The Evening Star MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1891.

Evening Star, Issue 8530, 1 June 1891, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1891.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is ill with influenaa.

Jane Alice Pearson Parry, aged twentythree yeara, died suddenly at her parents' residence in Chriatchuroh on Saturday night. The strike of cokemen at Scottdale (Pittaburg) has collapsed. The strikers are reported to be in a terribly distressed condition.

The leading London bankers have agreed to meet when occasion arises, and decide with the Bank of England the minimum rate of discount for three months' bills.

Dr Murray, Roman Catholio Bishop of Maitland (N.S.W.), is visiting the Te Aro springs. He was journeying to Rome via San Francisoo, bnt was too ill to proceed. The Committee of Privileges of the Wesleyan Church have decided to take steps to secure an amending Act to model the deed of the ohurch, so as to enable ministers to remain five years in a oireuit instead of three, as is the law at present.

The ' Eoonomiat' atatea that if the colonies wish to depend on the English publio for floating their loans, the present system of inviting tenders must be abandoned. There is no reason why the Queensland loan should not have been subscribed if it had been kept open for two months at a fixed prioe of 92, and provision made for interest to acorue from the date of subscription. Among the birthday honors Judge Windeyer and the Hon. Julian E- Salomons, QC, of New South Wales, have been knighted, and Premier Forrest, of Western Australia, is created a K.C. M.G. The gallant seamanship of Captain Kane, of H.M.S. Calliope, during the hurricane at Apia in March, 1889, has been recognised by him being appointed to the Companionship of the Bath.

According to the statistics of Mr Hayter, the total estimated liability of the friendly societies of Victoria amount to L 2,164,406; the assets are given as L 1,829.586; therefore there is a defioienoy of L 354.820 yet to be overcome. The societies are, in faot, in a position to pay 17s in the £ of their liabilities, whereas at the first quinquennial investigation they were worse off than they are now by Is lOd in the £. The remans of the late Captain John Veal, who died from injuries received at Wellington, were interred with Masonic honors in the new cemetery, Port Chalmers, yesterday afternoon. The eorMge left the deceased's late residenoe, Grey street, at 3.15 p.m., and the procession was one of the largest yet seen in Port Chalmers. About 200 persons went down from Dunedin in the tog Plucky, and amongst those present were several members of the Harbor Board, of which deceased was a member, the mayor and other prominent citizens, also the members of the Marine Lodge, 942, E.C., and several members of Bister lodges. The service at the grave was read by the Rev. Mr Jory. The burial service of the Masons was also gone through. The City Court has been the scene of many sad speotacles (says the Melbourne ' Argus' pf a recent date), but it is questionable if any have been more pitiable or more saddening than that witnessed there yesterday morning, when a barrister-at-law stood at fine bar charged with vagrancy, and -was in himself, his dresa, his person, and his appearance generally, the strongest possible evidence of the truth of the charge. The accused was William parkin. Mr Pan ton, P.M., had given him several opportunities to reform, for this was not the first occasion on which he had appeared before the Court, but on every occasion, though Parkin attempted to pull himßelf together, he found the task too difficult, and relapsed into his evil ways. Mr Panton sent him to gaol for twelve months.

An article on the Chinese problem is contributed to the 'Nouvelle Revue' by M. Shepard. He anticipates that the day will oome when the immense hordes of Chinese, to avoid a struggle with Russia, the Tartars on her north and western frontiers, and possibly with England, will rise up and quit their country en masse. Australia, he holds, will be the first country they will invade, and the Gulf of Carpentaria will be their landing place. Ooce there they will spread over the land, " living easily on the game and natural herbage of the country " until they have fairly established themselves. fiance tbey will spread to the Pacific slao«LB, .and finally will occupy South and •West America. As an effort of imagination there may' be awpething to say for M. article, but »» a contribution to serious ooHtical Bciencenot much.

A person may be a Chinaman " within the meaning of the Act," even though he has been born in New Zealand of a European mother, and has never travelled beyond the territorial limits of Australasia in his life. The nationality of the father is the only test that law regards, and consequently even an Australian native, or rather an Australasian native, ia prevented by the Chinese Immigration Restriotion Act from returning to the land of his birth if oncg ha leaves it. Mr Hook Suong has been plaaed in this anomalous position (says the 'Argus') by the officers of the Customs department. Ho was anxious to visit China in company with bis aged father and return to Victoria, but it was pointed out to him that he could not be exempted from the ordinary provisions of the law, and that the only way he can re. turn is by securing a passage on some Bteamer from China whioh carries fewer than her legal number of Chinese passen- ! gers—that is to say, one for every 600 sons burthen. Under the beading ' Eleotrioal Reoord tiie 'American Exporter * says:—"Blec tricians loojk forward to the time, at no distant date, when ordinary trains may be transported at a speed of 120 or 125 miles o.n hour by electricity. Many good authorities consider this result much nearer in point of time than the public generally suppose. Mr 0. T. Crosby recently read a paper before the American Institute of -Eleotrical Engineers of this oity (New York) on the results of tests whioh he made at Laurel jvith the eleotrioal looomotive, with whioh he suooeeded in attaining » speed of 120 miles an hour." flfs motor weighed 2 4 tons, and ran upon a circular track two miles long. Of course in this ease the motor WM specially eonstruoted, and was ran nnder the most favorable conditions possible, so that the results obtained do not prove absolutely that the same results could be seoured in ordinary railway transportation. The problem largely depends, of course, on the element of suitable traok construction, and the best authorities i in eleotrical science have expressed the opinion that if a thoroughly good traok %>nld be provided a speed of J2O miles an fcpur would be perfectly practicable, and wifcb;n the limits of perfect safety. | The -car uaad for these experiments is of' novel construction, pointed at eaoh end, somewW ia ohe form of a huge oigar. "The pointed-ends serye to lessen the resistance encountered through the air." The wheels are directly connected with the axle, upon which revolves the armature of an eleotric motor, running at the rate of 3,000 revolutions per minute. jSaoh qf the two motors is of twenty horse-power papaoity. Jt is said that with a third motor adejed a speed of 350 miles an hour could be attained. The current is sappUed from a generating station and conveyed to the car by a oonduotor or rail along the top of the framework." The article eonolades hy remarking: —"The estimates are of oonrse largely conjectural; but they do not seem to be extravagant or improbable, supposing, of opursej that the practicability of running the train by electricity at such a speed is first demonstrated. .It is certain that some such results are confidently anticipated, not only by electricians, but also by many leading railway managers ,pf the present day:"

Ex-Polio* Inapeotor Ooodall settles at Wanganui. The Akaroa licensing election baa been voided owing to it having been htld on a wrong day. place the-Oamwu unemployed on the werewhenua Pasa road.

The Viotqrian mounted rifleman have aeiured fuftfflrr anoceaaea aft the military tournament jfrLondon. t -. Grey. Valley Company hati taken oyer the* Mokihinui Company's oonfcraotfor th 6 supply of 80,000 tons of coal for the railways. A young man named Thomas Devallay, of Balolntha, was taken to the hospital thia morning, suffering from a aimple fraetnre of the right leg, reoeived whilst engaged in a wrestle.

The Salvation Army throughout the world raised during their recent week of self-denial the snug round sum of L 30,577 18a Bd, whioh U not ao bad on the whole.

There are four ministers in Glasgow who will not admit drinkaellera to church membership. Two of them are Caithnessmea— Mr Ross, of Cowoaddens,and Mr Maokay,of Trinity. The idea of a company of persons joining together to purchase a aingle ship and devoting its attention to the running of one craft is finding favor in England, and several vessels owned in this manner are paying good dividends. The Danedin Telegraphists' Provident Association is a healthy institution. Started in 1887 with twenty shareholders, and during its first year of existence oolleoting some L9O, it last year turned over L 1.260. There are now fifty shareholders. May it grow and prosper. The jury who inquired jinto the oiroumstances of the death of little Margaret Hannigan, who was killed by a fall from a swing in the Totara Sohool ground, added this rider to their verdict:—" That the School Committee should either provide safe and suitable ropes for the awing or remove them altogether; and that the master be instructed to have the supervision of it, if kept ereoted." During his late visit to Melbourne the Premier of South Australia fulfilled his promise to inquire into the general merits of the Prison Gate Brigade as worked by the Salvation Army, with a view to his Government sanctioning an annual State endowment to the organisation, as is the case in Victoria ; but largely owing to the difficulties attendant on the securing of reliable information, it is considered doubtful whether Mr Playford will feel justified in reoommending any suoh grant to his colleagues. The ohairman of the Christohuroh Chamber of Commerce, dealing with the oensus returns, said:—" Whiht we do not grudge the Wellington province the prosperity the natural position of the capital and the opening up in Bmall holdings of the back oountry must of necessity produce, we are face to face with the fact that Canterbury has not progressed as she ought. It is satisfactory to note that the oft-repeated contention of this chamber is being generally accepted throughout New {Zealand—vi?, that the population should be increased by inducing desirable farming settlers to join us and assist in developing the resources of this naturally fertile oountry."

Id an editorial on the result of the licensing elections and the efforts being made by the trade to upset many of them, the ' Temperance Herald' says:—" We are told that all this is to be altered by the Legislature, who will take from the committee the discretionary power whioh they are disposed to abuse, and either return to nominee benches or render it imperative that committees, when elected, shall grant licenses when applied for. We do not believe that the Legislature will do anything of the sort. This is not the day for retrograde legislation. Besides, the members of the House will be wise enough to see that the liquor trade is losing oaste in the oountry ; that they 'will, ere long, have again to reckon with the voters who have pronounoed bo unmiatakeably for Prohibition, and that the depriving of these voters of their control of the liquor traffic is not likely to commend them to the good graces of those whose support they will then be anxious to seoure." The' Herald' advises temperance reformers to keenly watch the proceeding, in Parliament next session. Received: Stones' ' Focket Diary' for June. p. 3. Onslow will run between Dunedin and Pott Chalmers, calling at Waverley, Maoan draw's, Broad Bay, and Portobello. commencing on Wednesday. The time-table it advertised. The Rev. J T. Hinton presided at the weekly meeting of the John street Mutual Improvement Sooiety, Caversham. Miss K. Wilde) read an est ay on 'The Theatre,' and Mr J. Earland read the regaining half of the society's jourc.al, the ' Glow-worm.' Mr A. Dolotmre has been joined in the proprietary of the ' Mataura Ensign' by his brother, who has had some journallstlo experience in Canterbury. M»ssre Oolomore Brothers will leave nothing undone to maintain the high tone of the ' £nsiga»'

The 'New '"ea'and Qr»phio' has entered on the second year of its existence. The price of subscription has been raistd, bnt the enterprising proprietor, besides largely adding to the quantity of reading matter, promises to introduce several novelties daring the year. The Carglll road Mutual Improvement Society's last meeting was devoted to the works of Tennyson. Mr T. Tily read a short biography, readings were contributed by the Mia&as Runeirjsan and Messrs Oole and N. lily, and Mies Kajnsfoid au d Mr W. Lang oontt {bated songs. In "A.BV letter on too "Polioe Superatnuation Fund," in Saturday's Evening MAB. the third and fourth lines in Table 11. of Rule 9 are repetitions of the first and seoond lines, and should be struck out The lines following should be read as moved forward in place of those struck oat. The Juvenile Druids' Lodge held a meeting on the 39th ulr, at Milton Hall. Bro. Hill presided,' and numerous members from the senior lodges were present and enlivened the proceedings with songs and toasts. The Otagu and Ivanhoe Lodges paid offloial visits. Two members were initiated and LI li received during the evening.

An entertainment in connection with the Mornington Wesleyan Bible and Mutual Improvement Society was held on Friday evening, when there was a large attendance of members and friends. The gentlemen of the class provided the entorjbainmenf, which went under the designation of the gentlemen's evening. An excellent programme, consisting of instrumental items, songs, recitation's, etc., were given in a very creditable manner, while a dialogue entitled 'Will you advertise?' by Messrs H. Cunliffe and Smith, created much laughter. Rev. L. Hudson presided and Mr H. B. Austlng aoted as acoompanist during the eyenlDg. _^^^__^_____