THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3505, 19 March 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.

The Hon. Mr Rolleston, accompanied by his Worship the Mayor, the ,County Chairman, Messrs A. T. Maginnity, Speight, McCullough, Porter, Percy Smith (Chief Surveyor), and others left here this morning for the Upper Thames. Mr McCullough accompanies the Minister of Lands in the interests of the Thames Land Association. He will endeavor to arrange.that small blocks of timber land be annexed to the treeless swamp lands of the Te Aroha district, now available for settlement on deferred payments. Mr Eolleston is greatly in favor of the deferred payment system as a means of settling the waste lands of the colony, and it is to be hoped that he will see fit to accede to the proposition of the Association. After inspecting the, Ohinemuri district, Mr Eolleston, with a number of the party, will proceed to Katikati, thence to Tauranga, and a tour amongst the wonders of the Lake district will probably be indulged in before ho leaves this part of the colony.

Settling* up for the St. Patrick's Day races took place last night at the Queen's hotel. The following amounts were paid away :—Mr Byers £50, Mr Taylor £10, Mr Leonard £20, Mr Hovell £5.

The quarterly meeting of the Liberal Association which was to have been held last night was again adjourned till Wednesday next in consequence of the paucity of the attendance*

A letter from Norfolk Island states that the religious mania is diminishing.'

Speaking of Mr Parnell's mission to America a contemporary says :—" Mr Parnell's finds no sympathy with his political ideas in America although he is amassing a considerable sum for the relief of the starving. The Americans are yearly arriving at a better understanding of the English character and English politics, and all their best papers now support England in her political action."

In a former issue it was stated that the wool work picture sent to the Sydney Exhibition by Mr- Lawless, and which took the first prize, was the work of Mrs Addey. This we are given to understand is not correct, one of Mrs Addey's pupils, Miss M. A. Ferguson, deserving the credit of sewing that artistic and beautiful piece of needlework.

Never play a game of chance unless you have money to pay for your losses. A young friend of ours recently sat down to a little game called poker with a flashly dressed foreigner. The young Thamesite speedily lost £10, and when they came to square up the " Furriner " found he had been pecking at an empty egg. He, however, went for our friend's diamond set horse-shoe breast pin and appropriated it. The pin was worth about £20.

A meeting of the Scottish Battalion will be held to-morrow evening on business of importance.

We hear thatDr Callan has .commenced negotiations for the purchase of the freehold of the plot of vacant land near Dr Payne's residence, and that he intends erecting a dispensary and dwelling thereon. _ We hope that his spirited undertaking may meet with success, and We have no doubt but there is ample scope for bis talents.

These is a probability of Auckland being made the chief station for the South Pacific Squadron, at least so it has been rumored of late. This rumor is strengthened by the fact that the Premier while in Auckland ordered certain extensive repairs to Admiralty House, a building which for years past has been falling into decay. Writing on this matter the Auckland Herald says:—" The British papers are calling attention to the fact that in view of the augmentation of strength of the .Russian Pacific ports, the British squadron in these seas should be increased, and that some of the ironclads should be sent. It is exceedingly likely that this will be done, and if so it will be a great object for the British? Government that tiiere should be a large dock at Auckland, where an abundant supply of coal for steamers can always be obtained."

It ia said that Her Majesty the Queen has lately been giving sittings to Mr Boehin, who is at work on a new die, for medals and the currency. The Imperial Postal Department hare~ just issued new stamps representing the Queen as an elderly matron

A meeting- of officers, held at Hamilton on Wednesday, decided that the Cavalry should muster for starting to the Thames on the Thursday before Easter, arming at the Thames on Friday afternoon. SeTeral Waikato ladies will probably accompany the troop. The men are said to be looking forward to the trip with great pleasure. About 150 men go.

An American physician has discovered another use for petroleum; it is a cure for consumption. Dr M. M. Griffiths asserts that he had obtained astonishing results by the administration of crude petroleum in many bases of well-marked tuberculosis. He employs ihc semi-solid oil accumulating on the casing of the wells, and administers it in three or five-grain p\;)!a«-cpm-pounded with some inert vegetable matter. He gives the pills from three to five times a day, one pill for a dose, and confesses ffcat he is himself astonished at the effects produced.

We think this is quite new. .On the eve of the defeat of the late Ministry, o* about the time of the Auckland compact, Mr Holleston was coquetting for some of the Auckland votes. He tried his hand on old Moss, but that " honest Injun" couldn't be had nohow. Some wag tantalisingly sent the following to Mr Kolleston : " A Rolling-stone gathers no Moss." It ia needless to add that our informaut was not the Minister for. Lands and Educajjioj^M^yjireHent oa a Tisit to

The-Bank of NeW Zealand won a first prize at the Sydney Exhibition for their quartz specimens and gold exhibit, which is chiefly the produce of this district. On the whole Thames exhibitors have been very successful. -

An Auckland contemporary asserts that the natives of Orakei are pouri, and attribute the following evils to the Hall Ministry:—Stoppiug passes, reducing screws, imposition of taxes, Kory Pory's (Eoad Boards), and pleuro-neumonia.

Thjbbe was a clean sheet at the X.M Court today.

At the Auckland K.M. Court on Thursday Mrs Carroll, a noted bad character, was sentenced to 4 months imprisonment for keeping a brothel, her daughterknown as cock-eyed Mag—one month for prostitution, and her son to 9 months-— that noble youth having ably performed the onerous duties of decoy duck or " runner " to the establishment. At the time of the raid of the police their den was crowded with thieves and prostitutes. One of the plague spots that disfigure beautiful Auckland has been eradicated.

How the doctors are piling on the agony about this pleuro-pnenmonia scare! An East Coast medico unblushingly asserts that the great, mortality amongst the fish of that region arises from -the disease imported by Bill Payne's cattle, and actually suggests that the dilution of the sea with six parts of hydro Bulpliide of sulphur. Perhaps he would like to undertake this experiment at his own expense.

We understand that a foot-race is on the tapis of rather more than ordinary interest, to come off on an early date, between Mr B. J. Hutton, of Auckland, and Mr James Freer of Gisborne, for the sum of £50 a-side. The distances are to be 100,150 and 200 yards ; the winner, of two events of the three to take the money. Mr Freer is a stranger in this city, having arrived a few days ago, when he at once challenged Mr Hutton. He is said to be a " flyer," and has ran in some of the best company in New Zealand. Mr Hutton's reputation is well known, and if both men go. to the mark, a good -Egcjg.may be looked for. —Star.

Tattkanga must be somewhat unsavoury nowa-days. The local Times says:— " Dead fish in large quantities still continue to be cast upon the eastern beach, right down as far as Maunganui, and, decomposing.as they are in tjie sun, the stench is exceedingly unpleasant, and is not in any way improved by the odour of a dead horse which has been lying on this side of the Mount, for the last three or four days. The fish cast^up comprise specimens of nearly, all the smaller varieties known in these waters."

Two eminent members of the Irish bar, Doyle and Yelverton, quarreled one day so violently that from words they come to blows. Doyle, the more powerful man of the two, knocked down his adversary, exclaiming roost vehemently: "You scoundrel, I'll make you behave yourself like a gentleman i " To which Yelverton rising, with, equal indignation ; " No, sir, never! I defy you ! I defy you! You can't do it!" '

A felicitous paragraphisfc observes that "a Continental Cocker has been recently calculating the daily income of the reigning sovereigns of Europe, and if he,is correct, the modern theory that certain private persons are richer than monarchs falls to the ground. Even a little king like the King of the Belgians has £328 per diem, or £120,000 a year. The King of Italy has thrice as much. The Emperor of Germany has £1600 a day; the Emperor of Austria, £2000 ;-the Sultan of Turkey, £3600; and the Emperor of Russia no less than £5000 per diem, or £1,825,C00 per year, which is a very tolerable income. And yet it is whispered that one or two of these people are not happy." This, however, remarks an American contemporary, is only, what reflecting, people would expect of such human trash-as the majority of modern Kings and Kaisers are.

Aetists, who study the beautiful and graceful, tell us that no covering for the female head equals in becomingness the lace veil worn in some countries. That worn in Milan is generally of black lace, three cornered m shape, one of the points arranged to rest on the forehead* When mingled, as it sometimes is, with bright flowers and ribbons, the effect is graceful and becoming. It is not likely, howeyer, that in this country the suggestion of adopting the veil and discarding the bonnet will be agreed to ; or that v like the women of China, we will wear neither bonnet nor veil, contenting ourselves with a few flowers in an elaborate coiffure, with an umbrella held over our head. Bonnets being " fixed facts," it should be the most becoming, thereby enhancing the attractiveness of a pretty face, and softening one 'destitute of beauty.

A publican in Palmerston North has hit upon a novel method of '" turning in the ready' cash "in these dull times. He has taken a whole column of the local journal, for the purpose of publishing the names of defaulters. In the last issue nineteen persons are shown up in the " black list," and we are told that " additional names will be published in every issue." If, remarks the New Zealand Times, Mr Deard's plan should prove successful, the. newspapers will have a " good time coming" in all parts of- the colony and the well-known Boniface will, doubtless be the recipient of a handsome testimonial from those hotel proprietors and store-keepers who have hitherto had so much difficulty in collecting their accounts.

A good story comes from the South. Dr X——-was summoned to see a lady who had been.taken suddenly ill. Now, it was after dinner, and the doctor loved his wine, and he was not just then in ■ quite the trim for giving a prescription. However, the lady was a. good patient, and so ho " pulled himself together " and drove to her house. Arrived there, he found the invalid in bed. He looked solemnly at her for a minute, as his head seemed to swim round. He felt he was n "j* equal \o the occasion, and groaned out "DruriJr, ky Jove!" He was astounded when " his" tient suddenly responded, " Oh, don't tell my l«oand or he will kill me." Taking in the situation at a glance the doctor promsed secresy. " However did you find out so quickly that I had drunk too much, doctor? " asked the lady next day, and he muttered-something about experience. —Hawke's Bay Courier.

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