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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2041, 20 July 1875, Page 2

The Daily Southern Cross and the ■New Zealand jHgrald .copiedy^ho;" Gold Returns" from our issue of Saturday. 5 1he,Hejfaldackno>j'ledgcd;ifcs 1 ipdcbtednes3 4mt'thettwi'didn't*.' AiyQ^Jiitterlias so often eriarg«d »>ila»v^wiSupE Jilcr«jj theft, perhaps it will makellie amende; and copy this paragraph., /. ! We hear that the Government have no longer work' for MFE. If. Power "to do at the Thamcs^as Government Native Agent. The Undersecretary has,howeverj requested hini tcfhold EimsclF atthe "disposal of the Government up to the end of September, and further conveys in his letter to Mr Power the^high apprecia^ tion Sir Donald McLean entertains of his : services during'the time he has been en> ployed, and " his high sense of .his character and ability " ' r / ,' *" The Southland Times says :—" A gentleman, well known, in Invercargill, was having a 'yarn' on Satuida'ylast in tbe shop of ,one iof our merchants. The roof —a lofty one —was adorned, after the orthodox fashion, with flitches of bacon, and in the. midst of the discourse one o' these dropped on the head of the as,tonishedjvisitor. _ A good'bell-topper was hopelessly stove in, as the result, and im.mediate recourse to the hatter became ne«. cessary. It is cause for congratulation that felt, and not bone, had to stand the brunt of this sudden ' fall in bacon.' " Ojne of our Wellington telegrams conveys the information that only- the London and Liverpool parts of the Schiller's mail were saved, the whole for the country and Ireland being lost;, and, as it is " according to official intelligence received," it may appear presumptuous on our part to doubt the accuracy of it j it may, however, interest .some of our readers who sent letters by that mail to know (and .we have it on the best authority) that part of both the letters and newspapers for the country have been delivered, although about a fortnight after time, and in a most interesting condition. It is some time since w,c were called upon to record anything in the way of "selling off" or '.'. immense; reductions " in the clothing depa,rtmeh|;. But we are now reminded that Messrs J. Cosgrave and Co., are calling a sale of drapery and "clothing at their establishments^" iai Owen ' and/ Albertstreets. The-stocks an : ,these establish: ments embrace £20,000 worth of goods! Cheap'drapery an:d*:winter;clothing::wili now be the order of,the day.— AtoVT. j