THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3145, 18 March 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1879.

The Coromandel folks are agitating for a municipality, the reason given for taking such a step being that the County funds are being waited in the payment of unnecessary salaries, and the unfair representation of the district.

We leara by telegram that on Saturday a large number of school teachers, including several ladies, assembled in the classroom of the Normal School, to present Mr John Hislop, late Secretary to the Education Board, with a magnificent silver cup as a testimony of the esteem in irhich'he was held by the late staff of "this Provincial District. The cup, which ;was purchased from Messrs Gand and Young, is about 22 inches in height, and weighs 105 ounces. On the plate appears the following :—" Presented with an uddress, to J. Hislop, Esq., Secretary for

Education New Zealand, by the teachers of Olago and Southland in recognition of the valuable services rendered by him to the cause of education while Secretary and Inspector of Schools to this Provincial Board." Addresses were delivered by several teachers, also by the Hon. E. Stout. Mr Hislop, in a suitable speech, acknowledged the -gift. * ' ■

Not even a solitary drunkard put in an appearance at the K.M. Court to-day.

Me F. Last, Dentist, gives notice that he may be consulted at Denby's, Brown Street, to-morrow.

A contributor to the Mark Lane Express says:—" It appears that Mr Simmons has given up the idea of taking his Union men to enter upon the possession of that magnificent estate of 5000 acres in Canada, and is going to New Zealand with them instead. He says he will take 5C3 or 600 of the men to the latter colony, and he is now open to receive applications from those who wish to go. It remains to be seen how many will acc3pt the offer. No doubt New Zealand is preferable to Canada as a field for laborers. If the Kent laborers think they can do better in New Zealand than in Kent, by all means let them emigrate. I think, however, that the conduct ot colonial Governments in coining forward whenever there is an agricultural labor dispute in this country, and offering free passages to the men is somewhat objectionable. It serve:: them right if they get a lot of ne'er-do-wells who are always foremost in a strike."

A Dttnedin telegram says :—Mr Watt. E.M., has determined that Consultations and Calcutta Sweeps are illegal, and has fined Dodson £5 and costs, and Drake £10.

The Australasian, in an article written upon the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of Captain Cook at Sydney, says : —A century ago, on the 14th of February, Captain Cook fell, a " vulnerable god," on Karakakooa beach, clubbed and stabbed by the hands he had filled with benefits. On the 25th of February, 1879, a colossal statue, which has cost £4000, and is the work of a famous English sculptor, has been set up by our brother colonists of New South Wales in a spot where every seaman entering Port Jackson can see it. And, as the morning sunbeams in old times drew forth joyous sounds from Theban Memnon when the level rays touched the lips, so, surely, should the hearts of all mariners throb with manly pride when they catch sight of the sun-gilt," heaven-pointed hand of James Cook's statue, the noble monument which the gratitude of this young nation has now raised in honor of the great circumnavigator who was practically the discoverer of Australia.

" Eed Cap," in the Free Lance, referring to Norris and Allen's Museum of Science and Art, speaks in the following strain of the Thames Mechanics' Institute :—" A ' Museum of Science and Art,' two things I don't go much, on, after the dose of museum in the Thames Mechanics' Inrtitute I am not very enthusiastic on the subject. It occurs to me that you might give your museum to Norris and Allen, and let it travel. Perhaps you might be able to swop it for the mechanical singing bird, or Punch and Judy, either of which would make the ' Mechanics' more attractive than any of Dr Hector's contributions."

Listen to this, my snarling masters, listen to this, and never again dare to speak disrespectfully of pressmen. The Rev. De Witt Talmage, in holding forth on the profligacy of the city of JNew York, says:—" I shall speak of my second. njght of exploration. I have begun to stir the cities, and, God helping me, I will go through. Ido not 1 now what course I will take in these Sabbath morning sermons, but. whatever else will be crowded or kept standing outside the doors, I charge the trustees of the church that they give full elbow room to journalists, since each one is another church five times or ten times or twenty times larger than this august assemblage, and it is by the printing press that the Gospel of the Sou of God is to be preached to the world. May the blessing of Almighty God come down on all the editors and reporters^ and compositors." (Murmurs of approval.) Murmurs of approval, indeed, why there should have been thunders of applause, for if any class of men are badly in need of heaven's blessing it is the unfortunate members of the Fourth Estate, who are toiling and moiling from week's end lo week's end in order to illuminate an ungrateful people. On behalf of all the Press folk in New Zealand, from the biggest editor to the most diminutive devil,-1 return sincere thanks to the Rev. De Witt Talmage. May his voice never grow weaker nor his shadow ever be less. —" Frank Fudge," in Saturday Advertiser Accoeding to " Figaro," when a woman has a new pair of shoes sent home her actions are altogether different from thos3 of a man. She never shoves her toes into them, and pulls and hauls until she is red in the face and all out of breath, and then goes sLamping and kicking about like mad, but pulls them on part of the way carefully, twitches them off again to take a last look and see if she has got the right one, puts them on again, looks at them dreamingly, says they ara just right, then takes another look, stops suddenly to smooth out a wrinkle, twists round and surveys them sideways, exclaims, " Mercy! how loose they are ! " looks at them again directly in the front, works her foot round so they won't hu-fc her quite so much, takes them off, looks at the heel, the toe, the bottom, and the inside, puts them on again, walks up and dowa the room once or twice, remarks to her better half that she won't have them at any price, turns in every possible direction and nearly dislocates her neck trying to see how they look from behind, backs off, steps up again, take 3 thirty or forty farewell looks, says that they make her feet look awful big, and never will do in the world, puts them off and on three or four times more, asks her husband what he thinks about it, and then pays no attention to what he says, goes through it all again, and finally says she'll have jto make them do. It's a very simple matter indeed.

The Auckland Star has the following upon the decision of the Government to construct the inland route of the Kaipara railway :—Some one has blundered. After all the delays, the promises, the maDoouvring and counter-manoeuvring, the Government have adopted the inland route of the Kaipara railway, and the lowest tender has been accepted. The settlers have thus triumphed over departmental obstruction ; their opinion is justified when the question was fairly investigated, and the line saved from beconrng a non-paying railway. Upon

this the Government may be congratulated ; but what excuse is offered for the persistent attempts to force through the coastal line, which, but for the unceasing efforts of the settlers, would have succeeded? That Ministers cannot be the moving power is established by the fact that the samo course was pursued by all previous Governments. The present Ministry may be congratulated upon having come to the right decision at last, though they certainly cannot claim much credit for the methods by which that result was arrived at.