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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2105, 2 October 1875, Page 2

John Gibbons and those gentlemen who have been on a visit to Ohinemuri re battery requirements returned to-day in the new steamer Transit, which made the passage in capital time. We learn that the Hibernian Society have subscribed £5 to the funds of the Thames Hospital. We do not know whether the editor of the Echo was among the number of spectators who witnessed " Caste " played' here about a fortnight ago; it is just possible that he was, and also that he was struck by the somewhat radical ideas of papa Eccles. If not the following extract from the Echo's leader of Thursday shows that Eccles is by no means singular in his proletarian views:—" George Augustus Constanline Phipps has yet, it seems, to learn we place very little store on patents of nobility in these colonies: ' The rank is but the guinea's stamp, A man's a man for a' that.'" It is to the Marquis of JN^orraanby, and not to his grandchild that the writer in the Echo alludes. The old-established Fire Brigade in Dunedin having been disbanded, the City Council have set themselves the task of organising a new one, and the following propositions have been submitted as the basis on which thd new brigade should bo formed: —"The Corporation to provide plant and pay for repairs and maintenance. £500 per annum to be expended by Council to cover all other expenses, surplus to form life and accident fund; Mayor to be one of the trustees of the fund 3 the £200 received from insurance companies forming part of the above-mentioned £500. Brigade to consist of 40 members inclusive of officers. All voluntary subscriptions to be dealt with by the brigade. In the event of a disbandment, all accumulated funds from Corporation contributions to remain the property of the Corporation, j Periodical statements of expenditure to be furnished and audited by the City Auditors. Negotiations are pending with the Government for the life insurance of members during membership. A contingent of 15 members residing: north of Octagon to form the Kortli Dunedin sub- I division, with power to elect their own foreman, these 15 men being portion of the total of 40. Captain and all other officers to be chosen by the Brigade as a whole, the Brigade having the option of I requesting the Council to appoint a captain. Should a paid captain be appointed, his salary not to be paid out of the £500 j already mentioned. The Brigade to make I 1 their own rules, if not inconsistent with , the foregoing. A majority of three-fourths lof the members necessary to carry a ! motion for disbandment."

A. COEEESPONDBNT furnished the following arithmetical problem to the Cross yesterday, and commends it to the Good Templars. If any member of the order Trill work it out we will insert the result in a future issue:—Walking up Queen street, I strolled into a public-house, and I borrowed from the landlord as much money as I had in my pocket, and for his kindness I spent a shilling. Leaving this, I went into three others, in turn, each time borrowing as much money as I had in my pocket, and spending a shilling for their kindness. When I left the fourth public-house I had nothing in my 'pocket —how much had I when I went into the first public-house ?