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Evening Star, Issue 7252, 1 July 1887, Page 2

Greymouth has a lady canvasser for the Government Insurance Department who rejoices in tho Appropriate name of Smart. Several proposals have been made for leasing the Sydney tramways from the Government. One is to lease them for fifty years, the rental to be equal to 5 pe> cent, for the first twenty years and 6 per cent, for the remainder of the lease.

At the Sydney Water Police Court recently, Ah Lee, a Chinaman, pleaded guilty to smuggling a large quantity of cigars, tobacoo, etc., from the China steamer Tsinan, He was fined LI,OOO, or nine months' imprisonment, There are now eleven telephone exohanges in the Colony, comprising 2,079 subscribers, or more than the whole of the Australian colonies put together. Besides exchange connections, there are 187 bureaus. We are particularly anxious to learn from Dr Lemon the percentage of profit he makes out of this service.

It has been ascertained that of the unetm ployed in Sydney 300 came from the United Kingdom, 313 from Victoria, 224 from New Zealand, 82 from South Australia, and 169 from Queensland. The ranks of the unemployed were swelled a week ago by the tobacco manufacturers of Sydney discharging about 100 hands because the Government would not give way to their demands in regard to the tobacco duties,

At the Police Court, Arrowtown, last week, Mary Ann Halliday was committed for trial for concealment of birth. From her confession to Constable Bradshaw, a t Pembroke, it appeared that she was confined of a male child at her father's residence at Mount Barker, no one being present, on April 11; and between 11 p.m. of the 13th and 1 a.m. of the 14th she took the child's body to the Clutha, between Alberton and Luggate, and threw it into the river. She said she had done it through ignorance, and did not know that the birth had to be registered. Bail was allowed in her father's recognisance of LI 00. An alleged case of death from tobacco poison, acting on the otherwise diseased heart of an inveterate smoker, has of late greatly interested the medical profession of Vienna. At a conference on tho subject, Dr Favarger has given the following advice to smokers : stomach is empty. Do not hold the pipe or cigar continuously in the mouth when smoking, but withdraw it for a breathing space between the whiffs. Never smoke a foul pipe or cigar-holder, and smoke strong and weak cigars alternately." There Is no better antidote to nicotine, says Favarger, than tannic acid, which is an important ingredient of red wine as well as of tea and cosee. Therefore, says he, let the smoker who would have the least harm done him by nicotine, drink, when he is smoking, red wine, coffee, or tea.

The annual tea-meeting and social gathering of the parishioners of St. John's Church, Roslyn, was held in the schoolroom last evening. There was a large attendance. After the tea there was a concert, and during an interval Bishop Nevill delivered a short address. He remarked upon the excellent attendance, saying he was glad to see so many preserit ? especially as Mr .Kerkham, their pastor, had been absent froni theWfor some time, Financially, he learned tha£ tfye affairs of the congregation were in a satisfactory condition, while the higher work for which the parish existed was also being well .parried out. He mentioned that 220 scholars were being instructed in the parish every Sunday* and expressed a hope that more teachers.would come to the front to engage in this good work'.' The proceedings'concluded with a dance, , ' '

Wo are informed that Mr G. W. Eliott j sailed for England by the Bimutaka. £

In Melbourne a churchwarden has been fined for having allowed forms to be placed along the aisles of his church. The following declarations of insolvency have been made during the week:—George Joachim, of Dunedin, accountant; Thomas Bracken, of Dunedin, journalist. At Lawrence yesterday Thomas Fahey, a farmer, was comitted for trial for larceny as a bailee ; and Thomas Palmer alias Charles Richards was also committed for forging and uttering. Miss Catherine Loriliard Wolfe, who recently died at New York, left nearly L 200.000 for the erection of a cathedral in that city for the Episcopal Church of the United States. She also left her large residence at Lafayette place for the use of the bishops and clergy of the church when in New York.

Dr Horatio Wright, of Sydney, the victim of the recent attempt at extortion, for which a man named Smith and his wife, and another man named Marjoram, were recently sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, has been presented with a purse of 125 sovereigns and au address of sympathy by his fellowmedical practitioners. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day judgment was given for the plaintiffs by default in the following cases:—T. Callander v. T. Broadway, Ll4, calls on shares in the Inch Valley Flour-Mill Company ; Otago Meat-Preserving Company v. D. Grant, L 5, allotment call on twenty shares. Mr Halliwell appeared for the plaintiffs in both cases.

At the London Central Criminal Court lately, Thomas Lecky, aged sixty-nine years, was found guilty of defrauding the Crown and sentenced to three months' Imprisonment. In 1545 his father retired from the Customs service on a pension of L4O a year, which he drew up to the date of his death in 1552. From that day till the end of March last the prisoner drew the pension in the name of his father, who was returned on the departmental books at the patriarchal age of 110 years. Shortly before six o'clock this morning a two-storey brick building in Hanover street, the property of Mr Timothy Keates, was discovered joy Mrs A. Blade, aneighbor, to be on fire. The fire was extinguished after burning a small hole in the floor. The place is occupied by Mr Michael Meenan as a grocery store, and if managed by Samuel Fenton, who left the premises at 8.30 last night, leaving a small fire burning in an open furnace in the kitchen. A spark from the open grate had evidently caused the fire. In Chambers to-day an order closing the bankruptcy of George Stafford Matheson, a debtor, was made on the application of Mr J. Macgregor. Worsdell v. the United Insurance was fixed to be heard on the 15th inst., before His Honor and a special jury of four. Letters of administration were granted in the following estates: Re Joshua Rawcliffe, Margaret M'Vickar Patterson, and James Sector; and for probate in re Ann Philp, William Baxter, Robert Rose, and Mary Paul, all deceased. In the course of a recent address, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne said, with reference to State schools, that in Ireland it was recognised that the best system was the separate education of the children of Catholics, the schools being open for inspection by the Government officers to test children, with the view of ascertaining whether they reached the required standard of proficiency. He was not unwilling to hope that that would be the case in Victoria.

A lot of Chinese in Little Bourke street, Melbourne, set to work on Sunday, June 19, to erect a triumphal arch in honor of the Jubilee. The sounds of the hammers attracted the police, who promptly interfered with the Celestial decorators. A section of the Press points out that while the police determined that the heathen Chinee should observe Sunday, the Government permitted special trains to be run to suit Volunteers attending; the demonstration, as well as other work in connection with the Jubilee,

Mr Andrew (member for Geelong) stated in the Victorian Assembly the other evening that foreign firms in Melbourne are cutting out their English competitors by a system of under-valuations. These firms have established agencies in Melbourne, and they send out invoices on which duties are paid, but which do not represent the true values. The House, lie added, had no idea of the extent to which honest firms are being set aside by those means. Mr Andrew said that at one time he was not a Protectionist, but now he is going in for the policy of the " home market for the home producer," and 20 per cent, duties, he affirms, will not satisfy the claim of the home producer. He describes this policy as the big question immediately ahead.

Concert in Volunteer Hall, Anderson Eay, on Monday.

Mr J. Allen addresses Dunedin East electors at North-east Valley on Monday. Football match, Union v, Monteoillo, on the Caledonian Ground to-morrow, at 2.45 sharp. .

The sale of allotment and houses at Calderville, by Mr Brodrick, has been postponed to Saturday, 9th inst. The 'Weekly Press' fully maintains its reputation. This week's number has a_ portrait of Dr Grimes, the new Roman Catholic bishop of Canterbury.

Ti-.e -Canterbury Times' this week is sure to be in demand. It has a capitally - executed oleograph of the Queen; indeed, it is one of the best pictures of Her Majesty that has been issued.

The half-yearly meeting of the toyal Albion Lodge was held last evening at Cornish's London Clumbers, Princes street, there being a large attendance of members and visiting brothers, The eleotion of officers resulted as follows, G.M. Bro. J. Wren installing them:—N.G., Bro. A. J. Smith; V.G., Bro. S. Smith; 8.5., Bro. Bossabrook: warden, Bro. J, Snowies; guardian, Bro. Brooks; R.S.N.G., Bro. R. H. Dave;L.S.N.G., Bro. M'Arthur; R.S.V.G., Bro. E. Ferguson; L.8,V.G., Bro. G.Davie; leeture master, Bro. J. Wren, The receipts were L 52 3s,