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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2115, 14 October 1875, Page 2

It is with pleasure we announce that Mr W. H. Heed intends shortly to give another concert similar to the one of Monday night, which was so successful. This time the proceeds will be devoted to the benefit of the hospital funds, which, as we have already said, are far from in a flourishing condition. Mr Reed will be assisted by several lady and gentlemen amateurs, and informs us that he intends to make tho entertainment itself fully as enjoyable as its predecessor. Wo hope Mr Beed's kind attempts to benefit so important an institution as our local hospital will meet with that success to which they are entitled. Says a West Coast paper:—The following is a copy of a written address on the envelope of a letter received at the post office Hokitika, which has considerably puzzled the post office staff:—" Mr Christofer, Okichtickey, Crimbo, New Zealand, iv haste." The writer's idea of the way to spell Hokitika is unique. It is stated that an influential Company is contemplated in London to run large steamers between Now Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Manilla, and China. Capital £1,000,000 in £25 shares, 'ihe ports of call are to bo as follows:— Sydney, Brisbane, one or two ports in New Guinea, Manilla, and Hong Kong, returning the same way Co Sydney and Nelson, New Zealand. Then there will be branch lines from Sydney and Melbourne to Adelaide. The second branch line will be from Perth, round the North, west coast to Cooktown, to meet the main line in some port in New Guinea. The mail news some time ago brought the sad intelligence that Mrs Lincoln, widow of tho late President of the "United states, had become iu«ane, and it is stated that when a life-long friend of the unfortunate lady went to her, lately, aid told her plainly that she was insane, and that her best friends.felt that it was best sho should go to an asylum, the unfortunate woman said:—" It may be bo ; and if it is so, what wonder is it ? Haven't I had enough to derange any woman's brain ? Did I not see my .husband assassinated before my eyes ? Have I not been honiflesa for years, and have I not buried all my children with the exception of EobertP Do you wonder that I am deranged." A "Writeb in the Queen slander give* the following directions for " preserving eggs: " —Take a f-inch board, say a foot board and three feef; long, with a bracebit of l|-inch ; bore fourteen sets of holes —you will be able to get five in a row; then nail together four strips of deal of the same thickness as the piece before mentioned, and two inches deep. Nail the perforated board ou the frame, and round the edges add a bead of half-an-inch deep. You will then have an ege-board which will hold seventy eggs ; and with such boards eggs are keep in my house perfectly good from August to the following March. Care must be taken that the eggs have always been kept dry. The rationale of this is, that when an egg is laid on its side, the yolk, being of slightly greater gravity than the white, gradually sinks to the side, and when it touches the shell fermentation sets in, and the egg' soon becomes unfit for use j whereas in such a frame as I have described, the egg being put tho small end down, the yolk floats in the centre of the white, and is kept from any contact with the shell. If tho eggs are small the hole* muut bo likerrise.

Thk Auckland Star says :—•Mr Edward I Perkins, late of the Occidental Hotel, has very narrowly escaped having his holiday trip through America cut short by a bullet from a San Francisco rough. In company with a^frknd Mr Perkins] was walking along the street when a hah tipsy man jostled against them. Perkins said something to the man by way of remonstrance, when fellow suddenly drew a revolver from" his breast-pocket and fired. The bullet; passed close -by Mr Perkins and struck his companion, killing him ou the spot. The murderer j was captured and when the Cyphrenes ! left Mr Perkins had been detained a week in Sau Francisoo to give evidence. * Thk Morning Post says that as a " firstclass misdemeanant" Colonel Baker was in the first instance placed in a different reception-cell at Horsemonger-lane Gaol to the other prisoners, and throughout his term of punishment he will be kept separate from them. He is allowed to wear his own' clothing, to buy his own food, to furnish his rooms—he has had two alloted to him—with what is reasonable, necessary, and not extravagant; to have wine, at his own cost, not exceeding one pint, or malt liquor, not exceeding one quart, per diem. He is not required to do any work, to clean his apartment, make his bed, or perform auy menial oflice, all these being done for him by an officer of the prison. He. may have any unobjectionable books or newspapers he choseß. He may write or receive letters or papers ; but all such, sent or received, must in the first instance be examined or read by the governor. Lastly, he may see his friends in his apartment between nine a.m. and six p.m.