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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3960, 9 April 1883, Page 3

The Botomahana will leave for |the Thames to-morrow (Tuesday) at 3.30 in the afternoon, instead of 5.30 as advertised. The total sura collected to date here In aid of the sufferers by the floods in Germany is £109 15s 9d. This has been remitted to the German Consul at Sydney. This morning, the steam launch of H.M.S. Diamond, with two gunboats were out having target practice off the Worth. Head. Despite the lumpy sea and gusty weather which prevailed, they made very good practice indeed, The Sunday law is being strictly enfored in Saxony. The Minister of the Interior has ordered that in future workmen employed by the : Government shall rest on Sunday and the magistrates of towns and villages are prohibited from haviDg work done on a Sunday which can be done on any other day. The police are instructed not to allow peasants to to work on Sunday in the fields, carpenters to ply their trade, sailors to load or unload ships. Hunting and other amuse: ments, by which Divine service might be disturbed, are prohibited; and especially military shooting parties are no longer allowed to practice with music on Sunday morning during the time of service. Noisy amusements are interdicted and all beer saloons and dance halls are put under police surveillance Saturday night and Sunday to preserve some decorum, according to religious ideas. The political situation is briefly summed up by the " Lyttelton Times Yin a receut issue. ■ Onr contemporaiy pays the situation is peculiar, as all the friends of the Ministry are steadily abusing it, and adds : —" The Ministerialists have found out at last that Mr Whitaker is too conservative for them, which considering the length o't time that star has been shining in the political firmarient, is rather bard.' They nave found out, 'too, that the Premier ought to be in the Lower House, forgetting the acclamations which they bestowed on Mr takerwhenheobtairiedthePremierehip. The rest of the Cabinet are sow and useless, and, with three exception?, unendurable. Mr'Bryce is endurable for his luck,' Major Atkinson is endurable because he wastes ■ his own and the public time in fads, Mr ; Rolleston is endurable for pome occult ' reason best known to his Ministerialist tiaducer?. It is all very funny."