The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4443, 2 April 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1883.

THBregulsr monthly meeting of the High Bchool Governors was held this afternoon, but the business transacted was merely routine. • ' An accident happened in Pagan's bush on Friday last to a man named Mcßoberts, by which hie collarbone was broken. He and his mate were jacking logs, when one slipped, catching McHoberts on the shoulder. He wbb brought dnwn to the hospital ou Saturday morning, und is doing well.

, We are sorry to learn that the man McNamara, who had his hand cut off at a Tairua sawmill some months ago, and who 'was lately-re-admitted into the Hospital, is in a very low condition.-

Mb CoBNBa, the contractor for the ejection of the battery at Otunui, is, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather he has had to contend with, making good progress. Nearly the whole of the machinery is on the ground, the site is cleared, the bed-log in position, and a considerable quantity of the timber for the wood-work ready for use .

ME8683 Errington, C.E., and Vines wiU arrive to-morrow from Auckland, and with Mr A. Porter, who is already here,,will take orer the work of the. erection of machinery, poppet-head*, &c, for the Winding Association from Messrs Harrison and Clark the contractors. As soon as the vide's are repaired below No. 4 level baling will be started, and once the bottom level is dry work will soon be in fall swing.

Thb rdadf,between here and Paeroa are in a very fair state, considering .-the weather. In the winter, after heavy r.»iu, they are beautifully level, all the holes being filled with water. That obi iging young ooacbdriver, N. Ferguson, has a heap of anathema! itored up somewhere, he swallows one or two every time he goes into a hole or over a lump.— You never bear them

Mb Pope, of the firm of Youn<r, Pop*l, and Co., is expected hereto-day in connection with running his coach to Tauratign. Since the Ohinemuri flood traffic has been carried on

with difficulty, the mails being packed, and passengers carried by buggies to Tauranga.

In the Police Court this morning Charles Hart charged Hugh Farrelly with using provoking and threatening language to him, and threatening to kill him. It appeared that the parties worked together; Farrelly did Dot turn up in his place on Friday night al the proper time, and his mates returned in consequence- He reached the spot aa (hey were leaving and enquired the cause of (heir departure, Hart replied that he (Farrelly) was not in a condition for work, and it would be dangerous to descend <vith him to where the scene of operations lay, whereupon Farrelly went for him. The defendant admitted this much, but domed having th'e-;tened to sever the plaintiff's cord of life. The Bench ordered Farrelly to keep the peace towards Hart for three months, to secure which, they bound him over in his own recognizance of £20 and one surety of £10.

Wimjam Mobbis, aged 66, was found dead in Shortland-etreet, Auckland, in the verandah of the Provincial Boarding bouse yesterday morning. He had been released from gaol on Friday.

The following additional racing nominations by late telegrams, have been received by the Auckland Racing Clvb —Hippodamia for the Autumn and Easter Handicaps; Christmas for the Steeplechase,

A LIQTOR consumer on an extravagant scale was mulcted in a fine of 5s and costs, or 24 hours inprisonment this morning.

The Town Clerk received a telegram to-day from Mr Pheehan, M.H.K., to the effect that he would endeavor to be present with the deputation from the Bail way Company to the Premier, on Thursday next. It was understood that the deputation would meet Mr, Whitaker on Tuesday.

The case of Mrs Jane French, charged with being drunk about the beginning of last month, was brought on at the Police Court this morning, when the po'ice asked that her case might be dealt with," as she was unlikely to leave the hospital for three months. After hearing the evidence the Bench (Dr Kilgour and Mr L. J. Bagnall, J.P.s) deferred judgment, and ordered the fair Bacchanalian to pay 8s cab-hire in connection with her incarceration and removai to the Hospital.

A SBEAT tangi,. or "cry " is being held at present by the Maoris at Kiri Kiri, over the death of a very old native named Watane te Koau, who is reported to be more than 100 years old. The tangi is the largest that has been held in this locality for a long time, and the quantities of food disposed of would surprise any-one not accustomed to observing Maori habits.

A MST of all defaulting ratepayers has been made up and will be laid before the Council at its meeting on Thursday next, when instructions will be given to sue all those in arrear.

Thk Salvation Army opened warfare yesterday at the barracks in the Temperance Hall Dunedin. Their day gervices only attracted •mall audiences, probably owing to the bad weather. Prior to the services in the hall, they met in the centre of the lawn and did gome singing, which the captain accompanied with a concertina, and some exhorting. There are three of the army,— Captain Pollard and Lieutenant Bar ford and bis wife, they have uniforms with brass buttons, collars adorned with the letters, badges on their bosom, and caps with bands with " The Salvation Army" printed on them. They are uneduoated and speak yery commonplace language, talking of the Salvation "Harmy," and bo forth. Lieut. Burford said he had been a coatermonger at the east end of London. They each took their part in the indoor services, singing, praying, and exhorting in turn. They come without money, and have engaged the temperance Hall for three years at £300 a year, trusting in the Lord's goodness to raise up funds to pay it Their mission is to reach the degraded, the drunken, and the fallen ; and they will,go to their homes and haunts and lure them ont to services, with singing and bands of music. From Dunedin they will send out officers as these are enrolled to the other centres of the colony.

A BAWKILL at Mahaia, Coromandel, has been destroyed by fire.

The cricket match, Taranaki versus Auckland sec md eleven, was drawn. The Taranaki team leave in'the Penguin.

Mbsb.s Blackett and Johnson, of the Marino Department, have chosen a site at Kaipara North Spithead Marine Graveyard as the most suitable site for a lighthouse. They will now order the li-shit recommended—a quick flash light of the firat order—for it, as the work starts on the completion of the Mokihinau lighthouse.

One of grandmother's wise ways wa* to keep a cup of alum water always dose at hand ; it usually stood on the window-sill beside her workbasket- Cut fingers and bruises of all binds, if wrapped in cloth wet in the alum water, healed with a rapidity that was truly wonderful. This is so simple a remedy that it is worth while doknow jr.

At the Christchurqh Resident Magistrate's Court the other morning, Mr Ollirier, who was on the Bench, mentioned that he had seen at the Rakaia,. a few days ago, about twenty men, who were idling about a public* house. They bad refused as wages for harvesting £3 per week and their "tucker." The wages they wanted were £5 per and found.

S. Ceacknell did a good thing by bis victory on Tyropean in the N-twrnarket Handicap. He wits laid £1000 to nothing about his mount, and with his owa commission and other presents, he will receive something like £1400, a nice little sum for five minutes' work. • Cracknell states that below the distance there were 12 or 14 horses in front of him, and Tyropean was not trying to extend herself. " I felt that my thousand was gone," Baid the light weight, " bat 'do or die' was my motto, and I gave her a cut with the whip, and finding that she responded, I gave her another, and answering every call, she rushed through the horse?, got-up io the last stride, won by a bead, i»nd landed my thou"

Mb Milneh Btephek gave his first publio healing exhibition in Danedin on Saturday. Id several casps no improvement resulted; in two of rheumatics, the persons declared their pains had left them under his treatment. In one case an individual declared he was cured of deafne« in the ri^ht ear, and that he had spent £100 in Melbourne in vain, trying doctor's treatment for it, and in the other cu»e the patient seemed doub ful aboui whether they were improved or not.