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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1939, 22 March 1875, Page 2

la; is always pleasant to hear of the Buceess of old friends id new spheres. Mr J. L. Hall, so long resident? on the Thames, has steadily -worked himself to »n enviable position in the metropolis of the world by hard vrork and real merit. Referring tio the Pfrfor- j maince of ''Madame Angot" ? at the Hplborn AmphUheatre, tli9; Horn?^ News says :—flTKe . opera.was, I during the first /ortnight, preceded by Dibdin's popular balladl op eretta of 'The Waterman,' to which succeeded the 'Beggar's Opera' and in the whole of these pieces Mi; J. L. Hall has not oxily astonished and pleased bis old Australian, but has fixed himself more firmly than ever in the estimation of his English, audiences. Mr Hall is pretty rure io be-a fixture, and a valuable one, in London for some time to come." "We learn that Mr Masters, Pyrites Recluc tion Works, Grabamstown, has tested two specimens supposed to contain copper, forwarded to him by the finders from Ohinemuri. After a careful test not a trace of the mineral was found. The writer of an article headed " Through the Mountains to Hokitika," in the New Zealaed Wesleyan, says:—l he, feature which most startles a visitor to Hokitika is the extraordinary number of places for the sale of drink. Revell s'reet, with its grog-shanties and bar»girls, has not its, fellow, in New Zealand, nor probably in Australia-rat least in any settled town. At every few steps you pass a liquor saloon, sometimes three or four in unbroken row. Many have recently been deprived of their licenses, but the number that, remain is' appalling for so small a population.

A Yowa man was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, charged with robbing., his. mate,of _a chain,pleaded guilty", end was sent to gaol for three months. The prisoner had only been in the colony six months when he distinguished himself by this felonious action, <and had the appearance of respectability. This is the second case within less than a twelvemdnth of apparently respectable young men being convicted of theft at the Thames Court;' There, appeared little occasion in this case to tempt prisoner to steal, as h» is by trade a stwyer, a claTss of men for whom there is constant enquiry ; it can only be inferred therefore that this young man had merely, the seeming virtue of Job Trotter, the fountain of crocodile tears* Immigrants such as this are not calculated to benefit the country much.