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Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1307, 16 April 1874, Page 2

A Provincial Government Gazette was published to-day containing a notice of Mr H. D. Morpeth's appointment as Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, vice Mr H. 11. Turton, resigned. Also a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Government for the quarter ending .'slst March, which shews that the disbursements were £21,382 l'2d 4d, and that to meet this, in addition to the expenditure of £8,675 lis Bd, balance from last quarter, an overdraft at the bank of £3,15u 8s Sd has been incurred. The expected new theatrical company arrived by the s.s. Phcebe this morning from the South. They will appear on Monday night at the Prince of Wales Theatre according to advertisement. The company consists of the following ladies and gentlemen : —Mr and Mrs Searle, Mr and Mrs Simruonds, Miss Clara Stephenson, Mr South, Mr and Mrs Booth. Mr Thos. Henderson's cargo boat the Tartar has been engaged by the Superintendent to maintain the necessary communication between the ship Dorette and the authorities in Auckland. An experienced man, lohn Wood, is r in charge, assisted by another. Tho boat is to go down to the island of Motuhihi every morning and return during the day. She took her departure for the first trip this morning. The communication will be kept up under very stringent restrictions, and there will^be no personal contact with tho infected ship. Every letter brought off will be subjected to a scries of disinfecting processes, and stores taken down will be left at an appointed spot, from whence th_y will be afterwards conveyed by the Quarantine Station Superintendent. The last vessel placed in quarantine in this port was the Tyburnia, which came into harbour with reported small-pox on board, some ten or twelve years ago. On that occasion the passengers were landed on Rangitoto, and had to live in tents, the present buildings not being then in existence. Mr Landers was then engaged to look after the wants of the passengers, and to make reports to the authorities. We are glad to state that the nuisance caused by the Parnell soap works has been removed. The open ditch down the hill along which the soap lyes used to run' in a

smoking, torrent has been done away with, and drain pipes laid down to carry off the refuse from the factory. Mr Allender has always shewn a commendable desire to carry on his business so'that it shall not interfere with the comfort of his neighbours, and this is only a fresh instance of it.

An interesting piece of intelligence comes from Poverty Bay. The Standard, the leading local journal, says :—" A timely addition to local requirement has been made in the erection of a pump." The addition is timely. There are one or two people in the district who have gone there specially with the view of sowing dissension among the residents, and we would auggest that an example be made of them by placing one under the spout of the recent erection and plying the handle vigorously. The proprietor and conductor of thePoverly Bay Herald especially suggests himself as a subject of this purifying operation. If the pump is put to its proper use the lload Board will undoubtedly, as the Standard remarks, " deserve the thanks of the community for this great utile boon."

The thanks of the ladies'acommittee of the Home for Neglected Children, Newton, are presented to Mr Allan Taylor and Mr flatter for presents of fruit, and to Mr Brackenrig for, racily volumes of books as rewards to the children, also to Mrs Webster for a large parcel of clothing.

The following is an extract from the civil list which is annually voted by the English Parliament: —Princess Royal (Crown Princess of Prussia), £128,000 ; Prince of Wales, £400,000; Princess of Wales, £100,000 ; Prince Alfred, £105,000 ; Prince Arthur, £30,000 ; Princess Alice (of Hesse), £72,000 ; Princess Helena (of Schleswig, &c), £42,000; Princess Louise (of Lome), £12,000; Princess Mary (of Teck), £13,000 ; Princess Augusta (of Mecklenburg-Strelitz), £90,000 ; the Duchess of Cambridge, £90,000 ; the Duke of Cambridge, £270,000.

i - A Victorian squatter, Mr Donald Cameron, has found journalism anything but a paying speculation. He took shares in the Town and Country Journal and the Evening Express, and in the course of a few months lost £13,000 by the venture.

The gentlemen who form the committee in connection with All Saints' Sunday-school have determined upon a series of lectures for the purpose of providing the choir with a harmonium. The first lecture will be given on Monday evening, the 27th instant, the subject will be " Milton, tho man and the poet," with musical accompaniments by the choir. Other discourses will follow on " Our Coalfields," " Travels in the South Sea Islands," &c. We believe this series of discourses will edify and interest the young men and women of Ponsonby, and go far towards the realisation of the needed harmonium.. The members of the Auckland Harmonic Society will meet for practice this evening in the large of the Young Men's Christian Association. The selections will be from the' best works of Handel, Mozart, and Haydn. The interesting Sunday-school panorama, recently from London, will bo exhibited this evening in the Grafton Road district schoolroom (Mr Martin's). The scenes will illustrate the Arctic regions and whale fisheries, and will be described by a competent lecturer. Wo notice that Messrs B. Tonks and Co. will sell to-morrow afternoon at the watermen's step 3 the Sea Gull, a smart little yacht of four tons and well found. An old Parisian beggar, famous for his success, thus explains the business rules to which, he says, he invariably adheres: "I never ask alms of any one who has dined, as roshi f renders a man selfish ; nor a stout man, as it bores them to stop ; nor of any one putting on his gloves ; nor of a lady alone ; but always of any one manifestly going to dinner ; of people walking together, as their amour propre makes them generous ; of, officers in grand uniforms, and of people apparently seeking favors from the Government—they think that a gift will bring th_m luck." A London telegram under date February 17 says : " Dr Beke, the English traveller, reports that he has discovered the true Mount Sinai. It is situated a day's journey north-east of the village of Akaba, Arabia, at an altitude of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. Dr Beke says he found the remains of animals that had been sacrificed. He also discovered Sinaitic inscriptions, which he copied." The question as to which of the peaks of the Sinaitic peninsula formed the "Mountof God" of the Bible narrative has divided travellers and geographers for many years. At one time the south point of the ridge known as Jebel Musa was supposed to be the mount on which Moses received the law ; then the Jebel Serbal was assumed to be the true Sinai, and still later the Ras Sassafeh was supposed to fulfil best the conditions of the Biblical narrative. The problem has been to find a peak isolated enough to admit of tho space around or in front of it required for the great encampment of Israel, and to render it possible that the summit should be in view of the entire congregation at the same time, and all the points hitherto selected have been open to objections on this score. Dr Beake may have succeeded where so many others have failed, but it will be well to await the data on which ho bases his belief before accepting it as conclusive.

To the Editor : Sir, —I hope you will let me make a few remarks in your valuable paper about Mr. Burnside.^ He said the doctor told him he was going away. He might have done that, but he told me that he was only going away for afortnight, and that his brother would attend to mo and the patients ; but a few days afterwards his brother slithered away to Sydney, and the place is to let. Now Mr. Burnside said he cured him. He might have done that, but it is not all over yet with Mr. Burnside. .Again, I know he can't cure everybody, but he took everybody's money away. He has cured about sixteen cases that I have seen, but he needn't have run away and left a lot of cases behind him that had been paid for. All I can say is that he did me no good, but he took good money from me. That's all I have got to say this time. I will he ready for Mr. Burnside next time. Yours, &c, One of the Patients.

At twelve soup houses, in New York, no less than 13,000 persons were in one day furnished with soup.

All tho Catholic congregations of New Haven, Connecticut, have united to promote the total abstinence movement.

There are over 14,500,000 of children of the school age in America. §95,000,000 are spent annually for schools, which is equal to one-third of one per cent, of tho property, real and personal, of the whole country, as returned by the last census, and 221,000 teachers are employed. The National Government has already set aside for educational purposes 140,000,000 acres of the public lands.

Captain McConnell informs the members of No. 3 Company of Auckland Royal Volunteers that a special meeting will be held this evening in the Drill-shed, and that their presence is requested as important business will be brought forward bearing on the future progress of the company.

The second meeting of Mr Brown's singing class will be held to-morrow evening in Cookstreet Oddfellow's Hall. We learn that eighty persons joined the class at the first meeting, and that no one will be permitted to join after to-morrow evening. We would recommend young persons who are desirous of improving themselves in the beautiful art of singing to become members of Mr Brown's class without delay; the method of Hullah is simple and, with attention, easy of acquisition.

To suggest horrors is said to be the most effective method of arousing the interest of a lover of sensation ; it beats description hollow. The following taken from the Wellington. Independent is not a bad sample of what is meant :—"A shark about four or five feet long was caught a few days ago by an angler at the wharf who had some difficulty in hauling him in. When opened—and sharks are usually subjected to that process—a child's bib was found in its stomach.

One of the most noticeable signs that winter is approaching is the fluttering of Autumn leaves in form, of hand-bills among the drapers of the city, announcing the important facts that Messrs Brown, Jones, and Robinson are making large sacrifices in clearing out their remaining stock of summer goods; or that tremendous bargains may be had during the next ten days at Messrs Lace, Satin and Co.'s ; or that Messrs Polyanthus and Primrose have to offer a large assortment of Manchester goods at extraordinary low prices. Such are the indications of coming winter in Auckland but in the old country we look to the yellowing elm leaves, and the hoarse cry of " walnuts, oh !" along the drizzly streets from the half-ventilated throat of the bawling costermonger for such is signs. The Vivian Royal Comique TroiTpe in conjunction with the Californian ministrels commanded a fair house at the' Prince of Wales Theatre last evening, and the various performers sustained their parts in a highly creditable manner. The singing of Mr Frank Verten drew forth frequent applause, as did the comic representations of Mr Vivian and the various dances by others. The performance, with a slight change, will be repeated tonight. .

Henry Ward Beecher makes the following touching remarks on the death of children :— " When mothers go down to look for their children in Greenwood; when companions go, in some lonesome hours in which the world goes hard with them, and sit in memory upon the tomb of those who have been so much to them, I would to God that they could look up and not down. Their dear ones are not in the grave. My children — why, they have never ceased twinkling, like stars, down upon me from the heaven above; and, though for other reasons I havo often been where they are buried, I have never made one purposed visit to their dust. My children—so bright, so full of promise, so full of sweetness, so full of everything that the heart craved—they rest with God, and my thoughts follow them through the air and not through the ground. Do you ever notice the dandelion when_ it first comes up in the spring, and is nothing but a mat of little, flat, and homely leaves lying snugly on the ground ?" A few days of- summer sun will bring out the plaited bud nippled in the soil. In a few days more it will lift itself higher, and open its golden circle. It is now born ; and so are our children born to us. Wait yet a few days, and that blossom if shut up. Its beauty is gone. Wait a few days again, and out it comes once more. But now it is an airy globe, white as pearl, an exquisite in form as no compass could score it. An ethereal globe it is. The wind could blow it away. And such are our children. They have gone from us, beautiful to the last. Through all ages they shall live, and bud and blossom. They have been wafted away to the celestial sphere,, where they are singing, and shall sing forever and forever. Sons of God are your children, and they are with God.

Dr. Tristram, Chancellor of the diocese of London, has refused a licence to erect a baldacchino over the communion table of St. Barnabas' Church, Pimlico, as an adornment, Mr. Bowron and other parishioners had entered a protest, and the matter had been taken up by the Church Association. In giving judgment Dr. Tristram said that after much consideration he had come to the conclusion that the proposed ornament did not come within the rubrics, and that it was not necessary or subsidiary to the service of the Church. It was not in the province of this Court to sanction the erection of an ornament that was not sanctioned, and as the law did not provide such an ornament to the communion table, it was not for this Court to issue a faculty to give greater -dignity and honour to the holy table than the simple dignity prescribed by the law. He should therefore refuse the application for a faculty, and grant Mr. Bowron his costs. It is expected that the vicar and churchwardens will appeal to the Arches Court.

The latest intelligence on the dock question is that the matter has found its way into the Attorney-General's Court.

To the Editor: Sir, —In Tuesday night's issue appears a local in reference to dust-box rubbish, in which you remark that it is assuming a magnitude that it was never intended when it was proposed to only collect shopsweepings. I don't know the inspiration of your remarks, but this I do know, that it is absurd to attempt to draw a line as to the "magnitude" of the sweepings. I suppose the contractor undertook to remove the sweepings of the city Jor a given sum. In London dust bins are cleared out regularly weekly, quite irrespective of amount and contents, unless they are of a decidedlyjimproper and foul nature. What are shopkeepers to do ? They are not allowed to remove yard rubbish themselves, and yet it appears it is not to be removed except at the discretion of the contractor. Moreover, I understand an absurd regulation will come in force to-morrow morning by which dust boxes will not bo allowed outside business premises after eight o'clock. Can the height of absurdity further go ? —Arc. us.

Messrs S. & J. R. Vaile notify by advertisement that the National Mart will be closed to-morrow (Friday), and re-open on Saturday, April 18.