The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1769, 3 September 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1874.

;. • At the Eeßident Magistrate's Court this morning Hie only charge on the sheet was'of - drunkenness, the delinquent being mulcted in tho usual penalty. Foe the situation of night watchman' a3Tcrtised in last week's Star there were sixtytwo applications, offering to perform tho nine hours' work required for sums ranging from 30s. to 80s. The, choice fell upon Mr. Kiroy, •who sustained some irjury in o. mine a long v time ago which incapacitated him from fol--1 "loiung'any laborious occupation. ITbom: a paragraph in the San Francisco Monitor, copied from the Cork Examiner, we (Herald) learn that the Eight Kdv. Dr. Croke has accepted the Diocese of Cloyne. This will be* ft source of disappointment to tho people of his late diocese,, in tho • province. Tho Auckland Roman Catholic clergy have, wo sire informed,' received no advice to this.effect. There is every probability of the report being correct, however. The Albartland correspondent of the Southern Qroea reports the following " marriage under difficulties :"—:A" wedding under extreme difficulties came off on Monday, not far over tho border. The groom duly presented himself at? tho house of the bride's father, but owing to the very bad weather tke minister did not put' in an' appearance • and the would-be bridegroom retraced his stepw. He found <he creek he had'to cross considerably swollen, buthe manfully stripped - and swam over. Shortly after his arrival jat his home, the minister arrived at tho bride's house, end a messenger fetched tho young I; man", back over the creek. This time he .. forgot his wedding clothes, but the knot was duly tried. He then crossed with his bride on hiß back that wretched creek again. lam tappy to say ho arrived at bii home all right, ' and laughing as only ft warm-hearted follow ,- T c9uld,.do over sucli, an .uncomfortable ad« ' venture.

Mb. GiunAM lips already giren effect to his propnsnl to plant tre/s for tlle,or|jament^tipn of the Borough Btreehß^ We;Ob:seiTo;that?a line of trees, wera ywterjiSj^;v,plttnfcedS»|Di|i fenced in on Hho.<eqsfc|9ido to? Qu^ti-Btriei^ Mr. G-rahami lias porforqie'cL^^^ihif^v^ork gratuitously, iis a sample: the B^rijugh Council havihf; declined, for' pecuniary considerations, to undertake it themselves; and-he'eeM; tainly "deserves the thanks of the^ebni'munity, as the tree 9 will add to the appoarance of .the street considerably. JK 'tf

..... On Tuesday was published .gratis-..with, the. Evening Star-the first numbdr of The Thames Monthly Chronicle, a small advertising sheet which Mr. James McGowan, of the Beady -Cash Store has produced"-'ati Km own "coat in order to bring hia business more prominently before the public. 1 The lifctlo sheet has been a great deal spoken of during tho two data which have elapsed since its appearance, »i|d if every one who .has read the paper becomes a dealer at tho little shop Mr. McQ-owan will have no cause to regret haying gone into tl|e newspaper business. Ho evidently believes in advertising, which is tho first stop towards guceess in business. . i JTeom a recent inspection cf the stock of guns, rifles, and pistols, in Mr. Hazard's shop, ire have gained coma idea of tho improvements effected in these weapons during tlje lost few years. Mr. Hazard has alit ost cveify description of weapon from a small "repeater/* of a few inches long and capable of beitfg carried in the waistcoat pocket, up to tho repeater rifle, loaded at the breech with sufficient carliridgos to give the quietus to a small army, which shots can be fired with the greatest rapidity. The whole stock of death 1 - dealing and sporting wc*poßS is worth a visit of inspection, comprising, as it does, some pf the latest invention* for perfecting the art hi killing. |

A man interrupted the progress of our rfeporter this morning, rs he was rushing about the towninordertogather all the latest nows to be had :q the limited timo at his disposal, to te^ll him.thatihe— the man— vrhf, . by s the w,^, vr«s passing,, ihonesU-to look ujion-^had ieen ;a laermaid on the beach at Tararu ; and that tho mermaid at the time was engaged in tlie acquatic pursuit of combing out her ; hair with an oyster-shell. It is not of much consequence to the world at largo whether 6r no there be such things : it would seem to affect Mr. more, supposing him to be influenced' by the " tender passion; " hoyrbeit there has been some learned discussion upon this point, which has not left a very decided impression on the minds of -many of the simple kind of humanity. v Our reporter is a superior mas, and ho laughed at the bare notion —or rather notion garbed, and th»t in fine colors. There is' a possibility,!-however;;remote,' fof; tbo informant having been awake at the time; but it might not be advisable for any person to waifc long in the hope of seeing this meymsidj in; case he; might'be, disappointed. ;