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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1997, 29 May 1875, Page 2

Owing- to the pressure ■upon our space, and the extra labor entailed by the publication of the objections in to-day's issue, the usual instalment of 'Florida" is excluded.

In our present issue will be found a report of an interesting presentation to Mr J. Bull, Officer in charge of the Telegraph Office here, on severing his connection as an active member of the Shortland Fire Brigade. The presentation comprised two illuminated addresses —one from the Borough Council and one from the Shortland Fire Brigade.

This has been one of the dullest weeks of the-season in the sharemarket. Very few transactions have taken place, so few there is nothing to make a weakly report of. A parcel of new issue Caledonians submitted to auction to-day didn't get an offer.

These are a good many Tattycarsms in the world, who won't count twenty, and like the Tattjcaram of Mr Dickens, they often get into unpleasant scrapes on account of not paying heed to the importance of such mental calculation. Two gentlemen were summoned in the Residenf Magistrate's Court this morning for using abusive language, and each was somewhat out of pocket by the decree of the Court. As the Magistrate remarked, "Abuse is an expensive luxury."

Would the New Zealand Herald kindly explain why three quarters of a column of our mining appeared in Thursday's Herald as from its own correspondent. The paragraphs in question were from Tuesday's Star, and were copied verbatim without any acknowledgment.

Q'hb Southern Cross publishes the following paragraph amongst the mail news fier Mikado, which looks exceedingly ike an old'story dished up with Yankee fixings. The old story was that a beautiful English girl jilted Mr Chaplin, a rich commoner and sporting gentleman, for the Marquis of Hasting?.* Mr Chaplin, it is said, vowed he would ruin his rival, •who was also addicted to the turf. Lord Hastings before he was thirty, was bankrupt in purse and broken down in constitution; he died—quite four or five years ago, and this is the story in different words told by the Cross as late mail news : — iNothing is talked of here (says a London correspondent) but the marriage of Lady Florence Paget, the beauty of London of the last two seasons. It would be impossible to find a prettier face or a more delicate figure, too slight and small for my speciaj taste. She was noted for her flirtations; Mr Ellica's nephew, Mr Chaplin, of whom you haTeoftenheardmespeak, a tall.young fellow of 25, and with £25,000 a year, fell in love with her. She trifled with him a long time, finally became engaged to him, *nd, it is said, accepted from him jewels and £6,000 with which to pay.her mantuamaker's bills. The wedding-day was arranged, and last Friday they < went together to the park and opera. On Saturday morning she left home alone, and proceeding to St George's Church, was married to Lord Hastings, a young man of her own age, very ugly, and possessed of a slight fault—a passion for cards and wine. After the ceremony they started for the country, and at the first station she wrote to her father, the Marquis of Ariglesea:—" As I knew you would never consent to my marriage with Lord Hastings I was wedded to him today.—l remain yours, ":&c. ■ She also wrote to Mr Chaplin':—Mp)ear Harry, when you receive this, I'V^sll^be the wife of Lord Hastings. Forget-yours truly, Florence." Poor Mr Chaplin, who is "six feet high and has yellow hair, is in despair.

The Largest Shipment of Drapery, Millioery and Clothing over imported direct from manufacturers to the Thames is opened this season at J. Mabshalili's, who is determined to sell with, tho Smallest : Remunerative^ Profit, and is certnin'tho public will nob find his goods Burpaessecl, if equalled, for Value by any house in Now Zealand. Inspection Solicited.—Adyt. ■

(Jentb' Clothes and every description of Djeing and Cleaning done on the shortest possible notice, at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, corner of Bolleston and Richmond Btreets.—Advt.