THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1870.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3384, 27 October 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1870.

In nnotlier column will be found the copy of a telegram sent by Mr W. Eowe to Mr Sheehan calling upon him to resign. It appears Mr Sheehan promised to resign in ease anything should prevent Sir G. Grey sitting, for Christchurch, so that Mr Howe or some other local candidate might have a ran for the second seat for the Thames. The following is said to ha the memo. given by Mr Sheehan to Messrs fiowej-Brodio, Khroufried and Eraser; — "Mr Sheehan undertakes that if Sir G. Groy electg to sit for the Thames (having been returned far Ofarißsuyreh) that he

(Mr Sheehau) will resign, aud _thereby create v vacancy for a local man in terms of the arrangement come to with the retiring candidates this Any. —(Signed) John Sheehan."

To-mokbow evening 1»e annual celebration of the opening: of Lodge Sir Walter Scott will take place in the lod«e-room. A very nico concert programmo has been prepared, and under the direction of Mr Owen, the singers have had a number of practices, and will be able to acquit themselves very satisfactorily. After the. concert all will adjourn to the lower hall where dancing will take place. Mr Forgie will provide the refreshments. The brethren attending are requested to appear in Masonic clothing. The tickets are only 5a each for gentlemen, and 7s 6d to admit a lady and gentleman.

TnE following are the names of the children at the Orphanage:—Girls—Sarnh Martin 11 years, J. Uiggins 11, Flora Birdwood 7, Eliza Morrison 10. Lucy Morrison 8; Boys—A. Weaton 11, J. Morrow 11, J. Higgina 9, A Higgins 7, A. Dare 10, J. Birdwood 9, E. Holmes 11. W. Holmes 8, J. Morrison 4, C. Morrison 2.

The following appears us an advertisement in the Oamaru Mail :~lf the young lady advertising for a husband would call on Bill JSajnor, at hislemonade factory, ho will be glad to come to terms with her." It is to be hoped Bill .Raynor has recovered from the effects of the encounter.

'. Ageeat many stories are current about objections taken by the Comptroller, Mr Fitzgerald, to accounts sent in by the Native Department. One account was for some ploughing done, and Mr Fitzgerald minuted it, " Disallowed. Te Whiti would have done it for nothjng."

The following telegram was sent by Mr Rowe this m-f ning :—" Grnhamsfown, October 27th, 1879—T0 J. Sheehan Esq., House of Representatives, Wellington,— Do you intend tp resign and create a vacancy for a local candidate as agreed. I consider you or Grey are bound in honor to do so. if your written engngements aro fulfilled. Reply.—W. Rows.

The editor of the Free Lance, in bis leader, speaks as follows of the Star and Herald":—At last our daily contemporaries see the error of their ways ; we hare successfully piloted them into the right track, and humbly following our lead fhey are now trying to make amends for the mischief done by them in the past, and speak out as plainly aa their shuffling natures will allow them to do; certaiuly, they hare been a long time in coming around, but it is better late than never ; we were always of opinion they were not in earnest in their advocacy of the noble patriot Grey, and that they were merely partizans bo long as their was anything to to be made out of him. We have much pleasure in welcoming our contemporaries back to pur side of the House. They back up public opinion. We lead both.

The following, from the Taranaki Herald of the 14th instant, should be a warning to some of our Volunteers :—" At the Police Court this morning Henry Frost was charged by the Officer commanding the Volunteers in this district (Major Stapp) with having wilfully absented himself from the monthly parades held by order of the Commanding Officer in July, August, and September. The defendant said he was engaged as night watchmau at the gaol, and could not attend the parades. After hearing the case His Worship fined the defendant £1 10s and costs."

Those newspaper editors. Who are too obstinate to retract any unjust or improper language which they bare admitted to their columns, should remember this :—"lf any subscriber finds a line in his paper that ho doei not like and cannot agree with, if he will bring his paper to the office and point out the offending line, the editor will take his scissors and cut it out for him."

An analysis of the roll of the House of [Representatives will shew that some of the names are only sponsorial, there being Andrews, . Adams, Stevens, Harris, Stewart, Olirer, George, Seymour, and some even more familiar, as Kenny and Dick, There are three colours—Brown, Wliyfce, and Grey. Fish are not plentiful, there being only one Pyke and a Finn, and yet there are two Fishers. Of quadrupeds there is only a Bunny, and yet there is a Driver and a Shepherd. The only other trade is a Mason, and there is only a Moorhouse with a Hall. Of English towns there is Lundon. and its environs [Richmond and Sutton, Hurst and Wake field, while Ireland is in its entirety. There is only one Wood and a Pitt, but no plants except Moss. Locomotion is suggested by Shanks. One party will hare Wright on its side, and may be All* wright, but measures can be weighed, there being a Ballance on the premises. The House should hare good nerves, there being only one Trimble amongst them. Kank is represented by a Barron." — Exchange. We take the following from the Sligo Independent. .Ah extraordinary piece of horsemanship took place lately at Galway, on a wager between two gentlemen members of the Galway Hunt Club, more popularly known as the Galway Blazers. Mr Bodkin bet £50 that within one hour from starting, his horse, Droleen, would jump an obstacle at which Mr O'Neil Power's horse, Hueton, would fail. The challenge was taken up, and the former horse being ridden by the first whip, and the latter by Mr F. Joyce, a most darling competition began. The first jump was orer a railway embankment, with a descent of fifteen feet. Then they went over the opposite bank. Next the rider of Droleen proposed to leap a boundary wall 4i feet high, with a perpendicular^, descent of 25 feet, or thereabouts, at the other side, but Mr Persse, Master of the Hunt, who had been appointed judge of the mutch, protested against this, nnd less terrible jumps were resorted to. Finally liucton won, and nobody was killed.

The Utica (N7Y.) Herald thus reports tbe appearance of father, mother, and son in the pulpit:—Sunday, in Watertown, Her. G. J. Porter, pastor of the Universalist Church, with his father, Kef. L. P. Porter, and liis mother, Bey. Mrs Porter, occupied the pulpit of fhafc church. The sou opened the service as usual, the father offered the prayer, and the mother preached from Job vii., lov., " I would not live always." Her. G. J. Porter announced that his father would preach in the evening. Of the mother, the Despatch says :—" Mrs Porter preached an excellent sermon. Her words came forth freely, deliberately, and forcibly, and her sentences were well rounded in argumentative style. Were it not for a little trembling in her voice, she would bo a fine speaker. . . . The reverend lady quoted from Loogtellow'i Arrow and other

poems during the sermon very nicely. The sermon all through was very instructive, and tended to make her hcarars more reliant on God's goodness and have more faith in the necessity of good works in life." In the evening the father preached an eloquent sermon from lievelations 14-13. This is a remarkable occurrence in church matters.

Eureka. ! a fire without wood or coal; a tire instantaneously lighted and extinguished ; tt fire causing no dust, nmoke, or trouble; and, what is more wondeiful still, a firo the substauce of which will never born away —all this we are promised by a Frenchman named Bourbonnel, of Dijon, who, according to Miss M. Benthani-Ed wards, the famous authoress, has succeeded after six years' persistant investination in bringing his patent to entire "workable" perfection. The agencies employed are two natural substances inexhaustible in nature. Miss Edwards says she " lias seen these fires, and there is no mistake about the mailer. We are also told that a body of engineers and savants from Paris hare just visited the patentee, and pronounced hia discovery " one of the most remarkable of the age." We should like to hear some* thing more about the invention, however, before we give credence to all that has been said about it. Tbere is one thing certain, if M. Bourbonnel has found in two natural substances an inexhaustible supply of heat and light, he has also found his own fortune.-—European Mail.

" Silver Pen," writing to the Herald, says of San 'Frisco :—-In fact, it is hardly safe here nowadays. Every day brings a shooting-match, and the people begin to stir in the matter. Unless a little lynching is resorted to I don't see where it is to end. It is wonderful to »cc how many murderers are walking about with tha most approved unconcern, who in any other country would swing beneath the gallows. Laura D. Fair is making quite a good living East by lecturing, she being the woman who shot down Critienden in the presence of his wife and family, ot whom I tcld you long ago. To become popular in this land you must be a trifle dyed in blood, or else make a reputation in an immoral sense, then go into the lecture field. I presume you have heard of Victoria Woodliull and her sister 'Jennie Clafflin, two notorious free love women, whose lectures were too indent for women to attend, and who had lovers by the score. Well, these two women are now'in London, and on the point of marriage with two members of the Knglish nobility. It would appear that things are badly " mixed," like Buttercup's children, and that honest virtue is at a miserable disccunt.

• AN inrentor in Illinois, United States, has introducer! a very important innovation in the building trade by the substitution of straw as a building material. America is beginning to feel the strain which is continually being made upon her forests, extensive as they are, and this new materiel has already attracted much attention. Several sheets of ordinary straw board, such as is produced in a paper-mill, are taken, according to the thickness'of the desired block, and are then passed through a chemical solution, which softens the fibre and saturates it. They are then rolled, dried, and hardened, and emerge from the machine as a compact block, hard, impervious to water, and capable of taking any polish, such aa of walnut wood or mahogany. In fact, on sawing it, it is very difficult to distinguish it from real wood.