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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1683, 26 May 1874, Page 2

W« are in receipt of the Dircclora' Report of the Australian Meat Agency Company, Limited,-for the half-year ending December,

1873. . - Db Kikiotjb, J.P-, sat in the Besitlent

Magistrate* Court tins morning, and dis-. pofed of two choigcsof drunkenness, ono of' • the offenders being r natiyc. Wb have received from Messr3 Gordon and Gotch Part 371 of the Family Herald, •which contains the 'opening chapters of a new tale, entitled " A Strange Friendship : 1 a story of' New Zealand," -written by a lady - resident in Otago. "We learn that Mr Henry Eastwood, ageni, to Mr Bachelder in the show business, and - who has been" for a long time in the Tuapeka hospital suffering from a broken leg, had a complimentary benefit tendered to him in . Ducedin. which roaliied over £90. . Wb have to acknowledge the courtesy of Professor Hollowly in forwarding to us a copy of "A Pictorial Souvenir of the Great Tichborne Case," a readable narrative of tho remarkable lives of Roger Tichborno and the Claimant, with an account of the two great trials from first to last. OwiNO to the brokers and mining agents keeping holiday yesterday and to-day there ■ was no meeting on 'Change, and consequently; no quotations. Tisitorg to the corner have been few. Some of the mitring agents who have become accustomed to tho cool shades of- the Verandah put in an appearance as - usual yesterday and to-day, but they required overcoats and woollen comforters, besides tin occasional and involuntary pas de hlucher to keep up their usual artmation. At tea o'clock last night one of tho Haval - Brigade's big guns was fired three times, an •greed upon signal for their Auckland visitors ' to muster in order to proceed to Tararu by .train, and thence to Auckland by the Golden Crown. The report of the gun was verydiatinct —too much so for tho wifo of a resident in the locality,who received such a fright that sho jumped Out of bod and' sustained some nasty bruises. The same resident; had two win dpws broken, which he states will coat two pounds to replace. With the injunction obtained by , Judge Fenton against the Auckland artillery —obtained nfter putting the officer in command to considerable expense—before their ' . eye», our local brigade would do well to repair . damage*, and V careful not to fire their big guns to near to Louses iv the town for the future. .

At a Sale of autographs -which, took place in London on tho 13th February the following prices were revised :—David G-arrick's loveJetter to Madame Eiciobono realised £710s ; and one of Defoe's mentioning his ill-treat* '" naent by the Press, £12 lla. A singularly ' interesting page of correspondence in the hand of Erasmus fetched £16 10a; and a humorous vote from Burns to Mrs Dunlop £13, while a song in the Bame hand brought £12. A fourpago musical manuscript' of Bach was 6old for £16, and a letter of Beethoven lor £11 10a. A higher price—£22 10a—was realised for one of Goethe's letters, written in hi* youth, when illness had obliged him to ' loave the University,. «r,d he was doubtful about being, able to resume hi'- studies. Hogath's latter accepting the membersVip of tho Augsburg Academy realised £18 10 ; • Mozart's to the Baronne do Waldstefctin, £16 JP» ; one of Rubons, £15 15s; and a Tasso, £18 10i. Tae highest price was that given ■. for a letter from Goldsmith to Sir Joshua Bejnold* .describing h;s lii'^o us cm tho , Owtinwtt—Wr 10i. . -...'O,/,