THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3666, 25 September 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880.

The Naval and Scottish Cadets, in addition to the parent companies, will muster for Church Parade to-morrow morning. .

Thb annual soiree in connection with St. George's Sunday School will be held on Tuesday evening next, at. the Rolleston street school house.

Captain Steele of Hamilton has received a very satisfactory letter from Messrs Grant and Foster regarding the object of their mis sion to the colony. As the remit of their visit, we learn that already several farmers with capital are on their way to New Zealand.

Father Golden, who was severely injured last week, is recovering.

No. 2 of the Observer is to hand, and is quite as acceptable as the mi ial number. The style of writing throughout is pointed, sparkling, and fearless. We miss, however, the " Thames Notes," and hope our contemporary will not oease to make them a feature of his journal.

Mb Simon's pioture, " Tbe Days of Yore," if now being exhib ted at Mr Lawless', Brown street, where we would advue lovers of the sublime art of painting to inepeot it. Mr Simon's venture will doubtless meet with the success it deserves. We need scarcely remind our renders of the exhibition of Hay wood's New Zealand Panorama this evening. The matinee this afternoon was largely attended. ■ ■ Wi are informed that during (he last few days Mr Adam Porter, the head of the prospecting party at Te Aroha, has had several interviews with the hon. the Atto ney General (Mr Whitaker), in reterenne to the pun-hate by Government of the block of land on which good gold is said lo hnwe been discovered recently by Mr Porter's proved or*. The result of the interviews has not yet been made public. We learn that Mr Pulieine, late of--the. Thames, has returned to England from Gis* borne. Mrs Pulleine remains in the colony. MBS Hume's gift, tree entertainment at the Volunteer Hall last evening was an unqualified success, the large building being thronged with a respectable a»«etnbinge. The tree, which was of considerable proportions, was laden with the prizas which were apportioned by ticket to the Ju-ky hold pro. Mrs Hume herself conducted the fancy work fetal, and apparently did a good buriness, and the refreshment stall was alto well patronised. A dance followed, the musio being supplied by the Engineer Band, who had performed selections daring the early part of the*evening This afternoon the tree wa« exhibited fur tbe children, who each received a present from its branohes. : Mb W. D. Reid noMfiis by advertisement that he is the first trades in an in the township to receive an assortment of the new season's teas by the schooner Sybil, which arrived in Auckland a few days ago direct from China. As our readers are aware, the*e teas were imported by the well-known firm of L D. Nathan and Co., which is in itself a sufficient guarantee of their excellence. Mr Reid has also special lines in cheese, tobacco, &c, to which he would call attention.

Thb treasurer to the Grah'amstown Fire Brigade acknowledges the receipt of a donation of £2 2s from Mr J. MoStowan towards the funds of the Brigade. Thb Cambridge people intend giving Mr J. B. Whyte, their member, a binquet. At a meeting of the Hauraki Engineers last evening it was decided to co operate with the Rangers in a series of battalion drills to be held alternately at the head quartern of each corps.

Mb Lore, who so cleverly impersonated a well-known politician ia "The Row in City West," has been playing Raokstraw in "Pin-behind" (a Pinafore parady) at the Princess Theatre, Dunjjdin, w th Miss M jrgan, Amy John*, and Mr Herberte, f Thebs was a dean sheet at the R.M. Court this morning.

Wi have to thunk the Government printer for the early receipt of tbe last number of Hansard and a budget of Parliamentary papers. ,

TASMASIA,with her •mall popul ttion, is one of the tnoßt prosperous colonies in fciit Australian group. Her population numbers 112,000; last year her imports represented noly £128,000, while her exports amounted to £1,300,000. -■■-.-..

BOMB idea of the "all-absorbing" power of the Colony, in the co sump'ion of wines, spirits, and beer, may be gathered from a return recently published in the General Government Gazette, showing the quantities delivered from warehouse daring the quarter ending 30th of June last. Confining our compilation to round numbers, w« find the totals are as follows i—tipiritt of all 200,670 gallons; wines of all kinds, 42 955 gallons ; and English beer, 82 963 gallons, or a total of 326,588 gallons, ihe total amou t of stock in warehouse on the 30t>h of June last, were: Spirits, 397,600 guk.; wines, 169,240 gals.; ale and bger, 139,183 gals., or a total of 706,023 gallons.

The Maori prisoners in Dunedin gaol appear to have rosey times of it. We read the other day that they daily play cricket and indulge in racing, jumping, and other athletic sports. . '

The New Zealand court in th« Melbourne Exhibition has a frontage of 32ft.'to the central avenue and a depth of 2501't—the lame length and breadth as the Queensland

court. Both colonies will have larger oolleotions in Melbourne than tb>y had at Sydney, but not the Fame convenient opportunity to show them off, in conrequenoe of the narrowness of the courts (which liave been irreverently likened to bowling all ys) ; and two rows of awkward columns further mbJi-ide the allotments into three narrow strips—one 16ft. wid«, the other two 8 t. wide each. These roof supports not oaly interfere with the appearance of the courts, but prevent the arrangement of the show cases and trophies into appropriate groups. However, the plan of the distribution of apace, whether good or bad, cannot be altered now.

My Thames contemporaries, says the Observer, in noticing the first issue of the Observer, comment somewhat aoverely on what they are pleased to term the egouali a'> touo ruuuiug through its columns. The remark is unfortunate, inasmuch as it shows that the writers are entirely unacquainted with the English -society journals, on the the lines of which this paper is avowedly modelled. If they were in the habit of seeing such literature they would scarcely need to be told that, by this class of weekly, the mysterious and impersonal "we" has long been abandoned. Mr Lubouohere, Mr Edmund Yatea, Mr Legge and other popular writers are of opinion that it is undesirable to use the first person plural in chronicling social gossip. Moreover they abuor humbug, and see no reason why a respectable journalist should seek to tbufflj his identity beneath a cloak of impersonality. Just at first perhaps, the constantly recurring "I" may sound a little strange; but contributors are instructed to —as far as possible—avoid its repitition, and doubtless will do co when they get more accustomed to the method. Aa to the accusation of egotism, I repel it with suorn. Though for the reasons named, as well as for convenience sake, and because ole person alone is responsible for everything that appears in the paj.er, the pronoun "I" is used throughout, there are more individual and independent opinion* expressed in one issue of the Observer than in twenty Thames Advertisers.

That notorious individual, Mr D. 0. Moodie, who took upon himself the cask of defending the Queen's honor when she was called "an obaue elderly person not over* burdened with brains," is treated like a prophet in his own country. He has attacked another man from behird, this time an Adelaide solicitor, oonauUed by; the wife of this gallant proteotor of female weakness because he had behaved to her so badly that *he has been meditating an appeal for a divorce. How gratifLd tier Mijesty would be were she made aware that the chivalrous being whose sensitive soul burned within him when a woman 16,000 miles away was slandered, made his home so unhappy that the wife, of bis bosom was driven to seek the protection of the law.—Ex.

LOCKSTITCH Sewing Maohioes, with table, treadle, aod all nocessury fittings complete, £6 6s; guaranteed to give satisfaction." May be bad packed securely in utrong oases without extra charge.—J. GuioQ, Pollen street.

It can be unhesitatingly asserted that 0. MoLiver sells the beat and cheapest tobaccos aud smokers' requisite* on the field. He buys hi* goods for cash in all murkete, and consequently the benefits to ba derived fiom dealing at his establishment cannot bo excelled. Note the address, aud gjre a call. —i.'. McLIVBU, Brown ►treat.