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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2554, 14 March 1877, Page 2

Ii? ill weeds grow apace, and if to grow apace it is necessary to be r-n ill weed, then is the dock an ill weed. We have had one shown us to-day, which though apparently young in days has penetrated tue ground to the depth of three feet five inches.

Mb James Cbaig offered at auction to-day, a njUmber of freeholds and leaseholds in (Qrabamstown and Tararu, the property of llobert Graham, Esq. There was a good attendance at the appointed time, but there appeared to be a disposition to withhold bids, notwithstanding which several of-the lots were quitted after the sale privately at satisfactory prices. '■',■■,

Mr Thomas iScANLAN has written to i the Editor relative to a grievance against a sharebroker. As the matter is a private one,.;and apparently the result of a misunderstanding, we' refrain from publishing thf letter, in which course we feel sureithe writer will concur upon second thoughts. We were shown a telegram- yesterday. from 1 the Bay of Islands, stating that,a.:, serious flood had occurred there doing i considerable damage to the recently: I finished railway, and that there would be Ino coal down for a fortnight. We believe I the present stocks of coal here are considerable, so that" there is not much reason: 1 to fear any inconvenience from this un- ! expected misfortune at the Bay. Thjs Lingards, who are passengers by the outgoing mail for San Erancisco, are reported to hare cleared £4000 by their trip through Australia and New ZesTand, their chief success having been achieved in " Our Boys." .: A late calogram states that a BUI legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister in the Colonies has passed the House of Commons by a majority of 51. We presume this applies only to those which have already sanctioned such marriages by legal enactment, and is not intended to become law in colonies whose legislatures have more than once rejected such a measure. .;> • The death of Helen Faucit f was recently announced by calograiriv Of this lady, " Men of the Time " says she was an actress of considerable repute, born about 1817, made her formal debut in London, Jan. 5, 1836, at Covent Garden, in the character of Julia in the "Hunchback," and achieved a distinguished success. She at once tcok rank as a leading actress, and became an. important member of Mr Macready's companies during the production of his Shak.esperian revivals at Covent Garden:'and Drury Lane. Miss Faucit was the original representative of the heroines in Lord Lytton's '•Lady of Lyons,^ "Money,!'; "The Sea Captain," " Richelieu," and "Duchess de la Vallisre; " in. Mr Eobert Browning's " Strafford," the ". Blot on.the Escutcheon," and f Cplpmbe's Birthday ; .'■' in Mr Westland Marston's "Patrician's Daughter," " The Heart and the World," and " Marie de Meranie;" in Mr Troughton's "Nina Sforza,": and,in many other plays. Her rendering of the Shakesperian characters Juliet, Beatrice, Constance, Imogen, Portia, Eosalind and Lady Macbeth has been much commended. Miss Faucit obtained great success in her representation of "Antigone," and in !' King Eene's Daughter," an adaptation from the Danish by Mr Theodore Martin, to whom she was married in 1851. This lady, who has continuedr to appear on the stage at intervals sirice "her marriage, fulfilled an engagement at Drury Lane Theatre for a limited'number of nights in 1864 and 1865.

Report has it that a river of genuine ink has been discovered iti Algeria! It is formed by the union of two streams, one coming from a region of ferruginous soil, the other draining a?peat!swamp.' n>The Water of the former is strongly impregnated with iron, that of the latter with gallic acid. When the' two'waters mingle, the acid of the one unites with the iron of the other, forming a true ink.