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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2058, 9 August 1875, Page 2

The manager of the Tairua Company's mine reports that he has cut the reef in a drive from No. 2 shaft, and that several dishes of stuff were washed giving each about a quarter of a pennyweight of gold —the stone looking well. The Advertiser's correspondent reports a quarter of an ounce of gold to the dish. A letter from our Tairua correspondent was received this afternoon too late for insertion in to-day's issue. The wretched state of the weather today had a perceptible influence on business, and the streets presented the deserted appearance peculiar to very wet j days. As the change of the moon look i place to«day, and from general indications we are inclined to think that the wet weather will last longer than is desirable. The authorities of our banks in New Zealand seem to be strong believers in the benefits of a change of scene as applied to their cfficials. We have had already several conrig and going a 1 most at a minute's notice, and the cry is still " they come" and echo answers, "and go." Mr Butler, we hear, leaves the Bank of Nevr Zealand this week, and is replaced by Mr Hume, and Mr Lodge, of the Bank of New South Wales and Dolly Spanker notoriety, is to make .bis reappearance in connection with the " -National." As announced by the Rev. V. Lush yesterday, the Eight Rev. the Bishop of Auckland w.;'l preach on Sunday mo.-ning next in St. George's Church, and hold a j Confirmation of candidates in the evening. The work of st-engthening the church has been commenced, and when finished will, it is expected, be sufficient to nllay all fears as to the safety of the edifice itself. In the week's gold returns which appeared in Saturday's issue an error occurred. The Tookey crushing (Work's Tribute) appeared as 16 ounces 13 dwts. It should hive been 50 ounces 3 dwts. Ik a recent issue of the Taranaki Budget we find the following:—" Telegrams received to-day by Mr F. U. Gledhill as to the state of the butter market in other 6rovinces are as follows: —Christchurch— fnsaleable. Dunedin — Over-stocked. Auckland—Market glutted at Is per lb." In spite of this butter is still retailed on the Thames at 2s per lb—that is lalt butter.

,i, We learn that in consequence of the recent agreement come to by the different banks as to terms of business, rates of discount and price of gold—the pricoef the Queen of Beauty gold has been so much reduced that the shareholders hare determined to hold the'last fortnight's yield, with a- view to shipping it on their own account. They will not therefore declare a dividend this week.

The Airec Troupe gave the second of their evening entertainments on Saturday, to a large house, the pit being crowded, lud the gallery fairly filled. Airec hiai- , self undoubtedly surpassed his performances of the previous night .both ianeatness of execution and daring, and was the main stay of the performance. Professor Jacobs was not quite so successful with his tricks as on the previous evening, and there seemed a diversity. of\opinion among the audience as to the excellence ! of Mr Alexander's impersonationr; we hardly think, however, that the cat-calls and shrieks of a few could warrant him in considering himself hined^and perhaps it woujd hay» beou better if' his remarks thereon jhad been Jeft <jbnsaid. The boneless sprite manifejtfd an extraordinary absence of backbone, and the rest of the performa^e^ft|:,ithe same as on the I previous evening." "v To-night Madame Airec appear*, and is, so said professor Jacobs, to bejwspencled .in the air without borrow-'froiri the Police Court—any risible means'of Support.''"'

Theke was a luuar rainbow -visilile last night, but the pheno.i enon was neither as perfect nor aa brilliant as we have seen it before.

At the Bodmin Town Council meeting on Monday (says an English paper) Mr Kichard Philp, a member,of the body, died very suddenly. Having been called to order for his language to the Council he became terribly excited, and after speaking a short time was seized with a fit and died within a few minutes.

A whiter in the London Lancet says that a great deal of hacking and hemming and coughing in invalids is purely nervous or the result of mere habit, as is shown by the frequency with which it occurs wMlc the patient is thinking about it, and its comparative raiity when he is so much engaged that there is no time to think, or when the attention is impelled in another direction.

Many of our reader* will recollect Captain Beveridge, about six years ago pilot at Hokianga. It will not be forgotton how he boarded the brig Cantero (the present hulk of that name), which had been abandoned by her crew oft" the harbor of that place, and bringing her on to Auckland, claimed and obtained £200 salvage at the expense of his billet, the duties of which had been neglected in the transaction. Then Captain Beveridge was known in Auckland for some time. He tried to float two or three companies, and tried his band at sharebroking. But ho was a restless spirit and met with scant success. Ho obtained, considerable fame as a preserver of humanlife.- Several times were his exertions successful in rescuing a fellow-creature from a watery grave, and he had the medal of the Humane Society presented him in acknowledgment of these services. Then he went homo and was lost sight of. We now hear through Captain Macfarline of the'B.«. Taupo, that the man who saved so many from drowning has met that fate himself. While in London Captain Beveridge obtained the command of a vessel trading to Florida for. timber. The vessel left her port for England eighteen months ago, and has never since been heard of. There is no doubt she has been lost at sea. The captain was one r of those adventurous restless spirits who never do much good for thomselvesV but whose lives are invested with a halo of romance which ,is to a certain extent attractive.—Auckland Star. v

A beplohable . tale of juvenile deprarity was told at the Borough Police Court, Liverpool, in connection with a charge against a girl twelve years of age of being drunk. The precocious inebriate had got three shillings from her father to redeem a pair of clogs that were in pawn, but the money was spent instead in rum, whiskey, and beer, which were shared by the prisoner with four other girls. The chief offender was found helplessly drunk in Scotland-road, and, on being taken home to her mother, that guardian of her morals was indulging in a debauch with several of her neighbours. The magistrate declined to punish the girl, contenting himself with advising tbe father, who was present, to admonish her severely.—Homo News.

The Protestant Standard (Sydney) of July 17 contains voluminous reports of the celebration of the "Glorious Twelfth" in New South Wales. In Sydney there was an afternoon service on Sunday the 11th, in the Exhibition Building, which 8000 people arc said to have attended. On the following day there was a grand concert in the same building, speeches by Ministers and a procession of the brethren in regalia, the attendance at the concert being even greater than on ;the previous day. At, Newcastle, Bathurst and other large towns the celebration seems to have been undertaken with much enthusiasm.