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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1730, 20 July 1874, Page 2

We are informed that Mr. Wilcox, teacher of the Catholic School of St. Thomas Aquinas, has tendered his resignation of the position held by him .eyersincapheffchqpl was opened. One "of tlfe 'Qrieen v of Beauty shareholders f states that the dividend per share will be about £200, afte^ all liabilities are paid vp — tost of purchase of battery and everything-» included. Thii is after a fortnight's crushing. We learn from the Australasian ■ that Mr. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, a eon :of the > deceased novelist, has been appointed actingsecretary to the Deniliquin and Msama Railway Company. A LoNDoif aehjertigemenf runs thus! i—" A country}pjvteßt'wilTsayjiriass6nce v _a week for, any one who will send him the Times newspaper, second-hand, on the day of its publication." . ,-. --■■--:■ .-. < •.. ' :< ■ .•- x y.: \ 'r.f ■<. Ik consequence of oqmmunicatioffi'being in; torrupted -with the South on Saturday, through the Wires being down, several mesi sages which should have appeared in Saturday's issue did not arriye in time. They will be found in this evening's edition. - We are informed that the cases in the Warden's Court brought by the United Pumping Association against the WaioKaraka mining companies, which are set down for hearing on Thursday next, will be" adjourned by cohsent for a fortnight. The London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser writes:—" 'Town' is laughing very heartily over Dean Stanley's text when he, preached onJJViday to the Duke and Duchess, of Edinburgh. It;: wag-rr'Father, jfprgive' them, for they know not what they do.'" The annual meeting of the ratepayers of the Kauaeranga Highway District was held at the schoolroom, 8 andas-street, on Saturday afternoon, but owing to the meagre attendance no business was transacted. The meeting was adjourned after some lijttlo personal die - cussion, until six o'clock this evening, at the same pace. It is currently stated that another battery is about to be erected on the site of the old kerosine store. It is stated that the Flora Macdonald and Russell's Batteries will be brought from Tararu, and placed on the new i site, forming a battery of 70 head of stamps, with all other necessary battery appliances. It cannot be ascertained at whose instance this work is to be carried on. The steamer Claud Hamilton" arrived at Hokitika on Saturday, but she brought no later news than that receeived per Hero—at least no items of general interest. The Australian news had also been anticipated. Amongst minor items we learn that Mr. Gladstone made his first appearance in ; pbe • House of Commons since Wtiitiuntide on the ocoasion of the debate on the Scotch Patronage Bill. The death of Earl Dalhousie is announced. The Rev. B. C. Butland preached a farewell sermon at the Mary-street Congregational Chapel last night, on the occasion of severing his connection with that body, being about to proceed to England. He chose for his lext the words from St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians —" Finally, brethren, farewell," and preached . therpfrom an eloquent and appropriate' sermon. * Mr. Butland'leaves' to-" day for Auckland, and will proceed by the Hero to Sydney. • ; „.-.. The Ballarat Courier states:—"Mr. Bsrdwell, of Ballarat, has received a letter from Mr. Whalley, M.P., requesting him,to offer a reward of £I,oo^ for information that will lead to the discovery of Arthur Orton, and also asking him to communicate with Mr. Jhrockmorton, order to obtain specific in-' formation of the arrival of the Osprey in Hobson's Bay in 1854. Mr. Bardwell has, not., yet decided whether he will; comply 'with* these requests, or iudeed mix himself up in any way with the case." . ' Thb Wairoa correspondent of the Poverty Bay Standard writes:—"The native idea with regard to the use of the telegraph is exceedingly vague. The other day an ancient Maori preferred some claim by the ' wires,' on the Native Department, for flour, sugar, clothing and hat. In about nn hour's timo the old boy was presented with a veritable 'bell-topper' by some humorists, who gravely assured him . it ; had ( come by the ' wire,' and that the reifc of the goods would bo forwarded in the same way on the morrow • Givat was the Maori's delight at his good fortune." ' "' '' A WEir-KsroWN street performer, nicknamed "Iron Jaw," has just died in harness.; He used to give open'air performances in the streets, liffcng enormous weights with his teeth and fliDging thorn over his head. The, other day he was exhibiting his 1 powers to an' admiring crowd in one of the outskirts, and , coppers fell fast and thick into tho ring. Delighted at, tlie generous disposition of hii audience, he desired to conclude with a more than ordinary display of hia herculean strength. .He ploced the heaviest of his weights in.' a -cask,' soized itwithshis teeth, and by an enormous effort succeeded in raising from the ground. He balanced it for n moment, and then with a jerk attempted to fling the cask and stone over his head ; but' lio had tried too much, and in bis effort bo fell to riie no more, for he hud broken his back, •.;)-7 -' v ,- .\ „ . ; v. •

The Now York Sun gives an instance of what it is pleased to call " Commodore Vanderbilt's retaliation:"—Theinhabitantsof Pcckskill having repeatedly petitioned for a new and better railroad station, Commodore Vanderbilt promised to' erect an edifice that should be a credit to the town. Thewup^n the town voted $30,000 to improve Centre Street, lending io the depot.-. But-the Commodore required moio land for the newatructure, and a number of Avaricious real estate owners refused to sell for less than $250,000. The Commodore offered $80,000, and his offer being rejected, he-set about the building of bis new tfepotj half* inile;oui;Vf town, thust spoiling the $30,000 Centre Strsef;, and forcing the town toopena new street up a steep hill. Then, in their wrath, the inhabitants of Peckskill said they would not ride on th* railroad, but would travel on th» boats." Again the Commodore retaliated, ordering all •xpress trains to plunge right through Peekekil], and only th« way trains to pay any! attention to the place.'"4 ■* I

The Right Hon. Fox Maule Ramsay, K.T.^ 6K0.8., Earl of Dalhousie, was born all Brechin Castle, April 22, 1801. His father/ the late Loud Panmure, was a younger son o| tho noble Scottish family of whiclr the Earl! of Dalhousie was the head, and a descendant' of that Sir Allan Ramsay celebrated inmedireval chronicles as "The Flower ofKnighthood." Having been educated at the Charterhouse, Mr. Fox Maulo oaterad the; army as an eneignlid the 7&thl Highlanders ;^ served for several years in Canada, on the* staff of his uncle, tha late Earl of Dalhousie! and retired in 1831, with the rank of captain.) "He was returned in the Liberal interest for! Perthshire in 1835, and on the formation of; the Melbourne ministry in that year, become) Tinder-Secretary for the Home DepartmentJ ejected from the representation o& Perthshire in 1837, he retained his office, and= was, in 1838, elected member for the Elgin] burghs. Returned a second time in 184lj member.for Perth, he became Yiqe-President! of the Board of Trade, aad on the] restoration! of the Whigs to" power in']B46, "Secretary at War. with a seat in the Cabinot, which post! he held till 1852, when, .the, expiration of the) East-India Company's; chapter, rendering it' kecesaary for the GfovGrnrnfent to have a; minister of influence to direct the affairs of India, he went to the Presidency of the Board of Control. The dissolution of the Rmsell cabinet? prevented Mr. J?oi Maule! from trying hishahd as an Indian reformer ;■ and he succeeded his father in the! peerage; taking his place in the House of Lords, arf Lord Panmure, April 13, 1852. Lord Pan-1 mure did not hold office in Lord Aberdeen's! administration ; but on the formation of; Lord Palmerston's first administration in! 1855, he was appointed Minister of WarJ This post was no sinecure j and Lordj Panmure, during part of the Crimean war,; discharged the duties devolving upon him! wiih exemplary diligence. His lordship, who! •was; created ia Knight of '-thei Thistle ihj 1853, and a Grand Cross of the Bath in 1857,; succaeded to the earldom of Dalhousie,'oni the death of his cousin, the late govenor-i general of India, Dec. 19th, 1860. His lordship, who has taken an active part in* ecclesiastical affairs, is an influential member! of the Free Church of Scotland. I

Some time ago the mail news informed us that the rites of burial had-.been refused by * '-Roman Catholic Army Chaplain to! Armourer-Sergeant Johnstono of the 82nd Regiment, on account of the deceased haying been a Freemason;- ' App ended' to a letter on this subject, the Broad Arrow of the 21st February has'tW following:—•«« Every Cathor! lie chaplain it commissioned and paid by the State, to afford fhe offices of his religion to; every Catholic soldier. The State does not; [forbid/:arCatholic'.soldier from becoming a:' Freemason, tho State does not discourage Freemasonry—and for this very good reason,! i the'. > Sl J ate : :ka > d^f v tl||at; all ( English Freemasons; are loyal subjects and good citizens, and in! noway whatever the enemies of religion or I morality. The Prince of Wales is a Mason,; so was his grandfather, the Duke of Kent.; The Marquis of Ripon, late Secretary of State for War, is the Grand faster of the; Freeißbßoni, and Wme of the most worthy j and eminent men of the present day are' members of the body. It ig but a mark of the dar'ng- insolence and effrontery with which tho less enlightened of tho Ultramon-'< tane priesthood now press forward the,r: pretensions to something of the old power they formerly wielded in England, that an English Catholic nrmy chaplain should refuse .to dp. the duty for which, ho is employed by tho State, in the case of a good soldier, a' good citizen, and a good man, as we firmly believe every Freamason if the army to be, until proved to the contrary. One or two things must happen, either the chap'ain referred to must cease to hold Her Majesty* ' commicion," or the whole body of Catholio army chaplains must bo suppressed at an institution irrcconcihble with the requirements of the State. This ' solution of similar difficulties has for some time been contemplated by the Government, and, although wo- liavo hitherto ■ deprecated ' such a suppression from a consideration of some benefits which the retention of Catholic chaplains have'afforded, "It. fa evident; that oven tL« ' Stato control which Her M»jrsty'* commission j partially secures, is not sufficient to neutralise I thjit evil element, which is alike antagonistic i to the independence of Btat«s and to th« ' freedom of individuals. If anything furthtr than the act referred to wero needed to decide t'<c case against any further recognition of Catho'io chaplains in^the pervice,, jfc would bo furnished by tho self-complacent,* bigoted letter.' of .Chaplain Guffe which recently appeared in the Times, and in which that gentleman not only summarily disposes of the heresy of alj Freemasons with a wave of the hand, but actually hns the effrontery to assume that Mr. Gladstone's Government had appeared .pfrfertjy satisfied with hi» explanations 'on "the subject complairoi of. Indeed.! then it. is well that the time has arrived when Mr., Gladstone's well-known proclivities will "bece'me harmless to the State."