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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1718, 6 July 1874, Page 2

The regular fortnightly and speuial summons meeting of the Loyal Waikato Lodge will beheld at the Oddfellows' Hall, Eichrr orid-streefc at: half-past seven ■; o'clocki'tomorrow evening." Business-^to receive balance sheet and auditors' report. .-■■■..■>

The regular fortnightly.'. meeting of ihe A.O.F. Court Pride of Parnell will be held in St. Gteorge'i Hall, Pollen-street, on Wednesday evening, at half-past seven o'clock, the business being to receivethe balance sheet and auditors' report. V / \ '.',','.. ... ! We notice that the next session »ofthe Northern^ Pioneer • Lodge, I.CXGKT;; witt: be held this evening at St. George's; Hall and 'not at the Masonic Hall. , The'^attention of members is requested to this alteration in the place of meating. ■• An English gejatleinah advertises" in the Saturday Beview of the 7th March last, that .h,e desires to send a son to some respectable family in NeW Zealand, where he may be trained to a colonial life. Address Stating terms to 5.8., care, of Mr. Bampus, 153 Oxford-street, London, W. r : ... , vvThebb'; was; a better attendance, at the Academy of Mwsic on Saturday than .on some previous evenings, owing to the_ additional attraction of a, gift distribution. Ambnget the prizes given away was a handsome gold watch, and a humbw of articles of jewellery of value; To-night there will be a^imilaf -dis-t tribution and the pantascope will be exhibited for'the last time. ; : .i The time' table of the Q-olden Crown for thid day and tc-inorrow is published in our advertising columns^ a trip each way being .promised! As soon as the Tararu Wharf repairs are completed we hope ■ to see the Crown take up her usual service. The ivrogularity which has occurred since the damage* to the wharves ha 3 caused great inconvenience to business people in the matter of freight, the Enterprise not being equal to the demands upon her carrying capacity, and the Crown not bringing any^ cargojbecause of the ' diflicuHy of landing it. : y•:■-;.• *! " " •;

Pebaohino- in a circus in Liverpool, the Hoy. Brooke Herford said that if his -choice of reading wai to bo limited, he should select his Bible arid his newspaper. In the obe you had all the concentrated wisdom of the pusfc, in tho other all the concentrated interost and activity of the present. And then he went on to say that with a good daily paper and the Bible a man might make himself a fairly educated man. He eaid a gre?.t deal more to the same effect, and urged upon both aexos of all sgos the advantages of reading a good paper. • '.

The Otago Guardian snys<—lfeegrs. Jftncaid'and McQueen have just finished testing a printev's " stone " for this office, which, as it is the first manufactured in this country,- is ■worthy of passing mention. >The "atone" (which is neither more nor less than the iron lop of a table or bench) is 7ft. long by 3ft.broad, and weighs over <Lcwt. Messrs. liincaid and McQueen are tho only iron founders in Zealand who hare a planiDg machine capable of smoothing so larg& a pieco of metal.' [Me-src Price Broß. of the Thazne? have a,plnning machine cnpable of treating a Burfnco any length but limited to 2ft. 6in. in breadth.—Ed. S.J '

Onj: of tho boye at a school whore the Bible is read, while roading a chapter in Genesis, paused to ask his teaoher whether tho boys in olden times used t© do their sum? on tbo ground ? It was discoverfrd (jbal he, hci'^cen reading tho pnssngo "And tho ikfos of rmen multiplied on tho face of the earth;]' , John B. GouGm,! the woH-kuo^n temperance orator, is not'at a'h\ pleased, we observe from the American with the female crvieftdo against, rum, and expresses himself as follows on tho question:—" I would be unwilling (o see my wife or my nieces going about, among the saloons, praying and singing hymns; 'I think this movement would help the woman suffrage, cause very much, imA I have always hada sort of dQike to the woman ruffrago business. T!is idea of a band of ladies going- th'rougji the street? singing hymno aud praying is repugn mt to me. It is the duty o£ policeman to clenr awiiy a crowd of men. obstructing the "pavement, and I think thnt women come under the same restrictions." • » . * Sats the Ballarat Evenfng Post:—" A snake, s.ime 3ft. in length had been killod by tome wood-cntters in tho neighborhood, and thrown across a fence, where it was espied by Mrs. F , who was afc onco Btruck with a happy 1 thought. Hor loft hand was bound up m a handkerchief, Land, securing tho dead body of the venomous reptile, she rushed into Beaufort, desoriding how she had been bltt,en r r *b.Utj; had succeeded; in do?pfttc>iing: the isnake. Brandy wai afc once administered^freely as iivn antidote j and this > was 'repeated at co rn'iiny hotel&in theplaco rhat'liirs'.-]?-'—— at length subsided <by the wayßidc,''oblivious to everything." A publication in England whicli 'a^peaVB 1 with tho hard namo " Iron " says:—"Acorn"-'" poeing machine is likely to be seen in next year's exhibitibn. It?is an invention o£ JMtr. Hooker, a compositor and self-taught mechanic.// The machine can be^ worMctd singly, that; is by one man, but, the inventor says that it is most economically worked by three men and a.boy, who can produce work equal to that of 12 compositor?. The inventor has been over ten years working out his jdcas, and has during that time twice abandoned a part completed'-maehino for improved o res on a new principle. He ia now at work on a j distributing machine. I'

PittrssiA js not only going to. bring up her children' "bjy hand," as "Pip" was brought up by Mrs.;" Joe Gargery," but to continue the use of compulsion after-they have be«,h educated, and haW become voters. It i's proposed tliat every elector shall be compelled to cast his ypte at the Parliament aiy'electlon. At the lasfceU-ction in Berlin 85,000 electors neglected tp vote, the factbecßme.knowiiy and the North-German Gazette proposed that electors be- compelled (o accept; as a diitv,' that which;at one time Mas considered a high privilege—a right to vote. A number of influential journals have endorsed the project, which it skid to be undtir consideration by, the Govcrrirnent. •" f :

The Tillies .correspondent, at, St. .Petersburgh writes :—" Last ni»hfc (Feb. 19)-was Patti's benefit at the Grand Theatre, where the famous songstress received a -welcome fairly astonishing to those who had never before,witnessed .the enthusiasm with which a Rusian audience greets a favorito prima donna. A diamond coronal and great bouquets and wreaths without number were presented between the acts, and at the conclusion of the opera the stage was literally heaped with flowers and wreaths. Patti could do no more than pick up one or two and press them to her heart, and the attendants hid to come on with great baskets, and even then had hard work to clear the stage. The opera was La Traviata. Patti was in perfect voice, and looked and sang (md acted horary best;"

. A OOBEESPOMjDEKI says:— Thc:£hip owners and- cap'ains of vessels trading "to our port still complain most bitterly of the wharf accommodation for landing their freight, either living or dead. The A.S.P. Company's fine new steamer, the Southern Cross, anchored™ off Tararu wharf early this morning with a cargo of cattle from Napier. Captain Holmes anchored some distance off Tararu, haying to wait an ebb tide ; before beachihjg to land ;the cattle, as, Bhould^the A .vesser Jtjoft.beaetie^ai; flood, she would-in all probability bump her bottom on the hard. Coming into pori; on a flood and having to wait two tides to discharge her „freight and get anj fbb flelay'sia cattle ship :so much thatthe. expense of landing alone puts an additional coat of about 10s per head on ev?ry bullook sentashoie. - ■ ■_ . ■?:■ ;' • .?,y{•* r;■ ; --;■ \ } It is pleasing to reflect that the people among whom we live arc honorable, and very nice ia their estitnato of things, moral, social; or "political. Here is an intoresiing fact which has been, related, .On a certain ev^n-. ing lasl -wei't, in t^ejjbpr 'of;a toartain* public' hoasej'two citizens #ere discussing pro and con the subjudiee case of Frater v. the Auckland Star. They discussed a^ good deal^ and, as Mark Tapley would sayi imbibed {un'opmV mon —to assist the flow of thoiight-.' They eventually came to the at once satisfactory and highly Intelligible conclusion that it. was, "a case of m/n core/" and this verdict waj (delivered with a befitting obserranco, of the, importance of th'p'-subject under' diVcuaßiori, being accompanied by sundry knowing winks and mysterious frowns, and a general pomposity of behaviour that was very imposing. This has been termed a neat thing.

The writer of "Pa3fjin!» Notes" in an Otago paper says:—" Dr,.Lce», a temperance advocate, and the.aiithor-pfta "jjrijjo* fpsay"- on.; temperance,'liris been catching "if. lie baa been reading Fora' cr's ' Life of Dickons,' and made some reflections ou tho great novelistjin, a lecture delivered in tho Temperance H«il, Halifax. The present Mr. Chas. Dickens theiroupou y/rifes thus :—Dr. Lees' ehamoful and reckless slander can only bo mot by ono of the shortest and most diragrceable words in tho English language. Therefore) ,I;beg to tell Dr. Lees most emphatically, that his statement that Mr. Dickens was too fond of lv.» ■wine and brandy, and that Mr. Dickens had' lost.his life through a; cursed igooradce of, using alcoholic liquor, 1 are &hd absolutely wilful and disgraceful lies. Public men, either., dead or alive, sretp some extent always at,.the irterey^cf jbhrbwefa b$ iqi^d, 'such'.as^Div Lees appears to. bo, but t scarcely evisr remember a grosser ease* than.'' the present.—l suppose that after that, revi era of. Charles Dickens will be a little more careful,' 'The great novelist has been abused aboub hi 3 morals, his roligion, und his temperance all over tho world ; lOii-'^ly reviled, und ss bol.lly defended, Cun'l thty Jot his ashes rest; in peace, without attempting to make him an example ? "