THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3209, 2 June 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1879.

TfiE annualXicensing!Mteliing■'for the Thames ' and Haurjiki d istricts ' will - be held at the Coiirt House/ (^rabamstown, tdVjinortb'^-at'n'oqii'.;"'; There;.afjß''4s;appH; cations lfdr vrenew^lß, and'onenew'app tion for.,an, ,'pid.,house,:'ijji", th,^ r^Thame« district,' arid lS'lapplications for renewals in the Hauraki district. . .. „,

W,e .sjincerely regret to .hear - t ot the death oFMrli»Bunn/wife>of th'e^Eev. K. S.J Bdan'.i Wesleyan -Mini«tpri of: Jnver* cargill, and formerly of the Thames. The deceased lady; by* her amiable.and charitable disposition, made a great many friends during her residence here, who will'deeply sympathise: with the bereaved husband in his great affliction.

j Thebe was a plean sheet at the E.M. Court thisinpniin^. ' _ ::><\'Ah '-;: ;/ About twenty members of the Naval Brigade competed; at the Government Eange, on Saturday, for, Mrs Darling's Silver Cup (whioh has to be won three times in succesiidn)i and other; valuable prizes. The following are the -principal BCOreS':— * '---•; '>•;•:!: ,:v ■ <:'•■■ '•::,: ,<:-,t* ;tv<::V2oo :; S ;400'■;;! 500' • . • yds. yds. yds< . ■ Tl. P.O.Thomas ... 17 18 17>-52 Lieut. Q-avio > .'.. 13; <■-.. ,13, 17, —4S SeamanHUl „.. 17« >U^ u^ ~ "44i Beaman Bennett, ,T.-, IS , . 14' , 14, .-r 43 T?.O. Walker ... 16 , ,'■' 18 9— 43 Bandsman Hirst ... 12 17 13 —42 Seaman Armstrong 13 18 11 —43 ; Seaman Johns.. ...., 15., .. 16 . . ,11 —. 42 P-O/'aorelon 1 \\ .£} ;; Wi;.';! 18' •<-' -10"-^.i42: We may add' that 'the wind was very! nn{at6rkble;t6g66dJshooting.a ■...>.: ;.-!.?\ i

A swghi inaccuracy, occurred, inorr monthly and weekly 'gold, returns jV Saturday's issue. with .'reforehce to the yields of ibuhstahVand '^Manuel's tribute parties, which are one arid the same. The'■cbmpiler !of^ the- returns not'beingi| aware of this inserjed^tbe'bbth names with yieldsi opposite each, thereby credit- j ing Marittel's tribute with 4ozs Bdwts,; which was never obtained.' Tho total' week's banking of the party was llozs Bdwts gold.

This morning the Sub-Committees from the County and..Borough Councils re tho settlement of the Water Supply questionmet in the Mayor's room. The Cprauiitteo sat for three hours, and, wo beliove, agreed to report to their several .Councils. terrae which may lead to an hmicahloarrangomeat. •

; Owing, doubtless, to the uninviting aspect of tho weather, Mr Byors' clever lecture on "Moral Worth" was but poorly patronised on Saturday evening. Th,o lecture pleased the audience, and was listened to attentively throughout.

Mb J. C. Firth's new steamer will be down hero in a few days for the purpose of having her boiler and engines, manufactured at Messrs A- and G. Price's foundry, placed aboard.

We were leaning against the Bank of New Zealand railing the other evening cogitating on unpaid subscriptions, etc., when a beeiy individual came waltzing along the asphalt side walk. While passing us he unfortunately missed his equilibrium through some alteration in the centre of .gravity and consequently ; collapsed on the pavement. As he got up with a dislocated nose; and ; bleeding iface, we heard him mutter, "The' say one t-t-touch Nature niaksh whole world skin. Dunno 'bout world getting skinned, but I amlconsiderablyi"

Atlas, -in the World, says:—,^Colonel Eeilly, who has just gone out to South Africa linYcpmwand ,of- thei Airtillery»)>a« been encouraged by Bromhead's success to set at defiance the Queen's regulations, which prescribe that appointments on the itaff are to be limited to officerg who hare passed>through the Staff>CoUege. ; When Kcillv went down to the Horse Guards, on his appointment, he was called upon to choose his brigade-major, and a list was put into his hand of officers eligible for the appointment. He coolly answered, after reading it, ' I will not have one of them, and I mean to take Poole, one of our ov»aadjutants; whom I can depend uporrjin case 6JF 'emergency.' The authorities urged ;that,"-whatever might be the merits of Poole, he had not qualified himself by examination -at the 1 ;Staff College in tactics and'lan> ' guagesj :.But' C6}onei Reilly was firm, i arid declared thai unless they could find him a qualified officer who could speak Zulu, it was cjuite useless, to tall? about languages being any qualification. 1 And i as to taciici, he said, 'The! Zulus 1 do; not play at Ereigspel, and'warfare in the bush 18 not conducted on the' Prussian system. I will have a brigade-major whose pluck and presence of mind are known to me. 1 He eventually carried,his point, and Captain Poole has gone with him in spite of tbe^regulationsV; The salvation of jßorko's Drift by a lieutenant who had been plucked by the board of examiners,: 1 threatens to make a revolution in the, syß- -, tern of military appointments." '

In an article on "Reform," the Tablet makes the following remarks' with regard to the extension of the franchise :— "There are many questions of a nonpolitical character, to which it would be wiser to devote attention, than waste time in endeavouring to pick; men out of the gutter in order to endow them with the franchise. ; Every decent man in the community who wishes to have a vote can, under the law as it stands at present, | easily put himself in the position to have one if he wishes.* But this, it seems, is not enough to satisfy-our gushing poli-* ticians. Their idea is that one mail is as, good as another, and better, and consequently they cannot see why,:for example, a worthless drunkard, picked out of the gutter, should not be entitled to ;haye an'! equal voice in the legislation and ■ government of the coun;try with a sober, thrifty, respectable father of a family. Neither can they see jwhy a constituency, not blessed with over I much intelligence and property, should 'not be placed on a footing of perfect i equality with an intelligent, highlyi educated; and rich community: Education and property are, it appears, to go for 1 nothing. Heads only, even though they ; may! be blockheads, are ,to 'be : counted. I This is the new doctrine, and it is passing - strange thaf it isthe doctrine of the men I who wish to make the world believe in : their burning zeal for education, and their !belief iri'it's frfaita/ JWould it nofcbe time i enough .to give every man an equal voice in|the"government of the pouhtry whian' all men are equally educated,; equally in-1 telligent, ?sHsy ▼^tuous/ ancliequMly possessed of "property 'subject to taxation?"; "\J ..,- !: , r ,,,t r ..,i'.r !,..„,'►' An English: homcßpathic •■, newspaper; opens a new prospect of boundless wealth to the paper manufacturers and celluloid people.., .It announces a novelty in the yray'of "paper teeth." With his collars in his coat-pocket !ahd fresh set of teethl in his pocket-book, how lightly may the bagman of the, period laugh <at railway regulation containing excessive luggage 1 The teeth in question, it appears, may be bought,"by the quire, as you require them, on trade terms twenty-six as twerity-fbur." Even the bagman* who saw no medium between the decent economy of % single shirt and the reckless extravagance of a hundred shirts need not grudge himself a.full masticatory set of 32 teeth at these rates. The run^ is 'on iyory r and cream laid,;few caring for bluewove or black-edged teethi Of coiirae paper has the ' advantage bf being easily gummed.m.' , They' improve the speech; -indeed, r a man with a complete top and bottom-plate paperj set.'wiU talk like a book. A few have, them either with crest or monogram.—lfew 'Xprk.;;World.

I was once walking a short distance behind a handsomely dressed young girl, and thinking, as I looked at her beautiful clothes, " I wonder if she takes asmuoh pains with hsr heart as she does withher body ? " A poor old man was coming up the walk with a loaded wheelbarrow, end just as he reached us be iriade two attempts to go into the yard in the front of the house, but the gate'was heavy and would swing back before ho could get in. ff Wait," seid the young girl, springing forward, " I'll hold the gate open." And she held the gate until he passed in, and received his thanks with,a pleasing smile as she passed on. She'deserves toh'aVe beautiful clofchesy I, thought,-for a beautiful spirit dwells ih'her breast.',

j& XEibiNG San Francisco jWrriaL said at, the time of the application was made to the; British Natal'conimrHder, for a war ship to protect the Siika people.-—" That he will do so, we do not for a moment \ doubt, for blood ia thicker than water, as \ one of our own gallant tars exclaimed when seeing the British in a tight place, he •joined-them in the fray." \>, And, again :— ■'Our own people owe their protection, life, -and , freeaom ,to the, gallantry, humanity, and sympathy of the Briton. We have fought againgt him; we havo' fought with him, and are ready to do so again when fraternity calls." •

We (Star) learn by a reliablo telegram from Wellington that the present plans for Sir Herailei.JEobinson's visit to Auckland provide that His Excellency shall leave Wellington. for this city about the 12th of June. He means to bo here till the mai following his arrival to meet Lord Loftus, the now Governor of New South Wales, so ho may start a day or two later. ■' "\

_A "ministee was riding through a section of the State of South Carolina, where custom forbade innkeepers to take pay from the clergy who stayed with them. The minister in question took supper without prayer, and ate breakfast without orayer or grace, and was about to take his departure when "mine host" presented his bill. "Ah, sir," said he," " I am a clergyman!" "That may he," responded Boniface, " but you camo here, smoked like a sinner, and ate and drank like a sinner, and slept like a sinner; end now, sir; you shall pay like a sinner."^

The Manawatu Times in recording the death of a lady at Woodville says, that it, is the first " natural death " that: has occurred since the settlement of the township. The Morning Herald says: This reminds us of a story, toldby Mr J. L. Hall, the comedian. He was travelling along the Great Central Trunk line in America, when on one side of a hill he observed a" neatly enclosed cemetery, with a| couple of mounds and crosses outside the fence. " What is the,meaning of the /two outsiders?" asked "Hall, addressing an American fellow-passenger. „". Wall friend;'" retorted Jonathan, "I giie'ss these youngsters died a natural death, and they cpuldu't be allowed into 1 the consecrated ground.' """ '.' '*" ", ":' .'. V '/'

■ A notice of motion will bo given in the City Council, Wellington, that it is advis* before the Council irretrievably pledges itself to any of the rival drainage schemes, that the whole question be submitted to a board of competent engineers, who will decide as to the merits of each ; question without reference to anybody. In ja^nyite Jettet recently published, the late Bey. W. B. Clarke, the famous 'geologist of New South Wales, wrote: — " In the winter of 1874 my left eye showed symptoms of an affection, which still remains, produced bjr the violent -straining] oftble'.cough; It became ouVoffocusf/ protruding visibly; and producing;double ■ vision, so that I sawV first, ghosts behind people at table, then increasing to palpable form, when I saw them two heads-7-: one behind and slightly aside the' otherrwith four eyes, Ac. It was the same with landscapes—onehorizoatallyaeen, another above itin the air,- verydistinct and much magnified, but at about an angle of twelve from the true horizon. This has how much diminished. The cause was that each eye saw independently, and, owing to the indirect ,twisfc of the eye, one- vision,was oblique. You may imagine what it%as to see communicants during the administration of the Lord's Supper, -each with two; heads, &c, as occurred to me in June, 1874; and to see every line in a book refracted over on that really above it, or to write to lines at once."

An old New Zealand coloujst, writing from Lincolnshire by the last mail to a contemporary, says : " Farmers here are in a deploraole condition. For three or four years thereha* not; been a good har« vest. Wheat does not come to perfection, there is no. seed, and the average yield is lander 27 bushels.,,, The quality is so poor that.it will not make saleable bread unless mixed with foreign flour. /New Zealand wheat is worth 2s per bushel more in Lincolnshire than Home-grown wheat.; y I 'should think that every farm in the country is being worked at a dead loss. The price of land must come down tremendously, in. England, -,.■ America is pouring her cattle, and Australia her corn, into England in quantities which promises,, ere long, to bo sufficient to supply,-and at prices which will. be., profitable to the 'colonists, and put successful competition [on the part of the English farmers out of the question.".' : • ■■"■'■ ":■ ■[?.■■-,,;,

; A large gum tree was pointed .but to i;us(says the Mansfield Guardian), on. the i*track to the. Wombat Ranges, bearing the i following- strange, proclamation, carved, ;,witH a peiikni^e, ri (P'roclamation.-^^OO iewar.d, will .be'.paicl ;to anyone who brings Captain Standish alive; to the Strathbogie, Eanges.— (Signed) Ned Kelly 1., Eing of Strathbogie." .-.■'!{ if? „'O.V v.'aTVL' 1;- >n 0 Victorian, who transferred his butchering' ' aiid., business Jt taUnts! to' New:. Zealand., ; Fortune first smiled and.',.',then!! frpwned upon Ghurley, so that at last he gave a bill of sale i te ( !/Mesirs i .' (t 'Sbato^ J ,,.ai^d Davidson^ In ,a'b^krupt^,^^wii]aa^ion I attention .'yeas draw^ %jthe^ minutes of! a meeting of creditors, whicli gave, the^ j debtor, Churley, authority to retain for his comfort, entertainment and advantage, a harmdiiium, a sewing-machine,' and mnititudinous spring, chickens., A i witness (Mr (Field) thißn the astounding and, almost unprecedented constitution and incidents of that meeting to the ■'following effect i-^" Witness explained.that besides himself! only Mr Seaton attended the meeting. He proposed himself to-the chair. Mr Seaton- voted against. He and proxies voted for; and he declared the motion carriedi Thereuppn Mr Seaton away. He then moved thai banfrttpt be allowed the asked concession; By! proxies he seconded 'As the 1 chairmanr he put it to the meeting. As the meeting^ he had voted and carried it.".' This; w-as a meeting in the first person singular. Therel appears, libwever, to have been aff omission on the part of the meeting to pass a yote of thants to the chair !

Thisi is something new in the, way of addresses. When the Marquis of Normanby.was at Geelong. lately, the Mayor of that interesting community presented him with the following lines written on parchmert;— ■„- , "The Marquis bra?eof Normanby, Our Governor ia come-to bo, AH hail his worthy name ! And .welcome bind moßt heartily, ■ ', "With'truthful minds of hoaeaty,' • In Brifcon's arch of fame. We'll hail him in Q-eelong to-day, •All unto him our homafje pay, ' lv honour of our Queen. . -^ Arsubjects of Her Majesty; ; -'; :: ■ Withieyery mark of loyalby, By him let Buch.be seen" ;■■■-; 3ee.vanx&ai,lßm: is rampant in' Wariganiii. A cook in an hotel recently threw up His billet because they wanted him to sleep in a double-bedded room. At;another hotel the landlady had done a day's jyashing, and wanting some help to wring but some,large things, turned to the young lady! wTio 1 had 'condescended 5 to act as housemaid, and asked for her assistance, ;W.hen: 'th£) a: nswer^\vas : give'a UI never soiled my hnhds at the'wash" tub yet, cad I am not going to begin now." She is now out of a situation.

It appears that not a gold piece has been gtruck by tho Koyal Mint since last Juno, for the Mints of Sydney and Melbourne keop the Bank of England amply supplied with Australian sovereigns, which, though of a slightly paler colour, are in intrinsic ralue of the metal slightly more i valuable for many purposes than the, Californiau gold, which is of a darker tint/- <■■:.,;■, :: : ;- ; ■ : •

Funny mistakes are sometimes made by the bailiffs and constables whose duty ij;, is to." cry„','. tho various cajsejs in the law courts. At the Besident Magistrate's Court this morning a gentlemen named Owen Lord was interested in a case, but in order to save time, no doubt, his name appeared in the official records as O. Lord. Said the clerk to the orderly, " Call O. Lord." "Oh, Lord!" shouted the orderly. As Mr Lord did not answer at once, the orderly went outside the door, ■; and f yelled, " Oh, Lord," ■ three times. Although the Court was convulsed with laughter, the orderly could not see that there was anythmg wrong, and simply contented' himself with calling " Silence !" in stentorian tones. A wellknown legal gentleman who was entering the Court when the orderly was crying "Oh, Lord," was amazed, and made anxious enquiries as to the mental condi-. tion of the orderly. In another case heard to-day Mr Eustace Brandon, was concerned, and when the bailiff was instructed to call him he twisted the name into " Useless Brandon," much to the disgust of that gentlemen.*—Wellington ■ P;oat. £ ../-,.,...-, T ..„, 'i ?; „ ; . „ „ ... x , if* \ The old adage that truth is iottetimes stranger than fiction receives something ; like verification in the following, which (a Victorian paper says) is-authentic in all particulars save the names of the principal dramatis persona. A short time since a young sailor, second officer of a ship trading to the Mauritius from Melbourne, left his wife at Williamstown. At Port Louis illness seized. him, and he was left in the hospital seriously ill. On the arrival of the ship the wife saw the captain, who gaVo 'her tße facts/coricerning "the health of her husband; " subsequently another arrival from Mauritius told her tie had h«ard that her husband " died in ■the hospital;" and upon this very unreliable authority she concluded herself a 1 widow, and in this capacity took a 'situation in tod ? provinces, and after a time—about ft twelte-month^ from her 'husband leaving—she married her employer's brother. Meanwhile the Enoch Ardea of the narrative was not dead at all7"butrecovered, and, no ship offering for the'colony, he shipped"home^writifig Ilis wlfe/"'wnp^^aVing^left n lier'' former residence, nevef got his lettera. Arrived in England, he learned that a rich relative in-'Ghina'had: died, and left him a large amount of ■ money; and* fccebtfdmgly he ? failed f6r! China, arid • took possession of the prppertyyupipii which HCre'alised some £90,000, the result of 'years 'of successful Speculation by thfei deceased devisee, and failed for Victoria,, to, find his wife and enioy his wealth with her, only to find that, unlike Penelope, she had'not waited for Ulyssea, and was another's.; The next homeward mail-boat took him.away to England without disturbinjg'the felicity of thei existing arrangementi The 'wife now Repents hef precipitancy whea it is too, late. !''.".'.."' .'.,.,'. .'." ' .:! .'. .7 ;.'•". ■'".".',''"'."

i : The Eev T, Pa Witt Talmage says >~ " Home has lost all charms for the gambler. How 'Itamo are < the children's caresses and a wife's devotion to the gambler. How drearily the^ fife'burns on the domestic hearth; There must be louder'laugh ter,j and something to win and Bomething to: lose; an excitement to drive the"'Heart faster and fillip thei!blood and fire the ; imagination., -N! o! homej however bright, !9&n keep back; thegamester. The; Bweet jCall of love abounds. back from his iron soul,.and all endearments; are consumed in the flame, of his passion. ; The family.. Bible ... will ; go after all .other treasures are lost, and if his crown in heaven Were put jnto his hand he would !cry: VHe^egoes ( one,mpre game mj boys 1 On this one iUi,qw'!l''*^ke,j^jietQ^n)pi' ;heaveh.,., •■•/■•.r.:i'' /r,;; . ( .« (^! XiV-?. ' ;-).-.;-'.-v'---"V:----answer,; and the r qneer< noise: stopped. j" Anybody ; there?* -2W><Sngwer^'lt must r have been # ipirit;"'<!hV%aid<% himself "'^^muiFlbe try^*';! A)oud^r"f f theft is a/»jiirit in the room it wiU signify the samVby saying ay ;-t^o that'^nptwhafl meani?;lf r th^eretiß jthwe timgs." .^ThMfrr^ry/J^is^n^t «pg .were given, in the 4irection; of <the bureau. h,ls. lit; -the ispirit ; ofi'-my^iiifcer■,£"'^ o lanswer; r^lrittheiipiritpf my ; mpther/iP" jThreeiapi.H 'ft Are tyott < happy, ft^-i J^ine irapSi vifh Do you want anything. ?"!:; Asuccesiion of very loud raps. ■:: \ff Will you give give me any communication if I get up ?" No'answei«P ': > " Shall'T hear ydu to-imcirr<>w-J!" /Eaps very loud ml the direcitibtf: of !4h&;vdeor;V " S.tiall ;I irer lee iyofr'P'*- ;Keßaited long for am answer to Ibis last qiiestiori,' but n<me caind; The jspirithad gone; and^aftdrthinking^ver :the^extraordinary^visij^ he turned over label Jell:,a>leepi Qn gelling w> m the 'morningjiejfound; that the spirit, ofj his' I mother ;i had; carried/; ofi 7 < his watch and' jpurse,;; hi«| trouiers, and .hiifgreat coat I downstairs in the hall.—American paper. I A • £ipy- ,m\me<l, Mrs! lorQuld (says a [Home -paper)' was' anxious 1 td'assist in ! decorahnga certainchurchjand thinking jan inscription would be most suitable, ; instructed her husband while in town to procure^ one.. He of, course forgot,, the inicription, and sent a message to 6'His wife; to that efFect. The telegraphists:in town were considerably puzzled when the following message from Mrs Gould was taken off: •—" Unto' us a child! is '■ born, nine feet long, by two feet broad.". ;:

The differences existing between the minor laws of Victoria and Net*; South Wales (says a contemporary) give rise to some 'amusing episodes Jon < the border. Recently, for instance, the Victorian " Truant Inspector "was at a^ place called Swan Hill, on the Murray, the boundary of the s two colonies.'Two lads at the river side were, fishing. So was the truant officer'—the latter for truants. •'{How far is'the State school from hew?" inquired; the officer of the lads.; *■■' About half a mile, sir."—"Will either of you come there with mefor sixpence ?" "No fear."—".A shilling ? "—" Wo."—•« Half-a-crown?" Even this was not good enough. "\"' What are ypur names ? " asked tho"officer, pulling' out a pocketbook, when splash went the pair into the river, " accoutred as they were," and were soon landed on the New South Wales side, out; ; of i,the; r tru^nt : oiEcer's(^ reach, and beyond the rpperation o f; the clause of ,thei ; Yictqrj,anEducatiqni Acjt., : ;

„ A patent-m'edicino advertiseipi says that fat is not conducive to long life. That is true. A fat hog rarely lives through the winter.