The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4505, 13 June 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883.

Wb have to acknowledge the first number of the Te Arbha News, which is exceediugly well got up, and contains a very full supply of intelligence'from its district.

As the popular instructor of the Athletic Club, Mr Baume, is about to leave the Thames, there was a fall attendance of members and risitors at the usual meeting last 1 evening to say farewell to him. During Mr j Baume's sojourn in our midst he has made many friends, and the void created by his absence will not be easily filled. The result of the firing by the Dunedin (B) battery of the Artillery in the match with the Thames Naval Artillery has given a victory to the local company by 95 points. The scores of the latter company as published by us on Monday reached the total of 749. The Southern men had a dull and variable light for firing, and the scores were not so good as they should have T)eea. In the last match taken part in by both companies the Dunedin men lost by only 8 points.

Cabiihg- quartz aoross the footways has caused considerable damage to some of the paths, and the Borough Foreman of Works is compelling tho rarious companies to pnt crossings whore thoy are using the footpaths for su-jh pm-paass. The BoroughCmncil should cause crossings to be made at the junctions of Mary, .Richmond, Sealey, and WiUoiighby streets with Pollen street. In muddy weather those places are Tory disagreeable, and wet weather will , not interfere with the work being carried on. Mbb Hannah Hall, a member of the Society I of Friends, will oonduot the service at the Congregational Churclf this evening. These was' a large attendance at the Academy of Mtteic last erening when the annual Presbyteian cor cert took place. The frSnt seats and the gallery were crowded. The l>rngrammft was varied and attractive, and the numbers on it gave satisfaction to the audience, at was fully testified by frequent ap«, plauee. In the first jpart the trio "Down among the Lilies," rendered by Mrs Mennie and the Misses Brown and Ferguson was i certainly tha most pleading. Mr Wiseman's i humorous " Figs," aad his " Amalgamation " ditties diverted tho audience, and in the ease of each hi) had to submit to an encore. Tbe chorines were carefully given, and displayed \ attention to practice. Our space preoludes«ful£ !

notice of *-he programme, but thoie items in worthy of especial praise were the songs of Misses Brown and bVguson, Messrs McLiver, Vowles, Anderson, and the duet by Miss and Master Reid.

The deterring influence of the imprisonment until the rising of the Court keeps even drunks out of the Court. There was no sitting 'his morning . The entertainment •• The Ba^es in the Basket.', at the Baptist Church last evening in aid of th* Sunday School funds, attracted a good attendance, and was a thorough success. Mr Renshaw presided. The performance consisted of the reading of a short utory, j interspersed with* music,' iUnotrative of the way in which a negress saved the lives of her master's children during the rebellion of the blacks on one of the We?t Indian islands. Mr Horatio Phillips read the story, and the choir, assisted by a few friends, rendered the musical selections in a pleasing manner, the solo parts being taken by Misses Phillips and Probert. A recitation by Lilian Roberts, one* of the younger scholars, was also very distinctly given. Votes of thanks to Mr Phillips and the choir were passed, and the meeting was closed by the singing of the Doiology and the pronouncing of the Benediction. | The presentation of the Humane Society's medal, awarded to Mr W. J. MoDonnel, fireman at the Auckland dock, for bis bravery in saving life some time ago, took place at the meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday afternoon. The Chairman made the presentation, and in doing so said it was not the intrinsic value of the medal which be would value, but I it would remind him of the fact that ho had been the means of rescuing a - fellow-citizen from a position of imminent peril, at the risk of his own life. He trusted that it would also be an incentive to future bravery.

• The women. of Srdenhaui, Canterbury, have held; an indignation meeting re the Licensing Court, and resolved to forward to the Minister of Justice two resolutions' con* dooming the granting of new licenses. Mb J. C Fibth, at the Auckland Hospital Board yesterday, stated that another Auckland citizen had made his will, leaving a larger sum than MrCostley had left to the city, but if tha legacy duty were exacted probably the destination of a large portion of it would be altered. ) Thb Auckland City Council intend, with the co-operations of the other legatees under the Costley bequest, to memorialise the Government for the. remission of the legacy duty ; also for the repeal of the clause in the Act exacting legacy duty in cases of bequests for public purposes. Mb J. S, Worthington, Clerk of the Court at Queemtown, has died from cancer of the tongue. Mb Driver, M.F.R., has met with an accident which will delay bis attendance at Parliament. •'■.'. Air inquiry was begun in Dunedin yesterday before the R.M. and two Nautical Assessors, into the stranding of the steamer Hawea at the mouth of Waitara river on the 9th May laßt. After hearing the evidence of the cap* tain and chief officer the inquiry was adjourned till Thursday. On Sunday last Bishop Neville, of Dunedin, admitted the Bey. T. Callaghan as a priest of the Church of England, he formerly having belonged to the Church pf Rome. The S.M. Herald says : The surest indication of the development of the Fiji trade is the resolve of the A.S.N. Com pany to establish a fortnightly service between this port and the islands. A fortnightly steam service will ensure regular mails and prompt despatch of produce on the one hand and manufactured goods on the other—will serve the trade thoroughly, and will effectually secure it to Sydney. The A.S.N. fortnightly service will ease the planters of one difficulty; they will have sure means of transit to a good market, and by degrees they will get over the labour trouble." What are the Auckland people about?

An adjourned meeting of the Ministers' Conference was* held to-day to decide how to carry put the' imparting of religious instruction on stated days in the State schools. The result of interviewsi on the subject with the various school committees was detailed, but h splitoccured as to whether the character of the teaching should be entirely undenominational or not. It was proposed with that view that a'committee should be appointed|from the Conference to oversee the giving of instruction on the days agreed on, but the Church of England clergy refused to be bound to act under such committee, and on the resolution being carried, the Bishop and the clergy left the meeting, stating they would act for themselves. The Con* ference then proceeded to make the necessary arrangements. The President (Dr. Stuart, Presbyterian) said he would not hare believed,a fortnight.ago that any Protestant could have taken such a stand as the Episcopalians had in this matter. The " Glen Innes Guardian " credits Mr Redmond with the following remark : —" The newspapers are my best friends. Had I given the Press of this colony £5000 to advertise me, I could not have been better served. The Press has made me. No man can fail that the Press hounds down as I have been hounded down."