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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1914, 9 December 1874, Page 2

Sir Donaid Mclean is expected down tomorrow, and in all probibility the meeting of natives will take place on Friday. His Worship the, Mayor, who had been requested to make arrangements for " interviewing'' the Native Minister, yesterday received a telegram stating that when Sir Donald did come down, he would remain for a few days. In the District Court which sit* to-day, before Judge Beckham, the case Donnelly v. Donnelly, for alleged detention of a letter, which has been previously tried at this Court, will be brought on. The plaintiff, Patrick Kenvin Donnelly, was on that occasion nonsuited. On this occasion he has subpiened as witnesses Ciptain Fraser an<J:Mr ; MacCormick, solicitor, of Auckland, and these gentlemen arrived with Judge Beckham last evening. The plaintiff in the former case has also a cjse against Mr Brassey, solicitor, arising, we believe, out of the sune proceedings. The New Zealand Insurance Company have issued their Almanacs for 1875. The card Almanac is very handsomely lithographed in colours, with a picture of the head office at the top, and a picturesque Maori at each side, with a tree fern, and abundance of green and gold tastefully disposed of. in the lettering and scrollwork. The calendar is beautifully and accurately g"t up, but is not very cheerful reading, as every day haß its record of disaster on flood or field, or in populous city! At the bottom, is the name of the local agent for the Thames, Mr H. H. Wright. The Almanac has been lithographed at the Herald office. • The book almanac of the New Zsaland Insurance Company is a neat little volume, with the motto , from Shakespeare, "See to't well, protect yourself.' Besides the calendar and other contents there are a uumber of didactic and witty extracts the moral of most of them being the danger of remaining uninsured. No town can teach that lesson so well as Auckland. The fifteenth dividend of 2s G'l per . share in the Tokatea Gold Mining Company will be payable on the 14th instant, A. Provincial (iovernment Gazelle published on Saturday contains schedule o£ pilotage rates l for port of Thames, and rules and regulations I for public ferries; statement of the account of the province of Auckland for the quarter ended 30th September, 1874; notices of times and places for holding sittings of the Native Lands Court, etc. A circular has been issued to agents of steam vessels by the Telegaph. Department, allowing the free transmission by wire of a message announcing arrivals and departures for aud from New Zealand ports. This will be a great convenience, and will ho 'doubt, render the shipping board exhibited at the Telegraph Office much more complete than at present.

. The Rev W. Harris, wlio his recently arrived from England, to assume pastoral charge of the growing Primitive Methodist congregation iu Sheridan street,' Auckland, preached on Sunday for the first time to large and attentive congregations. ■ f The s.s.' Hero,' Oaptiin Logan, left Auckland on Monday for Sydney and Melbourne. Passengers Cabin, for Melbourne—Messrs Pagan and E. K. Brown, Miss H. Smith. Cabin for Sydney—Mr >M. Maddock, Mrs VV. Maddock, Mr G. H, Baker, Miss Conuell, Miss McDonald, Rev Mr Foran, Mr and Mrs W, Bell. Steerage for Sydney—Messrs Hartley, Johnston, Dinham, W. Christie, Mrs W, Shand, Miss E. Long.

The imposing ceremony of presenting the two cows, "Faith" and "Hope,'' to the Industrial Home, Auckland, was promptly performed on Saturday evening. The patient animals were suitably adorned .with necklaces of flowers, instead of regalia, as they ought to have been, which was, wo (Star) understand, the original intention of the brethren, but as the gentle cows had not been duly iuitiated, and were not sufficiently civilised to regard with due reverence the pomp and vanities of this wicked world, it was thought that Nature's fading flowers would answer equally well without the chance of having the regalia spoiled. The sun shone upon the scene with his wonted splendour both upon man and animals, as Dr Nicholson proceeded in an appropriate spccch to comment upon the nature of the living present, in the forms of cows, and of their utilitarian, healthgiving streams, the pure.mik of Teuipkry from the great temple of the beautiful. Uis Worship the Mayor then returned thanks to the Templars on behalf of the committee. The Coromaudel correspondent of the Gross says:—" A complimentary dinner is to be given to Mr James Hendry, tho manager of the National Bank of New Zealand at Coromaudel, by a large number of his friends, previous to his departure from Ooromandel to Grahamstown, where he has been ordered, Mr Hendry's departure from Coromaudel, where he has made a host of fiends by his courtesy and urbanity, will be felt by every one who'has cirne in contact with him." In the face of this the spiteful correspondent of the Thames evoning pa per says that the Oiromandel people sw not *x« ceodingly sorry for tho change, \j

The ss ' Plicebe' arrived in the Manukau oil Saturday from the South. Passengers-Mr and Mrs Uaine, Mrs Kenny, Miss Harvey, Dr Howell, Messrs Hilport, Brown, Rogers, George, Osborne, Bennett, > dair, Montgomery, Dignan Beaver, Alexander, Woed, Cumriiiug, R, s! Smythe (agent for Madame Goddard), and six in the steerage. The steamship ' Hero' was the bearer of the following parcels of gold for Melbourne 4 boxes shipped by the Bank of New Zealand, containing as follows: 2320za J 0 Iwts, the produce of Marlborough, value £930; 1,9200zs sd.vts Ggrs, produce of Nelson,, value £7,651 4Jaoz3 Bdwts Sgrs, produce of Nelson, V c' l u 1,479® lOdwts lOgrs, produce « f Thames Goldfield, value £0,619 17s ™ ? 4,127cz3 19(hvts ' Total value ™, a , 1 A raount of duty, £41215? lOd One box of gold shipped by the Bank of Australasia, containing l,llßczs produce of the. Ihames go d eld, value £4,000; duty paid on same, £11116s. 1 box gold, shipped by the f'liion Bank 0l Australia, containing 1,7950zs ? Vinr^ 05 m the '^amc-s.gohltield, \alue £o, 100, duty paid on tlie same £14217s < 3d. Grand. total, 7,0410zs 7dwts, value ' £26,23019s lOd. Total duty, £667 9s Id On Saturday an enquiry into the recent dig. tpbance at Motu Ihi, was conducted at the Immigration Commissioners' office, Auckland. ~~~ Several witnesses were examined, and the facts • elicited implicated some of the immigrants. ; Those were subsequently called and formally' ; reprimanded by the Commissioners. The delinquents,, we understand, promised to amend their wayß in future, . : : ' ; A Coromandel correspondent of an Auckland contemporary says--"The Millenium /.has arrived at Coromandel, and the lion is 'lying 4ovr» with the lamb. The bitter hostilities ■ that, have been- waged so long between the rival papers have at last been laid to rest, and already the edge of party feeling is, blunted, It is amusing, as well as instructive, to turn to the records of the fierce denunciations hurled at each othei by both sides only a few days ago, p'd then see them calmly smoking the calumet bf peace. The whole thing is like a drdam, ami .'people here can hardly realise the "fact"! that there is to be no more warfare'. However they are heartily glad, in the interests of the district generally, that, party feeling is likely to be effaced by the amalgamation of the papers, and the editor of.the News is eoine over to the other side." ... • ; "Mf'Carlyle has been, staying in Scotland for ' • some time; A fter making a brief stay in Edinburgh he ; proceeded to Haddington, where his wite is buried. Subsequently.he remained tor some time at Kirkcaldy, where he was the guest of Provost Swan. It was- in this town that Mr Carlyle began life as a school teacher, and stories are still current there 'of the vigour with which he wielded the rod, birch, tawse, or whatever was the. disciplinary instrument then in vogue. He himself says that of his former pupils there he remembered only the,dux and the booby. An. amusing and highly characteristic anecdote is related of him in connection ' with his visits to the Kirkcaldy schools, At one of these schools the children"were made to sing before him, and after listening to them for a little, he asked the master to let them sing one of Burns's songs. Much embarrassed, the master was obliged to admit that the children did not kiiow any of. the songs of Scot- - land's greatest bard. The poor man put:the best face he could on the matter, but withoat being able to appease the fervid and downright "Sage of Chelsea,' 1 who exclaimed, iw he hastily left the room, " What 1 Scotch children singing, and not taught Burns's songs? Oh, dear me!" •

, George Macdonald is dbout to publish a new novel under tli3 title of " Malcolm j a Scottish Story." Mr Anthony Trollops and Miss Eho'da * Broughton are both at work on new novels. .' The newly issued volume of the Cabinet edi- " tion of Mr Tennyson's works contains two'new poems, entitled, "In the Garden at Swains- 1 .' 5 ton," and "The Voice and the Peak." The garden referred to in the former piece is th.it of Sir J. Barrington Simeon, Bart., whose seat * is at Swainston. : w : '[ At the last half-yearly meeting of the proprietors ot the Bauk of England, it was stated that the profit for the first six months of the year amounted to within a few pounds' of £700,000. A dividend was declared at the rate of 5 per cent,, being \ less than on the ' same date last year. . The Liverpool emigration returns show that during the first seven months of the year there was a decrease of nearly 55,000 in the number; of persons who emigrated from that port, as '•< compared with the corresponding period of last ' year, . . ,; The following extract from an. English newspaper should possess more than uswil interest i here, where wood-is so extensively used in the ' buildings, public and private, in the city Some experiments have been' recently made it "Devonport dockyard, by order of the Admi-' rally, to test a method of rendering wood uninflammable, by saturatingit with tungstateof soda. It has been clearly shown that the prepared wood is, under all circumstances, much less readilyinflammable than ordinary wood, and that prepared timber stedfastly resists mere flame, although it may be made to burn when acted on, , continuously by great heat. The cost of pre- i paration and the largely increased weight of the " prepared wood are disadvantages. Before Dr. . Jor,e3, the patentee, receives from the Admi- :' rally the large sum he asks for the right to use ' his patent, farther trials will be ordered, which _ the Lords of the Admiralty will themselves : - witness."