The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1739, 30 July 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1874.

Iw .the-New Zealand Gazette of tho 23rd instaut are published additional regulation* made by the Governor in Council under "The Telegraph Act, 1865." They relate to the conditions under which persons may receive telegrams in cypher from places^ beyond the limits pf the Colony of New Zealand, and to telegrams! from masters of vessels trading on New ' Zealand to Harbor Masters. " Upon payment of a fee of ono guinea any person /receiving or intendisg to become a receiver of foreign telegrams may register bis address or signature in cypher at any telegraph station;.,in.-the. colony. .A register of cyphers will be kept, in which the cypher fixed upon' will be entered,

and opposite to it the proper name 'and address in full of the person registering, such name and address to be furnished to the officer in charge of the station at which such cypher is registered. The regulations regarding telegrams from masters of Tessels to .Harbor Masters provide that any master of a ship or •vessel trading in New Zealand, whose vessel is ready for sea or about to proceed on a voyage, may, upon payment of sixpence, send a telegram to the Harbor Master of the port to which his vessel is bound, or of any intermediate port, asking for information as to the slate of the weather at any such port. The Harbor Master, or Deputy Harbor Master, or any' person performing the duties shall be included in the term "Harbor Master." The master of any vessel can sign the name of his vessel to the telegram, in reply the Harbor Master can sign the name of the port, and the reply shall be included in the first charge of sixpence. Every such telegram must be confined strictly to information respecting the weather; neither the telegram nor reply must in any case exceed ten words. The information respecting the weather may be obtained by question as to the state of the barometer, the strength and direction of the wind or the state of the sea; at bar harbours, the state of the bar may be described in the same terms as the state of the sea, but in no case is the state of both bar and sea to be sent in the same telegram. In other respects these telegrams will !i be accepted and transmitted as ordinary telegrams. Any attempt at evasion of the regulations will render the telegram liable to be refused. This concession to shipmasters should be a *great convenience, and the liberality in the matter of charge is commendable.

The battle of the log* in Auckland has terminated. Tired of litigation, apparently, the parties to the interminable suits; arising out of the log business have mutually agreed to withdraw their forces and try for the future to work amicably. It is heartily tobe wished that we shall hear no more of Mohi versus Craig, Craig's Troubles, or any other of the numerous phases which this business has assumed, If the parties most concerned are content to bury the legal hatchet, the public will experience a relief, for they have been heartly sick of the intermittent character of the »uits which have been instituted during, the last few years, and which have undoubtedly tended to demoralise certain members of the community. As the matter now stands it is a fairly drawn battle —no one sid« can claim a victory; but if it had been much longer protracted the end would have been something like that of the Kilkenny cats—nothing left but the tails. It is well for all parties that the business has been settled. The Chief Justice will feel wielief at the prospect now opened to him; and the fact that these suits have been concluded will be one great inducement to his continuing in harness, instead of accepting the proposed pension. Special jurymen will also be thankful that they are no longer called upon to devote day after day of valuable time in listening to a recapitulation of evidence of one character, and to legal arguments of interminable length. In fact everybody will be pleased to learn that the litigants have adopted the sensible course of terminating by mutual' consent what at one time threatened lo be interminable so long as there were lawyers, and Courts wherein to plead.