The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3875, 31 May 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1881.

The Bacchant., with the Royal Prince., intends to visit Auckland. At the teller's counter of the Bank of New Zealand may be »een Mtue crude paraffin from the Poverty B»y district. Tim Government hare almost completed the purchase of the Ohinemuri Goldßeld. The County will ,oo n htrt a " MipeeUble rerenue from that district. THI Government in a letter to the Chairman of the T»ura D ga County Council, hare declined to alter the present telegraph route between Tbamet-and Tauranga. It is with una Lloyd pleasure we learn that there was uo liusineae at the P.M. Court U-day.

Thobntok, Bmith, and Firth announce a ' further rise in sharps and bran. Thb Post Office officials are to be congratulated upon the expedition with which «he English mail Was sorted last evening. A »hort time ifler the arrival of the Rotomahana, letters and pa ers were obtainable by the holders of private boxes, and early this morning the postmeu were at work delivering the mail throughout, the township.

A SPECIAL meeting of the County Council was held at the Count; Offices this morning. After soiae discussion the statement of estimated receipts and expenditure of the year ending March, 1881, was agreed to and adopted. ■. J. SaIMOU CbakJ, formerly of the Thames, but recently of the Great Barrier Island, stands charged in Auckland with an assault on a married woman, the accused was jealous on account of bis wife, in his absence, visiting the house of bis victim to meet other swains. Cmig is admitted to bail himself in £20, and two sureties at £10 each. Much indignution is expressed on the island at the dastardly nature of. the assault. We notice that the Borough employees have now in hand the re-asphalting of the portion of the Queen street footpath in front of the Provincial Hetel. When the work was ifirst done the dampness of the foundation spoilt the job, and to the credit of the asphal,ters be it said that it is the first piece of work Ibey hate had to do over again. What is this we hear concerning the contemplated removal of a certain high local official.

Thb following reaolut ons were carritd at a meeting held at Waitßkeri to discuss the Counties Act:—" That in the opinion of this meeting, the Counties Act is expensive, cumbersome, inefficient, at.d opposed to Ibe best interests of the eettlers, and therefore ought to be abolished in the districts north oi Auckland, and that the counties revenue ought to be distributed amongst the Boad Boards, as they are the best and cheapest, and being more under the immediate control of the ratepayers are better adiipled to the wants of the country." "That Road Boards s ouldbe continued and enlarged, the Government re aining the management of the main county roads, and the Engineer having a supervision over the Boad Boards, where any assistance is given towards works they are uuabla to do," which was seconded by Mr Sisam, generally approved, and finally carried.— ■" That triennial valuations in country districts are quite sufficient, and the Boad Boards should be quite competent to deal with objection?, and dispense with unnecessary and expensive Assessment Courts." rJ hot copies of the foregoing resolutions be sent t • all the Northern members, and thi*t they be entrusted to Mr Header Wood, M.H.R., for the district, with a rt quest that he would use bis best influence to have them given effect to in the ensuing sem n of Parliament."

The Herald says t—Dr Wallis as a public man is particularly shifty, insincerity is the chief feature of his character, and no the temperance bodies have induced him to give a lecture on the question of the liquor traffic, that they might elicit from, him what really are his opinions. Dr Wallis treats this as a trap bid for him, but it is far from clear why the course adopted should be thus designated, the object being sr> obvious. The member for City West is a veteran fox, and co endeavours to turn to Recount the request made to him, by posturing as an inoffensive pigeon in danger of being entrapped. There is nothing of the pigeon about Dr Wallis, nothing whatever, but a good deal of the heathen Chinee, who " for ways that are dark and tricks that are v .in is peculiar."

The law now in force in Ireland is tionably the most atrocious outrage on a people ever put into operation. The following is the blank form of arrest supplied to landlord magistrates throughout the country : —" By virtue of the Act made and passed in the 44th year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, entitled 'An Act for the Better Protection of Persons and Property in Ireland,' and of every power and authority in this behalf. We, the" Lord Lieutenant G-eneral and General Governor of Ireland, do, bj this our warrant, declare of to be reasonably suspected of Imv* ing, since the 30th d»y of September, 1880, been guilty as principal (or accessory, as the case may be) of high treason (or treieon felony, or treasonable practices, as the case may be). And this is to command you to whom this warrant is addressed to arrest the said in any part of Ireland, and lodge him in Her Majeity's prison at * in the County of there to be detained durin-r the con'inuanceof the said Act, unless sooner discharged or tried by direction of the Lord Lieutenant." •■