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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2057, 7 August 1875, Page 2

We observe that the subject of Mr Cartwright's discouvseto-mbrrow evening will be " Incorruption and Immortality."

The author has forwarded to us a pamphlet on " Politics :,, a contribution to the Question of the Day. Beprinted from the Neve Zealand Herald, and respectfully dedicated to an intelligent public by a Provincialist." The brochure is published by Mr G. T. Chapman.

We are in receipt of the third number of The Saturday Advertiser, which is now' increased in size by four additional pages. The proprietors offer a prize of £10, open to the whple colony, for the best essay on " The Future of New Zealand,"

Yesteeday a Provincial Government Gazette was published. Notice is given that reentry has been made on the ground of the City of Dunedin Company at Tararu; the election of numerous District Boards, and chairmen of the same is notified. Notices under the Native Lands Act are published.

The Grahamstown Fire Brigade had their, usual weekly practice yesterday evening, part of which consisted in playing upon the roof of the Theatre Royal while the Airec Troupe entertainment was going on. Some of the audience seemed to imagine that a storm of unusual severity had burst upon the devoted town, and were beginning to speculate how it would be possible to reach their respective homes save in a semi-drowned state, ■when the deluge ceased, leaving them, we should think, proportionately grateful.

A telegram to the Eclio yesterday, from its Wellington correspondent, says : —" J. Sherwood, a supplementary clerk Of Parliament, punched the head of Mr John Gillon, editor of the Evening Post, within the precincts of the House last night."

We loam that Mr John McNaughton is much better to-day,.and that there is great hope of his recovery from his selfinflicted wounds. This morning he was quite sensible and able to speak, but he is Very weak from the loss of blood.

The Prince of Wales has been promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, and nobody grumbles at this addition to his titles; but if afield marshal is to be more than a shadow we. cannot quite content ourselves with his two companions, Sir J. Fitzgerald, who is 89 years of age, and the Marquis of Tweedalc, who is 88, both of whom take their staff as if to qualify them to cope with the last great enemy. As the spectator remarks, the rank should either be abolished or reserved for victorious generals.

Among the passengers Tost in the lamentable wreck of the Schiller (says a correspondent of the Scotsman) was Dr. Susan Dimock, of Boston, United States, perhaps the most distinguished of what may be termed the second generation of American women doctors. She was born about 1848, in Maryland, and in. 1866

entered the New England Hospital for Women and Children at Boston, and was for two years a fellow-student with Miss Jex Blake, under Dr. Lucy Sewell. Finding it impossible to secure a university education in America (for the University of Michigan had not then been opened to women), Miss Diinock went to Europe and studied for three years at Zurich, where she graduated with distinction in 1871. ,She then returned to Boston and received the appointment .of resident physician to the hospital for women, which she has ever since filled with great credit.