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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2112, 11 October 1875, Page 2

We are informed that several telegrams have been received on the Thames during | the past week from Mr. J. Sheehan, M. H. It., stating that be will do all in his power to obtain justice for the Thames in the matter of representation. We learn that the Puketui G-.M.Co. will shortly have a crushing of five tons of stuff from their reef, at the Tairua Company's battery. The manager has been instructed to make arrangements for the same. Mbs Fletchek intimates that she has commenced the sale of pure milk at her establishment, Owen street, next Barnett and Levy's. Insekiion has been requested for the following : —Keceipts and Expenditure of Mrs. Pearse's Benefit. —By cash received for sale of tickets, £30 65.; ditto taken at doors, £18 13s;—-£4B 19s. Chargesmusic, £3 2s ; rent of theatre, £1; .gas, £2 2s 6d ; Evening Star account, £4; Thames Advertiser account, £1 3s; refreshments, 19s; carting, scene-shifter, bellman, &c, £l Is—£l3 7s 6d. Net proceeds of benefit, £35 11s 6d, In addi.tion to the above the following gentlemen have subscribed : — His Worship the Mayor, £1; L. Ehrenfried, 10s; D. Macnab, 10s; John Wilson, 10s; Captain Butt, 10s; J. Gibbons, 10s; F. C. Dean, 10s—£4. Total £39 11s 6d. Correct, Andrew Fleming. We have received a " Descriptive Catalogue of Pacific Coast shrubs and evergreen tree shrubs, collected and offered by Sonntag and Co., seed merchants, 614 [Merchant street, San Franci?co, California." This catalogue is descriptive of the many beautiful trees indigenous to the Pacific Slope, but capable of being propogated in mild climates such as .New | Zealand, and embraces also prices and terms of business. It is worth attention at the bands of nursery men and settlers who contemplate tree planting on a large scale. The Intelligent Vagrant has something more to say about "those boots, "andhe says it as follows :—" Enoch," (I do not mean the original character) is too much for me. As I related some weeks ago, the first time I tried to interchange sarcasm with him I got "the worst of it, and now he gets the better of me again by telling how he got the better of me before. He says :— " The New Zealand Times.—About those boots. An Intelligent Vagrant is perhaps not so hard up now as he used to be when in this poor province of Auek^nd. If he will be so kind a? to send us twelve and sixpence in stamp?, the amount shall be applied towards the expenses of our periodical. The conscience of " Intelligent Vagrant" will then be at rest upon one little matter at any rate. Really his nonchalance is astounding ! Suum cuique is a motto it would well become him and 'all others to observe, when they have ability." After this, it became evident to me that Enoch should get 12s 6d. Housed as I am in an old boiler, and depending for my subsistence upon charity in the shape of an odd mutton pie, the difficulty of my pecuniary position seemed insuperable. Great minds, however, rise with the occasion, and mine rose. I have sent Enoch my promise to pay in three months, and having a friend with a vote for the country districts, that best of men, and especial admirer of mine, E. T. Gillon, Esq., kindly backed my little bill. Thank heavens then that is paid, and off my mind. The Manaia, bearing the European-and American mails for the Thames, which arrived in Auckland on Saturday morning, did not reach Grahamstown until eight o'clock in the evening. Notwithstanding this the Postmaster obligingly had the mails sorted and delivered in the boxes and at the windows to those who applied for their letters. This disposition on the part of the Postmaster to meet the wishes of the public deserves recognition. Being Saturday, if the mail had not been sorted and delivered at once, persons would have been kept waiting for nearly 48 hours for their letters, Sunday work in the Post Office being prohibited. The Coromandel Mail has the following Snyderian paragraph in its leading columns:—"We think the present time opportune to apprise Ministers that if they have any lucrative opening for a middle-aged man of about fifteen stone ten and of prepossessing appearance, and do not know of such an individual,'we at least do in the person of ourselves We have no objection as to the nature of the appointment so long as it is pleasant, light and airy, and to which good fees are attached. We shouldn't mind driving a government watering cart, with an assistant to do the pumping. This kind of service would only require to be performed in fine weather, while nothing need stand in the way of his receiving his pay in weather that was wet and moist, and went into the watering cart business on its own account." The Saturday Advertiser says of the Coromandel Mail that it is likely to become the Danbury News ot New Zealand. The Boston Herald tells this :—" The day following our centennial festivities the following incident occurred in a Southend saloon: A friend had invited one of the South Carolina soldiers into the saloon to put another turf on the buried hatchet. While standing at the bar a stranger came in. The Carolinian suddenlydropped his glass and closely eyed the stranger. His gaze was so steady and peculiar that the friend began to get alarmed, and to fear that the hatchet was about to be dug up again. The Carolinian asked the stranger if he knew him. There was no recognition, whereupon the Carolinian asked him if he was not in the late war. ' Yes,' was the reply. * Aud

you were onoe stationed at suck a place?' ' Yes.' 'And took part in such a skirmish P' 'Yes.' 'Well, I thought so,' replied the Carolinian, and raising his hat, showed a large scar on his forehead, saying, • There's your sabre mark, my boy; come up and take a drink.' "