Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 14 January 1875, Page 2

Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1875.

We understand that Major Gordon will assist Colonel Lyon in carrying out the Prize Firing at the Thames. Msjor Gordon is expected to arrive here some deys before the firing commences.'..

St. Geobge's Hixl was crowded l«at night pjr ftVarge and respectable audience to hear Ihe Hon. S. D. Haetingß* address on the Liquor Traff c 5 he; ppeech was listened to ■with the utmost attention, and'at its conclusion a cordial toe of 1 harks was passed to Mr Bastings. Councillor Renshawpresided.

Thr Superintendent of the Gralaams'own Fire Brigade has bad forwarded to h ra for public presentation to Mr Paul (Bank of Australasia) a Very prettily illuminated teeti morrial in Oxford frame, expressive of the ftteem entertained for, and r>eret at the departure of Mr P* ul from Gr^ymouth. Mr Paurvras a member of the Hook and Ladder Company of the Grey mouth Fire Brigade, andthe prcs ntation is from »he officers and memriers of the Grey mouth Brigade.

"Wb bare received Provincial Grovernme^t; Gazette, published 12th January. It is noti* fed tlat Mr Carlton Hollis James Hill has keen appoii ted Inspector of Weight? and Measures for the Hauraki District, in the place and Blend of Constable Martin Grace repigned. The tenders for services and supplier for the Protincial Government for the ■ix nionths commencing Ist January, 1875, are published for general information.

A MESSAGE of a rery misleading nature (sßyo the Sketcher) passed recently along the vires. A gentleman sent a telegram to a iriend in town to the following effect:— ' Wife just dead. Please nend a substitute without delay." Most of the operator* on our lines belong to the curious sex, and a hundred ladies at a hundred different, stations conversed in their Black momenta over the beartlessnesi of ihe monster who could desire tfc • consolation of a s .bstitute before his wife jwas buried. Excitement roae very high indeed, when otsr civil service sisters had tapped out to"them- over the length and breadth of the land this answer on the fol* lowing moraine : " Substitute gone up by the morn ng train. Will be with you b7 6." The ordinary telegraphies business of the country. was ■'•■interrupted- that day to an Alarming extent. A hundred messages were sent, to the latfy who had charge of the office in the town where the "substitute" was to arrive, j nd each contained a- prayer that she would find out all about the brazen woman and circulate the newp. A telegraph messenger was on the ground when the coach stopped, and the painful news had to be trans* mitted throughout the land that there was no scandal at all. "Substitute wag a gentleman. Widower. bad beea expecting wife's death, »nd applipd. for lome one to relieve him." Moral.—How many other scandals might be traced to »n equally iußOcent cauae!

Wb understand that it hae been definitely arranged to hold the next concert of the Thames Choral Society oh the 28ih ins*ant, in the Academy of Music It has been decided to give, free invitations to the Southern Volunteer Representatives who will-be here at the time of the concert.

We are glad to inforaTour readers that a New Gentlemen's Clofchiag Establishment, hsa opened in Pollen street, two doors from Mary street, named the Thames Borough Clothing Matt.—Advt.