The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4898, 20 September 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1884.

Wb were long and anxiously awaiting the uiual telegraphic budget of English news tbis morning, after reading the intelligence in our morning contemporary that the steamer "Australia" had arrived in the Auckland harbour early this morning. We found, on making enquiry at the Telegraph office just before going to preis that no ne*£* of the arrival of the mail had been received.. It is cruel on the part of our contemporary to play such a joke upon not only us, but •yen upon their readers.

Thb RangerTnreaTo^aayTo^thTMiinning Belt and five money prize?. The ranges were 300, 500, and 600ydf>, seven shots at each. The following were the prize winners :— Downie, Belt and 15s, 67 ; Lucas, 10s, 62 ; Reardon, 7a 6d, 59 j Newdick, si, 55 ; Inglis, 2i6d, 55. The Ret. H. Bull will deliver a lecture on " Christianity and Freetliought" at the Grahamstown Wesleyan Church to-morrow evening. MrE. H. Taylor will conduct divine service, morning and evening, at the Oddfellows' Ball as usual. Thk lad Frederick Rashleigh, accidentally drowned in Auckland on Wednesday evening, was lately ■ resident of the Thames, he having lived for some time with hit parents iv Upper Albert street. MB3 Bowxkb intimates by advertisement that her clearing out sale of drapery and millinery will be continued for three days more, finally closing on Wednesday next. Bargains cap be bad on application*

The Rev. Geo. Maunßell, Church of j Eng'and missionary, has arrived at the Thames, and will hold Divine eerrice at. the Kirikiri Church to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock. In the morning he will conduct services amongst the natives at Parawai Church at 11 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock p.m. at the Kirikiri Church. Some members of the Willmott dramatic and comedy company arrived here last night from Auckland, but as the boat this evening does not arrive till too late, the nerformance of " The Woman of the people " has b:en postponed till Monday. We (Auckland Star) learn that during the past few months Otago capitalists hare been taking considerable interest in the Te Aroha goldfield, and already £4000 of Southern money has been invested in the district. Tendees are invited up to Tuesday next for driving 50ft., in the Rocky Point claim, Karaka Creek. At a meeting of Wellington gentlemen it was decided to call a public meeting for the purpose of forming a Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Society. The following gentlemen will be asked to move the principal resolutions: The Premier, Sir Geo. Grey, and W. T. L. Travera.

Thebe are now 118 babies entered for the coming Auckland bliow, on Tuesday, including 12 twins. The promoters are sparing no expense to make this a classical and {esthetic eibibi'ion, differing from anything of the kind that has preceded it in any part of the world. Every regard will be paid to the comfort of mothers and babies. Tea will be provided, and everything done to make this a pleasant affur for all concerned. It has also been arranged that in addition to the prizes other valuable presents will be distributed in such a manner that the unsuccessful competitors will not return homo emptyhanded. It is expected that a prominent clergyman will present the prizes. The search for the missing man Dixon is hem? continued by his brother; the WaioKaraka reaervoir was emptied to-day, but no trace of Dixon hBB yet been found.

At a meeting of Ohinemuri agricultural settlers, held in thej Owbaroa Hotel, Owharoa, at which there were 18 leaseholders present, Mr E. J. Thorp was called to the chair. T c object of the meeting was stated to he to fully discuss the question as to the best mode of obtaining th^ freehold of the Ohinomuri agricultural sections, and after considerable discussion it was decided to try to obtain the freehold under (he provisions of the Homestead Act. It was resolved that Messrs McClogbrey, Franklin, and Thorp be a committee to correspond with Captain Morris, M.H.R., upon the subject, with power to call a meeting and report progress on receipt of a reply.—Tribune.

A pbaefct. discovery was mide in a hut at Mount Gellibrand, Victoria, about a fortnight ago (says an exchange). The overseer of Mr Strachan's station had occasion to visit a hut on the estate, and found the corpse of a swagsman in the chimney. The man arrived on a Saturday, and asked leave to stop on the station. He was sent to the hut on Sunday, previsions and newspapers being given to him. Nothing more was seen of him for some days, when t^e overseer, in passing the place, saw a rope tied to the gate, the other end of which was down the chimney. On investigalion, it was found that the man had been jambed into the chimney and roasted to death. It is surmised that he had gone out during the time, and that the wind blew the door shut ; then, as there wao no handle to the door, he attempted to get down the chimney, tying a rope to the gate to aseist his descent. When half-way down he came in contact with a bar across the chimney, and was stuck fast, being unable to get. either up or down. He had lit a fire previous to going out, and hence was literally roasted to death.

A Kumaba telegram says : —There is nothing further to repors from the scene of the late Hccident at Cape Terrace, save that the miners are still d iving in very bad and loose ground to recover the body of McNamara, who was, no doubt, killed by the fall of earth.

As shewing the necessity for English interference with the system of shipping con vide to New Caledonia being pursued by the French Government, we may quote the following from a Melbourne paper:—"Here is a nice moral about the recidivistes afforded by the discovery of the kit of the coiners and burglars from La Nouvelle Caledonie. Are we going to have the ' Mysteries of Paris' enacted in Melbourne, or what? These are the nweetaesthetic burgling marauders who love to hear the garrottee's throat agurgling, and then they marry the murderesses, of whom the convict ship which lately visited us brought nine."