The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1665, 20 April 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1874.

The annual licensing meeting for the district of Thames will be held at the Shortland Court House to morrow, at 12 noon. Applicants will require to be in attendance. Saib of Unredeemed Pledges by Messrs. Gudgeon aud Co., at their mart (to morrow), Tuesday, 21st inst., at 11 o'clock.— JAMES' Hae, Pawnbroker. —Advt. The Misses Isabella and Lizzie Carandini and Mr Henry Gordon assisted in the choir of St. .George's Cliuch last night, when the anthem "As Pants the Hart" formed a portion of the service. The church was crowded. .' -:' . . A tcelli-known English surgeon who lately wrote a.letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the mischief wrought among the upper classes by their excessive consumption of alcohol, has lately become a total abstainer, and declares that lie is greatly beuefitted by the change. , ..,•: , TJKDBB the leading of "The English Juggernaut "the Globe denounces the present; system of railway management as cruel, stern, relentless, remorseless, murdering fathers aud mothers,Clovers, and haters, rich and poor, with Sphini-like impassiveness, and with remorseless sureneas. ;,[,>/ ;; .; •.' The Rev. 0. M. Nelson, of St. Paul's, Auckland, preached at' St. George's Church yesterday morning and evening. The Church ■was filled »n; both occasions, and the rev. gentlemen delivered two most excellent discourses, which were listened to with marked attention. We a*e informed that at the breatfasfc given before the launch of the Erim this morning some apeecbes were made, but not having received an invitation we had no representative present, and are unable therefore to furnish a report of that portion of the pro* ceedings. The Auckland Evening Star the other day published the translation of a Maori letter in favor of the establishment of Good Templars Lodges' amongst the Maories ; the'Thames Advertiser copied the letter, and we notice that it has been reproduced in Saturday's Herald, acknowledged from the Thames Advertiser. ' Aft'advertisement was recently inserted by the authorities of a small hospital in the south of London for a secretary, who, in return for, five hours' work a day, was offered a ■ salary of £150. Iha answers to the adver tisement, we are informed, exceeded 300 in ' number, and nmong the applicants were a, colonel in Her Mujssty's army and a titled \ member of a noble 1 iamily. . i It is recorded of Lord Denman, in his lately published Memoir, that, after describing: in thft O'Conncll appeal cis-o the imperfect jury system by the now famous expression " a mockery, a delusion, siud a snare," ho said to his son, Mr. Justice Denman, "I am sorry I used theße words; they are not judical" It is a characteristic story, for Lord Denman could say the right thing hastily, almost unwittingly. The Coromandel 2fe\vß of Thursday laat says :—The .defamatory and virulent attack upon William Eraser, Esq., U.M., published in the columns of our contemporary on Tuesday last, "will meet with but lit Mo approval in Coroniandel. That genLlemun hue resided here as lleeicleut Map«tr:iLe and Warden, and envious writers and political journalists will '■find,theiß utmost powers ol detraction to fail {%hen,tvi^i;^n him. sf> Mowsjrai£^KH!AEiKO--OFr Sale. ss. in the £ returflca. AU men's and boys' clothing much under coat! Sale in const quenco of (he scarcity of money, till tho end ot this month. Be in time fo.* the first of the bargains. This . is^thc only genuine sale on the field whero zj'p'U will reccivo ss. in- c\i,h ior every £'s .Worth" of goods you purchase- at Joseph' -_ Moses' Thames Cloth Hall. Closed from "gussetFriday till sunset Saturday.—Advt. As. English paper says of Mr. Holman "Runt's latest picture, the "Shadow of Death"? that the laig>; muuber ol persons who have been to see this grand work iluiing oae week shows that the interest in the works of this remarkable painter is as groat now as when his " Finding of the Saviour in the Temple " wag exhibited more than ten years ago. At that time for several months the numbers averaged 800 visitors a day; now the daily averiu'd i» a thousand, and mi increasing oae. This picture was bought by Messrs Agnew for the unprecedented sum of 10,000 guineas, and the price required for the pic! ure is said to be £15,000, with possession' at the end of •even years. \->*' v We have boen requested to call the attention of the '" authorities", to a dangerous pitfall on the beach near the foot bridge -over the Karaku, Creek. The pitfall appears to have been a well, and although partially filled in it is yet sufficiently dangerous to demand early attention. Formerly this hjje was coverod with boards, but on the removal of the iron store known as tho kerosene depot the covering got broken, and nothing further has been done except^ make the hole more dangerous by pitchinejyoken bottles into it. Surely the removal ofttuch a dangerous trap would borne within tbA^ignation of " necessary .works", whicbvthe! Mayor has been authorised to get done.'.,», _,