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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1748, 10 August 1874, Page 2

The fallowing is a true copy (says the Lyttelton Times) of . a notice recently posted on the shop door of a tradesman in High-street: —"Notis to the Publick Ckra howt fur a fu Ours to sel.sum land."

The paddle steamer Enterprise will make an excursion to the Miranda to-morrow to enable persons to have a peep at the great, native gathering 'at Whakatiwai. She will leave Tararu wharf at ten o'clock in the morning, and the other side for return at a time to be agreed upon, in the evening, so that ample time will beallowed excursionists to look around. The train leaves Grahamstown for Tararu at nine o'clock morning.

A Oaiouxation of a simple kind has been made to show the value to the United States of the immigration that country has received in the mere matter of monfy brought in by the new arrival*. It is estimated that fro-u 1783 to 1873 there were 8,779,174 aliens landed in the Unittd States. They brought about 68dol per head, Placi ig it at. only SDdel, we have £444,000.000 as the result.

We understand that communications have been received by the Mayor and the Chairmen of the different Highway Boards in the district, from the Tauranga Highway and Town Boards, askir g for co-operation in th-» endeavor to get the road between the Thames and Tauranga opened up, and also an extension to Cambridge. As there is but one opinion of the advisabilily of this wprk hearty assistance will probably be accorded to the Tauranga Boards.

The Greymouth Star thus neatly refers to a recent matrimonial venture :—" In another place we announce tho marriage of Mr. Sale, formerly Commissioner at Hoki'ika, to a lady named Fortune. It is not surprising that a lady with such an attractive title should secure a ready Sale in the matrimonial market, and we sincerely congratulate the gentleman in having succeeded in reducing the number of Mms Fortunes that alas are too numerous in this world."

>■ On Saturday evening two dogs of a pugnacious turn met on the wooden footp ta in Shortland and commenced to fight. At the first rise " t'te head of one of the dogs came into contact with a pans ot glass in a shop window, smashing it to pieces. This didn't stop, the fight, but the noise brought the shopkeepers tb the scene, and dogs were scattered in time to prevent a. second pane of gla-B being broken. The damage done can be repaired for something under a pound.

Thb Bight Bey. "Dr Cowie, Bish*p of Auckland, preached twice at St George's Church yesterday. In (he evening the rite of confirmation was administered to over twenty candidates, the Bishop's discourse being appropriate to the occasion. The Revs. Y. Lush, and Maun sell and Mr. Lawlor (lav reader) -assisted afc the evening sarvice, and Mr. Lush announced that Bishop Cowie would, deliver a lecture in the Church; this eveaiag, on the''Greek MS3 of the New Testament. ■ . . „,..,...

A CEBTAIN town clerk of a neighbouring township—(we have it on good authority)— who was in receipt of something like £50 a year, and who wished to get it some vhat increased, adopted the plan of a*king his brethren in other municipalities as toiwhat they receiving. Amongst the replies forwarded to him was one from a civic dignitary holding a similar appointment, in a town not a hundred miles from CromweU, which was to the following efteofc: "Twenty-five poun'ls a ye>r; 'pickings' increasing it to £125; —and too d d little for the work— Youra, &c, B. B."

J^gkles, the purveyor of tit-bits of news in the Australasian, gives the following:—Time, four and a half years. Tone, ninety thousand. Ounces, a hundred and thirty-six thousand. Dividends, threo hundred and seventy-four thousand sterling. Big figures these. They signify'the results of the working of one quartz mine in the pleasantly productive district of Pleasant Creek, and no one need in future be in doubt as to how that place camo by its name. We want a few more mines of this kind with which to flout the unbelievers who deny that mining pave, or in other words, that gold is worth the getting. ' ;

The Tribune remarks :—Once or twice of late we have had telegrams of Or>nge cele-, brations in the colony. We think it is a pity that such things should be started in this neW'cdiintry^ where it*is so"desirable that old feud« should be entirely forgo ten. These celebrations do not spring from love to the memory of William, but from hatred to the memory of somebody else, .and we: have generally found that Orangemen have no distinct conception of William the Third—the real man, the h stoiical hero —as painted by MacauUy or Mackintosh, than they have of the clJcr Cyrus. For the sake of our common couatry let us have done with old forn.s of party strife. ':'

In the Gippsland Guardian of June, 1856, appears a list of contributions to the Patriotic Fund, then being canvassed for, to relieve the widows and orphans of the soldiers who fell in the Crimea :—"From the men of Mewburnpirk, we Ijave among a score of other names, that of' Arthur Orion,' stockman, £2."

Two Irishmen engaged in peddling packages of linen bought an old mule to aid in carrying the bundles.* Each would ride a while, or "ride and tie," ns the saying is. One day the Irishman who was on foot got close to the heels of his muleship, when he received' a kick on one of his shins. To be revenged, he picked up a stone and hurled it at the mule, but by accident struck his companio aon the back of the head. Seeing what he had done, he, stopped, and began to groan and rub his shin. The man on-the mule turned and asked, "What's the matter?" "The cratur's kicked me," was the.reply. "Ba jabers," saH the other, "he's did that same to me on the back of the head."

A cob&espohdbnt writes to the Otago Ghiardian asking if any reader can offer testimony as to the truth or falahood of the following extract:—ln the Bolton Chronicle (England) of the 2nd May, 1874, it the-fol-lowing, under the head of telegrams, page 5 :

—" A womnn struck blind.—An awful affair is reported from London. A woman who had been taken before the Magistrate on a charge of drunkenness and discharged, was in a p'>blie-house in Wells-street, Whitechapel, with some companions, when she said,' I waa locked up for being drunk last night, but God strike ma stone-blind if I was drunk!' Immediately she had v; tered these words, it was found that her dreadful appeal had been realised, for she had become totally blind."

A despatch from Cape Coast Castle, dated March 29, says :«—" A second embassy arrived here from the King of Ashantee yesterday, and „ was immediately received by Colonel Maxwell, ths acting administrator. They brought the King's thanks for the release of the Aehantee prisoners, and his assurance of the most complete submission to the British flag and to all the terms of the trea'y. The rebellious towns and tribes in the western portion of the protectorate have submitted. The King of Ashantee is said to have taken up hit residence in Coomassie. Colonel Maxwell leaves to-day invalided. The next in command, Colonel Johnston, assumes the Government." Another despatch has informed us of Colonel Maxwell's death on his way home. ,

A Tasmania^ paper reports a remarkable cure by singular means of a fine young lad, an employee at- the railway station, who accidently broke his right arm near the elbow joint, and various n cans were tried to render the joint pliable. Alderman Drysodi happened to visit the lad, and remembering a cure performed on a knee joint in Scotland many years ago, he prescribed the same fcr the elbow joint. The prescription was an old one certainly. A cat was obtained, killed, opened up, and the body, bowels included, placed and bound round the joint. The patient went to bed, and the rext morning, era removing tha cat and poultice he found the joint of his right arm as free and as serviceable as the other. On Monday tho lad, who last week was helplessly crippled, was employed to his gratification cutting up firewood.

Ik Qae"en-stroet, Ghrahamstown, adjacent to the Government offices, is a very primitive bridge spanning: a sort of drain or watercourse which crosses the road. The bridge was" thrown across the drain in the year one (of the field), and its existence is a disgrace to municipal institutions, and no less dangerous to pedestrians. On a dark and wet night last week a lady was feeling her way along Queen-street- —alone and unprotectad. The telegraph office was closed; Mechanics' Ifstitute ditto; tf>ere was not a spark of light to illumine the way. The lady missed her footing and fell over into the mud and water, and it is rumoured that an action for damages is about be instituted against the' Borough Council, for damages incurred in spoilt wardrobe and medical attendance for a severe cold caught is the drenching the lady sustained. . . Onb of the most impudent cases of at tempting to evade just claims, occurred in the District Court. Hokitika lately, when a bankrupt named John Hopkins oame up and a»ked for a final discharge. Out of his own mßUth it wns proved that he was living in adultery with a Mrs. Smith who has a husband living in Victoria, and who, accord-, ing to Hopkins' account, was in the habit of receiving money from her confiding spouse. Bankrupt ran up a score between £25 and £30, to Mr. Gibson, of Ross, and on being pressed for payment, filed his schedule, the soi disant Mrs. Hopkins: resuming her old matrimonial name of Mrs. Smith, and claiming all the goods in the Hopkins-Smith possession., Ail the debts together very little exceeded the above amount The bankrupt. wa* and is in full work, and his filing was deliberate attempt to' baulk his creditors. His Honor without making any comment on the bankrupt's conduct, suspended his certificate without protection for the longest period the law allows, and the opposing creditor or creditors will therefore have fen opportunity of introducing Mr. Hopkins to Mr. Cleary, of the Hokitika gaol. '

The following is from an American exchange:—" Froni tha West we get. a true story, which gloomily suggests some of Feydem's weird and horrible fancies. It is well for mankind's peade of mind that things like this we are about to relate seldom occur. The St. Louis Chief of Police was very muA »gita ed the other morning by the receipt of a telegram from the conductor ofaTandalia train' then approaching the city. In the briefest manner the despatch stated that in the luggage cur of that train was a trunk emitting so diabolical an odour that it irresistibly suggested a murderous tragedy; and further that its owm r was oril the train, and the number of the check was so-and-so. A whole battalion of policemen and detectives was sent to the depjt. The train amyed, the trunk was quietly confiscated, and its owner secretly accompanied to his hotel, not to be arrested until its fatal contents wore revealed. Then followed a scene to which only the pencils of a Kaulbach and a Dor 6 could do justice. The lid of the he ivy trunk was slowly lifted in the pre once of a horrorstricken group, and —it is hard to mention the fearful f^ct—to their dilated eyes were disclosed the ghastly forms of six Limburgcr cheeses."