The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4681, 8 January 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1884.

A special meeting of the Borough Council is called for Friday next at three o'clock to consider the recent suspension of the Health Officer by the Town Clerk.

T. L. Mtjbbay, Erg , J.P., presided in the Police Court this morning, and fined a first offender fire shillings, or in default ordered him to be impr'soned until the rising of the Court, for drunkenness. The offender w*s the last of the bashmen in town for the holidays.

The Academy of Music was crammed last night, when the wonderful Moulten (lightning calculator) and Millie (the King of Ventriloquists) kept their audience entertained for over two hours. The fun was fast and furious, and the medicine advocated by the "calculator " suffered not by the explanations of the lecturer. To-night, the last night, a lecture will be delivered on " Annexation," and Mr Milis will produce his fanny six figures to enliven the audience. The admission being free, a large attendance U expected,

Goods Wharf presented quite an animated spectacle this afternoon, there being no less than eight Teasels lying alongside it, viz : two schooners, a ketcb, and the steamers Rototnahana, Enterprise, Te Aroha, Waitoa, and Despatch. The Eotomahana brought down a large number of passengers.

An accident occurred yesterday at about noon to a man named Thomas Dod, working at .Mr Gibbons' busb, just below Te Aroha town* shi,p. While felling a tree it sprang back and broke his left'leg above the ankle. Dr Cooper was sent for, and was in attendance within an hour. He set the broken limb, but advised the man's removal to the Thames Hospital, and he was therefore brought down in the Waitoa this afternoon, and carried to the Hospital.

A meeting will be held this week of those desirous of establishing the leather industry at the Thames. We are glad to learn that very hearty support is being given to the movement by the townspeople.

Dttbing the voyage of the sbipSobraon from London to Melbourne, Miss Gertrude McCausland, the adopted daughter of a lady and gen* tleman on board, was remonstrated with by her friends regarding a relationship she was forming. The young lady, who was of a nervous and excitable temperament, took their remarks so much to heart that she threw herself overboard at night, and was drowned. She was 19 years of age.

Apteb our report of the Wellington T. Canterbury cricket match closed yesterday, Wellington went out for 132 j and Canterbury made 53 for two wickets. A telegram in another column shews the progress of the match.

Thb Herald's " own " wires from Wellington that the total Customs revenue oollected in New Zealand during 1883 amounted to £1,414,183, as compared with £1,515,915 for 1882, £1,421,609 for 1881. Consequently 1883 shows a falling off of £111,000 as againßt the previous year, but differs only by £7000 from 1881, which was a good year for trade. The" theory of the financial authorities is that the exceptionally large returns of 1882 were due to a temporary undue inflation of trading and over-exporting, and did not represent the legitimate national increase and steady development of trade. They hold that the decrease is not to be regretted, save from a revenue point of view. There is now no hope of the Customs deficit being made up or even reduced by the 31st March. Each of the three remaining months will have to yield 20 per cent more than December to save the deficiency from increasing, and hardly any hopes are entertained that the Customs will realise more than £1,420,000. The property tax has so far brought £264,000, which is £14,000 above the estimate.

A fabeweMi benefit was given at the Theatre Royal, Auckland, last night, to Edwards, the champion long distance walker of the colonies. There was a large attendance. The half-hour go-as-you-please j contest resulted: Dyer, 1 (4 miles 30 laps) ; Cosso", 2 (4miles 25 laps) ; Cutler, 3 (4 miles 16 laps). There were boxing contests between Messrs Montague and Davis, and McAnally and Burns. Mr A. Hendry was presented . with a medal, he being the local competitor who walked the longest distance in the match against Edwards. After tendering his special thanks to Messrs Gallagher, Scott, and E. N. R. Forder, and presenting them each with a diamond ring, Mr Edwards thanked the audience for their attendance. He said that during the walking contest last week nearly 10,000 gained admission to the Theatre Royal. He was extremely glad he bad won the late contest, for it was in Auckland be made his firßt appearance. He would leave for America to day, to walk against Yaughan, and hoped to return successful. Thb Grey River Argus, says that Donald Dinnie, the famous Scottish athlete, has joined Woodyear'e Circus troupe. Thebb is a very thirsty soui in Auckland. Yesterday Eliza Lestrange was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for drunkenness, it being her 53rd offence. Thomas Jas. North was yesterday committed for trial in Auckland on a charge of perjury and a breach of the Pawnbrokers' Act. Ik ten years New Zealand has spent on its liquor bill 24£ millions. This is exclusive of the Yin Sante which has been drank or wasted. The following telegram was received on Saturday by Mr F. A. White, from the mine manager of the Ivanhoe, Karangahake:— " Cut reef, showing gold freely in stone, 600 feet south of present workings." I The following passage in a lecture by Mr Moncure D. Con way in Sydney has occasioned a good deal of comment in Australia. The bishop referred to is understood to be Bishop Moorhouse. The lecturer said: — " Even in Melbourne, with its tree, independent Press, and its grand library of 100,000 i splendid books, costing £100,000, and put into a building almost as fine as the British Museum—even in that city, with its magnificent ineti utions, a combination of churches has turned into a coalition against freedom of , speech, which is likely to prove a crushing machinery of intolerance in the future.—(Cheera.) When the eloquent Charles Strong—(loud applause)—has been driven forth, and when that good Bishop, one of the most brilliant in the Church—(cheers) —has followed him, as he probably will before long, then we may expect the advent of the Donnybrook style of controversy—' Wherever you see a head hit it.' And when every head that rises is laid low there will be less check upon persecutors in the Church." "A suffebeb" sends us the following lines on Mosquitoes:— Oh ye blissful skittish things, ' Who've been blest with fleetest wings, Did ye come from Noah's Ark To drive man mad staring .stark ? If ye did to make men soah, Then may all the Gods bless Noah ! The other day (says an Otago paper) while mustering at Otematata, the manager (Mr Stoddart) observed a sheep come straggling along with head erect and mouth open, panting, with a large gull perched upon its back, and tearing away at the poor brute's flesh. On examination it was found that the gull was eating the flesh in the same manner as the kea is in the habit of doing. Whether the kea had commenced the attack, and the gull was finishing, upon this particular sheep, it is impossible to cay.

A Chikaman criticising Christian civilisation, in fluent and forcible English, was one of the remarkable incidents of a recent meeting of the Melbourne Presbytery. Mr Cheok Hong Chedng appeared es a commissioner from the Fitzroy congregation in support of a call. Mr Cheong has been walking about with his eyes open, and the result of his observations is that he has arrived at the conclusion that Fit aroy presents a vast field for missionary enterprise. Several venerable members of the court arched their eyebrows at this unlooked-for announcement from the shrewd Celestial, but their astonish* ment was intensified when Mr Cheong pro* ceeded to express his conviction tbat there were more heathens in Filzroy than on any 'island in the New Hebrides. The young ministers smiled significantly, but the " fathers of the church " looked grave, for the conversion of tho New Hebrides is one of their pet projects. The inferential suggestion that the missionaries Bent to the New Hebridsa would be more usefully employed within a mile or two of Collins street was evidently not relished by the " fathers and brethren," and the plain spoken O.ketjal sat down in silence.

A veby extraordinary announcement regarding Messrs Samuel Coombes and Oo.'s Thames Branch appears in our advertising columns on the 3rd page.—[Advt]

W. Gbeen, of Brown street, is still selling his stock of Straw and Felt Hats, at, and below Auckland prices, and solicits an early inspection of the same. He has the whole marked in plain figures, so that those who buy may do so with their eyes open.—[Advt.]

Benefactobs.—"When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the discovery that by combining some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would cure such a wide range of diseases that most other remedies could be dispensed with, many were skeptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by all as benefactors." Bead.

That Husband ov Mine is three times the man he was beiore he began using " Wells' Health Benewer." Druggists. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents.