The Evening Star FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1888.

Evening Star, Issue 7472, 16 March 1888, Page 2

The Evening Star FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1888.

Mr Justice Williams did not order the boy Denton to be flogged. Mr William Barclay was yesterday elected Mayor of West Harbor, there being no opposition.

The Government have decided that the Jturow runs near Oamaru are to be dealt with under the small runs grazing system. The Premier is about to deliver political addresses at Christchurch and Dunedin and explain what the Government have done during the recess to give effect to their retrenchment policy. The local paper states that the courts at Hampden and Hawkesbury are to be closed, and that Sergeant Conn has been appointed olerk to the Bench and of licensing committees at Palmerston.

Our Christchurch correspondent wires that Inspector Pender, of Christchurch, has received intimation that his district will in future extend from Rangitata on the south to Kaikoura on the north. It has been decided to resuscitate the Wellington branch of the National League. An address was delivered by Archbishop Kedwcod at a meeting last night, and a resolution passed in favor of Home Rule being granted to Ireland.

It is stated that there are over l.ilOO houses to let and for sale in Auckland at .the present time, and that shops, vhich some months ago brought in a rental of L 6 per week, are now let for LI, and tenants (ire difficult to get at that price. A widow named Adams was found dead in a rut on the Clyde-Cromwell road on Saturday afternoon (says the 'Cromwell Argus ! ), having in all probability fallen in a fit. The deceased was the relict of W. Adams, better known ae "Champagneßill." The Palace Skating Rink was extensively patronised last night. Most of those who dinned the skates were of course those vba had had more or less experience, but others wctb pvidently beginners. Arrangements are Gojsptetp for the tuition of thoße who wish to leani,

At the Auckland criminal suasion James Bentley, for cattle stealing, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude; John M'Geehan was convicted of a similar charge, sentence being deferred ; and John Ryan, for an aggravated assault, was sentenced to twelve months' b&rd labor.

A Wellington telega to the ' Daily Times' states that the repo.i .of the Seacliff Building Commission is a very long one. Great blame 13 attached to the contractor, architect, inspector, and department i>r passing the work. The building is pro nounced to have been terribly slummed, and the foundations useless. We have reason for believing that ttiis information is in the m.ain guesswork. in' Hislop's motion at the Education Board's me#t;ng yesterday was not carried, as reported, bjpt wa3 lost on the voices. The chairman was about to take down the votes of the various gjembers, but it was remarked that it was soarccjy ncees-, sary as only one voice was railed in favor of \ the motion. The chairman said that he would not press the matter against the .wishes of members, but he had thought it possiblo t£tat the motion would have been carried H member voted. However, <j*t those who had ao£ voted being asked their Views it was tha£ $e motion would have" been lost in any case. The Dunedin Horticultural Society's Com-' mittee held their monthly meeting last evening at the Standard Offices. It was remarked that the prize-takers were exactly the sawe number as last year—viz., ninety—and the prijte-money awarded L 73 18a 3d, as against 1/74 2s £d. The chrysanthemum show jn May U to b,e half! in the Garrison Hall.—A number of member then met in the room, and Mr M'Keay'p on "Roses and Rose (Growing," which had been read at the last meeting, was brought up | for consideration, and led to an animated! discussion. A fine stand cf dahlias was exhibited by Mr M'Keay, jun.; also a very handsome truss of pelargonium, "Rev. Atkinson,'' and a fine bloom of double white brnginansia Knightii, by Mr Is Kemplin. The funeral of the late Edward Dixon, first-fllass petty-officer of H.M.S. Opal, who die i on Vi/eduesday morning during the passage from Akai'oa, took place yesterday afternoon in the New Cemetery, Port Chalmers With full military lioaora. The rorl&r/e was headed by the Port Chalmers Garr'json Band, playing the Dead March in 'Saul/ Next came a firing paity of blueJackets irfiv? the Opal, followed by the body on a gun carriage covered with the white ensign, on which was jtoed the deceased's Good Templar regalia. #«** joljowedthe officers of'the ship according to se&oyity ; while the rear was brought up by the royal marines and seamen of the Opal, who were followed l}y tbe officers and men of the L Battery mi P°rt .Chalmers Naval Artillery. The funeral was that of the.Church of England. The Rev. J?. C, Platts, incumbent of Holy Trinity Chur.ch, and the Rev. J. Reed, M.A., chaplain of %hft .Opal, were in attendance.

Mr John Ruskin has, in a recent iettex to the London 'Daily Telegraph,' given the following as his answer to the question " Are we ceasing to be English ?":—•" We are not ceasing, because for the last thirty years at the least we have ceased to be English. Swindiiag was not formerly the method of English trada, nor advertising its necessity. Luxury was not anciently the glory of English life, nor darkness and jSl.th its inevitable conditions. Once we imported from America neither meat no? manners; from France neither art nor religion. our British Navy did not use to fight with torpedoes under water, nor our British Army with rifles from behind a hedge. And to keep to t*«s case before the magistrate—neither Roman no* gnglish peace consists in allowing our police to fo shot by burglars qr forgers (unless perchance the revolver miss fire), but primarily in forbidding Ijhe of revolvers to any private peraoc y/hajJsoe,v t cf/"

The appointments of Mr E. Godfrey as lieutenant of the Port Navala, of Mr Runciman as lieutenant of the East Taieri Rifles, and MrTennetas lieutenant of the Clutha Rifles are gazetted.

Caversham Football Club annual meeting this evening at the club room. TheS\ Patrick Kve'a concert takes place this evening in the Garrison Hall. The Carisbrook amateur sport meeting has been postponed until Saturday week.

Tho s.s. Shag is advertised to make a trip from Dunedin to the ' 'pal tomorrow afternoon.

The Australian Sutflower Minstrel open for a short season at the Princess's Theatre to morrow night. They promise a large and well selected programme of new songs and dances, under the management of Miss Kennedy. It was Mr H. W. Mitchell, and not Mr Goldsmith, who at the meeting of Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co. yesterday proposed the placing of debentures on the London market and moved the vote of thanks to the officers of the Company. The monthly practice of the Port Chalmers Volunteer Fire Frigade took place yesterday evening. After nearly two hours' sharp practice the members returned to the station, when Lieutenant Thomson (in the absence of Captain Mitchell) presented Branchmeu F. Perry and G. Palmer with long-service medals. "The Life and Times of the Prophet Daniel" formed the subject of a lecture and lantern views given by Mr Aldiige, the Auckland Evangelist, in the Albany street Hall last night. The hall was crowded. The lantern, which is one of the latest improved, put the pictures on the canvas with marked distinctness, the view of the New Jerusalem and the e.'oquent description by the lecturer calling forth hearty applause. Mr Aldridgo has slides for five biblical lectures, which he intends to give during his visit here,

The annual general meeting of the Impeiial Football Club was held last evening in the Salutation Hotel; Mr Stevenson in the ohair. The annual report and balance sheet showed the club to be in a very good financial state. The f ollowingoffice-bearerd were elected: —President, Mr A, Anderson; vice-presidents, Messrs M'Gregor and Watson: captain, A. Fordyce; deputy-captain, W. Beveridge; secretary and treasurer, T* Drumm; match committee—A. Fordyce, W, Beveridge, and W. Stevenson; general committee—A. Pollock, "YV. Stevenson, A. Henney, T. Brown, and R. M'Nab.