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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1887, Page 2

Daring the recent official visit of Major Gudgeon, Commissioner of Police, to the South, he inspected over 70 police stations in the Chnstohurch, Dunedin, Oamaru, Timarn, Lake, and Southland police districts. Commissioner Gudgeon found everything in a very satisfactory condition. The Wellington light-weight boxer Isaac Fake, who will be remembered aB having 1 fought Pettengell some time ago, and who was understood to have retired from the ring, has made up his mind to have at least one more battle, and has accordingly issued a challenge to the redoubtable Murphy to box him for j>2o or .£25 a-Bide and the light-weight championship. The challenge appears elsewhere. During a football match on the Ashbnrton sports ground on Saturday afternoon a number of the players had their coat and vests pockets rifled, and various sums of money stolen therefrom. The clothes were left in the pavilion, and the thieves must have overhauled them while the footballers were in the field. The police have the matter in hand. The Lyttelton Times of yesterday has the following on the recent shipment of horses to India : — The departure of the s.s. Bucephalus, from Lyttelton to Calcutta, with nearly 300 horses, is an event well worthy of note, and we should be glad to see more business in the sarao direction. We have plenty of the right country to breed horses on, and a most favourable climate. In sires, wa have the best strains of blood, and our weakness is probably in not possessing the right sort of brood mares. We hope to see a stimulus given to this trade by the success of the shipment under notice, feeling Bure that we are, or soon would be, in a position to supply the wants of the Indian market on as favourable terms, and with as good cattle, as our Australian coußina. The bill for the amendment of the Victorian Education Act provides for the reduction of the school age up to which attendance is oompulsory from 15 to 13 years, and for the increase of the minimum number of sohool attendances from 30 to 40 days per quarter. Permission is to be given to State school teachers to give religious instruction in a State school out of school hours, providing that the school be not the ope in whichho teaches. Half-yearly examinations are to be held in the several districts, at which children not attending State schools may present themselves for examination. Attendance at a private school is no longer to be accepted as a reasonable excuse under the Act for non-attendance at a State sohool unless proof be forthcoming that the_ attendance at Buch school is such as is required by law in State schools, and that the instruction there given is efficient. Authority is to be givento truant officers to detain children loitering in the streets during sohool hours, and to convey such children to school or to their homes for the purpose of ascertaining the names of the parents. Strong measures are proposed to be taken with habitual or incorrigible truants. The truant officer may swear an information in such a case, and have the parent summoned hefore two justices, who may, if they think fit, order the child in question to attond a day industrial school, provided there be one within a convenient distance, where he will bo detained during the day, the parents payinar 3s per week for maintenance. The non-attendance of the child at the day industrial school after the order has been made will involve the liability of the parent to a fine of from 5s to 20s for every day the child ia absent from the school. In a notice of the New Zealand oourt at the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition, the South Australian Register says: — "What few exhibits there are from New Zealand make it a matter of regret that more of the industries of that colony are not represented, or even that those manufacturers and others who applied for space did not afterwards occupy it, especially when the services of an able representative to look after their interests is available." The Register states that watercolours, paintings, &c, in the catalogue have not arrived, and some compounds and patent medicines are in bond at Port Adelaide. Of the exhibits from Otago, tho Register notices ropes from Messrs. Donaghy and Co., merino wools from Messrs. Young atid Dalgety's Oinarama station, cheese from the Gore Dairy Factory, specimens of lithography and printing from the Caxton Steam Printing Company and Messrs. John Stone, Son and Co., and some very pretty sketches in oil of the wonderful scenery round the West Coast Sounds and in the Lakes district, by Messrs. L. W. Wilson and F. B. Smith. Of Reid's patent Titan and triplex wire strainers it speaks very highly, and describes tho Titan as "the simplest and moat powerful wire-strainer yet introduced." The attempt at elopement from Sandhurst by a married musician with a wealthy young lady has been nipped in the bud. The runaways were overtaken by the young lady's irate brother, and he so worked on his sister's feelings that she decided to return home. The brother was only just in time, as the runaways were on board the Zeulandia, and on the point of starting for America. The whole party returned to Sandhurst in tho same train The gay Lothario, who was not on speaking terms with his own wife before he departed from Sandhurst, left instructions behind him that his furniture should bo sold. The auction was to have taken place yesterday. The wife, howevor, managed to effect an entrance into the house, and, by the assistance of relations, barricaded the house so effectually that, despite the escort of nine guardians of the peace, the auctioneer could not gain entrance. The large party of spectators which intended to be present at the sale was atnpßed at the auctioneer's discomfiture Since princes and duchesses bowed down before Sarah Bernhardt in 1879 (says the writer of London Gossip in tho Australasian) there has been no such furore for a " lion " as that which has Buffalo Bill and his head cowboy, Buck Taylor, for its objeots. The latter has many partisans among the beauties, and a pathetic element is added to their idolatry by the fact that his thigh has been broken by the blow of the projecting portion of a Mexican saddle in the course of a "horse quadrille." When he fell to the ground, he said quietly, " Get a shutter and Ist the show go on." He was carried to the West London Hospital, where, at any hour of tho day, two or three ladies of fashion may be found sitting by his bed. whilst the whole hospital is_ being fed and deoorated out of the tributes of food and flowers sent in by his sorrowing worshippers. I witnessed the extraordinary sight on Sunday at Hampton Court of the mobbing of Buffalo Bill by a vast crowd of Sunday excursionists. Buffalo Bill was being taken to Oatlands Park Hotel by Irving on a coach full of dramatic critics and other notabilities, and at Hampton Court Buffalo Bill expressed a wish to get down and stretch his legs. He did so, and became the object of a great ovation, Irving following behind utterly unnoticed— a deposed idol of the mob— and looking as if he did not like it. It is sad to watch the fate of those of whom the fiokle populace or fickle society has wearied. Mr. Mallook is one of these. "The year that that young man wrote the New Republic," said a great nobleman lately, " I and her ladyship of oourse asked him to our parties, and now the fellow has the folly to try and keep up the aoqnaintance!" Messrß. Griffin & Sons, the well-known bisouit manufacturers of Nelson, have secured the contract for snpplying'biscuits to the Union Steamship Company. This is the third year in succession the contract has beon obtained by the samo firm. By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that an open meeting of the Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Sooiety is to be held to-night. A debate is to take place on the subjeot " Should the Franohise be Extended to Women," the leaders in which will be the Rev. Messrs. Lee and laitt. As the public are cordially invited, we have no doubt there will be a large attendance. Those interested will remember that the concert and dance promoted by the Southern Cross Star Lodge of Oddfellows takes place this evening, at the Adelaide-road Temperance Hall. Mr. George Fisher has consented to take the ohalr. The lecture on " Home Nursing and Hygiene," which was to have been given by Dr. M'Kenzie at the Girls' Friendly Sooiety Lodge yesterday afternoon, was postponed until Wednesday next, owing to paucity of attendance. The first of Mr. R. Parker's promised musical lectures is to be given this evening in the Churchroom, Tinakori-road. The Hon. G. R. Johnson will preside. Mr. E. G. Woodward, pianoforte tuner, formerly with Brinamead's and Allison's, London, has an advertisement in another oolumn. Orders are taken at H. C. Hazelden's, Cuba-street. The sale of drapery, &c, to be held by Measrs. T. Kennedy Maodonald & Co., at their rooms, to-morrow, at 2 o'olock, should* attract a large attendance of buyers. The catalogue comprises upwards of 250 lota, all of which are to be sold absolutely without reserve. From the details in our advertising columns it will be seen that the catalogue embraces almost every description of drapery . Mesßra. Sidey & Co. will sell to-morrow, furniture, books, tools, Ac. Messrs. Laery & Campbell will « e ll tomorrow, fruit. " Mistakes will often occur m the best regulated families," and so it is that to suit the convenience of shippers we have a consignment of glassware that wore not wanted before Christmas, at Te Aro House. As, however, they are here, the public will reap the benefit of the error, and. will have an opportunity of making a free selection in accordance with the amount of their purchases, and on a similar scale to the Jubilee bonus in the month of June last During the present month they can be had at Te Aro House. The ioale is announced in another column and is sufficiently liberal to attract a large amount of attention. The articles are all of a useful as well as an ornamental description, and no doubt will be much appreciated and sought after by purchasers, a_s T_? Aro House. Wli need hardly say that to those who contemplate setting up housekeeping this opportunity will b« Invaluable, while those who wiah to replenish their stock of household glassware at onoe adapted for ordinary use, and calculated to be ornaments to any well-laid table, will seiee a chance that does not occur every day, at Te Aro House. Advt. If you have a Cough, don't neglect it but purchase at onoe a bottle of Baxter's Lung Pekskrvbb. It ia pleasant to the palate, and its effect is magical. Try it and prove it. — Advt.

Not a Bevebagb.— " They are not a beverage, but a medicine, witl^ curative, properties of the highest degree, confining no poisonous drugs. danot tear down, an already debilitated system, but build it tip. Cite bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer. Physicians prescribe them.— Rochester, U.S.. 4 .., Evening Express, on American Hop Bitters,