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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1731, 21 July 1874, Page 2

* #^ The annual meeting of the Farawai Highway District ratepayers will not take place until the 31st instant, the advertisement in last night's Star having been inserted in error.

We notice with regret that Mr. D, J. O'Keeffe is seriously ill in Auckland, having been attacked on Saturday last while in town on business. Wo sincerely trust that his indisposition will be of temporary duration. The notice of the life and career of Earl Dalhousie, (recently deceased,) which appeared in yesterday's Star, should hare teen acknowledged from "Men of the Time." The proof was so marked, but through the stupidity or neglect of the compositor the authority was omitted. Sib Hercules Bobinson, Governor of New South Wales, having liberated Ghrdiner against the vote of the House, a writer in the Town and Country Journal suggests that a petition should be got up asking for the recall of His Excellency. Grardiner is now on his way to San Francisco. As a witness named Martin was being examined in an assault case in the S>. M. Court, DunediD, he stated that he was of a quiet temper. "Then you are a meek man?" Said Mr Howorth; whereupon the witness curtly replied, "No, I am a Scotchman, nob a Mick." '. <;■:>;..■;,.. ■ ■„■>■; ; /., .' A teiegbaph office has been opened at Opotiki, East Coast, which is thereby placed in communication with the rest of the colony. As soon as the line is extended from Opotiki to Poverty Bay and thence to Napier, nearly every settlement of importance will hate the benefit of telegraphic communication.

Thh Daily Southern Cross yesterday reported that Mr. Andrew Beveridge, who' has being lying seriously ill fsr tome days past, was dead. This proves to be incorrect. A telegram was received from Auckland yesterday evening, by the WM. of the Sir Walter Scott Lodge, stating that Mr. Beveridge was " a great deal better." This .excessive cold of yesterday and last right culminated in a snow storm. The range of hills at'the buck of the town, notice-J ably the Karaka and Murphy's, were tippedj with snow at seven o'clock this morning/ Higher up the fall was greater, and we arl informed that at Punga Flit Jthero was snow to the depth of coven incliei. I

The circus compnny had a fair attendance of the public to witness their performance last night though the weather was of such an ■inclement character that it roally was eurptising to find t that anybody was brave enough to be out. The performance was gene through in a spirited, manner by the troupe, Mazeppa again forming the, concluding piece., It is nob often that colonials have an opportunity of witnessing such a troupe as that now performing at the Theatre Royal. The value of life assurance receives (says the Auckland Star) another striking illustration by the disowning of Mr T. Gh Stocking, at Mercury Bay. The deceased was one of those who had baen induced to insure by ttie. persuasiveness of Mr W. A; Thompson, the indefatigable lecturer of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, in ono of his tours through the out-districts of the province. He had only paid one premium, which entitles his wife and family to receive the •umof£2so. The Americaaf talk of the limbs of a table or the bosom of a chicken. A young woman was hurt in a railway accident and taken to the hospital, when the doctor asked what was the. matter with her. One of her limbs, she said, was injured. "Well," he returned; " but what limb ?" " Oh! I can't tell you, doctor; bufc it's one of my limbs." "Oh, nonsense," cried the doctor, out of all patience, "which is it—the limb you thread a needle with?" "No, sir," she answered with a 1 •igh, " the limb I wear a garter on.'* -■ In the Auckland papers appears a notice of i the death, at the Whau Asylum, on the 16feh fnst., of Thomas Henry Lewis, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge, late mail agent for South Aus- j tralia, and formerly of Clears, Caermarthen- i shire, South Wales; referring to which the j Auckland Star say:—"The last chapter in the. history of a sufferer from share mania and. mining losses is told in another column. Mr. Henry Thomas Lewis, 8.A., Cambridge, formerly mail agent in the P. and O. Company's service, where ho acquired £4000, i subsequently lost in mming speculations in Auok'and, was the subject of an inquest at the asylum to-day. His misfortunes were the immediate cause of his insanity, which resulted in,general bodily prostration, ending in dtath. The deceased was much respected by those who knew him in his more prosperous days."

THH"Geelong Advertiser" says:—A sad tale comes to us from a resident of Maude, whioh shows that a much stricter surveillance over traffic in liquor is imperatively required. Our correspondent states he wa« rather surprised to find included in hit butcher's bill charges for joints of beef which he could not remember having seen, much less tasted. What, astonished him still more was that all the joints appeared to have been of the same size, and of them there were no fewer than nine charged for in a month. Determined to find out the mystery he set a watch, and the result of this was that he discovered the beef to be composed of squaro black bo!ties containing gin. For some time previous he had noticed that.his wife had often been under the influence of drink, and now he fears the peace of his home and happiness are desstroyed for ever. Surely there are not so many meat hawkers in Maude but that this one may be discovered and severely punished. Perhaps, however, this intimation will be sufficient to cause him to desist from the pernicious practice of taking spirits around with him to ruin his customers and destroy the peace of happy homes by his unlawful spirit traffic.