The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1764, 28 August 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1874.

Til sharemarket was particularly dull to?day—not a single sale being registered at ):■ the noon meeting of the brokers. The Exchange presented a deserted appearance. Wb learn that the p.s. Hauraki is likely to make daily trips between the Thames and Auckland during the coming week; tearing Auckland in the evening and returning n«xt . Morning. ■"].'.' ' .. ' ■.' ■'' , . A pKPrTATIoir ft om the. Thames Cricket Club, consisting of Messrs Gellion, Pane, Wardell, Pulleine and Waliiosley, waited on Messrs Campbell and Kobert Graham yesterday for the purpose of obtaining the use of land owned by the abovenamed gentlemen at Tararu for,a cricket ground. Messrs Graham and Campbell promised to meet the wishes of the cricketers if in their power. The deputation then withdrew. Mb. G. W.Hesiop of Auckland has issued the prospectus of an " Art Union of Sewing Machines." , Some time ago Mr. Heslop took this mesns of disposing of some of his goods m this line, and the nceipt of numerous applications for tickets, after ihe list had closed -has induced the proprietor to open another on a larger scale. There will be 220 tickets at ten shillings apiece, and fourteen prizes of the aggregate ralue of £100—the drawing to take place as soon as the lilt is full. The machines to he thus disposed of are all guaranteed, and accompanied with an under- ; taking to k«ap them in repair for twelve

A thoroughly reliable man fa required aa night watchman—applications to be sent to A. and Ck Price. This ' step is taken "by Messrs Price, Hewitt and Company and Stone Bros, in order to r'duce their insurance charges. The block to bo placed under the of the night' watchman is bounded by Owen, Eurkevand Abraham Btrcet* and tie Beach, and contains a large amount of valuable property. The Daily Telegraph announces the safe return of Mr. George Smith from hia second Assyrian expedition. He Arrived in England on June 16,- in-eicenerfc heslth, haying surmounted nil kinds of difficulties in the course of his excavitions and journeyings, and bringing home a very large collection of new cuneiform tablets and fragments, as well as a great many very interesting objects of Assyrian art, including the entire lintel in sculptured stone of one of the ancient palacq gateways. I It is the custom in Germany to announce engagements as well as actual marriages in the public prints. The following appears in the Dresden Journal with reference to such a notice:—"With respect to the announcement by which I, at tho end of last November, gave notice of my being engaged to tho Dowager Baroness Zoe vonKotzebue, I am now obliged to Btate that this relationship has, at her desire and to my great regret, been broken offj bocaußO she did not find in my deportment that gravity which .she had a right to expect.—Count Luckner." j A bimabkabee strike of coal-miners is in progress at Nelsonville, a town in Ohio, near Columbus. The regularity of it consists in thia, that white miners have struck —to the number of nearly a thousand men—and their places supplied -with negro miners : the issue is now one of the proprietors cooperating with the negroes against the., striking white miners. The strikers are trying to induce the negroes to desert, and have 6Hcceeded with about a hundred :of them. The-same issue has never been presented before in the country. A nearly similar issue once arose at Lynn, Mass., ■when the trades unions tried to ousts the Chinese shoemaker?, but there the unionists used violence. A GOOD illustration of the mischief and loss arising from entering into contracts fcr an unduly lengthened period of time was given by Mr. Rowsall, ©f the Admiralty, when under examination last week before the select, committee on the mode of purchase in public departments. In March, 1866, the Admiralty entered into a contract for ten years, with Messrs Hogarth, of Aberdeen, for preserving meat at Deptford. ■ Messrs Hogarth , wtere to be paid a commission of 2£ per cent on the value of the meat put up, and the Admiralty guaranteed that at least a million pounds would be,preserved annually. The commission upon this amounted to £1043. Tho year after the contract was entered into, Australian meat was introduced into tho Navy, and such has been the universal preference/given to it that not a pound of meat has been preserved in Deptford since 1871, Mr. Rowsell said that the Australian and New Zealand meats have given very great satisfaction, and that thera is no probability of any mora meat being required to be preserved at Deptford. Messrs Hogarth, however, have drawn, and will continue to draw till the end of their contract in 1876, £1043 annually for doing nothing. The difference in the,cost of Australian or New Zealand preserved meats, and the"'meat preserved at Deptford is 7d. and a fraction as against lid. and a fraction per lb. —Home NeWB.: . .., ; ... .;, r/ -;.;>. •;■.; „ p.-,-,- ; Wb are quite sure thai many of our readers will read with pleasure tho following extract from the Liverpool Daily Post, which speaks in flattering terms of Mr. J. L. Hall, who was for such a longtime identified with theatricals on the Thames and in Auckland:—" One of the largsst audiences ever packed within the Prince of Wales Theatre was attracted last night- by! the first" benefit pf Mr. J. L. HallEverything combined stb show-that -.this genuine comedicn has in a very brief time built up a great lecal reputation. A most enthusiastic greeting at Rip Van Winklo was followed by frequent recalls, and. in a short speech, Mr. Hall communicated to his ndmircrs two facti which led them to redouble their acclaims. The first was that, though he had been absent for three and twenty years, he is a native of • LiTerpool,jand the other was that Mr. Addison had engaged him for another year. Having done justice both to the middle-aged and senile phase 3 of the graceless but amiable and popular. Rip, Mr. Hall appeared as the Widow Twankey in a burlesque which somoten yearsago was one of the first and most remarkable successes of the theatre. His performance of Aladdin s mother is unlike any hitherto seen in Liverpool, and it is full of his most characteristic humour, daring io the last degree, but never offensive." Mrs. Hall, who i» equally well known and respected, was playing'_ at tho Alexandra Theatre, and hai made a decided hit with the Liverpudlians. The success of Mr. i and Mrs. Hall is now completely assured. ■ i A STEIKING proof of the varied nationalities settled in America is afforded, by the list of newspapers published there in other languages than English. There are French, German, Scandinavian, -Spanish, Dutch. Italian, Bohemian, Portuguese,, Polish, Wel«b, and Cherokee newspapers. According to the new volume of the American • Newspaper Directory, German journals are by far the most numerous. Th«re is only one Portuguese newspaper, tho Novo Mundo of New York, Illinois and Missouri have each a newspaper in Polish. The Welsh of New York anc Philadelphia have four, and the Indians o; the Indian territory one, printed in Cherokee The extent to which newspaper reading pre vails in the United Stat3 may be learnt froir the fact that there are at the present tin* 7784 newspapers published in the Unitec States, the Dominion of Canada, and New foundJand, of which 7330 belong to tb< Republic, while only 445 are printed m tin British possessions. The United Statee therefore, have 5649 newspapers more that the United Kingdom, in which 1690 onl; appear. New Xork, as might be expected stands first among the States in the numbe ofits publications^lt issues 1055, of wbicl 98 are daily papers, 681 weekly, and 20 monthly. Florida is the only state withou a daily pap<sr. Turning to the Dominion o Canada, we find only 46 daily papers, 4 monthlies; and four quarterlies. Ontario, tn Protestant province, has 255 papers, whil Quebec, essentially Roman Catholic, can boat only of 88. In the former, the weekly puj lications number 212 j only 41 are issue ia the latter. ; l • ,/ .