The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1692, 5 June 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1874.

The Edmund .Trautman Committee are requested by "advertisement to meet at the Exchange buildings this evening at half-past seven o'clock. ■'-"'

We notice that the premises at present occupied by Messrs J. Oosgrave and Co., drapers, Owen-street, are for sale, and a portion of the stock can be taken on terms. Particulars may be learned on application'to J. Cosgrave and Co., Queen-street, Auckland. .-..-'

A numbbb of men have been put onto repair the beach* road and seawall under the direction of the Provincial District Engineer. As soon as this portion of the work is completed, the Tramway Company will make repairs by re-ballasting the line where required and replacing the damaged rails.

We understand that Mr Wm. Rowe has received a requisition from electors of Waitemata to become a candidate for the representation of..that •■ district- in the House of Representatives', and that he is likely to accede to the requisition. Should Mr Rowe accept the position of candidate he would have the support of a number of [influential electors, and if successful, he. would be as good as a second member, for the Thames ■without iv any way neglecting his immediate constituents.' ■ "

At the last meeting of the board of guardians at Sboreham one of the relieving officers reported the death, at Hove, "of Esther Black, pged 70,' who had for many yeirs been in the receipt of 2a. 6d weekly as out-relief. She occupied one little room, where, after her death her will was found, in which She bequeathed £50 to tho Sussex County Hospital, and a like sum. of £50 to Ihe Brighton Lyingin Institution.- The residue of £1900 goes to nephews an;', nieces. It in right to add thafca representative nephew has refunded to tho parish tho money which his aunt had received^

In replying to tlio toast of his health at the banquet given to-.the heroes "of the Ashantee war by tho Lord Mayor of London, Major General Sir Garnet Baid-s-r-; "The military world has learnt many valuable lessons.in recent years, but the most valuable to us as: a nation thai; has been taught us by the Abyssinian and Ashaatee wars is.that •when you have to appoint an English general to command any .military undertaking it is necessai'y to trust him ;.to,supply him with' all he asks for'- and, above all things, to avoid the error committed during the Ifew Zealand war of severing the military command from the diplomacy necessarily connected with the operations. ; I have no hesitation in saying that had my operations been encumbered by the!presence with me of a civil governor, or of an ambassador authorised to give me orders, 1 do not think I should ever hare r#acied Coomassie." „

At the great native meeting to take place at the Miranda shortly the feasting will be on an equal scale with the gathering. One Shortland storekeeper has orders for twenty tons of flour and four tons of sugar. Some torn of fish will be provided by the native?, and a number of bullocks will be slaughtered on the spot. Natives are arriving from Maketu,. on the East Coast, and from other districts equally remote, in order toigive, due solemnity to the occasion of lifting a number of dry bones, removing the tapu, and talking over the question of leasing and selling land. Li is said that the gathering will bo striotly Good Templar—spirits and beer being prohibited.

Smith's English and Continental Combination Company, 'we are informed, " will shortly appear." This company of acrobats, gymnasts, singers, and a ventriloquist£have been playing in Auckland for some weeks with unvarying success, having previously done the Australian continent with the same results. The proprietor, Mr. Smith, was here some years ago with the first Japanese Troupe, the Lentons and other novelties. JTo is a most successful entrepreneur —his name being almost a guarantee that any entertainment he is connected with will be first class. We have not space to reproduce the critiques from Australian papers, but they all testify to the excellence of the performance as a whole, and the preeminent abilities of some of the performers. ■ ; ...

Ik accordance with a custom of long standing, about sixty of the younger scholars of Christ's Hospital attended the service at Allhallows' Church, Lombard-street, on Good Friday, and they r fterwards each received a new penny and a small packet of almonds and raisirs. The will of one Peter Symonds gave rise to this annually-recurring custom, and it also provides foi the payment of a guinea to the rector for preaching the sermon. At Bartholomew-the-G-reat the rector, after the sermon, proceeded to the grave of an unknown donor, and distributed twenty-one to as many poor widows, reserving for himself a similar amount for his sermon. This custom has been observed for two or three centuries, and is consistent with the will of the benefactor.

A patai accident to a valuable horse occurred on Dixbn's No. 1 claim to-day, which entails a serious loss on Mr J". Goonan, contractor for supplying the Ballarat and Clunes Battery. The horse was let out of the stable about noon, it wandered away to graze and fell down an old dicused shaft about fifteen feet deep. Assistance was promptly rendered by the residents of Punga Flat and neighborhood, and the horse was lifted out of the shaft, but it expired just as it rose to the surface. The horse, we are informed, was worth £50, had been brought from Auckland only last week, and had scarcely done a day's work for his owner. The shift into which the hone fell was one of those shallow sinkings done in the early days of the field, which should have been filled or covered in long ago. Perhaps when human life is sacrificed the regulations bearing upon this matter will be more stringently enforced.

The following announcement at Washington, in the Daily National Republican, on March 9, gave an unwonted animation to the " Bill Day " of the House:—" Canon Kingsley, of the Church of England, author of ' Alton Locke' and 'Hypatia,' will perform the services of chaplain to the House of Representatives at twelve o'clock to-day." The notice was short, but gallery and floor present aa unusually lively aspect for a Monday morning. Canon Kingsley ascends the desk with Speaker Blain, and proeetdito open Congress, The prayers consisted simply of two Collects from the Episcopal Church Service and of the Lord's Prayer, rendered with deep solemnity of manner. Then Canon Kingsley is put through, a process of handshaking, which initiates him in the most exhausting custom of the country, which will point more than one paragraph, doubtless, in his future Botes upon Americans and their manners. It is made as easy as possible " under the circumstances." A chair is given him at the right of the Speaker, and while the usual Monday morning shower of bills begins to descend Canon Kingsley holds a levSe all to himself. • :