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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2538, 23 February 1877, Page 2

We notice that, all those who were members of the late No. 1 Company H.R.V". are requested to meet to-night at 8 p.m. at the Volunteer.Hall. The business is financial.

We understand that in consequence of the new provision in the Municipal Corporations Act it has become necessary to construct a staircase from the main frontage of the Theatre: Boyal to the gallery, which work has been commenced, by the owner, Mr Win. Eowe.

We are requested to mention that the presentation of songs at the Theatre Eoyal to-night will take place after the performance of> "Phil the Foundling," and before the representation of " Fritz," so as to avoid confusion at the doors. \

We draw attention to the careless way in which the cricket scores in the matches now being played by New Zealand Twenty-Twos v. England are sent to us. Greymouth are credited with a total of 50 whereas the individual score* added up only make 46, and 4 wickets of .England are chronicled as being down for 99 which is 10 in excess of the various scores added together.

In the'course of ah election 1 speech at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, Mr J. Sheehan, M.U.K.., is reported to have said:—He was in favor of making native lands held under Crown Grants amenable to taxation. He could conceive no reason why the natives holding lands by Crown Grant should not pay their fair share of the taxes raised within the district in which they were situated. So also with fencing, he had told the natives that as a matter of fair play they should pay their share of fencing between their lands and those :of their European neighbors. i

The following is.the reply pf Mr DeLias to the letter sent by Mr Maeder to the Auckland Star regarding his refusal to continue his part on Fric'ay evening last, which letter we published yesterday :•— Sir,—Lest your readers should think Miss Eena suffered any discourtesy at my hands, as Mr Maeder would ungenerously insinuate, I must trouble you with a few l:nes in answer to his letter. It is quite true that Miss Eena was admitted to the theatre on previous occasions "without a purchased ticket or an order," but then she was not accompanied by three friends however small. The names of disengaged professional people are left on the door as a matter of courtesy, but it would *be a fine thing for me if every member of my company had the right ot entree for themselves and friends. And that it may not be supposed that I was too strict in this instance, it must be remembered that the lady was one of my stock company, her star engagement, for which I paid pretty heavily, had terminated. You hit the nail exactly on the head ..when you say all trouble would have been ; avoided had Miss Kena asked Mr Thatcher or myself for an order. Mr Maeder evidently takes some credit for apologising to.Mr Emmet for walking off the stage during the progress of a piece, but I doubt whether his apology condones the offence, and constitutes him and his wife martyrs to what I consider the proper way to conduct my business.—Yours, etc., K. J. DeLias.

We have heard of people being stagestruck. But the disease generally attacks those who have not arrived at man's estate, or if they have done so, are only just over its threshold. Certainly there are but few who having attained high municipal honors care very much either to sing or play in the public streets. The exception, however, only proves the rule, and such exception appears to exist on the Thames judging from the following telegram, which, appeared in yesterday's Auckland Star, sent by their own corrt spondeut:—" Grahamstown, this day. —Emmet and DeLias were serenaded by the. Mayor and the trading citizens last night alter the performance of "Fritz." The correspondent in question did not say whether the Mayor and" trading citizens blackened their taces, or what instruments they played, whether they danced or -not, whether they intend to repeat the performance the next time a star visits us. If they do and it waa known, no doubt many of our citizens, trading and others, would consider it not the least amusing part of the entertainment.

A couhespondent of the Hobart Town Mercury, writing in reference<-"to cable conferences, remarks that for cable communication connecting New Zealand with New South Wales, a distaoce of 1300 miles, the two colonies pay—New South Wales one-third, New Zealand twothirds—an annual subsidy of £7500 for 10 years. For the cable connecting Tasmania with Victoria, about 180 miles in length, Tasmania pays £4200 a year, and in perpetuity. The New Zealand cable, seven times the length of the Tasmanian, costs considerably less than twice what Tasmania has to pay so long as the company keep the cable in order.

"Atlas" in the World says:—l arrived unexpectedly at a friend's country house the other evening, and was thus accosted by my host's daughter: " Delighted to see you. Papa is dressing for dinner, and says you may go to 'ell." Horror! Had she become insane, or, worse still, taken leave of her h's." I was soon put out of my mental misery by being reminded that the bedrooms were lettered instead of numbered.

Wanted Everybody to Know, that all kinds of Watches and Clocks can be repaired at J. T. Clabkb's, Pollen street (corner of Mary street). N.B. Balance Staffs, Cylinders, and Pinions worked, in for the Trade. English: Hunting Levers, £8 10s.—Advt. i