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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1938, 20 March 1875, Page 2

Owing to a pressure upon out? raiding space, "What Everybody Says," "Home' Gtossip".to hand by the Suez mail, "The Week," by our mining reporter, some correspondence, and other matters are .crowded out. - A Maobi fell overboard whilst tho Alert was on her pawage yesterday ;' fortunately "nothing more serious 'than a good ducking resulted-from tho accident. The members of No. 2/H.E.V., held a' meeting last night, after the usual weekly drill, to elect a Sub-Lioutenant in.room of Mr J. Hoakins, resigned. , The choice of the company' fell upon) Mr W. F. Paul, who was> unanimously elected. [ • A weit has been received by the Eeturning Officer for the election of a duly qualified person,to serve as a member of the Provincial Council in room of W. T. >Swan, deceased. Already a number of persons are spoken of as likely to be candidates, including Messrs. A. 1 Anthony, J. Butt, R. Zennan, J. Kilgour, W. J. Speight, Eobert Graham, C. F. Mitchell, 1 ;Wi Bowe eux6tfj. Ehrenfried. -; : ; ?

"We are in receipt of New Zealand Gazette of date March lltb, containing the usual proportion of notifications, and eomo pero lical tabulated statements, including agricultural statistics for the Province of Cariterbnry and Taranaki for February 1875. A most infernal smell pervaded Pollen street last night from about ten o'clock. Itappeared as if a hundred or jso of carts laden with night soilhad gone through in procession, each cart acting .as a distributor in liberal quantities of its odoriferous contents, the middle of the road being sprinklad with muck.. It would be easy to discover who perpetrated the nuisance, which was more offensive than many which cost offenders 20s and costs in,the local court. Cases of mistaken . identity^ are - now of frequent occurrence, and ifc is evident that' our difficulties of recognising each other are becoming greater every day. , A remarkable' instance of this is afforded by an error made the other night, according to. the GHaogow Citizen, by a man in G-lasgow respectinghis wife. It seems that this affectionate husband carried home from the Great Roilox policestation a drunken woman whom he supposed to be his wife. On. arriving at his house he! deposited his burden tenderly indoors, and, to; his horror, she almost immediately: died.; His grief, however, wasrnqfc consola-j tion, for on examination it was discovered that the deceased woman was a total stranger. The delight of the man at this discovery wasi still further heightened by his^ wife beingj found at the central police-station,^where she! had bfen'locked up on a charge of drunkenness. Thus the evening ended indeed happily,i and the "story is a Lsson to other husbands! not to hastily jump -a 1; the conclusion that every; drunken womaii they> meet 'must be: their wife.

The Southern Cross yesterday contained the following from its "own correspondent"; at Crrahamstown,,'■>" per pigeon, express":—= "A pigeongram, just received, announces the: welcome intelligence -that gold Iras been struck by the prospecting party in possession^ of Reserve A-r-rThorpe and mates."-",1 Ass the! Advertiser/ people are supposed ?ib| tie pyrn\ correspondents of the Cross—a supposition 1 favored by the, similarity of reports and pigeongrams from Ohinemuri, many of which: are identical in. both papers—it i 9 difficult to reconcile this statement with the rebuto| administered to the Auckland Star, in to-day's Advertiser, for publishing a. " report" that gold had been struck. If it had not been for; the disclaimer, we would have "thought the) report and the pigeongram both emanated; from the Advertiser people; who are under-! stood to be own correspondent of both Cross* and Star. \

We learn that Mr George McCullagh Seed,) one of the proprietors of the Auckland Star,; this morning got a pago of the Thames Ad-l vertiser photographed—reduced to a amallj size, and sent to Auckland per pigeon express] in order to get Sir George Grey's address; piiblished in this evening's Star. We hope' the experiment will bo successful; it will be cheaper than telegraphy at the absurdly high rates charged by the Goversment to evening? papers. "\