The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, 21, 1891.

Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7046, 21 November 1891, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, 21, 1891.

What should prove an interesting lecture will be delivered in the Pollen Street Lecture Hall on Monday evening by the Key. John Walter, a recent arrival from England, lne rev. gentleman is well-known 33 a talented lecturer, and has attracted crowded froueas ?n the Old Country, so that we have no doubt all who attend on Monday night will have a me treat. The subject of the lecture *s, « The Model Maid." No charge will be made for admission/ but a collection is to be taken »p. ■ Mb Pars, wishes us to correct a statement in " Fair Play's" letter re the Parawai presentations. The only Parawai scholar who attended his Saturday classes on Agricultural Chemistry was Master G. Fleming, Professor Thomas' first prize man, who also earned ott the first prized the School of Mines' examination. The others were taught by Mr May, who deserves great praise for the bucobbs ot his oupils. Tenders are invited by -Mr J. M. McLarea, County Engineer, for clearing Blips, &o, on the Waiorao Creek road, and also for forming 52 chainß of track, &c, atPuhoi Creek. By refereace to the advertisement intending oontrwtora will learn the three dates on which JUr McLaren wiU pojnfc opt the work. At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday before; Mr Justice Conolly, in the divorce case William Henry Laycock, petitioner, and Agnefi Annie Laycock, respondent, Mr coier man moved, and. an order was made accoroinwly "That leave be granted to,-proceed *i+£out laakiag John ojrpert the. cp-W* yonint, •;■; ■ .. . " ■ ' ..- • ri-

The customary notices regarding Divine services to be held in the local Churches to. morrow appear in another column, from which it will he seen that at the Primitive Methodist Church the anniversary of the School will be celebrated. The Eev. G. Grindley, who only arrived from Wales a short time ago, will officiate both morning, evening, and afternoon, but at the latter service he will be assisted by the Eev. W. Woollass, of Timaru. The usual services will be held at the Wesleyan and St. James' Presbyterian Churches by Mrs Scott (evangelist) and the Key. S. J. Neill, resnectively, and at the Pollen Street Lecture Hall Mr E. H. Taylor will preside.

The members of the Thames Naval Artillery Volunteers are notified to muster for inspection parade at the Naval Hall at 6.30 o'clock next Tuesday evening. A lad named Pr«ece, in the employ of Mr Kickit, was thrown from his horse late this afternoon, ana was badly cut about the face and head. He was taken to the Hospital;

Me E. Comek has completed the negotiations for the Waitakururu No. 3 Block, of some 1470 acres, from the natives. The land of which Mr Comer has become the lessee on behalf of himself and others fronts the Firth of Thames, and what is believed to be a valuable coal mine has been proved to exist on the property. The importance of having a coal mine contiguous to the Thames cannot be overestimated, and we wish Mr Comer and his copartners every success in their venture.

There is now on view in the window of Mr Foy, the iwell known photographer of Pollen street, a very handsome shield of the champion whaleboat crew, which has been executed by him with his accustomed skill. It has attracted considerable attention during the last day or two, and is a piece of work that could not be excelled in Auckland. Mr Foy has also finished photographic groups of the High School and Eover Football Clubs, and has now in hand groups of the Nelson and Eover 11. Clubs.

Our readers will see that an effort will be made on Monday evening to re-start the Good Templar Lodge at the Thames, when the general public are invited to hear a lecture by Mr T. W. Glover, who will refer to the marvellous results of the great prohibition contests at Sydenham and other places in the South. This evening Mrs Scott, evangelist, and Messrs Bamford and Glover are advertised for the Salvation Army Barracks.

Our Turua correspondent writes:—" Our school has long had an average attendance tantalizingly near that required to entitle us to a pupil teacher, and the new scale adopted by the Board of Education, on the recommendation of the Inspectors, has had the effect of giving us the much desired aid. Mr Muir, one of the members of the Board, objected to the proposed change on the ground that any competent teacher ought to be able to instruct 40 children single handed. Certainly, provided they are all in one, or even two Standards; but when five or six Standards and two preparatory classes have to be kept profitably occupied, it becomes a very different, and not an easy task. Our children have made good progress under Mr Phillips single handed, but we may reasonably look for more rapid progress, now that he is assisted by Miss Catran, late of the JKauaeranga Boys' School, who began her duties this week. Before quitting this subject, I must express our sense of the promptitude with! which the Board attached an assistant to the staff, without waiting even for a formal application from the Committee. Like all other public bodies, the Board is often grumbled at, but we in Turua have had every reason to be satisfied with the way they have treated us lately."

The Mayor (Mr McAndrew) has given notioe of his intention to move the following motion at the next meeting of the Borough Council: "That the reoomjnendation made by the General Purposes 'Committee in its report dated Sept. I7j 1891, and adopted by the Council, referring to an application made by J. Judd, for permission to break up the road in the Borough to lay pipes down to supply water from the County main to hies $ailsn|j plant, be reoonsidero4.?? ' '

A teleg'ham in our last issue informed u» that in the trip from Auckland to Turua the s.s. Paeroa beat the s.s. Ohinemuri by fifteen minutes. Our Turua correspondent writes to-days—"Tb.6 long-looked for s.s. Ohinemuri made her appearance yesterday morning, arriving a quarter of an hour after her rival, the Paeroa. A3 the steamers started together from Auckland, the . Hauraki -people are jubilant over the fact o£ their boai beating the other in their first trial of speed. An authority on the Maori language was watching the vessels just as the Paeroa came alongside the wharf and the Ohinemuri was coming in sight.: 'There,' said he, 'is the girl I left behind me coming round the point.' The word Ohinemuri is, it seems, the Maori equivalent for the phrase which gives its name to the tune played by the British^ regimental bands when'Jestving'on foreign service."