The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1591, 18 March 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1875.

for tlie cause that Inclcs assistance, For the wrong luat needs re -isU'iace, por the future in the dis-tunc". AhS the good that we can do.

Sir George Grey arrived from Kawau yesterday evening at half-past six per the Lady Bowen, and was received on the wharf by the members of his committee and a considerable number of others who greeted the coming Superintendent with cheers. At a meeting of members of committee subsequently held at the Star Hotel, where Sir George is staying, and at which he was present, arrangements were concluded respecting the visir. to the Thames, and the meetings to be held there and in Auckland. >ir George Grey will proceed to the Thames to-morrow morning, a considerable number of the members of the committee and others accompanying him. The public meeting there will be held to-morrow evening, and George Grey wdl return to town on Saturday. As intimated in another column the meeting with electors in Auckland will be held at the Choral Hall on Monday evening, commencing at 8 o'clock, and a3 doubtless is generally known the nomination, and we trust also the election of Superintendent, will take place on Wednesday next at r;^e Mechanics' Institute.

■"S. will be seen from another column, the nomination of a successor to Mr Hillies in the Representation of Auckland City West Will take place on Saturday week, the 27th of March. It will be obs"rverl that this is an alteration from the day as announced in this morning's papers, for our respected Returning Officer, Colonel Balneavis, in oblivion of the fauts anl festivals. had fixed on Good Friday as the dale for nomination. We understand that in selecting Friday ho had been influenced by a desire to avoid interfering with the Jewish Sabbath ; but in avoiding Scylla, ho fell into Charybdis, and dropped upon the great Christian fast. There being no help for it the event has been postponed for a day. Thi3 being the seat for which Sir George Grey was invited by requisition, there will be no contest ; the storm clouds being gathering around the second teat vacant iv the same constituency, the writ for the election to which has not yet been issued.

By pressure on our space we are obliged to bold over two leading articles, and a number of local paragraphs, and general items of news.

The meeting at the Lome-street Hall to-night will have an additional attraction in the presence of Sir Georg° Grey in the chair. We have no douht he will be surrounded by a large number of his friends and supporters, not all of whom, we feel confident, :;re water drinkers In fact, many of them we know like their tipple dearly well ; nevertheless they will be happ3^ in helping on the good cause of Templary so far as their presence and snppoit to the chair can promote this object. As Mr Fox and Sir George stood face to face in battle array in the days of old, it will be pleasant to see them fraternising in the peculiar circumstances, the one retiring from the field of politics and the scene of many a hard fought battle, the other donning the armour and stepping forward ready for the fray. Bless ye my children.

. _An adjourned bankruptcy sitting? was to have been held before the acting .Registrar, T. Kissling Esq., this morning, hut at the time appointed Mr Kissling came into Court and stated that he had received a telegram from his Honor Sir George A. Arney, Chief Justice, informing him that his Honor would arrive by the Wellington early to-morrow, and would be prepared to hold a sitting at 11 o'clock. The whole of the cases were again adjourned until that time.

Another large batch of diggers for Ohinemuri, arrived by the Mikado this morning. We trust that they will find sufficient inducement to remain at their new destination.

A singular story of jealousy and revenge comes to us from Sicily. A beautiful young girl named Fiorina, who was the belle of a travelling circus, in which she figured as the lion tamer, had been for some time receiving the attentions of an athlete belonging to the same troupe. By some means she ascertained that he was not faithful to her, but had another lady love. JNo signs, however, of her painful discovery were allowed to escape. She still smiled sweetly upon him, but responded coldly to his ardent caresses. In her own bosom she planned a terrible revense. One evening recently when the performance had been unusually brilliant, after Fiorina had whipped the lions and forced them to lie at her feet - she called her recreant lover aside and said to him : "Do you still love me ?" " Always," he answered. "Do you know that I should die if you should devote yourself to another woman?" "What an idea !" replied the youDg man. " But I should first kill you," said Fiorina. "And how would you do that ?" " Thus," cried the girl, at the same instant pushing him violently into the cage of the lions. They attacked the unfortunate man at once and tore him to pieces, while Fiorina urged them on with blows of her whip.

Many remarkable persons occasionally turn up in connection with art and literature, but who are not publicly known as such. A son of William and Mary Howitt was living in the South a few years ago where a brother of George Odger still resides. Knox the Edinburgh Professor of Burke Hare notoriety recently died in the province of Wellington. The veritable Kdward Oxford, who shot at her Majesty in 1840, was once a soldier in Auckland under the name of Cleary. He recently died in Australia, and now we find that the original of Dolly Varden is at Blenheim. A writer in the JNew Zealand Mail, says : - " Who would bave thought that the English girl who gave Dickens tbe idea of Dolly Varden, and who sat for the well-known picture, should now be living at Blenheim? Yet, so it is ; and she was present at the Bey Charles Clark's late lecture there on tbe works of the popular novelist, who made so great a favourite of pretty and wilful Mrs Dolly Varden, the goldsmith's daughter."

Two days since we published a compla nt respecting a closet erected over an old well in Victoiia-street. Whatever may have been the basis or otherwise of the complaint, we are pleased to know that yesterday the old well was filled with clay right up to the top, and we are sure that neither the complainers nor anyone else will desire that we should further go poking about the contents of that old well. Let them R.I.P. The Hon. William Fox who is now in Auckland preparatory to proceeding to England via San Francisco, will ad<ire?s a public meeting at the Lome-street Hall at half-past seven o'clock this evening', in advocacy of the temperance cau^e, for which he has fought so earnestly daring many years within and outside the legislature of the colony. 4 most remarkable shark adventure is recorded in the telegrams from our Dunedin correspondent, as having occurred during the last trip of the Eliza McPhee, while on a short trip off the coast of Otago. We do not remember to have read of any similar occurrence in connection with a shark, although instances of swordfUhes driving their spears through the bottom of a vessel are by no means unknown. The sea monster which attacked the Eliza McPhee must, from its size, have been a white shark, designated in scientific parlance Carcharias vulgaris. This species has been known to attain a length of nearly forty feet. The jaws are capable of enormous expansion, and are ariiied with six rows of triangular-serrated teeth on the upper jaw, and four on the lower one. Its voracity is insatiable, and this, in conjunction with its immense power, renders it the most formidable inhabitant of the seas. The following is the rota of attendance at the Petty Sessions on Tuesday next, the 23rd instant :—Messrs Heane, Yon der Heyde, Home, Hurst, Raultain, Isaacs, Jervis. Kenderdine, Kenny, Luckie, Macfarlane, May. Mitford, and Morpeth. Captain Daldy, chairman. We are informed that Mr Costello, ono of the competitors for the Irish Jig dancing at Ellerslie Garden? yesterday, obtained the second prize. We inadvertently placed him third. Mr Lannigan has now nearly completed his contract for filling in the inner intake in Mechanics' Bsy. The intake is wholly reclaimed, bub the Work requires levelling up, which will be done about the end of next week. We must congratulate Mr Lannigan upon the business-like manlier in which the contract has be6n carried out. The fine weather has been made the most of, and few contractors have shown more vigorous prosecution of their undertakings. It has only occupied live weeks to reclaim this large area of land, notwithstanding the fact that some time ago the Provincial Government authorities forbid Mr Lannigan taking hi 3 filling in material from the adjacent Parnell hid We understand that the injunction ha 3 now been withdrawn. The cricket match between the "Law" nnd the "Outlaws" yesterday, terminated in favor of the " Lav.-," by an innings all hut two runs. In the first innings O 5 the "Outlaws" only ten runs wee made This has been erroneously put down as twenty, Marsh having been unduly credited with a 1 before his cypher. They followed their innings with better effect, as Cadman made the respectable score of twenty, and some other contributions coming in, fifty-two runs were put together. The "Law" were not called upon to get the required two, which were "understood." Mr Rees played Old Harry among the Outlaws st.u'rip?., the disturbances in tlieir timber yards being threat and frequent. He took nine wickets. A scratch game in which Mcsrs 'avies and Garland were the respective' captains, wound up the day. Garland's side made 81, and I'avies' 38. Rees again took aU the wickets but one. The fielding of T. L. Whi c was excellent throughout. The Colonial Bank will shortly open a branch here in the premises lately occupied by the National Bank, adjoining tho New Zealand Insurance Company's building. Mr Warren, the Inspector, is shortly expected here on an ofiici d visits. The meeting of creditors in the estate of William Henry .'••haw, of Onehunga, wis adjourned until Wednesday next, as no creditors were in attendance. The bankrupt's liabilities were set down at £173 Is 4d; assets, nil. Mr Beckfnm being encaged at Hamilton as District Judge, tlie Resident Magistrate's Court will not sit to-morrow ; all cases will be adjourned to Friday, 2ud of April. Mr. Brown, fruiteiv-r, of Sydn.y House, next to the Australian Bank, has made a reputation by his exquisite Canterbury cakes, which are delicious in flavour and light in character. His later improved cakes are especially adapted for invalids and young people junt recovering from the measles, as they are tasty and easy of digestion. Writing with reference to the funeral of the late Mr Swan, M. P C, "J. M," says :— " Sir, —I attended Mr Swan's funeral yesterday, and I can but make one remark that only his personal friends assisted in committing his remains to the ground. Mr Swan it appears was a dissajiointed man. He had talents beyond the ordinary capacity of humanity, but they were not recognised, possibly by his adhesion to certain political views from which he would not deviate to become a disciple of anyone. Like a foregone conclusion he died penniless. The son of a minister of the Gospel (with all his faults) was not followed to the grave by one of his fellow-Provincial Councillors. Had Mr Swan held a billet under Government, which during life he despised, then his remains would have been honored as they ought to have been. I am not one of tho3e who endorse the commitment of men to join in any funeral, but I will state that Mr Swan (with all his faults) ought to beve been represented by at least one member of the Provincial Council. Such is life. One member recently passed from us received encomiums— another is disrespected and followed, as I have stated, by a few friends who admired his abilities and yet had the charity to forget his imperfec- i tions.— ISam, Ac, J. M."

The Sultan of Turkey is the most extravagant monarch of Europe. He has seven hundred wives, who are attended and guarded by 350 eunuchs ; and his expenditure is £1,250,000 a year. These figures are given in a series of letters from Mr Thomas Brassey, the well-known M.P., who has been making a cruise in the Bosphorous. If the Sultan attends to his enormous household, without reference to the cares of state, he must be the most hard worked man in his own lungdom.