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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1999, 1 June 1875, Page 2

DtJEiN a the pait month 7£ inches of rain have fallen on the Thames, according to the observations of an authority' on the subject.

Me Edwin Binnet has suspended in his Auction Mart a large and extensively got-up map of the Puriri Township, to be sold in allotments at auction by him on the 10th instant. The map' — drawn by Mr Macfarland—is of unusual size, and the allotments to be sold are all ,very plainly marked off.

Fboji last night's Auckland Star we learn that Lieutenant Bennett, of the Thames Naval Brigade, accompanied by Mr Savage, boat-builder, visited H.M.S. Dido, commissioned to obtain some information requisite for the construction of a gun boat for the Thames Naval Brigade. Captain Chapman received Mr Bennett very courteously, had the ship's pinnace lowered, and, we understand, every facilit? and informatiom was given to the Thames officer.

Refebbing to the recent news of the illness of H.R.H. Prince Leopold, an exchange states that he suffers from a, congenital defect, his skin being so thin that from his birth any extraordinary exertion causes him to perspire blood. This accounts for what "was termed hemorrhage in rscent telegrams, as the ailment from which, he was suffering.

The Largest Shipment of Drapery, Millinery and Clothing ever imported direct from manufacturers to the Thames is opened this season at J.Mabshall'B, who is determined to sell wi'tk the Smallest Remunerative Profit, and is certain'the public will not find his goods surpasssed, if equalled, for value by any house in Now Zealand. Inspection Solicited.—Adyt.