The Evening Star THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1892

Evening Star, Issue 8770, 10 March 1892, Page 2

The Evening Star THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1892

Messrs JE. G. Allen and \V. Goldie, J.P.s, presided at the Port Chalmers Police Court this forenoon, when the adjourned case of assault preforred by Mary Madigan against Grace Moody was resumed. Mr Platts appeared for the complaiuart, *»d Mr North for the defendant, but as there was » question in reference to the title of land in coaucotion with the right-of-way of the defendant's property, their Worships again adjourned the oas,e for a week. In sentencing Sullivan, convicted at Napier of manslaughter, Mr Justice Richmond stated emphatically that *' it was a melancholy fact that two-thirds of the crime in this colony wate directly traceable to drink." And the • Teliraph' declares that Sir W. Wastney, whodefcended the prisoner, a»id if he were not a criminal advocate he would be a temperance reformer. Ue, however, recognised that teetotalism would do away with his business; eo he remained a barrister.

The ' Aunt Lucinda' company at present performing at the Princess's Theatre ware fairly patronised last eveniog. The singing of Messrs Bergin, Palmer, Misses Eva Glen and Alma Obrey was most thoroughly ap predated, and ledemando came thick and fast, Jn Mr Robert Bixter the company have an excellent coeiedian, and one who can hold his own with moot eomic singers. Last evening Mr Baxter was recalled apme four or five times, the audioooe being moat insisting in their demands for mora. Miss Obrey was also very amusing in her comic ecng «Su-si an-i Oh 1' and in her subsequent efforts flho was equally hmnerous- The company appear again tc-uight. They manage to dp t+jese things better in China. A free public library has recently been established in tbe City of Canton, and speaking officially of its inauguration the Viceroy of the province declared;—'•'How important it is to the good government of the country that educational projects should be promoted, so that the people may gain the benefits of good learning." With the public library is conneoted a large printing establishment for the production of "good and nsefnl books, wkjreby the present and the past may be compared, help obtained in the path of reotitude, and yiorals and manners strengthened." The tfioeroy himself, with certain benevolent assojOiatfama and trade guilds, subscribed a earn equivalent to LI 1,000 for the maintenance of this institution, and tbe interest of this ami annual subaoriptioni promised yield an £;>nual income of L 2,000. jLt is a well-known rule of the Jewish religion tiift on the Sabbath Day no fire shall be kindle,d> We have the authority of •The Jewish Chronicle' for saying that observant Jews obey jfchis injunction very a*rictly, APd scrupulously abstain from any act directly or indirectly, cap cause the production of fire. J?ut some meuiber of the Jewish comrrmnity has started the query i Would a Jew be transgressing the '■ rules of his religion by switching on or off an electric glow lamp on the Sabbath Day? For the solution of this subtle question resource had been bad, not to learned rabbis, bat to that eminent scientific authority, Mr William Crookeß, who, after pointing out that tbe naoredness of fire and flame in the old Eastern religions was always intimately connected with combustion, has decided that the glow of the electric lamp does not come within this ilegcrwtion. " The two things," Bays Mr C/ookea. ''are totally distinct, and no arguments derived from the one would seem to apply to the other.''' Rev. J. Berry, in the current number of the • Helping Hand,' replies to the question: Is the social position of the working m*£ better in New Zealand than in America! ipWus* terms.:-" Yep, it is. If we conside/ the power of money in the two countries, tfy£ New Zealand working man has the advantage. Olothing, rent, ana butohenr' meat are all deijte. -pa the States. • The hours of work there are longer. A daj or two after I landed io 'Frisco there Was a public demonstration there on behalf of the nine hours movement. One mechanic in a' hundred in one of the Eastern States owns* the honse he inhabits. The contrast be- v tween the rich and the poor is muoh greater there. I would advise the questioner to read and ponder 'Caesar's Column.' It Almost set" my very marrow on fire. If I. may be pardoned a personal explanation, here, I would add that the address I ga,yeat ( the Ecumenical Conference upon the labor question was" written In America, and was really baaed open the state of things In the country in which it was delivered. Jf I had been addressing a New ZeaUn£ Conference, my tone would have been muob, milder. My blood was up before I began to speak on ( aooount of an attack upon the eigbthngr system made by the previous speaker, who ,«»» an Ampifflsn layman."

A BpeoW committee meeting of the Harbor Boftt will be held to-morrow afternoon, . Mr Harrington Broad, who hat MQtatly been returned for South DerbyiM*lb the Gladstonian interest, is a youngerJMOthero| District Judge Broad, of Nelson. The iWW M.P. was for some years a clerk in §M Kugli*l>, Scottish, and Australian f fJWtfWid Bank in Melbourne, and is at PFjiprt n|S£d of a large financial company in London. " It is not generally knowo( , *yi|pi l i London l Star') that under an old statfflj» a princess betrothed to an English jroyal prince in the direot line of succession to the throne, in the event of the, dea.thjctt.hec affianced husband, is incapacitated from contracting another marriage within five years of his demise. This adds further gloom to Um dismal ■arrouodiogs of *rinoea«'M*y. The morphia soiree la, the latest Parisian craze. According to the Paris correspondent of the 'Standard,' the abuse of morphia has developed to a frightful pass in that city. It seems to be quite a oommofl habit to carry hypodermic syringes for the purpose of administering the drug, and the correspondent describes a morphia tea party, at which tea and bisouits were followed by morphia injeotion. Several of the guests, he s»ys, were down-spirited on their arrival, butalmost immediately after the little syringe had done its work they became animated, and even brilliant, in their conversation. The reaotion is terrible.

John Barlas, who attempted to fire the House of Commons, is by birth oonneoted with some of the best families in Scotland. He is thirty-one years of age, and was educated at the Ohaftfr House and at New College, Oxford. While an undergraduate, Mr Barlas married under highly romantic circumstance a, which were the talk of the 'Varsity for the whole term. He took a second-class in honors. He is a very able musician and pianist. After leaving Oxford, and having distributed his private fortune in largesses, he took to tutorship as a profession. But he always regarded his poetry as the work of his life. Amongst his published works are * Dream Figures,' ' Punch and Judy,' and ' Poems.' His first two volumes were published by Tiilbner.

Annual meeting; of Pirates Football Club to-motrQW evening in City Hotel. Annual meeting of Z>gari-Rlchmond Football Glob on Friday evening at Carroll's Hotel. Mollison, Mills, and 00. will make a grand gaslight di-play of new season's goods to-tight (Chursdaj), aUo Friday and Satuiday. Evening inspection invited.- [Advt ]

The features of thin week's 'New Zealand Graphic' are the illustrations showing the departure of Lord Onslow aud of His Kxoelletcy'a vi.it tj the Wakatlpu district. Mr Hay, dental surgeon by exams., desires to announce that he has secured and equipped with the must approved appliances In duntt try suitable oft}ccg at 112 Prinoes street. —[ advt.

S.S, Invereugili is adyerfcUed to • ail for West Coast Bounds on Monday nej£. The charge is a very reasonable one, and intending passengers are requested to book before boob of tomorrow.

Mr Joe St. Olalr has arrived in Dunrdin for the purpose of making arrangements fur the opening of Mi;B MyiaEemble'sc mpany, wu> arrive by the next Melbourne steamer, The season begins tt the Priooesß'a on Thursday night with 'Dr Bill,' and du ing the ensuing fortnight '. untight and Bhadow' and 'Jane will aUo be produced. fh£ following intlmatijns are fnm'. lord's Weekly 'of January 24: 7h< mas Adams went tp New Ja the Ge«\ing in \Ri54 ; he-was at OarobrkV, Ohanpo. in 1871; hi* aged mother is anjujas for tfdlDgi tdwards called for New Zealand abefjt se % vjnteej} yp»r» ago, and last wrote to bis brpther f rank ten yea's since, when bis address wa> "CJ.»re of Baiman, Wain's Hotel, Dunedir. Jane Bellman wishes to find her titter (name not given), S?tyo left Kngla-d twelve years »go for New Zealand, and married a Mr Hill ; alto her brother Le«M Bellman, £homas Tofield, who left Clerkenwell for Australia i# Lgsl, is asked to write to his son (Thomas Frederick), wboße letters to New ZeMapi have not been answered. Isabella Draper left England for New Zealand fjurteen years ago; her mother h-a had no tidings of her since. BioharJ Mitchell sailed to Auokland, New Zealand, nineteen years ago j his mother has had no news of him for nine years. Ktnma Porter, la«t beard of Junj 28, ißjs, in P*rt Ahuriil, Napier; her widowed mother awaits tiding?. John Colt Ran 'all, of Harwich, vent (to Apitralia in 1849 SO, and wai last heard of in New jjjeajipd. His nephew (Thomas Pack) seeks news,