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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2551, 10 March 1877, Page 2

Faib progress appears to have been made with the bridge over the Karaka in Pollen street since the contractors

entered upon operations. Iho piles have been driven about half way across the street, and the cross timbers ore now being fixed.: One thing seems to strike most people as deserving of immediate attention, that is, tho raising of the. gas pipe, which-now lies almost on the bed of the creek, and wi'l, if not raisedj form a formidable and dangerous obstruction in future' floods if not removed. We presume it is intended to remove it.and place it out"'of danger, and out of reach of causing damage. If so the sooner it is done the better, so that the bridge may not require to be interfered with when in a more advanced stage.

As one sign of the times we may mention that the p.s. Enterprise had on boarel to-day more cargo than she bis carried on any one trip during the last six months. A feather shows how the wind sets, and perhaps this may bo taken ss an indication of better times to come.

A veby interesting liltle story for young people appears, on the fourth page of our present issue, entitled " A Perilous Night."

At the Templars' Hall, to-morrow evening the subject of Mr .Edward Lewis' discourse will be " The worship acceptable to God."

At the Primitive Methodist Church, Mackay street, to morrow, the Rev. W. Tinsley of Auckland will preach—services at 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.

A PBELTitfiNABY notice of a race meeting, to be held at Paeroa on St. Patrick's Day, appears in our advertising columns. We believe that from, promises alreadymade a good day's sport may be expected.

A PtrBEiLE joker suggests that the color of hair most admired just now is auburn hair (Al-burn-ia), especially when the brow, is adorned with the Moana tiara (Moanatairi).

We have been requested to state that a search party:will leave Shortland to-mor-row to discover if possible the fate of Mr George Halliwell, formerly linesman at the Telegraph station here; and any persons willing to join inthe search are requested to muster at the Grey street bridge at nine o'clock in the morning. It may not be generally known that the missing man has been absent nearly a fortnight. He had left the telegraph service and had been indulging too freely in intoxicating liquors v Last Sunday week he was seen passing the Eob Eoy Hotel. Next day he was seen at Keri Keri by the linesman who succeeded him, Mr Jenkins, and it was then thought that he (HaUiwell) was making for Kelly's place, or Say's at Puriri, and no anxiety was felt for him. The above mentioned persons having been communicated with, and they not having .seen Halliwell, it was at once feared that he had come, to harm, and the search party is organised to discover this and set the question of the missing man's fate at rest.. Halliwell was a member of the Grahamstown Fire Brigade, and was generally liked by his acquaintances for his inoffensive manners and genial disposition.

Yesterday's telegrams stated that Pooley had arrived in Christchurch. This was no doubt to answer the charge of assault, alleged to, have been committed upon": a: resident of Christchurch named Donkin, from whom he had won a bet to the amount of £50. The refusal of the latter to pay occasioned words, in the course of which Donkin is said to have struct Pooley,over the eye a nasty cut with his stick. The other English cricketers then came to his assistance, and aregular melee ensued. AtDunedin recently Pooley was advised to return to Christchurch, but declined to take any noiice. While playing oathe 2nd insiant, he was the recipient of several telegrams on the subject.-

The Whangarei Comet is happy to learn that there is a probability of the Whangarei River, having a steam launch. That journal le^as that the owner of the Pearl, Mr Burningham, is desirous of finding employment for his ; launch, and has nearly decided, upon coming to Whangarei, at the same time asserting that good trade might be secured, providing the launch was licensed to run between the Heads and Waipu.

; Attention has been drawn of ; late (says the Broad Arrow) by more than one of the London daily papers to the part enacted by a young Englishman in aiding Turkey; at the outbreak of the last war with Russia, the deeds of Butler and Naesmyth being especially cited. It is curious to reflect, on the otjier band^.how prominent our countrymen hare been in fighting for Russia in the Crimea and the Black Sea. Marshal Lscy, who led an Imperial Army, in 1736, into the peninsula across the Putrid Sea, was an Irishman, and died Governor-General of the Baltic provinces at Uiga. Colonel Brown, who was with MarshdAlTunich at the forcing of the lines of Perekop, was Irish also, and died General Count Brown at Riga. General Keith, second in com- : mand under Munich, was a Scotchman; and Generals Johnston and Leslie, who distinguished themselves in the Tartar wars, also hailed from north of the Tweed, and had left our country from political reasons, many officers who had' been "out in '15 and '45 taking service-in foreign armies after the collapse, of the Jacobite rising. In the Russian war with' Turkey which broke out in 1768, the great naval victory in the Bay of Tchesme was gained by the skill and intrepidity of the: subordinate British officers, Elphinstone," Greig, and Drysdale, the former afterwards attaining' the .highest rank in the Russian navy. The victory of Tchesme. was as .-fatal a blow to| the Turkish Navy as the battle of.Lepanto under Don Juan d'Austria, or that of Navarino under Sir Edward Codrington." The first person who is said'to have made known the .capacities of the port of Sebastopbl was theJSnglish Lady Craven, afterwards. Margrave of Anspach ; and one of the early governors of the, Crimea was an Englishman, General Miphelson, who afterwards suppressed the rebellion of Pagatchef, and < saved the; tottering throne of Queen Catherine. Priesman, an admiral in the Black Sea Fleet, was also an Englishman, and read the burial service at' the grave of the philanthropist Howard 1; and a -notable couotr,pnan; of ours was Admiral Greig, who founded the Astronomical Observatory at'iSTicolaief, and was brother-in-law •ot .Mrs Somerville, the well-known* Authoress..- :Ini the present operations between Serjvia.. and Turkey, Colonel Mclvor, a, Scottish soldier of fortune, has been until recently in command of a brigade of Servian cavalry, and was personaily 'decorated by - Priuce Milan for valor in the field. Colonel. Mclvor is, we understand, afc present on leave in this country.

W. Finlat, one of the earliest established Watch and Clock Makers on the Thames, WISHKS IT KNOWN that he has again commenced business in Williamson street, in connection with the Manufacturing Jewellery Business of his brother, Mr James Finlay, and is prepared to undertake all branches of the Watch and Glock-making business. Repairs executed with promptness. Charges moderate.—[Advt] .