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THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1879.

Two crews of the Naval Brigade were firing for money prizes today as we went to press.

The attention of State School teachers is directed to the advertisement in another column re Scholarship Examination Text-books.

The Naval Brigade are advertising for a bandmaster.

A meeting- of the Scottish Battalion will be held this evening on important business.

In the fir«t and fourth pages of today's issue we publish an article entitled "Popular Education in Sweden." from the Scholastic World. The article in question gives some extracts from the speech of 17. L. Ullman, the great Swedish scholar, at the opening of a new public school at Gothenburg,- Sweden. The question of Education- is in this colony at the present time of the greatest importance, and we are sure Mr Ullman's remarks will be read with interest.

The Advertiser in their issue this morning makes much ado about nothing in the local re the laying on of the water to the Government buildings. The Advertiser thinks the work should be let by tender at per yard—that is the opening of the ground. The Secretary to the Water Supply Committee authorises us state that tenders were called by a notice affixed to the Turncock's shed, and the contract was let for £3 10s. In a small thing like this it was not worth while advertising the work.

The Secretary to the Thames Hospital, Mr E. Honiss, begs to acknowledge the receipts of the following subscriptions and donations during the quarter ended 31st March :—David Stewart £2 2s, employes Queen of Beauty mine £3 13s, per Miss Marquet £1 8s 6d, Mrs A. Gillan £1, Thomas A. Garrett £1, J. W. Day 6s, employe's TT.P.A. ss, L. Ehrenfried £5, E. Tizard £1 Is, race money per Superintendant Grahamstown Volunteer Fire Brigade 7s 6d, G.V. Fire Brigade ss, S.V. Fire Brigade 3s, Hape Greek Miners 15s, E. McDonald £1, H. Vernon £1 Is, Dr F. O'Flaherty £5, Mrs Norbury £4 4s, employes Alburnia mine £6 10s, Primitive Methodist Church £2 16s «d, Presbyterian Chnrch £6 ss, Eoman Catholic Church £1219s sd, English Church, Tararu, 15s, Congregational Church £5 11s, Baptist Church £4 Is4d.

The energy with which business is pushed in these latter days has established a class of very intelligent, smart men known as commercial travellers, whose business is to travel over the country and collect orders for their several mercantile houses, and in the course of their perambulations these gentlemen visit the Thames. One business firm on the Thames in adopting this idea, but confining the exertions of the gentleman engaged by them to this locality, determined to prevent their line of business being interfered with by strangers. The representative referred to is a most eloquent speaker, and if he continues in his present calling may hope to reach the top of the profession. He held forth in somewhat the following strain to some customers a day or so ago :—" Gentlemen, if you will bear in mind that our establishment grinds knives for the butcher, sharpens saws for the carpenter, and mends sun shades and back hair-combs for the ladies, you will at once understand that our onerous duties are performed with profit to ourselves and with satisfaction to our customers. We are not like the miner, here to-day and away tomorrow ; we keep on for ever in our old established business, Laving our honor, our credit, and our work bound together." The above is a cheap adver ■ tisement, but the man with such a soul for business is deserving of a helping hand, a cheering word, and our P.D. says he'll roll the type with pleasure that prints this local.

Mb Thomas Pabkes announces he has opened a blacksmith's shop next the Imperial hotel, Shortland, and is prepared to do all sorts of blacksmith's work, including horse shoeing. A scale of charges for the latter is added to the advertisement.

Though Oamaru complains of the hardness of the times, she has contributed £500 to the Kaitangata Relief Fund.

There is, we hear, a probability of General Ulysses Grant, Ex U.S. President, visiting New Zealand. He is at present " doing " the Continent.

While in Oamaru (says the Bruce Herald), a well-known and successful merchant there offered the Rev. J. W. Inglis his cheque for £50 on behalf of his Church Debt Fund, provided that he would stay over the following Sabbath, and preach in Oamaru, but as Mr Inglis had promised to preach in Mosgiel, he would not break his word, and was thus compelled to refuse the tempting offer.

Wb learn that the appointment of a Roman Catholic Bishop for the diocese of Auckland has been placed in the hands of the Benedictine Order. The labours of the Benedictines are at present chiefly confined to England and Scotland, so that, should the charge be accepted, there is every probability of the new Bishop elect being an Englishman.

Special settlements would appear to be in great favour with the residents of this portion of the colony. At nearly every meeting of the Land Board applications are received from associations of individuals intent upon agricultural pursuits, for blocks of land upon which to settle and thrive. Yesterday a petition was

received from 85 heads of families resident at Tauranga for a block of land, named To Puke, containing 25,000 acres. The petitioners had applied in 1877 for 10.0C0 acres, but now that their number had greatly increased, a larger acreage was desired. They wished to take the land up under the Homestead system. The matter was allowed to stand over, the land not having yet been placed under the administration of the Board.—Star.

\ Persons passing near the Custom House, Grahamstown, to-day, about 12 o'clock, were much annoyed by a most fearful stench coming from a heap of filth lying on the foreshore. We hope the

Inspector of Nuisances will be able to ferret out the perpetrators.

We wonder whether the Regular Infantry at Home is really as black as the United Service Gazette paints it in the following paragraph :—" There is but too much reason to fear that its physique is deplorably low as compared with the iafantry of the past. . . . Uncomfortable doubts gain ground that discipline is deteriorating. It is not only that desertion flourishes unchecked, but insubordination of the minor kind is far too prevalent. . . . It is already abundantly clear, fromjfexperience gained in Afghanistan, that our infantry has

made no great progress in the new method of fighting. It has learot the value of ' cover,' but only to cling to it when it should be going ahead in the open. The soldiers have fully relied upon their breechloaders, but only to blaze away their ammunition, as at Ali Musjid, wastefully, at great ranges, and quite without effect. No Cassandra, then, is needed to warn us that if we had to take the field with such infantry—composed of men with but little stamina, with but little confidence in their subordinate leaders, without much self-reliance, and only imperfectly drilled—we should find ourselves at a disadvantage in any serious campaign." Maobis, and, indeed, all uncivilised nations, hold women as greatly inferior beings co the lords of creation. It was illustrated in a case in the R.M. Court lately. A Maori witness was being crossexamined by the Maori defendant. Witness was asked—" Was there any one in the street at the time?" The answer was—"so, no one ; not even a woman." A Wheeling inventor is getting up a new patent chair for dentists. A concealed spring in it runs alack up through the seat, and while the patient is howling and his attention is diverted by the attack below, the tooth is yanked out. One of Edison's electric pens, says the Otago Daily Times, is in use at the rail-

way station, and is found to work admirably.. With this instrument a circular is written almost as rapidly as with tbe ordinary pen, and from the first copy, which is used aa a stencil-plate, 3000 circulars may be printed in about two hours. The advantages of this process are that there is no delay involved in it, as the operator can begin to print as soon as the circular has been written. When a clear copy is obtained, any one, with a little practice, can use it. .An electric

pen company has been for some time established in Dunedin, and the circulars which have been produced by the company are good samples of the efficiency of the electric pen for the work it is intended to perform.

People in the Chatham Islands may be pardoned if they become a little " mixed " as to dates. Says the Western Australian Times:—" Chatham Island, lying off the coast of New Zealand, is peculiarly situated, as it is one of the few inhabitable points of the globe where the day of the week changes. It is just on the line of demarcation between dates. There high twelve on Sunday or Sunday noon ceases, and instantly Monday meridian begins. Sunday comes into a man's house on the east side and becomes Monday by the time it passes over the western door. A man sits down to his noonday

dinner on Sunday, and it is Monday noon when he finishes it. Their Saturday is Sunday, and Sunday is Monday, and Monday become suddenly transferred into Tuesday."

The Age says that at the Police Court, Dunedin, the other morning, a middleaged woman was charged with using indecent language at her residence. The constable stated that he recognised the author of the indecent expressions by her voice. At this stage Mr Turton rose and said,: "As amicus curice —l have a right as a barrister-at-law to speak—you cannot convict on the voice unless you see the person. It is not right on the voice of a

policeman to convict on her voice. I can have one voice in the morning, another during the day, another in the evening. I do protest as a barrister-at-law and an Englishman." Inspector Mallard replied that it was frequently the only means that the police had of detecting offences of the kind. Mr Elliott: "Notwithstanding what Mr Turton says, I know that persons are easily recognised by their voice. Only on Saturday night I recognised a person I had not seen for years by his voice." The woman was convicted.

The Natal Mercury says : — " The Naval Brigade brought to Natal by Her Majesty's ship Active is the largest body of the kind that has ever yet been seen on these shores. There are 230 in all, including twenty big Kroomen from the

Gold Coast, whose appearance in Naval

uniform and with English speech seemed to puzzle the Caffre bystanders. The blue jackets, who were, received with hearty cheers as they landed, are mostly youngsters, but their sturdy, thick-set forms, tanned faces, and resolute bearing are proofs of very serviceable qualities. They wore four months in the field on the Cape frontier a year ago, from December to April; while they got hardened and seasoned there. Their three Gatling guns attracted much curiosity. The brigade is supplied with ammunition enough for a Russian campaign, it' need were, while the spirit of the men themselves is quite as bellicose as can be desired. The celerity with which they swarmed out of the Somtseu on to the wharf, formed into rank there, and marched straight off to the station, told its own tale.

These is a wealthy brewer in Montreal who built a church and inscribed upon it: " This church was erected by Thomas Molson at his sole expense. Hebrews, xx chapter." Some of the M'Gill College wags got a ladder one night and altered the inscription go as to make it read: " This church was erected by Thomas Molson. at his soul's expense. He brews (double) xx."

A Taeanaki policeman, while on business in Auckland lately, had his pockets picked of watch, chain, and pufse; and Taranaki policemen are generally considered so sharp!

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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3161, 5 April 1879, Page 2

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THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1879. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3161, 5 April 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1879. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3161, 5 April 1879, Page 2

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