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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2567, 29 March 1877, Page 2

The Grahamstown Fire Brigade, in view of their forthcoming match with the Shortland Brigade, had another practice last night. There was a full attendance .of the selected team, and the manner in which they went, through- their hose and reel practice was considered very satisfactory." They purpose, we believe, -to hold another practice this evening. The Auckland Star says :—Mr H. A. (Severn is lecturing iv Christchurch on scientific subjects. He complained of the j small attendance, and in polite language i expressed the opinion that Canterbury folk think v good deal more of turnips i than of the solar system.

To-mobeow being Good Friday will be observed as a general holiday. Therewill be services in the churches, the Banks will be closed as well as the public offices and the shops'^* Both the Te Aroha and Ruby will make excursions' —the latter to Ohinemuri, aisi theformer up. the PJ.akcH River,'both rptiirninglthf^sameiday. o^ J$ \ lotSTnight'liud thi» n^&rniiiß there^wi^ l& h^eatteQ^nce^dt^iie Corner, b^;i| ?did;^o|^ppM:;tlipi-^ ba^esa^^f* equal to/the attendance, although Moanatairis firmed a little to-day. £18 5s was offered last night, but ho sellers ; to-day business was done .at £19. To account for the shares keeping down, and the little business doing, another Reason was'given to-day j namely that Saturday being half-yearj|y balance day -with twoof our local banking establishments, .their numerous clients were prevented, from operating as largely as some of them could wish. Perhaps there is some truth in this. Next week's business may be better. ' Up to the present time three sections of the new road up the Waiotahi creek have been surveyed, and there yet remain three or four to survey. Mr McNeice, foreman: of works' to the Waibtahi District Board, was in attendance to show in- • tending contractors over the ground, and he informs us that : as many as 60 mcii assembled to have a look at -the different sections. ifx i The firing for the Government District Howitzer prize by members of the T.N.B. will take place to-day at 4.15. Some practice took place yesterday, and as on the previous occasion the shooting was good. Thb Resident Magistrate 1 at Welling ton, says an Exchange, the other day, laid down t the,faw that a person having for twenty years enjoyed' the use of* his neighbor's ground for, the purpose of light to his own premises, thereby acquired a right to the outlook, and that the owner of such ground could not, in such case, build within five feet of' him, 'or in any way obstruct his light. A meeting of- the creditors of Mr James Stewart was held to-day in the District Court • house, Grahamstown. Messrs Macdonald and Miller appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr G. N. Brassey, instructed by Messrs Hesketh and Richmond, for the opposing'creditors. The meeting was adjourned until Friday, 6th April, at the same time and place ' A cokbeß-"ondent ' writes to the New Zealand Herald : __■<— " The brokers are charging 2| per cent, commission on all sales, whatever amount. This is exorbitant. Could you not recommend, now that prices are ruling so high, a return to the old prices, of • Caledonian' days, i.e., 1? on all suMs of £100 and upwards P " Apropos of this subject we notice that Mr J. D. Wickham intimates that he ia doing 1 business at the Thames Stock Ex-i change—commission 1£ per cent. An actor became renowned, not so much for -his histrionic performances as because he would never take any medicine, and his %iedical maW wall oTfcenj obliged to resort* to some stratagem to! impose a dose upon him. There was a: play in which the herir^vffsfJseHtencdd; 5 in* prison, to drink a cup of poison. Our' actor was playing this character one night in the prpviflcgi/^nd li;ad;giy%n directions to have the" cup' filled with wine; but; what was his horror, when he came to: drink it, to find it contained a dose of; senna! He could nptf throw it away, as: .he^had to| hold the gqblet.upsjjde dqWja.tto! 'show, his -persec\¥tqrs"th'at?:he "had drained; every drop of it. Our celebrated actor; drank the with the slowness of; a poisonedinartyr, but he never forgavej his medical man, as was proved at his' death, for he died,without -his The Wellington Post chronicles the; foUpwing incident respecting an: unlucky j reporter:—"One of our staff has just{ been stamping about the office, tearing! his hair, and r bemoaning jhisf hard; fate. ; On quieting him down, and enquiring as to the cause of his frenzy, he pointed to a telegram showing,thati^oanatairi shares; had jumped up to £21, whereas he hadsold out 100 of them at 7s each. Had he j held on, he might .have realised £2,100.' The exhibition ana administration of a! ' John Collins' of exceptional size and, potency; irestored;* him Ito his' normal 1 condition." Apbopos of Sunday beer drinking, <fee, ; a contemporary relates the following:~' •fiA'*{Pei ith minister bf^the last generation meeting one of his flock whom he had missed fromjtheikirkvjf^rsp.teral Sabbaths took him to task for his backsliding. But finding from his replies. ,th"at Watty had only been attending another church the worthy minister expressed a hope that nothing had been amiss with his preaching. ' Na, na,' said Watty, 'it'snaethingabout doctrine. It's just this, minister, we get a better glass of ale in the middle of the day at the end of the toon.'" " Atlas " of the World says there is very fine whistling in the Temple Church, London, on Sundays. A legal "gentleman, known for.his tuneful pipe all over England, " obliges " regularly, by way of accompaniment to the choir. The effect is said jo-be r very f sweet and pleasing. It would'be'a good thing to give some formal sanction, to this practice in the next revision of the- Prayer Book, i 'STherir shall be ■'>. said, \- t or. sung, or ' whistled," &c. ' '"* '"[' A Wellington; telegram to the Auckland Star says :—A Wellington doctor recently bought 175 Moauatairi shares at 19s ; he has just sold them at £22, thus making a clear profit of £3,985. Some miscreant perpetrated a bad act to-day, which resulted in 'the death from poison of Mr J. H. Salmon's pointer bitch. The animal was on the chain in the yard of Mr Salmon's residence in Mary street. This yard forms a right'of way to the back of the house, and is therefore open to the street. Shortly before ten o'clock the poor animal was discovered in convulsions, limbs rigid and eyes set, with all the symptoms of strychnine poisoning. Mr Plant, chemisb, administered emetics to the dog, but without avail, and death ensued very shortly after ten o'clock. This is not an ordinary case of dog poisoning, where an animal goes wandering about other people's grounds and picks up something intended for another; but the person who administered the dose must have done so deliberately and maliciously,- and we hope that he will be found' out and punished. -: -'.--'--- ■ ••- - ■■ His Honor Judge Fenton, apologised to Counsel this morning, says the Auckland Star, in the District Court, for unavoid*' ably delaying the business on the list for Monday, the 26ih. * The delay was caused by sturdy adherence to a sense of duty by the railway clerk at Ne.wmarket. His

Honor on presenting a note in payment for a ticket to Hamilton was told by the clerk that he had no change, nor was the clejrkijtjsecms, willing to send for change.. His :Hpn^ r explained that two Courts; would-lili^Mltyed, and unnecessary exp>Hs£s\£i|fcrarfejd if he couldcnot reach, but that the clerk'i b*i|inejJ9;|although a prodaise was made to pliy|4|n by return. Hi'siHonor' the^Jfeft^lki^ation with the viafc&f fciatting *c%a'Bgel and during his temporary absence tlie train started, and the business ! of the Hamilton and Auckland Courts wasjconsequently delayed t