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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1663, 17 June 1875, Page 2

The communications of our Maketu correspondent who has furnished the public with the only reliable native news from that district, seem to be a thorn in the side of the Barf of Plenty Times, which is continually publishing leaders for his exclusive edification. The moat recent case is a contradiction by our Tauranga contemporary of the telegram that thf Native office was not represented at Rewi's meeting at Maketu, which the Times emphatically denies, and referring to our corespondent says: "We cannot refrain from expressing our regret that one of the leading papers in the colony should continue to avail itself of the services of this individual." Now we know our correspondent to be thorougly reliable, in a first-clasp position for obtaining information, and what is most important of all, not under the influence of the Native Office, which has caat its baneful shadow over the East Coast We would' retort by remarking that it is greatly to be regretted that a paper usually so sensibly snd well conducted as the Times should allow itself to become the medium for defending a little peccadillo which it must be as familiar with as we are. If Mr. Hopkins Clark desires to shew that the Native Office was represented,he should write an account of his tour, explaining how the time was spent at the next station to Maketu and along the coast, and especially those days in the Maori whare at Maketu on the return journey. We usually leave Bay of Plenty matters to the local journal, excepting so far as they are referred to by our correspondents, but if these unjustifiable contradictions are to go on, we shall have to sacrifice a little of our already overburdened space to the task of letting light in on certain little proceedings down there.

An impression has got about that the twoheaded calf, now being exhibited in Queenstreet, is the well-known animal belonging to Mr Perkins' Museum of curiosities. Ifc is no such thing. The calf now on view is one of the greatest wonders ever seen. It is in the best of health, and eats with both mouths and sees with all four eyes. The four-footed fowl is of the male sex, and crosses his hind pair of legs and sits on them like a tailor.

The following is the rota of attendance at the Petty Sessions Court on June 22 :' Messrs W. A. Graham, T. M. Haultain, D. Hean, G. Yon der Heyde, J. H. Home, W. J. Hurst, E, Isaacs, H. M. Jervis, T. B. Kenderdine, W. H. Kenny, G. S. Kissling, D. M. Luckie.

While cases of distress, arising from the death of the bread-wianer of a family, are so frequently pressing upon the attention of the public, we would again call special attention to the Government industrial insurance policies. We are glad to hear that Mr S. Worms, Secretary of the Templar Benefit Society, who is the Auckland agent, has been most -successful in making known the beneficent provisions of this system of insurance, and that there are already a large number of policy holders, while several other Good Templar lodges are preparing to ..participate. One or two examples of the benefits of this, the working man's system, par excellence will suffice. By paying one penny per week a man thirty years of ago may secure £7 16s, or funeral money, at death ; by paying sixpence a week, he will secure to his widow and family £4616s ; and for one shilling a week £93 12s. The tables offer inducements even to men of the ripe age of sixty years, who for a shilling a week may secure to their heirs £34 16s at death.

The regular monthly meeting of the Masons of the Prince of Wales Lodge will be held this evening at the usual hour in the Masonic Hotel.

We are requested to remind ratepayers who desire to appeal against valuations of city property, that written appeals stating the ground of appeal should be forwarded to r-he Town Clerk's office before noon of Tuesday next. Ratepayers, who give written notice, can also be heard in person.

To the Editor: Sir,—ln yours of last evening you notice that Dunedin and Chriatihurch are no better off than Auckland in the matter of earth-closeb. If it were not so, it would be a matter of great surprise to me, seeing that they draw'their information from one well. It has been my lot to have no mild xnathemas, rung in my ears by persons who only know the earth-closet as it is exhibited in Dunedin or Auckland. Sir if the object was to thoroughly disgust the inhabitants, and make the°m gladly accept the watercloset at any price no matter how, no scheme could be devised that could so effectually acccomplish it. Against such an object, any amount of authorities faourable to the earth system which may be produced can only have the effect of raising a low gurgling sound " Push on the water works." The harbour was sent fnv to be made the cesspool of Auckland.—l am, &c, Noter.

Jesse Pomeroy, the boy who has been subjecting smaller children in Boston to excruciating tortures for some years, has been sentenced to be hung, by the Judge before whom he was tried and convicted for the murder of the boy Millan. This youthful felon confessed that in addition to torturing several children he had cruelly butchered and murdered one Kato Curran. It is said that while the Judge was delivering a feeling address, nnd pronouncing the highest sentence known to the law, no person in the court-room seemed to appreciate th* solemnity of the occasion less than Pomeroy himself. During the proceedings he preserved that calm, stolid and indifferent manner which characterised his appearance during the trial —not moving a muscle or seeming to care for the fate which awaited him.

The Rev E. S. Hassard, incumbent of St Matthews, will this evening, deliver the third of his interesting course of lectures on the history of the English Church, in St. Matthew's school-room, at half-past seven. The subject of this evening's discourse will be the " Reformation, or the period of Henry the Eighth and Wolsey," a most striking epoch in English history, and one which would take many lectures fairly to illustrate, but Mr Hissard's object in these pithy discourses is not so much the elaboration of history, as the hope of inducing young men especially to read, mark^ learn, and inwardly digest the facts of history, and draw such lessons therefrom, as shall be of service to them in after life.

A Newton correspondent writes :—" Sir : The advocate of reform, and so far as your able pen extends, the corrector of abases in town and country. I wonder that in your own caustic style you have not exposed the naked deformity and the gross mismanagement of the Post.-iffice department. It appears strange that letters are delivered by a carrier in Grafton Road and Parnell, while there is nothing of the sort in the more important suburb of Newton. This rap:.dly rising district, bo anxious to be embraced in the fostering arms of the city, is permitted to remain neglected, and with the unwedded spinster to sigh and sing— " Nobody naming to marry me, Nobody coiping to woo." This would be a fit subject for the member, a] well as for yourself, and I am not without tiopo that, with his energy and your eloquence, this crying evil might be remedied. I do not overrate the serious inconvenience which the inhabitants suffer here from the want of a post-office delivery Letters of importance have been known to lie for months strangers to whom they were addressed calculating on a delivery such as that enjoyed by more highly-favored district". The Postmaster cannot be blame! for the detention, but one thing he ought to do : to present letters to the parties when they call, and keep a list in tho window (or outside the door) of all those for whom letters lie in the office unclaimed. —I am, &c, Pko Bono Publtoo.

A woman rode home from a ball in Boston on a recent cold night, and the driver, upon hearing the door of the carriage open and shut, supposed she had alighted- He drove away, without having got down from his seat, and left his carriage standing as usual outside of his stable after caring for hi« horses. The woman who had been drinking freoly, had not got out of the carriage, and was found in it the next morning frozen to death..

The Hibernicon Troupe arrived here by the Ladybird to-day en toute for Sydney. They have been very successful in the South.

The quarterly meeting of the Royal Albert LodGe will be held on Friday evening next, at 7.30 p.m., in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association.

" A home without children is like Heaven without angels," says a deacon. We just want to have him get out of bed four times a nijkht for a month, to keep a baby's legs covered up.

Miss Christian's concert, previous to that lady's departure by the Cyphrenes, will take place to-morrow evening. The programme of the same appears in another column, and shows the high class character of the projected concert. The quartettes, instrumental, are from the living folios of Hayden and Mendelssohn. Musical and vocal trios will be given, the first, "Oh, Memory," by Miss Christian, Mrs Mitchell, and Mr Toole ; the second, "The Hawthorn in the Glades/ a beautiful specimen of modern poetic composition, will be sung by Mrs Mitchell, Miss Christian, and Mr Brett. Mr Tole, ono of the most interesting of our local lingers, will sng that taking ballad, " Sally in onr Alley," the only claim on oublic favour being its lively burden of the merry inhabitants of that dingy London alley. We notice further that- Miss Christian will give two noteworthy Bongs— "The Lime Trees by the River," and that much-admired old metropolitan ballad, "The Bailiff's Daught r of Islington," which was one of the chirms of musical circles of the days when Fielding occupied the magistrate's seat in Bow-street, and when Goldsmith held lodgings in Canonbury tower The ever beautiful duet, the "Sainted Mother," will be given by the leading ladies of the concert. Mrs Mitchell will sing her exquisite, pathetic ballad. "Who can Tell?" which finds a response in many a heart o'ercharged wi' love ; also that charmiHg lyric, made musical by Hatton, entitled " Her heart was in her Song." The" Chough and Crow" will be re-introduced by worthy hands; and the whole will conclude ' with the national anthem. Mr Joseph Browne will conduct the musical department of the concert.

The Key. Peter Mason has commenced evenirig classes in the Western Academy for instructing young persons in the classics, mathematics, and English.

Speaking of the travelling of sound, a lecturer said : " The voice of a woman can be heard further than that of a man." " Yes, and oftener," said a disgusted looking man, who was not happily fixed at home.

A couple of ralley farmers recently came into town, and sat down on a box in front of a blacksmith's shop to talk over some business. One of them was heard to say—" As I was saying, you can have the four-acre lot for—whoop ! Thunder,and blazes—ouch —dash it —gosh all firelocks !" and he danced around for two or three minutes before the piece of hot iron he had eat down on dropped from beneath hia coat-tail to the sidewalk, and the bystanders found out the cause of apparent lunacy. .•

The Pokeno settlers will notice with pleasure that tenders are called for the erection of a commodious goods station at Pokeno. We also learn that a good road is to be formed to connect the station with the Great South road, .so that the district will have no reason to complain of inconvenience arising from this cause. In reply to a correspondent who wrote on the subject a short time ago, a settler informs us that the present site w*s approved by a majority of thesettlers at a public meeting, as the most don veriient to the bulk oi the settlers in the district.

Another number of the Waikato Times is to hand,- and shews still furthur improvements Speaking of the significance to be attached to Mr Vogel's absence, our contemporary says:—"We shall not be far wrong in assuming that the Premier's visit to the German baths will furnish an opportune avenue of escape from an awkward dilemma. His colleagues will be iv a position to crave the indulgence of the House for any immature and indifferently digested scheme they may bring down, and at the worst, should the Provincial party pin the Government to their pledges of last session, good grounds will be afforded for a dissolution, and an appeal to the country upon tLe most popular platform the Ministry could take." We are sorry to hear that a good deal of Sickness prevails in the Newton district, and no doubt many poor families suffer much distress in consequence. Mr A R. Martinson, chemist, of Karangahape Road, authorises us to state that he will supply medicine gratis to any poor and deserving person living in his district who brings him a certificate from a medical man testifying that his circum stances will not permit of payment. This charitable act is deserving of recognition and imitation, and we have much pleasure in making it widely known through the columns of the Stab.

During the interruptions in Mr Whitaker's speech yesterday, his Honor Mr Justice Gillies spoke in terms of great commendation of the accounts made up in the estate by Mr John Waymouth. His Honor has before remarked upon the clearness of Mr VVaymouth's statement of accounts in the estate.

The Whangarei Comet and Northern Advertiser is a surprise We were quite unaware, aad we believe the public generally are also, of. the importance of this Northern settlement. The lasr issue of our young contemporary contains a budget of news of interest to the district.

The Pitt-street Weeleyan Young Men's Mutual Society holds its winter musical and literary entertainment to - morrow (Friday) evening, at half-past 7 o'clock. These entertainments are now proved to be of a first-class character. They are not got up to make money, but as a pleasing close to the session, aad are most attractively and even expensively got up. The coat is only Is, and when it is remembered that apart from the musicial and literary treat, nearly every person receives almost a Is woith of refreshments, which is generally of a lavish character. A rehearaal was held a few evening's ago, when the programme submitted was really a capital one. The choir has been hard at work for some time, and have prepared various new pieces. Mr McMaster has volunteered one of his inimitable Irish impersonation—Handy Andy, the Irish letter-carrier. The affair will be held as usual in the Pitt-street Wesleyan suhoolroom. The Khedive of Egypt wants to borrow £15,000,000 at 12 percent, interest payable monthly, just to get rid of a little doating debt he has of about the same amount.

In the courfe of a case brought by Emanuel, the London jeweller, it was shown thafc he charged £4000 fo- a necklace which was valued by a Paris jeweller at £1500.

The steeple of the Chnrch of St. Nicholas at Hamburg, which is 472 feet high, is now the highest spire in all Europe, overtopping the spire of the Strasbourg Cathedral by six feet.

The Judges of England, with one or two exceptions have unanimously pome out in favour of flogging as a means of punishment. Chief Justice Cockburn thinks that Hogging should be extender! to cases of violent assault; Justices Blackburn, Mellor and Lush, from practical observation take a similar view. Mr Justice Quin says that flogging is the only punishment, except the punishment of death that seems to retain any real deterrent power about it. Baron Bratnwell believes that crime branded in this way would soon become odious. With such eminent authorities in its favo- flogging may once more become common in England. * It is very easy to speak of glorious manhood, and a fine thing for glorious manhooo to Jive in a country where it can pass its leisure hours in cutting throats, kicking the life out of helpless womanhood, and doing deeds of which a Soko would be ashamed But when glorious manhood has forfeited its right to look an honest man in the face, when its ruffian hands are stained with blood, and its eyes wild with the fury of the wolf or tiger, it seems to the eye of English justice only right and proper that it should be disgraced ; that shame, if nothing else, should be called into requisition to couvince it that its puny strength is but a reed in the hands of justice.

The shareholders in the Red Queen G.M.Co. who have not paid the calls now due are told as per advertisement in another column that the shares will be forfeited, if not paid for by 25th June.

We have received for the widow of the late J. C. Sextie £1 (one pound), from W.D.

On the vexed question of pheasants, a correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times writes :—One day last week a pheasant was shot in the neighbourhood of a field of green oats infested with caterpillars. On opening the crop of this bird no less than 155 caterpillars were counted, also some crickets and grasshoppers. What an enormous number of insects would be destroyed by a dozen of these birds in ten months ! When it is remembered that there are only two months of the year in which pheasants can do any mischief at all—that is, sowing and reaping times. They may be a nuisance, but they really do a great deal more good than harm to the farmer.

The practice of bleeding calves to make the meat look white, has been very properly condemned by the Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, both on account of the pain thereby inflicted on the poor creatures and the injury done to the public health by the use of this dry and innutritious article of food. A distressing case of this kind of cruelty has just been shown up in Liverpool, where quite a number of calves were found with pins in their necks undergoing the painful and exhausting process of bleeding. Some of these poor creatures were lying down in a pool of blood, while others were being beaten and probed over the body with a pointed stick. A vigorous prosecution of tkese torturers is being made, and it is to be hoped that an end of the barbarous practice will be forced.

Photographs have been obtained in Paris four feet three inches long by three feet four inches in height.

In consequence of the prevailing inclement weather, the monthly parades for the month of June will take place, in undress uniform and without arms or accoutrements, as follows :—ln the Market-house : Tuesday, 22nd, at 7.30 p.m., Aitillery Company, Hobson Company, Victoria Company, Scottish Company ; Thursday, 24th, 7.30 p.m., Engineer Company, No. 2 Company, A.R.V., No.^3 Company, A.R.V., Naval Brigade. Otahuhu : Saturday, 26th, 8 p,m., Otahuhu Rifle Company. Albert Barracks : Tuesday, 29th, 12.30 p.m., Grammar School Cadets. St. Matthew's School, Hobson-street: Tuesday, 29th, 7.30 p.m., Engineer Cadets and. St. Matthew's School Cadet Company.

The late Mr David Burn was buried at the North Shore to-day. The funeral was to be at 3 o'clock. The shops in the district, as well as several in the city were partially closed, out of respect to the deceased, and many flags were half-mast high. This is another old settler gone to his long rest.

It will be seen by ottr Wellington telegrams that the City of Melbourne with the last San Francisco mail reached San Francisco on the 6th June, three days before contract time.

A middle-aged woman of unsound mind, named Oonstantia Johnson, was brought up from Gisborne this morning for admission into the Asylum. Her husband, William Johnson, is a labouring man, and states that his wife's unhappy condition arises from religious fears. She has recently undergone what is termed " conversion," and has since had a continual dread of the future before her. She will be examined by two medical men, and probably will be committed to the Whau Asylum.

Mr Ferrier late accountant of fthe Bank of New Zealand, was a passenger by the Pheebe to Dunedin, where he takes the post of Assistaat Manager in the Dunedin branch of the same Bank.

iJAnd now the head of the family, returnin^ from his " club" through the sharp midnight air, gently rolls his sleeping spouse* over to the cold side of the bed and sinks softly into the vacated spot with a sigh of thankfulness.

The entertainment to be given by the Hobson Band Minstrels, to the patients of the Whau Lunatic Asylum, comes off this evening.

"The people of Wellington," says the Dunedin Star "or some of them, at all events, have lately had their minds exercised with regard to Joshua and the Battle of Ajalon. Quite a lively discussion on the subject has been carried on in the New Zealand Times. One would almost think on reading the letters in the (Times that the said battle wa9 quite a recent event —that, in fact, the news of ichad been wired to Australia, and the cablegram had been brought to New Zealand v by the last mail steamer." This reminds us of the Yankee who expostulated with a Jew for being concerned in the crucifixion, and then when told that it occurred nearly 2,000 years ago said it might be but he had only heard about it "last night."

Colonel Trimble, who arrived in Auckland by tae ship Dunedin, seems to have been the victim of newspaper correspondents. The Wellington Times says :—" It is rather hard that unoffending travellers should suffer because telegraphic agents misdirect their accivity and men mistake their vocations. A Coionei Trimble, in an unfortunate moment, for himself, left England to settle in &qw Zealand. He came to Taranaki, looked about him, purchased land, we believe, and then came further south to view the colony. He did this in peace and unostentation, so far as he was personally concerned, but the telegraphic agents could not let him alone, and started sundry accounts of his movements around to the papers with that curious persistency, cnaracterisfcic of telegraphic agents, which makes them ferret out unimportant items and neglect those of interest. So Colonel Trimble's name began to appear regularly in telegrams ; and the ignorance of who he was drove wild some agreeable fellow or another, who, having got to§ write for newspapers when he should- have been chopping wood, pitched into the Colonel with a jocosity of style about as ponderous as would be the waltzing of an elephant. It is a pity that the telegraphic agents, when sending news of Colonel Trimble did not send something; about who he was, else they would not have earned this punishment for him. The consequence of their neglect; have been unpleasant for the Colonel. WesympatbisewithColonelTrimble, but we also sympathise with the people who got angry because they did not know who he was. We can conceive of nothing more aggravating to aoy one, about whose notoriety ihere can be no possible question, than the continual publication of a name he himself knows nothing about. But we desire to administer comfort and to relieve ignorance. Therefore, we may mention that Colonel Trimble, it is said having served in the British army for some time, resided in Liverpool where he obtained a lieutenant-colonelcy in a volunteer or militia regiment. On leaving Liverpool for New Zealand he was entertained at dinner by a number of the leading citizens, including the Parliamentary representatives. Evidently he was a man somewhat; esteemed in a by no means insignificant city. That being the case, those who are angry because they do not know him are likely to have further cause for wrath. If the facts be as we have stated, they are. very unlikely ever to make Colonel Trimble's acquaintance."

An ambitious Milwaukee wife has named her first babe Zero, because it is nothing to the number she expects to have.

We would remind bidders that the lease of the new Market-house will be offered for sale for one year from the lst July next, by Mr R. Arthur, to-morrow (Friday), at noou, at his sale rooms, Queen-street.