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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1822, 4 November 1874, Page 2

We learn lhat a sample of the Mata Creek conl has been tested at the Gtalden Crown Company's battery and reported on favorably by Mr. Donnelly, th« mine manager. ,

In another column will bo found a notification under the hand of the Superintendent fixing the rates of pilotage for the Port of Thames ; also appointment of Captain G-eorgo Charles Best to he Pilct.

The members of the Loyal Orange Lodges Nos. 8, 32 and 13 will assemble afc Sfc. Q-eorge's Hall .to-morrow evening for an evening party and dance, tickets for -which may bo obtained from J. H. Lymburn, honorary secretary.

The Coro'mandol Moil prophecies the speedy demise of its contemporary the Now*, but judging by Into numbers of the latter it is still enjoying the vigor of youth, the proportion of advertisements to news being suggestive of a paying paper.

Me. E. J. O'Sxri.HViK,>. Inspector of Schools, arrived fey the Hauraki yesterday on an official visit.

It is said that tho Auckland Steam Packet Company contemplate tho purchase of the Luna for the trade between Auckland and the Thames. Should the purchase be effected it, is stated lhat the Luna would bo fitted with new compound engines, and otherwise altered bo as to render her more statable for the trade and to run her economically.

Foe refusing to carry a portmantoau into the lobby of a house at the request of his fare, an Edinburgh cabman has been fined 10a. The magistrate in passing sentence, stated that ifc was the duty of cabmen to bo civil to the public, and they were required to carry into houses such articles of luggage as passengers had with them when the hire was made.

Judge Wahdell, of New Yoik, deserves the special thanks of women. To a boy brought before him recently for defending his mother from the brutatity of his father, he said: " Young man I am proud to see that you love your mother end are anxious to protect her, but your violence towards your father has been of a very vigorous character. Try and keep your hands off your father, but in any event protect your mother from injury. You may go."

Bather a smart but discreditable trick is reported by the Bendigo Advertiser as having been played on a keeper of a coffee stall at Sandhurst. Some half dozen young scamps who had been gambling away the night, in the early morning went to the stall. Having partaken heartily of edibles and potatoes, each of the six persisted in paying. One of them suggested that they should have a race, the last in which should pay the ocoro, and the pieman woa appointed as starter. " Off, off, and away," was signalled, and the peds> proved remarkably fast, as they went quickly out of the sight of the proprietor of the coffee shop, who entertains an unpleasant surprise as to who's the loser.

Me. O'SuiMyAir, Inspecior of Schools, was, we believe, interviewed this morning by one or two gentlemen interested in the movement for establishing a HigU School on the Thames, when Mr. O'Sullivan expressed himself to the effect that he thought the establishmont of a " superior school " would be preferable to a High School, as. the latter would involve the expenditure of a sum of money which the Education Board had nob at their disposal. This matter, however, is now before the Board of Education, and uutil some answer be returned to the Committee appointed at the public meeting no fresh steps can be taken in the matter. Mr. O'Sullivan's utterances are not to bo taken as official.

The Giorza romance is the most recant sensation, says the Melbourne correspondent of the New Zealand Times. The hero is a cleyer pianist-, who can scarcely be styled eminent, as probably very few of your readers ever heard of him; bub he is no; unknown in the musical world of America, and the name of Paolo Giorza figures on the title-pages of musical compositions published at Milan and other Italian cities. He arrived in Melbourne about three years ago as conductor of the Agatha States Opera Troupe ; and when this talented but unfortunate company was disbanded, Sigoor Giorza settled down in Melbourne as a professor of music. A rather short, ugly, grey-haired, stooping, shrieking, gesticulating Italian, one would hardly think wouiri rise very rapidly j but the man had talent,and he soon became the most fashionable pianoforte teacher in Melbourne, and a great favorite with his young lady pupils. With one of thes?, a pretty, accomplished girl of nineteen, a daughter of a leading hotel proprietor, tho signor desired to knib himself in closer companionship j and much against tho -wish of mine host, who entertains a holy horror of foreigners in general, and of musical foreigners in particular, tho wedding day was fixed upon. A houso in St. Kilda was taken, and handsomely furnished, the invitations for a grand bail to be given the night beforo the wedding were all out, ■* hen sad to relate, disagreeable rumours waxed louder and louder, and at last it was ascertained, on unimpeachable evidence furnished at tho Italian Consul's office, that the popular maestro was already a married man. After the discovery, Signor Giorza never more did tho block, hi 3 Erard grand and elegant furniture were sold off at short notice. On Saturday next tho ignoble Signor will leave for Europo by the good steamship Durham, and the contemplated Latin-Celtic alliance will of course never come off.