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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 26 April 1893, Page 4

In reply to further inquiries made to-day, the Hon. R. J. Seddon wired to Mr Tho3. Thompson, M.H.R., that the Premier had! gob over both operations, thab he was as j well as could be expecbed and there is every hope for his ultimate recovery. Police Inspector Hickson, of Auckland, is still down in the Bay of Plenty district on police business connocted with the Urewera survey disputes. He is at present in tho vicinity of Ruatoki, up-country aboub 20 miles from Whakatano, on bhe borders of the Urewera country, and ho and his force have Mr Creagh and his survey party under thoir care. No further dispute of any consequence is anticipated, and it is expected thab the Inspector and his men will return to Auckland very "shortly. Ah neither tho debtor nor any of his creditors were in attendance ab the office of tho Official Assignee, this morning, no meeting in the bankrupt estate of Pierce Lyncb, butcher, of Coromandel, waß held.

Constable Parker, of Waiuku, reports that a five-roomed house belonging to Geo. I McPherson of that districb was burnt to the ground at three o'clock this morning. The property was insured in the Standard office for £80, thero being £60 on the building and £20 on the furniture The fire originated in the chimney. The loss is estimated at £50 above the insurance. This morning ab the Land and Survey Office land known as the Maungaturoto foresb (Whangarei county), on which timber' has been burnb or removed, w»s offered for lease for grazing purposes. The lease was passed in, there being no offer. Suburban lands ab Pokeno will be submitted on Friday morning.

The following resolutions were carried in the Wyoming (U.S.A.) State Legislature on February 16th of this year :—"(1) Beit resolved by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming bhat the possession and exorciaa of suffrage by the women in Wyoming for bhe past quarter of a century has wrought no harm, and has done greab good in many ways ; that ib has largely aided in banishing crime, pauperism, and vice from tbi_ State, and that withoub any violenb or oppressive legislation ; thab ib has secured peaceful and orderly elecbions, good governmenb, and a remarkable degree of civilisation and public order, and we point with pride to the facb bhab, after twenty, five years of woman suffrage, nob one county in Wyoming has a poor-house; bhab our gaols are almosb empby, and crims (excepb thab by sbrangers in bhe Sbate) almosb unknown ; and, a3 the resulb of experienco, we urge every civilised com. munity on the earth to enfranchise its women without delay. (2) Resolved that an authenticated copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the Governor of the State to the Legislature of every Sbate and territory in this country and to every legislative body in the world ; aud thab we request the press bhroughoub the civilised world to call bhe attention of their readers to these resolutions." The case against Edwin Latimer Clarke commenced yesterday was concluded today, when he was committed for trial. Bail was allowed in two sums, accused in £50, and a surety of £50.

In the course of an able speech on " Oar Educational System," at the Devonport Public School, the Rev. Mr Bates said the first impulse of many people ia to blame our educational system, and thoir one remedy for the evil ia to curtail the course of instruction. Very seldom does it occur '■i parents and adults that thay may them'vos be to blame for the foolish and harmnotions of the young. It is easy, therej, to make our educational system actly responsible for all. kinds of evils, tl and imaginary. No one, however, res to advocate openly the abolition of c system ; all that even the boldest assail)t '8 ask for is that the system shall io vigorously pruned, that only the V.8.0y. of knowledge shall be generally uighi^- A knowledge of reading, writing id aifithmetie is thought to be sufficient <■ the) masses. Why teach them drawing? hy 'teach them singing ? Say the iapugne.rs of public education, ib only make?, 'hem with their lot. Even he three It's are not devoid of lurking vils. One authority has said " that he jhree R's ara apt to produce

fourth R, to wit, rascaldom," ( r Bates then showed how the evil attriuted to the present system of education 733 in the defective moral training of the and the low or perverted moral dgments of the community, and said that o remedy for this was a higher and more Drough education. Education to be irthy of the namo muse embrace the lole of man's complex nature Its aim is the harmonious development of human iwers—the cultivation of man intellectliy, morally, and physically. At the Police Court this day. before J. .. Clendon, R.M., for drunkenness three first offenders were dealt with in the usual manner. Annie Best, an old offender, was sent to prison for 30 days, Sergeant Gamble having pointed out that it would be an act of charity, as the old woman had no means cf livelihood and no place of residence. The usual monthly meeting of Lodge Eden, 1530, E.G., was held in the Masonic Hall, Karangahape Road, last evening. There were a large number of members and visitors present. The business consisted of four initiations, and four brethren were affiliated. Attention was drawn to a paragraph in the last issue of the "New Zealand Craftsman " re Lodge Eden's return to its mother Constitution, and the secretary was authorised to write to the District Grand Master giving a total denial of tho statements made therein.

Tho Committee has to acknowledge with thanks the sum of £22 9s 6d collected in the Mangere district by Mr Robert Wallace in aid of the New Hebrides Relief Fund. A further sum of 30s has also been received from Waipu.

To the Editor : Sir,—There are many things allowed that are a disgrace to this community, but I will only mention two, viz. (put them in in big letters please), Prize Fights and the Totalisator. Le!; as return men at the nexb election pledged to pub them down. Every one knows their evil effects, so I will not occupy more of your valuable space.—J. W.

It is understood thab in less than a year the Union Steamship Company's new mailsteamer Monowai will be removed from the San Francisco mail service and will be transferred to tho inter-colonial trade. Arrangements are now being made to replace her in the Sa» Francisco service with a larger and faster vessel, which will be running before the nexb season arrives. This new steamer will be of 4000 tons burthen, and will bo specially fitted in every way to secure the comfort of passengers travelling through trooical latitudes, and sho will be equal in all respects to the besb and highest class of steamers on the Red Sea route. It is acknowledged that the standard in regard to travelling is now much higher than formerly, and ib is necessary'to keep pace with the demands of the travelling public. The introduction of this new steamer is only part of a system of remodelling the San Francisco service, which will be accompanied by the making of improvements upon an extensive scale. The idea of the U.S.S. Company ia to make the service a 15-knot one instead of about 13 bo 13_ knobs, which is tho case now.

According to the Rev. Maitland Woods, M. A., of Thursday Island, there is a greab deal of peril attached to deep sea diving in that locality. Writing to a Sydney paper he says :—"There has been quite a series of fatal accidents to divers in deep waters here of late. It seems thab tho well-known patches of pearlsholl lying at 7 to 10 fathoms have been gleaned very thoroughly during the two last seasons, bub in the direction of New Guinea some heavy shell has been found at: a depth varying from 25 to 30 fathoms. On one patch near Darnley Island tho shell lay 27 fathoms deep, and at this depth (162 feet) the pressure upon the body of the diver must become vary great indeed if he works for long spells. A native of the West Indies, a man well known to me as a very courageous diver, was brought in some weeks since badly crushed internally, and in tbe greatest agony. For two weeks, night and day, his Bufferings were horrible to witness, and his cries could be heard a considerable distance from the hospital. At length the poor fellow died, calling upon God in mercy to take his soul. Lasb week one of my Japanese friends came bearing the news thab one of his fellow-countrymen had died whilst working on the samo patch, crushed in the diving-dress, and dying as soon as he was hauled aboard the lugger."

The local treasurers in connection with 5? bhe Auckland subscriptions for the relief of' sufferers from the recenb Queensland floods "■ have received a cheque for £27 17s 6d from bhe chairman of the Waiapu County Council (Poverty Bay), bhab being the amount-; collected in tho Waiapu disbricb in aid ofthe Queensland sufferers. A , Mr J. R. Hanna, photographer, of Queen- * street, has jusb finished a, very large and' handsomo collection of photographs of oldand prominenb Aucklanders, chiefly in con-<-; necbion with bhe jubilee celebration of the - arrival of the pioneer ships Jane Gilford and • Duchess of Argyle ab Auckland in 1843. < The collection or shield contains about 160*': photographs, beautifully execubed, mclud-5 ing portraits of Sir George Grey.y Governor Hobson, and many "old; hands," besides prominenb colonists of' to-day. The collection is a mo^b in-. teresting one bo all colonists, and ib \ is suggested that ib should be procured and? placed in bhe Free Public Library in this? ciby. Mr Hanna has also jusb finished a' fine life-size head of bhe noted Ngatiman- i, iapoto chief Taonui, who died recently ia, I the King Country, to the order of Mr John '?' Hett l of Otorohanga. s

News from the Bay of Plenty states that a greab tangi is taking place over tha deceased ex rebel leader Te Koobi at Ohiwa. i A large number of Urewera, Whakatohea, * ' and Whanau - Apanui (Bay of Plenty) v I natives, aa well as the Thames and Wai- ' kato Maoris, are presenb. A recenb visitor ■". to To Kooti's new setblemenb ab Ohiwa'-' thus wribes :—" I saw a large number of boys arid girls from 15 years downwards, all looking sbrong and healthy,* who certainly presented no indication of diminution in the numbers ofthetriba; in the years to come. They are all faithfully attached to their chief, and he lefb the impression on my mind that if be is spared a few more years he will form a settlement which for thrifb and prosperity will be second to none in New Zealand. Temperance principles and habits of thrift and indusbry are inculcated. Their form of worship ia vory similar to the Church of England service, on which ib haa evidently been re-modelled by Te Kooti himself. Te Kooti will be remembered, not alone as a savage warrior, bub as a propheb, a preacher, and a teacher of a new religion, by which ha endeavoured to cement and cordially unite tho different tribes bhroughoub the country.* Every reader of history knows bhe immense influence exercised by Mahomed over the wild tribes of Arabia and Africa waa more extended but nob one whib mora real bhan thab exercised by Te Kooti during bhe lasb few years of his life. Tha greab burning point of his life was when he gavo up warfare and sebcled down to establish a religion; his tenebs, his inculcation of sobriety, thrift and economy and the friendly relations each should bear to hia fellow have yet to be written.''

At the meeting of the Board of Educa* tion yesterday afternoon Mr Grant submitted a motion that evoked a strong expression of opinion from some of his colleagues. Briefly put, the motion, which was a lengthy one, was to the effect that the rough minutes of the proceedings at all meetings of the Board should be entered in a special book kept exclusively for the purpose ; that every alteration in a minute should be initiated by tho Chairman before the minute was read, and that the writing of these.minutea should be distinctly legible. Mr Udy said that it appeared to him that Mr Grant's motion realiy amounted to a serious charge against the secretary. Ib was both unjust and unfair to make such insinuations as were undoubtedly contained in Mr Grant's motion. If he himself had reason to believe that there waß any foundation for them he would not have the least hesitation in giviDg Mr Rice notice to leave. But they were all perfectly aware that there was no foundation for them. Mr Rice had always done his work most admirably. Thereupon Mr Grant made reference to certain minutes which he bad experienced difficulty in deciphering, and he concluded by expressing the opinion that a secretary should be very careful in his handwriting. The other members of the Board were not. however, in sympathy with the spirit of Mr Grant's motion, and when it was put to the meeting only Mr Grant himself voted for it. Id was therefore lost.

The usual meeting of the Eden Terrace Mutual Improvement Society was held last evening, Mr W. Moor being in the chair. Mr Bayliss gave an essay on "The Life of the Apostle' John." Mr E. E. Vaile, deputation from the Auckland Liborary Societies Union, gave an address, showing the advantages to be gained by joining the Union, and it was decided to join. Mr A. Aitken offered by auction to-day at his mart, by order of the mortgagee, a section ab Mount Roskill, having a frontage of 76 links to Prospect Terrace. Tha property was knocked down to Mrs Cooke at £163. i