The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4909, 3 October 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1884.

The weekly sitting of the Parliamentary Union should have been held last evening, but as the members did not attend in as large numbers as usual, no business was trensacted. Next Wednesday evening the debate on the Financial Statement will be commenced.

Fbom a te!egram receded from Wellington to-day, we le. m there is little likelihood of Mr Spencer's bill coming before the House this eessioD. It will probibly be in the list of slaughtered i^nocente.

The railway line from Hamilton to Morrirsßville was opened oh We.lcesctay afternoon, and a daily train is row running each way. The section from Te Aroha to Morrinarille is formed, but the railß have yot to be laid down and the line ballasted.

At an inquest; into the circumstances of the burning of Hadfield's cottage at Waiorongomai recently thejury returned a verdict to the effect that the evidence showed suspicious circumitanefs, but threw no light upon the origin of the conflagration,

An old Ma>ri woman named Puni Te Ao, who is reported to Have reached the remarkable age of 107 years, died a day or two Bgo at Pariri.

Mb Cbatvfobd, for Messrs Ingram and Co., was to-day engaged with the ice-roa'sing machine erected at Sborll->nd by Mefsra Payne and Shepherd, and a fair s'art at icemaking will probably be made either to-morrow or Monday. As the hot weather may now be expected, tbe proprietors will be enabled to make a great saving in sending their fish to Auckland or elsewhere.

The Herald of yesterday, in noticing the demise of the wife of Rev. 8. Macfarlano, of Auckland, says: —The decfased lady attributed her illness to a shockingly bud smell she experienced returning home from evening service on Sunday, the 21st of September, as she was crossing the bridge in Upper Pitt-street, be Bide-Canada street. On Monday the disease derelopad itself, with the fatal result now known. Our local authorities should take note of this.

MICHAEt Hasiist, blacksmith, was thrown from a hone in Auckland yesterday, sustaining a scalp wound. He w.s taken to the hospital, and is cow in a precarious state.

Thb Opotiki Herald has a predeliction for the American style of journalism. It refers to o correspondent of a contemporary «a a " mean contemtible scoundrel," " a thorough coward," "a malevolent villain," " a slimy reptile," "a paradie" "mongrel hound," " this thing," " thorough skunk," &c.

At the Auckland Criminal Sessions yetiev day, Edwin Rees, for larceny, was sentenced to a. month's imprisonment for sheep stealing. Four natives were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment up to a year. Joseph Kluber.. for burglary, was acquitted.

Thb Ngaliwhakauo tribe (aaj» tbo Bay of Plenty Times) have sent a petition no less than 14 feet long to Parliament, protesting vigorously against Mr Fenfon's Bill re the Thames' Valley Railway. .

•Skimjt" Mb^.—" Wells' Health Kenewer " rpcior^n health and vigor, cures Djep/piia, Inipolri cc, Debility. Biases, MOS», 6ad Co.,

A baoi helwren the cutters Eleanor ond Deveron (both of which ar9 we'l known hem), run st Taurangv on Saturday last, resulted in a win f r the former. The stakes were £10 ft' Bide.

Truth asd Fobeenpss.—What is the best family tnrdicino in the world to regulate the bowels, puri'j (he blood, remote costiveness nnd biliousai'fs, aid digestion, and stiniuiate 'he whole sjsfcam ? Truth aid sobernesß compel us to answer, Hop Bifctere, being pare, perfect and harmlees. See.