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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1992, 24 May 1875, Page 2

We notice that tlio steamer Pearl will leave for Oliinemuri at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. A slight fire occurred last night in the chimney of the old Albion Hotel, Willoughby street, now in the occupation of Mr Howard, carpenter. Mr Superintendent Macdonald, with others of the Shortland Fire Brigade who chanced to ho at the shed when the chimney toot fire, at once took steps.to quench it, and soon extinguished what there was. We are requested to state that there will be no meeting of the Choral Society^ this evening as usual, in consequence of to-day being the Queen's Birthday. A paballel! Sir George Grey was referred to in the Provincial Council the other night by Mr Shceban as— "1- Eagle soavjeg in h?.s p-ide.ot place, WfT~ by a mousing owl hawked afc and killed." The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was spoken of by General Tracy (counsel for Mr Beecher during the trial now proceeding) as— „' ' ...-,.. ', ... ■ " An Eagle toweilnj In his pi Ide cf place, Hawked, at and kilted by mousing owls! Which is right, the General or Johnny P One of them has evidently misquoted, or else Johnny purposely altered the couplet the "mousing owl": lie referred to being Mr Bagnall, for having carried his resolution re abolition. The manager of a Berlin telegraphic agency who communicated the Arnim sentence to his correspondents at Vienna before it was pronounced at Berlin has been successively fined £15 and £45 sterling for refusing to name the source whence he derived his information. --The Leeds Mercury says that Mr Joseph Love, one of the most extensive colliery owners in the county of Durham, died on Sunday, at the ago of eighty years. Mr Love began his career as a poor pitboy, in the capacity of a trapper, and gradually worked his way up. He was the absolute owner of a very large number of collieries, both in the eastern and western coalfields, besides being interested in a large number of other public works'. One of his last acts was to build, at a cost of £1030, a new chapel at High Shincliffe, near Durham. Mr Love i was a member of the Methodist New Connexion community. ' It is some time since we were called upon to record .anything in the way of "selling off" or "immense reductions" in the clothing department. But we are now reminded that Messrs J. Cosgrave and Co., as calling a sale of drapery and clothing at their establishments in Owen > and Albertstreets. The stocks in these establishments embrace £20,000 worth of goods. Cheap drapery and winter clothing will now be the order of the dayV—-Advt.' i The Largest Shipment of Drapery, Millinery and Clothing ever imported direct from manufacturers to the Thames is opened this scaeon at J. Mabshaili's, who is determined to sell with tho JFmalleßfc Bcrminorative Profit, and is certain the public will not find his goods snrpaassnfl, if equalloj, for value by any house in New Zealand. Inspection Solicited.—Advt.---