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

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4521, 2 July 1883, Page 2

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

TKS;Bom*.n Catholics of the district are signing a petition to both. Houses of Parliament, Hking that justice be done them in educational matters. Several persons not belonging to that body.have expressed to us theirwillingneu to sign ths document if it be prennted to ibhem.-' ■,;■-.<■• ■ , BjUIX fragment* of quarts, showing colors of, gold," am nid to bare beeu found^ia Canterbury;

Mb Murdoch, one of the Tbame« VaUeT Railway Company directors has proceeded to Cambridge to.. interne* our member, Mr Sheehari, on railw»y matters..

Thi death is announced of Mr James Btewart, an old Thames Re*idanfc, anH one o' 1 the original shareholders in the Q-jee* of Beauty mine. The late gentleman ha* lured anonnget us fororer 15 years, and wa? at one tiane Tery successful in his mining rent urea here. About, ten d»ys ago he wa» «< w°d with a cold, which gradually settled do*n to inflammation of Die lungs, and although adrimed by hie friends to secure medical assistance, he would not do so until Saturday last, when Dr Oailan was called in, and recommended bis remoral to the hospital, where he expired early on Baturday)morning, being attended up to his last moment by D» Oailan and Payne. The deceased' leaves two children, who it is understood are partially provided for.

' At yesterday's services in the Wesleyan Church in the morning; at Shor'land, and even-. in?, at Grahamstown, the Rev. IT. Bull preached funeral sermons on the death of the late Rev T. Buddie. The rev. gentleman selected for his text 11. Timothy, IV. chap., "I have fought the good fight, I have finished, the course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to nte at thitt day, and not only to me, but »)so to all them that hay« loved bis • ppearing." He sketched the life, work, and martyrdom of Paul, iiiid refftredfe^linfly to his personal knowledge of the deceased clergyman, and gave a brie' account of his life, shewing ho» he barf laboured «rdt>ou*ly in the colony for 44 y.'arsj and filled the office of President to the Australasian and New Zealand Conferences'. He was a most indefatigable worker.' Only two Sundays before his decease he preached at. the Manu* kau, and only for his son's objection, would have conducted service on the- following Sunday.'' At each service yesterday there 'was a full congregation. . < Tmb best football match of the season was played on Saturday last between the Thames Football Clnb and a team of natives. The iteame were very evenly r matched, as during the opening' spell of the- game the Thames 1 men bad all the best of it, while after their 1 opponents bad warned up to it, they made ! the running more towards their adversaries' goal. The result of the match was a victory ; for the Thames Club by a goal, kicked'by Lowe, from a touch-down secured by Tregon* ning, as, against a touch-down secured by the native team. The forward play 1 of the Thames men was capital, and the harmony preserved during the game was noticeable. One great disadvantage the iphtyrrs suffered from was the unseemly crowding of the public on the playing ground; moat of the transgressors were boys, but a number old enough to know better were also at fault in this respeot. , Thx District Court, which should in the ordinary .course be held to-morrow, will only be opened in its Bankruptcy jurisdiction The long standing case of Garvay v. Ema Te Aouru will be held over until next sitting.

Wk are glad to lmrn that the health of Mir Thos. Aitken, I»te dispenser of the Hospital, who is now residing with a member of his family at Hamilton, is improving. ■ Mb Qt. A. Bkown, of Auokland, lectured last evening at the Academy of Music on " Christ or Buddha, which shall we have ?'» There was a good attendance. The lecturer commenced by referring to the 'growing tendency of the age, to rrjact the Bible, and to endeavor to prove that it was a myth. Sceptics now claimed to,have.discovered, that the. doctrines .of Christianity ,we>e^pnlyjthe. fd+eepU of such men as Buddha, Zaroastres and Confucius re-dressed to suit the rimes. It «ras beyond contradiction that Buddha' propounded quite as good , a moral code as was taught by the orthodox, churches of the present day, and that the doctrines of the soul's inherent immortality and heaven and hell, as commonly explained, were only relics of pagani*m, but sceptics had more than they could do when ihey tried to account for the existence of Chris ianity, and yet denied that' such a person as Christ had ever lived. When so much of the'teachings of orthodoxy was taken from the >, .old heathen : philosophers, they might ask wherein was, Christianity unique ? For .answer be would point the to them 4th verse of the Ist chapter of John—" In Him was life." That was where Christ transcended all who bad either preceded or followed Him; for He ould exclaim what none of tt>e other greatrteaohen.hadbeen able to siy—"l am the "'way, the truth, and the life," and it was this, great fact, life in Christ only, that .wu the very basis of true Christianity. The lecturer then enlarged more lully upon the subject of .Christ being the life-giver, and proved from Scripture' that.the dead are in a state of unconsciousness. He also referred to the theory of Erolotion, which was favored by infidels because it thrust QoH out of Creation, but which he contended did not agree with either the researches of geologists or astronomers. He also spoke a word in favor of the parsons. Too many people were in the habit of saying that ministers of the gospel only preached to i get a living, but when a Freethought lecturer j came along, who got perhaps £20 for speaking for about an hour, be was considered to b only honestly expressing his convictions. That was not fair, and he asked them to either class them all together, or else to leave the matter alone. The lecture was attentively listened to throughout.

Mb Wabdkmv C.E., of Sydney, cannot come to Auckland^ The Harbor Board con* firmed the previous resolution that Mr Wardell, C.E., of Sydney be appointed con* suiting engineer to report upon the plans and specifications of the. Calliope dock; and his offer to act as such for the sum of 150 guineas be accepted; also that Mr McDonald, the Harbor Board's Engineer, be instructed 'to proceed to Sydney and Melbourne by first steamer with plans, specifications, hydraulic lime samples, and all necessary documents, and to return to Auckland as early as pos* sible.

John Gbapprl and Charles Brown were committed for trial for tbe jewellery robbery at Mr Henrioksen'e premises in Auckland.

. At the inquest on the body of J»mei Beaton, who fell off tbe Auckland wharf on Thursday, a verdict of " Acoidently Drowned " was re* turned —James Macfariane, shipping ageiit, identified the body as that of James Beaton, a native-of Greenock, Scotland, whom he hud known 14 years ago as a miner and co-itrao-tor.

Ths football match, Nelscm College rW«llii]gtM, was played on Saturday in four spells of 20 minotes each. In the first spell Or. S. Hmitb, Wellington, kicked a goal front field; in the second spell Potter, of Nelson, got a try, which A. Withers (captain; failed to convert into a goal; in the third spell GK Glasgow, Nelson, got a try, in which the cap* tain also failed to get a goal. During the fourth spell the Kelson men worked very hard, and Hodder getting a try, Withers sue* eeected in getting a goal. There was a strong wind blowing at the time, and both attempts at kicking the two goals by .Nelson were against tbe wind. The Wellington boys worked well throughout tbe matoh. Nelson .thus won by one goal vai two tries to Wellingtons one goal.

_ At a meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labor Council a resolution was passed earnestly protesting against any relaxation of the embargo upon Chinese immigration, and seeking to know whether the Government would be disposed to assist if .a' fund was started wherefrom to pay a-bonw for those Chinese already in the colony to leave it. It was decided to wire the resolution to the Hon. Mr Boll*Bton,.Bir George Grey, Messrs SwM«m; Harst, and Dargaville. To a death notice of a child aged 6 months, which Appeared in a Wellington paper, was additikm :—«• De.npljr regretted by a large number of friends.' 1 '

As an argument in favor of the Biblical in• sfcr ction of the young the " Argus " mentions, m an illmtratin of the ignorance of »uoh subjects prevalent among children in Victoria: —*' The head master of the Gordons local school states that, when recently giving a lesion on geography to his fourth dais on the mountains of Asia, not a single child bad ever heard anything in connection with Mount Sinai or Mount Ararat, and only two children out of a clasa of 30 bad ever heard of Nosh. The teacher being astonished asked the same questions in the fifth, sixth, and upper sixth classes, and found the same Biblical ignorance prevailing there amongst 46 children, whose ages, ranged from 12 to 19 years,, two only being able to answer the questions satisfactorily, both of whom were Sunday school teaetift*. Only one pupil in the aohool, a Sunday aohool teacher* recently arrived, friim Melbourne, 5; knew the meaning of thewdtfcl Decalogue"

Tee following notipe appears in the G-ot-ernmentGnz tte —''I, Anna Mary Longshore -Potts, Doctor of Medici'ie| now residing in Auckland, Lave deposited evidence of my qualifications with the Registrar of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, of the Auckland district this day, give notice that I intend to ap pi; to he reg stered under' The New Zealand Medical Act, 1869/ or. the, 12th day of July, 1883." The lady i» now in Nelsqn, giving lecture* to Indies. She is going round, the principal towns in the colony. > She- is a Quakeress.