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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2060, 11 August 1875, Page 2

I The Bant of New Zealand shipped yesterday, per Hauralri, 2 boxes of gold, containing 1792 ounces. The Shortland Saw Mill Las: had 200 logs brought down to the booms in the Kauaeranga by the late rain fall. We have received from Mr «T. M. Meek copies of two cleverly executed pieces or writing. One is a Family Register of a very chaste and elaborate with spaces for. filling in births, deaths and marriages, and other family notes... The other plate is in the form of an allegorical tree,, illustrative of the Christian character. ';>JBotlx these writings display great cievcrness in design and execution. Mr. Meiek^has performed other works of a similar character during a long, residence ;in the colonies, all of., which have.been highly.sppken of by the Victorian'press, The specimens left at oui' office may he seen on application. Telegrams, in New Zealand are. sufficiently expensive, no matter when received ; they are more so to evening papers, who are required to pay what are termed day rates for allmessages which .are likely to be useful to^hemj^but as? lSng as these are interesting to the-public we'say biit little. :sWe do thi.nk it -hard,"•• however,-'thafc^the Press Agency should; "first telegraph to us a .detailed -accoSfei of thefParliam'^ntarydoings' ; at,Wellington, arid then a. precis of what they have already "telegraphed to us. We give .the longer account, as is our custom except when space-fails, leaving the reader to make his own precis if he be so disposed. . „ The monthly meeting of the Abbotsford Eoyal Arch Chapter was held last evening. Two candidates were exalted, after which the nomination of officers for the ensuing term of twelve months took place with satisfactory results. . Theeb was a muster for drill of the Thames Engineer Cadets yesterday evening in the Volunteer Hall, Shortland. The company mustered 29, including their officers, and were put through, their drill and exercises by Sergeant Major Grant, and the cadets and their friends may be congratulated on their efficiency, and also proud of the fact that this corps possesses in Sergeant Frearson the holder of the Belt, as ■Champion Cadet shot of the Colony. We wish that more of the youth of the Thames would join these cadet companies. The instruction they receive cannot fail to be beneficial to them, even though, as is to be hoped, they may never be called upon in after life to show their proficiency as soldiers, or prove in a'poetical manner the value of the instructions they havejreceiyed from Sergeant Major Grant., A meeting took place after the conclusion of the drill at which the yearly accounts were passed, and Lieut. JJargrove unanimously elected Captain vice Swales, who. has left the Thames, and Sergeant Brien Lieutenant vice. Bargroye promoted^

If dogs when indulging in thai faculty which we are assurred by the hymnology iof our childish day s they ought to take delight in (though it be wrong in children to fdHow- iheir example), are not pirfciffular what they bite, as;:]long as ythey bite something, nine specimens of tie quadruped canine must have experienced pleasant sensations about three o'clock this afternoon, at. the Exchange corner, where, with sundry growls and snarlings, many and sharp, each was endeavouring to gratify his own appetite, by acquiring a taste of some portion of his neighbour's hind quarters, apparently careless as to the party bitten, so long as to bite were possible. ..

It is painful to read, at frequent intervals, such appeals to the public as that contained in a letter of which the following is a copy, clipped from a local; contemporary:—-"To the Editor : Sir, — A poor widow lately bereaved of her husband, who shrinks from having her name paraded before the public, is in urgent need of two or three pounds at the present time. She does not seek it in the shape of charity, but has left a sewing machine with me to be raffled for —say twenty members at 2s 6d each, iffpw, not to mince matters, she and her poor children want bread. I'll take a share; who comes,next? Were I permitted to divulge her name, it would be easily proved that a more respectable woman does not live in Auckland. 1— Yours, &c, T. B. Hannaj-obd." Let any man read the foregoing paragraph— . inserted with the kindliest of intentions-— | and reflect what would be his feelings if it were possible for him to read a similar one written on behalf of any one dependent upon him—more especially were it a wife and little ones. Yet, for the trifle of from sixpence to a shilling per week invested in a life insurance policy, such, an indignity might be spared many a woman, while it would place her in funds to the amount of from £100 to £200. It is cruelly selfish—crirnirially careless on the: part of men, who, dependent upon the labour..j'pf ■ their hands from day to day, and unblessed with property or a permanent bank balan(se;;td falKU^makiiig ■'. provision,, in";; the manner $c f $ifve indicated,: fay! those who look to;them-f©r their daily bread. If there be one thingifor, which Mr r Vogel deserves unmeasured praiso' abbrV all others, it is the endeavour he has made | and: make easy and safe-ay system; £f life insurance.; ;There is^ no: excuse, in the face of the inducements, offered, either by the; Government Life Assurance: Department, or the Mutual Provident Society, for any man to expose either his wife or family to the indignity which is too frequently heaped upon those in poverty, to the tender; mercies of strangers, or the.painful necessity of craving and accepting public charity. If the men we refer to could only be made to feel for one short Tyeekthe anxieties and. heart-burnings of a woman with a family, leffc-penniless to battle with the. adversities; which poverty makes her portion, few of. them would neglect to make that provision which, even sixpence a-weekv will ensure under a life insurance> policy.—Herald; ' ■ ; i