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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3610, 22 July 1880, Page 2

Thb Big Pump was stopped to-day in consequence of an a .'cident to the rod of the air pump.

Soxr time ago a rumor was afloat that Mr C. H. L. Joy, a solicitor, formerly practising in Auckland was dead. We hear on good authority that that gentleman is still this side of the " bourne," and is lucratively practising his profession in Melbourne.

We are credibly informed that another petition agaftet Mr Kenrick is under process of manufacture by an aggrieved party. Another one is also spoken of emanating from a man to whom Mr Kenrick refused a warrant to search for some lost property. Truly may future chroniclers refer to our R.M. ns the " much petitioned against."

Thebk was no business at the R.M Court this morning.

Owing partly '-> the wretched weather and partly to the discouraging rumors regardiug the Big Pump the share market has been very stagnant during the past few days. When the news we give publicity to-day is generally known we hope to see affairs at the Corner assuming their pristine activity.

The 4th of July was celebrated in Dunedin by a banquet at which a great many persons were present. Mr Stout in speaking on the occasion said: They had met to celebrate one of the landmarks of the past—the declaration of the independence of America—and it was advisable to gee whether they could not draw a leeson from it. It struck him on hearing the declaration read that evening that it laid down three principles which they could very well apply to themselves. They were: the rights of man—the right of life, the right of liberty, and the right to pursue happiness as each man thought best. Another important principle inculcated by it was, that the right to govern a , people must arise, from themselves. If they had a right to govern themselves they had a rght to change their Government whenever they thought proper to do so. It was not the form of government which gave liberty. Unless the majority of the people were so educated and. cultured as to be enabled to form opinions and had a right to express them, there was no true liberty. Wuerever there was true liberty, reform, and progress, it would be found that the loaders of public opinion simply expressed the ideas and thoughts burning in the hearts and minds of the people at large. If this country wished to make any landmarks in the history of time it shoald look within itself and not look' abroad for aid. Until the people determined on some course of procedure they never could hope for any reform or progress, and ho believed they had in one respect looked too much to their Parliament as simply a machine for distributing favors to districts. It should be an assemblage of the beat men in the colony to improvise measures for national well being, and not a gathering of men to feed from the Consolidated Fund to satisfy their ravenous constituents.. Until, the people resolved to send men to Parliament who would look from a New Zealand and national point of view, who could individually say, " I don't care what my constituents demand; lam not going to be a mere log-roller," everything would go down the hill, and the colony would not progress as it ought to do.—Applause.

The following remarks of Dr Vaughan ara most sensible. Indeed were people to follow out the code laid down bj him there would be far fewer petty jealousies and childish misunderstandings:—Dr Vaughan, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, laid the foundation stone of St. Benedict's Presbytery, Sydney, on the 30th M»y, and concluded his address to the people assembled as follows :— " It mattered not what their professions of faith might be as long as they were good Colonists and paid their bills. (Cheeks.) As long as they were honest men, as long as they were men who could not only in public, but also in private, stand before the world, and allow the world to look through them a* if they were glass without seeing s> flaw in their hearts." (Cheers.)

"Kiwi," the Te Awaroutu correspondent of the Waikato Times, says :—" I am glad to say that the miserable raupo whare, in which our teacher has hitherto had to exist, is not to be allowed any longer to disgrace our township. It only contained five or six moderately sized rooms; but, as £104 are to be expended upon it, I suppose that when the alterations and improvements are effected, it will be large enough to meet th« urgent requirements of the schoolmaster. He neces* sarily needs a house with very mauy and spacious rooms as he is a single man. This is another instance of the infinite wisdom and discretion of the Board of Education in Auckland. BraTo! our twain School Commissioners ! Who will say that they cannot work the oracle properly. No doubt some other district sohool will shortly be informed that the Board 'have no funds at their disposal with which to effect the repairing of broken windows or the roofiDg of a leaky scboolhouse.' The funny part "of it all ia that the work has fallen into the hands of a builder for whom it was never intended."

JuDGK Richmond in gumming up on the libel case of Bracken v. Darrell, arising oat of certain articles which appeared in the Saturday Advertiser, told the jury that anything tending to bring a psrson into contempt or disrespect wae a libel. He thought they would hare no doubt that an imputation of "blackmailing," the meaning of which they heard and understood, against a joarnaiist was • libel upon him. His Honour concluded by

laying that honest criticism deserved protection. There was far too muoh tendency the other way, and public characters would be all the better of impartial critioism end, if necessary, censure.

The best of materials manufactured in a proper and workmanlike manner should giro satisfaction. Hence we are pleased in daily, almost hourly, hearing such exclamations as " My word Douglas your loaf is now splendid," 11 Those biscuits are really beautiful," "My compliments to Mr Douglas and tell him I havn't eaten such bread for years, <fee, &c."

SFBCiATiixiss of great men: Gladstone for politics, Kelly for (.ticking up banks, and McLiver for tobacco. You can't rub the latter out. Just try his specially imported Cowfcail Twist and Vanity Fair.