The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1882.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4230, 22 July 1882, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1882.

Owing to pressure of important news we are compelled to hold over a loader on the Parliamentary situation now in type. Constable Gbaham baa continued the search for the man Harrison, mining at Te Aroha, but hitherto without success. Notwithstanding the prevalent wet weather there haa been a complete absence of freshes in bush creeks, and some of the coastal milts are at a standstill for the want of material to cut up. This is most unfortunate at a time when there is an unusually large local and foreign demand for timber, and unless the supply improves within the next few weeks, it is probable that there will be a rise of two or three shillings per hundred feet in the price. The Sbortland sawmill is stopped through want of logs.

The Eureka (Otanui) shareholders got some splendid stone from their reef in the drive towards the Albion yesterday. Since the reef was cut it has shown good gold whenever broken down, but the stone* obtained yesterday is said to be by far the richest gold bagged. - ' Ah esteemed correspondent has consented to contribute a series of. articles on some of the matters arising out of Mr Denbon's lectures. The first, " Genesis and G-eology," appears in this issue. It has transpired that the Government of < New South Wales now proposes to adopt the system of light railways in place of tramways, which it was intended to conetrucfin country 1 districts as feeders for the main railway line. ! Mb MoDokakb, settler, of Waipapi, petitioned the Crown Lands Board for compensation for loss sustained through encroachment of the West Coast sand hills on his property. The Board referred the claim to Government, who declined to entertain it. It some places the sand has driven in a mile and a-half.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Martha Company, Waihi, was held in Auckland yesterday afternoon. There was a good attendance, Mr C. B. Stone presiding. The financial statement showed :— Beceipts : Bank orerdraft, £780 Oslld. Expenditure: By mine, £570 15s 8d ; battery, £8814i8d: general expenses, £111 10s 7d. Total, £780 Os lid. After some discussion two new members (Messrs Vaughan and A. Porter) were added to the directorate. The position of the mine, &c, was explained by the Chairman. At a directors' meeting, held immediately after the above, it was resolved to change the management of the mine, Mr Niocol (the original prospector) being appointed instead of Mr dribble. The reason 1 for the chaDge is that Mr Nicool states he can i work the mine and battery cheaper than at present, and he thinks he can get more gold. - Ik a number of the World, published some years ago, we find the following :—As Professor Tyndall is imagined to be an atheist bj , those fervent but foolish Christians who failed

not to ccc in the recent bereatement of the Dean of Westminster a "judgment" for marrying him in the Abbey, bo is Professor Huxley supposed by some to be a rabid Darwinite, aud by kind-hearted but not over clearheaded lovers of the animals to be a vivisector of the deepest dje. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Acknowledging' the occasional necessity of vivisection in experimental physiology, he rejoices that his line of research is not in that precise direction and'that he.individually has not vmeeeted a dozen animals in tbe whole course of his professional career. On the theories of Lamark, Wallace, and Darwin ho has recorded his opinions in print, and recently has signed a judgment against, the convertibility of the monad, and lent the weight of hia authority to the doctrine of the permanency of existing tyyes, besides concurring with Dr Tyndull in dismissing spontaneous generation with costs. —World. ,

Mb Wakeham writes .'—"As your column b are alwayß open te the oppressed, I beg to be allowed to state my case to the public to show how I have been treated in the case McDonald r. Wakeham, heard in the R.M. Court yesterday. I was sent for by McDonald to dispose of bis effects to the best of my ability. I sold the same for the sum of £4, after a great deal of trouble. Tbere was one item of gasfittings which I thought I could use myself, and I credited him with the sum of £L at which price he Talued them himself, and offered them for sale. After attending to bis business from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. the following morning; also attending to his business through the day, and the following day, I am summoned by him for the sum of £2, being the amount that I sold thegasfiuingsfor after'finding that they were too large for what I required th m for, and after keeping them for two months. With all due respect to our worthy RM, I am informed that the law will not allow an agent to buy anything from his client unless specially agreed! upon, and after being told to do the best I could. If this is fair play, Lord save me from my friends!