The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. DECEMBER, 28, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1867, 28 December 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. DECEMBER, 28, 1874.

Tm holiday to d <y Ims been very generally lt« t, scarce'y a shop being open after eleven r.'cloct. > Crowds visited the races at on Sn<ind*y, the bosses and cabs finrlifg liberal j>H»rorißge, and many persons trurlginpi.it through nrd lieat. More picnio parties •mt-r- held. Tararu beiDg visited by numerous family parties. Thh installation »f officers of the two M»i"on££ Tjodgef—Lrdg'of Light, No 454, I.C, arid Lodge ?ir Walter Scott,, No 533, g C.—will tufce place this evening at 7 o'cl ck. St John the Fr*n fc f list's Pay hating fallen upon S'inday the installation was postponed by d spen»a'ion until this evening. The occasion will be celeVated by a j tint, banquet in the Freemasons' Hall, Owes street. The Bibernicon entertainment at the Acadeipy of Mu«ie on Saturday eveninsr was we 11 adapted to form ft fit termination to the ci jnyments of Boxin?"Day, andit was taken full advantage of ty nearly everybody. The hall was crowded in every portion- stalls, gallery and pit; and the audience were very cordial in the bes'owal of rpplnuse during the performances of ihe evenmg. The programme was in most respects tho same ai that of Thursday evening, end proved exceedingly jittraelive.the singing and dancing especially. Mr MoOts eccentricities creattd a vast ajneunt of amusement., and Mr Baker's tenor voice was duly appreciated. Tho remainder of the troupe, whom it is not necessary to indicate hy name, in tbeir several capacities «l«o well metited the applause accorded. Tonight the performance will be under the patronage, and in thp presencs of HU Honor the Superintendent and family. - Wk learn that. Ihe Koman Cat'" olios of the Thames have exhibited great liberality in their Chri tmfts offerir-gs to the Church this year, ov-r £120 having bren received already. In the New Zealand Gazette of the 17th inctant it is notified for general information that, the competition for the Colonial Piiz»B for 1875 Vkill commence at the Thames on Monday, the 25th January, 3875. In oar report of the Thames Annual Races on Saturday, Tito Eow^ru was credi ed with being the winner of the Maori Horse Race, wh<n it should have been the Pony Boo?. The Maori Horce Race wjs the fourth on the programme, hut there, were no entries for that etrent, so that the Pony Eace, though standing fifth on the programme, was really th« fourth race run. Wb learn b" fo-legram that intelligence has been received of i he death by drowning at Fiji of Mr L vis Myers, who, it will be remembered, w is formerly in business heie as a tobiccoaist. Mr Myers left Grahametown »ome time ago to 'ry his fortune in Levuka, and i< was whi'* bathing there that he whs drowned. Mr M.iers was h man of nninapeachi.lile integrity, which earned £rim 'im a respect not confined to hi* cn-religio(>iits. He. has left a widow and a yotng family, to whom the news of hi* death * hat; proved 8 fearful blow. Mrs Myers is titter to Mr Ehrenfried of the Pi CB'->ix Brewery, so that she will not be left, without; the jynpatby of frinds and Trillions-.in her terrible bereavement. The fnmilj am all young. Before leaving the Thames Mr IMjers was presented with a hahrtsi me te»timo»ial of the respect in which he was held by ihe Jews at the Thames. Iv the Regi«trnr Q-aneralfs report of Vifal Statistics in tbe several Bcrjughs, Tor the month of November, the Thame* again shows up as a he»l»hy plane. Here the proportion of deaths in eacli 1000 of population waslowest, in the colany,, being only 0*37; in I>unedin the highest. ra»6 obiained—2B7. Measles was the principal cause of the excestivemprtaliiy in the latter place. The s.s.Phcßbe arrived in the Manukauon Saturday withLthß;Auckland portion of the Suez mail. The Thames portion was brought down by the HiraraVi yeiterday. [

\ We are glad to f«« from the Coromandel Mail tVab »he movement for raising a fund for the reliff of the widow and family of tho late Edward Wilson ib being carried on with great zeal. Committees have been formed 1 at all tho outlying stations Jound Coromandel,. and at the latter place the appeal for aid Kite been j?»nerously nsponded to. Our own list is not filling up very rupidly, but we would urge the Thames public to remember the poor and distressed in ihtir holiduy season. Thb M. and D. v Advertiser relates the following story :— " A row recently oeeuvred in this district exno'gst some miners. Matter* were getting rather unpleasant for one of them,,when h|> retorted 'that if he was to tell of all the gold he (his antagonist) hsd swHllowed, he would probably find hitus*lf in very, close quarters for some years." The supg' stion, in frhorr, was that the man secreted stolen goJd by swallowing it, and it looked very like it, for the accused caved in at once.". , Our travelling reporter yesterday made a highly interesting discovery at Parawai. Not snch nn one as was made by the" immortal TitlLbattianphilosophers at Gotham —notb.tr g of such great iniptrtance to the world. It was simply a lady's glove ; the size f-f, and of brown lid. (The; owner may hare the same; by applying at the office between the heiirs of 8 am. and6p.m) In, a sweet retrea ■•, overshadowed by leafy tr« es, and hidden from the vulgar gaze by luxuriant buhes, the glove was found reposing oa a thistle. The last fond embrace of the JaHy's ! hand teemed to be lingering about that glow Tho end of the longest finger was gnj w«d off. How ardent is young »ffo& . tioxi! V Thb death is announced of Mr G-. B. Sne 1!, one of the oldest thorthand writers,.and president of the Shorthand Writers' Institute. He used often to bn retained, at much risk of his life, to rerorfc the "monster maetinga" rfuri- g the Irish agitation in the time of O'Connell. About ten days ago (says the Kynefcon Gu rdiaa) a youwg lady, the daughter of a farmer near Tremham, eloped with a y#ung man with whom she had been "keeping company " (or the last two yea?s, Both the bride and bridegroom are very respectable, and the match appears in every way a suitable one, but it is said the father wuited a pecuniary recompense for the loss of her pervicf s, which the brid. groom did not feel. disposed to give. On Sunday (says the Pleasant Creek Chronicle) one of our most stilish young ladies waltzed into Church with th»t ii.imitabla grare that is at once the peculiarity and the charm of the female denomination. As she took her seat, by a little behind hand movement s! c arrarged her overekirt, and then snttled herself to meditate how she looked, and what the other girls had on. Tte service concluded, she arose to go out. Alas for buu an hopes ! That last touch on the overskirt *vus too much; Bbc threw it too hi«h, ana there it rested on an old muff, which was serving as a bustle. So the wretched.girl wriggled a«ay, unconscious of tho joy that filled the hearts of the other gi<*ls who saw it. .■ . The Sunday Newsman is a Sydney weekly, devoted, Hpparently, to the ridicule of clergymen and on hodox theology. Its Melbourne correspondent, is responsible for the following relative to the Eev. Hv B. Macartney:— "Last Sunday he invited his congregation to partake of some bread and wine with him up in the chancel after the s rvice was over, and intimated that if any of them had been partaking of the Devil's cup' on the Melbourne racecourse, the day before, they had better not take part it his lit tie entertainment. lam told Mr Justice Stephen, and otker persons wLo were present, were so indignant that they rose and left the church." Thb Daylesford Mercury has the following about a decidedly rara avis: —"r We have read of a singing mouse and of a speakit g fish, but who ever heard of a fowl that could talk? 'Yefc Mr Dickenson, of the Excelsi.r Hotel, Vincent street north, informs us that be possesses such a feaihered phenomenon. When he removed to hia present house, Jie brought with other poultry a common barndoor cock, and about two months ago it began to imitate a magpie next door. Ho says he could hardly believe his ears when the bird answered the neighboring chanticleers by screaming out' Pretty cocky,' instead of the usual sounds. The cock goes through the preliminary motions of a vigorous crow, and then utters the above words even more distinctly than its tutor. All who have heard the bird pronounce it to be a great curiosity. Probably it could ba trained to pronounce other words. Gents' clothes cleaned, dyed and pressed. Gents' light suit* cleaned, ss. N.B.—ln future all goods and orders will only be received at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, Holies ton street, Shnrtlaad. We are glad to inform our readers that a New Gentlemen's Clothing Establishment hxs opened in Pollen street, two doors from Mary street, named the Thames Borough Clothing Mart.—Advx.