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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2003, 5 June 1875, Page 2

There were no cases for hearing at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

■'Two -Immutable Things'" will be. the subject'of Mr Cartwright's discourse in the Karaka School-room, to-morrow evening. „ .- , , ■ -v "

We have received ■ a ; New Zealand Gazette of date' May 22. It does not contain any notifications, of general interest.

The steam launch Buona Ventura sunk this morning at the Shortland wharf. It appears that the escape had been left open, and the water entered and filled the boat. She was soon_ lifted and pumped out, and has sustained no permanent damage.

A meeting : of the members of the Royal Orange Lodge, No. 6, will be held on Monday, the 7th instant, in the Odd Tellow's Hall, Shortland, at eight o'clock.

The telegraphic reports of shipping arrivals is most unsatisfactory at present, even worse than under the old arrangement. Formerly we used to hear within forty-eight hours or thereabouts of the arrival of a steamer from the South, and .were able occasionally to be in time for : ihe mail per return trip. This we cannot do now. The General Manager of telegraphs or the Commissioner of Customs might interfere in this matter and insist upon the reports being better attended to. The Taranaki which-- arrived yesterday morning is »not yet on the list at the Telegraph Office.

The Taranaki arrived at Onehunga yesterday morning with the following passengers from. Southern Ports :—Mr Armour, Mr Drake, Mr Belcher, Mrs Hall, Messrs Phillippi, Pierson, Matthews; Sergent, Banell, Turner, Thompson, Miss Wells, Master Chatfield, Mr Andrews, Misses Woods, Philips, Sharland, Mrs Williams, Mr Davis, Mr Pitcairn, Mr Chilman, and 9 in the steerage.

At a meeting of the Board of Education, held in Auckland on Thursday, an allowance of 30s to three junior teachers temporarily employed in the Kauaeranga District, wa3 granted. A communication from the Waiotahi committee, requesting the Board to bring under the notice of His Honor the Superintendent the propriety of taking steps to set apart endowments for the purpose of establishing a High School in the ifauraki-Pistrict, was agreed to. It -was also ngreed;|o sanction the establishment of a superior-school in the district at the Thames School, on the same conditions as the Kauaeranga School. The appointment of Miss Clark, as pupil teacher at Tararu, salary £25, was approred. An application for the proclamation of the Piako district was deferred till next meeting.

The man who retails the London gossip for the Melbourne Herald writes :—" The rumors about the new daily paper to be established in opposition to the, Times become more and more defined. It is stated' that American money will be found to start the paper, and that the American system of obtaining information at any cost will be followed. Among the persons named in connection with the scheme are Mr Edmund Yates, Mr J. Q. Bowler (editor of Vanity Fair), Mr J. Gordon Bennett (New York Herald), Mr Labouchere, and others. It is probable also that the freat feature of American journalism,nown as 'personals,' the absence of which is in our newspapers go frequently deplored by-Americans in this country, will be prominent in thi3 new enterprise. A name—'The Planet' —has also been suggested for the paper ; but this, I think, is premature."

It is said that at a theatre in Liverpool, not long since, one clown accosted another with "How are yau. 1' The reply wa3 >•' O, I feel very Moodyish." "Ah," said the first, "you look very Sankeyfied." Instead of the expected laugh a storm of hisses greeted them, and did not subside till the curtain fell, when the audience arose,and sang "Hold the fort," one of Mr Sankey's favorite songs. . ■

The Echo says : ~" For some time pa§t our evening contemporary has teemed with telegrams from its Wellington correspondent respecting Mr 1. J. Wakefield. Whilo we cannot defend the latter we must reprehend the miserable, petty malevolence of the " double-dyed scoundrel '' who adopts this method, of attacking an enemy at a safe distance. It may not be generally known that Teddy Wakefield once on a time kicked the veracious correspondent out of a private room into which he had intruded, apparently with the,object of extracting the contents of some private papers."

The Bendigo Evening News publishes the following items of theatrical gossip from a home correspondent:—Miss'Juno still keeps a lengthj advertisement in the Era, informing managers that she is disengaged. Miss Rose Evans was ill for some weeks, and died on the Ist March, at the early age of twenty-five. On her return to England she caught a cold, which never left her, and resulted in consumption. The young actress was playing in the pantomime at Newcastle when taken ill. Mr Claremont, her husband, was playing at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham, when the sad event took place. Salaries are very low as a rule, there being good useful men playing in London for £1 os per week ; and with regard to an actor or actress getting a position in London, it is all a lottery;

: The Chines Guardian has anticipated the. New York jury, anrl has found the following rerdict:-—" However much the Beecher trial was to be regretted, beyond doubt it will have the effect of purging American society of the many impostors who have so long been at work sapping morality and destroying the national life. Standing out prominent amongst these is Henry Ward Beecher. The riide manner iv which the veil has been drawn off the life of this Mokanna has dispelled many illusions. He stands out as a man deceiving and deceived, a huge imposture ; the teacher and example of America, himself disfigured with the leprous touch of lust."

A nice littfe nugget, weighing 64 oz3 14s dwts, and worth about £260, was sold at the Bank of New South Wales on Wednesday, having (says the Inglewood Advertiser), been obtained at the Hard Hills, Berlin, on the same day. The lucky finders of the lump were Messri Baird and Worden, one of whom had been successful previously in his quest for treasure trove*

A Melbottbne correspondent of a country paper relates the following adventure,, which- happened to. a" gentleman through' 1 advertising for a wife:—a gentleman of this city, not entirely unknown in the "soft goods" line, a widower with something of a family, and, as rumor says,; a goodly bank account, advertised for a-.wife over a fictitious signature. Several answers were received, among which was one that particularly pleased him. The chirography wasSdelicate and graceful, the language chaste^ the signature, like his own, evidently fictitious. After a brief ansif mutually agreeable correspondence, h

time and place were agreed upon for a meeting. At the appointed hour t!;e gentleman was waiting in a private parlor at a certain fashionable hotel, and shoril y afterwards a lady entered thickly veiled. She *came in tremblingly, and did not venture to look up until the voice of the gentleman, in respectful greeting.fell upon her ear, at which she started convulsively, raised her eyes to the face of her swain, and then uttsred a suppressed cry—a cry, the tone of which struck upon the gentleman's ear with a sound not unfamiliar. , He lifted theveil and looked upon the scared face of his own daughter, whom he ha-i supposed ' industriously pursuing her studies at a school in a town some distance westward from Melbourne. The young lady has since been installed as housekeeper in the paternal mansion, and her papa is not likely to advertise for a. wife again until this daughter is married.