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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2043, 22 July 1875, Page 2

We have to hand New Zealand Gazette No. 41, published on July 15. We have received from the Thames Agent, Mr J. H. Jefferson, the Australasian Sketcher for July.. In addition to "the usual excellencies which characterise this paper there is published with the current number a splendidlarge engraving of the City of Adelade, capital of South Australia. ~ Mr G. K. Tubtost, of Dunedin, is a, devoted admirer of athletic sports, and annually offers prizes for swimming, boxing and cricket, to the boys at the Dunedin High School In presenting these prizes the other day he spoke strongly on the subject of boxing, and after pointing out the advantages to be derived from learning " the manly art," said : -"Boys, never strike anybody first, unless a lady is insulted, in which case wire in and fight until you cannot stand. If a person calls you ajiar, answer him •that he is a gentleman ; do not strike him. I know I ani singular in this rcspeefc. Ido not think a man should strike another except in defence. Nine times have I been struck first, and nine times have my opponents failed to appear before me again in a similar atti ude. As between man and man,-keep your hands for defensive and not aggressive purposes, The narrow-minded opinion of a community like ours is (as stated to me by two worthy Scots, both- friends of mine) that boxing is degrading ! Nothing of the sort. ' The g-entlcman boxer is a man, a •protector of the weak,-'-and one who seldom gets into trouble'; and who, if he should be unfortunately placed in difficulty, knows how to get out of a fix." A story has been,'gravelling about Dunedin recently, say^tjje Ota'go Guardian, concerning an instance of generosity shown by an old servant-' on behalf of- his master. It is stated that many months ago the-former heard "that his employer had become pecuniarily embarrassed,, and was much troubled by the fear of .legal proceedings. Several supposed friends—friends, too, who had been the employer's frequent' guests—were appealed to in vain, although it was hinted at the time -that his difficulties had been brought about mainly through his endeavours to hospitably entertain them and others. Almost at the eleventh hour a sum sufficient to enable him to avert the threatened down-fall, was handed to him by the old servant above- alluded to, and a few days since the loan, accompanied by a handsome present, was repaid. We hear, says the Nelson Evening Mail, that the Eev. Father Pacilio, from Sydney, on his way to Rome, was, last week, entrusted by the Eev. Father Garin with an address to be presented to his Holiness the Pope, signed by six boys and six girls, in the name of the pupils of St. Mary's Schools, Nelson, representing respectively six different nations, namely—One boy and one girl Italian, two others French, two English, two German, two Trish, and two Scotch. The address was most beautifully written and illustrated by one of the Sisters. Above and around the heading " To his Holiness Pope Pius IX," were to be seen emblems, allegories, &c. Accompanying the address was a little case containing three nuggets of gold, as also gold, dust in two little vials, with this inscription— " Though this token of our devotedness is nothing of itself, yet, by its purity, we consider it to be an emblem of the love and esteem we bear you,, the representative of Jesus Christ, soliciting, at the same time, with earnestness, your special blessing.".