THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2954, 3 August 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1878.

Connaisbubs of works of art, and all who can appreciate chaste and beautiful articles without any affectation of critical discrimination, should pay a visit to Mr Eenshaw's store, where has been just opened up a fine collection of bronzes. These bronzes are, not only mere things of ornament, but comprise many articles in common use in the office or household. There are candlesticks for the dressing table or piano, lettef' weights of elegant design, match boxe3 for fixing to the wall, letter clips, and other useful articles. Elegant stands with globes for gold fish; horses, dogs, and other animals; pieces depicting scenes of the chase, and gome classical groups of great merit. Theornam'ental articles are fitted for the drawing room mantelpiece, for brackets, and other situations which a cultivated taste might suggest 5 and the anatomical prop rtions of the figures are

suggestive of the hand of the artist in modelling. Nothing of tho kind has been seen here before, and from an examination of the prices (attached to each article in plain figures) we should say that Me Kenshnw will hare a speedy sale for the whole collection.

A tkleg-bam to Auckland Star says: The Hero arrived in Melbourne on the 22nd July, and was advertised to leave again on August 2nd. Many deaths have occurred in Melbourne from typhus fever.

We direct the attention of parents and others to advertisement in another column of the evening classes to be commenced next Monday at the Kauaeranga Boys' School. The fee per quarter for English subjects is £1 Is, but for those wishing instruction iu some one or more, and unable to attend every evening, terms can be arranged in proportion. Latin, French and mathematics are extras.

The followiug is clever, though vulgar: ':—" Therq, was some excellent pigeonplucking at a noted hotel down in Melbourne the other night. It was glorious work for the ' unemployed,' and three chevaliers d'industrie netted close upon a thousand between them, the pigeons being two well-known young squattocrats, who. were ' bust up' in a most approved style. However, the young fellows were not so much asleep as folks thought. They signed cheques payable not to 'bearer,' but to the parties who won the money, and further crossed them ' Bank of so and so.' Now the effect of this was that the holders could get no third or 'innocent' parties to take them,-and, of course, on presentation to thcr bank, the cheques were net honored, being stepped. Sharp practice, but quite justifiable. So it seems the hawks were plucked instead of the pigeons." . .

Somb prizes for the No. 2 Scottish, to be fired for shortly, will be exhibited at the dining-room of the Governor Bowen Hotel this evening. These are the prizes referred to in our columns some days ago as having been promised (or collected) by Quarter'Master T. Rawdon. The donor, it appears, is unwilling to have his name mentioned, but Mr Eawdon is the medium through which these (we'believe valuable) prizes are to be handed to the .company so rapidly coming into favor.

An all-comers' match will come off tonight at 'Mr Barlow's gallery for a valuable prize, viz., a braided velvet smoking cap.

The weekly company parade of the Hauraki Engineers was... .well attended last night, although several -members (firemen) were absent on leave.; A:competition in drill took place for the prizes kindly-promised by Sergeant Grundy and the officers for those members of the corps who paraded during a period of six months with the cleanest arms and accoutrements, &c. The present was the secon4,bi-annual competition, and resulted in the first prize being awarded to Sapper Langie, second to Sapper Thorburn, third to Sapper Heriva I, ana fourth to- tapper J. McNeice. These four prizes were owing to the four competitors having an equal number of marks for " soldierly appearance " sett!?d by. a severe test at various drills, Sergeant-Major Grant ;>cting as umpire in the absence of the com*. manding officer. The corps competed today in two squads for a M.L. rifle and a gold pencil case. . ,

The following urgent telegram conveying news of the safety of the Hawea was published as an " Extra " after the ordinary issue of the Star had gone to press last night. The telegram relieved the suspense which had been caused by the Hawea's detention:—Auckland, 5.25 p.m. —Hawea arrived. Rudder-head carried away ; run for flicks' Bay; lay there from Monday till Thursday. No other damage. - ,

The hon. Mr Hursthouse, in moving for the production of the Police Report and,all correspondence on the escapade that occurred at New Plymouth, on the occasion of the Premier's visit in February last, namely the attempt to tear down the triumphal arch, said he was. not near the spot; "he absented himself intentionally." Mr Barton, with lawyer like sharpness, at once detected a lurking suspicion in the phrase .that the hon. member was an accessory before the fact, if not a participator.

In the House of Lords on May 31, Lord Granville, referring to the death of Lord Russell, observed that several of the political friends of that deceased statesman were of opinion that it would be right to offer some public recognition of his services, and he had reason to believe that the Government had had some communication with Lord Russell's family on the subject. Lord Beaconsfield said that the Government'thought that they only expressed the general feeling of the nation when" they offered that the interment of Lord Russell should be a public one; but he was informed that the relatives of that illustrious man declined that public recognition of his serrices, in consequence of a wish expressed in his will that he might be buried with his ancestors and family.

In England they are adopting a new horse shoe made of cowhide, and known as the Yates shoe. It is composed of three thicknesses of cowhide compressed into a steel mould, and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed for it that it lasts longer, and weighs only one-fourth as much as the common iron shoe; that it will never cause the hoof to split, nor have the least injurious influence on the foot. It requires no calks, even on asphalt the horae never slips. The shoe is so elastic that the horse's step is lighter and surer. It adheres ho closely to the foot that neither dust nor water can penetrate between the shoe aad hoof. The idea is not a new one. At the time of the Roman and Carthaginian wars it was a frequent practice among cavalry officers to bind the feet of their horses with raw cowhide to protect them from injury during the engagement.