THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1880.
Fbom facts that bare come to our knowledge we beliere we were in error when we questioned the statement of the editor of the Advertiser yesterday, that it was through the inadvertance of his reporter that all mention of the reception given to Sir Geo. Grey was omitted from his columns. It gives us pleasure to make this statement, and to exonerate the editor from casting any intentional slight on Sir George Grey. We should not have written as we did had it not been for the unkind remark of the editor, that allusion was made in our columns to the omission made in his, and that, for the purpose of making capital out of it. Such was furthest from our thoughts, we stated " We exceedingly regretted the omission," and referred no further to the matter, but proceeded to record the circumstances of of the reception, in some measure to make amends for the mistake of our contemporary. tlt is at all times a pleasure to us to atone tor any wrong we may bave inadvertantly or otherwise inflicted, and we hasten to acknowledge our error in this instance.
These was a meeting of the Land Association at the Star office last evening. The following telegram, received from Mr Tole, and addressed to Mr McCullough, was read to the meeting, and the intentions of the Board were considered very fair:—"The Land Board have recommended the Governor to set apart three thousand three hundred acres of the Te Aroha block for selection on deferred payment. Price not less than two pounds per acre. Plan showing the exact position of land intended to be proclaimed will be posted to you to-day. Should this area be readily taken up, the Board will, I have no doubt be induced to deal similarly with a further portion of the block. I will be happy to place any representation you may desire to make re upset price before board at its next meeting."
The New Zealand District of the Independent Order of Eechabites hold their annual meeting at the Hauraki Club Rooms, Albert street, at73o o'clock this evening, when it will probably adjourn for the transaction of other business.
We hare before us the amended prospectus of the Caledonian United G.M.Co., in 10,000 shares of £1 each. The prospectus sets forth that 500 shares are to be considered paid up, and of the remaining 9500, 500 are to be reserved for the company, and the balance submitted to the public at 10s each, to be paid as follows : Is per share on application, and 3s per share on the second day of the months of March, April, and May. This sum is irrespective of the capital, and is to be devoted to the payment of the purchase money with expenses.
Me Daniel CLOONAN,~for a long time manager here for Messrs Cosgrave and Co., left the Thames yesterday for Sydney. He took an active part in all charitable movements, and was a universal favorite. We hope that good luck will follow "Dan" wherever his future lot may be cast.- -
A number of ladies and gentlemen propose giving a concert of sacred music on some Sunday evening at the Academy of Music or the Theatre Boyal. The proceeds from the concert it is proposed to divide between the Hospital and tho Ladies' Benevolent Society. A- correspondent io another column discusses the proposal in a favorable light.
The Waitoa cricketers and shooting teams will be here on Thursday next, and at a meeting held last night to arrange for their reception, it was decided that the.rifle match should take place on Friday, and the cricket on Saturday. The visitors will be entertained at a ball on Friday sight. An influential committee were appointed to carry out the arrange* ments, and we have no doubt but that everything will go off successfully. It is essential that a friendly feeling should be cultivated with our up country friends, and a gathering such as the one in baud tends to cause the consummation of this desirable object.
Ik another column will be found an announcement that Professor Fraser will lecture on Thursday at the Academy of Music on phrenology. The Auckland Press hate spoken highly of this gentleman. The Star says: — " Professor Fraser possesses not only a clear and distinct delivery, but he has evidently studied the science with ardour and success. His lectures are illustrated by diagrams and charts, which have the advantage of impressing facts upon the memory."
These was a clean- sheet at the B;M. Court this morning. .
It will be remembered that some short time ago we stated that Major Murray had applied to the Imperial authorities for medals won by old soldiers (now resident on the Thames Goldfield) but never received by them, and the Major got replies that the applications would hare immediate attention. Amongst other applications was one on behalf of Mr Patrick Hennessey, late of the Bengal Horse Artillery, now a volnnteer of No. 1 Company Thames Scottish Battalion. The Commander of Hennessey's old troop is now the celebrated General Roberts, in command of the Kabul Forces, and the following is his letter in reply to Major Murray's request for a .certificate as to Hennessey's services for the Indian Mutiny medal. The letter in every word breathes the spirit of the true warm hearted veteran of a hundred fights, and it will no doubt be gratifying to Hennessey to find, after 20 years' absence, he is still remembered by his old commander: — " Kabul, 9th December, 1879.—T0 Major Murray, Commander of Thames District, New Zealand. —Dear Sir,~Your letter regarding a Mutiny medal for Henessey, formerly in my old troop of Bengal Horse Artillery, reached me in due course, and I hope soon after you receive this you will hear from the Horse Guards that the medial has been despatched to your care. Hennessey is undoubtedly entitled to it, and I am very glad I have been able to assist an old soldier. Please tell Hennessey I remember him well. Your letter would have been replied to sooner,
but immediately after its receipt I had to take the field again, aud bave had little leisure —I remniti, dear sir, yours rery truly, Fjked .Uobkkts, Lieut.General, commanding forces in Kabul.
Another characteristic of the editor of the Advertiser is that on all occasions when we have been compelled for the sake of decency to castigate him for, in our opinion, his faults, he gets a mysterious correspondent to hash up a .letter in reply. He has not the manliness to reply straight to our statements under the cover of the editorial "we," but to hide his identity procures the services of Bardolph or some other lout to do his literary mud slinging. We do not say that the editor of our contemporary should have so far forgotten the first principles of journalistic usage as to pen the miserable effusion <hat disgraces his local column this morning, but the constant repetition of this thing is beginning: to have anything but a good effect. Why should a disinterested correspondent run round looking for the Advertiser reporter to obtain corroboration of the statement appearing in yesterday morniDg's paper ? Bardolph will never acquire a competency by minding bis own business, and he seems to have got so excited over the affair that ho writes, " Hamlet with Desdemona omitted." Go to, thou fool! read Hamlet again, and follow the advice given by the wise writer. All through the letter bears the stamp of being written by a cowardly , which, according to the dictionary, is " a flatterer or parasite of the most abject character."
Sir George Grey gave the sum of £10 10s to he divided between the Old Man's Kefuge and the Orphanage.
The companies interested not having taken any steps towards the resumption of pumping operations Mr Comer, to protect himself commenced pumping yesterday morning with the intention of reducing the water to enable the lifts to be raised from the shaft. It is to be regretted that arrangements of some kind could not be come to.
Two men lately swam the Mississippi river above New Orleans on a wa«er. A reporter of the race says:—" None of them seemed to be putting forth much effort till it was discovered that an alligator had struck out from the shore as a competitor, and then—well, every man did his best to keep the alligator from carrying off the stakes. The spectators enjoyed the scene immensely, Joudly . cheering the alligator as he visibly gained on the men."
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3472, 10 February 1880, Page 2
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