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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1747, 8 August 1874, Page 2

Wa hear that it is the intention of the Choir of St. George, to hold their next concert in the Academy of Masic on Thursday evening next.

The Eight Eev. Dr. Cowie Bishop of Auckland, will officiate at Sc. Gj-eorgo's Church to-morrow. A cdnfirn^kion. service will be held in the evening.

A iabgb number of natives assembled at Paravrai to-day to have a preliminary talk before proceeding to Whakatiwai. There was a pretty considerable attendance of Maories from all the settlements of Hauraki.

It is with much regret wo hear of the serious illness of Mr. Grattan R. 9. Macabe, Mining Eegistrar at Coromandtl. We shall be glad to hear that the illness has taken a favorable turn, and that Mr. Macabe is in a fair way of recovery.

The British census of 1871 makes it clear that Queen Victoria rules ovar nearly twice the nun ber of subjects that were governed by the Emperor Claudius. The imperial crown of England is the symbol of sovereignty.to which 234,000,000 of people look up, and those inhabit 7,769,449 miles of territory. They live in 44,142,651 houses, and they are congregated for the most part in 2.200 towns and villages, of which London, wtfh its 3,800,000 people, is the centra.

Th St. John's College^ Oxford, there is a curious portrait of Charles I, don« with a pen in such a manner that the lines are formed from verses from the psalmi, and so co atrived as to contain every psalm. It- is said that when Charles II was at Oxford he was greatly struck with this portrait and begged it of the College, promising in return to grant whatever request should be made. This was consented to, and the College gave His Majes'y the picture, accompanied with the request that he would—return it!

The fortnightly meeting of the Education Board was held on Thursday afternoon in the "Wyndham street office. Present; Dr. Campbell (in the chair), Colonel Haultain, Messrs Prime, Lu»k and Eeed. There were a number of letters and applications before the Board. A long letter was read from Mrs Colclougb, of the Thames, vindicating her character in relation to her late bankruptcy, and also in reference to the action of the Local School Committee in wishing to have that lady removed, which she stated would be ruinous to her 'prospects at the Thames and elsewhere. Her school it appeared was increasing rather than diminishing. It was therefore agread that the secretary should communicate with the local committee and request a more definite statement from them in reference to Mrs Colclough and her school.

Judging from a recent American announcement, says CEdipuß in the Melbourne Leader, ■writing by machinery already promises te become as much an accomplished fact; as is sewing by the same means. The letters are of course, printed in ordinary type, which even supposing there is no actual saving of time to the writer, is likely to result in a considerable saving to the reader of the manuccrip':. It is claimed for the new invention, which is about the size of an ordinary sewing-machine, that it is capable of writing one hundred words per. minute, and that to write sixty words per minute is a matter of no difficulty whatever. But, further than this, the manuscript may be manifold, bo that twenty can be produced at the same time. It is this rendering the machine a manifold writer which apparently coßstitutes its novelty, similar contrivances t« produce single copies being nothing now.