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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 5 March 1875, Page 2

In yesterday's piper appeared District Orders appointi"g tho days and times for the different volunteer cempanios to fire for the district prizes. I

The Stfamer Lalla Eookh will make an oxcuvsion to Ohinemuri on Sunday, loaviug Grahamstown Wharf afc sis in the morning and returning on Sunday evening. Every facility is now offered to the public for paying visits to the new goldfield. ;.

Ok Saturday the EaferprJße No. 2 will leave Grahamstown Wharf for Ohinemuti at half past four on an excursion trip, returning on Sunday evening and laudiog passenger at Grahamstown Wharf At ten o'clock. This trip will no doubt be taken advantage of by persom who:with to.ieb.the country. It will give sufficient time to view the poiats of interest on the new gcldfield without interfering with the ordinary pursuits of a large class wbo may wish to ccc for themselves what tho country is like. ' -Return tickets will be issued for 7s od. :

The death rate for the month of February in the Thames district was unusually heavy. Tho total number of deatks was 23. Of these 19 were children under one year old, and tho causes assigaed for their deaths were dysentery, convulsions and ether disorders which so often prore fatal to infants. ';

The iron safe of the Bird in Hand' Goldmining Compasy was sold by auction tOday under distress warrant,- at the suit of Mr Quinlivan, carter. It fetched £13 103.

" A solid nugget weighing 280z.," says the Avoca Mail, "was sold to the Bank of 'Victoria, by three Chinamen, on Tuesday morning. The lucky find was made in the old ground afc the head of the Homebush Lead, and at a depth of 2Jffc. from the surface." "E

iEGttua in the Australasian 'says :—Some time ago a person in Government employment spoke lqosely of a young lady. ( The report reached a friend of .hers, who called upon the offender and demanded the most am©le apology for the slfindev. He promisedtG oall the next day, and if the amende were not then forthcoming, he threatened personal retribution. Upon calling next day he found that urgent private affairs kad necessitated absence f• cm town for a week. But his wrath cooled not. At the expiration of a. week he called again, and finding no apology ready, he administered to the offender a severe horsewhipping, in the presence of the sufferer's fellow clerks. ;