The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4838, 11 July 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1884.

Cast. Edwin telegraphed to-day:—- n Watch barometer ; bad weather approaching between north and west and flouth-wesfc. Glass riße within ten hours.

Wb understand that Mr E. T. Douglas is about to make considerable alterations to bis new Public Hall, Sbortland, which will make it both larger aid much more commodious. In the meetings which have jußt been held, i* was found that with a large assemblage the air became oppressive, owing to the low ceiling,' and the proprietor therefore contemplates raising it 8 feet, thus doing away with the third storey, and making it dome shaped. The ante-rooms at the west end are also proposed to be done away with, and the hall made 13 feet longer by means of the building beiDg lengthened on that floor. These improvement 8 would make the Hall considerably larger, more comfortable, and better for speaking in, and should greatly increase its popularity.

Wb are requested by several intarested ones to point oat the state of the crossings at Sealey and Bollestoh streets ; they are in an abominable condition. It is with - gr«at d'flioulty that females are able to get to the shops, and the children to echool. A- load or two of ashes or gravel placed pver the' crossings would remedy the evil; and cost but little to the ©onncila concerned in the matter and : would prevent a deal; of profanity. Perhaps tbe Councils will take: the bint and cover upthe-j^ud. ; ' '

As will be seen byour advertising columns, lhat our useful and energetic County Chnirman, Mr A. Brodie, has resolved to contest the Ooromandel seat with Mr A. J. Gadman.

Natives appear to keep some reaord of relationships eiisting between them. To-day in the Police Court a Maori witness described one of hia connections as an eighth cousin.

The only football, matoh announced for tomorrow afternoon is one on the Waio-Kavaka Flat, between the bachelors and benedicts of the Miners's Club. The teamß will be picked on the ground, so it behoves members to roll up in time.

MsaSBS Coombes and Co., the. well-known firm of drapers, aßnounce elsewhere that they intend to close their Grahametown branch, though still keeping on the Shortiand one, and for.that purpose will hold a monster clearing sale for: five days,^ commencing to«morrow. Everything will be greatly reduced, as the premises are to be closed on the Thursday, and the balance of the goods are to be sold by auction on the 18fch, 19th, and 21st insts. This should be a good opportunity to get a stock of cheap clqthingiV «

, Thb Tiraaru Herald has the.following yarn about Tairaosi One of the footballers who recently Ti"ted Now South Wales:—Atone of the towns where the players were entertained at*a b»nquet,Taiaroa was called on to propose the health of the local banker, a person of much consequence in the place; - and was ; specially requested to speak in his native toogu c.' This he did; somewhat briefly, but with great, fluency^^ and pm|»hasiß., /l'he ibanker at.onoe ':tbß.e:and-;rapllj[ed:Vjmoßt'';gracefallyV.;to^tho' <kihd' fand handsome things that his young Maori priend had said of him, Swelling first on this aoint in Tai&roa'a speech, and then Yon that; and:eipreseing his pleasure and astonishment ' t a stranger and,* foreigner in race and language knowiDg so much about his career and perional qualities. Those who were in tho joke were at length unable any longer to restrain their merriment, for the fact was' that Taiaroa havingf no speech ready, but trusting that none of his entertainers knew a word of Maori, hiri merely reoit«d the lord's Prayer, with vofce; tone, and; gesture—suited, as lie .; ; .i-. •': i- v; r -:.:-.v.:^V ;<■; /;.; iKe'piago University £105 (one-half of the honorarium) £t5 Iform^^t^ a : •CUOjwphip. £V. y.':-: :i}> ,;>/ ■ p§?':. } ;5/ :^;",f . ;c: "rj^^

At the Dunedin Supreme Court yesterday' John Pearoe, charged with abducting s girl, aged 13, W39 found not guilty. - . '

It Boetns from the returns that the -public health in Auckland is good. The Sanitary Inspector cays that people do not now kill themselTes with dirt, but through sloyei I)eer, or undue speculation,

Mb, M. W. G-BBBN attributes the large increases in lunacy of late years, in a considerable degree, to the the increase of disbelief in religious subjects. ■■'..'•, ■-.;•/■;

-Alt who are in want of. new clothes or drapery goods, and those who are initiated into the requirements of the family circle, know that tho ladies especially are generally short. of something in this line, should pay a Tisit to the shop of out enterprising townsman, Mr S. Hetberington, of Pollen street, during the next four weeks, when he will hold a cheap sale, and offer the whole of hit heary stock of Colonial and Horn* made goods at reduced prices. . ' .-: ,

Mb ABKWBI&HT muet be fond of his joke. At his meeting at Turakina lately he said, referring to the pedigree question—" I?e could give Mr Bruce two stone and a beating over that course, for Mr Bruce's family only went back to the Kings of Scotland; whereas he imagined that his own must go back to. the Deluge, for there was no doubt that Noah was the original Ark-wright."

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