THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'OLOCK Resurrexi. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 10 May 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'OLOCK Resurrexi. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1880.

Furjheb cable-despatches,state that it is generally thought that tl»e bol tie found at Portland, relating ,to the Know3ltfy Hall being wrecked on the Crozets, is only a hoax.

Mas Bostock, who was fined £109 for smuggling jewellery into the port of Auckland, has been sent to gaol for six months on account of her inability to pay the fine.

George Sydney Hansen, charged with indecently assaulting a girl in Wellesley street East, Auckland, has been remanded till to-day.

It was some time since the redoutable colored Yankee, Shanghai, visited town, but even the society of his " bull chicks " could not prevent the Kopu philosopher experiencing a feeling of ennui, and a visit to the Arcadian shades of Grahams, town was decided on. By the time be reached Brown street he had partaken sufficient tarantula juice (o make him knock down any Britisher who denied the supremacy of Yankeeland, and in this state the " Colonel" rolled into Alia way's restaurant and ordered " dinnati," with an air of conscious superiority. This little manoeuvre would not wash, however, Jacob, ths presiding genius of the hash foundry, knowing him of old ; so he refused to give the great American a " squar' meal." Shanghai tried io get virtuously indignant, and appealed to the Britishers present to see that his rights as a citizen of the great republic were not trampled on, and again appealed for a feed. Jacob was inexorable, however, and sent for a policeman, who speedily ejected the unfortunate philosopher, despite much vigorous expostulations. When he appeared before the 11.M. this morning on a charge of drunkenness, he appeared somewhat sheepish, but took the rebuke administered with the air of a man who is suffering in a glorious cause.

It will be remembered that a year or two ago there was a little difficulty among the parishoners of St. Matthew's over a window of painted glass. Something of the same • kind has recently uccured at home. A London correspondent writes as follows ;—" High Church people here are making a grand joke of a recent judgment of Dr Trisiam. The Her. Matthew Woodward, of Folks tone, Kent, applied for a faculty to insert & window of painted glass representing a fourteenth ceijiury priest saying mass. The ornament was objected to by some pious parishioners, and the learned Dc Tngtam refused the faculty, unless Mr Woodward would put his priest in a surplice instead of a chasuble ! If

the case bad not been duly chronicled amoDfif the law reports, no ouo could have believed such a judgment possible. You miobt as well insist on clothing the picture of St. Paul in a long coat and chimney-pot hat, as vesting a medieval priest in a surplice, and at mass, too! How Evangelical scruples could be satisfied by such a travesty is not explained." —Herald.

A. aooD story iB told of a difference between two Irish carters on the Queen street wharf a few days ago. Burly Peter Grace missed 3'iue sacks from his dray, and thinking that Paddy McCorinick had " made" them, he w^nt across to Patrick's dray to interview that gentleman on the subject. He notices ba^s with his brand "P. G." ou them iv MoCormick's cart, aud the following colloquy took piece:-—" Mishter McCormick, thim are my boigs." " Mishter Grace, they are not." "They are, Mishter McCormick. There's me brind on thim." Paddy seemed taken aback, but said "Pete Grace, that's me own brind—P. fur McUormick and G. fur boigs—McCormick's boigs."

In view of the attempt made last session to abolish all power of dealing with fraudulent debtors, it may be interesting to read what one of the most able County Court judges of England had to say on the subject of the abolition of imprisonment for debt. Mr H. J. Stonor, the Judge of the Southwark County Court, at a recent sitting, we leant from' a London contemporary, made some observations upon the subject, and the, conclusion to which he arrived may be summed up as follows :-—The abolition of "imprisonment under judgment summons" in the present state of the laboring classes would—l. Utterly deprive them of credit, aud drive them to the workhouse in protracted' winters and other times of pressure. 2. Ruin the small retail provision traders throughout the country. 3. He-introduce ex necessitate the " truck system/ 4 Cause a loss of £225,000 in fees; of which four : fiftha would fall on the officers of the Courtnot, of course, the judges, who are not paid by fees—and the remaining one-fifth £45,000 on the Chancellor of the fixchequer.

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