The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4456, 17 April 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1883.

Sebgbant Majob Kieht, the oiEcer m charge of the Police, has taken steps towards ascertaining the truth of the rumour regarding the two men who were reported to hare left Piako, and whose non-appearance here Lias caused some anxiety. The recognition of the Bey. T. Adams as minister of the Mary St. Congregational Church will take'placo thifc evening; there will be a tea meeting at six o'clock, and a public meeting afterwards. Capt. Daldy of Auckland will preside. C& BAGNAiiii is aanouncad to address the ratepayers of the Totara Biding of the Count; Council this evening in the Purir schoolroom for the purpose of explaining the provisions of the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. Cr Fraser meets the Ohinemuri ratepayers for a like purpose on Thursday evening. Wb are to receive a visit from the Juno Combination Dramatic Company. The opening night is Wednesday, the 25th inst. Few colonists have nothad the privilege of seeing the fair artiste during her wide-world travels, and being amongst the Fortunate, we. can predict a treat of the highest, order to those who attend her performances. We have been so long accustomed to cheap rubbish in the way of variety entertainments considera 1 ly below mediocrity, that such an opportunity as this should not be neglected by lovers of the legititimate drama.- . . :

The prospectus of the Auckland Shipping Association appears in another column. The objects of the venture are to purchase the fleet now owned by Heßsrs Stone Bros., and when advisable adding to it, or chartering vessels as occasion may require. The inducements, offered to the Company give promise that the undertaking will be an unqualified success. ■ 'Nr.vCTiiiwjfi are pending/of the transfer of the mail ontracts between the Thames and Tauranga from Muvsrs Your j, Pope, and Co; : to J Mr Robertson coach proprietor of Tauranga. ~ On Board the' Himalaya to DunediD, were 18 Jewish eefugeerirom Buzz I.*,1 .*, Bent out by the Mansion House Fund \ b'.x »re for Otago. tix to* Canterbury, and six for Wellington.

Ths attention of drapers ia called to the advertisement in another olumn under the hand of the Secretary of the Ti.amcs HosT^Tse dynamite cartridge recently found in Chris tchurch,-and over which a correspondent of the Press Association idiotically endeavored to throw a Fenian connection, has been discorered to exactly resemble the shell exploders in the drill shed. We hare not yet learnt of the appointment of that sapient individual to a Home Agency for Reuter. Perhaps the ' telegTß pb;c steff of the great excitement-monger is sufficiently supplied with such individuals. John Moote, printer, is reported missing from' the cutter Lancashire Lass, at Whr.nga* mata, He is believed to be drowned. He left Sainsbury's Hotel with his mate, Perry, to return to the cutter, and was never seen agam. A constable has been despatched to inquire into the circumstances. CAPTAIN Wright announces that divisional headquarters of the Ba'vation Army for the colony will be formed either at Auckland or Dunedin, and twenty stations at the centres of p pulation elsewhere. So that the whole colony will, at least for a time, suffer from this dreadful nuisance. Jacobsbn's party of diamond prospectors returned to Chris tchurch from Alford- Forest on Saturday night with a large number of specimens, several' of which they proposed to send to Europe for testing. Mb R. C. Babbtow is the Commissioner for holding a fresh ennuivy into the charges made by the girl Witherall against Mr Hogan, 1 fee Master of the Kohimarcma Industrial School. . Fob the Easter Handicap, at the forthAuckland meeting, Leonora and Sic-ta are equal farorite3. Heavy rains have interfered greatly with training operations. Tbb Hon. 0. H. Bromby lectured in the The .Ire Royal, Wanganui, last night on the '" •■ ngiish in Ireland.i' There was a crowded house. A fatal accident occurred at Hope, near Nelson/ yesterday. A farmer named;Fanzclon was assisting to break in a young horse. His man had the animal fast by a rope placed around t. post. Fauzelon struck the horse from behind, and the animal at once kicked out, striking Fanz»lon in the abdomen bo severely that be died in a few minutes. Deceased leaves a widow and family.

At the Kaiapoi Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, the case of the Waimakiriri Harbor Board against C. E Dudley for embezzlement came on. The accused reserved his defence, and was .committed tor trial. A further charge of larceny aa a bailee was deferred for a fort* night. The accused ws. 3 ordered to be com* tnitted to gaol for a month for contempt of the order of the Court to produce certain Borough Council books, but was granted a week's grace to allow the matter to be brought into the Supreme Court. . > In the case against A. S. Gilchrist, heard in Christen urch yesterday, for acting as solicitor (without being on the rolls, in preparing documents in the recent divorce suiti, Mr Stringer, who proarcuted on behalf of the Law Society, said a similar evasion of the Law Practitioners Act was becoming a matter of daily occurrence here, and the case was only an initiative of others. Mr Beetham, R.M., reserved judgment. . • • The proceedings on Sunday night in front of the Salvation Army barracks in Dunedin were very rowdy, and extra police assistance had to be obtained. Amongst the recruit? made in Dunedin is a stalwart negro, who-n the larrikins have christened " Jumbo." He was doorkeeper, and refused to admit more people af fir the room waa full; consequently a number of larrikins treated .him somewhat roughly. As a parody on the Salvationists a number of youths have formed a starvation ior skeleton army, and we^r badges got up iwith a skuU and crossbones. ' Mb Fish, M.H.R., addrrssrd a meeting of citizens last ni^ht at Dunedin; on Secondary Kducation and National Insurance. iHe spoke for two hours, and strongly opposed the present system of secondary schools as [too expensive, and argued that secondary education should be in private hands; or ' that the schools should be free, but only to ba entered after passing a suitable eraImiration. Mijor Atkinson's National Insur* 1 an: c scheme he criticised *in detail, showing by illustration how hard the paj- ; men's would fall oh variom classes from the laboring man and the artnan, the civil i servants and lawyers, Ac, who, with families of, say five, would find the contributions a serious drain. He also referred to the ca?e of a settler whose family worked with him. and so forth, in illustration of the bad effects of the scheme. He further contended that, one result would be to wipe Friendly S jcieties off the face of the earth, as far as this colony was concerned. At the close of the meeting Mr Stout replied to Mr Fish on the secondary education question. :

Thk prophet Wiggins was not altogether wrong. A Sydney telegram in the Melbourne Argusf, of the 4th April, says .—" With reference to the heavy rollers that broke upon the Sydney coast, in the neighborhood of the Heads, on the 11th March; Nelson (N.Z ) papers speak of the high tides experienced at Collingwood at about the same time, the water flowing into the houses in the town. It also stated that the central volcanic region in the North Island was disturbed by frequent earthquake shocks for several days before and after the 11th March. Taking these facts together, it is concluded that an earthquake of considerable violence occurred somewhere in the bed of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Australia on the above-named^date. Thb muoh talked of transit of Venus is a mere trifle in comparison with the transformation that has just taken place at Chases McLivjbb's. Call in and see the grand display of Christmas Cards, Toys, and General Fancy Goods.—[i dvt.