The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3172, 19 April 1879, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1879.

Fbom a private letter from Obinemuri we learn that the works carried out under Mr Aitken, the County Engineer, have been faithfully executed, especially the main road to Katikali. It is to be hoped that the Tauranga County Council will complete the portion of that .road within their jurisdiction.

A j|ii,itaey funeral is to be accorded to the remains of the late Sergt. H. A. Cleary, and by our advertising columns it will be seen that all the volunteer companies have been ordered to parade for that purpose.

We have been requested, like our contemporary, to call attention to the plant known as the Bathurst burr, which at present is spreading over this district. We Lave been informed to-day that His Worship the Mayor has issued instructions that men be employed to out down and destroy the plant. In districts where sheep rearing is carried out this burr is frequently a great plague, considerably reducing the value of the wool.

Ik several outlying portions of the town, butcher boys and others are constantly in the habit of crossing footpaths constructed by the Borough and the residents at considerable expense, and greatly damaging the same. To cross a footpath on horseback is a breach of the Borough Bye-laws, and we hear instructions have been issued which will result in a close look-out being kept on the gentry who are in the habifcof making short cuts across footpaths, and probably a few will soon be figuriffg^pjj^Police Goort._ Feequent compla™ are made offlhrsons desecrating the cemeteries by stealing flowers and plants placed by loving hands on the graves of the dear departed. Only those who have lost near and dear relations or friends can know the affection the heart feels for the little patch of sod that covers their last resting places, and the sorrow caused by their desecration. Persons Visiting the cemeteries should really try to suppress the inclination to steal, and spare at least the graves of the dead.

At the E.M. Court to-day the only business on tho sheet was a charge of abusive language. As neither party eppeared the case was struck out.

These was a session of the Warden's Court this morning. The only business was the hearing of a plaint for non-working of the Eesolution claim, brought against Morr.ow and party by Hugh Mackie. An order was made that the claim be forfeited, and Mackie placed in possession. Col. Fraser, Warden, occupied the Bench.

Peemission has been granted by the Borough Council to Mr A. Price to shoot the pigeons that infest the upper portion of the Bank of New Zealand.

Wb have been requested by the Sisters of Mercy to publish the following :—" The Sisters of Mercy most gratefully acknowledge the receipt of £13, collected by Miss Nolan at Mr Delaney's Hotel, Waikato, in aid of the bazaar fund, and return sincere thanks to all those who so kindly contributed towards it."

By a Punedin telegram we learn that our old acquaintance, Mr J. M. Perrier, who a fortnight ago assumed the proprietorship of the Evening Age, it is said, is about to relinquish that position. He has accepted an engagement with Messrs Willis and Seymour, ai lecturer to the panorama of New Zealand, which leaves Dunedin on Monday next to be exhibited at Christchurch en route for the North. The present lecturer (Mr Cow per) is a great failure. Larrikins resort to the theatre almost nightly to make fun of him.

As a proof of the increase in the value of land in the Manawatu, a half-an acre section in Fergusson street, Palmer9ton North, was sold yesterday at £1300, to Sildree, late of Turakina, who will erect a hotel. This, of course, is at the rate of £2600 per acre.

A lusus natures, says the Waikato Times, in the shape of a peach-tree that will produce a full flavoured, large, eating peach, at the present season of the year, is a welcome addition to the orchard. Such an one has Mr George Mason, nurseryman, of Hamilton, succeeded in developing, by training on a particular stock, and we can bear testimony to the excellence and good condition of the fruit. The variety operated upon is the Solway, and Mr Mason has a considerable number of well-grown, young trees, of what he calls Mason's Improved Solway, now in the nursery.

Mb J. McCosh Clark has been elected Chairman of the Auckland Board of Education.

At a meeting of the Auckland Waste Lands Board W. Myers and several others asked to be registered as applicants for lands in Te Aroha when the block was opened.—ln reply to the members, the Chairman said that this registration gave the applicants no pre-emptive rights, and on the ground that it pleased the applicants and did no harm to anyone it was agreed to comply with their request, and record the applications.

A cobbespondent writes to a Home paper:—" How few of us realise in the recent disastrous engagement at the Cape we lost more officers and men than at Alma, and nearly equal the death-roll of Inkermann, as the following figures will show :—Battle of Alma, 25 officers—362 total killed; battle of Inkermann, 39 officers-597 total killed. Battle of the 22nd January at the Cape, 30 officers— 500 total killed."

By a Sydney telegram we learn that the son and clerk to the Under-Secretary for Education has been accused in the Assembly of writing to teachers, offering to sell stationery, asking contributions for a distressed friend, unnamed, and promising his influence for an equivalent.

The Ameer of Afghanistan has a Captain in his service, an Irishman, who has great influence over the autocrat of Cabul, and is described as a certain Hussein Yhyber Khan, commanding the cavalry of the military district of Kandahar. This Murat of Afghanistan cavalry is a deserted British soldier. His name is O'Dbnnell. He served for many years in the Eighty-seventh Irish Fusiliers, or Faugh-a-Ballas, in which he was Color or Fay Sergeant. He is a man of middle age, and noted for his reckless daring and his herculean strength. He was the only European ol his. day in India who vanquished every native wrestler pitted against him.

Ottb telegrams to-day shew us that Mr Berry is not progressing so satisfactorily in London with his business as it was thought he would do some time since. The home authorities would like to get rid of the difficulty by suggesting some mode of compromise and settlement in the colony itself, so that the influential party who are opposed to Mr Berry might not be so far humiliated as the being subjected to pressure outside would amount to. The Victorian Fremier is, however, naturally anxious to have the business settled before he leaves London, and threatens that if he has to go unsatisfied, he will rouse the colony when he returns to Victoria. It would certainly be a blessing for all the colonies if the dispute were settled, and the British Government, which sanctioned the vicious constitution of Victoria, is bound to do all it can to remedy the evil. The cause of class antagonism being removed, we might hope for a complete change in the tariff .and other reforms.—Herald.