THE STANLEY EXPEDITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 140, 14 June 1888, Page 4

THE STANLEY EXPEDITION.

The Dark Continent seems to have a wonderful fascination in the way of luring men of noble character and aspirations to make it the scene of their labours, and too often, alas! the grave of their hopes. Livingstone and Gordon met their fate while engaged fighting the battle of Civilisation and Science against dense ignorance and debasing slavery; and now Emm Bey and Henry M. Stanley appear likely to prove martyrs in the same high cause. Emm Bey, who describes himself as " the last surviving officer of Gordon in the Soudan," declares his unalterable determination to remain at his post of duty, whether the Stanley relief expedition reaches him or not. In a letter which has recently been published in London, he writes :—

" I am sorry to disappoint your kind wish that your letter may find me safely arrived at Zanzibar, and I may as well tell you that I have been greatly amused by the doubts expressed by some papers if I would stay or leave when Mr Stanley arrives. I think there can be no doub.c that I shall stay, and I wonder how anyone could suppose the contrary. I need notdwell on the reasons for my decision. Would you desert your own work just at the dawn of better times ? Since my last letter to you I have been able to resume the regular turn of affairs, relaxed somewhat by the events you know. I have inspected our stations and erected two new ones. ' I have pub order everywhere, and our native chiefs have been consulted. The crops for this year are luckily abundant. The cotton plantations, yield very fairly, and, altogether, things look now more brightly than before.' . . . . In the interest of the Uganda Mission, I am very glad that Mr Stanley chose the Congo road for his expedition. He will there encounter numberless difficulties, arising mostly out of the soil to go across, yet he | will, . without doubt, succeed in vanquishing them ; while, coming by Uganda, he would never have obtained permission to come here except by sheer force, besides imperilling the life and work of the missionaries. Once provided with the necessaries, I deem it not at all difficult to open a direct road to the seacoast by way of the Lango and Masai countries."

"When the Stanley expedition started, and while it was "on its way, we expressed the opinion that it would fail .of its object from because Emm Bey's attitude, and ventured to hint that it might even become necessary to send relief to the relief expedition. There is no reliable news as to whether Stanley has reached the man whom he was despatched to rescue; but that his expedition _ has been sorely in need of relief at times is undoubted. The latest information, which we publish to - day, comes in the 'form of a direct appeal for aid to prevent the extinction of Stanley's reserve force, under Major Bartellott. They are dying of starvation, according to the Major's own statement, and if such is the case it is futile to indulge the hope that any effective relief could possibly reach them at their great distance from civilisation. They seem doomed to die m the wilderness, like many other actors in the melancholy tragedy which has for years been proceeding ro Africa— the tragedy of Christian self-sacrifice for the sake of a despised and downtrodden people. Strenuous effort, unceasing P»JP r» and all the resources of wealth and civilisation appear to expend them-

selves upon the barrier ofTT^""** barism with as gfe^ produced by the oceafi ■" is upon a giant cliff S The darkness cannot for I? anHetonous over the light hi. L c Vlc" doubts are not unreason !ii Grave tamed of the i^tSSS ent«followers, and X ,•?^ «* 1* the power of Africa's 1 \ 1 &!o{ slavery- that the devotedVC*' -^whathecoifet

The funeral of the late Mr S Rr_ took place yesterday, the remain??!^ interred at St. Andrew's CemetrTk^ The cortege left the r. _._£_.!7_ 80"----mediately after the hearse was tl^' .Im" containing the chief H3&3BW B. Browning and Jas. Russell n,l Ksrs S-son-in-law of the decif^wW mpurmngcarriagesfollowed. iS'^, ot friends present were M««t9> Clark, B.L. Murdoch A X V''McCosh Firth T. Morri. W S ram T^>J..C. Canning, Thos. Buddie, L. D Nat_ X Hill J. Baber, J. M. She a, G PV& ft "I?' % Payten- Gardnei W. Crowf' T. M Haultain, Reader G. Wood T wS' Jas. Dilworth, J. M PhilsT t wreaths of white flowers Me__™w:i and Hall conducted the a^Sts An action of some, importance, as bearin. on the employment of boys hired fS Kohimaramalndustri a r'School,waßdeS at the Papakura R.M. Court on fiX last, by Captain' Jackson, R. M plaintiff was a boy named. Chadwick, 2 the defendant a settler named Wylie to whom the plaintiff had been "licensed" out from the school. After the £V some years, Mr Hogan, master of th school wrote to defendant informing h™ that the boy was relieved from control of the school, and enclosed a letter to Chadwick to the same effect. This letter the defendant suppressed, and the boy remamed ; under the- impression that his wages were being forwarded to'the school It was when he applied to Mr Hogan for his accumulated wages that he learned how he had been deceived, and thereupon brought this action to recover the amount T" r?! 3 l^L gave -i^Rnent- fir plaintiff for £36 10s 9d, and costs £7 .3. U is probable that a similar action will bo brought against, another employer at a a early date. >~;,. ,;

B is at the hearth that the government of China is really carried on. The family in China lias the power of passing judgment on any of its members for an offence, and can sentence the. delinquent to whipping, extte. and excommunication.' Prom the decision of the domestic tribunal au appeal is permitted to the ordinary courts of justice* but it is unusual for an appeal to ba made. Such is. tbie respect paid b. the Chinese to their traditions that tiers are few who do nob submit at'onoe to;the sentence passed on them by their family. No punishment inflicted on a Chinaman can be more terrible than exclusion from the family. Socially he becomes an outcast, and driven from'tte shelter bf his ancsstral home and the 'protection i;of: the spirits of his ancestors, he wanders in search of employment all over the, world; and it is the thousands of these ah.nd.ned ones, Viho, ib is said, 'flood, the • American and colonial labour markets. : "■■•• x.-v...'::-.

An accident oi a most gSfltttta nature happened ab7Whatawhata on, Tuesday to a native woman .named Minama. Whilst riding along the main road a dog flew out at'the horse she'wasriding, and she was thrown violently to the ground; the horse rolling over her. Her right knee appears to be out of joint, and the right collarbone is smashed', whilst .tie whole; right side of the body is more- or less bruised and injured.: Dr. March has been sent for, and will bring splints,, .etc., to fix up the injured parts. In all probability the woman will be removed to the Hospital ln'Hamilton. ' • •

The mining interest, of Queensland are to a considerable .extent controlled by former citizens of Auckland, from a paper published at Ravenswood, we learn that Mr A G. Peace, late bfiliis city, is manager of the Centennial" Battery Company,at the Kirk di-reinss, • where mining is so -MX itself within three months.' £wg heanne of'an application, for-a rnmW-1 SI was'shown W Peace ad^ nosed of a quarter share-in his mmc to a Eydneysvnkate,wboliadundertatoto nut smelting' furnaces'on the' ground to a diSor of several mining compan.es a the same district of; Queensland. | ,

Mr I. P. Macandrew, of Waikare, neat Mohaka, made some interesting expe 3 last season with a view to « g value of lio-ht pumice soils. -He plouguw Ind fenced in about eighteen acres, of ground? and sowed it wfeturn^ S with the ig reen.top variety a other half with the P^Pl^" 6.g, was exceedingly poor, being; a ibm gg of very light black earthi^*| n & sand. In its natural state ttjjgg grew some scan y fern and^ew^ of manuka scrub. The turnip b ever, grew variety especially show °X dr _ ba3 At the present time Jgjggfefc amagnincentcropofenormousgt ; He has thus solved^ the quest on v best toultise lAf^pSgS* garded as absolutely useless.^ Next b» Mr Macandrew intends to W-JlffijgJ h9 Country in the same way, i f*™* ioK . be successful, it requires no propnet tell the brilliant future ye* m «tore oi Taupo and other deserts m the HW, this island. J;." ■,■ ■~ ." xxi ,_j a y AbtheOnehungaPoliceCourtyeJJJ Erederick u Mcßriertyl^ggggrt riding a horse on thePu&" c _ V Woad Epsom on the Auckland and Onehun| onthe2ndJuneinst HngMj.*" Arthur Hooper, Joh£ r^_\\s ocMf with a similar offence, au y . and were find 5s and costs, fc.^, At Otahuhu Police Court, beg JB John Fairburn wd^SSjW Charles Kent, a yo .^^W^k with stealing certain doJJJ^ line at Otara, the P™PW^M and was sentenced to two .w. labour. i5.,..0n triil-'" It is said ttot-m^jffiiiftri made to the Mangere Lie« Q^ license of a house to be "JgJ » _ Sao* but on the Mangere ftefiS* &s&**: Road, part of Otahuhu being to. gere Road District. ff _o General G. W. J^sSSWH arrived by the *$]$&BS_mm yesterday, proceeded « 9 sjf this morning, and will return^ ve fof the Thames on Saturday.^ Won W England, per s.s. Zealand ° and Ca next. Messrs H. H- «. ;! . 0 p have arranged their trip .^9 Aroha, and lor the r oy« B fe through America by fe Gg&#gj ° route, for which thiafiim »«6W" New Zealand. ;. ' ■, xi^'-x-'^A''

*r_ Qnnrerae Court yesterday after- * twEon, Crown Pi— tor #V!L Honor if it was possible to fix the **& hearing the charges of false ties0 ___es iainrt ABher and several natives. pretences j 0 gaid anofcDer long horseafter Howell's, and the ca-es #** ff: ra ce Wood (breaking and enter-ttagain-t Hand, Arthur and Crack--iTfdefended, were likely to occupy Dell,bf_f the week. He also understood '.V"f, the. difficulty night arise in obtaintbatf hirv seeing that the panel i». a.. n ]:JJ and Mr Hcsketh intended *asS°.f himself of the privilege of *" ,'-_!__* " His Honor replied that he "f P,dv instructed the Sheriff, in acX . «i-th the provisions of the Act, to COrdf,rdeiurors called for to-day, and that YtJd be enabled to get on without SE such as had occurred previously. dely .irl he inconvenient to commence the KltSmmZ till the end of the week SE could scarcely yet fix a special Editor: Sir,-Why are our Har Jhalations so different to other i *In Wellington steamers are not __»& to render day and night hideous •?h h rrid screechings, to the annoyance A Action of the public who live on 1 iaWd-more particularly invalids, __Vre awakened at daylight with noise 42 to cardie one's blood. Is it not !•! ye at least followed other places in ZuYma reflations for both harbour and PJ Slaving some regard for the public .mence 9 Or must we ever be content ipemain behind other cities.-Yours, etc., ApVASCBR. ITo the Editor : Sir,—A misleading statement appears in Mr Harvie's letter on the '5$ tariff in relation to coach- building. He l s tha. the trade is at a disadvantage of 10 ncr cent; as compared with the old tariff, which is notin accordance with fact. Take far example, a buggy valued at £20, which would cost the importer £4 duty ; whereas the manufacturer has to pay 15 per cent, on the imported parts, which we will presume, for the credit of the manufacturer, to be Lilly unfinished. Say these cost about £7 the duty would be £1 as compared with «motec-ion of £1, leaving him 15 per cent, clear, exactly the same as before.—l am, etc/OESEBVEK.

A new industry, and one that ought to remunerate the owner, is the " Paris Japan Blacking Manufacturing Company," which has been started in Drake-street. The Company have erected a large and complete Plant, and are now turning out a blacking that ought to largely shut out the imported article. It shines well, rapidly, and lasting; and if patronised in Auckland as it ought, ffould keep a vast amount of money in the place. Wholesale orders received at the factory. To the Editor : Sir,—At the present time there is a proposal to bring forward a Bill entitled the "Fair Rent Bill," its object being to compel corporate bodies to make reductions in rents receivable, provided the same can be proved to be excessive, the remedy proposed being a re-valuation and adjustment for a term of three years. This i.; a moat important measure, and good lews for many, but it appears to me to be only a half-hearted step. Why confine its object to corporate bodies only ? If it is to he the law, why any exemption ? Imagine two allotments side by side, of equal value, one owned by a corporate body, the other by a rich syndicate, leased to two different people; one man could obtain a reduction, the other none. This would be law, but nob equity. Trusting that some of our members will notice this.—Yours, etc., C. H. Ormond.

The entertainment ab St. Matthew's gift suction will be of a most attractive character, for in addition to pianoforte solos, songs, etc. >_ Mr Hudson will give an exhibition of the "talkiphone," whilst Dr Walker will contribute, for the first time in public in Auckland, his new and original itep dance.

Tic " devil's own " were well represented atthe Industrial Association meeting re the tariff held last evening. Among3t those who addressed the meeting were Messrs Devote (Mayor), Thorne, Oliphant and "W. Cooper, and others who might not have been expected to take very great interest in the fostering of local industries. Mr Otto created a laugh by remarking that " the bridge was never mended till the bishop broke bis neck," and Mr Thorne admitted that even the lawyers now felt the pinch of depressed times, and were anxious to give protection a fair trial.

The subject of Mr W. H. Webbe's weekly lecture at the School of Music lasb nighb was "Expression," which he breabed in an able, lucid, and interesting manner. After having explained the meaning of the terms form, style, character, time absolute and relative, measure, chord, arpeggio, and pointed out the signification of the leading Barks of expression, the lecturer went on to insist upon the necessity of all the marks of expression in a piece of music being carefully studied before the performer attempted to sing or play it. He also enlarged upon the confusion of ideas caused in England and the colonies by the common error of using time and measure us interchangeable terms, whereas they were radically different. In America, and on the continent of Europe, such a looseness of terminology was not tolerated. Finally, the meaning of the three forms of musical accent—metrical, rhythmical and expresnonal—was cleverly explained. During an interval in the delivery of the lecture Mr Webbe and Miss Gilmour played as a pianoforte duet the overture to " Tancredi," and at the close Mr Edmonds sang Mr Webbe's song "Madaleine."

• i Professor Herbert, the well-known prestioigitatenr, accompanied by his agent, Mr Drake, and Mr Waite, jun., returned to Auckland by the s.s. Wainui on Tuesday afternoon, after a hijjhlv successful seven-months tour of the" South Sea Hands. They started for Tonga in November last, and played there one ,j". hfc to a packed house in the Supreme Court. Thence they proceeded to Samoa, and played for six weeks to good business. Tahiti was next visited, and for tve weeks they gave three performances a^ week to crowded houses, while at the dose of tho season the Mayor of Papeete teat Professor Herbert a complimentary letter, of which the following is a translation :-•< Papeete, 28th February, 1888. I Pay homage to the merit and to the talents "J Professor Herbert, who, upon the occason of the evening party given by me, executed, in presence of bheir Majesbies *ac King 0 f Tahiti and the Queen 01 Bora-Bora, as well as in the presence of several high functionaries and eminent persons in the colony, several specimens of sleight of hand with very l«markable celerity and ability. Interlf^ r of the sentiments of my guests, I •Wress their most sincere thanks to Prof - Herbert for the pleasure he procured them j™TOg the course ot the evening, and of Wjjoh they will retain a very agreeable rejection, and I add their hope that he may and in all places meet with a like "*eption as he has had amongst us.— wgned) Cardella, President of the From Tahiti the party Proceeded in the French man-o'-war Scorff New Caledonia, where they performed J two weeks to capital houses. -Jje remaining two months were spent at J 1! where performances were given in rW part of the country. In fact, Fiji £¥ never been so thoroughly " toured " by gProfessional troupe before. Professor i,j^ert is now en route for Sydney and '^ourne, but before he leaves he will v sat' ? r Performances in the Opera House wsfactory arrangements can be made. {JV&kvJ. S. Hill, who has been away i"°-e on three months, returns to Auck- «".***• V pv* . tlies.s. Wairarapa.

Wc regret to announce the death of Mrs Glover, for many years principal of the well known ladies' seminary in Upper Symondsstreet. She has been an invalid for some months past, her ailment being of a cancerous nature, and for the past six months she has been calmly anticipating her cud. Mrs Glover was a lady in the highest sense of the word,and her high culture and excellent example have left their impress on most of those who were educated under her. She was an accomplished musician,and was for many years connected with the Choral Society and St. Sepulchre's choir. Before her death she made arrangements for the carrying on of the school by Mrs Dr. Young.

It has been proposed by Mr H. M. Sheppard to change the name of the Auckland Industrial Association to that of the Industrial and Protective League of New Zealand, with the object of cooperating with similar institutions throughout ihe colony and combination to look after the mutual interest of all in supporting a protective policy.

Permission has been obtained to use the paddock in Government House grounds on Saturday afternoon next for a match between teams chosen from H.M.S. Egeria and the Devonport Navals. The Naval band will be in attendance.

Insurers will no doubt be interested in an advertisement in another column of the Canton Insurance Office. In it this office notifies the payment of a bonus of 20 petcent, to all contributors of premia for the year 1887. As a substantial balance has been carried forward, doubtless this will be largely augmented when the final adjustment is made next October. This same office paid 25 per cent, last year for all business done in 1886, and as it gives much larger bonuses than any other offices it is unnecessary for us to point out the benefits gained by all who insure with it,

At the Supreme Court this morning Horace Wood was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for stealing from a dwelling, Thomas Kennedy to 18 months' imprisonment for horse-stealing, and Edward Howell 12 months for the same offence.

For many years a large block of shone resembling bluestone lay in Carlton Gore Road, opposite the residence of Rev. H. H. Lawry. This was recently broken up and carried away, but a fragment of it having found its way into the hands of Professor Thomas, that gentleman discovered that it was totally different in its nature from any hitherto found in the immediate neighbourhood of Auckland. Much curiosity is felt as to how the stone came to be there, and this point some "old identity" may be able to set at rest. A sample of the stone has been left at the Star oflice, where it may be inspected by those interested.

Captain Edwin wires 'at 1.30 p.m. today : " Expect north to west and southwest heavy gale within 12 hours. Glass, further fall.; indications, rain."

At Grafton Road Church last evening, a meeting of a most interesting character took place, it being a welcome tea meeting to the representatives from the Australian Conference. An excellent tea having been most generously provided by Mr John Burton, to which upwards of 300 sat down, all adjourned to the church, where the meeting was presided over by Mr Thomas Buddie. Interesting addresses were delivered by the Chairman, Rev. W. L. Salter, Rev. J. A. Tavlor, Mr F. A. White, and Mr J. Burton. At intervals during, the evening the choir, which was composed of those from Parnell and Newmarket, as well as Grafton Road, rendered in a very effective and pleasing manner the following anthems: — "I will lift up mine eyes," "The Lord Descended from Above, " I Will Sing of Thy Power, 0, Lord," and "Hearken Unto Me, My People." The speeches as well as the singing were thoroughly enjoyed by all present, indeed the meeting altogether wasmosbenthusiasbioand successful, and boreapracticalresuitin adding to the thanksgiving fund nearly £40 during the evening. Votes of thanks to the ladies, the chair, and also Mr John Burton were moved by Mr James Groom, and cariied with the utmost acclamation, after which the Doxology brought a most pleasant evening to a close.

A number of people in Auckland who take an interest in. scientific research, and deeply sympathise with the loss of Mr Reischek through the destruction of a valuable case of specimens on the Government sbeamer Stella, are petitioning the House of Representatives on the subject. They urge that, as the loss is one for which no legal compensation can beclaimed, the Government should give favourable consideration to the matter and afford Mr Reischek such assistance to prosecute his scientific labours as they may deem fit. The petition ought to be largely signed.

Twenby-four additional common jurors were sworn in ab bhe Supreme Court this morning, bo overcome the vexatious delays previously experienced through the panel occasionally being exhausted before two full juries were obtained.