THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3476, 14 February 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1880.

Pbgjpessoe Fraser lectures at the Academy of Music tonight on "Phrenology and what are its uses." We hope to see a good house", for the subject in the hands of Professor Fraser is sure to be well treated.

The ball at the Academy of Music last night, given to the Waitoa yisitors was a great success.

Mb Adams, the newly-appointed master of the Thames High School, had a consultation with the Board of Governors this morning. Many matters of interest were discussed, and afterward, with the Chairman and other members, Mr Adams visited the hchool site, and expressed himself well pleased at the situation.

The Hauraki Engineers fired for Government prizes to-day. Lieutenant Barlow in- charge of the morning, and Lieutenant Denby of the afternoon squad. The following ate the principal scores up to going to press:—(Sapper Kellar 65, Sergt. Clark ,61, Sergt. Cloutt 59, Bandsman Graham 58, Sergt. .Kellsall 53, Bandsman Henderson 52, Sapper Trevarthen 52, Bandsman Stone 52, Sapper Agnew 48, Sapper Hale 47, Sapper Stackpole 45, Sapper McClair 45.

The Committee of the Irish Belief Fund have £60 op hand and expect to send away a final donation of £100 in a few daya. £250 is uot a bad sum for the Thames these bad times.

We have received the first number of the second volume of The Voice, a journal devoted to voice culture, and published in Albany, New York. It contains a number of good articles on matters touching the preservation of the voice, and valuable suggestions for curing stammering and removing other defects.

Two sisters, on a visifcjo a large house near Wanganui, were sleeping together upstairs. During the night (says a correspondent of the Marton paper) one of them had toothache, and decended to the kitchen en dishabille to procure something to alleviate the pain. She returned to the bedroom, and exclaiming " Oh, it's so cold," jumped into bed. The exclamation aroused the occupant, who proved not to be her sister, but a male sleeper. She had got into the wrong room. He turned over, and thinking a burglar was in the room, caught hold of her. She managed to escape, but not before his rough handling had scratched her face. She related the circumstance to her sister, and to hide from the gentleman whiGh of the two had been his unwilling guest, both ladies appeared with a strip of sticking-plaster on her cheek.

Me D. Stewart addressed his constituents on Thursday night at Dunedin, and after speaking of the affairs of the last session, and his reasons for supporting Sir George Grey received a vote, of confidence.

The World has the following despatch from Alexandra: —" Immediately under the pedestal, of tbe obelisk and in the east angle formed by tbe steps, I found a block of hewn syenite granite, 40 inches, long in the cube, representing a perfect Masonic altar. Under this, and imme-diately-below, I found a white marble slab, representing an apron extending across the foundation of polished syenite granite, 182 inches long, 51 inches broad, and 25f inches thick, the upper half hewn down into a perfect square. At the same level, and touching the section of the square, and in the west angle of the foundation, I found another block of syenite granite, markedly regular in form, the service of which represented rough ashlar steps, and the foundation of which was composed of white granite. Besides these four pieces, I found others less noticible and important, but equally significant emblems.—H. H. Gokingke, Lieutenant Commander, U.S.ISF."

The Herald, writing upon the inquest of the child drowned at the Whau, and the peculiar views held by most people that tbe body of a person who has met with sudden death is not to be touched till seen by the police, remarks : —lt cannot be too widely known that any one is at perfect liberty to use means to restore those apparently dead, or to remove the body to the nearest suitable dwelling. It is scarcely fair to the police to slavishly leave every responsibility on their shoulders, instead of cultivating habits of selfreliance. Some one, referring to this trait in an English community wittily remarks " that if the average Englishman met .the devil, the first thing he would do would be to writa a letter to the Times about it, and the next to send for a policeman!"

To Marylebone, London, is said to belong the distinction of providing, for the inmates of its workhouse the largest' Christmas pudding in the metropolis. Its weight was over ono v ton, and comprised 5501b of flour, 4131b of suet, 3001b of currants, 3001b of raisins, 2061b of sugar, 1000 eggs, 15 gallons of ale, 15 gallons of milk, 71b of ginger, 101b of spice, and 701b of candied peel. The Daily Telegraph, discussing the differences of feeling between the people of England and Ireland, says:—An Irishman who is destitute has a horror of the workhouao, net at all felt fo the same extent by the English poor, while outdoor relief is accepted here with a light heart ■by classes who in Ireland would never think of applying for it. A destitute Irishman accepts personal help from private donors with effusive thanks; the destitute Englisman turns, in preference, to the relieving officer or to the workhouse where he has a legal claim. The -spirit of the latter is shown well enough by the story of a " casual " who, on being received one night in an English workJiouse, asked for a " warm bath." It

was roughly refused. " I must have it," he answered; "if you turn to Consolidated Order 1,142 you will finrl you must give it on demand." This official system of help, cold and impersonal, lmrU the feelings of the Irish. Hence the island presents the anomaly of having more poverty than England, but much less pauperism. The family feeling that induces sons and daughters to support their parents, the readiness to emigrate, the passion for land, the horror of confine ment iv a workhouse, all these causes lend, to make the Irish do anything rather than readily accept relief, coupled with official conditions.

In our advertising columns will be found detailed the particulars of a wonderful cure effected by Hitchens' Blood Eestorer, in the case of Mr Opperman, of Happemamma, an island of the Kingsmill Group. That gentleman, who is a well-known island trader, was brought to Auckland in a dying condition, having been given up, and his recovery pronounced hopeless. Thanks to the efficacy of. the Blood Restorer, and Mr Hitehens' attentive nursing, he ha 3 been restored to wonted health. His testimonial to Mr Hitchens bears upon the face of it the impress of truth, and its accuracy is further endorsed by the German Consul. If Mr Hitchens continues to achieve such signal triumphs with his Blood Restorer, the Wizard Oil, and Holloway's Pills, will become things of the past; and in the language of the inimitable Frank Weston, "The whole world will cry out with one stentorian shout, ' Give us another bottle or two; give us another bottle or two.'"