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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 16 April 1875, Page 2

The Qyphrenes arrived from Sydney this morning, having left on the 10th. She brings later news per cable, but it is not of surpassing interest. Our last cable news stated that Belgium complained of the offensive language of the clerical press. To-day we learn that G-ermany has tendered its advice to Belgium at to its treatment of the Ultramontanes, but Belgium is not yet prepared to go the length of its powerful neighbor, although there is in the " note " of. G-ermany a suggestion thfcfc it would be well to follow in its wake. The Gyphrenes sails again to-day for San Francisco with the English and American mails and a large number of passergers, punctually to time.' As a passenger line the 'Frisco route seems to be gaining in popularity. It is not always those who do the work who obtain the reward. A rather amusing circumstance of this description (says a Duuedin paper) occurred the other day on the Kawarau. A party who possessed a small water-race and sluicing claim at Tucker's Flat, failing to make their enterprise pay, sold out to a man for a small sum of money amounting to a little over £20, and left for ■ the Palmer. The new proprietor of the [claim, while setting himself to the task of i putting the tail race in order, came upon a hollow in the rock which had been filled up with sods, tightly jammed in. Kemoviog them, he obtained a little over 12 ounces of gold, for which he washed but four small :dis\ies of fine gravel. The Buller News makes the following mendacious statement:—The prospectors at Ohinemuri found a reef four feet thick, gold wasßcen in the stone, and on being crushed it yielded metal that was afterwards discovered only to be worth 18s per ounoe.

Mb James Slatob, writes to-day:—"ln your notice of the Lord's Prayer and Belief, painted by mo for the Church of England, you give mo credit for hating presented them. ■ Suck is not Ihe case. lam sorry to Bay I am not in a position to give the Church anything so expensive. By correcting this in your next iseuo you will oblige." la further .correction we may etete that p *hort time, ago Mr Stewart, of the Queen of Beauty mine, presented St. George's Church, with a large and richly illuminated text round the chancel arch, and this week Mr Barker, another shareholder in the same mine, Las given the Lord's Prayer and Creed painted on plates ,of zinc 7ft long and 2£ broa-?. These are placed on if ach aide of the central" east window, and greater improve the app >ar« anre of the ea9t end of the church They • Wave been illuminated by Mr Slator in his beet style, and do him great credit.

At the Borough Council last night a very necessary wo^k was decided upon, namely the formation of a road down the latter part ot the Waiotal i hill to Pollen-street, the work to cost about. £60. The. formation, of the road now proposed will effect the necessary connectisn, and preserve the traffic on a road which would otherwise be unapproachable in the winter months ; but. ifc is. very questionable whether the Council would not have betrayed better judgment had they adopted the iuggestion of Cr Brown, namely, that the Government should be asked to lend assistance in the. making of a more extensive road, which would; rofc require further improvement. We understand that * the hill could be cut away and a good 12-feefc road formed for £300. Suoh a work would be indeed rervieeabl-', and would materially lessen the cost of cartage. At preeent draymen charge 2s 6d above the average rate along this road, the gradient at the foot being sofsteep.