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

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2836, 18 March 1878, Page 2

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

Yestebdat being St. Patrick's Day, tho members of the H.A.C.B. Society msrched in procession to the St. Francis' Catholic Church, Shortland, headed by their band, who performed the " Cujas Anitnnm" [Slabat Mater), nnd several national tunes, including " St. Patrick's Day in tho morning." The procession numbered 80 or 90 strong, and the mem* bera were all decorated with the regalia of the order. In the evening the Key. Father Chastagnon delivered an able ptiuegyric on St. Patrick, giving an interesting sketch of his life and works amongst tbe ancient inhabitants of Erin. During the service the hymn to St. Patrick was lung.

A special meeting of the County Council is called for to-morrow at ten o'clock to consider matters in connection with the visit of His Excellency the Governor, and the opening of the new County road. At half-past ten o'clock tomorrow there will be a joint meeting of the local bodies to concert measures for the reception of the Governor on the occasion of his visit.

The B.s. Durham is advertised to make a trip to Coroman-iel to-morrow under the auspices of the Coromandel Cricket Club. She will leave the Goods Wharf at 5 o'clock in the morning.

Aoain, a clean sheet presented itself at the JU.M. Court this morning.

A fish hawker at Shortland said a tolerably good thing to-day. There is a large log on the, spit near Shortland Wharf, at which the fish merchant was pegging away with nn American axe. A passer by remarked that he had a lough job. To which replied the fish hawker: " Yes ; this is something like a tale in the London Journal: 'to be continued in our nfit.' I have been at this volume on and off for two years, and I haven't finished it yet." As the " Dictionary of Foreign Phrases " has it: Hic'Jthis fdndi.

These was a man standing in Pollen street, near Scalcy street, this morning reading in impressive tones from a book. At n'rsf. his audience consisted of a small boy und a large dog, the latter apparently owning the eccentric reader as muster, for he wns most attentive. Very soon tho peculiar spectacle attracted a larger audience. To all appearances the man was laboring under some mental derangement, and was a fit subject for surveillance. Later the man was arrested, his mental aberration being supposed to be. " alcoholic."

A foot race which possessed considerable interest amongst the friends of the runners, and surprised a good many by the result, came off at Parawai Gardens on Saturday. It was between Mr J. A. Miller and Mr W. Curtis—distance ICO yards. The start was considerably in favor of Curtis, but Miller, ran in good style, collared his opponent, and won the race by a yard.

These is an old African known by the euphonious soubriquet of Shanghai, who resides in a tumble down old ediQce at Kopu. He is a great favorite with the natives of tho surrounding hapus, and when the County road works were started he was put on by one of the native foremen j.on a section of the road on which native labor alone was to be employed. All went well for a week or two until the eagle eyo of one of the County bigbugs discerned the dusky visage of the poor nigger to be more of the Ethiopean than Malayese, and told the Maori overseer that Shanghai would have to be discharged, as he was a Pakeha. Shang. now indignantly informs his numerous visitors " Dal he don't care a tarn for gettin' the sack, but to be 'suited by being called a buckra (white) man, ugh!" the last word being intended to express unutterable disgust.

The Russians have an abiding belief that the Turkish fleet has been bought— not indeed by Kngland, they cannot quite bring themselves to think that—but by a Hebrew syndicate, consisting of the Eothschilds, Sterns, Cohens* Montefiores, &c , acting under the concealed instigation of the Hebrew Premier; and they fully anticipate that when the peace crisis approaches, the war-ships over which the Crescent floats will quietly steam out of troubled water, and that a Russian demand for them as a contribution towards a war indemnity will be met by the Turks with a civil non possumus : " The ships do not belong to us, but to the company which has bought and paid for them." How much truth there may be in this belief remains to be shown; if it prove wellfounded I fancy self-respecting Englishmen will view the transaction with hardly less favorable eyes than the , .Russians themselves. An on (lit from tho Mediterranean fleet is that, to check talk which is distasteful to him, the Duke of Edinburch has had a legend written out large and stuck up in the captain's cabin of tho Sultnn: " Please to remember that the Emperor of Hussiais my father-in-law."— "Atlas in The World. •

A man named Lake proposed to furnish his native town " with an exhaustless water supply," and the Mayor said he " believed tlint a Lake could do almost anything in that line."

" Me President," 3irid a delegate at a recent convention, " I think we should adjourn till to-morrow, as I notice that ihere are fifteen delegates in this convention here who are absent."

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