The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4912, 7 October 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1884.

Ths annual entertainment in connection wi!h tbe Mutual Improvement Association, ■which takes piece in the Academy of Music this evening, promises to be most enjoyable and thoroughly successful. The first; part of the progfarenia will be musical, and Mrs Keogh, Miss Coner, and Messrs Steward, Co ey, and Bsyldon will give songs } then w.i'l follow.a recitation by Mr Coatb, and one of Beethoven's instrumental quartettes by Miss Coney, Messrs Beale, Steward, and Pockey. " Through Tire and Water," a twoact drama by Walter Gordon, will a?BO be presenied, Mrs Fenton, Mies -Wolff, and Messrs Burgess, Coath, Harrieon, and fXregonning sustaining the characters. A dance will conclude tbe programme.

Thehe wbs a good attendance at the Academy of Music l«st riigSt, when Tom Taylor's stirring drama " The Ticfcet-of Leave Man," was produced by the brilliant company, and received justice at tboie taads. The leading charac era, May Edwards, Bobt., Brierly, flawkshaw, and Jem Dalton, were* vrr efficiently played by Miss Lawrence, and v essre B Ifo, Uede, and Herman rej^pectirely. The olher c!iuactere were not/of undue promin'nt-j. but were wfll pourtrayed by Misasa Dub and Johna and Mr Wilkinson. The feaiaw-V.iU bo extended uaiii Fnday

u'. «'■ evading Miss Lswrenae will, have teaciered to her a well deserved benefit, when the " Octoroon" will be produced, and W e hope to see a full faouae.

We would egain remind our readers of the Gralnatnet<uvn Wesleyan soiree and public me.-li«g (his evening. A select quadrilie party will bo bold this evening in Sf, George's Schoolroom, Eolleston street, dancing to commence at 8 p.m., to the inui-ic of a full string band. A committee baa been actively engaged sll day decorating tie hull and perfecting arrangements, and a very pleasant evening should be spent by those attending. THBOrran the courtesy of those who hare received letters from the party forming the orew of the ketch Wild Duck, now on a<?ruiee in the neighbourhood of New Q utnea and Queensland, we have from time to time been able to inform our readers of the vessels movements. Our last paragraph stated that i the party bad just arrived at Port Moresby, | New Guinea, and n telegram received last night cays that the Wild Duck, with all on board well, had just arrived at Cooktown, Queensland. This port ia the centre of operations, and from it they will no doubt make several other trips before returning to the Thames.

The Illustrated New ZsaLnd NeW3 for September is to hand. It is very creditably got up, and among other pictures are excellent views of the Pink Tprrace; Rotomahana; and Passage Point Cose, Dusky Sound, West Coast. Don't Die is she House.—" Rough 'on Rats" clears out rats, mice, beetles, roacbeß, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, .moles, jaokrabbits, gophers. Moses, Moes anr* Co., Sidney, General Agents. At the Wellington Supr.?me Oosrt yesterday, Hu^h Russell, for nss.iuU, was uquitted ; Edward Elton, for house-brewing, was sentenced ton month's hard labour. At Dune- in, J. P. O'Connor, for forgery, received nine monthe; Jas. B. O'EJaherty, aa habitual drunkard and vagrant, was sent to gaol for three years for stealing a Masonic jewel, and got a sentence of seven days for attempted suicide in the lock-up; Robert Manuvl, p. negro, for .stealing got three months ; Adam Scott was found not guilty of a serious assault on Wm. Hayes during a drunken spree at Naseby. At a meeting of Ohrietchurch Volunteers, last nigh), resolutions were passed opposing any division of the Government grant to the New Zealand Riflo Association.

A Y0V8& mnn named Matson was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday suffering from the eiFVots of a fall near Helensville on Saturday. He was crossing, on a sapling, from a Bmall into a larger tree, when tho gnpling broke and he fell 4'Jffc to the ground. He is progressing favorably. At a meeting in Wellington last n;ght, a Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed. The Governor presided, and the resolutions were moved by Sir VVm. Fitzherbert, Hon. B. Stout, Mr Traver?, and Hon. Mr Waterhouee. Mr Howard Vincent, who is n, member of the Roynl Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anima?s, also addressed tho meeting.

It is not often that four years elapae before a practical joko is discovered, but t-is appears to have bfen the case in a certain instance which has just come under our notice. We were shown to-day apaper which Mr A. Forrester says he found a day or two ago in a bottle floating in the Waihou river, near Charlton's. The paper is somewhat the worse for damp, and bears this legend—"llth September, 1880= —Thrown overboard from the B.s. Riro Bdro, on the Waihou river. Bread and cheeee nearly done ; just broached the lust bottle of beer; don't know what, will become of us before reaching civilization ; nothing left for iv beside potatoes and cheese, and but little of that. No whisky, no beer, and what is worae, we have all been raging lunatics for two months. Several incurables thrown overboard, along with all the dend marines. 12th Sept—On a snag, but all hands saved ; the captain's conduct was very courageous.—Axex. Hcg<J, (or all that's left of him). —By his attorney, J.S." Perhips some of our readers may remember the identical trip on which the above piteous appeal for rescue from starvation was made. " Warbior," of the O'ago Witness, writes that Beach receives £500 to give a series of rowiDg exhibitions in New Zialand.

A TOTJKa man lianaed Frascis Campbell, a carpenter living with his mother and brother at East Invercargil), committed suicide on Saturday by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He bad been sufferiog from ill-health for some time past, and this, coupled with the sudden illneea of his mother, appears to have unhinged his mind and caused him to seek refuge from hia troubles.

The following requisition wae despatched to Warden Kenriek ye the proposed leasing of the Wttiorongomai tramway:—" We, the undersigned members of. Piako County Council, hereby r/quest you to refuse to sanction the sale or lease of Waiorongomai goldfiold tra ■ way by tha County Council until after the general election in November next, in order that the opinions of the electore on the Bubjett may be fully represented in the Council before the taking of such an important, step.—(Signed) William Chepnell, Chables | Gouid, Edwabd K. Coopsb " Mr Kenrick yesterday tel ugraphed to the County Chairman, b.ut that gentleman replied to the effect that he considered the ground of objection insufficient to justify him in interfering. BiaiEDY ? c Habd Times. —Stop spending bo much on fine clothes, rich food, aisd style. Buy good food, cheaper and better clothing, and etop the habit of usi'-g expensive or quadfc doctors, or humbug medicine that doss you only harm, but put your trust in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies, Hop Bittprs, that euro always at a trifling coat, and you will see better t,mo£i and good hcahh. Bead Skinnt Mrs.—" Wells' Health Renewer " restores health and vigor, cures Dy«p*p-ia, Impotence, Debility. Moses, Moss, and Co., Sydney. General Agents.