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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1742, 3 August 1874, Page 2

■ We lesrn that a frlrs-r.ph office was op^n^i atMosgifcl (OtagoJ on ?>.!■■ irday lapfe. Applications for tho. kiiu^i.yi of poundkeeper will be receirad at the office of the '36tox^b. Co«Bcil up till noon of Thuriday ntxt. The talary attached it £2 per week.

We noliof thai in Christ church, a Masonic Scholarship of the vftlun of .£25 per annum, Unable for three years, his been awarded to the son of Brother T.ilT. Qret.ii. He ia a pupil at Melville ilouso'(Mr. Cook's). Ths Balulutha Lender sa)'s :—Mr. Mackay, from Dunedin, arrived at Balclutha at night, and found' the hbtrla e0 full thai he could nofc get a lodging anywhere. Ho hiy down in a comfortable spot and- slept soundly ; on waking up he found ho was in tho celler: a house had bean built over kirn in the night— such is the fastness of life at tho Ferry. The fortnightly meetings of throe benefit ■ocieties are announced to be held as follows: —Hibernian Society, this evening at seven o'clock, i« the Hibernian Hull; Loyal Waikato Lodge, Odd 3?*llow&' H»li, tomorrow evening ab half-past seven o'clock; Court Pride of Parnell, Masonic Hall, Thursday eveningjai; jhalf-paetjsaverii otyock. ;■ :}f"i \ i < CoKsii)EEjißli alterations air© being made in the department of the telegraph offices. The operating room m to be enlarged by throwing into it the present clerkV receiving: and despatching room, and the public accommodation is being curtailed to made a clerk's room. The public will not suffer, however, for the new arrangements will be, if anything, more convenient than the former. ; Op the single girls by, the, Caroline »the Dunedin correspondent "of aicountry paper says:—iheir conduct throughout the voyage is spokon of as disgraceful. Forty of theni coming from Cork workhouse are those said to be best conducted. The Daily Times reports that one of the girls, on being .remonstrated, with .about har conduct, said—" Shure we are sent to people the country." ; ] Thji Assembly, .of California has-passed a Bill requiring »il miners to keep in good order aed operation twoshafts of ingress and egress, means of ventilation' sufficient to give each miner 23Gjft. of pur®/ air each minute, keeping hoisting machinery in good-order, and overseers of mine* to be deemed guiliy of manslaughter if death otfeur from want of attention to its provisions. „;,,... ; • A member of the police force has been detailed. for the purpese of ..enforcing i^ Hokitika the provisions of the Females' Employment Protection Act, carried through the Assembly last year by' Mr.' Bradshaw'. By it, shop and factory girls, dressmakers, &c;, are prohibited from working more than eight hours a day, but it has not been regarded at all hitherto in Hokitika;' Tfc will in future be • strictly insisted on. I "In reporting upon this district," gays the Ballarat Courier, " our Buninyong correspondent writes :—' In making my rounds to-day to ascertain the names of the several persons suffering from typhoid, I was surprised to find that every patient was a teetotaller, and from my knowledge of-the parties I can say that they have most conscientiously observed - the. obligations of their order.' Our correspondent supplies the names of the sufferers, > ; which it is unnecessary to give. Without placing any stress on the statement, the circumstance is something remarkable. A cobbespondekt of the Chicago Tribune proposes to carry';grain from the West'-to New York by means of a wire cable, to wbich ,would be attached bins sft. long and capable of holding two bushels each. At a distance of 10 miles would be stationed engines of 150- ---| horse power, to be used in working the endless i cable, the operation.!., of which would be precisely like the ordinary elevator, except that it would carry its load horizontally instead of lifting it. The inventor thinks that by this process wheat can be moved from Chicago to New York at a coit'offlO cents per bushel, after leaving a margin for repairs arid interest on cost of construction. ' fEo be " a day behind the fair" in the relation of news is an awkward predicament for any, journalist. But a worse predicament is that of being a day before tho fair. An Edingburgh journal, however, has got into the latter quandary.* The Bight Hon. E.Baxter, M.P. for the ,boro,Ujgh of Dundee/intending to address his constituents on the evening of tke 30tb tilt;., prepared the address he was about to deliver, had it put in type, and sent copies beforehand to the newspaper!. By some mistake the speech found its way on the morning of the 30th into the paper alluded to. The oddity of the thing was enhanced by a paragraph following.the speech, and which stated that it was warmly applauded in the course jof delivery, and that at the close a vote of confidence in Mr. Baxter was proposed and carried. Dttbmts- the storm of yesterday'the punt belonging to Mr. .Kennedy had her mast removed by the boatmen at Grahamstown wharf to prevent her carrying away theplanki placed ;over the break in the wharf (at the expense of the boatmen) for the convenitnee of passengers to and from the Enterprise and others; now the owner of the punt threatens to come down upon, the Doatinen to replace tho mast. As the connecting link on thewharf belonged to the boatmen; we think that they were quite justified in doing as they have done, as it is a public convenience; and that; the punt owner would show better taste by assisting the .watermen to.repair the. damage: done by his, punt. When her chain was hattlsd up there was no anchor attached to it, and it does seem hard lines that licensed watermen should suffer by the carelessness or negligence of others, especially when those others, were warned by the authorities (as occurred in (his*case) to remove their boats to places of safety as the barometer foretold the advent of a storm —Communicated. An amusing' incident occurred at one of the churches at Christchurch tke other Sunday on the occasion of the afternoon christening and churching services. It appeared that after the former service was--concluded,! the mothers walked up the aisle in the'usual; way.to^be churched. But one ..couple, who' were apparently not quite up to' tho method: in which the business was conducted, re-, mained behind —both' of thorn. After a ticne, the male representative of tha homo sapieti species, under the impression that the stum-: pede was for the purpose of registering the births enquired; of his neighbour whether it; was riecciiarr for both father and mother toi sign. On being amwered in the negative he; starts^for the destination-of the ; matrons,? which lie finds is the cushion round the'communion rails He kneels down among the; others perfectly unconcerned, and the church-; ing is about' to commence. The clergyman,; however, ascertains the fact of this error in the matter of sex, informs the man that h* hud better adjourn, and he hides his diinin-j ished head in he vestry, and the service con-? eludes, -not; without si considerable amount of; tittering amongst the male portion of V\o\ community, whom ho had, left at the otl; r end of the church. ; 5

A most urgent* necessity exists for some protective works along the boach from Gmhamabown to Shorlland. The tide is rapidly making serious inroads on the bank, and doing great damage, nearly ev ; ery spring tide more or less finding ita Way into* the gardens oh the beach. A comparatively trifling expenditure would prevent this destruction, and make the footpath at least safy, which it is not now on dark nights during spring tide*. ;■

> The following " left-handed " blessing was 'recently pronounced by the Bishop of Bio Grande (Brazil) upon the Freemasons of that province. He cureed the brotherhood, says the Opinion Nationale,. in the name, j)f : God the Path er.'God the Son, -and God tfe* Holy Ghost, of St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Andrew, of all the apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ, of the four evangelists, of all mar yrs from the beginning of the-world^to thei end of time j ; h(B cwciei them: the heavens arid the earth/arid all thingg therein, in their houses, when travelling on land.and on water, in coming, going, eating, drinking, playing, when sleep, asleep. and. awake, walking^'riding, sitting, working and resting. He cursed all tho powers of their bodies interior and exterior, their hair, eyes, head, oars, jaws, moso teeth, throat, shoulders, axnis^legs, .feet, all the joints, and finally "w6iind up jas 'follows :—Curse them, Je?UB Christ, Son of the living God, with all the power of thy Majesty, and may they; be delivered up to eternal condemnation^ if they do [ not'reperit and confess their faults. Amen, | Amen. In connection with the subject of i secret societies we have heard it stated that Bishop Reynolds has ordered ell members of his flock who are.Freemasons,.Freemasons, 'Oddfellows, Forresters, or Good Templars, or who belong to any other society, benefit or not, to dissolve their connection with the same, :under p tin of being cut off from the " Church."—Protoatant Advocate.

The " Loafer in the Street," in the Press, tells the following good story about the hairless horso : : —"Caoutchouc was being shown in 'Nevada, ;and an individual wearing an old-, fashioned coat witU capacious side pockets, came to see him. The exhibitor kept his eye on this party. He saw afc once that he was no common visitor—he saw in the man's eje a gleam of cunning and speculation. Watching him closely he observed him handling the tail of the hors« in'a suspicious manner with his laffc hand-, whil« in his right he held a bottle. The alarm was quickly given, and the man was caught as he was rushing out at the door. It was supposed that ho had intended disfiguring the hor?e with some strong acid, and he was about to be given in charge to a policeman when some one pulled the bottle from his pocket, and it was found labelled •White Sage Hair Kestorer.' The fellow proved" to bt the agent of thisijjirpnderful articli. He^aid all he regretted was that he had not just got one gill of the hair restorer on th« animal's tail. It would have besn ten thousand dollars in his pocket, he said, as in less than a fortnight.the horse, would have' had a tail that would have swept the ground. ISTo man with a bottle iri his pocket is now allowed to go near the hairless h»rse. He is at once set down as a disguised agent of the great hair restorer. Anyone perusing the above narrative will allovr that we don't know much about the art of advertising here yet." ;.<