The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Ressurexi. FRIDAY. MAY 29, 1885.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5106, 29 May 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Ressurexi. FRIDAY. MAY 29, 1885.

The following telegram ?Fas poßted at the corner this morning:—" Cambria, 170ib8 of specimens from underhand slope ; good show left.--H. W. Moobb.

A VBBT disagreeable accident happened to Mr .p. Wells, butcher, Owen street, to.day, which necessitated his immediate removal to fcue Hospital. From what we can learn Mr Wells wsib riding along the Tararu road, not far from the Kuranui Hill battery, when, in endeavoring to pass a curt on the road, he collided with it, and was thrown from his horse, sustaining a serious fracture of the ankle. The wounded limb was carefully attended to, and the patient, is as easy as, under the ciroHrnstannes, could be expected.

The results of civil servica junior and senior examinations, held in April last, have been made known. The local candidates in the list of pßffsed include, for junior examination, Mies Amy O.f hillips, Kauaeranga Boys' School, and for junior and senior, Master George Meynell Calrerl, of the Auckland Grammar School. In the junior examination sixty candidates presented themselves through* out the colony, and only twenty-one passed. In the.wi.ior, thirteen foiled aud ten pa^ed.

Ih the Police Court this morning the wife of Bichard McCoid applied for a protection order on grounds of habitual drunkenness and neglect on his port. Mr Miller appeared for the applicant, whose husband admitted ber allegations. The order was granted as from the Ist of August last. / Mepsbs Coombes and Co. desire to c&li public attention to their advertisement appearing elsewhere. They announce that; consequent on the euccess attending their sale, they have decided to continue the same for another fortnight, during which tima all their stock will bo offered at 20 per cent, under usual rates. The many pupils of Mrs Do;ld will be glad to learn that her new quarter commences to« morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, in the Odd. fellows' Hall, Richmond street, when intend* ing pupils are asked to attend. The service, of song "Eva" will be given this evening, in aid of a fund to be devoted to painting and repairing the /Xararu Weileyan Sunday Schoolroom. Mr It. D. Stewart has undertaken the readings in connection with it. '

An addition has been made to the list of pupil teachers in the Kauaeranga Bays' School, to which the name of Miss Martha Stillwell has been added.

A tblegbam received in Wellington yesterday records the destruction by fire yesterday morning of Prosser's hotel at Opunake. The insurances are as follows :—On the building ! National Co, £500; New Zealand Co., £500 5 Equitable Co., £250 j United Co., £250. On the stock and furniture, Victoria Co., £600. No' particulars are yet to hand as to how the fire originated.

Boulton, the prisoner at Mount Eden gaol who recently attempted suicide by opening an artery, has mode another attempt by trying to strangle himself, and has been committed to the lunatic asylum.

The chip Eangitikei, Captain Cottier, has arrived at Wellington, 105 days from London. When off the Cape she hud her decks swept during a heavy gale, and a number of moveable articles went over the side, and she narrowly escaped losing a boat. The barque Highland Glen, Captain Cane, 125 days from Liverpool, has also arrived. Part of her cargo is for Port Chalmers.

His Excellency the Governor has informed the Board of Governora of the Canterbury College that under the present arrangements ho cannot interfere in regard to the difficulty which has arisen between the Board and the University Senate about the introduction of certain plays of Terence in the past Latin course.

At the Police Court, Dunedia, yesterday, ten boys, r&DgiDg in oge from seven to ten year?, were charged with stealing 1121bs of raisins. The parents were ordered to ohaatiae them. The father of one suggested that they should have been summoned, as they would be having babies in Court next.

A man named W. H. Lloyd was brought over from Collingwood in & steamer yesterday, and was taken to the Nelson hospital. Ten minutes after admission he died, the cause being he3rfc disease. He was about 50 years of age, and had been a miner in the Collingwood district for 26 years.

The first annual report of the Lyttleton Sailors' Home shows that during the thirteen months the institution had been open, 440 seamen had been accomodated there. The expenditure has been £891, and the receipts leave a debit balance of £173.

The following notice to mariners re th c Auckland harbor is gazetted :—" That the area enclosed between the following lines having been taken for defence purposes, masters of vessels are cautioned against anchoring or kedging within those limits, viz., a line from Takapuna Head to the peak of Rangitoto ; from Depot Spit buoy to Hobson Point; thence a straight line drawn through Bean Rock lighthouse continued to shore of Rangitoto Island."

The following gentleman' are gazetted superintendents of quarantine stations :— H. S. McKellar, Wellington; Thos. Hill, Auckland ; Alex. R. Rose, Lyttelton ; and James Hackworth, Dunedin.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Fibre Company, the report stated the net profit as £677, which was carried forward, making the balance at the credit of the profit and loss £1497. Messrs J. M. Clark and C. B. Stone were re-elected direc'.ors.

In considering the determination of the Postmaater-General that the mai's by the direct steamer should have left; Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the Harbour Board of that place resolved yesterday that unless under special circumstances of emergency, neither the Harbour Board, pilot staff, aor steam tug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. The Board also resolved to support the action taken by other Harbour Boards to have an alteration made in the Harbour Act, so that Government should be irade to pay wharfage on%material imported by it.

Ma S. Mabshalii bas scratched King for the Great Northern Steeplechase.

An ioqueat was held yesterday in Dunedin on a five-year-old child, who was supposed to have died from the neglect of the parents, but the medical evidence disclpsfd nothing beyond the fact of the child having been very weak and suffering from wasting disease. The jury considered the parents were deserving of grave censure for not procuring medical attendance.

. Ik a letter to a Yorkshire paper ou the subject of Conservative converts a eorre3 pondent writes: —Mr Q. E. Howard Vincent, late Director of Criminal 'Investigations, openly declares that although he was ouce a supporter of the Liberal party he feels it impossible to continue any longer in their ranks, and therefore in all sincerity joins the Conservative parly. I firmly believe there are many men throughout the country whose political opinions are as heartily changed as those of Mr C. E. Howard Vincent's, but who have not the courage openly to acknow« ledge their conversion. It appears t© me that the best way of enabling them to do so is to give publicity to every change in political belief like Mr Vincent's. In his letter to Mr F. B. Johnson, secretary of the Westminster Liberal Association, he says :—"Abroad I have seen with my own eyes how much irreparable injury has been and is being done. At home I hearof experienced, far seeing statesmen, like Mr Goschen and Mr Forster, being severely censored by irresponsible committees of their constituents for endeavoring to dissuade their fellow-Liberals from further blighting the present and endaugering the future of the country. The council will therefore readily understand that one having any pretension to patriotic feeling, and still free, should elect to devote his political life to the national cause of tho Conservative party, which .is at least resolred to stand shoulder to shoulder with their countryman, rich and poor, all the world over, from the maintenance of the power of Great Britainjand the advancement of the individual welfare of her sons." It will be remembered that Mr Vincent some time ago paid a filit to Australia,

G-OVEHNMen? were in cabinet the Whole Of yesterday uftornoon. Most of the principal measures to be presented to Parliament by Ministers are now complete. Dboxinb ov Man.—Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility, cured by " Welld' Health Benewer." At druggists. —Kempthorne, Prosper and Co., Agents, Auckland.