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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 5646, 26 November 1886, Page 2

Jfe the "saurian monster," wires our Paeroa correspondent last night, proves to be a seal eight fe«t in length., It captured by a boat's crew belonging to the junction saw mill, and will be exhibited in the public ball hare to-night, after which it will be taken on to Te Aroha,

A start baa bean made with the forcing 'of the treok from the Karakft road to Mclbmcs olaim. Thfl work l« being done to the'order of the county ftuttO'ltifPr

Thebb ABB six banks doing business in New Zealand, Tho total amouut ef dividend declared by all the banks w»' £407,751', and tho amomi of Reserve Fum at the time of declaring dividends £3,288.864 2s 6d,

Two of the day-men employed by the county have been put nn to out the sledgetrack fmm the Ksraka road to the Vriomph olaim, formerly known as the President Lincoln. They have already git above onesixth of the distance completed, and are pushing along with the remainder,

There is a little row in connection with the late mayoral jubilee business in Bydney. Some lively meetings of the Sydney Municipal Council have taken place, and Mayor Young doeß not show up very well. Every body in Sydney it seemß understood that in tho.recent festivities, *n whioh even some of the New Zealand civic dignitaries participated, His Worship was personally the host. It now appears, however that the citizens are expected to pay a portion of the little bill, and they don't see it.

The inspection parade of the Naval Artillery volunteers took place last evening on the Wait>:Karak& flat, . There was a muster ol 57 of all ranks present. The stage of judging distances vras gone through, and members who have not done the second fltscje of class firing were warned for Saturday next. The following was the parade state :—One cuptain, two lieutenants, one CP.O,, four first-claes P.O.'s, two secondolws P.O.'s, one bu'lir, and 46 gunners, The parade was under the command of Capt, Wildman, A special meeting of the company was held after the parade, ot fthich business of importance to the welfare of the company was discussed,

The dearth in tenor and soprano voices of the flrat excellence at present is driving English mhsical entrepreneur! to daapair. It is quite remarkable Thus the Gaiety Theatre management was lately afraid that i$ new opera," Dorothy," would have to be abandoned for want of a tenor singer, Mr Redfern Hollins, known to the frequenters of the Promenade Concerts, has at last been engaged, There has been even a longer hunt for a soprano for a London theatre where it was notorious that" salary was no object," The search has so far been in vain, and probably the management will have to make the best of things and fall back on a " hack" singer. In this respeot America is quite aB muoh at a loss as England, The Americans however, have sent to Germany for t> tenor, pod Herr Albert Neimann goes to them for three months at a salary of £3500, This includes neither travelling expenses nor cost of living Evidently it is very well worth one's while to be a tenor or & soprano

' I AM waiting, saya a London oorres, pondent, to see Sir Charles Warren pounoe upon the keepers of baccarat olubs, The total bristles with gambling dens, in whioh men and boys are ruined daily. Soldiers, lawyers, merchants, clerks, actorß, musical singers, shopmen, are all to be numbered among the victims at the cloth of green; and we read of the sins of Monts Carlo and Monaco, but no scenes there equal those to bo seen nightly in London. Nay, not nightly only, Baccarat goes on by day as well as by night in the city and in other riistriots of the town. In the smaller places the bank is worth no more than ten pounds; in others it is at times worth ten thousand, I hear of one young fellow who plays with great luck, and who usually carries with him bank ; notes to the value of twenty thousand pounds, Hundred-pound notes ere common on the tables, Three years ago, when the raid was made on the Park Club, the other hawks took flight. But they jjave b en baok at the old haunts for some time past, : When will Sir Charles Warren move in the matter 1

The Cbcrch of England Temperance Chronicle states that the following appeared amon; the miscellaneous advertisements in a recent issue of the Irish Times" How to change the colout of an alcoholic red nose, Recipe, which is effectual in nine cases out of ten, may b* had by Bending postal order for 10s to K 000, thia office" On Tuesday the advertisinent above quoted wa« immsdiately followed by thisV How to change the colour of an aicoholio red no3e. Don't waste 10a; call over to the Coffee Place. 6 Townwnd Street, and in ninteynine cases out of a hundred, sign the pledge and keep it, your nose will assume its nat< ural shape and colour.—Alcoholic Red Nose Curing 6 Townsend Street, Dublin,"

It was noticed the other night, when Mr Parnell brought in his bill, writes a London co respondent, that he appeared in a soft brown hat with a large brim. Tkiß, to< getber will a suit of light-coloured tweed, .suggested the id 'a that the Irish leader was making up for the part of a plaotsr in the Southern States. Nothing marks more clearly the change in the oharaoter of Parliament than the gradual intrusion of the loworowned hat. I remember the time when there was but one man out of the entire 058 who dared to appear in anything but the tall silk, This innovator was Mr Joseph Cowen. In the Parliament of 18;0 he was joined by Mr Lalor, who in season and nut of seanOTi, In dry weather and in wet, always wore a light<coloured hat, that at some distant period had been' white or drab In the present year, however, a vast revolution took pla~e, nea:ly all the represents* tivea ttndlonsly avoided he more pretentious silk, and several of the Irish members have also refused to follow that prevalent fashion, Since the hot weather came in there has been an exhibition of various styles of head-dress whioh would have made the hair of an old Parliament stand on end, and it is quite possible that before many years are out the.tall bat will be a rarity. The Loudon correspondent of the Leeds Meroury writes:—The proposed inquiry into the spending departments of the Government will, I believe, be very extensive and searching in its (character, The Government, ana particularly Lord Randolph Churchill, are anziona that there should be a complete overhaul of our expenditure, and I believe that a great amount of extravagance and jobbery will be brought t J li«ht. Similar inquiries have j been undertaken before with high hope, but they have never led to any practical result. Lord Fmdolph Churohill is satisfied, however, that there. is a greit waste and mismanagement in the Government departments, and that by a thorough reform of our administrative srstsm ft great saving loan bs effected. The commission, at any rate, will be strong in composition, ana will be armed with ample authority, and may possibly bs even trusted with the power to examine an oath. If the Chanoellor of the Exchequer should turn out to be right, and if a great saving of expenditure can be produced, he will at least have done something to jestify bis promotion; but lam very ■ «2aptfoal about such a result, The proposed inquiry has produced considerable excitement, not unmixed with alarm, in the Government departments. " v