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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2148, 22 November 1875, Page 2

A telegbam has been received by Messrs Souter and Co., stating that the HauraK would start for the Thames at one o'clock to day. She will leave again for Auckland at seven this evening, and not at 4 as previously advertised.

Theke was a clean sheet at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day.

We learn that a, telegram has been received from the Defence Office stating that the regulation for the Colonial Prize Firing fixing the size of the bull's-eye at the 200 yards range at eight inches square is an error, which has- been rectified by circular issued by order of the Defence Minister. The size of the bull's-eye will be two feet by one foot. No alteration is made in the regulation which fixes the 200 yards position to be standing.

We have heard that a number of the Natives are. talking about asking the Government for compensation for loss of time and expenses incurred in attending the Native Lands' Court, only to find that the Blocks in which they are interested are withdrawn from investigation. We are quite satisfied these Maories will ask if they think they have the slightest chance of getting anything.

Rumour, says the Cross, says that among electioneering probabilities are these : Sir George Grey to be run for the Thames, in conjunction with Mr W. Rowe on the Opposition ticket; Mr Swansonto take Sir George's place in City West; and .Mr Sheehan quietly to step into the shoes which, in that event, Mr Swanson would leave behind him in the Newton District. That is the ] rumor ; for its accuracy we vouch nothing, because we nothing know —only that if the course of this move run smoothly, the Opposition would effect a gain of two seats.

We would remind all play-goers and lovers of* good singing that Mr DeLias opens a short season at the Academy of Music to-nighfax We shall have Mr Collier and. Mr Ppole among us again, with Miss Clara Stephenson, renowned in burlesque, and Miss Lizzie Morgan, whose last appearance here was so successful. Miss Emma Eogers, Miss Patty Holt, Mr and MrsChas Searle, and others well-known at the Thames will also appear. The pieces chosen for to-night are "Aline, or the Ebse of Killarney," and the Burlesque of "Lurline, or the Nymphs of the Lurleyburg." Under Mr Collier each piece will most probably be worthily produced, and the comfortable arrangements of the Academy will enable all to enjoy the pieces thoroughly.

"We learn that the Bank of New Zealand after the 30th of this month will be changed from the position of an agency to that of a branch establishment.

The correspondent of The Times who, with the Duke of Edinburgh, visited.the famous Nijni-Novgorod fair.has been convinced by what he saw and heard that the feeling of ."Russian merchants generally towards Great Britain is one of sincere regard ; and that, assembled as these merchants are from all parts of the Russian Empire, their opinions may be fairly regarded "as an index of the general state of feeling* bf-i the commercial classes throughout the Empire." These merchants, regarding the commercial interests of the two nations as identical, and admiring the freedom and extent of British trades and industries, earnestly desire, he says, the establishment of closer relations with Great Britain, and pay homage to the Duke of Edinburgh, not simply because he is the son-in-law of the Czar, but also because he is an English Prince.

A.citkious circumstance is reported in London, namely, the" discovery.in a house in Great Peter-street of a sideboard, a bookcase, and an iron chest } which were made by Peter the Great when he was living as a workman in this country. The London Gazette of February 9lb, 1698, describes these articles, which are said to have remained where the Czar left them, and as he left them, since that time.- Latterly they have been considered rather in the light of lumber; but having been seen by M. Stanislaus, a Pole, they have now become the property of a Russian nobleman, Gregoire Tschertkoff, who intends presenting them to the Emperor of Russia, in order that they may be placed among other relics of Peter the Great at. Moscow.