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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1937, 19 March 1875, Page 2

We would call attention to the announce* ment in another column that Sir G-eorge G-rey •will address the electors at the Theatre Royal this evening at. half-past seven o'clock. Sir George arrived by the steamer this afternoon, accompanied by Mr J. Sheehan, Provincial Secretary, Mr G-. M. Reed, M.P.C., and others. examination of candidates for* "assistant arid pupil teachers was commenced today bafora R. J. .©'Sullivan, Esq., Inspector of Schools, at the Thames Schoolroom. There were 22 candidates (females) present. ; The s s. Wellington arrived in the Manukau from Taranaki and other Southern ports between seven and eight this jnorning. The Wellington brings the Auckland and Thames portion of the Suez mailj which should be hereby the boat this afternoon. She was also reported to have on board forty diggers for Obinemuri. A meeting'of the Waiotahi Education Board was held yesterday, Mr Rowe in the chair. The business was chiefly of a routine character. Several parties were exempted from, payment; of * the, Education rate. ; Mr 6'Sullivan, Inspector of Schools, having been introduced, to the meetiog, a lot g ; conference ensued with regard to the advisability of establishing a Superior School in the Waiotahi district. ■ } ■■, '- •, • The Buller News of the Bth instant says: —A telegram received from a Air Salmon, i now in Auckland, and formerly a storekeeper at the Kanieri and Brightoa on the West Coast, states that Ohinemuri is a comple't failure soCfar as regards the discovery of a payable alluvial or quartz field. ; The following; cheerful notice appears in Hie Wakatip Miil :-- l<;Public Notice.—l beg to inform those person* who have taken a fancy to the flavour of fruit in nay garden, that one piece of frtiit oii every tree is poisoned with strychine. Of course, I know the poißoned fruit; others don't.—Richmond Bebtham. ; :';]'' ■ "■''-'■"-'' :'■.'...' ."' : : A ToUCHiNa;bequ>st-waß made recently by a dyins; boy in Wellington. The Post says : —" We this. morning received a very affecting communication. It was a bulky letter addressed to the Editor, and inside the envelope was a packet endorsed—' For the benefit) of f the injured man Mr Taite, from a dying boy.' The contents were" a half-crown, a shilling, a sixpence, two fourpenny pieces, and twelve pennies, in all 5s Bd, apparently the contents of some poor little boy's money .box." ■ . '. :- ■■■■'■ ': ■■;...•; , ... „: :