The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1882.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4300, 12 October 1882, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1882.

Thb North Shore regatta promises to be very successful thh year. Several new features have been introduced, and some time honored ones either omitted or relegated to a very subordinate position, amongst the latter being the wager boat races, i.e., gigs and out* riggers. One of the principal events wilt be the canoe race, for which handsome prizes are offered.- Instead of the gingerbread racing boats which have hitherto been a source of disappointment to everybody, participators and s ectafcora alike, and unsatisfactory to the Committee as swallowing up a larger proportion of the funds than could readily be spared, .will be substituted a | whale boat race. Whale boat races consti- | tuted the backbone of rowing contests when the colony was twenty years younger, and thoM who remember. their halcyon days hunger after . them ■as the Israelites did after the flesh • pots of Egypt. They showed what a man could do in an ordinary pulling boa^ and were after all a I finer test of the capacity of the competitors, and a more satisfactory sight to those who went to see them than the light shells, one or more ot which have upset almost eyery race in the Waitemata during the past two years by swamping. Thee boats are quite right in their place, a sheltered river or nook, but' do not fit in with the regatta proceedings, and should have a day or half dai .devoted to themselves. The leading spirits in boating circles in Auckland, including the Moons atid Hunts, are throwing their energies into the whale.boat race. The dimensions and other information relative to this event appeared in our advertisement columns yesterday.

Mb A. J. Cadman, M.H.K. for the Ceronaaudel district, is expected to arrive at the Thames to-morrow.

The following members of the Naval Brigade hare qualified to proceed South to compete at trie New Zealand Rifle Association's meeting:—Weir, Brownies, Gri'l, Cameron, A. Thomas, and Floyd. Gordon, the champion, has not qualified, but. it is probable he will proceed on his own account.

Thk following telegram has been received by Mr Dean, Town Clerk, from Mr Sheehan : —-'• Coining down by Rotomahana on Saturday afternoon. Will meet Committe at eight evening, as I must proceed next morning by Te Aroha to Cambridge." Mr Dean has convened a' meeting of the Railway Committee for 7.30 on Saturday evening.

We are pleased to learn that the directors of the Queen of Beauty have rewarded Samuel Loughlin, who behaved in so praiseworthy and cool a manner when the crank pin of the sweep, rod broke some dajs ago. He was just going in at the door of the engine-house when the accident happened, and at once turned off the steam and water, thus preventing the turbine doing any serious injury to itßeK. At their last meeting the director* awarded him a purse of 10 sovereigns. This was presented to him on Monday last by Mr Black, the mine manager, who at the same time complimented him warmly on his conduct.

Two lade, named Cuthbert Leitharfc .and John McDonald were arrested in Auckland yesterday at. 1 o'clock in the morning by Sergt. MacMahon, on board the Enterprise, on her arrival from the Thames, owing to a telegram received that they had levanted from the homes, of their parents. Thoy were not locked up, but confined in the gu>i<d-rootu, to return to the Thames in charge of Con.-table Haslett, by the Enterprise. Their intention, it appears, was to tee life, and they had eared a little money to keep them till they had looked around. They arrived at the Thames this morning and were allowed to depart for their homes, but instead of doing so started off in the direction of Furiri, accompanied by a lad named Albert Osborne, who had the pleasure of interviewing Mr Kenri. k a few weeks ago to explain the why and wherefore of some of his boyish' amusements.

Thß adjourued meeting of shareholders in the Battalion Gold Mining Company takes place at Mr Horsbrugh's offire, Brown street, to-morrow evening.

A meeting of shareholders in the Invincible claim, Otunui, will be held at the Hazelbank Hotel thie evening.

Mb E, C. Gbeenwood sold at his Lund Mart yesterday a number of gold-mining and insurance shares at the following, prices : Kor Alburnia G-oldmining, paid up, 10s, and contributing, ss. Caledonians brought 10s ; Deep Level Tribute, B|d j Kurunui Hill, 3s 6d, aod 50 Colonial Insurance brought 10s 6d.

At a pale of landed estate, Sunnygide, near Calliope Point, belonging to Mr Bond, North Shore, every allotment was sold. The total receipts were £6200.

The eteamer Rose Casey, which arrived this afternoon, brought up a large ewordfiah captured on the beach at Matakana. The monster, which Capfc. Somer»ille believes has some connection with the sea serpent he saw outside the harbor some time ago, measures about 4 feet 6 inches in circumferenae, while its total length is about 10 or 11 feet.

One of the speakers at the Opera House on Tuesday morning took exception to the statement that the orthodoxy of the Rev. Joseph Cook differed from that of Dr McCoeh and Mr Spurgeon. As apropos to the question of Mr Cook's creed we quote the following passage from one of his lectures delivered in Boston:—", The sky puts forth a fiat, and there is a cloud. It puts forth another fiat, and there is electricity in the cloud. So, I suppose, Almighty Q-od evolves the seen universe of matter, and the unseen of finite force from himself. It is not my belief that everything was created from nothing. My creed is the reverse of Pantheistic. It is said that an eminent naturalist of orthodox opinion! in religion lias publicly poelaimed that this pUtform teaches Pantheism. Scholars in this audience are amußed at such a charge.- \Vhoev<*r asserts the Divine Transcendency above nature side by side with the Divine Immanency in nature, and maintains the Divine Personality, may emphasise, as MartineaU and McCosh and a score of recent writers have done, the doctrine of the spiritual origin of force, and yet not fall into Pantheism."—Herald.

The Herald says s— We give a full abstract in another part of this impression of the remarkable lecture delivered yesterday morning, in Abbott's Opera House, by the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston. Everybody who heard this lecture was impressed with the extraordinary pow<?r of the speaker. He spoke for two hours and a half. There wits not the slightest impatience manifested by the audience from beginning to end, although every part of the house was densely thronged. The clergy of all denominations occupied seats ou the .stiige.,. ,'fhe manner in which the various topics were incorporated with the intended purpose of the discourse was conspicuous for its skill. The completeness and readiness of the lecturer's knowledge were aieo features that rWetted the attention of the audience from first to last. If reported in extenso the lecture would occupy from twelve to fourteen columns of this journal. We have t ken out the Balient points and put them as nearly as possible as they were spoken.

The " ironclad train," so oftan referred to in the war telegrams, seems to have been a singular affuir. In front was an empty waggon. This was intended to shunt on ahead— the train stopping suddenly from timo to time —to explode any mines which might have been laid beneath the lines. Then came the fiVst ironclad truck, with the Nordenfeldt barrelb projecting in front like the horizontal pipes of an organ. This truck was followed by three others crammed with blue jickets ensconced behind sand bags. Then oame the engine, behind which were three more ironclad trucks filled with men. Close behind the train followed another with the reserves.