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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1738, 29 July 1874, Page 2

The Thames Scottish and Band »ro to parade with arms to-morrow evening at seven o'clock. ' , . ■

The civil cat* which was reported in the j Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday as Q-eddes v. King for £47 17s should have been | Gk W. Collier v. King and Geddes. The time for receiving tenders for laying down the tramway in Pollori-sfcreet and Campbell-street expires at noon to-morrow. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Borough Council offices. A ME3TiN<*;of the Abbotsford Eoyal Arch Chapter will be held to-morrow evening at the Freemasons' Hall, at seven o'clock, at which members are requested to be present. No circulars issued. It is stated that measures will be taken to upset the proceedings of the ratepayers of Kauaeranga District at their recent annual meeting, on the ground that the business was illegally adjourned from the advertise} date. A Pbotinciat. Government G-azctte was published on Monday. In addition to the ordinary notifications, statements of goldmining companies are published, notice of sale of town and Buburban lands, and notices in reference to sittings of the Native Lands Court. A MEETING has been called by the Mayor of Hokitika, on requisition of a number of ratepayers, to consider the advisability of procuring an alteration of the Municipal Law, by which the election of the Mayor of the ' Borough, shall be in future by the general body of ratepayers. Thbbe was but .a moderate a!tendance at the Theatro Eoyal last night, nevertheless' the company went through with the performance as advertised, and elicited hearty applause. Iv many instances the funniments were greeted with roars of laughter. Altogether the audience seemed heartily pleased with the entertainment provided. Writing respecting the " Hand Book of New Zealand," the Wellington Tribune says:—"lt reminds one of a banquet consisting of actual picnic contributions —there are too many cold legs of mutton, not enough poultry and salad, and a total deficiency of pepper and salt, while the mustard has mingled with the sugar; there is too much strong military port and too little" bitter ale and champagne; everybody has forgotton a corkscrew, and there are no crackers for the nuts." : "A NewChtth" writes to the editor of the North Otago Times as follows :—" HaviDg lately arrived, and finding great difficulty in obtaining employment, lam in a fix, would you ploase advise me. I was always led to believe that the more olive branches a man could muster the better for him in the colonies, and such is the belief universal in the old coun'ry. I unfortunately am blessed (or cursed) with a wife and a numerous family, who stand in the way of my obtaining employment—what am Itodo ? Shall I poison the lot ? "

A ciEEGXMAtf of the name of Friend, who had- got i possessiah of \ a /living ;in a way ; that rendered it doubtful whether it might not bo regarded as a Simoniacal contract, was imprudent enough to ask a neighboring clergyman to preach for him on the day he was to read himself in, as it is called. This clergyman, who remonstrated with him in the course of the negotiation, being humorously inclined, to the great consternation of the new incumbent, sitting in the desk below him, chose for hi& text, " Friend how earnest thou in hither ? " To judge from the local Press, says the Otago Guardian, Dr. Carr's opening seance at Invercargill does nob appear to hare been very well attended, and the doctor was evidently disappointed. ■ He was not slow to say so either, and to add that after an absence of over three years, during which interval he had been well reported of throughout the colony, he had deemed a warmer welcome due. In his happiest manner he went on to say that his efforts would yet command audiences to his mind, and that " they would have to come, even if in order to make them it were necessary to mesmerise the whole city of Invereargill." An amusing incident occurred in the Q-oul-bourn Police Court (saya the Southern Argus) when a legal practitioner was subjected to an indignity consequent on the advice he had given to his client. The learned gentleman ■ was defending an excitable member of the fair Bex, and was so repeatedly interrupted by her in his explanation of the circumstances of the caso that he; at length sat down, and told the lady to show to the Bench herself tbemanner in which she.: had , been treated. This she accordingly proceeded, to do and in demonstrating the conduct pf;one.of- the witnesses for the prosecution, seized hold of her advocate, apd in spite of remonstrance, dragged him fo-cibly from his .chair, an escape from being landed on the ground in an undignified position being only effected by his grasping firmly the edge of the table fronting him. Fortunately for the attorney neither blows nor kicks formed any part of the circumstances being represented, for had' they done so it is most probable that the lady would in her excitement have fully completed the demonstration. ' ; Off a recent Sunday evening a goodly nupber of boarders at a certain well-known hostelry in Oamaru were sitting round the fire wit 1! a few friends engaged in suitable conversation, when one proposed that, as the weather wbb bitterly cold, a little whuky hot would be agreeable. All present Joyfully assented. The bell was rung repeatedly, but not answered. Alas! it was Sunday. One venerable party proposed Bacred music, and at once started a good old iong-metro tune, in which all heartiy joined to the end — about fourteen verses. Another good old tune was commenced ; and as the harmony swelled and pealed through'the building (a wooden one) Boniface appeared, and, although he for some time stuck by the Licensing Ordinance, at last ho consented to supply the liquor, nt the same time adding, '• Church belli couldn't make me open the bar, but that second old tunodid it,"—North Otago Timet.