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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2050, 30 July 1875, Page 2

A meeting is to : be held at the Pacific Hotel this evening to consider the advisability and feasibility of sending four representatives from New Zealand to the international rifle contest which is to take place at Philadelphia next year. All persons taking aninttrest in this matter should attend, when no doubt the pros and cons will be fully discussed, " "At th& AcUdemy of Musicthis evening' a soiree dansante will be given in aid of the funds of the Juvenile Foresters Court.; Tea will be on the table at six "o'clock. His Worship the Mayor will preside. Given a fine evening, we have no doubt the soiree will be well attended, as it affords an opportunity of r a., capital 'night's amusement atfa very low ;price. ; Moreover the object ib be be'nefitecKis one which will commend itself to all who take an interest in promoting the welfare of friendly societies, to which juvenile courts and lodges now form important auxiliaries in many parts of the world., -,

The first of a series of papers,on !'K.e.w Zealand Ais: It Is," by a special'cbrres-' pondent, appears in the Australasian of July 10. It is devoted to the City of Wellington, and gives some particulars of-the early'days of;'sejt.tlementAs^^ir;'aa".'! the;present conditipn/o/th>;xfe& These are to be^evoted to an i.ex.aniinat^Qn^ of the :66}giny$i$t<S£?:l&ofa^^6Mi^- experience of :?^^^poli^Jj>b^i;tDtMgtation-; land JpubiiGi:^; ;s|h|y;r: ;iv|ll contain men who :are ejitruafed^it^l^WMiKying out of vihafevpqlicT^ ins^t|a^eiiq€^^ Sir Julius the ancient ;:r^'ce;- m^^pwij^S^ay^^Cßie Australasian'^ ispii^j|g&j|^J^^ guarantee ;:iliat:ithe.£papeMl:will^SfeSinterestinff. %?3^|oiai^^ shipped to; >^ti^l|tns yes|er^ay-per Enterprise, four j^wi?e^ containing 4280;f cixm^s of gold. | to Qu£fi]ggfwVfnid that the |B^p^si^n^riin«^|bfJihiß Bank has S|]|o^^^i^^i^w]at£dr^erid of March, a |^||^^g|B^fe|)unces. 'fi^^^o^p^i^^oil^i which was * ex-; Sp^^^elp^^Gß^^i^in working .the I^l^^^^^^^^l^^^^-^We^fal •,: r items^ of.-j |||rKa&ei^ry;i;iKanii:/; general interest, 'though sent off at the usual time, did not reach our office untilfo* o'clock last-night, and some:aslate as-7i-o'clockl this"-morn--ing-^they.;ap.pear l ia^ur issujs, of _,tp-daj\ The, officials-af "sVme.slatidns-were^kepit%t work whole •nighk^-Tuere must also be a groat pressure of matter telegraphed to-day, as messages sent off at 10.35 this morning: were very late in reaching us.

A Home paper says:—Marriages of two sisters or two brothers on the same day and at the same church are often chronicled, and now-a-days it is very usu«l to see in the births, deaths, and marriages column, notices of these events occurring in Australia, with the addition, "By telegram," but probably a notice in the papers on the 24th ult. was unique in its way. It was of the marriage of two brothers .on the same day, the 22nd April, the one brother being married at Port Adelaide, South Australia, and the other at Huddersfield, Yorkshire. .

"In Silesia," says. Nature, "a new glass was : invented.a few days ago^ by Herren Lubish and Keiderer, in. Count Solm's' glass-works, Ahdreashiitte, Kiltschodorf, near Buhzlau. ■ This glass, which the inventors call' metal glass/ is so hard that when a pane lies on the ground and a -leaden ball of 40 grammes weight falls upon it from an elevation of 12 feet it receives not the slightest impression, nor is it in the least affected when dipped whilst red-hot into cold water. Window panes, lamp cylinders, and other articles made from this metal glass can therefore almost be denoted as unbreakable.

•-•" The following pqcurs in " Talk on 'Change" in the Australasian :~When the St. Osyth was last here—just the other day—there was a pleasant little luncheon on.board, at whic'a assisted a thoroughly patriotic and intensely national Scotchman. " From what part of Spotland mayv ye be, Captain M'JNabb ? " inquired he. " Well, sir," said the skipper, "I come from that part of Scotland called Belfast !" "Aye, aye," said the: disappointed inquirer. " Well—l just thought so." His voice wasn't heard again at that luncheon. ~ .

The following was telegraphed from Sandhurst to the Australasian on the Bth instant.—An outrage remarkable for cool audacity and heartless brutality, was perpetrated at about 3 o'clock this morning in the City Club Hotel, Mitchell street. At that hour two men, one of whom was masked, the other with a blackened face, gained an entrance to the place by going through Bathlane and scaling the gate, and at once proceeded to the bed chamber of Miss Clements, a barmaid employed at the hotel. They blew out thieHight they brought with them, seized the poor girl, who wasrin bed, gagged her, and cut off all her : hair close to the scalp. The ruffians then decamped, and made good their escape from the premises before JVliss Clements could arojaw the landlords She was noted for the possession, of a splendid head of hair; and the supposition is that some unscrupulous, woman, envious of her capillary wealth, planned and instigated the outrage, for the poor girl has not, to her knowledge, an enemy in the fiity. She cannot, she says, identify either of the ruffians, so that I fear Detective Alexander's efforts to trace them will be fruitless. No other violence was attempted. The assault is one of the most remarkable, as well as cruel,, that has happened here or elsewhere.

In a northern town of Tasmania, says ;JEgles, a clergyman, going his parochial rounds, had pcasion to pay a visit of condolence to one of'his "parishioners—a widow,, whose fourth husband had just departedrthis life. The*clergyman, endeavouring to console her in her bereavement, said amongst, other things, that "the hand of the Lord had been very heavy upon her," &c. "Ah! yes, sir," said the" widow ; " indeed, it has-been heavy upon me, but," brightening through her tears, "I keep pretty squarp, for as soon as he takes one, I take another!" She was preparing for her fifth.

The s.s. Taranaki from Southern Ports arrived at Onehunga this morning at 10.15 a.m. '.» *