The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2000, 2 June 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1875.

We are informed that the difficulty between Te Hira and Mr Cock about the piece of land at Ouerangi, near the Paeroa, has not been removed, r. and the natives are getting- " dark" about it. The return of Mr Mackay is looked, for to arrange matters, and if he does not return ibon 1 it is probable the difficulty will, become more serious.

We learn -from Ohinemuri that the large canvass and wooden building at Mackaytown, from which were issued the miners' rights on the morning the field was proclaimed, and which was! subsequently known as the National Hotel, was levelled to the ground by the gale on Monday. Since that time the police have been engaged separating the canvass from the framework, an operation that has been watched with some interest by a bailiff who intends seizing the property as

soon as the wood work is neatly stacked and the canvass put into a portable shape. The ownership of the property is disputed, however, and it is more than probable that it will form the subject of some litigation.

Theeb is a very large kauri treo standing at Ohinemuri, about four miles from Mackaytown, beyond the first crossing, on the track to Tauranga. It was measured last week and found, to be exactly forty feet in circumference, and the height from the butt up to the first branches was estimated at about forty feet or a little more. The. tree is as round and smooth as a ruler, but these large trees seldom attain a height that might be expected in proportion to their girth, as compared, with the height* of smaller trees. Our informant states that lie once measured a treo on the Great Barrier Island thirty-four feet in dismeter, which he christened the " King of the Kauri," and for many years it; has been the custom to claim for Coromandel the credit of, having a larger kauri tree even than the Barrier King. We all know how these matters are apt to be exaggerated/ and, untiL!;we have very reliable evidence to the contrary, it may be assumed that the Barrier and Coromandel districts must now yield to the Ohinemuri district the honour of possessing the largest kauri tree in existence. -The Ohinemuri tree has been purchased for 25s under the Goldfields jttegulatidris, and now bears the brand of tti« owner.

It is some time since we were called upon to record anything in the way .of " selling .off" or " immense reductions " in" the clothing department. But we aye now reminded that Messrs J. .Cosgraved sM • Co.i ;■> are "S calling; ; a sale of > drapery and ft clothing a£ : their establishments "in Owen and Albertstreets. The stocks in these establLshnients embrace £20,000 .worth of goods. Cheap drapery and winter clothing will libw be the order of the day.—Advt.

We have received Provincial Government Gazette of May 31; New Zealand Gazetta of date May 20; and the second instalment of the Cansus of ?New Zealand for 1874, containing part 5, conjugal conditions of the people, and part 6, occupations of the people.

The Otago Guardian of Wednesday last says:—"Last Tuesday evening, Mr J. 'M. Perrier, who had for some time filled the position of editor on the Bruce Herald, and who is now about to leave the district to fill a similar position .on the Wellington Mail f was; entertained at a supper by the employees of the former journal, and presented with a very handsome silver tea and coffee and a travelling-case and i^nciting^ desk.: Mr Perrier's health was proposed in very glowing terms by Mr Mackay, the proprietor of the Bruce Herald, and responded to in suitable terms. A .very pleasant;evening was afterwards spent.''

Gents' Ciothes and every description of Dyeing and Cleaning done on the shortest possible notice, at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, corner of Bolleston and Richmond streets. —Advt.

Thb Largest Shipment of Drapery, Millinery arid Clothing-ever imported direct from' manufacturers to the Thames is opened this leason at J. Mabshail'B, who is determined te sell with the Smallest jßemiineratiye Profit, and is certain.the public will not: find; his goods surpaessed, if equalled, for value by any house in New Zealand, Inspection Solicited.—Advt.