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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3751, 5 January 1881, Page 2

The Jury at to-day's inquest found considerable difficulty in arriving at their ver&fot, and the Coroner, as he read their decision, remarked that it was uofc in accordance with the evidence of the three medical gentlemen engaged in the case.

. The funeral of the late Mrs Wilson took, pliice this afternoon. The deceased was interred in the Tararu cemet3ry.

Tflß Australian Eleven, in the match against the combined team of Victoria and New South Wales, won by 17 runs.

The Morning Star Company, Te Aroha, was on Monday formed into a company with a nominal capital of £12,C00, in 12,000 shares of £1 each, one thousand shares to be reserved for the benefit of the company. Directors :— Messrs Stafford, Porter, Pierce, Smyth, and McSweeney ; Mi D. G-. McDonnell, manager. Mr T. L. Whito was appointed auditor.

High Mass will bo celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Members of the choir are reminded of their practice ting evening at 7 o'clock.

I'e'JM Coi'omandel, a telegram says that a number of visitors have returned from inspecting the Tiki District, and report a splendid show of golden stone in Heenan and Sheehey'a claim. Every Btone broken from the reef showed gold.

Mb John Bbiguit has written a vigorous reply to the letter of the Earl of Carnarvon, to which reference wei made some time ago, and defends himself against the attack made upon him in connection with his views respecting the Irish difficulty. Mr Bright mainttiins that his-opinions regarding Ireland are perfectly consistent with his position as a member of the Imperial G-overntnent, and perfectly compatible with a defence of monarchy, and the rights of the aristocracy. Mr Bright's letter has been published.

The Great Powers still continue to urge Turkey and Greece to agtae to European arbitration on the frontier question, but a favourable result is £ot, so far, expected to be arrived at. •V'Ar' , v Sheppebson, accuaea ■of an^Etempt to commit euicido, eoid yest3rdl^in Auckland, in reply to the Judge: I ani very sorry for what I have done. I have been,., twenty years in Auckland, and I have always borne a good character. I was seven years in one employ. It was all through my wife that I committed the offence. Mr Craig knows me, smd will give me a character if he is in Court. His Honor passed judgment as follows: I am glad to hear you say you are sorry for what you did, and I trust the time ycu have already spent in prison will have brought you to think of the folly and the cowardice of such an act as that of endeavouring to take j our own life. If troubles and ills rome upon you, you have* to bear them manfully, and not try to escape in that way. The attempt evidently was a most deliberate one, but as you have already been in prison three months, I think the ends of justice . will have been satisfied by that imprisonment; The sentence of the Courtis, that you be imprisoned until the Court rises.

The European Mail saya:—" Mr Bradlaugh has received the following reply to his appeal to the Premier on behalf of the imprisoned Maoris, of whom, however, 25 have been released since Mr Bradlaugh's first application to Lord "Kimberley :—Dear Sir, —I am directed by Mr Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst., respecting the imprisonment of certain natives in New Zealand, and to inform you, in reply, that the matter is one entirely within tho control of the Colonial .■Government, but that tho Governmgpt has been directed to send a full reportf^with a view tij its beicg laid before Parli&qgent. The Oakland (CaL Times thua^eaks the sense of thousandsof intelligentjjflMtgkers '• — all denominations;'will^b^^^^H^HßfilHH the instincts of mankind may tell them that; reason alone is not a sufficient guide, they' will no longer accept as revelation anything that clearly conflicts with it. The Church is the stronger for correcting the admitted fallacieg in its ancient beliefs." ■ A FBIEND of mine just returned from Ireland brings^ mo a story -which is apropos of possible diaturbapces in that ill-used country. He wag driving in. a car in Dublin, and passed a part)? of some regiment in garrison. " Hiee looking lot," he remarked to the cur-driver. " Ah, sure they're no good ; nothing, leastwise, to the, Fenian infantry. 'Deed have they, and cavalry, and artillery, and all the ' rys.' You never saw finer bays, fifty thousand of them." " Why do they not come and take the country. Tho regulars in Ireland are not half that number." "Is it why?" He looked round to see if anyone was near, " I'll tell you," his whispered, putting his hand to his mouth. "I'll tell you, only it's a great secret; they'd come only they're afraid of the police."—The World.