The Evening Star MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1887.

Evening Star, Issue 7290, 15 August 1887, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1887.

A false alarm of fire was rung out shortly after six o'clock last night from the main station. The body of the miner OToole, who has been missing from Mohikinui, has been found in the river. At the Cargill road Wesleyan Church at the morning service yesterday the preacher made feeling reference to the death of Mrs George Dickson, which had occurred a couple of hours before after a very sudden illness. Mention was made of the help the deceased had given to that Church, of which she was a member; to the ability with which she had preached in several parts of the City and suburbs; and to the zeal Bhe had displayed in the cause of temperance, in which she took the deepest interest. At Kyneton (Victoria) tiw other day Bernard Casey, a publican, was fined VI aday for sixty-two days (or L 124 in all), for being interested in more than one license, contrary to the new Licensing Act; in default a month's imprisonment. Tho Bench imposed the minimum penalty, the maximum being L 5 a-day. The defendant swore that he had disposed in April last .of his interest in the second house through a UotelJjroker in Melbourne, but the latter did not put ig an appearance to corroborate his statement. Notice of appeal was given. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Woollen Company, the chairman (Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald) mentioned that a draper in Wellington was selling English slops as the Company's make. In response to cries of " prosecute him," Mr Macdonald said the matter was to come before the directors, and, if advisable, they would take proceedings. The 'New Zealand Times' says that another matter mentioned by the same gentleman was in connection with a statement made by Mr Fraser in the House that at the Company's factory men worked nine houre a day for eight hours' pay, and that men were imported from Home. He had, he said, tried to get the authority for this statement, but Mr Fraser refused to disclose It. Mr Macdonald gave both statements a flat denial, and expressed a hope that Mr Fraser would be taken to task and asked to give his authority for (hem.

At St. Joseph's Cathedral yesterday pontlfioal high mats was celebrated la the morning, the day being the eve of the festival of the Assumption of the virgin Mary. In the evening there were pontlfioal vespwe, after which the Rev, Dt Gleeton preached and the benediction of the blessed Sacrament was celebrated. At the con. elusion of the evening servloe, the Most Rev. Dr Moran was presented with an address, congratulating nim on the attainment of his fortieth anniversary in the priesthood, from the Roman Catholics of Kutnara, who testified to the Bishop's noble efforts in the .cause of religion, to his fearless and unceasing attacks on the godless system of education, and to his manly defence of their rights as Irlriiwen. The address went on to say : "We take this opportunity also of congratulating you on the establishment of the' New Zealand Tablet,' whose ypi.ee has been ever lifted to defend our rights as I CajSwlics, and to cherish that patriotism so dear to true Irish heart. We would. gladly say more, bat any attempt to say all we would wish would be vain. We shall therefore conclude by praying that fcordship may be long spared amongst as, an w?»or tp the Church, the pride "of our race, and the safeguard of bur patriotism.*' The; liishop, in the oourse of his reply, said :, "Whilst I thank you for your congratulations jpp the establishment of the ' New' Zealand Tftblejt,' I must not fail to bear testimony 'toMe by yon and the qttyer jCatholjcs of West-. land, who, by your unswerving' confidence; and generous "ponfrjUbntions, flaye had so; large a share in its success, Aad J. may be ] permitted to avail myeetf of sb> oppor.: tunity- to endorse your enaomi»m .of it, viz, 'fljat its voice has been ever lifted »p to defend our rights as Catholics and to cherish that patriotism which is so dear to every true Irish hfarfc,' To this I may add the expression of my conviction that in the fiiturethe'NewZealandTablet'willbeaverything it has been in the past. With Irishmen faith and fatherland are inseparably united, and any Catholic journal circulating among the children of St. Patrick that would fail to labor in cultivating a geauinp Jnsh "patrtStism, instead of earning support from , them, Wouß deserve their; reprobation.,! •This. I am persuaded,', will never be the fate; Se'Newlealand tablet.'"

At Blenheim, William Tnrnbull, a young man, has been committed for trial for criminal assault on a girl fifteen years old. Those interested in the woollen industry in Victoria are again agitating for increased Protection. The present duty on piece goods is 15 per cent. The Railway Department has despatched officers from Wellington to inquire into the complaints against the management of the Waikato Railway. The slackness of the timber trade at Stewart Island has driven a good many of the sawmill hands into the fishery business, at which they are reported to be doing very well. Human nature is the same no matter what the color of the skin. A Chinaman in the Braidwood district of New South Wales risked his life to save his child from his burning hut, but succumbed to his injuries. He was literally roasted from head to foot. Mr W. L. Rees is to proceed to England, on behalf of the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, with the object of endeavoring to direct the attention of the promoters of the English State-aided colonisation scheme to the advantages for settlement offered by the North Island. At the Auckland Police Court on Saturday, Rosina Jackson, a young girl, was charged with larceny, but her counsel contended that she was illegally in custody, haviDg been arrested on a search warrant instead of by information. The Bench, in discharging her, referred to the careless and slipshod manner in which the document was drawn up, but Sergeant-major_ Pratt explained that the police were in no way responsible therefor. An information was afterwards laid.

The Waitaki branch of the Educational Institute have recorded their opinion that Bishop Nevill's statement with reference to the morality of public schooli was unwarranted. With reference to retrenchment in teachers' salaries, it was decided that, as l\ and 5 per cent, reductions had already been made in teachers' salaries, they should be no further reduced until all salaries under the Board be reduced, and then only if the necessities of the Colony demand it.

The Southland football team were entertained at a smoke concert at the City Hotel on Saturday evening. There was a large attendance of footballers, and the concert proved a thoroughly enjoyable one. The toast " The Visiting Team" was_ drunk with enthusiasm, and the captain (Mr Morgan) appropriately responded. Among the toasts honored were "The Queen," " The Army and Navy," " Our Representative Team," "Kindred Sports," "The Ladies," and "The Press." During the evening several songs were contributed. Mr Moss officiated at the piano. A very sad state of things was lately revealed at a County Court held at Canterbury (England), the occasion being the examination of the accounts of a bankrupt farmer. The debtor started farming with L7OO given him, and with furniture to the value of another L3OO. In less than two and a-half years all has gone, and he is in debt to the amount of L 1,600. Another case was mentioned, in which L 1,600 was lost in nine months, The Judge said that at present the cost of production exceeded the money realised by the produce by 50 per cent. An Auckland resident, who has recently been up in the Henderson's Mill district and through the gumfields there, was surprised to find, says the ' New Zealand Herald ' of the Bfch inst., so many men there doing well. They are earning four to six shillings a day, and can live comfortably upon ten shillings meat and bread beiDg got very reasonably from the stores. Mapy of the are not the pariahs we are accustomed to associate with that occupation, but respectable Auckland tradesmen, who, rather than loaf idly about the town, are making the best of things by trying their luck on gumfielda.

The Otago interprovincial team leaye for the North by the Hawea to-morrow afternoon, and we have no doubt that a large number of footballers will assemble on the Rattray street wharf at three o'clock to w}sh them good luck. Some difficulty was experienced in getting the necessary leave of absence for Isaacs, who is in the railway employ, but. thanks to Sir J. Vogel's intervention, the Jeav/e was obtained. We trust that the experiment tried on Saturday of playipg three half-backs will not be perse r vered with. We have no doubt that the team will give a good account of themselves, and that the Union's banner will have several further victories inscribed on it. An exciting eceue occurred ip the Queen's Theatre, Manchester, on June }Q, during the progress of a sensational drama entitled " A Mother's Sin." Towards the close of the act, when the hero, who champions the heroine of the piece, seems to be in the power of the villian of the piece, a man in the gallery rose to his feet in a terribly excited state, shook his fist at the actor who was person&ting the yilljap, and took a fearful leap from the gallery on to the stage, on which ho foil with a sickening thud, just beyond the footlights. Aotors and audienae were much excited, and shrieks were beard from all parts of the house. The man was at once carried off the stage and removed to the Royal infirmary, where it was found that his leg was broken, The distance from the gallery to the stage was 30ft. Strange to say, the man's name is Mandeville, as is that of the heroine of the piece.

The Wanganui ' Herald' thus replies to Bishop Nevill's charge of immorality against the girls of this Colony :—" This is a charge which affects the whole Colony, and we venture to say, that wherever these words of the Bishop's are read, there will arise a voice of dissent. Those who know the characters of our girls will know that there is not the least foundation for sue)) an assertion. That there are some black sheep fn the fold no one can deny, but the percentage is not anything like what these remarks would lead us to belu>ye: nor is the effect they produce anything like so great as the Bishop contends. Speaking of our own knowledge, we venture to assert that Bishop Nevijl's remarks would not apply to our local schools, and we should be extremely sorry to think that the morality of the Colony had fallen to such an extent as to lead to the utter degradation of those who are to become the wives of the rising generation," The Kaikorai School Committee held their usual monthly meeting on Friday last, The circular from the Education Board re using the school fund for purchasing stationery, etc, for use of pupils was read and received. The average attendance for the past month was 455. The result of the examinations just completed show a very marked Improve, ment on the previous year. There were 294 scholars examined, being forty more than last year. Thirty-eight more in the three lower standards and forty-eight more in the three higher standards passed this year than last, The proportion of the whole school that passed has risen from one in three to one .a two, or 85 per cent, of those examined. The infant department, as usual, was in a satisfactory oondltion, With these results the Committee were highly gratified. Messrs FY Wilkinson and J. Jaokson were elected delegates to the Schools' Conference, At the Port Chalmers Fire Brigade's supper on Friday night (which, by-the-way, was attended by Superintendent Robertson, on behalf of the City fire Brigade) the Mayor of Port Chalmers, in responding to the toast of the Mayor and Borough, referred to the state of trade, and remarked that whilst it might be the fact, as alleged by some, that the slackness of business was largely due to the bulk of the shipping now going past the Port, they had yet the satisfaction of knowing that the Borough revenues had benefited in other directions. The Steam packet licenses which had hitherto bee n ' J a M n ou * in Dunedin were now paid at the Port, and this produced a reduction in tno raJSes equal to 2d in the £. He had the further' pleasure of intimating that the Borough had" a substantial credit at their bankers, an announcement fch&t was received with hearty applause," Mr James Mi lls i ia responding to the toast of the Union Steam Shin Company, sketched hia own connection with the shipping of this port, and traoed the progress of the Company he, managed. The success of the Company was, due, not to any particular merit of his, own, v| but to the assistance he had received from Captain Cameron and the other members of: the staff. Although at present the bulk of ( the shipping wassbeing -taken up to Don--edia, b>'did not cdniadeY"lh&i> this would) last long, ft was evident lihat, According j totheefe.ss of pbjps nps being bm^t,'cargo | would be brought ou£ po the Colony in larger bottoms—in such a, c)ags of yessel, indeed, that Port Chalmers only pould accommodate. They had fine wharfage, a workshop fitted with every modern appliance, an excellent graving dock, and he trusted shortly they would have another and a larger one.—(Cheers.) Indeed, they had everything suitable for the accommodation of large vessels, which he trusted in a very short time would make a constant practice of visiting Port Chalmers':

The young Earl of Shaftesbury is now visiting Sydney. Members of N.Z.P.. Association meet on Wednesday. Mr But her foid speaks at Green Island tomorrow evening. Installation of W.M., Lodge of Dunedin, 8.C., to-morrow. Members of other lodges invited. Mr Dugald Ferguson has issued through Mr Horsburgh a reply to the ' Daily Times' criticism of his editorship of his brother's literary work. The admissions to the Dunedin Hospital last week were nine and the discharges therefrom ten. On Saturday there remained 119 in- ( mates. j We have received from the Bible-in-Schools j Association a leaflet, in which the Association . set forth the duty of parents in the coming . election to do all in their power to secure the reintroduction of the Bible into the State . schools, I