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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2136, 8 November 1875, Page 2

A dividend of seven shilling and sixpence in the City of London is declared payable on Saturday next.

The second anniversary of Prince of Wales Lodge No. 20, Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, will be celebrated by a soiree, concert and dance to-morrow evening in St. George's Hall. Tea will be provided at 6.30 p.m. The Rev. J. Hill will preside. A large company is expected.

To-mobeow will be a general holiday, and if .fine—winch, all most devoutly wish, for various ways are devised and attractions offered to make the day as pleasant as possible to many-^-athlectics may be witnessed at Parawai, and several prizes* are offered for walking matches and foot races, as well as a hack race for equestrians present, while, to induce novices to try their pedestrian powers, a. maiden race (open to all who have never won public money) is announced. Tararu Gardens hold out the tempting offer of strawberries and cream —the first of the season—-to be partaken of in this way, and a select band will attend on the lovers of the dance. All cricketers are invited to play at Parawai in a pick-up game, not necessarily, we hear, limited to eleven aside, so as to allow all an opportunity of playing. It would be as well though jf intending players were to give in their names to the secretary of the Thames Cricket Club, or leave them at Waller's some time to-day. The Naval Brigade celebrate the occasion by a picnic, and excursions" on a smaller scale will also take place if the weather be propitious.

A cobeespondent writing to the Grey River Argus on the Natal goldfield, says that a man named Livingstone, one of the pioneers of Try-again Terrace, actually took 82 ounces of gold from his claim, and there were only three shareholders to divide it amongst. • The yield the week previous came to 400z., while the average weekly return was between 20oz. and 30 oz. These magnificent results had been obtained for some time, and there were six months' work still to be dona in tie claim before it was finished, while

there was no reason to suppose the returns would diminish. There were 10 or 12 claims paying besides this on the creek, while one or two had been, and were, even better.

A Pubibi correspondent writes :—A meeting of settlers and others is convened for next week to consider several matters, amongst them to request the Superintentendent to authorise some assistance ,bcing v given to Mr Gallagher in repairing the" road, and to bridge the main creek. Mr Gallagher has arrived with a punt load of machinery. His party have been pushing ahead with their work in spite of the bad weather. ».J!he track near Smith's is in a dreadful state. Attention to this matter is urgently needed, but although it has been brought under notice nothing isdoneto-mendinffitters."- > ■■■■■■.<

A DisGBACEFUL outrage,-say s an English.! paper of a recent date, was perpetrated upon the wife of a butcher at Hammer-smith-lately". .According to rumour, she eloped some time, ago -with a "man in her husband's employ, leaving her children, amongst whom was a baby only a few weeks old. Her conduct aroused the indignation of the neighbours, and when the woman called at her husband's shop and asked for money, which he refused to give, a mob of. roughs—men and women—assembled; forcibly entered the shop, dragged the woman out, and amidst language of the foulest character and fiendish yells, dashed her to the ground, tore her clothes from off her, and, whilst thus lying in a state of nudity, some of the women cut and tore the hair from her head, whilst the rest kicked, scratched, and belaboured the poor creatdrd in' a most fearful manner. Her appeals for mercy were unheeded, but she managed to escape from her assailants for a time and, covered with blood, took refuge in a public-house. Having obtained the loan of an old dress, the woman left with the supposed intention of making towards the Shafts bury-road, where she lived, when the hooting and yelling mob took up the chase, and ran her into the eatrace of the Shaftsbury-road Station of the London and South Western Railway, where she sank on the steps exhausted. Then they seized her again, dragged her into the roadway, tore off the dress, and kicked and illused her until the arrival of the police, when she was found in a frightful condition, and removed to a place of safety.

A catjtion to ypung r men (says the Evening Post) not to trifle-with the affections of the fair sex was duly administered by the mother of a young lady of this town to a young man, who for the paat few months has been acting a deceitful parfc, and when questioned by the father confessed that he was only joking. It appears that during the intimacy of the young people an evening was now. and again spent in music and singing, and several pieces of music belonging to the young man were left at the house of the young lady. After the rupture had taken place, he appears to have wished to become possessed of these stray sheets again, and with that object in view repaired to the scene of his former visits. As this visit was partly anticipated by the lady of the house, and as there had evidently been deception practised by the young man, it was felt that a good whipping "was the most appropriate chastisement to inflict on the culprit. A whip was provided, the lady of the house was at home when he called, he was invited in, and there and then received such a whipping as, it is to be hoped, will work a reformation in his conduct.

I suppose the authorities are not aware (says the Marybordugh correspondent of a Brisbane paper) that Kanakas are sold by auction at regular stated periods-at Sandwich. Yet such a fact is openly stated here. A batch of 53 were the last lot disposed of. They realised from £3 to £5 a-head. The auctioneer expatiates on the good quality of the nigger under offer, exposes his muscles, and compels him to run a distance of 100 yds , to prove that he is sound in wmd and limb.. These boys are obtained by unlicensed vessels from the neighbouring islands, brought into Havannah, and transferred, as I have described, to licensed vessels running to Fiji.

The London correspondent of the Argus writes:—There is great controversy going on as to the use of the " ladies' carriage "—that is, the carriage reserved upon all our railways expressly for the fair sex, but which they will not patronise. "A Young Lady" frankly states her reasons for not doing so. "We don't like them—they are dull and unpleasant. Though never entering into conversation myself," she writes,." I have often been greatly amused, yes, and instructed, by the conversation of gentlemen in railway carriages; whereas ladies,- as a:rule, talk of nothing but private matters, which, of course, cannot interest a stranger. Men and women were meant to go through life together," she adds, "and to separate them is a poor way of getting over any difficulty there may be." As for people insulting one, " you might just as well put all men carrying anything valuable into carriages by themselvfis for fear of thieves." I think if Colonel Baker had met this young lady he would have had to get on to the step himself, and had his eyes scratched out to boot.

Gents' Clothes, and every description of Dyeing aad. Cleaning done on the shortest possible, notice at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, corner of Rolleston and Richmond streets.—Advt.