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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2524, 7 February 1877, Page 2

After the usual weekly drill of the Thames Engineer cadets last night the annual financial meeting of the company was held, and the annual balance sheet was submitted. It showed a very satis* factory state of affairs, the company having no liabilities and a cash balance of-£7 17s 6d to its credit in the Bank of New South Wales.

The children attending the Roman Catholic Schools at the Thames met this morning at S. Joseph's School, Willoughby street, previous to proceeding to .Tarajru to enjoy a tiay's holiday, with the jisual 'accessories of games and ample provisions for their wants, in the shape of cakes, buns, tea, and those sorts of good things Which are usually provided on suchoccasions. At* 10, o'clock they were formed into, a procession to the number of about 400,-' exclusive of teachers, • and' headed by the band of the Hibernian Society marched down Pollen street and Albert street, to tbe terminus of the Ttr!mlrayTw^Th¥ wgirls^nlrched K firui, and the boys, followed; the Rev Father Chastagnon- accompanying > ' the . procession, ouhqrsebapk,;,,,,Arrived at the.. tramway they were placed in the carriages provided fovfithem', ] and proceeded to Tararu, where we doubt not they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

It is with pleasure that we record that Mr Maberly, late head-master of the Shellback School, is making great pro? gress at his new appointment at Gisborne* We ]earn from a local journal that since Mr Maberly. has taken the management of the school, not only has .tbe discipline of the»sc!liooi improved, but the number of scholars been doubled. Votes of tbanks were passed to Mr and Mrs . Maberly for the labour they had bestowed on their pupils at a recent general annual meeting of the Gisborne ratepayers. I ,■> % ■■ r. i*■ . *■ *? i ' Undeb the heading,)" Dramatic Glean-; ings," the Otago Daily Times hasv^he following:—" And now they exhibit a man at Barnum's Centennial Exposition said to be the greatest wonder of the age—ofcourse;r The lojogiißaffering'public is in-; formed that 7,000,000 pinholes have beenj punctured into his flesh, and that each! ! pinhole b.K>ughfc'r forth HaTtear of pain.l 7,000,000 tears ! He is a Count, and wasj captured by■>the Tartars; For. three, months the poor wretch was tortured! with hours of pinholing and friction with; indigo. i*H> is now rapidly amassing aj fortune by exhibiting himself in a state) of nature in front of a stove." :

The Auckland correspondent of .thej ©tago^Daily .Timieslis Mell! kiiowktoAe; a gentleman who is in the confidence, of j Sir George Grey>,,?nd is himself thej staunchest of staunch Provincirlists.! When-he, tberefore,,telegraphsr that Sir; George Grey is not going Home, and; that the people of Auckland do not caret about the matter, it isyery: eyident: that; the game of Provincialism is played out] in Auckland, and*4hat the 80,000 people! of whom Sir George Grey was always! felking have, by'^experience, become; Reconciled.to the loss of their birthrights,! and to the state of serfdom which, | amongst other wrCcJngaJatid WT&{\ Sir George j| declared was their lot on the abolition ofj Provincial institutions. — Grey Biver • Argus/ O \"\l~A*yA'ii iL3'( ir;.y. A-.R"i' j

The following extraordinary paragraph! appears in the ETew, Zealancl,.Times pfvthe: sth instant:— i(The^fsf ing of '\ the Peace for Dunedin will in future be -, taken by Mr J. N. Watt, ihe i §uprea>e Court."' -^na 3a!Nelsbn"paper; asks, :c C: n such things be? " Is it possible I ibat Justices—the unpajdrr^will; have to undergo an J examination" Before ■ they can take a seat upon the Bench ? If so we can imagine some Qi- the questions. would beitW'ilie'following effect:—What's] year fighting weight ? Are you married,; ■atil if so how much would you give to be ; s' igle? Does your wife allow you to have .a-jlatch -ke^P How many mghts per-week ; are you home before midnight P etc, elc. :, If such is not the purport^ the ques-1 tions put «b;efpife^th'e f'ipaisiiiflg," the New Zealand Times will kindly ex-, plain the subjects on which Justices must prove their proficiency, before the-great J. JN". Watt, Sheriff of the Supreme Court, allows them the privilege of dispensing justice in-Umi^Bd^dose.s; "A'A;.^'<

A good story is told of one of the candidates for the representatipn T of Napier. Some months ago a subscription was set on foot for the purchase of a fire engine, and this candidate was asked t^nutJiis name on the list.; "This' liel refused, saying "I have no interest in the town ; my house is perfectly safe." He has since discovered that he has a lively interest in Napier, and, the other day, meeting- 'the >'canvasser > for 1 the f'- Firebrigade, asked him for his vote. " Well," said the canvasser,- " I asked you for a subscription some time ago for a fire engine,l and-you said,'-in effect,*it -didsnot matte: 1 to you if the whole town was burnt down. Let us first settle that, and then we will talk politics."' "Put my name /down for £.5, and let us talk politics," said the caiididate in reply. The name against a five pound subscription was soon written down, and then the canvasser said, "and now for politics; I have already promised my vote." Tableau—exit, candidate indignant, canvrsser laughing.-^-Telegraph.

Two men (says the Bruce Herald) have been engaged for some months past about the Waihola Lake district obtaining the dead leaves of the cabbage tree, which are forwarded to Dnnedin, a truck load at a time, for manufacture into brooms for households use. These brooms were first manufactured by a man of color named Parker; in the Tuapeka and Tokomairiro districts, at-both of which places he seemed to fail* in making a living. An enterprising Dunedin firm have since taken him by the hand, and he now superintends the manufacture of these brooms—for which a patent has been ob-tained-—on a large scale, as evidenced bf the fact that many tons of the-.cabbage^ tree leaves have been forwardecl from Waihola alone. As the supply there available is now nearly exhausted, the men intend ;to visits; othejfr; dißtricta bordering upon the Southern Eailway line for future , ■ supplies, ; as ..they manage to make a fair living at the • business. The brooms are now obtained at most grocery-stores in Otago, and as'they are reported to be superior tdthe American brooms,!we would suggest that housewives, by giving them'the! preference would be. encouraging the advancement of local industries, a most commendable thing in every case where 1.^6 articles stand favourable comparison for quality and price with those hitherto used.

The Times is now going to a prodigious expense with its telegraphic news. It has no fewer than three correspondents at Paris. The chief of them is a LI. Oppert de Blowitz, a" naturalised Frenchman, who is a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and a friend of M."*Th'eirs and the Duke Decazes.'.,Associated with him are Mr Williams, who was* formerly a journalist at Birmingham, and Mr Algier. The Daily Telegraph has also three correspondents. The chief is Mr Cambell Clarke, one of, the Tew Englishmen who have received the Legion of Honor, and (

he is an accomplished dramatist, who adapted for the .English stage " Girofle*-G-irofla " and,. " Eose Mitchell." Next to him is Mr JJanlow, and associated with them is the late Paris correspondent of | the Hour. Mr Bowes is the correspondepjtf'pf th)e. Standard. AM?' G^frgo |Gr^r|,;tnap"by:iiußJpg#lii|e bjardf. |repr^en|s the^PaUliMwa.' '*-}Ql IP?'if; |. slpilll^f Projmcraiisinr ' afe#eintt 'distributea^^y^the hands of t|ts slayer, there is one item of " property" which we (Otago Guardian) should like to see fittingly bestowed. We refer to - the Speaker of thW Provincial "Council. They were procured for, or; by the\Hqn. MrjEeynolds' when'he occupied toa't dignified position, and', "thbugtFn'dtW^^ no doubt they are, in a:state of preserva-, tion, and^ by inheritance, Jiave fallen into the Hands of the General Government.; Casting about for the most becoming.use td which- they can applied, we haye 1 come to the, cpnclusionjithat/they should be conferred on the local Registrar of Births, MarriagesJ and Deaths, to_ bemused by" him on the'occasion of Wtyirigt:wHat the r reporters,^.call, the Hymeneal,bonds.; That gebtfeman, iri a most becoming and priestly fashion, performs faore marriages'; than any parson in Dunedin, and it ;:eems a pity that the|re f shoitld, be anylacfc ofijthe accessories^that { gWio ( make :up-. tie solem-l nity t belltting"^ sach interesting .-andj mb^ntqus^casjlbns!; 0 Indee^f^eliiavel 1 hfeard; thal.llife ] ,' ,whidi 'jhe^adiires^s! !p^ jthet.iifttjle^iapd' res^BnilbiiitieSj of the '.hqly, estate, has a! "triosl impressit'e effect] 'arid 1 ? that nothing! is wanting but such seemly attire to givej solemn and sacred character ■to.the j>i;p-: ceedings. Inriihß3!e f" cinjumstanceis -'we^ would:strongly> u/ge that; Mr Speaker's! gown and should goto the.lJegistrar of Marriages,;who, ; we feel confident, will bear them with erace and: djjgmty ; ,jand| thus all thingk will -be done jiecently and; in order.. f _, * j ''" ■Wi?N*Eb Everybody to Know^ftt «Jl{ kinds of Watches and Clocks ,c?in, be | repaired ai7; T. rCJLl»ti*a,PoTleri: street! ■ (corner ; of-'sMary--.itreet)'.fo N.Bi Balances Staffs^ Gylmders, and-Tibibns'Worked 1 in: f6r the Trade;'.' •JlnglisK' Hunting L^fetfs,: