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Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2711, 28 December 1878, Page 2

The strike embroglio in N. S. Wales is developing into serious dimensions'. The Anglo-Saxon blood is fairly up, and the Heathen Chinee -will have to look to hisi pig-tail, if not to his yellow skin. Particulars of the recent riot in Sydney, ■which we print in another column, show that the strikers are not disposed to confine their operations to the passive form of striking, and Star special cable dispatches received to-day, indicate a stlil livelier development

of the active mood. The revolveris coming into play. The A.S.N. Co.'s steamer Wotonga, having on board a Chinese crew, has been fired at from Pyrmont, and Captain Stuart, and the chief engineer, and steward have narrowly escaped being wounded or killed. Verily the plot thickens. By and by Sydney may experience a repetition ot the Broadhead outrages, and Orsini bombs may appear amoug the imports of Port Jackson. The threat of the office-bearers of the Seamen s Union to resign if violence be used, indicates that they apprehend danger from exasperated feelings of the workmen. The exodus ot Mongolians from China arises from the pressure of famine and social demoralization. It has a parallel, on a smaller scale, in the intense desire existing amongst the masses in England, weighed down by the incubus of commercial failures, and trade stagnation, to escape to these new lands where there is, in the words of the Irish emigrant, " room and work for all.',' The Chinese question will have to be settled by legislation. The colonies will not tamely submit to be saddled with the oilseourings of China because of some old International Treaty made purely in Imperial interests.

" Woman's at best, a contradiction still," Ayrote Pope ; and if he had lived afcUtah, he would have been strengthened in that opinion. For instance, take that mass meeting of about 1,200 persons, described by an American reporter as "mostly old aiid polygamous wives," held in a theatre in Salt Lake city in November last. The Gentile women had held an anti-polygamy meeting a few days previously, and affirmed, in a series of very nicely-turned resolutions that monogamy was a Divine institution, while its anti-tpye was an invention of the Evil one. The " old and polygamous wives" naturally regarded this as a slander upon their characters, and were up in arms. In the excited state of their feelings, it is not surprising that they used strong language. "A woman moved is like a fountain troubled," wrote one who "knew the stormy souls of woman-kind." While one of the' female orators was " on her legs," she was interrupted with the remark, "You're a liar; Brigliara Young was a prophet of the Lord," but no melee resulted from this emphatic contradiction and prophetic assertion. The meeting proceeded with its business in that orderly manner which is characteristic of such assemblages, and unanimously passed resolutions' affirming that "no American citizen could be legally deprived of his oilier constitutional right"—meaning, _we presume, the right to marry as many wives or husbands as an exceedingly elastic code of morality and a facile Divorce Court admit of. The meeting also avowed its belief "in the doctrine of the patriarchal order of marriage—a doctrinn which, if lived up to and carried out under the precepts pertaining to it and of the higher principles of our nature, would conduce to the long life, strength and glory of the people practicing it." Reading the report of this meeting, one dees not know which to wonder at most—the horrible degree of social degradation, and perversion of all the nobler instincts of women which a long period of brutal subjection and mental darkness can produce; or the extraordinary political callousness of a country which views such a blot upon its political and social system with comparative indifference.

{gjjTntelligence was received by the schooner Edith, which arrived this morning from the Islands, of the death of Mr John Cruickphank, brother of Mr David Cruickshank, of the firm of Cruiclcshank and Co., of tins city. The deceased gentleman had been for some years past engaged at the Islands in connection with the business of the firm. General regret will he felt in Auckland at his death by his many friends. His widow and family Averelon board the Talisman which was wrecked on the way to Auckland from the Islands, hut she is expected in the Mazeppa, which is expected in a few days hence. The Premier and the Narive Minister will probably visit Wangarei next week, and on their return will go to the Thames. Mr. Sheehan will afterwards go to Waikato.

General regret will be felt at the announcement that Mr. W. H. Kissling lies dangerously ill, aud is not expected to survive many hours longer. The Thames Naval Brigade having arrived from the Thames for the New Year holidays are to have v church parade tomorrow ; and a notice appears in our advertising columns for a muster of the Auckland Naval Brigade. Both Brigades will attend church together. " Heady-money Robinson" has the reputation of a New Zealand Crcesus. A writer in the "Sydney Mjul," referring to the opening of the Amuri Plains at £25 per 100 acre farm by the New Zealand Company many years ago, says : —" About that time a gentleman named Robinson, who has since become well-known under the cognomen of "Ready-money Robinson," came over from Adelaide. He went to the Land Office and took up 100,000 acres of the Amuri Plain for £25,000. He was offered £350,000 for it a year or two ago but declined it."

A newspapereditoratßochester, America, declined to answer as to the authorship of an article that had appeared in his paper, on the ground that it would seriously injure his business as a publisher. The Court sustained his objection. The use of gas engines, began some four or five years ago in England, has been extended to these colonies, and some of them are now in operation in the South. In Auckland a few firms have decided to try the experiment, amongst others Messrs Schmidt and Co., and Messrs Fisher and Co. We believe these engines are found extremely useful where only small motive power is required. The eccentric editorof "Enoch," discoursing on " Things in General," in the last number of that publication, refers in the following cheerful prophetic terms to the prevalent weather :—" The heat of the sun is becoming fiercer and fiercer all over the earth. The summer heat in another twelvemonths will be scarcely bearable, and yet we are onlj at the beginning of the period when " the elements shall melt with fervent heat" and the surface of the earth be burned up. Accidents, as they are called, already fill whole countries with woe, and presently will so increase as to fill the earth with horror. Suicides and other atrocities of madmen increase at an alarming rate, and society in some parts of the earth is in a state of disorganisation. Notably in America, where in some places, such as California, men do very much as they please, and there is no law to restrain them, for judges take bribes, thus the administration of justice becomes a dead letter. Droughts and famines and pestilences abound, pestilences among men and cattle. Miluows and other blights, with plagues of insects, also affect the vegetable world, and are on the increase in new forms unknown previously, putting the pastoral man and the agricultural man to their wit's end. All the above and very much more of a similar character we gather from the world's journals."

A meeting of Roman Catholics of the city and suburbs will be held in St. Patrick's Cathedral to-morrow, at 3.30 p.m. to consider the school question. Jtiev. Father Henneberry will deliver an address. There was a good attendance at the Ponsonby Hall yesterday evening, to witness the All Saint's Christmas Tree and entertainment in connection with All Saint's Church. The entertainment will be continued this evening with a promenade concert.

At the meeting of the United Service Lodge, 421, I.C, held at the Masonic Hotel, Bro J. Goodacre, W.M. ; Bro W. J. Suiter, S.W. ; Bro B. Holmes, J.W. ; Bro J. W. Melton, Secretary ; Bro F. Eoycroft, P.M., Treasurer ; Bro H. P. Hargreaves, S.D. ; Bro J. Sime, J.D. Bro J. Haalett, J.G. ; Bro Porter, Tyler.

A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School is convened for 2 p.m. on Tuesday next.

. The RiWans are st| to be gtrengthenmg the feHincationsf-widin, Silistria, and .other fortresses Bulgaria, and increasing the garrisons.| Messrs T. ant S. M n the Auckland agents for MeCtomcU Woods' celebrated reaper and V?machines, inform the public that a lri| f one of these machines will take fei in Mr Good . fellow s paddock Pap| oi on Tuesday next, the 31st at 3o * Farmera and others interested in thej^. esß of agriculture are invited to be pl^ Tlie tield of wheat in which the tn^n, take place is an excellent crop, so \ the reaper will have a good trial. I The united Lodges, S- o f Newton No. 4, and Sir Henry Havel oj\j of 211.0. G.T., accompanied by friends^ the number of nearly two hundred prdjdecl on Boxing Day to Brown's Islan^ the schooner Energy. They held sa f resco picnifc. The Victoria (Good Tern;,) Band played selections during the tr% n fl O n arrival, after the good things » been properly discussed, officiated for |uadrille party held on the green.

A committee of the H<e o f Delegates has. rejected a proposal introduce the Bell Punch system, on tl|rouncl that it would stimulate esjrionag" the meanest and most degraded of all .ii an motives."

fc^Six thousand persons | sa id to havn travelled on the Welling tramway on Boxing Day. jj

At the Tararu Races . Jerday Venus won the Plying Stakes <h ease. The weather was line, aud theses were a success. ■

The 15th February, ir; a d ot the Ist January, has been appoin[ f or finishing the valuations under the i, ac l Tax Act, and the date of payment extended to May 16t.1i. We learn thajhe valuations are in a forward state, exceiu some of the couutry districts.

The Darrell's are said to ive taken as much as £230 at Wellinju on Boxing Niyht. The performance \\l" Henry V."

Horrible scenes are repfed: from the famine-stricken districts in Bna. Here is what one of the disfcributor&rrites of the condition :— "Up fo the pHit time the people contented themselv|with citing those who had died, but nofhey kill the living in order to have tlfy for food. Husbands cat their wives, pafts, eat their sons, and daughters and chifgn cat their parents." Women and girls ft sold at less than two dollars apiece, and jjman flesh is offered for sale in the mart*. Writes another: " A mother, ajr haying with her husband, eaten'her little boy, six years old, Vbm they had themselves killed, prepaitalso to cut the throat of their little darter, eight years old. The little girl bejj to weep at the sight of the fatal knl and the neighbours arrived just in tie to save her." (Note by Pere Aymer. Sometimes parents, so they may not betheselves horrible executioners of their cbicen, agree <vith other parents —I will kill* child'for him, and lie shall kill mine.")|ifc is the same story of all the provinces 3 |d bodies of men combine to attack the srller ham-

lets, not to rob them of treasurer seek revenge for wrongs inflicted. Lifally and truly they go about as "wolves!' seekiag whom they may devour."

The tenor inspired by ye|w fever horrors in New Orleans led to soes of the most horrifying description. Coses were hastily interred ■without medicsexamination, and it is believed thatscorepf people have been buried alive. In cc case a woman was apparently dead, tying had black vomit, and was hurriedly V§hed and shrouded. The hearse backed p to the door, and the coffin was placed ojrthe bed beside her. The friends wereprowded around the grave in the cemetery when a rumour reached them from the Itzse that the supposed dead -woman had rimed to life, and the rumour was verified "When the attendants were about to placie body in the coffin, tlie woman had turfd over, and striking her hand against fe awful object on thejbed, asked : " Whf box is this?" Strange to say, she appear! better after her re-awakening, the bla| vomit, did not reappear, and she recovered The Hobson Company and Bandfill give a farewell party to Mr Wadeson onfuesday evening next at the Albert HalfDarbystreet, previous to his departure foEurope by the Lebu. ,: • What with the Orsini bombs, revolts, find daggers :of the Internationalists, Jropean monarchs and their Ministers must haj rattier a lively time c-f it. "Truth" says:', Prince Bismarck is ia little better case thau hirnaster. Like him he receives anonymous thatenincf letters by the thousand, and he is comjlled to take the most stringent preeautionsagainst assassination, both in town aud countrj' The Russian Cruiser Committee'hjpe dissolved the plan for the formation of a"iatriotic Fleet." A classification of vessels bs been made, ranging from SCO to G-OO tit?, and numbering about seve.nty. It is intin&d that the ships shall be employed in Kuropiaiiwaters and in the North Pacific. I ■

Referring to Mr Sh^ehan's rema-kfto the prophet Te Whiti that he had "spocea like a pettish child," "Peripetetic" in ttie"Sydney Mail" remarks:—"This may be resided as a nineteenth-century equivalent for "so ip, thou bald head!" and the Native Ministefer New Zealand would do well to keep a sliam bok-out for she-bears." Does '''Peripatetic " oitan the wahines 1 I y '

We are desired to ma'e the followiigcorrections in our report yest< May of the ponsonby Grammar School. 2nd Form: Frenih Prize, W. Wilkinson. 3d Form : 2nd Drawng1 Prize, J.Kane. 2nd Form : Average, Fraud? Si. The religious services at the several flurches, and at the Theatre Royal,. to-morvow(Sxnday) are announced on the third page of tht present number. | ;.

A Cricket Match was played on the End Cricket ground on Christmas Day, bdiwaen a team of Youno; Aucklanders and tht' Surrey Hill C. C. No, 2. The former scored atoial of 79 in their two innings, and the latter 75; Messrs 18. Tonks and Co will sell on Monday next at II o'clock the entire of that raliable property lately held by Hon. C. Taylor, toitprising 15J acres of the best situated Jani in Remuera, opposite St.. Marks Church, \ and within a short distance of the Preslytirian Church. The property is within a few lunlred yards of the Newmarket Railway statioi. I j Mr. George Sibbin will hold a clearing out sale of boots and shoes,, on Monday nexti on tie premises of Mr. Green, to be sold in tradelots. (SeeAdvt.) \ \ The Papakura annual Races will be tield aa. January 29th, nominations to bemadebyFridaj, January 3rd, 1879. The following are the successful nunibaß drawn for in the Melbourne Champion. Rkci. last night :—2l, Sunset; 25, Proposal; 42, Calaaia. 72, Tim Whiffler filly; 114, Philistine; 133, Nappe: Tandy; 169, Cap-a-pie; 264, Woodlawn; mi Robinson Crusoe; 271, Emerald; 360, Chester; 415, Warlock; 424, Vulcan; 426, Bosworth; 451. Martindale; 456, The Rover; 464, Wellington:. 465, Bohemian Girl; 469, Lockleys;. 514, HylliB! 521, Riverton; 523, First Lord; 531, Roland; 559. Pride of the Vale; 589, The Vagabond; ofe; Lord Burghley; 613* Nerissa; 622, CoongooH! 643, Japan; 646, First King; 677, Jacko' Lantern 684, Bordeaux; 687, Soothsayer; 763,.Odd.Trick; 771, His Lordship; 820 } Roodee; 845, Cowardice; 927, X.C.8.; 939, Earl of Mar; 996,.]50n CarlosJ j A meeting of footballists is to be held in the m the Thames Hotel on Tuesday evening next,, to consider a letter received by Mr T. Henderson,, relative to 'a projected visit to these colonies of an English football team.