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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1687, 30 May 1874, Page 2

Tn Superintendent of the Shortland JTiro Brigade begs to acknowledge receipt of fire pounds from the Agent of the Union Bank ' of Australasia.

<■ Tva licensing meeting, adjourned from the :21st April for the purpose of rehearing applications, will be held at the Court House, ghortknd, at 11 o'clock noon on Wednesday, instead of 12noon as was expected.

li? 3 have received copies of " The Marl,bcrougk Tiraei," a new bi-weeklyi journal published at Blenheim. It is a creditable , addition to Zealand newspaper literature, and -. we vdsk is a long life and a prosperous. 2>ir Dunedin Star says that when the census was taken, there were only 120 uninhabited houses in Dunedin, and fifty-six in course of erection. When the 1871 census was taken, there were 614 uninhabited ' houses, and thirty-eight in course of con- ; attraction. These figures speak for themselves.

.- A msoting of the Board of Education was heid in Auckland on Thursday. With reference to the Shellback school it was resolved that tit* opening of a night school be sane--tuned, to .opsn three nights in each week, at a. charge of one shilling per week—Mr. Maberly to be teacher. It was agreed to inform the committee of the Kauaeranga District that the Board had bo desire to trench on their powers.

By in another column it will bt seen that it is intended to hold a grand soireo at the Academy of Music on Thursday evening next ia aid of the Thames Convent schools. Tea will be provided from seven till nine o'clock, after which dancing will take place. It ia a long time since the Catholics organised such a gathering, but remembering, as wo do, the success of a similar reunion some years ago, we quite ' expect to see a crowded gathering on Thursday night, and we have no doubt tbe opportunity will be taken advintage of by ou^ ' dtixeos to enjoy a thoroughly social dance. M« Charles Bradlaugh, the well-known political agitator, does not appear to have Made a UrcrabU impression in America. This is how the N*w York Herald reports his departure from that City:—"The well, known English politioal agitator, Charles Bradlaugh, who came to this city from London about six months ago, yesterday returned to Europe by the Cunard steamship Java. A small party of gentlemen, with whom Mr Bradlaugh has acquired an aquaintanceship during his stay in this country, visited the Java to bid him farewell. ]$fr Bradlaugh is an aristocratic democrat:, for during his etay . in this city he h«s slopped at the Fifth - Avenue Hotel, and he took passage on a vessel where, tickets in the cabin call for a. ■ very "high price. Before his departure from the Fifth Avenue Hotel a handsome cane was ■ v presented ftfttitu by the members of the trade who Wrere chiefly of the English : i Nationality. Short addresses wpr™ made, and i the recipient and the"donor* jjui u-u ;n a state "• cf notlfspt good hiuser.

At the final meeting of the Bailer Accident Belief Fund Committee, held last night the balance sheet showed thst the yery handsome sum of £679 7s 7d had been subscribed to aisist the relatives of the men killed. There has Beldom been a more prompt and liberal response to aid those in distress than that exhibited in this case, and we trust that the occasion for euch exertion will never again aril*.

A somewhat singular discovery was accipentally made last week by a gentleman of Buninyong. The Ballarat Courier reports that some time ago he bought, at an auction sale of drapery, a piece of printed flunnel, the .embellishment of which consisted of a variety of fruits, flowers, and foliage, depicted in flamiing colors on the material. He had the stuff made into a number of shirts, to be worn next to the skin. In course of timo he discovered, to his utter astonishment, that the floral decoration of the under garment had transferred itself on to the form of his person. A mild application of foap and water was at first employed to remove the objectionable adorments ; but these proving futile, recourse was had to more stringent measures, in the shape of. strong suds, vigorously applied with a scrubbing brush. But the obnoxious tatooing only Bhowed itself in higher relief. In this dilemma the chemist was consulted, who recommended the application af acid and alkali, and other agents used for diicoloration. This excruciating pain caused by these experiments were endure with becoming fortitude. The result, however, was scarcely commensurate with the pain inflicted, the onjy apparent advantage gained being that the blue changed to red, and the green to blue. The unfortunate man is now off to Geelong to try what a change.of air and sea bathing will do.