THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3196, 17 May 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1879.

We direct attention to the advertisement in another column notifying language and other classes which will be opened at the new Waio-Karaka School on Monday next. Both morning and evening classes will be under the personal supervision of the head master.

The annual services in connection with the Tararu Road Wesleyen Sunday School will be held at the schoolroom to-morrow —morning, afternoon and evening.

At the Eoman Catholic Church, Coromandel, on last Sunday morning no less a sum than £174 was collected, and promises for a further sum of £200 hare since been received, for the purpose of establishing a convent'and schools in that place. The very Rev. Father Fynes preached at both services.

At the Academy of Music Mr and Mrs Byers will appear this evening, assisted by local amateur talent, in one or more amusing plays. A pantomime ballet is included in the bill, and " O'Callaghan on his last legs."

Majob Keddell, Returning Officer for this district, arrived here last night, and will publish in a few days a list of the persons whose names are objected to by him as not being entitled under the Act to be placed on the Electoral Roll for the Thames district.

Thebe are already 400 children on the' roll of the Waio-Karaka School, and a large increase is expected next week. The pre- j sent teaching staff is totally inadequate to the number of children, but the Board of Education will shortly make a number of fresh appointments. The splendid provision made for the separation of the male and female scholars will doubtless cause a large number of girls to attend the school, when a head mistress will be required.

We hare been requested to draw the attention of the Borough authorities to the dangerous state of the track up Bird-in-Hand Hill, behind the old Victoria Hotel. This track is much used by pedestrians to Irishtown and Puoga Flat.

Tllß effectiveness of the proceedings taken by Sir George Grey is shewn by our latest news from the Waikato. The revelations about land-selling by the leading Kingites have been like springing a mine amongst those who hare hitherto ♦' ruled the roast" in the Maori kingdom. The proceedings of Ministers have been thoroughly approved in the North, and no doubt they will be entirely endorsed in the South. It was fait all over the colony that the terms offered to Tawhiao at Hikurangi involved considerable danger and much trouble and obstruction to the country, and probably they would also have been detrimental to the natives. But they were offered, and if they had been accepted they would have been loyally carried out. But, after the Eingites have had full time to consider them, and after they had been pressed upon them, they have rejected them with their eyes open. Now we are free. The land which has been kept vacant for so many years, to the great injury of the district, will be sold and occupied, and, instead of being in the position of being j obliged to support the pretensions of Tawhiao as an independent authority, we shall endeavor to make him and all natives live in peace and quietness under the law.—Herald.

Pbofessob- Salmon, of Dunedin, in a lecture upon " The Cultivation of Imagination in Youth," speaks thus:—The imagination is that faculty by which we combine at will the impressions of the senses or the ideas of the reason so as to bode forth formi of things which have no actual counterpart. I have seen a mountain, and I have seen gold : my imagination figures a mountain of gold, although there is in nature no such thing. Aladdin's palace never was seen —but there does exist what corresponds to every part of it: it is the combination of them into a whole which imagination work. There may never have been an actual Lady Macbeth ; but Shakespeare must actually have met with the several elements which he unites in her character ; he only ideally constructed elements furnished to his hand. Milton's Garden of Eden. is framed, out of ; many gardens which the poet had seen. There never was literally, there never will be, a new Jerusalem with streets of shining gold and foundations :of precious stones; although there is nothing in all the glowing picture which has not its counterpart in the aotuai world. Thus, imagination is eminently a creative faculty, and the myriad artistic and literary productions of men are its teeming progeny. We are furnished in imagination with a mental kaleidoscope, through which the. actual creation is seen in endless new and wonderful forms. By imagination we swing ourselves away into the visible, the distant, the future, the ideal. Had human nature been unendowed with imagination the world would never have possessed Homer or Isaiah, Plato or John—neither prophet nor artist, neither martyr nor poet; 'for how could there be such unless we had power to create ideals and realise what has ne'er been actual.

The Poet Laureate is bursting forth into rhyme. He has finished a poem on the death of the Princess Alice, and another about Lucknow, and " the honour of the flag," which is supposed to have some connection with the disaster at Isandula. What a theme he has in the saving and recovery of the colours of the 24th ? It is not often that Mr Tennyson is seen about London, and considering the guy that he makes himself, it is well for his own peace of mind that he so rarely comes within the ken of our sharp-witted street arabs. I met this remarkable man in one of the parka the other day, and this was his appearance:—He looked tall, somewhat stout, round-shouldered, and he walked with a stick, as though the gout were hanging about his legs or feet. He had a long beard which almosfc buried his face, and wore a pair of large, round, Chinese-looking spectacles. He had on a weather-worn felt hat, very broad-brimmed, dark trousers, gaiters, several undercoats or jackets, covered over all by a thin, shabby-looking redtweed dust coat, buttoned very tightly, as thougK it were much too small for him. Dangling outside from what should have been a clean white shirt front was a pair of large 'gold-rimmed nose-spectaoles. He was one of the oddest-looking creatures I have.ever seen out of a Mormon meeting.—Home Paper. '

A WBITEE in the Whitehall Review speaks of Jules Grevy in the following words :—The first thing that strikes you on being brought into the society of the President is his intense coldness, stiffness and reserve. He is a perfect type of the old-fashioned notaire de province —grave, correct, with an expressionless, leadcoloured face, and a brow that indicates no extraordinary intellect within. He is, indeed, completely devoid of personal charm, and his manner is indeed almost repelling. He is like a French edition of Mr Dombey, and in this respect differs essentially from his great chief, M. Gambetta. The last-named gentleman has an irresistible charm of manner which can never fail to captivate, no matter how much one may detest his political principles, and which has had not a little to do with his success in life. Gambetta is passionate, excitable, and eloquent in conversation, .and his. voice is simply perfect. Grevy, on the other hand, is icy, sullen, almost stupid in conversation, and his voice is the most discordant squeak one can well imagine. The point, however, on which the President of the Republic is superior, to the President of the Chamber is this : whereas one can have perfect confidence in the stolid honesty of M. Grevy, he would be rash indeed who believed one-half of the torrent of eloquence which pours from the mouth of M. Gambetta. The great virtue, indeed, of M. Grevy is honestyno one can assail him on this point. He is not brilliant, but he is hard-working and a true Republican at heart ; he may not be clever, but he is faithful and honest. The two most charming public men we have ever met are Count Andrassy and M. Gambetta ; the two most dis. agreeable and repellent in manner, Mr Gladstone and M. GreVy.

The Manuscript Department of the British Museum has acquired a large collection of papers relating to John Wilkes. They comprise many unpublished documents, among which the most interesting are a fragment of autobiography and a commonplace book. The more important particulars in these papers will be incorporated in a new work on Wilkes, which Mr W. Fraser Rae, the author of " Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: the Opposition under George III.," is now preparing.

Out of more than 300 English editions of Shakespeare that were in the Birmingham Library, only one was saved from the recent fire.

TflE following are the inducements held out at the Capei—Volunteers Wanted for the front, and grand attack on Secocoeni's town. Loot and booty money. Better prospect than Blaauwbank diggings. Pay advanced to five pounds before leaving Pretoria. Same rations as a general. Discharged Volunteers are invited to rejoin and add more lustre to the credit they have already deservedly won. Enrol before it is too late. Terms : —1. Volunteer (finding his own horse), 8s per diem ; Volunteer (horse found by Government), 5s per diem, together with free rations and forage. 2. Half-share of money realised by sale of cattle and spoil captured from the enemy. Apply at the District office, camp, Pretoria. L. C. Potts, Lieut. 80th Kegt., Acting District Adjutant. Pretoria, Sept. 17,1878.

The Brooklyn Presbytery have resolved by a vote of 27 to 19, that—" Whereas the Key. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., is charged by 'common fame' with falsehood and deceit, and with using improper methods in preaching, which tend to bring religion into contempt; whereas, it is the duty of the Presbytery to protect the good name of its members when they are unjustly assailed, and to subject those who offend to proper discipline; therefore, resolved that a committee of three ministers and two elders be appointed to investigate the. nature and extent of the 'common fame' referred to in the preamble, and that said committee report to the Presbytery what, if any, further action shall be taken." It is not generally ; believed "in New York that anything will come of this, as the clergyman in question has such a large following.

The French Presidency is not a bad thing pecuniarily. The salary is 100,000 dols. a year, the time seven years, and besides his salary the President is allowed 50,000 a year for household expenses, and free range in the Palais D'Elyseo.

Peince Leopold, speaking at the Birkbeck Institution in London, ventured the opinion that if the British artisan was properly instructed he need fear no rival in the world.. He especially commended the cultivation of languages, and said that learning was a commodity of which the demand grew with the supply, and there was no danger of a glut of knowledge.

Lobd Beaconsfield does not seem to be a favorite with the illustrious , Italian, Garibaldi, as shown in the following letter to Mr. Potter, M.P., who is now on a visit to Italy :—" Dear Mr Potter,—l always auguredjbadly of Lord Beccafficio, and if they do not send him away he will ruin England and the world.—Yours for life, G. Garibaldi." "Beccafficio" is the Italian for little bird.