The Thames Star. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1895.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 8079, 26 June 1895, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1895.

Thorbubn's clearing sale of season's (roods still continues. A special line of little boys' blue serge sailor suits'is selling well. See advertisement.

The quarterly meeting of the Loyal Waikato Lodge was held in the Oddfellows' Hall last. evening, when Bro. E. T. Price was elected N.G., Bro. R. Bowie .V.G., Bro. Cleave G.M., Bro. J. Peat E.Sec, P.G. Rilcy R.S. to N.G, Bro. W. A. 'Ihompson L S. to N.G., Bro. W. F. Ashby U.S. to V.G., Bro. '11.I 1. M. Culpitt L.S. to V.G., Bro. E. W. Rowe Guardian, and Bro. G. A. Hastings Warden. Bros. W. Deeble, W. Otter, and C. J. Ellis were appointed Trustees, and P.G.Lowe and Bro. "WVEddowes auditors. A vote of thanks was accorded to the outgoing oificers, and G.M. Jackson's name was ordered to be placed on the merit board, and he is to receive a framed emblem. The Lodge now shows 153 members.

In another column Mr S. Hetherington notifies that his shop will be closed all day on Thursday for the purpose of marking down stock and preparing for his clearing winter sale, Ihe establishment will be re-opened at 9 o'clock on Friday morning, when the sale will commence. As large reductions will be effected all round in order to secure a speedy clearance we have no doubt that Mr Hetherington will do a good business.

The usual weekly meeting of the' Good Templar Lodge was held last evening, when some mere members were admitted to the order and several more proposed for membership. It has been decided that a Debating Society and a Draught and Chess Club be formed in connection with the Lodge, and young men who do not belong to the Lodge are to be invited to attend, and thus spend their evenings in a more useful manner than a great many do at present. During the evening Bro. W. Ensor and Bro. N\ Pearce gave solos, Bro. James a reading, and Sis. Gubb, from Kaipara, a recitation.

A Melbouene cable states that in referring to the acticm of the New Zealand Government in* contesting the cyanide patent, the Argus says:—"The British Crown has a right to compel the patentee to sell privileges to it when they relate to one of its recognised functions, but makes full and fair recompense. New Zealand proposes to adopt 1 a species of mimicry of this power, but extends the application." This, it says, raises the grave constitutional question whether colonial Governments can use their prerogatives to the injury of private owners in a matter outside the functions of the Government. ■ . *

Lobd Robbbts, who held the command of the Indian Army from 1885 to 1893, is to succeed Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley in his position as Commander-in-Chief. of Ireland. It is probable that Lord Wolseley will succeed the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief of the British army. Every week heralds its bargains in the drapery line. On Saturday week W. S. Wylie announced the arrival of a grand lino of ladies' jackets which have taken well. Ihis week he wants to clear out 500 ladies' hats, and if value unequalled secures a speedy sale his end must be ac-

complisked. The-public is asked to inspect; if they can go without buying they may.— [Advt.] Another martyr to the cause of science! About fifteen months ago Dr. John Byron, the eminent New York bacteriologist, who has fer some time past been experimenting with a view to successfully combating consumption, was himself seized by the disease, having by accident inhaled some tuberculosis bacteria while pursuing his researches. On discovering a short time afterwards that he was suffering from consumption he tried a voyage to Europe for his health, but after six months he re-crossed the Atlantic with the consciousness that his end was near. Until, however, a short time before his death, he insisted on directing the work of his assistants at the laboratory, recording for the benefit of science the origin and progress of the disease to which he was succumbing. 'I he deceased gentleman was a director of the Bacteriological Department of the Louis Laboratory in the New York University Medical College, and was aged thirty-five. A bather startling story comes from Paris, A short time back a number of domestic bow-wows mysteriously disappeared in the French metropolis, and as a result the veterinary inspectors have caught several butchers red-handed in the act of selling cutlets, etc, of dog. Some of the butchers are alleged to have said, by way of an excuse, that they were not versed in the mysteries of comparative anatomy, and that they bought without suspicion what was offered to them for sale. A veterinary surgeon has just declared that the flesh of a dog is not harmful so long as it is properly cooked, and also on the condition that the animal was not affected with rabies or tuberculosis. After all, prime dog is a good deal better than the diseased meat sometimes exposed for sale in our butcher shops.