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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 16711, 23 May 1874, Page 2

Tans was aa error in the Borough > Coun« .. eil'i advertisement for!tenden for road metal -in last night's Star. The day for r,eceiTJng ,' tenders' should hare been '* Thursday " in- . eisad of Tuesday. . , Is is notified in a Provincial Gtaxette of s yesterday's date that His Worship the Major, mating under thethrea hundred and thirty ' fifth taetion of *' The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," bat appointed Babert Bullen, " i Etq., to ba Sir* Impeotor under the laid The Ifaral Brigade 1! monthly church parade will take plaoe to-morrow at half-patt ' ten o'clock, whan the gallant blue jaokstt will be. accompanied by their comrades of the . Auckland Brigade who are coming down to wit the Thames for the celebration of the Qaeen'iJßuthday. Xn monthly inspection parade of the yarious voloateer and cadet companies will take place on Monday morning opposite the j ' Aoademy of Mmsic, after which there will be i a march to Tararu and the customary feu, de \ job will be fired in honor of th» birthday of] Her Majesty the Queen. OiXTJOK Txjitui announces that he will lecturje an M The Whale and its Habits " in the Academy of Musio on Tu«td»y ereniDg next. Th« Ciplain delivered a similar lecture in , Auckland the other day and gare some Taluable information regarding the leviathan of the deep. Wi har# seen a Teryprelty silver decora^ ti*saa<ie by Mr 8. Wells to the order of Captain Murray for presentation to his oom* *~ pany, tbe Thames Scottish, to be fired fox, we believe. The deooratibn is a Maltese Cross with a thistle raised in the centre, and it ha*. , bean beautifully chased and engraved by Mr Payne. Mr Wells has also' in hand another Tafaatle medal ordered by Lieutenant Dey. Tne Thames Scottish will soon be rick, m

Txi TbamM Natal Brigade hvn d«eidtd to ttbbvatc tbe Queen's Birthday by a ball - to to bald at' the Academy of Muiio on Monday evening. It-was enginally intended that the oelebration' should to neroly a com« paay dance, a kind of periodioal erraing party frequemtly gtrtn by the brigade. We' do not nverame to say that the ball hat bean resolTea upon in eonsequraee of a anggeitien we thr'«w oat seme time back, but certain it is thai after the first announcement was made we hirffed that the ladies of the Thamca ■ would be disappointei if the Brigade oheated thesa of their,- annual birthday, bell, and the company dance darelofted into a ball; name* ■ rous inijtati««sf for wbioh hare been iaaued. Arraagementt nave beet made to ensure tbe vraal saooeM of the blue jackets' ball, and we expect to see the Aoademy of Music . thronged with -a brilliant aaaemblage on , Mc#dar night, and the Narali tball hare the oredit of pro Tiding /or; the dv • c cL bration of th« Yarn's Sirthday.

Tm steamer Golden Grown ink rugtxeursion trips tdAuoldaad,a6rame«(4ng to-day, in order to afford residents of the Thames an opportunity of being present at the 1 Auckland Autumn Baces. The time table appears in •ur.adrertising columns; return tickets are availably from to-day until Wednesday at single fares.

Ojr» who had the reputation of being a great philosopher, an experienced man of the world, a profound thinker, and an acute obierrer, with a d«ep insight into human nature, has left on record the expression of ■is firm conTiction that no man, howeTerwch, howerer gifted, ioweyer, fortunate |n hi* domestic relations, -howerer successful in bis public undertakings, can be pronounced Wpy—whose trousers bag at the knees. Mosquito Netting jas a Surgical Dressing: The Medical K«<»itf rem«ks that in all those eases where it is desirable te keep up support and pressure, and at the same' time permit the free escape of all discharges from the ordinary mosquitonetting, used for a bondage, meets all, the indications. Bundling .dress. I ings, are aroided in thia'way, the parts are I "kept cool, the discharge goes on unrestrained, and at the same time support- is'maintained. If the discharge- is considerable, a pad of oakumimay be placed beneath the parts to secure] the discharge, this' insuring perfect cleanliness. This netting serres an admirable purpose in dressing large abscesses} for instance, when compression and fiee discharges are to he associated. "What mysterious fataiity is their in Bazaar transactions that inreator* in lotteries inyariably succeed in possessing themselres of the most unsuitable and absurd articles possible ? This is a subject for philosophers to lucubrate upon. ' The monstrous " ridiculosity " in this dispensation of proridence was' strikingly illustrated last night—especially in one instance, where a fierce and bearded naTal was obserred to eintrge froaa the Academy door with a huge doll in his armshe (not the doll) loekirig unutterably miierable. This man made two or three ineffectual attempts to seoretly dispose of the waxy infant. " Waxy " it was in good truth; for owing to the undue pressure exercised in the exertion to jam its head into a small pocket, this creation of man's ingenuity let out such a rebellious squeak as compelled our "mil* lingtary" friend to. beat a hasty retreat up the dark ways. ' '

Thb opiniea of the Tauranga or Bay of Plenty Time* if not complimentary to the •endtr of the telegram! whioh.reoeotly appeared in a local paper anent »he dinner to Captain Irater by the military tattlers of the Pirit Waikato Ecgiment. Saje the Times. .—There it an old saying that it ii an •Til bird which defiles iti own nett, and tuoh a prorerb appliet forcibly and unniitakkbly to the act of a penon who unjustly and publicly Tilifiet the inhabitant! and place of hit own abode. We leara by a telegram dated Teuranga, recently publiilied in the Auckland Star. an| Thames. Advertiser, that the complimentaEP^>» ev&ry sente qf the word, puMMdinnerJjgiren fate the otljerday by the military tattlers of the district to Captain Prater, Reiident Magistrate and Warden of the Thames, " ended in rowdyism." This it certainly newt to the people of Tauranga, and etpecially to tkote who were present on the occation, all of whom' wW«i unanimous in pronouncing the entertainment to be excellently and amicably conducted, and a particularly agreeable social meeting. Such an injurioui report as the one referred lo could only emanate from an individual—man would be a shorter, but we fear not an appropriate term—who was not an inrited guest. .We denounce the published telegram as an atrocious calumny and faliehood, and describe the writer of it by an x>ld Saxon word of four letten that we do not care to write.