THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3228, 24 June 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1879.

We call attention to the ceremony of institution of the new Good Templar Lodge at Freemasons' Hall this evening. G.W.B. Bro W. J. Speight will act as Instituting Officer. Scvc/al new members will be initiated by him, after which the Lodge will proceed to elect its officers for the current term. The officers of the Pioneer and Star Lodges will attend, and a large number of members of the order are expected to be present. The Club and Beading Boom in connection with the Lodge will be started as' soon as suitable premises are secured in Grahamstown.

: A. kEBT^Nq-, of officers of the various corps was: held Jesterday...to arrange for sentries at the Borough Chambers at the .request of the Mayor.during the time the ,exhibits for Sydney are >, placed. The fol« lowing, is i,theor,der arranged ;—The posts of sentries-will be four in-number, two outside the building, one bayonet sentry oh "the ■ guardrroom door,; and also a bayonet sentry to supervise the'collection of exhibits. The^Elauraki Engineers will furnish the first guard at 5 p.iri., consisting c,bf •■' pne [ sei'g'eant,' xms cbj-pora]: and twelve men; a similar guard detailed from No. 1 Thames Scottish will relieve, the Engineers at 6 p.m., who in their turn will ,be again relieved ;at. 7 -o'clock by another detachment of Engineers, which, will be. replaced at 8 precisely by a team from Captain Watson's company, of the .No;. 2 Scottish. > At ■ 9 o'clock-,the last guard will be mounted by the Shortland corps, the Bifle [Rangers, who will give over their charge atlo o'clock to Inspecvtor Kenny's meh. ; Lienltenant Johnstone will visit the first, Engineer guard as sub? altern of the day/Lieut. Barlow, the No. 1 Scottish, during the tour of duty, Lieut. Coney the third (Engineer) guard, Lieut. ;Cloutt ; the next guard of JSo. 2 Scottish, tpd Lieut. Denby, the Bifle Banger Guard. <

; Me Plant fired some of the articles of pottery made from Thames clay for the ■ Sydney Exhibition to-day, and the result, so far, has been very satisfactory, the articles having stood the fire well, and have' a good ring in them.

• A Waikato correspondent informs the Herald that from enquiry he finds no guns'or warlike stores have been supplied to any natives for a considerable period without duo enquiry, and invariably upon either the recommendation of the Kesident Magistrate cr•'native'/'agent for the Government tt Alexandra. ' Any guns sold we:»e specially authorised by the Hoo. the JNativo Minister.

The new steamer Coromandel leaves for Qoromandel to morrow morning.

The additional teachers rendered nocess'ary by the great increase of numbers attending the Waio-Karuka Schoolthere are now 500 on the register—will be appointed by the Board of Education on the 'return of the Inspector of Schools to Auckland, so tliat.-tlie school will reopen after the mid-winter holidays with a full and efficient teaching staif.

An entertainaiont will be given in the Brian tiyo;, .Methodist Church, Mackay street, this evening, consisting of a number of hymns, readings, recitations, &t.:, by members of the choir and other friends, including, we believe, the Eovs. Long ("Auckland) and Laishley, and Messrs J. A. Miller and Jas. Bonshaw. The price of admission is very reasonable, and the Object iri view—holping the funds bf the Sunday School—shbuldinducelargenum•beris'of friends'to Represent; - •'

The final performance of the clever Taylor family took place at the Academy of Music last evening before a large and enthusiastic audience. The protean entertainment of Miss Mattie caused great amusement. In turn sbe assumed the characters of a belle, an old woman, a Dutch boy, and a drummer. Mr and Mrs Taylor played two short comedies, introducing many entertaining specialities, and when the curtain fell, applause was deafening. ; , ;: ; ~\ .A, TEtEtjEAM from Hawera says the Mabns who returned from Parihdka seem more infatuated with the. supernatural assumptionpf TeWhiti than erer. They intend to push:pa ploughing;operations in this district. All the Maoris who do not acknowledge . the,, divine right of To Tahiti to rule, are outlawed. The settlers are not alarmed, but would like to see the movement stopped, or who: shall say what it'will lead top Te-Whiti talks parables at the meeting, and then, consults his leading men >after. ; fie does not act merely on his own judgment, but in guided in a great measure by sqmcof the cleverest men' in New Zealand. The Maoris ;hafe. got hold of the...(Supreme do'urt' idea of Sir George Grey, .confusing; him with the Governor. They say, the Governor says the most we can do with them fdt ploughing the, land, js to sue them" fbr'.trespass^ and tte land; is theirs, whilewe a^e interlopers. • ■'■■l\

Te "Whits is quietly turning his ploughshares into swords, so that your Thames men in red, and boys in blue, will hate a chance to, get a 100 acre farm or a aix foot 'plot on thefWaimate Plains. The latter is most probable: Your membeiy Sir \George Grey, has filled,more graves than created smiling homesteads as yet.— free 'Lance.i.;::-' :^\ . -,[ -:;■ ■■,■■,: i\Y-- .''i.'r/i'J. l

I The Times' Alexandra correspondent jsays :-^Oaptairi Burton, commanding the iKhedival expedition for the -survey of iMidian has returned to, , Cairo. = He {travelled five hundred miles by land, and brings back twenty-five tons of specimen ore, comprising, gold, silver,"copper, tin, iand lead. Captain Burton found three sulphur centres, three turquoise mines, [extensive deposits of gypsum, saltpetre, and rock salt. He goes to England in jor4er, to^rrahgej as )to! working tHe mines jfor the Ehedive.

! Those persons in our midst who are desirous of having warm, dry feet should iponder; over the advertisementl of Mr ■Henry Hawkes which appears in another 'columnv;i!!j '■■ '' ■'■• -'' :;:' ■ ir---*' '- '■" !

: We are pleased to notice that Mr W. Baker intends running a buss between Grahamstown and Shortland at the reduced fare of 3d each way, commencing to-morrow. In view of suoh an arrangement, perhaps it would be wise for the Borough Council to pass a bye-law enforcing a proper time table being kept, instead of at presant starting whenever they think fit.

And now the question is, " what is a vagrant P " A vagrant, according to the standard lexicographers is " one who strolls from place to place;, an idle wanderer ; a sturdy beggar; a vagabond." But then there is another definition, and that is, that he is an impecunious cuss, born tired ; ,to whom labour not involving ihe nocturnal depopulation of a of a henhouse is an untried experiment, and money a myth, and who, with an uncurable jnania,for doing nothing, always has nothing to. do, but. does .nothing, being too lazy j to do even that. So somebody says.

'■■ A FoETHEEif ebntempprary '' gives an accouat of a, sell practised upon Mr Joseph .Benoet, by a Maori rejoicing in the sinister sobriquet of" Dick the Devil." Dick pretended that he had. discovered a seam of coal at Long Beach, on the strength of which he induced Mr Bennet to; "ahou.t" a dinner for n number of Maori;loafers. When dinner was over Dick's? friends vanished, and the Maori was averse to pulling as a rangitira; Mr Bennet tcok the oars; with D.'ck as pilot, but on arrival at the scene of the reported ''find" only two bags of inferior coal were seehV!! :" :"':' ■'";■" ;:i, <.'"•'■'■'■':'' ;': •

i The following is tho manner the Dunedin people set about dredging the Government :—Hec3ntly the ,I)uQ«din Harbor Board interviewed the lion. Mr Macandrow, relative to a proposal; ;for, dredging and deepening the bar, by purchasing a dredge on Government account in London, and charging thencoat against compensation coming to the Board for land taken for railways purposes. Mr Macahdrew did not seem, -to regard this as feasible, and was not prepared to admit the claim of the Board to/any compensation for the wharves destroyed; but he acknowledged that assessors must be appointed to decide the question. ', .'>•''.'' ".'..'..'

The following table—extracted from the Begistrar General's Beport on the vital statistics of the Boroughs of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch; Duuedin, Hokitika and Invorcargill for the month of May—gives the population, number of births and deaths, and proportion of deaths to the 1000 of population of each borough :— ■

A Wellington telegram tells us of our own affairs and states that in the event of. a dissolution, Mr Header Wood will be a candidate for his old seat for Paruell,Mr Moss wooing the voices of a .Napier constituency, and Mr Sheehan seeking the suffrages of the Thames electors. People hore say that Mr Howe's uuauces of re-eleo;-iou are small.

By way of New Vly mouth we learn that Hono Pihaina has warned Mr Beamish, publican at Oeo, to leave. There was no ploughing at to-day on account of tho bad weather. Several ploughs were being carted by the Maoris in that direction yesterday. Oeo is 22 miles, jnorth of Hawera, and Mr Beamish is the only white settler there. His hotel'is quite close, to .Hone Pihama'a Village, and Hone is his landlord.

Me Uoiin writes:—"Sir,—lf Mr Wood is so very anxious to have the controversy on blasphemy, and it published in a pamphlet form-. If he and Mr Vidal will be ten shillings each,"l will be the same, and the public subscribe the remainder, on the following conditions:—; That the Editor of the Star write a short preface to show how the controversy commenced, and that each one be allowed to write another short letter, not to! exceed a third of a newspaper column, for them to appear the first time in the pamphlet. Then we should sco, if, the public is interested in this dispute." ■

A Haweea < telegram; last night says —" The Kakaramea Natives boasted today that the Maoris would plough up Mr Patterson'* land When all 1 was ready, and they were only waiting TeWhiti's orders to commence. ' A. settlor said if a native came to plough his land,' it would be the last sod he would ever turn, as he Would assuredly shoot him. The native replied that bullets could not hurt him. Hardly any Patea natives who went to Hawera baye returned. : Ten Natives passed through Waitotara yesterday, with cart horses and two bullocks, on their way to to Parihaka.

An American paper, writing of capricious opera singers, has the following:—" Most capricious of all, however, is lima de Murska No manager could control her, until the present one, De Vivo, became associated with her. It was r a common thiilg for her to refuse\td sing because her paroquets and dogs had not tasked dinner: A.t ode time she had a ; monkey, a Newfoundland dog, two ! Maltese terriers, and a French poodle, | ithree parrots, and aparoket. ;She took jthem everywhfre,' and it! cost her hej^ , salary >to> pay for the damage' they' 'did'itp jthe fumituibat the*hbtels. whera ifUiie jstoppetf; _ <! 1 >c :Vivo' sa^s fttijs', |rayelling ; jmenagerie, from first to!lastj cost lior jfrom 25,000d619.-fo/pO^OO. [ It accomjpanied her. through j^ussia, Austria, Gerjmany, Italy, Great Britain^ Australia, and America. If sickness occurred in this '■' happy family,' Be Murska became sick too, and would pot-sing. Fromr deaths at one time or another, the menagerie has now dwindled to two dogs and three birds; but a dealer in animals in that city- has a istauding * order oh-his books io fill the Vacancies in the company as opportunity may offer." „: „<,.,.. :■; '/.'■■'■■' .; --; 'y- ; General GoTTEiA, the newiy-appoipted jSrovernor-Generalof S'tV Petersburg has brderedall gunmakers to send lists o^ their stock to the Chief Commandant, hrid sell 1 only to persons holding special Authority, under ,a. penalty of confiscation of their stock and prohibition of trade. Private persons possessing arms can only retain them by special pormis" sion. Porters must be kept at the doors of all houses day and night to prevent the posting pf. placards, and;scattering ex- \ plosives in the streets. .■> ,-■'• pi;, ; : ! Thß' Mayor of .Sydenham; J(B'ays tihej Lyttelton Times) endeavoureii to sli^w-, how the " unemployed" difficulty.might be overcome^ He said statistics showed that, in the year 1860, the sum per head spent in drink was* £2 18s 6d. In the year 1876 amounted to £4 9s> In New Zealand the amount was something like £3 per head. Supposing it to be only £4, or £5, the amount spent' in drink ijn' Ohristchurch and suburbs would be from £80,000 t6:£loq,oqo per year, the working men alone, spending of this sum about £2000, or £3000 a-month V: The cure was in their own hands; they had only to give up drinking for one month, and they would have £2000 amongst them. " And yet," said Mr Booth, "we were crying out, and seeking money frotuV the General Government." The y statement was not relished by some present, for there were dries of " Dry up ; dry up."

The following is Lord Derby's reply to Mr Councillor Middlehurst of Salford>' who Bad Written inquiring; whether his resignation was to be understood as a severance of his connection with the 1 Conservat;vc party in general :—" Sir, —I thank you for' your friendly letter of the 17th. As regards my recent withdrawal from the Lancashire Union Conservative! Associations, I. do not see that it requires any further explanation than , that which is supplied by facts which are already public. I have openly, strongly. expressed [ my dissent from the foreign policy of the Government. That policy appears to be in the main accepted by the party which calls itself Conservative, and it is expressly vindicated in the last report of the association from which I have retired. I do not ; see,how it.is possible for me conr.. sist^ntlyito^uppprt|iq Lancashirewhat, 1/ have opposed in the House of Lords, and for the present, at least, I wish to hold myself free from allparty organisations. —"I remain/ your obedient servant, Deeby. . ■ . , ,

, In a Boston church the p'lari has been 'adopted of throwing verso after verse- ofia hymn that is to be sung by the congregation in large type upon a wall by means of a magic lantern. This " has already been found to please the old as well as theyoung," and by its means ';' the;ob. jections to singing, of having no book, or of having left the .book at home, or of eye-injuring fine type, are annihilated/

A man was on his trial the other day in America for some petty theft. He pleaded that he was of too respectable a family to commit the crime. The judge asked him what he meant? He replied that no member of his family was either in Congress or the State Legislature. The evidence 1 against him was strong, but his defence was felt to be stronger, and he was acquitted. To this stato of things we are fast tending.

The fashion reporter who wrote, with reference to a belle, " Her feet were encased in shoes that might be taken for fairy boots," tied his wardrobe up in a handkerchief and left for parts unknown when it appeared next morning: " Eer feet were eucaeed in shoes that might bo taken for ferry-boats."

A second-hand Pianoforte for Sale or Hire.—J. G-bigg, Pollen street.— [Advt.]

A Rejoinder.—-Facetious parson (to parishioner who is not believed to be a rigid abstainer, and who has fallen on the ice)—"Ah, Mr Brown! Fools stand in slippery places, I've heard," Mr Brown (the footpath was in a frightful state)— "So I see, sir ; but I'm blest if I can !" —-Punch.

BOBGJGU. . 1 Auckland .. Thames .... Wellington.. Kelson Cbrjstchurch Duncdin.. .. .Hokitika. .. Inverc<»rgill..j Estimated Population. 14,103 5,003 19,407 6,801 14,180 '23,201 2,853 4,045 Total Births. i i 38 19 85 •■ 20 40 72 7 40 Total Deaths. I 22 4 31 8 21 35 ' 0 3 Proportion of Deaths to 1000 of population. rr>s 1-25 1-58 0-85 1-50 1-70 1-79 321 124 I 1 T0ta1.... .. ..