The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1895, 29 January 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1875.

Tnw kind of weather experienced yesterday and the day previous terminated at. ab<>ur. twelve ov one o'clock last.night, when heavy squalls wevei exp'e»ienceci, sincl lightning was rery frequent in the direction of ihe Miranda. In many respects the rain which has fallen during the Jnsf. t-wo r'njß, has had a bnnefbial effect, and it hasnuort'over laid the dust.

Ohe inehnVe wa3 fined iov offendanj; at fhs I*5.M. C urt this corning, before a justic3 of the Peace. This was the cmlj business. A MOST atrocious " do" wa« perpetrated at the Par<»wai C^mp to ch'y—the " doer" and party done Wing gentlemen of the 'fourth CB'afe, a'sisterl by a-u- iv scrupul'uig a^ent in thepereon of an el*'Cf.rzc " spark." A certain proprietor of an evening paper in Auckland b«d a teltgram prepwd iov transmission to his journal in that place. The officQ of 'tho telegraph happened to be closed while the e'erk (the electr c ppark aforesnid) wfis at dinner, and the nerrrsp^per man had been waiting f"i* some liv eto get his message in The oiher newppaper men wns also waiting with, a message for his paper Jn Auckland. Wh<"n the clerk come up tie former insinuated 7ds message in'o the hand of ihe cleric in nmriner surreptitious, before the door of the office was Optned the clerk being apparently willing. The latter newspaper man observed this, and expressed iimeelf considerably riled, swore that he would make it particularly hot for the " electric spark," and took a note of "all the circumstance*." The offending proprietor of th» one Airkland sliest, prote.ted hia innocence to the enraged propri tnv oi the other Auckland sheet, but—" it wouldn't wash." Wl ar» glad to inform our readers tliat a Kew Gentlemen's'(lotting Establishraenth^b opened in Pollen M reet. two doo s from Marr •treefc, named the Thames Borough Clothing Mart.— Advt.