THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3194, 15 May 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879.

A special meeting of the County Council was held at the Council Chambers, Pollen street, this afternoon. Thiett-three nativei from Wellington went up by yesterday's train to the Cambridge Land Court. They were from Otaki, and are interested in blocks of land going through. They discussed Sir Geo. Grey's ultimatum, and said Tawhiao could not, for shame's sake, accept money from Government.

The annual return furnished to the Treasury by the clerk of <he Waikato County Council shews the rateable value of the county to be £39,29013s lid. The amount of rates actually collected for the year ended March 31st was £132118s 6d. A rate of Is levied by several Road Boards during the current year would give an income of £1964125, and the Government subsidy double that amount.

By advertisement in another column ladies and gentlemen desirous of joining a, Tonic Sol Fa class are requested to communicate with Mr Buttle.

A special meeting of the Board of Governors of the Thames High School is called for this evening to disouss matters of importance.

We would warn people owning collarless dogs to be careful, as the police are on the look-out for unregistered animals.

Thebe was a clean sheet at the R.M. Court this morning.

The fortnightly meeting of the Harbor Board was to have been held at the Council Chambers last evening, but at the appointed time only Mr Bagnall. the Secretary, and the representatives of the Press turned up, and the meeting of coarse fell through.

In another column we publish the County balance sheet for the year ending the 31st March, 1879. From it will be seen that the receipts amounted to £34,239 16s 3d, all of which was ex pended in necessary works and other County business. The assets amount to £11,316 Us sd. The statement is signed by the auditor, Mr L. A. Durrim, who, we learn, in returning the books, addressed a letter to the County Chairman speaking Tery highly of the manner in which the' books were kept by Mr Hollis.

The Herald, speaking of the address presented to E. T. Wildman, Esq., by the members,of the Provincial Grand Lodge, says:—" We yesterday saw the illuminated address as prepared by Mr J. Slator, and it is really a handsome and artistic work. Tbe body of the address is in ' black letter,'red and black. The border is unique and elegant in the style of ornamentation known as the fifteenth century style,— an English foliage pattern of chaste design. The capital W, at the opening of the address, is also of the fifteenth century style, copied from the fac simile of a manuscript now in the British Museum. It is richly ornamented, the letter being in gold on a blue and

white ground, with a branch leading off into a rich, elaborate border of crimson lake. In appropriate positions on the address are Masonic eaibleins of the Grand Lodge—Past Master, Mark Master, and Koyal Arch,—in all degrees of which Brother Wildman has sustained distinguished positions in this province. The design and execution of the address are throughout very elegant, and a credit alike to Mr Slator, Mr Wildman, and the District Graud Lodge, by whom it has been presented, and we have no doubt it will be cherished by the recipient as a memento of his long connection with the Masonic fraternity of New Zealand.''

A tkiend of a simple farmer of Brittany wrote recently to tell him that he won " an elephant with an ivory castle on his baok " in the recent Paris lottery. The Breton wrote to the committee, saying that he was building a stable for hit, prize, and asking for information as to the food best suited to the animal. The elephant in question is a small ornament a few inches high.

It may be interesting to mention that of 1,537,276 productively industrious New Yorkers, 351,628 are farmers or farm hands; one half of the working women of the State are house servants; while there, are no fewer than 137,416 of the same. Over 150.0C3 men are engaged as day labourers ; the mechinists. number 14,066;: the' Coopers, 8971; the iron foundry operatives, 8920; the black-smiths 19,803; the cabinet makers, 7963; the tanners, 4268; the nail and factory operatives, 16,613; the printers, 12,328; the cigar makers, 12,345; the painters and glaziers, 22,645; the carpenters and joiners, 52,192; the boot and shoe makers, 23,144. There are also no less than 50,903 clerks, 40,407 tailors and seamstresses, and 33,476 milliners and dreasmrikers.' No less than 1,776,018 of the people of New York were married, 2,672,818 unmarried, and 1349 divorced, while of widows and widowers there are 248,778.