The Evening Star TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1887.

Evening Star, Issue 7333, 4 October 1887, Page 2

The Evening Star TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1887.

An audit of the books of the City Building Surveyor's Department at Sydney has disclosed shortages to the extent of L 4,792, and that no check of any kind has ever existed. The present incumbent of the office is not implicated. In reference to a statement that th 6 Endeavor (Captain Cook's flagship) was still afloat, Premier Parkes sent to the AgentGeneral a letter requesting him to make inquiries, and to solicit the Imperial Government to present it to the Colony. This morning Sir Henry Parkes received the following cablegram from the AgentjQenejalt—"lnquiry has been made regarding tfae jKndeavor at the Admiralty and elsewhere, and thiey cannot obtain any trace of her. It is supposed she has been broken up long since."

A rather sudden death oeeuvrad at Taiaroa Heads this morning. Charles Julien, one of the Armed Constabulary, aged about twenty-nine, was taken ill last night, and a telephone message was sent to Dr Cunningham ot Port Chalmers, who at once proceeded down in a waterman's boat, and remained with the man until he expired at 4.30 a.m. Deceased, who was an ardent footballer, was only married six weeks since to a daughter flf Captain Louden, the signalmaster.

At Crewe (England) the Jubilee was celebrated by the Grea;t Western Railway Company handing over to the inhabitants a public park, on which they are also spending LIO.OOO in laying it out. An interesting fact was stated by the chairman of the Company—viz., that they employed 00,000 persons, had ,50,000 waggons, 50,000 carriages, 3,000 horses, 20 steamships, and 3,000 engines; carried/30,000,000 passengers and 33,000,000 tons of good/} annually; and covered by their engines last year 54,000,000 miles, or, in other words, they accomplished a distance equal to a journey ro,un.d the world every four hours.

The Victorian Assembly, by 40 jto 24, carried the Bill granting a gratuity of L 4.000 to ex-Speaker Lalor. During the debate Mr Gaunson, the larrikin of tha Victorian Parliament, made a coarse and bitter attack on the Hon. M. H. Davies, the Government nominee for the chair, whom he described as a shaw, .and his candidature as a "disreputable fraud/' gcveral members defended Mr Davies; om speaker saying that Mr Gaunson had displayed " hellish malice," and by his_ course of action greatly advanced Mr Davies's cause. (Concerning the Hygienic Congress now sitting at Vienna, the Vienna correspondent ei 'The Times,' writing on August 15, jwys;—"Mor,e than 1,300 members have already registered their names, and about 1,500 are expected to ijake part in the proceedings. From England twelve gentlemen have up to the present announced their intention to attend, and <of thejse four have already presented papers to the Congress, viz., Professor Corfield, op 'The Importation of Rags'; Mr Frankl&nd, on * Sewage,' with special reference to the prevention of river pollution; Mr F. Hayncs Whymper, on 'The Law Relating to factors and Workshops'; and Mr Murphy,ah 'lnternational Regulations for Preventing Epidemics.' The Austrian Government wrH take a special interest in the labors of the Congress, as, with the best intentions on the part of the Imperial authorities, but little progress has been made in the hygienic administration of th> country." "• '''■■< '

Monster petitions have been presented to the New South Wales Parliament against the employment of barmaids. All the jockeys in the Free Handicap were lined L 5 a-piece, so that the distressed jockey's fund benefited to the tune of Llls. The Tasmanian Legislative Council, by the casting vote of the President, decided that the office of Agent-General is unnecessary.

We hear that the local Protectionists and supporters of the Stout-Vogel party are very anxious to have an organ of their own, and have it in contemplation to establish a firstclass daily. A snowstorm, the heaviest that has been experienced for years, was reported from the Malvern district yesterday, Railway traffic was partially suspended and several miles of telegraph wire broken down.

His Honor the Chief Justice, in the course of SupremeCourtproceedingsatChristchurch this morning, expressed his opinion that the Resident Magistrates' Courts encouraged theft by dealing with cases of larceny in a summary way.

The principal winners at the A.J.C. meeting were—The Hon. JamesWhiteL2,92B,Mr J. Chambers LI,OOO, Hon. W. A. Long L 565, Mr H. Oxenham L 494, Mr Cooper L 485, and Mr Gannon L 450. Mr Drake secured Ll5O and the New Zealand Stud Company LSO. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs A. North and R. C. Reid, J.P.s, Lynden Ruttledge sued Thomas Charles White for L2 lis, amount due for stabling three racehorses and board for White and a boy. Judgment waß given for plaintiff, for whom Mr D. M. Stuart appeared.

A movement is on foot to obtain the erection of all districts in New South Wales north of the 30th parallel into.a separate colony ; but Dr Hearn, of Melbourne, has advised that it is ultra vires, as the Queen's power was exhausted when Queensland was declared a colony. The agitators now intend to move for the establishment of a system of provincial or local government, with larger powers. A duplicated self-baiting automatic rabbit trap has been patented by Mr P. Ironside, of Sydney. The novelty of the contrivance is that each rabbit caught re-sets and rebaits the trap with oati, etc., the reflector being so placed at the exit that it serves the double purpose of a decoy and a door to prevent the return of the rabbit, which is secured in the duplicated hidden trap. The trap is capable of containing a large number of rabbits.

There was a very good house at the Princess's Theatre last evening, when the Dunedin Operatic Society gave their fourth performance of " The Pirates of Penzance." The opera went with as much spirit as ever, with the exception that the representative of Major-general Stanley broke down, owing to hoarseness, in his principal solo. The other principals were in good voice, and encores were numerous ; Miss Hume coming in for special recognition in this way, besides being rewarded with a shower of bouquets for her singing in the scena with Frederick in the second act. " The Pirates " will be played for the last time this evening. At the Melbourne criminal session Thomas Martin, janitor of one of the State schools in a popular suburb, was convicted of an unnatural offence and sentenced to death. It has since transpired .that he was previously convicted of a similar offence, and confined in Pentridge for a lengthened period, The police are blamed for not apprising the education authorities of the fact. Martin presented to the headteacher, who employed him, what appeared to be exoelleat testimonials, and during the four years he served at the school behaved himself well. The Minister of Education (Mr Pearson) therefore thinks that no blame is attachable to the head-master.

A Sydney telegram to the ' Argus' states that Charles Max Schraeder, a gentlemanlylooking middle-aged man, was charged at the Central Police Court qn the 27th ult. with being a person for whpse .arrest a warrant had been issued in London. The police stated that a cable message had been received from London asking them to arrest Schraeder, who is charged with having forged a promissory note for a large amount, upwards of LIOO.OOO. Schraeder admitted that he was the person referred to in the cable message, but said that he knew nothing about the forgery, adding that one of his brothers was slightly insane, and had, perhaps, been doing something wrong. The case was adjourned for a week at the request of the accused, who assured the Bench that it was all a mistake.

A young man has just died in Brooklyn between whom and a Scotch earldom stood only one life—that of his grandfather, an old man of eighty. The young man (Lord Drummond) was only thirty-one at his death; but fifteen years ago he eloped to America with a nurse employed in the family, a woman several years his senior, whose sole recommendation was her beauty. To her he has remained constant through all (the years Sjince, steadily rejecting the continual .offers of assistance that his grandfather mad.e, because .thsse offers were conditional upon his leaving his wife here and coming Home .alone to inheritance. Matters went from bad (bo worse with him, and he died of consumption in an an absolute pauper. His widow will insist upon dower rights for herself and provision for their child. This is the lofty tone adopted by Mr Ballance's paper in discussing the Dunedin East election :—" Sir Robert Stout's defeat is no discredit to him, but, on the other hand, is in all probability due to his manly resistance to the darling objects of the cliques that exercise so large an influence in that part of New Zealand. There is no doubt that his opposition to the Otago Central Railway syndicate swindle has been one of the causes, if not the main cause, of his defeat. It is unfortunate that men of emi nence should be subjected to the risk of being left out, and the provision that all the elections are held on the same day should be repealed, and at the same time the system of multiple voting. The personal question is hardly worth noticing. . , , He is head and shoulders above every other man in the Colony as a Liberal leader, and whenever he comes back to Parliament—and he oan be there whenever he so determines -he will at once occupy the foremost place in his party. Sir Robert Stout's defeat is not only a loss to his party, but to the Colony, which cannot afford to dispense with the services of the ablest and greatest among its public men.''

An invention by Dr De Lautour is being practically tested at the cavalry encampment at Oamaru. The doctor (says the ' North Otago Times') has patented a new kind of tent. It is umbrella in shape, and requires no pole. The ribs, so to speak, are of hickory, consist of two parts, and, according to the size of the tent required, may be of any number. When the tent is erected it has all the appearance of an umbrella, and is more convenient and comfortable than anything of the kind we have seen. It may be erected anywhere, and is Baid to be as equally secure on a smooth, stony, and sandy surface as on a grassy plot, besides being able to stand a storm than the other tents used at the camp, ft js rpomy, too, and one of Dr De Laufcour's tenjbs, covering the same ground as the military bell.-tent, will accommodate twice as many people. Ventilation —always a strong point with the doctor—has been amply provided for by inlets at the sides and outlets at the top, which can be opened or closed at will. Altogether the invention is a wonderful improvement on the tents in use for common and military purposes, and should prove invaluable t« tourists and picnicing and fishing parties during the suinmer months. An old and oft-convicted jerupinal named Christie Fairell, who was surprised along with two other suspected persons in a house in George street, Fitzroy, on the morning of the 27th ult. by the detective police, offered a most desperate resistance to his arrest, and fired a revolver point blank at Detective sergeant Nixon,' at the distance of a few paces. The shot struck the officer on the right side, but though it pierced his clothps it did not penetrate the flesh, owing to the fortunate circumstance that it encountered a thiok bundle of papers and photographs and a leather case in the inside breast pocket of his ooat. Detective Nixon sprang upon Farrell instantly, and with the assistance of Detective-sergeant Ward overr powered him before he could fire again. The jpyojver, which he wore in a belt round his body, was found to be loaded in three chambers. Two named Coleman and Cohen were also found Ja the place, and arrested without resistance. A complete set of burglars' tools and a quantity ,of articles believed ,to be the product joi a robbery were found in the plaoe. The men, were lodged in the Fitzroy watch-house 1 , several charges being entered against them besides the Berious one of shooting with intent to murder. The 'Argus' adds that Farrell was arrested as a criminal illegally ati large in yifitoflta.

Reid, one of the men injured by the ex- \ plosion at To Aroha on Friday, died on • Sunday. j Four cases of poisoning with "rough on rats" were reported in Sydney last week, and two of these proved fatal. .

Fanny Carandini's husband (Captain Moreland), who presented a Jubilee address and casket of jewels from India to the Queen, has been knighted. The New South Wales Minister of Justice has recommended Lord Carrington to reduce to two years the sentence of four years passed on the young man Finney, who shot his father after the latter had cruelly used his mother.

The remains of the Rev. A. C. Gillies were buried this afternoon at the Northern Cemetery. Prior to forming the procession, a short service was conducted by Mr Torrance and the Rev. T. Tonkinson in the Albany street Hall, which was hung with immortelles and drapery suitable to the occasion. Mr Torrance, who was with Mr Gillies almost till the last, assured the congregation that their late pastor, while on his deathbed, was provided with all that conld possibly minister to his comfort, and that he died peaceably. The building was crowded with members of the congregation and their friends, and amongst other clergymen present were the Rev. Dr Stuart, Messrs Porter, Copland, Smith,. Gibb, Johnston, Borrie, and Cameron. The deceased gentleman was fifty-six years of ag;. The following letter has appeared in the 'New York Times':—"lf the people of Australia who are so troubled with rabbits will import a few pairs of the Canada lynx, I think their problem will be solved in a few years. I understand they have no members of the cat family larger than Felis domenticuß. The 'bobcat' is not large and ferocious enough to be dangerous to humanity. Their favorite food is the rabbit or hare of Canada aud Northern New England, and it is reasonable to suppose that if they were placed where their natural sustenance existed in great abundance they would ' increase and multiply and replenish the earth,' until a desirable equilibrium of the fauna would be established. Now I don't ask anything for my advice, but it strikes me that the above suggestion may be of value to a suffering people. Perhaps the hunting leopard of India or some other oat found in countries nearer to them than Canada might answer as well : but I am confident that the lynx would do the business for them.—S. A. Evans, M.D., Conway (N.H.)."

A notice re withdrawal of auction sale will be found in our advertising columns.

Officers and members of District Grand Lodge, 5.0., meet to-morrow evening in Masonic Hall.

Dunedin Horticultural Society's monthly meeting in the Standard Insurance Buildings to morrow evening.

The monthly meeting of the Gaelic Society will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Stuait street, to-morrow evening.

The annual horse parade of tho Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Aisociation takes place at Tahuna Park on Thursday next.

The installation of W.M. and investiture of officers of Lodge of Otago, 844, E. 0., take place in the Freemasons' Hall to-morrow evening. The officers and members of all Masonic lodges are requested to attend installation of W.M. and investiture of officers of Lodge Otago, 844, E.G., which will take place in the Mapopip Hall, Moray place, to-morrow evening. The closing entertainment of the Hanover street Young Men's Society, held last evening in the Baptist Church Schoolroom, was a success. A glee party, under the conductorship of Mr Marsden, lent valuable assistance; solos being also contributed by Misses M. Cottrell, Cooper, and Jones, and Messrs M'Caithy, C. Hale, E. Packer, and Marsden, and a reading by Mr Gain. The dialogue " Bob Sawyer's' Party •'■' eau-ed plenty of amusement, the various characters being well sustained. Miss Marsden and Mr F. Gresswell proved efficient accompanists. The Rev. A. North occupied the chair. A pleasant evening was spent by the members of the Green Island Presbyterian Church choir at the gchool-hou.se, Green Island, last night, about forty members being present. Af£er tea, the B :v, M. Watt presided. Mr Hunter, precpntor, on behalf of the choir, presented Mjss Jennie Kcnwick with a handsome cruet stand, suitably inscribed; and, while regretting her severance from the choir, congratulated her upon her approaching marriage. The Rev. M. Watt replied on behalf of the recipient, and thanked the choir generally for their earnest efforts in improving the musical services of the ,«hurch.