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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2152, 26 November 1875, Page 2

At a meeting of the creditors of the Bright Smile Company held this morning, at the Pacific Hotel, it was resolved that Messrs Bowe, Eenshaw^ and Watson, should inspect the pumping appliances, &c, of the Bright Smile, and fix the price at which they should be offered; also that the same three gentlemen should represent the unsecured creditors at the meeting to be held to-night at the Pacific Hotel. Failing satisfactory arrangements being mad© with the associated mines, the creditors, we understand, will most likely take steps to carry on the mine themselves, and that two thirds of the required number of shares would be immediately subscribed for.

Captain Best, harbour master, informs us that a heavy gale may be expected from between northwest and. south.

The Eev. B. T. Dudley, of St Sepulchre's, Auckland, will officiate morning and evening, at St George's Church- on Sunday next.

We are requested to remind members of the No. 2 H.E.V. that their monthly inspection will take place this evening. A number of volunteer notices appear in our advertising columns, to which attention is directed.

We would call the attention of the members of the Licensed Victuallers Association to an advertisement of an extraordinary meeting of the Association, to be held on Tuesday, the 30th instant, and not the 27th, as would appear from this morning's paper.

An exchange says: —"It is to be observed of a regular advertiser that he is a man who is pretty sure to be prosperous in business, generally stands A 1 among his neighbours; always wears a clean shirt; never parts his hair in the middle; never postpones his pew rent until the last quarter day, and when he dies succeeds in being buried in a first-class rosewood coffin with satin linings and a handsome silver door plate without provoking a riot among his heirs.

The efforts which hare been made during the last few months to establish a ladies' college, or superior school for girls on the Thames, are, we learn, likely, to be crowned with success. The promoters have had an arduous task before them, but having succeeded in overcoming the obstacles which surrounded the initiation of the scheme, there is reason to hope that a practical beginning—the opening of the school—will soon be an accomplished fact. After many meetings and much deliberation the committee find that they have upwards of £100 in subscriptions, with promises of more ; a collection of goods as donations (which will be disposed of at auction by Mr Binney to-morrow), and a number of hearty sympathisers will yet render good service in assisting to start the school, an admittedly urgent want. . "We are informed that in a short time we may expect to see the school or college i opened, as it is hoped the sum required to be in hand before incurring the responsibility of engaging teachers and procuring furniture will be made up. The successful opening of the school will be hailed with satisfaction. ' ■ •

A correspondent sends the following to the Tuapeka Times :—A rather peculiar circumstance occurred in my stable this morning. A duck found "its way into an empty loose-box, and, I suppose, to gain a more extensive range of vision, settled in the partition between two neighboring boxes, in one of which my horse was standing. The horse, though young and given to shyness occasionally, is quiet and even affectionate in his ways. Seeing something unusual, he proceeded to examine the two-footed stranger, and began smelling him and touching him with his lips for some time, and finally took hold of the duck by the bill and shook him violently, much as a dog would in worrying a cat, the duck struggling and flapping the while. At length, with a great shake, he threw the duck from him into his feed-box. On examining the duck, it was found that fully the first half of the bill and a portion of the tongue had been bitten through. The horse sucked the morsel for some tirfcie, but apparently being able to make nothing of it, shook it out of his mouth. The strange part of this to me is how the horse remained so quiet all the time the duck was flapping so wildly.

The following, from the Scientific American, may be useful at this season of the year :—"lf mosquitoes or other blood-suckers infest our sleepiug rooms at night, we uncork a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal, and these animals leave in great haste, nor will they return so long as the air in the room is loaded with the fumes of that aromatic herb. If rats enter the celler, a little powdered potash thrown into their holes or mixed with meal and scattered in their runways never fails to drive them away. Cayenne pepper will keep the buttery and storeroom free from ants and cockroaches. If a mouse makes an entrance into any part of your dwellings, saturate a rag with cayenne, in solution, and stuff it into the hole, which can be repaired with either wood or mortar. No rat or mouse will eat that rag for the purpose of opening cominunieatipu with a depot ofsupplies,2' '

A good story is related by tho Mount Alexander Mail (Oastlemaine, Victoria,), the incident happening not a hundred miles from Jhejofficejbt; that paper.' Some ladfoa who.'^ere desirous of imitating Royalty when it doscehded some of the 'deep mines in Cornwall, betook themselves to one of our deepest mines, the descent to which may be made by a cage, the old laddSrs being leftrfor,any occasional emergency^ Aftiar the various levels had been duly explorcdi-the fair visitors eyed the disused ladders, and-the gallant manager explained the labor and danger of the past to the present modes of exit from | the shaft, and good-naturedly offered a new silk dress to any of the ladies present who would be daring enough to reach the 200 feet level by this mode. One of the fair ones immediately accepted the offer, and was soon at the top to claim her reward, much to the chagrin of the manager, who expressed an opinion that if the offer had been capped with a new bonnet, some of the ladies would have ventured the 500 perpendicular feet.

Another claimant for the hand of the Princess Beatrice (says a Californian exchange) has appeared upon the scene, in the person of the penniless Prince Thomas of the House of Savoy. The young bucks all know that John. Bull will give her an enormous dowry, as being the last of the Princesses, and be glad to have the thing over.

A resident at Stawell was a good deal surprised (writes the Pleasant Creek News) at unexpectedly stx-iking gold while engaged in the consumption of his dinner a few days since. While disposing of some very good sausages his teeth encountered , something hard. Hastily taking it from his mouth, be found it to be a small piece of quartz, and a closer inspection showed gold plainly. How the little specimen got into the chopping machine is a mystery, and although the finder went and purchased the entire stock of sausages, causing quite, a rise in th& price of that article, he has found no more gold.

The Wairarapa Standard says :—To all appearance it will soon be as difficult to obtain a candidate in favour of Provincialism as to find a newspaper supporting it. And what we asked in our last, leader and should now like to know is, how the Provincialist leaders propose to remedy such a state of affairs ?

Gents' Clothes, and. every description of Dyeing and Cleaning done on the shortest possible notice at the Thames Dyeing Kstablishment, Corner of Eolleston and Eichmond streets.—Advt.

Among the tenders opened at a recent meeting of the Christchurch City Council was one worded as follows:—"In the cause of piety, and the fervent hope of assisting to improve the morality of the Council, we beg to tender to supply any quantity of Moody and Sankey's hymns at two shillings per dozen." It is needless to say the'tender was not accepted.