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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1853, 10 December 1874, Page 2

The Thames Scottish Volunteers are called by advertisement to attend a Church parade on Sunday next. A full muster is requested.

The Hauraki does not leave Auckland until four o'clock this afternoon, and therefore need not bo expected before nine this evening. She should bring the Thames portion of tho 'Frisco mail per Cyphrenes. She will leave for Auckland at seven o elook to-morrow morning, and no doubt the time of closing mails per Hauraki will be extended till a later hour than that announced —2.30 p.m.—but we have receivrd no intimation to thiseffeefc.

Sib Donaid McLean is expected to arrive by the Hauraki steamer, but for some reason or other best known to the owners, the time of departure from Auckland was altered today till four o'clock, bo that she need not bo looked for till about nine this evening. Spectators in the District Court this morning must hare been sorely disappointed when the case Donnelly v. Donnelly was abruptly concluded. They evidently went there for some forensic fun, a good deal of which was expected to come out of the cjse. Plaintiff's counsel accepted a nonsuit, the costs amounting to £8 18s. Yesterday the plaintiff was defeated in an action against Mr. Brassey, in which the costs were £1112 a, so Mr. Donnelly's experience of law has been somewhat dearly purchased. A meeting- of the No. 3 Company Hauraki Biflu Volunteers was held last night in the drill shed, Shortland. There was a good muster of members in uniform, and the company was engaged in drill practice for a considerable time by Sergeant Major Grant, and subsequently by officers of the company. Tub Intelligent Vagrant in one of his contributions to the Bruce Herald says:— Who am I to believe ? Here is Bishop Moran, on behalf of his Holiness the Pope, anathematizing the Freemasons, and giving them much hotter experiences than even popular tradition assigns to their own ordeals ; and here, on the other hand, is Bishop Neville, at Palmerston, giving out that Freemasons are synonymous with saints. Is not this puzzling ? My opinion is, however, that Bishop Moran talks and writes rob about the Freemasons, who are no worse than any other men, and are in some respects perhaps better; and that Bishop Neville talks rot, but of a more harmless description than that talVed by Bishop Moran, for I have known Freemasons who would cheat the eye teeth out of you, whether you were a Freemason or not. A man has just died in the Bicetre Asylum whose lunacy had a very singular origin. His name was Justin, and he exhibited waxwork figures at .-Montrogue, his gallery consisting of contemporary celebrities and great criminals. On a pedestal in the centre was the figure of a young girl remarkable for her graceful figure and perfect features, her hair falling in long curls over her naked shoulders. Justin had named her Eliza, and was so struck by her beauty that he passed hours in contemplating her. She seemed to him to speak, and her blue eyes, with their long eyelashes, seemed to respond to his passion. Under the influence of this illusion he neglected his business, and for want of a showman to puff it people no longer visited the gallery. Poverty succeeded easy circumstances; the modern Pygmalion could not separate himself from Eliza. His wife was obliged to sleep on a bare mattress, and when she remonstrated he ill-treated her. Irritated at the unjust harshness, she one day destroyed the wax figure. Justin was furious on seeing the fragment!, and seizing a broom stick he struck his wife and would have killed her had Bother cries drawn the neighbors to her assistance. Justin, who had lost his reason, had to be secured, and was an inmate of Bicetre for five years, living up to the last under the charm of Eliza, whose image seerred always before him. . Dubing a religious festival in Grand Rapids, Con., Burr, who owns a printingoffice, was converted, and it frequently happened that religious people called at his office to talk with him. One day a minister came in, and after talking for awhile he proposed prayer. He was in the act of kneeling when his foot struck one of the outside "forms," which, was.leaning against a leg of the Btone, ready to be lifted up, and over it went, making a bushel of " pi." Burr.looked at the ruin wrought, thought of the two weeks of over work, and commenced taking off his coaf, saying, "I'm trying to be a Christian and set a good example, but rat my buttons if I can't lick you in just two minutes !" The clergyman backed down-stairs in no titne, dodging the lye-brush on the way, and Burr backslid at once, and sent for a pint of stimulant. We (Age) learn that the Government intend asking Parliament for a grant of £3000, with a view to the erection of a building in which to hold an Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne next year, and for £2000 to aid in having the colony represented at the forthcoming exhibition at Philadelphia, XJ.S. An Old Catholic priest in Switzerland is about to follow Father Hyaciathe's example, abandoning celibacy. St. Ange Lievre, of Biel, in announcing his betrothal to a Protestant lady, says —" I marry because I msli to remain an honorable man. In the sixteenth century it was a proverbial expression to say, ' As corrupt as a priest,' and this might be said to-day. I marry, therefore, because I wish j to get out of the Ultramontane slough." During the last two years sixty-seven Roman Catholic priests have been convicted of immorality in France and Switzerland. In view of such facts, he says it is time to restore by marriage the good same of the Romish priesthood, which the misconduct of too many of its members has covered with infamy.—English Paper. AIADY of Aberdeen, during the summer, treated an egg with vinegar until the shell was softened, and then slipped it into a five gallon bottle, which she put into a steadily uniformly heated oven until a chicken was hatched inside the bottle. This she ha? carefully nourished, and has now one of the greatest curiosities, a small pullet living in a bottle. She intends sending this wonder to the Zoological Gardens in London. Gents' clothes cleaned, dyed and pressed. Gents' light suita cleaned, ss. N.B.—ln future all goods and' orders will only be received at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, Rolleston street, Shortland.