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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2053, 3 August 1875, Page 2

The Clerk of the District Court attended at the Grahamstown Court House to-day and formally, opened the Court, but, in consequence of the death of judge Beckham, adjourned, the sitting till Tuesday, 17th August. Suitors and juror* who should have appeared;to-day are expected to attend on the next sitting day.

The next quarterly meeting of the Licensing-Commissioners for the district of Thames and Hauraki will be held at tbe Shortland Court '■- House on Tuesday ; i 7th September,;fqr,hearing >n^d. deciding 'uport^ishe'usual licensing busfiness;*^ "

We have received from, the Government Printer parliamentary papers on Immigration, vAffent-Generars Department, Four Million Loan, &c.; Major Palmer's Report on ; the ■ surveys of the Colony; Intercolonial Reciprocity, Report* on Land Purchases, Mail Services, and others, and Part I Parliamentajry Debates. '■ /■'■ : ''" V --.- ' : ■':/'•'_.-' '■ ' '■■'■, -_■

We are requested to draw the attention of the brethren of the Sir Waiter Scoit •Lodge "to' tiro alteration in the time at which, their emergency meeting will be held this evening, hal&past eight being substituted for the original time.

Tjib University of Oxford has conferred the degree of D.C.L. on Sir G Bowen, M. A, late fellow of Brasen lege, and (xovernor of Vi

Some ladies were out to-day collecting subscriptions for the Ladies' Benevolent Society, the funds of which have been for some time at a low ebb. "The importunate collectors were very successful in i their canvass,"Jiaving collected about £20. J