THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3756, 11 January 1881, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1881.

The following telegram was sent to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works through Mr Whitaker:•—" To the Hon. the AttorneyGeneral, Auckland.—The 'Public Works Department, on 13th November, notified us that the Thames Valley Railway line toKopu only will pay working expenses. Our Engineer can finish this portion of line for under £6000. Two light draught river steamers for Te Aroha trade are building, one by local company, one by Auckland firm, Kopu intended port for both. Te Aroha and surrounding settlements' trade demands immediate construction of this short line. Borough and County are prepared to guarantee working expenses, or to take over when finished and work it, paying rental to Government. Will Government complete the work on these terms ?-Wm, Wilkinson, Mayor ; Alexandeb Kbodie, County Chairman,"—We sincerely hope that the telegram will receive a favorable reply,, and that the railway will bo formed at any rate as far as Kopu. Unfortunately at present the Hon. Mr Oliver does ntof look upon the claims of our district with ririfoh favor.

Theee is an old saying thab people who break the Sabbath are bound to meet with an accident. This is by no means a truism, but it is curious to note the numerous accidents which do # eventuate, through Sabbathbreaking. In fact, co numerous are they in places of resort in the. old country that uneducated and bigotted Sabbatarians have pointed to them as a visitation of Providence on thoee unfortunates, who, having no time for recreation in tbe week, took advantage of the Sunday to enjoy a little harmless and innocent amusement. On Sunday afternoon, two young men named Spencer went on a canoeing: expedition in the Waitemata Harbour. After they had been pulling some time, the c^inoe Was upset, and its occupants precipitated into the water. After a short time, a- -waterman named Griffiths, who happened" to be near them, succeeded in helping them to right the canoe, and its occupants, paddled to the shore, not much the worse for the ducking they had received.

We understand that the Empire Hotel is to be in future conducted by Mr Thomas Lawless, the enterprising tobacconist of Grahamstown.

A meeting- of the Executive Council will be held in Auckland shortly under the presidency of Sir Arthur Gordon (Her Majesty's representative in New, Zealand)?"to decide, the fate of Wi Warepa, who so brutally murdered his young wife at the Chatham Islands a short time ago.

.An old offender named Thomas Vesey was yesterday sentenced to 24 hours' incarceration in Mount Eden for petty larceny. His spouse, who is one of the most regular attendants in the High street Dock, wa? most abusive to His Worship, and it was npt before she was carried bodily out of the Court that she condescended to remain tranquil.

The Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. McCosh Clarke, has generously given £25 to the Industrial Home.

Mr R. H. BiAtibay having given up his associateship with Judge Gillies, is now pursuing the practice of his profession down Soulh. Mr Charles Buddie was appointed in his stead, and commenced his duties yesterday at Auckland.

TJegUNQ- a re-organisation of the Telegraph Department the Hawke's Bay Herald s»ys that the present plan may be briefly summarised as a combination of extreme parsimony, gross extravagance, favouritism, and terrorism. There are ways in which "large sums of money aro now anuuelly wasted, both in the construction and transmitting departments, while the mass of operators are miserably underpaid.

A GKENTIiEMAN in' Ttiurangti has informed the editor of the Bay of Plenty 'Times that Bomily, the grandson of. the Earl of Minto, haß gone to Sotumah, one of the South Sea Islands, situated to the north of Fiji, to take possession on behalf of the British Crown.

Mk Eiohabd Seddo*, member for Xuqtnara, is justly known to fame as the champion windbag of |he Hqj^i. of Representatives. He i 8 also famous inhJTOwn district as a runner. Quite latterly he ran a race with a baker at Kumara*. .^e 'distance was 100 yards, and Mr Seddonfßn, greatly to bis own gratification, and, in honor of the achievement, his appreciative constituents have given him a new title of endearment —namely, " Nimble Dick." '* •

The Fiji Times in noticing the. arrival of Mr Lodder, says j—Mr Loddev, the Manager of the Auckland Steamship Company, arrived in Levuka per s.s. Albion. The object of his visit is to findeavor to arrange fora fortnightly steam service between Auckland and this port one vessel also' running monthly to Tonga. The project is, we* understand, favourably entertained' both by Sir Arthur Gordon and His Excellency the 0-ovemor, as in consequence of their respeotivo p >sition3 as High Commissioner and Assistant High Commissioner, it is desirable to maintain a more constant comaiur>icati'jn than a monthly service will permit of. The arrangement will depend upon the queslioa of subsidy to bo granted by Fjji, and the decision of -the Company will be given as soon as Mr Lodder is in a position to defi litely report to them upon the subject.

A native namsd Hohepa Putarone was arrested by Constable Shaw of the Wairoa, ou Thursday last, at the Mania, on suspicion of forging an endorsement;, on a deposit receipt, drawn in favour of Hohepa N^apc.

Fbom our Napier exchanges we learn of tho death Mr Edwin Carter, settler of Wairca, on the 27 th of December last, after a Bhorb illness of three days. The deceased gentleman was much respected, and his sudden death cast quite an universal gloom over the community amongst whom he had resided for upwards of 20 years. The particular cause, of his death has not yet reached us. Mr Carter held some valuable properties in the Wairoa County, the principal of them, we believe, rrere at Opoiti, some distance to the North of Te Kapu, on the road to G-isborne. He was a Justice of the Peace for the Colony; and was living in retirement on means he had accumulated since his arrival in the Colony. Mr Carter, therefore, leaves his wife and family in independent circumstances. '

At the Christchurch Supreme Court on Monday Walter Pringle GKbaon was indicted on tbe charge of murdering William Keresone. Mr Holmes applied for a postponement of tho trial till next session, as the plea for the defence would bo insanity, to establish which he would require a month to collect evidence. The postponement was granted.

One of Mr Q-arling's haystacks at Timaru was destroyed by fire on Sunday nighc. . It is supposed to bave been the woi'k of an incendiary, .

Eaely on Sunday moroing, the keeper of a house of ill-fame in the suburbs of Invercargill, named Wiliiam Curran, otherwise Morris, was severely stabbed near the abdomen, and on the lift Bhoulder and right arm by a respectable young man named Wm, Sangster.

It is understood that the following is the programme for His Excellency's movements in his approaching tour of the colony. He will leave Welliugton some time next month, proceed overland to Napier bj way of Taupo and Cambridge to Auckland. The Hinemoa will convey him from the Manukau to New Plymouth, where he will go ashore, subsequently returning to Wellington; visiting Wanganui en route. He w."l next travel by the Hinemoa to Lyttelton, and go overland to Weatland, visiting various places on tne way. From Westland he will go to the Bluff. Ho will travel overland to Invercargill, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, and Christchurch, finally embarking at Lyttelton in the Hinemoi on his return to Wellington-.

The Governor, in Council, has, under the powers of the " Education Act, 1877," made the following regulation ia relation to the employment of pupil teachers who have pissed their final examination but are not certificated; and with the like advi' "> and consent, doth prescribe that this order shall take effect from the date thereof:—" The Minister of Eduction may, on applicaiion being made to him by an Education Board, grant to any person who shall have served aa pupil-teacher under such Board for a term of three ye .rs and more, and who shall have passed the final examination of th« pupil teachers' course as prescribed by such Boird, a district license tenable for two years from the date at which the aforesaid final examination was passed, and during such two yeurs such district license shall, within -the education district of the Board by which such applif-ation shall have been made, have the force of a certificate granted under the "Education Act, 1877."

At Bipton, in Southland, the postal and telegraphic bnsiuess are conducted . in* one room, the township and neighbourhood are lfE-own as Dipton; the land itnmediately surrounding the railway station forms the township of East Dipton, and the post office is Dipton ; yet the railway station and telegraph office are known as Oreti. Anomalous, very. —Kangiora Standard.

Thb: following interesting telegram from Napier shows the stein and rigid econo.ny with which that clean-handed patriot, the Hon. John Biyce, conduct 3 native affairs. It is an unfortunate thing for our credit as a people that the senior member for Wanganui should have hidden for bo many years his farthing candle under a bushel. ,We Know the man now a3 we never knew him before. This is what the message says : "The funeral of the old chief Tareha will be a grand^ffair. Hundreds of natives are arriving from all part 3ar the Government expense. A grand mausoleum, to be faced with marble, has been or oted, and the tangi is a greater affair than lias been held for eighty years. It is calculated to co3t about. £2000." It is a pity perhaps'to draw attention to the matter, as the Native Minister may alter his mind, revoke h>s promises, and repudiate his obligations after-the natives have come to the tangi. A cokeespondent of the Grey Eiver Argus writing from Temora s.ys :—" Taking the field on the whole ib is but a string of patches, the value of which w.;ll never be known-.-iipjkil water is brought on to the ground. Caring and puddling is 83 per load, consequently dirt that will yield but two or thr ) dwts. to the lofd is comparatively spaaUing worthies. It is estimated that there are at present no 1.38 than from 150,C:J (-3 20,000 loads of dirt to grass waiting to be wash: 1!. There were two trial wsshings of '■ 0 loads each la3t week, which yielded but l'iwt ' - the load. That there are a few. good claims here no one can deny, but they are few and very far between. Tb.3 ground at the head of the load is shallow, 'but deepens ej the lead gos on until it ho obtained a depth of 200 ft. It is the intention of the Government, I beUeve, to bring in water for domestic purposes only, at, a coat of £13,C10. Aa desirable aj this may be, pure water for the kitchen will not reduce the heaps of washdirt, nor be the means of keeping a population in the district. If it ia for sani'v-ry purposes only, a much cheaper'way would bo for the Government t) h.j down a tramway uo the Murruinbklgee River, and run the p: >ple of this plab3 down there, and by so doing do away with the Temora lever at once and forever."

Thh London Tenth says :-—" A young lady, well known in Liverpool on account of her beauty, was married lasfc week. When the cation who was officiating read the words, 'Love, honor, and obey,' the young lady declined.to repeat the last. Three-times the canon paused for an .echo, and pausei'in vain. Then ho went 6ri with, the service. But is the young lady inarriel or not;? What — should her disobedience lead to an interview with Sir James Hanover— will that eminent judge rule on the subject ?"

A CobeeSPONDENt writes to a contemporary in reference 1 to the alleged traffic in English girls in Belgium, which, has lately been tho Eubject of considerable comment in thasHfewspapcs. Ho Bays: I am able to afford strong confirmation of the startling statements that have been made by Mr Dyer and his friends, only the rase occurred at Antwerp instead of Brussels. Some time ago the captain of a vessel made ja resolution to carry back to her naliv-3, countiy an English girl whom he knew was?"confined in an Antwerp den. For that purpose he called at the house and tried to Qersucde the mistress to allow him to take the girl out for a walk. A mild force of persuasion was useless, jind- he only had hiß way by insisting upon Me girl being pormi.ted to accompany hicci. . Of courae she never returned. But the bafflad keeper of the house was determined to have her revenge. When the ciptain again visited Antwerp she had him arrest: 1 for theft, and he had to appear to the charge. The^prosecution was based upon the ground that the clothes in which the girl was dressed did not belong to her, und her deliverer had, in short, stolen them. However, in the end, the interference of the English Consul was invoked, and the charge being withdrawn the whole story was conveniently hushod up. I: is, I learn, a' positive fact that the fear of being

arrested for theft deters girls who are allowed the slightest liberty from attempting to escape from the dens in which they are often detained against their will.

In this manner Mr Justin McCarthy, the M.P. Newspaper man and Historian describes the djffiaulty raised by the compensation for Disturbance Bill in Ireland by the Lords :— "The question raised," he says, "was whether it is fair that a man who would pay his rent if he could, but whose crop had failed, should on being evicted from his holding, forfeit all claim to the compensation to which he would have been entitled if Providence had not decreed that bis field should be barren."

" What is the distance of the sun from the earth ?" was the question that was lately put to a'candidate for the Civil Service. The reply waß that he couldn't tell the exact distance, but he did u't think it was near enough to interfere with hia duties of Post Office clerk.