The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1839, 24 November 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1874.

His Honor the Superintendent arrived by the Hauraki this afternoon. Ho was accompanied by Mr J. Sheehan, Provincial Secretary.

Thb anniversary soiree of the Presbyterian congregation will bo held in St. Q-eorge's Hall this evening. Tea at half-past six o'clock; addresses by ministers and othors, and music by tho Choir thereafter.

At a meeting of the Vestry of St George's Church yesterday, the balance of Mr Workman's mortgage on the Church was retired from the proceeds of the late bazaar. Mr Workman had a further claim of £50 (unsecured) against tho Church, which he donated, following the example of tho rev. incumbent, (Mr Lush) Mr D. Beere, and others. Mr Workman has also very generously presented a donation of £10 to the Hauraki Ladiea' Benevolent Society.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day two women were brought up on a charge of vagrancy. One was a person named Annie Miller, who rejoiceß in several aliases, and was not previously entirely unacquainted with the process of the criminal law. She was not treated with much consideration, a sentence of three months' imprisonment bpiug awarded. The other defendant was a young woman of apparently weak intellect, who a long tiE>e ago obtained an affiliation order against Nathaniel Stafford for the payment of a few shillings weekly. This order has recently been disobeyed, Mr. Stafford having absconded from the district. The poor girl, driven to extremities, appears to have taken shelter with Mrs Millet: hence the position she occupied this morning. The Bench took a lenient view of her caso, and made an order for her detention for a period of seven days. In the meantime, the innocent offspring of Jemima Walker and Nat. Stafford's illicit intercourse (a chubby boy of gome three years of age) will ba brought up as a neglected child. It is a pity that the putative father cannot be reached and made to pay for his neglect, as well as contempt ©f an order of the Court.

I am not sure, says iEgles, that the roughness of bush life does not Bometimes'"stifle the instincts of humanity—not of necessity, but occasionally. In illustration of this, a gentleman who was lately on a 500-mile journey in Queensland met a man travelling with his wife and child. The wayfarers ato their midday meal together, and the lady became communicative. Her little one was sick, and she was full of bitterness. She said that; at the place she had stayed the night before no milk was obtainable. In the morning tea was supplied, but again no milk. At length she appealed to the household drudge, explained how ill her infant was, and how urgßnfc wan the need for a little milk. Still none was forthcoming. '•' Hut," pleaded the anxious mother, " I heard the cows lowing in the stockyard this morning, and the calves answering. Surely there . must ba some milk ? " "Of course," said the girl, « there is some milk, but it has to be kept for the lambs dropped by the ewes in the travelling flocks and left behind. We bring them up by hand, en of course there is no milk to spare for anything else." Nor was there any.

It would appear that Mrs Colclough has commenced her lecturing campaign in Mel' bourne. The Australasian speaks of her first appearance as follows:—"A lecture was delivered in the Athenneuin-hall on Tuesday by Mrs Colclough, a recently arrived advocate of the cause of women's rights. The attendance was very moderate, there not being above 70 persons present. The subject of the lecture was " Women as Wives and Mothers." On coming before the audience Mrs Colclough apologised for the absence of a chairman, but explained the omission by saying that she had not been able to find a gentleman ti ith sufficient courage to '' take the chair at a woman's rights meeting. Before proceeding with her address the speaker explained that the soubriquet of "Polly Plum" had been given her in consequence of her having contributed a series of papers to an American joursal which were signed with that name. Sha explained that she was a member of a vigilant society, which watched over legislation -which affected women. They did not claim any special rights for women, but that they should share the rights that are granted to men. They objected that women should be classed as children or idiots. Mrs Colclough reviewed the position of women in society of the present day, and though she looked at the position from a woman's point of view, her arguments were fairly weighed, and she did not spare her ovra sex."

Fbom the Australian Freemason we learn that, at the'regular quarterly communication of the Provincial Grand Lodge of New South Wales, S.C., held on the 9th October, after some routine business, the Provincial Grand Secretary laid on the taVe some presents. Amongst others, from the Sir Walter Scott Lodge, No. 533, S.C., Thames, Auckland, N.Z., copies of lectures, Bermons and proceedings, for whioh the thanks of the Provincial Grand Lodge were voted.

The following letter to the editor of the South Australian Kegister, of Thursday, October 22, from Signora Tamburini Coy, which does much honour to the writer, will bo read with gratification by the Signora's admirers : —" Sir, — On Monday evening next Bellini's opera 'La Sonnambnla' will be given at the Theatre Royal for my benefit, and as this will be my laat appearance in Adelaide I wish, in token of my gratitude for the exceeding kindness I have received from the Adelaide public during the three seasons I have had the honour to appear before them, to give my share of the profits on that occasion (half of the gross receipts) in aid of the public hospital of the colo%y. I shall feel obliged if you will kindly give publicity to the fact, and co-operate with me in benefiting such a deserving institution.—l am, &c, Giuma Tambubini Coy."

Ok funeral reform the Adelaide correspondent of the Argus writes:—The funeral reform movement is already beginning to bear fruit. It is helping to create a healthy and widespread feeling against the expensive paraphernalia of burial and the outward and uncomfortable trappings and suits of woo.

Tho otlier day his \ExcellßT»cy the G-ovcrno'rV having had'tho misfortuno to lo3e a daughter of three years of ago, cour&goouely broke through ancient usages which favour the engagement of a ghastly hoarso and the sombre fquipiwcs of the undortaW, and conreyed tho corpao of his child to tho cemetery in liis own carriage. Thero were no mr.tes, no scarfs, no hat-bands, no pageantry of any kind. The buritil service was read at the grave by the dean —tho leader in the reform agitation—and the few mourners dispersed quite as sad at heart, no doubt, as if they bad been clad in black vestments, with long white streamers to indicate the youth of the deceased. The success, of a movement like this, which is so rapidly enlisting the sympathy and practical support of all classes of the community, may bo looked upon as assured.

A young- Australian was some time ago placed upon a sheep station to acquire that general knowledge of pastoral pursuits which is presumed to follow a position of this Itind. The young feller's doting mother wrote to the resident owner of tho station t» know how her dear boy wks getting ou. Ho replied to the following effect:—"Your son is getting on wonderfully. lam quite struck with him. In response to a direction I gave lut! ho offered me a civility which he called a wipa in tho mouth. To my remonstrances against this courtesy ho responded by currying out his threat, and extended his politeness to my eyes, out of one of whioh I can just see sufficiently to reply to your enquiries, and relieve your maternal anxiety. I don't think yau seed be uneasy about your son. He is sure to got on. From this neighbourhood ho has got off."—iEgles.