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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 74, 26 September 1881, Page 2

At the last meeting of the Foxton Local BoarJ the members devoted themselves to naming the etreeta of the town. The result was not more satisfactory than has generally been the case when other local bodies have been engaged on this task. We can't say much, for example for the euphoniou3ness of Futter-atreet, Coley-street, and Hulkestreet, and it is difficult to understand why one thoroughfare, having a by no means illBounding name — Moutoa-road — should have it changed for the prosaic Union-street. The names, it would appear, have been distributed without any system, principally after the names of local residents more or less known. Sergeant Duffin to-day (says the Taranaki Hera.d or 21st September) searched some Maoris who were proceeding to Parihaka, as it was supposed they had ammunition concealed in their stores. On examination, the sergeant discovered seven boxes containing Chineso crackers, but no cartridges or flasks of powder were found. The crackers were returned to tho natives, as they alleged they had them in their possession ever since the Waitara meetine. A distinguished actor, well-known in this metropolis (says the Christchurch Press), and whose name rhymes with dove, has distinguished himself. Like Mr. Seddon, he sometimes take 3 curious liberties with the English language, and alter some very funny speeches he made in " Our Boys," I believe it was, on the West Coaat, a notice appeared next morning on the prompter's board to this effect : — " Mr. is recommended to make a little more acquaintance with Mr. Lindley Murray." 1 urning to a fellow pro. who was with him, he asked, " Who is this Lindley Murray ? I'll knock spots off him " As the reporters had been rather rough on the distinguished actor, he thought Lindley Murray must be one of them, and he called on one of the editors of the local papers to complain of his hard u*age. " Have you a reporter on your ineasley rag of a paper," Faid the Thespian, "called Lindley Murray?" ''I believe," said the editor, "he has been dead for some years." " It's lucky for him," responded the actor, "or I would Lave knocked the stuffing out of the swine." And he passed slowly down the stairß leaving tho editor in convulsions of laughter. Letters received in Dunedin by the San Francisco mail from Bishop Moran report his lordship to have been in good health at the date of writing, that is about the middle of July. His lordship (says the Tablet) was then iv Ireland, and hoped to make arrangements by which a party of priests and nuns for the Dunedin mission would leave for this colony by the Orient steamer in September. It was his lordship'B intention to visit Rome in October, and, if possible, to start on his return journey to his diocese early in November. Captain Maxwell, of H.M.S. Emerald, has offered a solution for the chronic difficulty with South Sea Islanders. It is virtually a recommendation to the Admiralty to increase the police of the seas by despatching additional gunboats to cruise constantly about the islands, in order to watch natives and traders alike. He believes (says the Australian correspondent of the Otago Times), very possibly with good reason, that one or two such vessels would "do more good in prevention than any punishment could do in the way of cure." He seems to admit that the natives have very good reason for their hostility to the white men, as ho says " tho horrors of the sandalwood and kidnapping trades committed in these islands but a few years ago have sunk deep tho seeds of distrust, dislike, and revenge." Paddy Murphy, in his last " Special Ipi3tol " from Lambton Kay, writes :—": — " There's the very dickens to pay up here over the vaccinashun o' the Civil Sarvints (why they are called Civil is a mysthery to me, for, pon me conshinse, some o' thim are mighty uncivil at times). It was the joke o' the world to see me purtikular frind, Miafcher D. M. Luckio, vaccinated. He got into such a narvous state during the operation that mesilf an 1 Jack Sperrey had to hould him while the docthor used the lymph taken from a Belgian's calves. I haven't seen the Belgian, but I'm tould that he has a pair o' the finest calves ye'd meet wid in a day's walk. Whin I'm gettin ray- vaccinated I'll thry an' get mo lymph out of one o' the calves o' the faymalo portion o' Misther Cary's throop. I don't see why lymph from New Zayland calves shouldn't be as good as that from Belgian calves, any day iv the week." Auctioneering in Wanganni appears to be encompassed by as many perils as editing in America. We learn from the local morning paper that there was a sale of plants on Taupo Quay, and a dissipated man bid for a lot which he was unable to pay. The knight of the hammer remonstrated, and the dissipated ono made a rush at the rostrum. It did not last long, for the auctioneer knocked down the lot " like a flash of lightning. Glaring wildly round, the lover of flowers went for another of the assemblage, who was calmly and critically surveying one of his purchases in the most peaceful attitude. After jamming his head in the stomach of this floriculturist, and hurling hi 3 cherished plant to the ground, and filling in the time by pitching over a few more plants, the auctioneer gallantly came to the rescue, and, assisted by a few friends, took the offender by the leg 3 and threw him down the stairs. It was very warm while it lasted, and the proprietor of the establishment sadly contemplated the wreck, ventilating his feeling in softly murmuring, ** Why do summer roses fade ?" and then changing into the reflective air, " I would I were a boy again." The Quoen has been pleased to appoint Mr. William Henry Christie, M.A., F.R.S., to be Astronomer-Royal at Greenwich Observatory, in room of Sir G. P. Airy, who lately resigned. Mr. Christie had been principal assistant for some time. The glowing eulogiums passed upon the late Lord Hatherley by his successors on the Woolsack recall a remarkable fact, namely, that for the laßt thirteen years the Chancellorship has been hold by men of deep and noted religions conviction. A novelty in cricket is reported from Birmingham. A match was played between an eleven of tho Edgbaston High School for girls and an eleven of the girls of Sandwell Park School, the latter being victorious by 19 runs. Mr. Francis Sidey will sell to-morrow, furniture, &o. Messrs. J. lorns & Co. will sell to-morrow, at Carterton, building allotments. An Enquiry and its Answer.— Why is it that the selection of millinery is always so chaste, elegant, and fashionable at Te Aro Houpe? Ist. Because its Home buyer possesses unexceptionable taste, and has a thorough acquaintance with the English and French resorts of fashion. 2nd. Because the millinery rooms at Te Aro House are under the superintendence of a French lady artiste, of acknowledged ability. All orders are consequently executed in thelatest styles, and with the utmost despatch, and cannot fail to gratify the tastes of those ladies who may favor with their commands Te Aro House.— FAdvt.l