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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3124, 21 February 1879, Page 2

We would call the attention of intending tenders to the fact that tbe time for receiving tenders for the erection of a bridge over the Ohinemuri River at Paeroa has been extended till Saturday (to-morrow) at noon.

The Thames Scottish and Naval Cadets assembled at the Government range at 6.30 this morning to compete for the district prizes. Of the former corps there were 10, and of the latter 18 competitors. ' The ranges were IC3, 200 and 300 yards, .five shots at each range. The number of prizes were seven, of the following amounts—£l 10s, £1, £1,145, 10s, 10s, 10a. Appended are the names of the winners and their scores :— Cadet Moore, TNO 40 Cadet Truscott, TNO ... 38 Cadet Kadford, TBC ... 35 Lieut. Trevartheu, TSC ... 34 P.O. Gordon, TNC 32 Cadet Henderson, TSO 32 Cadet Penkj TNC ..30 The drawing for prizes in Mrs Addey's Art Union took place last evening, at which Dr Kilgour presided. Mrs Addey, promoter of the above, held upwards of 200 unsold tickets, and was successful in taking six of the prizes, viz., Ist, 2nd, 4th, sth, 6th, Bfch. The following are the winning numbers :—ll3,lst prize; 229, 2nd do ; 17, 3rd do; 252, 4th do ; 260, 6th do; 65, 6th do; 206, 7th do ; 151, Bth do; 265, 9th do. The following reply was received by the Mayor to-day in reply to the telegram suggesting a Government subsidy of £1 for £1 to maintain pumping operations here by the conference at the Borough Council Chambers on Wednesday :—" To the Mayor, Chairman County Council, and W. Rowe, Esq., M.H.R:,—I am directed to inform you that as there is no vote for the purpose the Government regret that they cannot subsidise the i exertions of the mining companies and local bodies towards low level prospecting, as requested in your telegram of yesterday to the Hon. the Minister of Lands.— Oiitee Wakefield, Under Secretary of Goldfields."

A number of, gentlemen, who had known Detective Brennan during his stay here, on hearing that he was about to leave the district, interested themselves in raising subscriptions for a testimonial to Mr Brennan. A handsome watch and chain were presented to Mrs Brennan yesterday, the rules of the service preventing her husband from accepting the gift. We are glad Mr Brennan has received some acknowledgement, as during his long stay on the Thames he had always been a most obliging officer, and always did his duty in a manner satisfactory to his superiors.

These was a connubial difference in Owen street the other evening. After the belligerent man and wife had vaccinated each other, the former took to his heels, and sought refuge in a grocery establishment over the way. His infuriated spouse followed him, and promiscuously threw a stone after him as he entered the portals of the house of refuge. The stone passed through two windows and astonished the courteous young man behind the counter by anointing him with the contents of four pickle and half a dozen castor oil bottles, which it upset on its way to a box of eggs at the rear of the shop. Damages: A handful of hair, a few scratches, and 16s worth of groceries. Aby stander assures us that the scene was a most edifying one.

To-day Mr Peat forwarded to this office some very fine peaches, affording another proof of the suitability of the soil and climate of Thames for growing fruit. The peaches were grown in Mr Peat's garden, Hape Creek road, and average about nine inches in circumference. A couple of apples accompanying the peaches were very fine, measuring fifteen inches round the largest girth.

Op the many stories that have come under notice in connection with the Glasgow Bank, the following told by the Argus's correspondent is the saddest. A few months ago a very hard-worked literary man was released, not, as usual, by death, from his bondage to the pen, but by an unexpected legacy. A friend of his, who knew how hard he had to toil for many months, left him £5000, all in shares in the Glasgow Bank. The gi^ft, which was intended to assist him in his poverty, has thus absolutely proved his ruin. Poor B. (the victim) has the pluck of a hero, and never fails to have an eye to (literary) business. "I am thinking," said he, " it would be a capital notion, and quite original, to make one's commercial man in a novel forgive his enemy on his death-bed, and leave him £5000 as a proof of it—in an unlimited bank which he knew was about to break. What d'ye tbink of it ?"

The Virginia City Chronicle thus illustrates the change that a few days may bring about:—" About two weeks ago a holder of much Sierra Nevada stock was finding fault with the gastronomical facilities of this' mountain town. * What we want in Virginia,' said he, ',is a high* toned restaurant like the Poodle Dog in San Francisco, or Deimonico's in New York; a place where a gentleman of taste and means could get a meal varying from five to twenty-five dollars, with frogs' legs, truffles, terrapin stews, and some rare old Hock or Burgundy—a place where one could dine at his leisure and invite a friend with some degree of confidence.' This morning the same man was heard to ejaculate : ' It's about time we had some twobit restaurants in this town, like the Miners' .Restaurant in San Francisco, or the What Cheer House, where a man could get a good substantial meal without bankrupting himself.'"