THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi.` FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3049, 22 November 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi.` FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1878.

We learn that Mr E. Bullen is to: be entertained at a dinner at the Governor Bowen Hotel before his departare for his new sphere of duties, and it is also proposed to take some other means of showing the esteem in which he is held by the citizens for the faithful and conscientious discharge of very onerous duties during a number of years. * • An adjourned meeting of Mr McCullough's committee and supporters will be held at the office of Messrs Frater Bros. at eight o'clock this evening. Thbbe was a clean sheet at the E.M. Court this morning. • ' A cricket match will be played!at Parawai between the eleren who are able to go to Coromandel to play the match there on Monday week, and 22 other players. The following are the players : — Eleven: Lawless, Whitford, Hargreaves, Spencer, Smeaton, Burgess, Steadman, Battle, Murphy, Bull, Gellion, Twenty-two: Crump, Connelly Gudgeon, Potts, Lough, Bayldon, Wardell, Pulleine, West, Lumsden, E. Baxter, T. Baxter, Tregonning, McGregor, Schofield, Cameron, Carrick, Munro, Waddingtbn, Thompson, Otway, and Otway. Two distinguished' specimens of the canine race are at present under surgical treament. Mr F. W. Paul's intelligent dog Nero, whose performances illustrative of the process of *'passing through the Court" hare frequently been much applauded, yesterday sustained a compound I comminuted fracture of the,off hind leg. The services of Dr Payne were called in, who put the injured member.insplints' and bandages. To-day the fracture was put in plaster of Parif bandages, and poor old Nero is said to be in a fair way of recovery. The other accident happened, to one of Mr John McCabe's fine young greyhounds, which while going along at lightning speed came in contact with a board which tore the skin from his shoulder into shreds. Dr Gilbert was called in in this case,, and he had to put in about a hundred stitches before the skin could be fastened back in its place. h ■•;..;■; ■,_ ' '..."■. //'; :'. ': " Huiioa, Tom, how's your garden P " was a question frequently asked of the Borough Foreman of Works at Shortland

this^moraing. It appears that a number of the residents of Pollen street, between Willoughby and Jtichmond streets, are '.very much against the three feet strip of asphalt footpath now being made. Yes* .terday the three feet strip, waa laid off land raised with earth preparatory to putting on the asphalt, and the footpath looked for all the world like a newly made flower bed. Some time between last night and this morning some wags had a small joke at the expense of Mr Eawdon, as when he came down this morning what waa his surprise to find that the footpath had been changed into a flower garden for a considerable distance. "There were strawberry plants growing luxuriantly, geraniums with the crimson flowers, a stray cabbage or two, and, in fact, quite a little horticultural atiow.'.' :,''"■ . '■'- \': '''■;' •■ ■■.■■ ;:";

I One of the nuisances of this town is. the I doga. The streets swarm with mongrel "curs of every size,' color,' and nationality. The pleasant shades of Shorfcland are particularly infested with them just now, our native friends who attended the Lands Court recently haying left a multitude as undesirable legacies to the Shortland' people. . Alive they are a nuisance, and dead,, they are a worse one, as those who walk ..'along the beach have their olfactory organs frequently assailed by the effluvium arising from some poor murdered, canine. At public meetings our sagacious quadrupeds not unfrequently vary -. the proceedings with an.impromptu fight, with, its accompaniments of barks and howls. Members of local bodies are also very fond of bringing their four-footed friends to the meetings, much to the annoyance of those members whose philauthropical proclivities are not extended enough to entertain an affection for dogs. ■ At a recent meeting of one of our local bodies, two dogs (owned by members of the local body) commenced to walk round each other, snarling, and evidently wanted to pitch into each other. Several of those, in the 1 room instinctively .raited their legs out of. the reach of the combatants, and one gentleman rose and accused the reporters of, bringing 'the dogs. The Press indignantly denied the ownership of the dogs, the real possessors blushed slightly, but kept mum. We can't spare this space to dilate on the dog nuisance every day, so we trust people in future will.leave their dogs at home when attending a meeting or other place of public resort. . ; ■ . The Commissioner of Crown Lands and the' Surveyor-General of South Australia (the Register says), have been making all necessary preparations for the carrying out of the provisions of the Babbit Act. Six destruction parties have been organised, and will be provided with carts, horses, tents, and apparatus. The Sur-veyor-General is satisfied that the bisulphide of carbon process is the most inexpensive and efficacious mode of de- , struction, and a sufficient quantity has ! been manufactured in the colony by his direction to supply the various parties, and j if possible enough will be produced for the supply of private persons who may wish to use it on their land. The method of using it is very simple. A ball of tow or some •- light absorbent material is saturated with the drug and placed inside the rabbit burrow, the mouth of which is then filled in with earth. All modes of egress must of course be closed. The vapour from the bisulphide, which is heavier than common air, sinks down to' the lowest portions of the burrow, and I destroys all animal life.

. The following description of the KhyberiPass, is taken from Sir George' Lawrence's Eeminiscences:—The Khyber PasS, which the Viceroy of India will probably annex to British India, is a narrow defile, twenty-eight miles, long, between lofty, perpendicular hills, the road,'during its entire length, passing over rocks and- boulders, which render a speedy advance or retreat of any body of .men impossible. The heights on either side entirely command the defile, and are scarped so that they «annot without great difficulty be scaled. They are also perforated with numbers of natural caves, the secure haunts of the savage robbers who have for ages held possession of the Pass. The 1 crests of the hills are further defended by stone breastworks, called sunghas. A small valley, called Gurhee Lall Beg, about six miles from.the western entrance to the Pass, is the only open spot to be met with during the entire distance.

The London correspondent of the Can* terbury Press writes:—" But even if I had not thought of you, New Zealand would have presented itself to me' uninvited, for as I sauntered along the Grand Parade at St. Leonard's a few days ago, fate presented you to me. A boy asked me to buy a local paper, of which he had M> number of copies to sell. A penny transferred one of them to my hand, and as I glanced over it to see how affairs Were going in East Sussex, I found printed in it a lengthy extract from a letter written by Mr H. Brett, the Mayor of Auckland, who is nephew of the proprietor of the "St. Leonard's Gazette." He hopes to visit Hastings next year, and if he should happen, to read these lines he may take the word of a stranger than he will find that town and its"sister St. Leonard's greatly improved, since he left England, and that they form a holiday resort Second only to one on the long coast of Sussex. At Hastings, too, and at Brighton a day or two afterwards, I saw the Australian, cricketers, who, of course, were more than a match for any team that Sussex could prgduce against them at this time of the year, and they won with remarkable ease. But although , the play was'rather one sided, it brought together an enormous concourse of cricket admirers, who loudly cheered our visitors. ' Loed Salisbury's hotel bill at Berlin, says " Atlas "' in the World, was 40,000 marks, or £2000. His Lordship and suite had . sixty-three rooms. Lord Be'aconsfield's; bill was only £1400; and besides "attendance " charged in the bill, he tipped the Kellriers arid Hauimadcheos, &c, £50 into the bargain. A good thing' -(when about to buy jawatch or a»y article of jewellery), is to have a large assortment to select front. To realise the above go to Wilkes, the old established Watch-maker and Jeweller, Shortland. Cue-. tometfl wanted for watches; clocks, and jewellery. Established, 1867.-f LAPVT.] >