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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1831, 14 November 1874, Page 2

This 'tJ-rahsuusrown Quoting Club will moot, on (he ground near the Glasgow Arms Hotel tins evening at htslf-past iivo o'clock.

The weekly moeting of the Short laud Volunteer Fire Brigade was held ]asfc evening. Officers and rcen attended in uniform, there being as usual a good mueter.

The Thames Scottish Volunteers and Band ■will parade in-uniform with amis this evening at seven o'clock.

Hbnby Gebald Supple, who is undergoing sentence at tho Tcntridga Stockade, is said to be nearly blind. Within the last few months his sight has so muck failed as to prevent him from reading the largest p:int, and ho finds it difficult to walk unless the ground is quite level. It is thought that before man j months he will bo completely blind.

Wk learn from the West Coast Time 3 that &t the close of the financial y?ar the Borough Council of Hokitika will have a bnlancein the Bank to their credit, as well as £500 to recoivo from the local Government, as share of lands sold within the Municipality.

Ratheb an adroit theft was discovered recently at the goods department of the Dnnedin railway-station. A box, apparently, filled with platod-warc, received by one of the Home ships, was opened for inspection by the Cusfom House officers, when it was found that the wholo of the contents hud been abstracted, and a quantity of etoncs and rubbish inserted. I'rom the appearance of the box ifc is concluded tho theft was committed by sharpers belonging to the London Docks prior to the vessel's departure.

Attention haß bfen called to the dangerous condition of the footway at the corner of the Union Bank thfttwas, to Albert-etreet. Foot passengers at night are liable to be injured by making a false stop either to the right or left.

StJßSCEiPiloss are invited in aid of the five children left n. otherless by the Budden death of Mrs. O'Halloran. This ib a peculiarly necessitous cane, Mr. O'Halloran being absent from tho Province, and the children being entirely unprovided for further than by the benevolence of a few friends.

An excellent programme of sporta has been provided for the Christmas holidays, to take place at Parawai gardens. The success of sports at this favourite placo of resort will tend to inspire coiafidenco in the management, and it is to bo hoped that the efforts of tho promoters will be liberally feconded by the sporting public, with a view to induce pleasure seekers to remain in the district instead of taking their spending money to the metropolis.

One mozning recently (the Sydney Morning Herald reports) complaints rencfeed the Town Hall of the stoppage of the -water supply in tho neighbourhood of Bourke-street, near Wpollcomooloo Bay. Mr Hinchey, after examining the pipes, ascertained the cause. On cutting through the 4in. main, at the spot where the obstacle was presented, a large eel, upwards of four feet long, and weighing IGlb, was discovered tightly jaimoed in the pipe.

T&B coining of new words (Bays the Ol ago Daily Times) goes on apace. We have billiard players who are called '' billiardisls." Pedestrians are occasionally playfully alludecj to as " runnists " and " walkists 5 " and now?an up country paper alludes to the local squatters as "sheopists," and congratulates them upon having got «o many sheep from' the high ground to the well sheltered gullies during the late bad weather.

A corbespondbnt, writhig from Dunediu to a contemporary, says: —A dreadful busi-ness-like meeting of the " leading ladies " of tbe city was held the oilier day, to ir.itiate a " Servant's Home " movement, on somewhat model principles ; next day the " respectable servants" of Otago intimated their detirej per advertisement, to start a model school for the training ot mistresses, so you will observe how reciprocal are the tenements of «m----ployets and emplojed.

Thb laßt new device in thievery is the " escape-box." It is stated in this reports of the different prisons of Paris that fire or six thieves die annually in gaol from the effects of swallowing this box. It is of polbhcd ite 1, abaut 3in. long, and contains turnscrews, hammers, silk thread, and every implement necessary for escape. The box is easily swallowed, but sometimes refuses to glide along the intestinal canal ns expected, and often causes death. When, however, it docs reappear, the thief is in possession of implement with which he can taw through the thickest bars.

Hebb is a woman's critique on Mrs. Tilton :—" Mrs. Burnham, of the St. Louis Kepublican, says:—'Theodore gives the world the impression that Mrs. Tilton is a beauty ; but Elizabeth is 40, has had seven children, was never handsome, is shapeless, with a dull, ordinary face between two rows of corkscrew curls, that give a school-marmy air to her. She's just the woman, if I were a man, that I should go to for a good pattern for a flannel undershirt.

A contempobakt says :—" W"o are told there are nine Provinces in New Zealand, the aggregate income of which, exclusive of contribution to the consolidated revenue, is a little over £1,300,000. Of this amount Dearly 40 per cent-, or £400,000, is absorbed in administration. There are about 240 Provincial Councillors ia receipt of honoraria, and nearly 800 Provincially paid officials. New Zealand, with a population of nearly 330,000 and a total revenue of £2,785,500, has eomething like 350 legislators; -while Victoria, ■with a population of 700,000. nnd a revenue of £4,152,000, has but 130 legislators. It -will therefore be seen that Provincialism annually costs the country £3 5s {sixty Jiv shillings) per head of the entire population ©<• the Colony. . . f

Vbky often (says the London corre»pondenfc of the New York World) when I take my walks abroad in Kongington, I meet the Princes* Louise, always attended by her husband, the Marquis of Lornc. I met them the other day just as they w&re geing into a chop on Hi^h-street, The Princess was horribly dreesed. She wore an old gown that was actually dirty, end a bonnet that had apparently seen several summers. She affects this kind of thing. She has £8000 a year for herself, paid by her grateful country; but she certainly does not spend it on dre«s. Her husband was decently dressed, but he wore no gloves, and this was a pity, for hit

hands wore la"£e and red. Tho Princes* never waa handsome*, but the would look rwfcfor if sho paid a little more attention to her opptuvl.

Wb undsrsf.-md the Odd Fellows Lodges on tho Tnmnes intend holding an nnniversnry demonstration on tho SOr.h instant, Bt. Andrew's duy. It. Ie propo«ed to form » procession and m^rch to the Tarav'u Gkirdene to spend the day. In the evening a soiree will be held at the Academy of Music, to conclude ■with a dunce.

It is a ated in a telegram from Wellington that Captain Wales, one of the champion shots of f,bc South, has no intention of competing in the forthcoming prizo-firiug.

A IETTEE has been received from the Kor. Father NivarJ, for some time Catholic Priest in charge of tho Thames district. He requests that his address m.'iy hi published, in order that h's friends may know hi 3 exact whereabouts. It is as fellows :—Rot. Hivurd Jourdain, 0.5. F., Shantung, per favor Very Rev. M. Ayrucry, Procurator of the Lazirists, Shanghai, China.

It is curious, says a contemporary, how natura'ly the song of Erin, who avo popularly suposed to be so fond of breaking the psuce when they are at home, tike to preserving the peace when they go abroad. Ir.'England a very large proportion of tho polico are natives of Ireland; in Victoria the force was at one time supposed to be littlo tnoro than an institution for the benefit of the countrymen of Sir John O'Shanassy; ia New Zealand the number of Irishmen in the force is considerable ; but in San Francisco they would appear to have it almost entirely their own way. In that city there are four captains and a hundred and fifty men. Of thesa no fowcr than fifty are Irishmen torn; seventy-nine are natives of the United States, bufc mostly of Irish parentage; twelve are Grerruarsn; and {iix are English. There are two Austrians, two Swedes, one Blue-nose, two Canadians, ono Australian—but not a single Scotchman !

At tho fire brigade practice lant night a new firo plug, supplied by a two-inch pipe, in Willoughby-street, Shortland, was tried with snewfs. Tho brigade also had a trial of their efficiency in laying out hose and getting things ia order for a firo, and as cgainab time their performance will compare favorably with results obtained by the best brigades in this or any other colony. The Shorlland mea ran their hose reel two hundred yards, put; rub a hundred feet of hose, attached ifc and tho hydrant to thfl plug, coupled the branch and had water through in 57 seconds, five or six seconds beiog actually lost owing to the feeble pressure on the mains.

It is notified that persons wanting to purchase blasting powder will have to make application the day previous to that on which delivery is required. This regulation has been deemed necessary to prevont a general blow up some day if a fire should occur.

What Everybody Says has'to be left out of to-day's paper, pressure of matter and other circumstances necessitating, the exclusion of this article.