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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1667, 22 April 1874, Page 2

. We notice that almanager is required for' the Coliban mine, applications to bo- aeut to the legal manager on or before Thursday (to-morrow);at l-p.m. " • 'fc ': ■ The farewell to the Rev. Mr. Jones, Bap-, tist Minister, will take place this evening, thej announcement wo made last: night being a printer's error. A large gathering is expected this evening, : We learn from private telegrams that .the: Emu arrived in Auckland last night in per-; •feel; safety, in four hours and a halt from the time she was taken in tow by the Golden Crown. !■. ' ■ - ■ Mb. Ebrington,, manager of the Pumping Association, proceeded to Auckland on 'Monday—for the purpose, we believe, of consulting, with a committee of the Auckland City Council on the.water supply for the city. We are requested by Mr. Robert Stone to state that he is deeply sensible of the prompt assistance tendered by willing hands at the launch of the Emu on Monday morning. He has not had an opportunity of thanking them personally, but he is conscious of the fact that the assistance thus rendered contributed greatly to the success of the launch. A Soutiierbt ' contemporary says:—" Samples of beer have been collected from the principal breweries Jn the colony, with the exception of those on the .West Coast, and subjected in the Colonial; Laboratory to a searchinp, examination for deleterious ingre-' dients ; but' in no case,' says Mr Seed, ' wore traces of such ingredients discovered.' This is satisfactory so far as it goes ; but it would' be a much greater pleasure to hear that samples of beer had been collected from all the publia-houses in the colony, and tested for' adulteration, with the resulr, of proving them free from deleterious ingredients." < We have been informed that a person has been making the round of Shortland on a begging lay. Ho has taken the opportunity of ciiiline al; several houses at an hour when the owners would be most, likolv to bo absent pfc thsir business, :and by telling a piteous story to the female inmates has invoked their sympathy and unloosed their purse strings. We have a ; flight clue. to the identity,oft the individual, and we bi-lieVe his story to be false".We have every sympathy for the unfortunate; but; we do not thiuk that, there is any qcca-.. sion for a person in real distress making house to house visitations for relief. Tim hospital is always open.to, the sick and afflicted, and the Thames people have never been reluctant to relieve distressed humanity. W*e believe the mendicant refeved to, to bd acting the part of an impoator,: and would therefore caution, people :ig insr. him. ■ " JE&lt.s" says—As a friend .of, mine ,was entering the Telcgrapli-oflice the other day, he espied an habitual loafer, who for some time had sponged upon him. wi'.h untiring pertinacity. He only wondered*'what form': the next application would take, bufc wasn't long-lefn in doubt As he composed his telegram he became conscious of the .proximity of his friend in the next compartment similarily engaged. "Ah," sari the latter affably, "is that you W '-. By. the way, lam a couple 6f suiU. ; lings short for an important telegram to Porfr D.irwin. Can you lend me the money?" "No," said W ,"I happen to have only sufficient change for my own message." Poor Wor3eluck'a hopes wore dashed, but to keep up bis little fiction he wonl; to the counter and asked the rato ot telegraphy for 10 words to pa'merston, Btarted with well affected surprise at the amount, and audibly announced M.V intention bf 'going' 1 to his office for the required sum,. I think W almost regrets that he didn't allow himself to be once more ■the victim of such'laborious ingenuity; , The vaslness of the collection of bookß in ithe British Museum may be judged of by the ifacfc that the catalogue, which has just been' jc®mpleted, forms a continuous alphabetical jseries of 1522 volumes, with no fewer than ■;21 volumes of indices. Tlieee, volumes are 'conveniently placed in tho centre of the jreading-room, and occupy 312 feet of shelves, ibeing twelve feet in excess of the whole space joccupied by the entire 0-renvillo Library. jAmongat the -curibkities eiHibited in the (catalogue may be mentioned the fact thai;,'the -'name oe Smith-engrossers'no' fewer tnaH'26B7. 'enlii-ies, mimes-of Brown; Jones and jßobirison appropriate 1 to; themselves iio fewer ithun 4251 entries. G'he foreign names of jSchmidt. and Muller appear in the catalogue no fewer than 2soGCtiuifcs..'.: The difficulty of Skeeping distincb the names of different iwriters, -.bearing th 6 same namp,-■ may ,b«j Iguessed when it is stated that there are no Jfewer than 47 Jolm Smiths, and 66 John iJonef's'es. music catalogue contains no {fewer than 125 volumes. There is a separate I printed catalogue for the, CtrenTille, Library,. |and^w(rf the King's Library.'.' i