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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1796, 5 October 1874, Page 2

We hare received Ro. 1 of The Thames Exchange, printed and published for Mr. J. D. Wickham at the Thatneß Advertiser Office. It has a good " thow " of advertisements —a very necessary element to make any paper succeesFul financially. : The first European decoration conferred upon H.M. the Mikado of Japan, has been presented by the Duke of Saxe-Cbburg-Gotha. The Mikado has been enrolled in the order of the Ernestine house, because of the welcome he accorded Prince Philip of Coburg. Asr Otago paper says that a building contractor in the Wakatip district recently offered some stonemasons employed by him £5 per week rather than lose their services, but | tha offer was declined by them, as, in addition to this large wage, they were offered by another in the trade to be found in rations as well on a several months' job. Befebbing to the race home of the tea ships, the Hong Kong Times of July 18, says: —It was reported yesterday that a telegram had been received statiDgthat the Glenartaey. had passed the Agamemnon and won the Ocean Kace of 1874. If such is correct, this is the third defeat the Agamemnon (Holt's line) has sustained, having previously succumbed to the Deccan and Venetia, in 1872-73 The charge against the Messrs. Catran and Eichard White, for breaking wilfully and maliciously the lamp lately erected, of the Nil Desperandum Hotel, fell through. The evidence, as Mr. Bullen stated, was circumstantial, and proved to be not sufficiently substantial. Whoever did it, there can be little question that he deserves punishing, and this should be a lessom to the wanton rams of a rollicking tendency. .

Thi depressing accounts lately received from ihe Palmer do not appear to hare much affected the miners in tbe South; perhaps they have not seen any of the doleful stories from returned diggers which have been published. From Queenstown, Lake Wakatip we learn that seven miners and residents bare joined together to form a party to proceed to the Palmer early next year; meanwhile they hare dispatched one of their number to report upon the ruth. Should his report prove favorable, the others will be ready to follow him after the rainy season, or otherwise, as they may be advised; several other parties are being made up in Queenstown to leave for the Palmer after the rainy season, about February or March next.

Hire is s little bit of history concerning the Lake district of Otago, which we extract from a Southern contemporary.—The firstborn male child in Queeustown is now 11 years of age. The town was named on New Year's Day, 1863, by Mr. Cameron, who wanted a license for the All Nations Hotel, afterwards opened by him, and who called a meeting for the purpose of naming the town. Many names were proposed, including New York. Standing upon the top of Mr. Black's anvil, Mr. Cameron proposed that tho town should receive the name it had since borno.

The Hong Kong Times has the following :—" The clipper ship Three Brothers, Captain Cummings, entered the dry-dock at New York a few days since to receive a new suit of copper, and hundreds of people embraced the opportunity to see her out of the water. Captain Cummings maintains that she is the fastest sailer afloat, and is

willing to make an affidavit that ha has made seventeen knots an hour in her. On the trip from San Francisco to Havre the Three Brothers overhauled a mail steamer which was running the same course under sail and steam. The wind freshened, and the steamer staggered for a while under her sky-sails, seemingly emulous of keeping the Brothers in sight; but her sail had to be shortened, and. Captain Cummings, still spread every foot of his 14,000 yards of canvas, saw the steamer disappear just ten hours from the time he first sighted her. Captain Cummings says that one voyage of average luck is all he wants to prove that his. ship can moko almost as good 'hue as an average steamer."

The tenders for he forty-one stamper battery to be erected for Mr. R. Kennan were decided upon to-day. There were four tenders, rb follow x—-Fraser and ', Tione, £2600; A. G. Price & Co., £2509 j Massfield & Co., £2496; O. Judd & Co., £2455; the latter was accepted.

It is reported, says the Bruce Herald, that Mr. Yogel, when in England, will endeavor to obtain the passing of an Act in the Imperial Parliament empowering v the New Zealand General Assembly to make the constitutional changes embodied in the resolutions passed last session.

Gxinbsb cheap labor appears to find faror in Otago, as we learn from an exchange that a firm of auctioneers have had a Chinaman in full charge of their store at Matatapu for above' a year past. They have found him to be a young nan of excellent character, true to his trust, aad very correct; in accounts. He is studying hard to master tho English language, and he writes a ligible hand.