THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 15 March 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1880.

I- ' - • - - ; The Hon. Mr Eolleston, Minister of Lands, will visit the Thames some day this week—what particular day is not yet very clear. The following telegrams relative to his visit have been received : — " Auckland, March 13th. 1880,—I have already arranged with Eolleston to come to the Thnmes next Tuesday.—L. Ehbbnfbied —P. C. Dean, ]£sq , Thames."— 11 Auckland, March 13th, 1880,—Hope to bo at Grahamstown Thursday or Friday. Will advise you further—W. Rolled/ton. —W. J. Speight; M.H.R., Grahamstown." Mr Kolleslon arrived in Auckland on Saturday evening.

At a meeting of the.Harbor Board, held this .'afternoon, tenders were opened for collection of tolls, . lighting and other services . as follows : — £78, Arnold £104, Peterson £118, G. Bone £144, G. Brown £138. It was resolved to accept Mr Schofield's tender, subject to it being ascertained that he understood the specifications correctly, Mr Arnold's .tender to be accepted if it was found that Schofield had tendered under a misapprehension. The coal yard on Shorthand wharf was leased to Mr Snowling for 12 months for the sum of £30, and the goods shed' to Mr Onyon for the North Shore Ferry Co. for £52 per annum.

The various Volunteer Companies are .requested to assemble in column opposite the Pacific to-morrow evening at. 3.15 sharp, for. the. purpose of meeting the Carbine Champion and Thames Representatives.

The anniversary sermons of the Grahamstown Wealeyan Church were preached in the Church yesterday by the Eer; Shirley W. Baker, of the Friendly Islands, Mission. The services were well attended,' and both morning and evening '.sermons .were' most eloquent and impressive.. Im the Shortland Church tonight Mr Baker .will deliver a lecture on Tonga and the Tongese, and the notwithstanding the short notice, will, .we expect, be very satisfactory. To-morrow evening the soiree of the GrahamstownChurch will be held in the school-room adjoining, and the meeting afterwards will be addressed by two native notabilities -from Tonga, one a relative of his Mojesty King George, and the other holds the appointment of Inspector of Police. Mr Baker Trill, of course, interpret their speeches.

At a meeting of Volunteer officers held at Mr Lawless' on Saturday evening, it was decided that our representatives should be welcomed on arrival by a general parade who will meet them on the wharf, and a ball will be held on the day following their arrival.

From present appearances we are to have a very nice day's sport on Wednesday next, St. Patrick's Day. On Saturday Messrs, R. R. McGregor and Co. instructed by the stewards sold the privileges. The gates realised £41, and the booths, grand-stand, cards, etc., .satisfactory prices. For the big event —the Hibernian Cup—all the horses entered bare accepted and will start. Bundarra and Golden Crown have arrived from Auckland, and Vengeance and Eclipse— the, latter entered for the Railway Stakes—from Tauranga. It'is probable all the entries for the Hurdle Race will come to the scratch, except Awhau. Bundarra, Golden Crown, and Malvern have each a number of backers, and the Cup is expected to be hotly contested.

Two drunkards were discharged with a caution at the R.M. Court to day. They had been locked up since Saturday and were very penitent.

The exhibit for whiclfr Mr Lawless takes a first prize at the Sydney Exhibition .13 a splendid wool work picture entitled " Horses at the fountain," worked by Mrs Addey. Mr Lawless' exhibit is certainly one of the most tasteful specimens of wool work we ever saw.

Me J. Walsh left here today for Morrinsville with his race horse Mattock, which is entered for the Piako races. The game little horse has got in at Bst 21b for the big race, and as he is carrying several pounds le3s than on the occassion of his victory at Katrkati, should make things particularly warm for the Waikato cracks.

The man Edward Shuttlewortb, aged 50, who was admitted into the Thames Hospital on the 11th November, 1879, was discharged to-day. It will be remembered lie was picked up in the Shellback Creek, having fallen a distance of over sixty feet, and when brought into the Hospital was suffering from fracture of the arm, fracture of portion of the shoulder blade, fracture of the collarbone, three ribs fractured, and suffering more* over.from, concussion of the brain, per* foration of lung; with spitting of biood and anti- delirium. He may be congratulated on his escape from almost certain death—he appears indeed to have been possessed of more than the feline average of nine lives.

At the Church parade of the Hauraki Engineers yesterday there wero 75 present. At the Mary street corner the corps broke into detachments and proceeded to their various churches. We regret to state that Lieut. Leydon had to report one of his men for insubordination.

We arc requested to state that the defendant in the case Gillau v. Lymburn, at reported in our issue of Friday last, was not Mr J. H. Lymburn, of Albert street.

A ioeeionee named Alexander Sclossa entered the Komau Catholic Church of St. Peter, at Hatton Garden, London, and fired five shots from a revolver, at the priest celebrating mass. The balls damaged the aliar ornaments, but the priest remained uninjured. Sclossa was only secured after a desperate resistance, and hai been committed for trial. He Mys he is a Swiss priest, but is believed to be a German socialist.

Pbiyate letters received by the Deccan (says the South Australian Register) state that the Bey. Charles Clark had been lecturing to very large audiences in Bristol; Nottingham, and other considerable English towns. In the Old Country, as in the Colonies, "The Tower of London " and " Charles Dickens " appear to be among the talented lecturer's most popular subjects,

[ E», r litrj)din. reports in the Gazetta Medic*-Italian's, the following observation 'made on himself.. Being seized with a severe coryza, he" happened to chew one ,or two /twigs, of the eucalyptus, at the .same/time swallowing the salira secreted, which had, a bitter and aromatic flavour. To his surprise he found that in the course of half an hour the nasal catarrh had disappeared. Some days later he was seized with another attack from a fresh exposure to cold, when the same treatment was followed-by an equally fortunate result. He then prescribed the remedy to severul of his patients, all'of t whom were benefited in. the same way. '■'He* believes that this treatment is only J suitable in acute cases.—British Medical Journal.

The .Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company has declared a dividend of £5' per share (£6 per share paid) for 1879, or at the rate of 83 per cent, per annum, and the value of the company's shares slightly exceeds at present £100 per 9hare.

Atlas in the World says : —I heard a good story the other day of a yeomanry regiment in the eastern counties. After the annual review the inspecting officer ordered the'regiment to do some outpost duty. The day was cold and wat, and some time had elapsed before the dispositions were made and the inspecting officer couhiisake his tour of the outposts. Riding up a hill, he and his staff came upon a solitary vedette shivering in the cold. " .Now, my man," said the inspecting officer, "What are you?" " What am I ?" said the man, " Why, -J am fool. I've been here for three hours in the rain, and have had enough of it."

At a late meeting of the Duchess of Marlborough Relief Committee the fol lowing letter, enclosing a cheque for £ICOO from the members of the London Stock Exchange, was read :—" 18; Finch lane. London, Jan. 21.—Your Grace, — I have ,mach pleasure in forwarding a cheque for £1000, on account of £1125, the amount subscribed- by members of the London Stock Exchange towards the fund now being raised under your Grace's auspices for the relief of suffering in Ireland. -While calling your Grace's attention to, the liberal subscriptions I have received from my brethren on the Stock Exchange, I deeply regret to be obliged to inform your Grace that their accustomed liberality has been in many instances partially affected, and in some cases altogether , withheld, in consequence of the proceedings of some of my countrymen, who have unfortunately been carried away by the evil counsels and the inflammatory language which, has been used by Mr Parnell, M.P., and those who, together with him, have gained an unenviable notoriety by exciting the -minds of ihe Irish people.—l have the honour to remain, your Grace's faithful servant, — Henby Boubke."

The Board of Governors of the Canterbury College have decided to make provision for the purchase of a complete set of the philosophical transactions of the Koyal Society of London from 1665, at a cost of £150, for the College library.

An eccentric contributor to the Dunedin Saturday Advertiser describing 'one of the Chiniquy lectures in that city says:—The good pastor related many more anecdotes of an equally reliable nature, and was rewarded by frequent bursts of applause and volleys of Kentish fire. The rev.- gentleman, -ttotwithatamling the deep attention which he pays towards the tilings of the other world, manages to keep au eye on the good things of this sublunary planet, and every moment be can spare from the great work of converting his " dear. Roman Catolick friends " is devoted to the main point of his mission, viz., gathering in the shiners. During the evening there were boys, or young men, passing around the Church selling the Pastor's books, photographs, and " little good gods," as he calls the sacramental wafers. It only required the " apples, granges, nuts, and lemonade,"' and a few " gods " in the gallery, to make the show complete At the conclusion of the entertainmeat the Pastor dame forward to the footlights and implored his dear friends to patronise his next lecture. "It is ze grawn lecture vich hds converted thousands of ze, poor, blind, degraded Roman Catolicks, and ze irons rich make ze little good gods yill be exhibited."

Mn R. Bay's string of race horses has been broken op. Titania has been sold to Mr Goodman, Lone Haud to Mr C. Turnbull, and the Anteros—Revoke colt has been purchased for Mr Webb.

Only tea horses have paid up for the chief event of the Ha.wke's Bay Racing Club, the Cup of 300 sots, to be run on St. Patrick's Day. There were 26 nominated. The acceptors are Otupai, Balmoral, Libeller, Grand Duchess, Little Wonder, Templeton, Vampire, Lara, Numa, and Laertes.

The übiquitous J. G. S. Grant has -gone off on another tack. Writing on Chiniquy to a Dunedin paper, New Zealand's whilom traducer oratorises :—Altogether he is a grand old man, of worldwide reputation. I have .no sympathy with his cowardly persecutors and-detrac^ tors. He is a brave man—not fearing to utter the truth within him for fear of giving offence and raining up enemies. I honor him for this.- It is a reproach to this age of progress that such a man should literally be " standing in jeopardy every hour " for proclaiming the gospel of the grace of God to sinners, and the inalienable right of every man to follow the dictates of his own conscience, and expose error wherever he may find it, and whatever robes of authority it may be covered. The preservation of his life to a fct'eon old age amid the storms of persecutions and the tumultuous raging of the enemy, is a wonderful demonstration of an overruling Providence.

An old Maori, who has ju«fc died at Wakapuaka, is said to be 110 years old. It is reported that ho wa3 .the original chief of the district, but lost his possession through conquest.

Ma Firth's gross yield of wheat from the Matamata estate is estimated at 30,000 bushels.'

' Mr John Bright iv another speech, at Birmingham, eulogised American education.

We hare added a reading and smoking room to our establishment; all the Provincial and Intercolonial papers filed for reference. Business and other men will find this a convenience that for a long time has been very much felt.—Lawless & Co., Tobacconists, &c.