SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4760, 4 June 1878, Page 4

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

The Victim of a Mistake. Napier, June 4.—A serious error of mistaken identity has occurred bere. A man of thp name of Marskell has been hunted from post to pillar ever tince he has been in New Zealand, in consequence of being mistaken for the murderer Sullivan. William Marskell, who has a wife and five children, came to this Colony as a " Fielding emigrant" in 1874, and :from the first time he went to Wanganui till the present moment ho has bqen hunted from the society of his fellows. Driven from the West Coast, Marskell mjide his way into Hawkes Bay, and quite recently found himself employment on Boyle's farm. He had not been working there long before he was recognised as Sul- | livan by three or four people who formeily hid known that scoundral, and they were certain thsy could not make a mistake. The report got noised about, and it found its way injto the paper that. Sullivan had been seen at Havelock. Marskell's Hie was made miserable, and shortly after persons who tdok compassion told him be had better clear out as his life was not safe. Marskell and his wife then came into Napier to claim, the ' Telegraph' says, the protection of the police. The 'Telegraph's' reporter interviewed the unfortunate couple last night, and having in his possession a photograph of Sullivan was enabled to compare the portrait of the one with the countenance of the other. The photo was taken about thirteen years ago when Sullivan must have been about the same age as Marskell is now, and this alone is. sufficient to prove that Marskell and Sullivan are not one and the same. There is, however, aremarkstble likeness between the two men. This likeness is the more striking when Marskell'h©s his cap on, but when bareheaded, there is a difference in the shape of the forehead, *nd his eyebrows are not Sfl aggy or as heavy as Sullivan's. "We have deemed it right in the interests of common humanity to give the foregoing particulars to the public, and hope that the dreadful I stigma rightly enough attaching to the

murderer may be removed from an innocent man. M«.rskell was accompauied to Napier by his wife and daughter, and obtained lodging iiast night at the Q. C, E. This morning these unfortunate people were informed that they could not remain there any longer, and to-day they have been wandering about in search of lodgings. Wherever they have called they have been turned away, and, as he himself says, the finger of scorn has been .pointed at him everywhere. The man's life is-almost past bearing, and he earnestly desires to be removed from this part of the Colony. It is certainly the duty of the Government to relieve Marskell's misery, for had Sullivan never been turned loose upon society Marskell would never have been mistaken for-what he is not." Journalistic. Mr Carlisle, th&editor of the 'Herald,' has sold out his share and interest in the business for over L 4,008. Criminal. Auckland, June 3.—Mrs Major Croker (formerly of Otago), who has been living lately at Ponsonby, was committed for trial to-day for obtaining goods under false pretences. She represented to local tradesmen that moneys were coming to her from England through Mr Thorns, solicitor, on whom the orders were given.

A telegram in the ' Daily Times' states that the evidence for the prosecution showed that she had written a number of orders to tradesmen for goods received, which were drawn on Mr Thome, solicitor, to be paid off "first funds." In crossexamination Mr Thome deposed that Mrs Croker had known since February she was entitled to Ll, 100. He expected this money to be realised under a deed from certain interests from Miss Long to Edward Croker m trust for Mrs Croker. He did not know that Miss Long, before leaving Auckland, repudiated the deed the morning after executing it, and had gone Home to oppose it, though he had heard so very recently. Even if he had been told at the time he had not thought much about it in the face of a good deed, executed by a firm like Whitaker and Russell. He did not know that Messrs Whitaker and Russell thought Miss Long had good reasons for repudiating the deed. He told Mrs Croker she might expect the money any time after the inward Feburary mail. The sum in his hands at present was scarcely worth mentioning and he had a lien on it for costs.

The weather in the Dunstan district during the past week has been unprece--1 dentedly cold for the time of year. From the accounts that reach us ('Dunstan Times'), the fall of snow on the mountains is very great, and it is feared that many thousands of sheep that were on the heights will have perished. What with the snow on the hills covering up the feed, and the rabbits on the lands eating everything before them (in some places we hear of them even attacking the thistles), the sheep are having I a bad tune of it.

OUR LADIES' LETTER. Paris, April 13. A word on an excellent lady, MnW Dufaure, the wife of the Cabinet Ministe-. She moved through society as quiet and unobtrusive as a nun - devoted to her home, her three children and her husband, and next, to every kind of unobtrusive charity. Her salon was generally the rendeavous of : the legal world. There are only five females decorated with the Legion of Honor,

among whom rank Rosa Bonheur and a few Florence Nightingales. The Government contemplates decorating two aged teachers of national girls' schools, for half a century's training of the young idea how to shoot. It may be predicted of the Exhibition thai it will eclipse all its predecessors in points oi originality—to name even these, oae would require the cataloguing power of old Homer, or of a constant reader in a national library, The twin palaces suggest, but are not whollj the uni jn of Beauty aud the Beast. Calibar chopped wood, and Ariel was a telegraphi< clerk. Since the Seine has become awoller and colored, the Chinese laborers are saic to feil they are on the bank 3 o their own •' Yellow River." Similarly the Turks, in glancing at the cnpolai aud minarets of the Trocadero anc Champ de Mars, might conclude they wen at Stamboul, and at sunset bring out i mdrsel of carpet to be ready to kneel whei the mast-head call to prayer was made. I would require a Spaniard availing himsel of the ten degrees of his'superlative languagi to dtS3ribe [how charming and fall of graci become the buildings and grounds as tini< and exhibitors evict masons, fctaithe painters, and gbziers, No view hurts tin

eye, and every shady spot appears to be th< refuge for a new charm. There are alley ; more puzzling than the walls of Troy, anc enly people capable of boxing the coorpas would seem capable of passing inside; or once there, finding their way to enjoy out , door relief. The Trocadero will be the pe rendezvous; its very pieturesqueness pre r destiues it as such. It will be th ( home of concerts and conferences, 0 I waterfalls aud aquariums, of (.nines summer palaces and Norwegian winte ' mansions. Business people and induslriei T will lean to the Champ de Mars. Just no\ the Exhibition recalls a washing day, everji thing seems Jchaobic preparatory to the a^ pearance of order. vie with locc motives as to which shall discharge cases ( merchandise the first, so as to be able t return for more. In the way of the coarst classes of goods England and America ai - installed ; the finer exhibits will not be dii i played till well nigh the last moment. I a the picture galleries there appears to t v much hauging and quartering going on, tl a paintings being in " Hollands "—a ne 1- Dutch school perhaps—like furniture whe e a family is out of town, or retired to the bac a part of the premises to keep the seasoi 0 The most sensational exhibit arrived is s Chinese giant; he measures as mar '• feet in height as he has of Lin' II Foj's, and Chang's syllables, in a nan d. composed of prefixes and affixes. He oug] * t'o be told off to the anthropologic il depai g ment to represent the days when Moth I- Earth had giauts for aborigines. By-the-by y it is announced, with judge-like seriousnej e that the medical conferences will be ra

te sights, or rare shows, 'ihere will be di y plays of the maim, the halt, and the blio n following the class of (lusus) natures to whii Le they may belong. What an advantage to 1 10 a lady M.D., as only such will be permitb »■ to represent the weak sex. The screenii d of the roof in the Englishfsection is sombi ie but, on the other hand, the Indian depai e. ment in silvered carved wood-work 'e splendid, while the Prince of Wales's hall m Indian marvels fairly.leaves'ALddin's pala l s in the shade. l ® It is not alone ia the neighborhood of t ' Exhibition that the evidences of the comi: 5° International Bazaar are to be found. The 1 is not a shopkeeper but is overhauling 1 ' e premises and arraying them like Solomon all his glory. Householders are doing t ' same, as woollea mattresses (the Fren

reject down, feathers, and hair) are receivi: 8 their annual beating-up and carding to ' months in advance, so as -not to injure i health of visitoss, as a doctor read a paper jL sn ? rfc time a«e, before the AcademySciences, proving that mattress-dust was i ' active agent in the production of consum tion. r lhe Municipal Council is becomii nearly as lavish in expending the ways ai * e means of citizens as that great ex-demolish -" Baron Haussman. Every paving-stone ' apparently being turned over to exami j," which side would look best uppermost, ai the mountains of Juim must have yielded i e their stock of asphaltum, the spreading e which creates so suffocating a smoke that *' is a wouder the unfortunates do not prof 2 !: that mode of eelf-destruction to throwii " themselves off the look-out parapet'of Not > r Dame. The trees, too, are being replace - which represents a positive outlay for ea of 170£r. Many an old .familiar tree" hj gone, not by the hands of the natural exec

tioner—the woedman—but by the navv Not a gardener assists at.theas ceremoniei they are all said to be engaged at the bxl bition. What tales these trees like ba listers, of tea or fifteen years standing, mu have been related under the -shade of the joyous boughs. Perhaps onecf these dacurious people may be able to hang up phon graphs instead of harps on willow trees, ar thus collect small talk and lover'-g vows. Tl number of strangers already .in Paris evident to the naked .eye. Their language not more singular than their costume Some distinguished foreigners ,move i groups, storms the thoroughfares. ' 3?he moi recent and the best vwas a company < American marines. After beating tne bounc

ot the parishes they retired to mount guai in the stars and stripes seotion of the Exh bition. As Russia cannot spare a Cossac patrol, likely no sample of British Grem diers will put in an appearance. The richei permanent foreigners in Paris are the Spaniards—an advantage nation secures by not paying its debts ; nes are the Brazilians; these Latins ai the pillars of the theatres and are r( nowned by having dramas and comi operas composed in their honor; vaudeville are for old friends, and ddassemente fo forgotten worthies. It is said that ma: never cracks jokes at the expense of fchos by whom he reaps a golden harvest. Visitor coming here have a great treat before then at the Theatre Frangais in M. AngieVs nev play, Four Chambmrft. They can indulgi in a good cry- not bad betimes for even th< most happy—and in good and numeroui company besides. A few of the "gooc things " picked up or out of the dialogue—"Happiness is the moiety of virtue ;" and i lady was upbraided with "changing toe often her fixed opinions." You can judge, like the philosopher of Athens, who, wher he wanted to sell his house, carried a brick out of it in his pocket as a specimen. The admirers of ding-dong marjery-daw music, will be sorry to learn that Flotow's new comic opera, "Alma, the Enchantress," is a failure. It belongs to the Donizetti and Bellini school; but then it is observed that what's borrowed is ever the best in Flotow's compositions. fAU Paris appeared at the Italian theatre to welcome the work, but they were given no opportunity to applaud, even with the tips of their Angers. As a compensation one had more leisure in exchanging box visits during the interludes, and Between eating the perfumed fondants, ■ to note the latest fashions, and gossip on chiffons.