The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1836, 20 November 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

We would call attention to the mail notice which appears to-day in its usual place. It

will be noticed that the 'Frisco mail is to close

here to-morrow, for the simple reason that }• is no certainty of a later day's mail "^pbeing in time. The mail closes in Auckland on Wednesday next, but there will be no ", steamer to or from the Thames on Monday, and no dependence can be placed upon Tues- : day'i boats being in time, as they rely too much upon weather and other circumstances. To make sure of catching the bail, therefore, correspondents had better post their letters to-morrow, and should the circumstances be farorable most likely a supplementary mail will be made up on Tuesday in time to catch tbe outgoing boat for San Francisco. We have been so often disappointed that the posting of letters to-morrow will be only a precaution against a repetition of previous experience.

The members of the Thames Naval Brigade will compete for tbe gold medal to-morrow, at the Farawai range. TSe followiqg was handed in to our publisting office yesterday evening:—" S.S. La

Buona Ventura, lh. 20m. out, Waihou River, Puriri plainly visible—flax mill bearing cast. No fresh cafces of scarlet fever at preßent. An outbreak of Ohiuemuri on the brain expected amongst the forward passengers. Doctors Hogg and Wilkinson working hard to keep the epidemic under with only partial success. One storekeeper down with acute attack nervous raihana excitement. Another passenger kept under restraint with a surveyor's chain and arrow. Betting even. Mackay for choice against Te Eira. Moananui backed for place."

Chapman, the wizard, who recently performed his tricks down here, seems to have been practising a feat that is not appreciated by the wife of his bosom, if we may judge from the following advertisement which appeared in the Lyttelton Times:—" William Adam Chapman, well-known as conjuror and anti-spiritist, and travelling with a person known as Mies Ida Bonnifon, will you write to your wife and child; they have received no communication for 18 months. Write, immediately, to Emily Ada Chapman, Bowen Villa, 3, Punt Eoad, South Yarra, Melbourne. .-A'

Wb understand that the company of amateurs who recently gave such a successful performance in aid of the cricket olub funds will shortly give another to augment the funds of the Thames. Naval Boating and Thames Bowing Clubs.- The pieces to be played have been selected and are now in rehearsal.

A Dtjitbdin contemporary says:—A thrifty people are the good people of Marlborough. At Ficton, a revenue of £80, and at Havelock of £35 a-year, is derived from fees charged for permission to depasture horses in the grass-grown streets. This makes the Timaru people very jealous, and the South Canter*

bury Times -wants to know why something of the £orfc c.innot be drr.o in that thriving, but rqually yard ant, township. There are eomo seedy, hjilf-pturred municipalities in Otago also might; take a hint, and do likewise.

A Pbovinoiaii Gazette published on Wednesday contains notifications to the effect that George McCulbgh Ksed, Esq., M.P.O , has resigned his Heat as a member of (hu Provincial Exocutivo nnd the office of Provinoial Treasurer.

For alleged nnslrilfulness in the treatment of a broken arm, £150 damages were given at the Liverpool assizes, against Dx* Bigby, Chorley.

Thb Lake Wakatip Mail announced ia a recent, issue that one Mr. W. J. Barry was about <o deliver a lecture in the Town Hall, " epitomising liis experiences in the British Colonies during the past foriy-eeven years." Mr. Barry's experiences must have been very tame or else he must possess a wonderful -facility of abridgment. Fancy forty-seven years of colonial experience boiled down to the concentrated essence of an evening's lecture. Mr. Barry would bo invaluable on a newspaper. Our colonial experience—and we consider oureelves entitled to be numbered amongst the old identities—extends over a little more than a third of forty-seven years; yet we should require a whole season to give an epitome of our experiences. We shall look for Mr. Barry's epitome with interest. T» compress forty-seven yeara into a single night's fcnlk requires more than ordinary literary effort.

"With the' Gazette of tke 18th instant is published a supplement comprising a return compiled from the accounts of the District Boards under " The Highways Act, 1871/' for tbeyenrending3oth June, 1874. Abatementef receipts and expenditure under the Grammar School Trust, for the year ending SOth June, 1874, is published in the Gazette; also statement' of receipts and expenditure of the Public School Fund for the same period. Notices of times and places for investigating claims to native lands are published.

Gents' clothes cleaned, dyed and pressed. Gents' lifcht suits cleaned, ss. N\B.—ln. future all goods and orders will only be received at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, Bolleitton-street, Shortland.