THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3204, 27 May 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1879.

The nine«inch pipes imported by Mr McCaul for the Domestic Water Supply, which reached here by the Jessie are being stacked in the vacant allotments opposite the Government Buildings. We should much rather hare had the task of announcing that they were placed.along Pollen street preparatory to being laid under the surface.

The freehold allotment on 1 which the late Anchor Hotel stood was sold Tby auction to-day by Mr' John Leydoni the purchaser, being Mr Jas. MoGowan, and the price £75. , The remains of !the building and a quantity of salvage were ilso sold at satisfactory rates, the building as well falling ; to the bid of Mr McGowan.

We learn that Mr H. Ferguson, teller at the Branch of the Union Bank, has been promoted to the Auckland office. His many friends will regret his departure.

The saw-mill proprietors of the Manawatu have made a reduction of 20 per cent in the wages of their employees. They are compelled to take this course through the fall in the "price of timber, owing to the introduction of tho foreign article.

<We have received "The Illustrated New Zealand 'Herald '■ for May which fully sustains its reputation. One of the woodcuts is an excellent portrait of Sir Hercules Sobinson. AH the other views are Australian subjects. j

! The body of a man named William Smith was found on Sunday on Shelly Beach by some boysi The deceased was a bricklayer' and had a wife and two children residing in. Hobson street. His wife says when she'last r /saw him he was sober, but his -mind seemed disturbed. She attributes her husband's derangement to: the great.interest he had taken in the Chinese Movement, got up by some members of the Working Men's:, Club to prevent the country being inundated: by th|e Chinese. He appeared to -feel very keenly on the subject. n ,:; s"' V I ■=■ The Herald, criticising the perfofmahce,, of the ,; comic, opera ' " r The., Sorcerer/ speaks very highly.of ; the whole performance, but of Miss Hunter, of the Thames/ in the following manner :—■" The greatest individual,; success ■■„w ,as, ; to • our ; own thinking, that of ,Miss Isabel Hunter as Constancei She lai graceful, self-possessed, and artlessi : Her voice (soprana) is nicely modulated, and without apparent-effort she succeeded completely- in A the part allotted to her. Her singing * When he, is here' was vigorously applauded." It must be gratifying to the many friends of Miss Hunter to hear of her success in Auckland. .'■:■.:■'.':.-. I>. ,•-.■■• \:-'J.'' i■■

BY'lele'gra'm from Wellington we learri ihat!tnes Immigration nominations for the outgoing mail are more numerous this month than ever, there being 335 souls or 286 statute adults.

The folding advertisement recently appeared ,in the Tuapeka Times :— ■*" Notice to Europeans employing Chinese. ; —Notice" is hereby given that any European w.ho may require the services of the Chinese shnli be expected to_ pay the usual rate of wages, and if any Chinese employed are not worth the full rate the employer is requested to discharge him or pay him the full rate.—Thos. Chin Sin a, agent."

Everyone at New York is talking about Fred Yanderbilt's clandestine marriage and Jay Gould's gigantic haul in Union Pacific stock. He sold on 17th February 100,000 shares to a syndicate for 7,000,000 dollars, and netted 4,000,000 dollars by the.transaction. The price of the stock went tip 9 per cent, before the terms were known, so that the 90,000 shares which ihe / r^&rved are ? worth 7,000,000 dollars. He had possessed himself of more than half of the whole stock of the company,...which.is divided into 367^623 shares;:' The!teinaihingl'l77,623 shares are held, by about 800" persons in small lots.

!^Loed i Cairns, present at a meeting at Exeter Hall, said..that at day no question, in * his" opinion', so deeply touched the moral, the physical, and the religious welfare of the country as the question of ; temperance. ;He had little hope of making men sober or temperate by Act of Parliament, but .looked rather to the power and force of persuasion, of conviction,^ arid' -of '< example. r ;He ; looked especially to. the efforts of the young men of England, in whose hands mainly the future of their country -was placed. •

Do, not visit the sick when you are fatigued, or when in a state of perspiration, or with the stomach empty —for in such conditions you are liable to take the infection* When the- disease, is, yery contagious take the side of the 1 patient which is near to < the [window. Do not enter the room the first thing in the morning before it has,been:aired;; and when you come away take some food, change your clothing immediately, and expose the latter to the-air for- some days. ••■': r) -> ''■■'■■■i ti l " ;:v j! <'v:;.';v;...: '.'~::!f i: i ' -.^o'.'ieep;. the Jeet' watm is to; effect "an insurance agaitisi; the almost, interminable list of disorders swhiiph spring out. of a " slight' cold." First,-never be tightly shod... Boots jorj shoes, when they fit closely, press against . the., foot, and prevent the free circulation bjf the ; : blood;. When, onj. the contrary,., ; they clo not embrace the foot too tightly,^the blood gets fair play, and the spaces left between the leather and the. stockings are filled with:a comfortable supplyiof)warm air. The second rule is, never sit in damp ■ shoes.' ilt' is often imagined, that' unless they are positively wet, it is not necessary to change them while the feel; are at rest. This :is a fallacy ; : for; ithe least dampness is, absorbed into .the sole, it is , attracted farther to the foot itself by its Own heat, and thus' perspiration is danr gerously checked. Any person may prove this by trying the experiment of neglect* ing the. rule, andhis f'eefrwill become cold and damp after a few moments, but oh taking off ;the shoe and warming it, they will appear quite dry. <

Books for self instruction on" the piano* forte, 2s ; do. for harmonium, same price. Pianofortes for sale and hire,'' new and second hand. , «T. ,G-big<j, Pollen .street.---