The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3922, 25 July 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1881.

The mail steamer Australia arrived in Auckland from San Francisco early this morning after another rapid passage. Toe Thames portion of the mail should arrive by the Rotomahana this afternoon. The progres* made in clearing away the wreck caused by the late flood is very rapid, and in a few days more the principal streets will shew little trace of the damage that hus been done. The bridges over the Karaka creek ara faßt going up. The one near the beach in Amy street is finished, and open for traffic, and the one in Baillie street is in a forward state, and already fit for foot passengers. This appears to be a very substantial structure. The repairs to the County Rice are proceeding with all the expedition possible, but fchey are not likely to be completed before Saturday. In the Otaika arson casse, Tilley was dis- [ charged. The evidenoe showed that in the struggle with the Frenchman a kerosene lamp got upset accidentally, firing the house. Considerable interest appeared to be taken in the case between the two members for the Kauaeranga riding, heard before the R.M this morning. The evidence given by the County Chairman clearly proved that Mr Greenville was fully aware of the nature of the vote given by him, although he was altogether ignorant of the penalties to which he made himself liable by so doing. The I Act provides, by clause 73, that on any Councillor being convicted of the offence with which Mr Greenville is charged "his seat in the Council shall become vacant," but no provision appears to have been made for a new election. We understand, however, that Mj Greenville has asked the County Chairman to at once take the necessary steps to declare the seat vacant, and proceed with the election of his successor. The requirements of the Kauaeranga Riding, owing to the damages done by the late flood, are very great, and it is very necessary the ratepayers in that riding should be properly represented in the Council. Mr Greenville is therefore to be commended for the action be has taken. At Auckland on Saturday, John Parrell, in a fit of delirium ■tremens, attempted suicide by drowning. Ax the Warden's Court this morning, before H. Kenrick, the case of Hollis v. Scanlanj which waß adjourned last week, was called for hearing, but was further adjourned for a fortnight to enable the Court to ascertain whether the rights of the Wailekauri Extended Gold Mining Company would be affected by the cases. The case was a dispute between the owners of the Success and Old Waitekauri Claims. Dcdley, a gardener, aged 81, was kicked by a horse whilst playing with it on Saturday in Auckland. His brain is protruding, and he is not expected to live. Shootibts are notified by advertisement ithafc the rifle range witybe dosed for repairs to-morrow and next day; ■'■! '" - -■ Members of tbe Rifle Ranger* who have not yet received their new rifles can obtain them at the orderly room to morrow evening. A TKI/EGBAM from Auckland says: —A serious misunderstanding has arisen between Messrs Reynolds and Pollard, of the Pinafore Company. The advertised performance on Saturday night did not eventuate, and legal proceedings are in hand. It is reported that ■■Pollard.will-not carry out his agreement to ■play back South to the Bluff, but intends going to Sydney. ' •AbchbibHOP Cboke, in a late address, spoke of himself as follows :—There was a time in the great 'Republic of Sparta when if a crisis came the law was that no man should be neutral. A man should declare for ©r against the Repijblie, arid" all my life through, thank God; I never acted upon the principle of neutrality (hear ,hear). I nailed my colors £o tne mast (eh era), and I told at once what I'believed and what I did nob believe, and I took the consequences (renewed cheers). That has been my course all through life, .and for the rest i>f my li c I am not inclined to depart from it. Therefore* my principles ara unmistakable, my principles are embodied in one thiug-^I am a man of the people, and shall be; always with the people.(cheers). I know, that'in other countries the people are sometimes a very dangerous, lot to follow. Following the people in France or in Germany, or in Italy, or, unfortunately, now in Belgium, and almost all the countries in Europe, would be doing what would be wrong. But do you ktiow what I have said—and I have said>it in high places, and every day of my life confirms me in the conviction—that the instiucts of the Irish people are bo good, it is impossible they can be wrong (applause). And therefore, when, en masse in a body, the religious, sacrament-r^ceiviag, supernaturallygifted—marrejlouflly supernaturally gifted— ipebple of trel4ia&,;who would not wiliully do any wrong td:anyone—when they seize upon a certain and wish to carry it into action, and strive to do bo, I am as sure us I «m of m£ own existence that that principle is right, auCtheTaction of the people is, there fore, to he, commended (applause). '• Therefore, whaaJL taw* tiris; business"bT the League, this Uprising of the Irish heart and tbe-Irish head andlhelrisTTarm against the tyranny by which the people, of this country were kept down for ages-—when I saw that swelling like an immense hurricane and sweeping over the country I said, "^lt is impossible that can be wrong, because the Irish heart is always right and the Irish head guides it to a secure aim." •Therefore, independent of any reasoning of my own, that is what I say. I have acted upon it, and shall act upon it, to the end (applause). A Pbess telegram of Saturday Bays:—A, report has been furnished by Captain Fatterson, master of the schooner Maggie Patterson, now lying stranded at the Heads, Wellington, as to the circumstances under which the vessel went ashore. He reports having encountered a terrific S.E. gale in the Straits on the forenoon of the 19th, during which he split some of his sails, and subsequently bore up, making for Port Underwood. The weather was very thick and dirty, and the wind then shifted to the westward, and blew from all quarters. At 8 pm. he was within a mile of the entrance of Wellington harbour, and the wind being too strong to lead in with, and the sea too henry from the Bouth-east, after shipping a tremendous Bea he stood off. At 10 p in. the wind chopped into the south-east again, and blew with great violence. Pencarrow light being in sight, bearing about JS.N.E., he ran for it, when it eauia on, a thick raiu Equall, wb.ip.li obscured tha light. 'I'ha mate auti all bauds

were told to keep a sharp look out for breakers, and shortly after the mate, who wus standing forward, sang out " port," seeing v rock ahead, which he mistook for the south end of Burrett'e reef, and immediately after the vessel struck on the rocks, and finully stranded on the beach. A telegram reo ived to-day from the pilot station states that the vessel is breaking up, A southerly gale, a!»«rtnpanied witli rain, is still blowing.