The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1723, 11 July 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1874.

TOT trial of John Maher in the Supreme Court for perjury committed in the Beeident Magistrate's Court, Thames, terminated last night, the accused being acquitted.

The Auckland correspondent of the Coromandel News says :—The objection cases at the Thames are not likely to rest where they were left in the Court. The authorities purporting to be signed by the objector Braim or Brain have, I hear, been; placed in the hands of Mr. Inspector Bullen, and more unlikely things may happen than that a certain Thames local politician may yet find himself the hero of a Police Court case;

Ouß telegrams state that Henry W. Blacks.ll, chief officer of the barque Pet, who mat with such a severe accident the other day, is dead. Tho deceased was superintending the shipping of a spar which ,h«d been used as a fender, when he was. struck by one end of the spar and jamped against the long boat. He sustained a fracture of the skull and has never recovered consciousness from the ti-re of the accident, which took place on Thursday afternoon.

Ik our contemporary's leading article today the following appears :—" A further reduction on Colonial distilled (Good Templars would sty poison) spirits is ,-ontem- - plated by the Government, and a motion with that vie w is to be brought on for discussion next sitting day." If a reduction of the ,v duty on colonial distilled spirits is meant, the statement is erroneous, for the Government - propose to raise the duty f-om ftve shillings \ to nine shillings yev goUosj l_j r.n i-;ovase of .a ■hilling a gallon each j ear for four y«?ura. Notio* of this wns cent (o distillery proprietor! tome monthd ngo.

In the House of Representatives yrsterday, Mr. Wakefield asltod whether -any .iteps had been taken by the Government to bring tho murderers of Sullivan to. justice subsequently to those the Houso was informed of last session. Mr. Vogel said the wholo object of the Government and those ia charge of the Native Department was to obtain from all the people of tho colony «!uo respect for its laws, and beyond that ho could give him no information.

The anniversary soiree of the Loyal Orange Lodg», No. 6, will be held in Sr. George's Hall on Monday cveoing the 13th instant, at which there will be a number of addresses givon by the minister! .of.the various denominations ; also glees and songs, by the Cornish Glee Singers, and lady and gentlemen amateur*, and Mr. W. H. Reed. After the soiree we believe the evening's entertainment will be wound up with a dance, for which the Messrs. Reed Bros, are to supply the music. The Ballarat Courier, writing on the Burns boys' subscription, says :—" We have spoken briefly, but with sincerity, of the noble sympathy shewn by the children of this colony. It is a deed that will live after them, and be in after years remembered to their honor. People talk about sick of the preent. They point to the past, and pray with more fervor than fuith that iheso days may never return; but the past may ba challenged to produce a nobler or grander illustration of the beautiful than that presented in the subscription of the childrea for thu relief of the poor sufferers at Portland We repeat ,r—the act should be widely published. We are very ready to record the lollies of the age, its moral contradiction?, its crying wrongs: let us be t qually ready to paint if a virtues."