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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 17 April 1875, Page 2

:' We have received;(h.e. New Zealand Gazette containing the proclamation enlarging the boundaries Of the Hauraki G-oldmiaing District. The proclamation has already been' published in our columns.

The appointment is gazetted of Henry* Charles Lawlor, E*q., as Beviaing Officer for the Electoral Districts of Moßganui and Bay of Islands, Marsden, Rodney, Waitemata, City bf Auckland East, City of Auckland West, Parnell, Newton, Town of Onehunga, Eden, Franklin, W^aikato, and Thames, in the Province of Auckland. Hopkins Clarke, Esq., has received the appointment of Revising Officer for the Electoral pistriii^of the East Coast. , : :,^. ,

A MEEHKCk of the Grahanistb.wn Lcontin-^ gent of the Borough Rre Brigade took place hv,tevening. ; ,:) - ..&".■: :;i ■..'■■

; Ik a letter to the Cromwell Argus, replying to a commuaication from Mr McKellar, G-oldfields Secretary of Otago, Mr Vincent Pyke writes as follows on the causes which operated against the reduction or abolition of the gold duty during last Parliamentary session :—" After consulting with" the representatives of the mining intetest in the Assembly, I came to the conclusion, as they did also, that the impecunious Provinces are .10 entirely dependent oq the export duty for .the means of preserving their wretched existence and paying official salaries, that; there is no hope of any reduction df the obnoxious impost :«o long as Provincial Governments and Provincial Ghjlclfields Secretaries are suffered to exist. And it is well that the miners should understand this, so that at the next general election they may not stultify themselves by returning any manfiwho will not pledge himself to .vote for the entire abolition of Provincialism throughout the Colony."

By. jciivular we are informed that the Pjfess Agfincy has made arrangements by which it wi!l receive a special telegram from London containing news interesting to New Zealand but not telegraphed to Australia. The cost will be one shilling per word. The arrangement is to be tried for three months. It is rather dear to pay a shilling a word for:news, and the item of expenditure for- telegrams is ahvady a seri ?us' one for new#pliper proprietors. '■;'-::-"-; ■■;*■■-' ■•;"; ,;.",!''/" ■/;.. ':

The Napier Daily Telegraph of the 9th instant says:—H. P. M'Gratta, on a warrunt from the Thames, was brought up for wife desertion. Prisoner said he had remitted several sums of money to his wife.during the pajsjj eighteen months* and had written: letters toillr, but had received no answers frbin her. He was discharged on his own recognizance of £25 to appear when called upon.

The Auckland Star has been requested by Mr Hennelly to contradict most emphatically this ijtatemeafc made in the telegram from the Mackaytown corpftpondent of the Herald, in which it is asserted that Hennelly's party hare offered £500 "to obtain possession quietly." Mr Hennelly Bays no such offer has been made, and that his party is still in possession and nt'work, and will continue so. We know that news at Ohine»; uri is very meagre just now, but a correspondent should not invent statements for the purpose -df filling out a telegram, nor/yet permit: himself to be humbugged ,by interested partieo. [How will the Herald correspondent reconcile ibis statement of his with his promise that he would record only what piraie under his own immediate observation ?j. Constanck Kent, the Boad murderess is still alive. In a paper on female prison life in England, the Daily News special correspondent relates a visit which he paid to Wokinu prison, and suys :—" Passing a file of stocking knitters on my way out ibf the prison, I noticed a woman of about thirty standing at the end of the row. She was full-featured!, of sallow complexion, with dark eyes, and had her short, dark hair pushed back under, her cap. She Was noticeable amid ; the crowd because, : whilst all the- rest cur.-sied as the Lady. Superintendent passed, and looked eagerly for tbe;ever-reidy; smile of recognition, she, after casting one sharp, angry glange at the approaching ; visitors, stood sullenly regarding the floor. " Who is that?" I aeked Mrs Gibson, when we were out of sight and hearing. '" That" said the Lady Superintendent, "is Constance Kent, and a very hard subject to deal with. She is one of the women in the prison whom I cannot get at."

A cobbespokdent of the Southern Mercury is responsible for the following ;—A worthy minister of the Gospel, who is in the habit of making periodical visits to the Nevis, was one Sunday evening waiting in Jho billiardroom of a public-house, which on Sundays is devoted to the purpoee of divine worship, for his congregation to roll up, who were evidently very tardy-in putting in an appearance ; for, after sitting there for some time,' only one poor sinner strolled ia, and he, after looking on for a bit, thus addressed the rev. gentlemen :—" I say, old ;man, you'll have nobody here to-night; suppose we have a quiet ii'tle game of euchre for drinks ? " The landlord of this hotel bitterly bewails in silence his hard lot in the fact of his house being selected for this purpose, for he has been known to say in confidence to a sympathising friend, " You know Sunday is our best day;" which; goe* to prove, if proof -were necessary, what widely different views are held by different people as to the best way of spending the Sabbath.

We are requested by Mr J. A. Chapman to that he ia not the person against whom a judgment wa3 vecorded by default in the Eesident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The Piincees Beafruo, it, is announced ro;itirely,-:;i8 <o marry the Hereditary Grand Duke of Buden. Both aro eighteen years of ago, and the marringe will take place in twelve months.

" The latest thing out," says a far-west piper, "is a baby - munnger — a woodon m; 1 chine that takes the crossest baby out of your arms, trots it on its knees at the rate of forty trots a second', administers one teaspoonful of paregoric per hour, shakes a slu'efc-iron raftlo that effectually drowns its cries; looks < ross-eyed aftlie' Mby to make it hush, aud if these won't do, lays it over and gp inks it; wifchia wooden spanker at the rate of MXly licks a eeco:i'"t. The beauty of this ma -liiue is that; it; never gets out of patience or repair." ;

CfuNTs'CLOTiirs and every description of D^oinpj and Cleaning clone on the alioMest possible notice*, nt, (he Thames Dyeing Establishment, corner of Rollcston and Richmond streets, —.Advt