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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1926, 6 March 1875, Page 2

The steamer Enterprise brought a number of passengers from Auckland t his morning, j some of whom arrived by the Phcebe. The rain ■which sot in yesterday morning was not of long duration, this morning having broken with a c'oudless sky. A little more rain would have been welcomed, as the ground is in sore need of its refreshing influence. The whale excitement has broken out in a new place. This morning at the R.M. Court a man named Alfred Smith was charged with permitting a nuisance to exist on hi? premises. The person charged had been engaged in boiling down the whale purchased by Mr. James Craig, and the boiling down, or the residue thereof, appears to hare caused a most noxious effluvium. Thr case of C. C. Kidd versus C. Ahier was heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. This case involves what we consider a hardship on defendant. It would appear that plaintiff and defendant belong respectively to the Shorfcland and Grahanastowh contingents of the Borough Fire Brigade. Some timo ago the contingents met at a friendly game of cricket, and defendant, not plnying, became custodian of plaintiff's watch. Subsequently defendant " went in," and before doing so he deposited the watch with his own property in one of the pavilions of Parawni garden?, from which it was stolen. The action yesterday was for recovery of £8 8s for breach of trust, and judgment was suspended for a fortnight. In the meantime it ia to be hoped the two brigades will make up the loss and obviate the neecessity for judgment b.ing entered up at tbe end of a fortnight.

Wsr have received several New Zealand Gazettes. No. 10 contains a despatch from the Secretary of State conn- g enclosure on the ." supply of army remounts from Australia! " for the Indian service. No. 11, Gazette Extraordinary, contains a proclamation by the Governor proroguing Parliament to the 31st day of May. Th*be is now a boat stationed at the first creek -on the road from Paeroa to Mackaytown, bo that the trading through this one, which is rather deeper than the others, is caved to pedestrians. In the passeuger, liw of the e.s. Phoebe there appears a number of names familiar to the Thames. The following is the list:— Mr, Mrs and M'saßlarcom, Mr and Mrs Provis and family, Mr and Miss McGregor, C*pi,ain' Fraser, Mesdames Cullen, Meek, and Reed ; Misses Senior, Gallagher, Harrison; Messrs Fraser, Jobberns, Sutherland, Whitestone, Bhipley, Cameron, Spratt, Weston, Bleazard, Mallabond, Moriah, and 36 in the steerage. DffHTHEEiA, quinsey, and other similar throat diseases are declared to be removable and cure effected by means of camphor thoroughly bruised and boiled in vinegar, used as an inhalent from the mouth of a teapot, and cold", as a means of keeping moist a rag placed around the throat. The quantities are as much camphor as will lie upon a half-crown boiled in a small saucepan with half a pint of good ordinary vinegar. An eight-hour man, on going home the other evening for his Bup per, found his wife eitting in her best clothes on the front step reading a volume of travels. "How is this?" he exclaimed. " Where is my supper." "I don't know/ replied his wife. "I began to get your break fast at six o'clock this morning, and my eght hours ended at 2 p.m." j

A VICTOBIAN p? per—the Alexandra Times—says that the proverb, " It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, 9' has been verified at the Acheron, where a bush has been burning during the past fortnight. The thick impenetrable scrub has been cleared away, and in one place has disclosed a rich reef, with lots of specimens lying on the surface. The ground has been pegged off and registered. The Smeaton correspondent of the Ballarat Miner writes:—" Whether the following may be taken as an exhibition of the evils of secular education, or as a proof,of the neglect of pastoral duty on the part of our clergy towards the rising generation, I must leave others to decide, but, at all events, it shows a rising; spirit of nationality in our native youth. A short time since a person living near here, who is generally considered to be a little of the unco quid sor^, and rather too prone to consider the world more desparately wicked than it is, met an acquaintance walking with his son, a. youth of some eight summers. ' Well, my boy,' said our pious friend, 'I hope jou are growing up a good Christian ?' «"No, sir,' said the little fellow, bashfully, ' I'm an Australian.'" St Paul's Cathedral was rebuilt just 165 years ago to-day, that event having taken place in 1710. The persons who were witness thereto in St Paul's Churchyard have gone to a long sleep all of them, and a new St Paul's Churchyard generation hive sprung up to fill the places round the venerable edifice.