The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1864, 23 December 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1874.

Thekb is very little mining news to be obiained on the field just now, for the very excellent reason that there is notluKg doing worth reporting, v' less it be the periodical' lodgments of gold. For this reason our mining column is to-day as it iias been on former days—limited in extent. While it alWnys proves interesting to know what our mines are"bu?y at 5n the depths bpneath us, there is.a. charce of many persons being able tp guefs all abont ir, vhea there is nothing of greater importance to record t^anthe bare detail of work done Bnd the feehnicnl particulars of how it has been accomplished.

' TiiE Ohinemuri fever is ajfjady abroad. This morning a Grahamstown resident received a telegram from afriond in Wellington requesting him to put on a wßges man, on share?, imraedi'-itely the field i 9 opened.

"We are sorry to learn that Mr James Mackay is unwell, suffering from the effects of a severe cold. Mr Mackay has been overworked of late over Ihis Ohinemuri busioes*, but in (pite^of indisposition lie has kept continuously to work. The excitement being now over, Mr'Mackay feels the reaction. We hope his indisposition will be of short duration. A CAStt in the lOf. Court this morning disclosed a comedy in " very low Jif ," which might have proved interesting to a physiologist, or to a living Pickwick (if such an extraordinary man could exist in these degenerate times. The scene was a public-house, and th%. characters thereto belonging wero as perfect specimens of the universal East-end, tribu as it were - possible promiscuously to collect in ane spot and at ons time. The heroine ,waa apparently a young girl who acknowledged with the greatest sang froid that she was being "kepi;" by a man, and rolled off"two or three well-turned sentences of oaths with a style end finish that would have done credit to a much older hand. The hero was a dark-skinned brother (against -whom the ignorant have a prejudice). Tha utility .m?n wore each good repreaentatatives of their class—men whose peculiar delight it is to assert their superiority over the-meaner kind of creation by doing as little as possible, and getrirjg as much, in divers ways as thpy can. It turned out that the defendant —though to the visual sense a shade or two darker than complainant—was, morally, the less black of the iwo. The evidence showed that the abuse had coma from complainant. A. judgment against the lady •was therefore given-: The annual meeting^of the Loyal Waikato lodge of Oddfellows^waa Held at the lodge roomi Eichifipnd streef, last evening, The election of officers for "the ensuing terra resulted p,o foll&ws:—Noble Grand, W. Or. Scott; Vice *i&rand, George McCowatt; Elective Secretary, W. H. .Potts; medical officers, Drs Peraton, Lethbridge, find Payne ; jiurlitorsl, 33ros Hume, Hart, and Ja'vis.

Gents' clotbes cleaned, dyed aiid pressed. Gents' I'glit suits, .cleaned, ss. N.B. —In fmure all goods 'and orders will only be received at ihe Thonirs Byting Establishment, .Holieston strppt. Shetland. "We ara glad to inform our readers that a Ifew Genttaiipen's Clothing Establishment, Ivss opened in Pollen street, two doors from Mary street, named tho Thamei Borough Clothing Mfttt.—A»TT.