THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3797, 28 February 1881, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1881.

Mb Keneiok under the provision of the Eating Act, 1876, has appointed Mr F. Day to make a valuation and assessment list for the Parawai District, as the local valuer failed to comply with the Act. A day has been appointed for the hearing of objections to the list, which will be notified by advertisement. '

In another column an advertisement will be found notifying that ao entertainment in aid of the funds of the St. George's. Sunday Schoolwill be held in the Rolleston street school-room to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. Me Gbannaty, at one time licensee of tbe Hape Creek Hotel, arrived from Rotorua on Saturday evening, and was at once conveyed to the Hospital. It is thought he has hau. a sunstroke; For some days be has been insensible, and remains so. Mb Fobgie has received the tender for supplying 'he tables at the soiree to be given to Mrs Hampson. The Bey. S. J. Neill announced last evening his intention of giving a course of lectures at the Sunday evening services upon toe " Plan of Salvation." Last everting the Key. Father O'Reilly read the Lenten Pastoral issued by His Grace Achbishop Steins, in which the members of the Holy Mother Church were exhorted to be particularly abstemious in the use of food during Lent, which comoiences next Wednesday —Ash Wednesday.

Thk Taranaki Herald, in a late issue, expatiates upon the loss to Greytown of the one " gentleman in blue" who had to preserve the peace in that locality. It appears tho constable received notice to quit Greytown, and to proceed to a place where his services were urgently required. Thereupon the Gr^ytonians held meetings, pa-sed indignant resolutions, and deputationised the Government. Tt-.e Miniatry agreed to " favorably consider tho matter;" but before their decision was arrived at the locil constable received ordera to quit from headquarters. This was too much for tho citizens, who immediately despatched Mr Bianoy, tbei' 1 representative in the House, to tspeak for them, lie did so, and the result was that the Ministry decided to keep the Constable at Greytowi, but the Bjrouah, Town, und Soud Boards were to de'ray his cost. These terms have been accepted, but many and deep are the anathemas mutte-ed by a discontented public against a tyrauical Government.

The following is the judgment in the col» lision case between the Albion and Isabella Pratt:—The Court is unanimously of opinion that no blume attaches to Captain Garrad or officers of the Albion, and returns their certificates. If the crew of the Isabella Pratt could nob make out the steamer, how could the steamer's look-out make out the Isabell* Pratt ? The court are of opinion that tho Isabella Pratt, standing on into the steamer's smoke, was foolhardy, and t^e collision might have been avoided had the schooner come about when the steamer was first made out. No order was made for costs.

The bankruptcy laws engage the attention of our legisl.tora every session, bub they have not yet succeeded in passing an Acfc which prevents fraud, and yet does not deal too harshly with a debtor who hits failed purely through misfortune. The Chief Justice in Wellington, a short time since, referrod to the present Acfc, and pointed oat; where amendments might be made in it to advantage. His Honor said that while a large amount of consideration fairly .might be accorded, and usually was accorded, to persons in trade who had failed, often from causes unforseen or beyond their control, no similar consideration could justly be claimed by a person who was not in trade, but who knew almost to a penny what were his means aud prospects of payment when he contracted his debts. He would only have a claim to lenienoy if he could show that he waß in a better position when he incurred the liabilities than • when he failed. The Ohief Justice pointed out with much force that if a man with a fixed, a limited income, or with no income, ran up debts, he had no right to claim his discbarge from the Court, unless his creditors were willing to release him. If they did not think him entitled to his discharge, the Court would not take on itself to reverse their decision, or to overrule 1 their resolution. In that case the debtor would have to go 10 work and do his best to pay his creditors, at Any rate a sufficient dividend to vriu their

consideration and leniency. No one can reasonably dispute the fairness and justice of this dictum, and -we think he inighb even go farther, and add that all personal debts should be paid in full. This would tend to prevent dishonest tradesmen becoming personally extravagent. The warning of the Chief Justice will no doubt bear good fruit by preventing those who moy be disposed to incur debts they have no prospect, of paying, knowing that in such c^ses the Court will.not relieve them of tlie liability they have so wrongfully incurred. —Tarannki Heruld.

A PUBMCAK in the head centre of Presbyterianisn, Dunedin, was charged with permitting billiards to be played in his house outside the regulation hours, and he got off on the plea that those said to be playing were only " knocking the balls about." A few nights ago, says Liberty, a gentleman asked whether there was much playing in Christ,church. " Well, sir," he Baid, " I don't know as to playing, but there's plenty of gents, bank clerks and others, who fancy they do something in that way, hut. law sir, they most of them only knock the balls about." Sib F. Dii/lon Belt, wired to the Ministry that he had taken over the Agent-Generalship The messuge cost £6 we lrarn. The information was certainly not worth the money.

THE Carlyle correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle writes :—" I hear 'here,' are lots of houses to let just now in Wanganui, and I am not at all surprised. Patea, during the past three months, has had to make room for a considerable number of Wanganui folks, and the cry is still they come ! Cottages are being erected in all directions wiihin the town boundaries, but the supply is not equal to demand. Rents are rather high in consequence." The Wanganui Chronicle is silent on the matter; we should have liked to have seen this reported exodus from Wanganui contradicted.

Tbavelling in a car in Chrstchurch, says Liberty, there was a passenger who was a neisy man, and had evidently been trying hard to quench his thirst. He bec>me objectionably intrusive, and the conductor threatened to turn him out of the car. A well known dissenting clerical remonstrated, and taking his seat by ihe noisy one, kept him moderately quiet. Arrived at the end of the jjuraey, the noisy one turned to the clerical and said—" Good-bye, sir (hie) I see you are a good man. You Jcnmo what it i> to ie tight yourself" Clerical is horror struck ; passengers convulsed.

A PEsrjsrsYiVANiA clergyman, seeing a young man standing in the doorway of the church and looking hesitatingly about, paused in the midst of his sermon and exclaimed, "Go out, young man! She is not here ! "