THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3456, 22 January 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1880.

The s.s. JJotomahana will not leave the Thames on Friday afternoon as previously advertised, but will leave for Auckland on Saturday at 4.30. On Friday she js engaged to convey cattle for Messrs Banks and Fisher.

A telegham from the secretary to the Board of Education states that the Board will not ddvertise the time and places of annual meetings of householders, but the committee may do so if. they think necessary.

We would call attention to the annual fete of children attending the schools of the Waiotahi District to be held at Tararu gardens tomorrow. The pupils will assemble at the corner of Eurke street at 9 a.m., and the young ones will be taken out to the gardens in cabs.

Thk collectors appointed at last night's meeting to canvas for subscriptions towards the Irish Famine Fund, com menced their labors this morning, and have been so far most successful.

In our. telegrams we remark that the Bank of New South Wales give £500 towards the Irish Famine Fund. Cannot pur local institutions follow such a good'example.

An open lodge meeting of the Star of the Thames Lodge will be held to-night in the Templar Hall, Rolleston street, and a lecture will be given by Mr Donovan of Taranaki.

A meetings of the members of the land Association will be held in the Star Office this evening at 7.30 to hear the report of the delegates who, visited the Upper Thames lands. :

Those gentlemen who have promised to provide cabs and carriages for the children of the Waio-Karaka Schools are requested to have them at Burke street punctually at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning- '

The'following is the list of applicants for the position of head master to the High School:—Messrs Jas. Adams, 8.A., Parnell Grammar School; A. do la Hammond, 8.A., Auckland College and Grammar School; A. J. Ambrage, BA. New Plymouth: B. Mason, 8.A., Dunedin ; W. Taylor, 8.A., Mokau; C. H. Otway, BA. Thames; George Henley, B A., Waiuku; Wilson E. Morrison, B.A, Christchurch 5 W. Stodart, 8.A., Auckland ; J. Leary, C. F. Howard, 8.A., Christcburch; J. C. Smith, Derenport. Assistant Mistress : Miss E. -Fletcher, Auckland; Miss. F. Chitty, Hamilton; Mrs Marie Alexander, Thames; Mrs J. W. Fleetwood, Thames; Miss Flora McPhee, Foxton; Miss Ellen Clarkson, Auckland; Mrs E. Willmott, Kaihu, Kaipara; Miss Taylor, Mokau.

Judge Windeybb mentioned to a friend of mine (says'" JE^lesj" in the Australasian), in Sydney as a singular circumstance that the .Rifle which Captain Moonlight, the condemned bush, ranger, used in his late raid was one which his Honor had himself won in a rifle match fifteen years ago ? Judge Windeyer was the man who sentenced Moonlight to death.'

Tbe Wellington correspondent of the Herald says s—ln reference to the West Coast native affair, I hare been informed, on the best possible authority, that the Ministry have given great consideration to the question of pushing on road-making especially through the Waimate Plains. They are determined to make roads in a thorough manner, and no opposition to the work is anticipated. But the Government are prepared for any contingency tbat may arise, and will employ Armed Constabulary to carry on the work. Nothing beyond what I have indicated will be done until the Commission has reported upon the whole question relative to the block. It was thought that any forcing of the survey just now might interfere with the proposed inquiry into Maori grievances.

The following are Judge Gillies' words upon the Bankruptcy Act. My opinion after carefully considering the Debtor's and Creditor's Act is clearly this, that the Act was nevei' intended to apply to cases where the debtors had no assets. The whole machinery of the Act is designed to provide not only relief for the debtor, but an equal division of his estate amongst his creditors. When there are no assets it is simply a solemn farce to appoint a trustee and to call meetings of creditors when there is nothing to effect. There is no reason whatever for a person in such a position coming to the court for relief. He is protected by law. No creditor can gain an advantage over another, and therefore there is is no reason for .coming into this court for relief against debts from which the law relieves the debtor most thoroughly by protecting him against imprisonment. In those circumstances I am clearly of opinion that the Aot does not apply, and, although I do not upon the present occasion act upon that opinion, I will iv future. The previous practice I think erroneous.

The suggestion made by us some time ago re the Irish Famine Fund has, it will be seen, borne fruit, and a stroug committee was formed at last night's meeting. For the credit of the place, not to mention the Rrorthiness of the object, we hope a respectable sum will be subscribed. The amount is to bo seat by telegram direct to Ireland, and within a week. Any member of the committee will receive subscriptions.

The Japanese method of keeping meat fresh in hot weather is just now attracting a good deal of attention in European circles. It consists in placing the raw flesh id percelaiu vessels and pouring on

it boiling water, whereby the albumen on the surface is quickly coagulated, and forms a protection a^ninst the further action of the.,water. Oil is then poured on the surface of thewater so as to prevent the access of air and consequent putrefaction of the meat. The system of protecting animal substances by securing the coagulation of the albumen and the exclusion of air is, of course, no novelty, and it can hardly bo supposed that we are indebted to the Japanese for its original adoption. But undoubtedly their method of applying it is far preferable to that practised by ourselves in the process of preserving tinned meats, which appears to consist in boiling them for mch a length of time that almost all their flavor is destroyed, and the ultimate result is a mass of tasteless shred of muscular fibre.