The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1877, 8 January 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1875.

Tff« cases of appeal against the Borough assessment do not make much progress. Tb«»y barebeen adjourned from time to time at the-request of appellants, till they would be» quite forgotten were it not that the adjournments are duly chronicled in the press every Civil Court day. A further:'postpone* Kent of these caeca tothe 15th instant was panted to day, on the application of Mr Macdonald, who appeard for the companies. The Com mission of the Marquis of Nor- ! jnnnbv as Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand is published in the New Zealand Gazette. _ The election of William Dayies to be Mayor of tbe Borough of Thames is notified. A PboVlKClAl"Government Gazette, pub« liehert ou the 31 et December, reached us ye»»erday ; a New Zealand Gazette of same date armed at the same time. The former com &is>« the half-yearly statement, of a number of goldminine companies, and notifications undsr tue:Nati*e La&da Act,lß7B. ; A GOOD adVertisement in,a goodnesspaper is the .best of all possible dalesmen If is » salesman who nrver deeps and is never weary; i»ho goes after business early and late ; who accosts the merchant in his shop, the scholar in his study, the lawyer in his cfficfi the lady as her tea-table j who can be seen in a thousand places at once, and speaks to a tririon reople every day, saying to each one the best thing in the best manner. In a recent lecture on "Liquids," at the Eoyal Insiitutiof., Professor Tyndall mentioned that he had learned from Shaw, the head of the London Fire Department, that a scratch in the.nozzle of afire engine delivery pipe, which an ordinary workman might overlook, will reduce its throwing power from three hundred feet down to oae hundred and fifty feet.

A spioiax meeting of the Operative Bakers' Association will bo held at the Salutation Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) for the transaction of important business.

A big thing in Christmas cake» bos been done in Dunedin (no, pun intended), the following quantities being used. :-^lßolb. bufcter, 2,160 eggs, 1801b. sugar, 401b; currants, 701b. peel, 401b.-almonds, 3601b. flour, and 90lb. eultanas. Half a ton for a cake id a pretty good weight. No one will question the weight, because it is given by ; a veracious journalist. We wouldn't roind taking a hundred weight of the cake : how much will you takeP In the matter of cakes it would bo discourtesy to insinuate that a trifling mistake has been made.

The Tasmanian Tribune indignantly denies the rumours circulated by the Melbourne Ar fe us that Mr Weld would be coldly received and "isolated" in the former colony on account of his religion. Says tho Tribune: — " The gentlemen of Tasmania will receive him as becomes their well known high character and liberality. Mr Weld has no reason to fear comparison with any other Governor who has ever preceded him j and we may say this without the slightest intention or wish to detract from the merits of the two gentlemen referred to by the correspondent of the Argus. The new Governor ha&what none of his predecessors possessed, namely, a long and practical acquaintance with colonial life and a deep personal interest in colonial prosperity. In fortune, position, and public reputation,as welljas education, he never has had a superior in Tasmania, and so long as he governs constitutionally the temporal affairs of the public we shall never trouble ourselves about how ho looks after his own spiritual interests. That is his own, not our business."

The Napier Telegraph of December 24 says:—lhe charter of the Southern Cross Bteainer, by which she has been running weekly between Napier and Auckland, carrying sheep and cattle from here to the latter port, having expired, the trade in live stock between the two places will cease, at all events, for the present. The priors of beef in the Auckland market are not sufficiently re* naunerative; in \ fact, the Auckland and Hawke's Bay prices, so■-;xiearly_- asßimilate that with the cost of freight and risk it no longer pays to export cattle from here.

A TOUNa lady put a piece of wedding cake junder her .pillow, and went to bed with the happy belief that she would dream of seeing her fufcnre^husband. That evening, however, she had eaten two plates of ice cream, some lobster salad, about a pint of strawberries, several cakes, and two large pickled walnuts, and she now says she 'would rather remain single all her lifei than marry tho man she saw in her dream. Moral: Don't eat suppers if you wish for pleasant dreams.

It is alleged that .there is in the island of Skye a minister of one of the parish churches who occupies the pulpit which his ; father, grand father, and great grandfather have filled in/succession;, and who^ia training,, up a eon to be his successor. Besides discharging the duties of the ministry in his parish, he is Chariman of the School and Parochial Boards, road contractor fox the district, a noted of setters, which he supplies to the SGiithera tparkets, a knowing judge of ca.ttl*, and occupaut'of^ threes large cheep farms in addition to his glebe^ Hejs verging on threescore, and yet he continues <ta-dieeharga these multifarious duties and preach two serro ons every Sunday»r-pne in Graelic and the other ! ifiißnglish. . .

The Otago Guardian says:—Apropos of the revival of v the Gardiner controversy a gentleman who has jnst returned from'Hongkong states that while there the subjeofc of Gardiner and his crimes arb»e at a publio dinner, when he ' expressed himself frtely respecting G-ardioer's conduct and charaoter, not knowing that he was in Hongkong at the time. Afterwards Gardiner met him and threatened him, so much so that the gentleman had to obtain, the protection of the police. He states ako that there was a rumour in Hongkong that Gardiner was about returning to New. South Wales by way of Queensland* ,