THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3671, 30 September 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1880.

We bare authority for stating that His Worship the Mayor, with commendable foresight has made arrangements with the Bank to pay off all the outstanding liabilities of the Borough. This shouldl be joyful news to the creditors, and had their balances been payable before to-day, might have saved the bankers the trouble of writing certain communications known as " letters to pay up." Thanks are due to Mr Ehrenfried for his action.

Si. Geobge's sohooiroom was crowded last night by an appreciative audience, bent upon seeing the Pictorial Panorama of NewjZealand, which most was successfully shown. Mr Hay wood delivered the lecture, which was very interesting, the oliildren listening very attentively to the many instructive and important matters which were recited. Mr Beere assisted with a powerful limelight apparatus, by which he threw upon, the screen no less than 126 beautiful views, which were repeatedly cheered by the audience. The entertainment concluded with a display of comic scenes, when all present departed to their homes well pleased with their trip through the colony.

An application was made by Mr R. Hawkes to-day for Government assistance ot Dillon and party, prospecting the Tapu ranges. Mr Aicken, Mr McCullough, and Mr Speight accompanied Mr Htwkes. The Warden said be would favorably consider the application, and after making enquiries would forward it to Wellington.

The correspondent of the Star telegraphs as follows from Coromandel:—Lock wood and party have struck a splendid reef three feet wide. The specimens taken out are expected to yield one ounce to the pound. This olaim is peg and peg witk the Empress of India, which can work on the name reef at a lower level in a few days.

A FINANCIAL meeting of the Scottish Bat* talion will take place aftor drill to-night.

Mb Stephenson's dwelling house in Macktty street was offered by auction by Messrs R. R. McGregor to-day, but the sums offered were not sufficient tt> meet the reserve pUctd upon it by the ownw. It is yet open for sale.

liiPUOV£UENX3 are steadily going ahead along Pollen street. The n w shop tb&t attracts passers-by is the extensive furniture warehouse of Mr James Browne's, Karaka Bridge. The house was formerly the Excelsior Hotel, and the whole of the lower storey has been thrown into one large shop, giving ample room for the display of goods in the furnishing line, and adding greatly to the business appearance of the locality.

Tee Kauaeranga School Committee, at the last meeting, recorded their vote for the vacant seat on the Board of Education in favor of Mr F, J. Mods, and at a meeting of the Waiotahi Committee the same course was followed. We fully approve of the ■election, for few persons in Auckland are better acquainted with the working, of the Board and the requirements of the country districts than Mr Moea. He was an officer of the Board for some time, and for many years he has taken an interest in educational matters both in Otogo and Auckland. We shall be pleased to see the ParaWai and the Tararu Committees make the same seleotion as the Kauaeranga aud the Waiotahi.

At at the E.M. Court this morning one person charged with drunkenness was discharged with a caution.

The funeral of Henry Louis Rees, the man murdered by the Fijian, took place, in Auckland tit three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The remains were conveyed to the Wesleyan cemetery. Mrs Rrea and her daughter followed the hearse at a distance on foot.

It has been ascertained, bj comparing a lock of the huir of the murdered man Bees with the hair found on the Fijian's axe, that they are precisely similar, being streaked with grey. The wound in the head of the murdered man corresponds in shape and size with the above weapon.

Thk Lyttelton limes says:—" From a case of polished knuri, now on view in the shop of Jewell, cabinetmaker, Hereford street* looks forth the head of the gallant old racehorse Templeton. The case also contains two of the hoofs which have so often brought Bob Bay in at the front."

So numerous are the dialect 3 spoken by the South Sea Islanders, that a missionary once said of them that they must have come straight from the Tower of Babel, and gone on dividing their speech ever since.

Me Hopkins, who has for Borne time devoted his attention to bee culture, has found the demand for his improved form of hive with its appliances so pressing that he has had to take premises in Shortlaud the better to keep pace with the demand. He has already supplied nearly 100 hives, and is busily engaged in the construction of others. He has published a list of prices, and is prepared to give ever.r information to persons intending to commence the culture of the honey bees.

The people of Taurauga *re petitioning the Governor to proclaim their township a municipality.

Eldbb Shreeve, who has just returned to Salt Like Ciiy from Australia and New Zealand informs the Mormon journal that Australia is a hard country to preach the gospel in, but New Zealand is much more promising. He took only eight converts from Australia, but' 22 went from New Zealand by the same steamer, and he says he has baptized 25.

Refebbins to the approaching sale of laud on the Waimate Plains the Hawerti Star says the area is 7,526 acres, of which about 1,270 acres are deferred payment, and 5,250 acres are cash sections. There are 39 deferred payment sections out of a total of 127.

If there are any persons who bave not seen the Wild Beast Show in Brown street, it is time they took an opportunity of visiting the establishment, for within a few days the proprietor intends to seek fresh fielas and pastures new for himself and his favorites.

By the kindness of the members of the Brokers' Association we are enablrd to give our readers the list of stock.quotations up to three o'clock each afternoon. Although the transactions are not a* numerous as we should like to see them, yet any day may see a change in that respect for the better.

We have heard it said that it is the intention of Mr Batiks, of Farawai, to hold weeUly sales of cattle at his yards, and that facilities will be effered to the purchasers to kill the cattle on the spot or hare that work done for them.

A pebson in the street Mentioned to ua that the offices of the County Council were to be gaily decorated to-morrow to mark the faot that the Treasurer's account at the bank was a large sum in credit. It is said that since its inauguration this is tho first occasion on which, taking all its accounts into consideration, a credit balance could be carried forward; We are pleased to be able tj make such a statement, and would have eren greater pleasure in Baying the same for the Borough. Yet there is no telling how far the force of a good example may carry our Borough councillors, and we may be abl« to say as much for their Treasurer at an early day. '

Db SxtTA'HT, of Dunedin, at the laying of the foundation stone of a new Baptist Sunday School, was very outspoken in his remarks upon the matter of education. He said:— You know people of our race are veryapt to look to the State not only for secular education but even for religious education. For some hundreds of years we have been doing so, but for a very considerable time we have had imima'ions intelligible enough that the Church must take up her own missionnot only instruct in Divine things her grown* up people, but also her lambs. One regrets that to a very great extent she overlooked for many years what Christ said to St Peter, "Feed my lambs," but she is now compelled to face that declaration and that duty.. In New Zealand here the St.te has plainly intimated that for what she x deems sufficient reasons we must not look to her for the Biblical eduoa* tion of our children. Well, instead of mawkish lamentation over this resolution of the State, I think the wisest and proper course for the Church is to gird herself far the Divine work and impart—that which she is competent to do—religious instruction to her children. It is a great step in advance when a Churoh dedicates a special building for the work of instruction. It will give efficiency to the work in a far higher degree than I can express. And ater all we are enly going back to the example that Baikes, the founder of the Sabbath Schools, gave us. I am very glad tuat now, after the lapse of a hundred years, t^e cbarohes far and near are beginning to perceive that it is right and proper to have buildings specially dedicated to the work---at least class rooms and meeting places where we can assemble with comfort and where the children can bo taught with some hope of suocess. For example, though accustomed to teach, I have always found it somewhat difficult to secure order when the children are before me in the pews of a church. You must indeed be a competent teacher to teach efficiently and secure order under these circumstances; but with your new building, with convenient class-rooms-eight, class-rooms—there will be no excuse for inefficiency.

A C3BHKBPONDENT wrifeing from New York on July 2lsfc, 1880, to a r«l*tive in Dunedin, says:—"You will have read of the failure of the Reading Railroad and Goal and 'rou Company. It has gone cjmpletely, not being able to pay 5 cents, in the dollar; and many brokers who held large quantities of its stock have also tumbled down. The collapie of this large Company has thrown 25,000 men out of employment, thereby causing great distress among a large number of industrious families. Hundreds would like to go to the British Colonies, where railroads are worked by the Government, and not by bubble Companies, as many of them are in America. Iron is a great drug in the market here at present, and is ruining many of those who speculated in it. About 250,000 tons of iron are already stored, awaiting purchasers. The newspapers here in America are now feeling the dull times as well as those in the Colonies and elsewhere. The New York Herald has for years been issued as a quinruple Bheet on Sundays owing to the great pressure of advertisement*; but last Sabbath it can<e out a quadruple sheet in consequence of the decreased number of advertisements, thus giving you an idea of the dull* aess of trade here. The people would like to see Hancock, the Democratic nominee, elected President, and then America would hare some chance of getting free-trade. Many of the American (papers now admit that the protective trade tariff is a mistake, and that it has been framed to cultivate monopolies. The New York Herald in a leader a few days ago

suid—" Protection may be successful for a few years, but it cannot hold against free-trade.' Again, it says:—• Has protection advanced the wages of the working classes, or improred our manufactures,' &c. An impression is gaining ground here that free-trade in America mean* the revival of a healthier state of business in many parts of the world."

It can be unhesitatingly asserted that 0. McLiver sells the best and cheapest tobaccos and smokers' requisites on the field. He buys his goods for cash in all markets, and consequently the benefits to be derived from dealing at bis establishment cannot be excelled. Note the address, and give a call. —U. McLiveb, Brown street.