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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2106, 4 October 1875, Page 2

We learn that His Worship the Mayor has telegraphed to Dr Pollen, Sir Donald McLean, Sir George Grey and Mr Charles O'JNeill, informing them that the new Bepresentation Bill has been received with much disfavor on the Thames. It is on the cards that a public meeting will be called to express an opinion on this question.

A competition for the rifle given by Captain Hazard took place on Saturday j between the Engineer aud Thames Scottish Cadets, the winner being | Lieutenant Freerson, of ihe Engineers, with a score of 43 out of a possible 60 at 100, 200 and 300 yards. The Engineers also took second honors in the person of Cadet JSegus, with a score of 41. The rifle ihus becomes the property of Freerson, he having now won it three times. In addition he holds the Cadet Champion Belt for the Colony, and seems to shape well for being " champion" shot some day. Eugene and Madame Beda gave an entertainment of a diverse character at the Academy of Music on Saturday night last, the chief feature of which consisted in the feats of Eugene Beda on the flying trapeze. Beda, who, was formerly renowned in these sort of exhibitions has but one leg. having unfortunately lost the other through an accident which occurred to him in»Dunedin. The loss, however,' does not seem to have impaired; his skill on the flying trapeze, while it renders the performance more extraordinary. One part alone is well worth going to see, namely, that where' ..lie goes irom one trapeze to the other, and in returning reverses the order of things by catching the trapeze he has just-relin-quished by his one leg instead of his hands, and swinging thereby head downwards. Madame Beda sang several songs, and was generally encored. She also performed the sword dance in a way to elicit the sime demand, and Eugene Beda both-1 sang, danced, and rode on the velocipede to the evident satisfaction of the audience. Another entertainment will take place to-night.

A small brochure lias just been issued from the establishment of the New Zealand Herald giving some information on the Waiwera or Hot Springs, with numerous testimonials as to their curative properties in cases of rheumatic; gout, neuralgia, sciatica, arid other painful disorders. These springs, with the hotel for convenient of visitors, are the pr<> perty of Mr .Robert Graham, and we feel sure that the interesting particulars comprised within the pages of the small pamphlet under notice require only to be letter known to ensure the advantages of the springs being more generally appreciated. The accommodation provided is highly spoken of, and it embraces every convenience for visitors, including means of amusement. The pamphlet is published gratuitously, and we have no doubt that in time the Waiwera will become a favorite resort for invalids suffering from confirmed nervous disorders, and those affections which are proved to be remediable by a course of mineral waters. In time the Waiwera will'doubtless become a sanatorium of high repute.-

An extraordinary outrage upon a Peruvian newspaper editor is reported. The editor in question, Castro Hamos by name, and residing at Iquique, was severely beaten by a police-inspector and two constables, and an attempt was made to make him swallow his newspaper, which contained articles obnoxious to the police. The inspector afterwards- shot the editor in the stomach. By the last accounts he was not expected to live, and the inspector was in custody.

The following paragraph throws a little light on a telegram recently published, in which we were informed that a person named-Gampbell 4iad-been committed for trial for obtaining money by false pretences from the JNVZ.S.S. Company:—"A man named Campbell, said to be respectably connected, was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, charged with defrauding the N.Z.S.S. Company of £60. A bos belonging to him had been lost from one of the company's steamers, and Campbell represented that it contained articles of great value, and succeeded in getting £60 from the company by way of compensation. A day or two ago the box turned up, and, on being opened, was found only to contain articles of wearing apparel of. very little value; whereupon the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company instructed their solicitor to take steps to prosecute Campbell for fraud."

A stoky is circulating which tells how a fair young lady went to a drug store, and told the man to fix her up a dose of castor oil, and to mix it with something to take the taste away. The man told her to wait. In a few moments he asked her if she felt like taking a glass o? soda water. Bhe accepted the invitation, and drank the beverage. Presently she asked the roller of piLs why he did not give her the castor oil. The man smiled a triumphant smile, and said, '• Madam, you have taken it. I mixed a fearful dose with that soda." She turned pale ; she sank into a chair; she gasped, "Immortal Jove; It was for my mother."