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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1890, 23 January 1875, Page 2

The Bey. Charles Clark, eminent lecturer and elocutionist, "will lecture at the Academy of Music on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings next week. The rev. lecturer has created an excitement in Auckland greater than any one "who has ever preceded him in any line, and there are numerous suggestions in the papers to him to repeat his lecture?.

FEEQWEJsa? complaints have been made that some of the water et&ndpipes are out of order. In particular it appears that these in the vioinity of Maty Btreet will give no water, at the same time that ©tkers run freely. The proper ''authorities should take steps to rectify this-natter.

■■'We understand that the Rev. James Buller, formerly of the Thames, will pay a vißit to the district shortly, and during his etay the Protestant Alliance Society propose to entertain him at a complimentary soirea.

An application from Mr Curtis of the Pacific Hotel for the extension of license to Parawai was the. only item on the sheet this morning in the R.M. Court.

Mr Sub-Inspector Bullen has despatched two Constables to Obinemurj, for ordinary duty it is understood.

There waa a meeting of the Rifle Rangers and Wo. 2 Company Hanraki Volunteers last evening, both companies being exercised in company movements. The latter company subsequently held a private meeting at which three new members were enrolled upon the company's books j it was resolved alsp that the company subscribe in the same amount as the other companies towards tho reception of representatives.

Foe the convenience of passengers proceed" ing to Auckland this evening the paddlesteamer Manaia will leave Grahametown Wharf at 10 o'clock instead of Tararu.

The writer of " An Overland Trip," in the Nelson Colonist, relates the following : — 11 There i& a comfortable accommodation housa in Tern Flat, which k managed by a recentlyimported couple. The female is an industrious specimen of the immigrant class, and will, I fancy, make her way in the colony. She is evidently well able to take care of herself. She is from an English country where a knowledge of Fistiana is not considered derogatory to feminine delicacy. She had been engaged in an encounter on the day I arrived. One of the rough"r class of men, who often frequent the drinking shanties in the mining districts, had aroused her ire by some whispered remark, and his punishment was swift. ' I'll teach thee to insulb I,' exclaimed the young woman, tucking up her eleeves and putting herself into a ho3tile attitude; and she was as good as her word. She did not scream, nor scratch, nor did she pull his hair. She simply hit out straight from her ehoulder, after the manner of a Tom Sayers, and she brought tears into that man's eyes. He now Bays thafc ho did not mean any harm, that if he did say anything wrong hoB very sorry, and it wont occur again."

A cokeeSPOKDENT of the Qtago Guardian eaja : :_" Begarding the discussion that has been going on in the Dunedin Press on the Permissive Bill, it may be stated that a man was buried to-day in the Lawrence cemetery wko three weeks ego left the Clydevale station with a check for £110 ia his pocket, and returned with £9 2s. He died through the effects of hard drinking. It is to be hoped the police will make inquiry as to how this man spent hi 3 time. If bis money wa3 all knocked down in drink, it is time some inquiry was made as to the fitness of those who permit 'such things ia their houses to hold licensee."

Twenty barrels entered as " salt meat" and^" Australian beef" were seized at Portsmouth, England, October 23, and in each barrel was found the corpse of a full grown negro. They reached England froin^ the United.States and were intended for dissection in Loadon; bub who sent them, and where did tha sender get them ?

Mb W. B. FoeS'jceb declined the candidature for the Lord Kectorship of the Umiver* sity of Glasgow. The liberal students united in supporting Kalph Waldo Emerson. Malicious people in England said that if the students elected the Duke of Edinburgh Lord Rector, they must put up -with a solo on the violin in lieu of a rectoral address.

A PkoTIKCIAL Government Gazette published yesterday notifies that Friday, the 29fch instant, will be observed as a public holiday, being the 35th anniversary of the Colony. A list of accepted tenders for the public service is published, and a. number of notices of sitting ©f the Native Lands Court to be held.

A New Zealand Gazette published on the 14th instant is to hand. Some of tho notifications in this number have been anticipated by telegram ; a list of eheriffa of the Colony and a list of officiating ministers under the Marriage Acfc are published.

We are glad to inform our reader* that a New Gentlemen's Clothing Establishment has opened in Pollen street, two doors from Mary street, named the Thames Borough Clothing Mart.—Advt.