The Thames Star. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1898.

Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9047, 20 April 1898, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1898.

A young man named Ernest Colquhonn employed at Judd' s Foundry met -with a painful accident yesterday, having the tops of the third and fourth fingers of the right hand taken off, whilst putting the belt on the change wheels of one of the lathes. A special meeting of the teachers of St. Georges Sunday School will be held this evening in the vestry of St. George's Church at 7.30 o'clock. The annual demonstration of the Thames Friendly Societies will be held on Sunday next. By notice in our columns members are requested to meet at Shortland at two o'clock io form the usual procession headed by the Naval Band. The pwblic meeting will be held in the Academy of Music, and it is hoped there will be a large attendance of members and the general public. Thb funeral of the late Mrs Addiooat took plaoe yesterday afternoon, and was largely attended. Rev. F. W. Boy» impressively read the burial service. Special meetings are announced elsewhere to take plaoe at the* Salvation Army Barracks to night and to-morrow. Sister Mrs Underwood, treasurer of the Wanganui corps, will sing and speak to night. On Thursday evening Captain Dixon will speak on "How we are trained at the Army College " Ma Thos. Day, Hon. Secretary of the Thames Cycling Club, has reoeived applications for membership from four Waihi riders. The list of members is swelling rapidly, and the demonstration on May 24th promises to be a great success.

A Paris telegram says : Leontine Deoousse, the young woman who vitrioled her lover in the face and was repaid by him with four revolver bullets in various parts of her body, has received through the Commissioner of Police a letter containing a proposal of marriage from a rich Belgian landowner, who declares himself smitten with admiration for her conduct. The benefit concert and dance that is to tendered to the widnw and family of Mr Win. H. Wallace in the Academy of Mi s c on the 12th of May promises to be a great success. An excellent programme is iv course of preparation by Mr Hastings and the other members of the Committee, and several ladies and gentlemen have kindly sonoeuted to give their services. The accompaniment* will be played by Miss Ada Smith. A rehearsal will take place in the course of a few days.

Old fashions in dress may be revived, but no old-fashioned medicine can replace Chamberlain's Uolic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rt medy. For sale by J. B. Hansen, Grocer Maconochie's Fore Marmalade, made fioni the Genuine .-eville Orange, has a w>rld-wide Reputation, and is acknowleged to be the finest made. Ask your Grocer for MACoyocHiß Bbos, Marmalade. Sbbqeakt Pratt before the Police Commission : i n all the stations he had had there had only been one house fit for a Chinaman to live in. A strange thing about it was that always after he left the place they started to build a new station, and the place must have been bad when they had to rebuild. "When he was transferred to Gore he was appointed clerk of court. There was an average of 72 cases a month, and for that work he got £10 a year. A clerk was appointed a little before witness left at £200. When he went to Wyndham it was ti hot-bed of larrikinism. He did not know how it was, but whenever there was any larrikinism to be put down witness seemed to Jbe let in for it. On being ti ansferred from Alexandra to Clyde he askei for four, days to consider whether he would leave the force. He got a reply that if he was not in Clyde within twelve hours he would be suspended. Mr John Tedt*t, who leaves Matatoke in the course of a few days to take over the Ohaupo Hotel, w.ll to-morrow offer for public competition the whole of his superior household furniture and effects. The tale will take place at the residence at Matatoke, Mr R. R McGregor officiating as auctioneer, and there will doubtless be a large attendance of intending purchasers. For the convenience of those who intend to be present a conveyance will leave Mr C. Short's stables at 10 o'clock. An orchardist at Kyneton, Victoria, has a simple method of entrapping the oodlin moth. Procure one of the common sticky fly-papers, and tie it round a lantern with a lighted candle inside, and at night hang the lamp up amoung the fruit ■ trees. The light attracts the moths, and they get atuok on the paper. Even the export of gold, says a contemporary, notwithstanding the faot that the Premier is a paid official of the German Syndicate and is interested in the Ziman Companies—two of the largest concerns in the colonies —exhibits a falling off. . The Premier just now finds his lines cast in anything but pleasant places : that he has himself to thank for. It is impossible for a politician to serve his country and Mammon at one and the same time. Mr Seddon had tried to do both— the latter especially—and the result of the Wellington election and his rather grim reception in the South show how sadly he has failed.

By. the explosion of 2000 barrels of whisky at Pittsburg (writes the New York correspondent of the Age) over a soore of persons were buried under tons of bricks and mortar, and 25 lives have been lost. A Government bonded warehouse was burned, 2000 barrels of whisky exploded, falling walls crushed adjoining tenement houses, all the occupants of which were killed or injured. After the warehouse wall fell in a large ammonia tank shot out of the burning building and fell on a small house in an alley, crushing in the roof and two storeys, and leaving the four walls standing.

Ladies' Umbrellas, Corsets, Gloves. Hosiery, and Underclothing at keen prices —Geo Cullen and Co., Cash Drapers. — Advt.

An island has suddenly appeared on the northwest coast of Borneo, opposite the town of Labuan. Its appearance is believed to be due to the earthquake which occiued iv September in British Borneo- The island ia composed of clay and rock. It measures 200 yards in length by 60 in width, and it has gone on increasing since its first emergence.

Mr Day.d Rose warns, a former resident of Thames, paid a flying visit to this district yesterday, and returned to Auckland again in the evening. Prior to Mr Rosewarne leaving this district, he held an official position under the late Mr Geo. Blaok at both the Bip Pump and Queen of Beauty works. Since then he has held many important positions in connection with the mining industry in the Australian colonies, and at present has charge of a group of mines at Port Darwin in the Northern Territory of South Australia. I Whilst here yesterday be visited several of the scenes of his previous connection with this field, amongst which was the Queen of Beauty shaft sice, at whiih place he expressed considerable astonishment at the largeness of the pumping plant now being erected there. Mr Rosewarne returns to Australia by the Tarawera on Monday next, and is accompanied by his wife.

An elderly man named William Glenn was to-day brought up before Messrs H. C. Gillespie and U. J Greenslade, Js P., on a charge of drunkenness and also using obscene language in Pollen Street. The accused said he might have made use of language, but he could not recolleat having done so. Constable Hooke stated that he arrested the accused about 11-15 o'clock on the 15 inst. He nade use of indecent language and was drunk. Ike offence took place in Pollen street. It appeared that that there were six previous convictions against Glenn, who had also about a year ago been committed to the asylum. The Bench said that the using of indecent language within the hearing of ladiea and passers by must be put a stop to, and accused would be sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour in the Shorthand Gaol 1 Zola's truly heroic attitude on the Dreyfus question will certainly do much to hasten the change in sentiment concerning himself. Here is a man who has risked all except life —it may be that he risks life itself—for the sake of justice. He has thrown away the popularity which he was supposed to value so much, and for the time at least has made himself the best-hated man in Franoe, simply because the thought of a great wrong moved him to action. This man can hardly have passed his life in writing- utterly evil books in order to sell huge editions.—New York Times. So like a woman. At the Assessment Court held yesterday, says the '-'Lyttelton Times," for the purpose of hearing objections to the city valuations, a lady watched I the proceedings for some two hours with close attention. Becoming somewhat tired of inaction, she asked the Bench to hear her I objection against the land tax valuation On being informed that the Court was not sittinc; for that purpose, the lady naively observed ihat if such was the case it was a shame to have kept her waiting all that time. " You might have told me so at first" she remarked. laurENsE stock of prints, muslins piques, cambrics, drills, piquettes, &c, at very low prices^ for; cash, at A. J, and E jrvine's-AdvtJ Pianofortes carefully tuned for 7a 6d periodical visits at reduced rates. J. Gbiog Queen street, betwixra Walter and Pahau s tr*rtß.—[Adwt.

A very interesting 1 ceremony took place on Friday afternoon in St. Mary's Convent Chapel, Ponsonby, the occasion being the reception of four young ladies into the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. After the long procession of the Sisters, headed by the crossbearer, had passed to the choir, the young ladies to be admitted entered in bridal attire, attended by the Superior, -whilst the Convent choir sang the devotional hymn, " 0 G-loriosa Virginum," His Lordship Dr Lenihan presided, and after the usual interrogations had been made, the youthful aspirants to the religious life retired, to return in a. few minutes divested of their worldly grandeur, and clothed in the sombre garb of a Sister of Mercy. The Bey. Father O'Reilly, of the Thames, assisted at the ceremony, and the Rev- Father Dawson, of Wellington, preached an eloquent and instructive sermon, which was opened with the text, "How beautiful are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts." The reverend gentleman dwelt on the beauties of the religious life, and alluded to the sacrifice made by these young maidens in leaving homes and kindred, and all the delights of domestic ties, to embrace the arduous duties of the Sisterhood On Saturday morning seven youag ladies, after spending the customary years ef probation, presented themselves to bind themselves irrevocably to the religious life. Mass -was celebrated by the Key. Dr. Lenihan, during which the received the black veil and ring, previous to reading, in an audible manner, the vows of profession, after which they remained prostrate in prayer during 1 the chanting of the " Te Deum." After the ceremony was concluded the friends of the Sisters adjourned to the Convent reception room, where a sumptuous b-eakfast was laid out. The names of the young ladies who were received are:—Miss Duggan (Wellington), in religion called Sister M. Celestine ; Miss Cartin (Orange), Sister M. Kevin; Miss 0. Doherty (Greymout ), Sister M. Eustace; Miss O'Connor (Melbourne), Sister M, Clement. The names of those professed are: Sister M. Laurenca Whelan (Viotoria), Sister M. Stanislaus Carroody (Ipswich), Sister M. Margaret Mortelle (Limerick), Sister M. Layola Toohey (Ipswich), Sister M. Cecilia McGinley (Tyrone, Ireland), Sister M. Agnes C*nty ( Maitland), and Sister M. lmelda Singleton (Australia). '

Jurors appear to have a " really good time " in America, if one may judge from tne expense incurred by Sew York State through the extravagant living of the jurors in the Thorn trial—a recent sensational murder case- In addition to receiving their daily stipend of about 10s, the jurors were permitted to sptmd their nights at the Garden City Hotel, the manager of which has presented the county with an interesting little bill for their maintenance and distraction. It is an itemised story of how the jurors were supplied with wines, cigars, nightshirts, carriages, telephone calls, hot water bottles, billiards, and even carbolic acid. In the 13 days of the trial, the jurors drank J373 10s worth of wine, or an average of £5 10s a day. The cigars smoked amounted to .£53, or an average of J24 a day. The telephone was used to the extent of £Z ; and the billiard room was patronised to the amount of about £11— rtearly £1 a night. Hair cutting and shaving accounted for £8 10s, and the boot black demands £1 7s for polishing the jurors' boots. The entire bill for board and other exoenses during the 13 days amounts to .£422.

" Soilence in the Coort!" the bobby cried. And I really thought I should have died With the coughing here, and the sniffing there, Till the Judge, enraged, said:—" I declare, This row no longer I will endure, Just send for Woods' Great Peppermint Cure! "

Thw code of Customs regulations (says the Herald) is generally considered to be an incomprehensible tangle, and the latest example is certainly the strongest we have heard of. When Mr A. Fleming was returniDg lately from England, the steamer be came by called at Gibraltar, and there Mr Fleming purchased a box cf cigars (2800). As he intended to stay oyer at various ports, he sent the box on, instruct* ing by post his agent at Auckland to place it in bond here, so that he misfit pay the duty when he arrived, 'and receive the box. The box reaching Auckland a week or two before Mr Fleming himself, was d»ly placed in bond. When he arrived here, he found the box in the Customs bond, but ha was told that he could not have it, and that the Customs refused to accept the duty, Mr Fleming appealed to toe Collector of Customs, who instructed him to write out a statement of the whole of the circumstances, to be forwarded on to Wellington, where alone were sufficient intellectand authority to grapple with ao comp'icated a prob'em. Mr Fleming did so, and the answer was that" the law respecting illegal- sized packages of cigar i is to be strictly earned out," The amount of the duty on the box was £10, but this the Government obstinately refuted to take. They virtually said, like Mr Seddon lately, that " money was no object." At length it was deoided that Mr Fleming might re-export the box, and this he had to do, sending it to Sydney. The New South Wales Customs were not too proud to take the duty on the box of cigars, but the consequence of all the trouble was that Mr Fleming has to lose something on the transaction. The New Zealand Customs Department have takdn a large amount of trouble to avoid reoeiving £15.