The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Ressurexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4884, 4 September 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Ressurexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1884.

. «. : Capt. Edwin telegraphed thia afternoon :— " Watch barometer; bad weather Rpproaching same as wired yesterday Q-lass further rise, arid wcathc-r will ba very cold." Even the imposing gravity of the Court of Jusiica is sometimes relieved by a mild joke. Such an insitance ocsurred tbia morning during the hearing of tic Tapu case. Oneof the_wilne3Bcs deposed that bundles of Shingles were often rolled down the bill to the roadj and.His Worship followed up with, "I suppose that accounts for there "being a shingle. loo3e;dosrn,'there occasionally,'' v hereat even (he austere counsel -smoJe a smile, and some of the more impressionable scions of humanity laughed aloud. : . .- The usual pitting of the Parliamentary Union lakes placa this evening, when several important questions appearing on the Order paper will be dealt with, A. " gallery" for the ladi-s ha* baen provided.; and doubtleES their attendance will urge to.fcuitioa the latent talent which exists in the Association. A meeting of the Aiick'arid Acclimatisation 'Society was held on Tu-aday, when the 20,000 trout ova purchased from the Qtago Society, and which arrived in very goid condition by the 8.8. Wairarapa, were distributed j and in tie list appeared Mresrs Allom, Steadinan, and'Sinith, Thames, 5000. 6,500 wsll remain for the present in tha society's fiahpracta at the.Domain. .The Thames consignment, arrived this morning in very good condition, and' hai'been placed in the hatching bases in the building at Ihe corner of Burke arid Owen streets, whence they will be removed upon, reaching a mature stags of life.' . ■ ' ' /"." The pugnacious faculties of a witness in the Tapu timber case were fully developed in the'witness room of the Police Court t>;i3 morning, and resulted in their posseesor bring " run in" on a- ohargo of drunkonnesa. It appears that two deponents on opposite aides fell foul of each other, 'and after the iisa of -language ! not found in modern diationarieei, one of the parties to the quarrel siid he would' summarily eetfcle the matter, and wished it to be decided by a resort, to fisticuffs. The interference of a oonstable prevented a tragic ending to the conflict. Twd other drunks were lodged^in the lock■ up- this afternoon. . . , Many of our reade c last night will no doubt have'"recognised in the Mr H, MfKet-zie, whose wife was drowned by,the. upsetting of a raffe by the flood at. Woodville yesterday morning, an old Tbaitnes contractor. He was for many years a resident here, and built the Tararu wlnrf. BoLh he and his well known here, the deceased lady beng h sister of Mr J. West, of ShortlmcC Her uetimely cod will be regretted by a natnbtr of residenle. By tb.e Governmont Gsz^Ue of August 28, Harry Kearick, E»q., is appointed a Visitirg Justica of the Shortland gaol, Thames. THB Warden's Court Ttas occupied all day with a case against Chns. Munnoll, of Tapu, for illegally cuttir-g kauri trees. The evidence was very voluminous, and much of it most contradictory, especially that of Good, junr., but it showed plainly, as His Worship observed, that a great deal more timber had 'been cut than hed been paid for, one of the witnesses even admitting that it was the custom to cut trees without raaiks.- If rumor speaks truly, Tapu is'not the only place, where the County Council is being defrauded of revenue through i rees being indiscriminately and illegally idled.

U.uaiNEca at TeArolia*township id repoit.t' to be in a,xe£j? i; dull.condition, a^d popu'ation is decrea|nn'E "I- 1...

. morning Constable Hogg discbvered.a man named Jacob Francis, master pf the Waipu, in the mud between C ii"is'^and Goods wharves. He at onee'werit

bis p.aihi abce, and,fcund that the man was

c; unV, abil buing in a very exhausted condition, would probably have been smothered had not help arrived.. He said he wa3 trying to get to his boat, but his geography wi-.i ovi* ' dently'alighlly^ mixed,"^?BileVasiyi'ig opposite Mary.street. The constable took him to the, lock-up and attended fo him, and H. Kenrick, Esq;, fined him 5s and cos Is, or impvisoninent till the rising of the Court, at; 10.30 a.m.

WHOdriKG cough is very prevalent, on- the Thames just now, and we regret to laarn thai". during the past fortnight fully five deaths of children have been caused by it.

At a meeting of Auckland citizens last night,' largely attended, and presided over b/ the Mayor, a Parliamentary Union was formed. .

THE "little Wonder." of the Silvafcion Army, who eloprd with Contain Beflingfield, has returned to Dunedin with Major Pollard from Melbourne. T

At a merting of the Lambton (Wellington) Licensing Bench yesterday, several applicanti who were only granted 10 o'clock 'licenses at the last, meeting bad their hours extended to midnight. In the Bell Ward, of Duncclin city, a petition was presented to the Liceaeing Bench from £00 ratepayers, asking for an extension of hours for publicans' licenses, but the Committee declined to grant the extension.

The riflo fever is at its height in T.auranga. We learn a match/ia proposed for Tnursday nexfc, between the " engaged " and the " disappointed." The names of th« competitors for prizes are suppressed for obvious reasons. A large attendance of admirers is fondly expected.—Biy of Plenty Time 3.

History has repeated itself (says the Turana&i News) after a lapse of thirty years. On Thursday, August 29!.h, 1854, a Ministry consisting of Messrs T. Forsaitb,E. J. Wakefield, Travers, and Maeandrew were sworn in and gazetted ; on the "Friday they were defeated, nnd next day tendered their resignation. On Thursday, August 28t.1i, 1884-, the ■•Alkioson-Wakefield-Hursthouse Ministry wero sworn in and gazetted ; on Friday tbey were defeated, and on Saturday they tendered their resignation. It is curious that the name of Mr Wakefield figures in both Goyernments, and that the life" of the Ministries should have been exactly of the same duration.

The funeral of the late Mrs John Barrett, of Chnstchurch was attended by four thousand persons und over sixty carriages.

Consider*BlE surprise and regret has been occasioned in religious circle 3 i« Auckland by the-'receipt of news from America am-ouricfng the divor c of Mr and Mrs George Hemus. ! Mr Hemus is well known aa a temperance speaker wnd evangelist, and toot i prominent; part in Mib Hampson's mian'osi in Auckland and here several years ago. He gave up bis bußiae.s in order that he might devote" bis lime more ful'j to this wok, and with his wife and children want to America, where he has been successfully labouring on the Pacific slopes. Thia course did not please bis wife, who enter-i a suit, and obtained a divorce on the ground of neglect, with £203 damages. The couple were very devoted to tach other while in Aucldand, but Mr Hemus haa informed hia friends that c.n his side be h~s slrooger reasons than those of neglect for favouring thfl intervention of the Divon c C'outt; and,ii point of fact, he allowed the action to be decided'ajaitisfc him through default of appearance, he beirg ordered to provide' for the maintenan c of his four children. Mrs Hemus has now settled down in San Francisco, and i-3 keeping a boardiDg bouse there.

Two shillings per dozen for live sparrows! Here is a chance for come enferprising trapp«rs (says the Poverty Bay Herald}, Mr Beresford.of the Eoaeland Hotel, Makaraky, will gve that pri a for thcae destructiva little enemies of the farmer.

Strange Insttbobdiwation. — Who has not experienced a sort of malady when all the faculties seem in rebellion, and labor is absolutely impossible? It is a condition, of nerves and stomach and brain that can only be cured by the use'of that irresistible remedy, Hop Bitters. Read