of M. Victor Hugo's nejp work, which is in fact a history of tue coup d'etat, will bo " Histoire dun Crime: Deposition dun Te*moin." It was written at Brussels in December, 1851, and January and February, 1852. M. Hugo was, as is well known, President of the CohseM do Insistence, and he here describes all that he did with his friends, and everything he saw day by day and hour by hour. It is said to be one of the most interesting and important works ever written by the' distinguished author—as dramatic as a romance, and as startling as the reality it describes. Simultaneously with the issue of -the French work an English translation will

bo commenced in tho Graphic, and tho work will subsequently be published in two volumes by Messrs Sampson Low and Co.—Atherucura.