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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2573, 6 April 1877, Page 2

The steamer Lalla Eookk ; will leaye Grahainstown Wharf .at midnight tpmorrow. - '

A memo, from the General Manager of. New Zealand Telegraphs, stat-eSj that the JB6mbay to A:deh Cable is successfully duplicated. This gives duplicate; -cable - com^inuniciation. between J- ngjand ahd? fndia/ ; The Penang Eapgoon.. Gable,is expected; to >be • ready for traffic to-morrow. i

In; accordance with & resolution come to at the last meeting: of the Thames ' Borough '^Council, J'His i Worship the;! Mayor, and Grs, Jtenshaw, Heed and Macnab went up the Kauaeranga river this morning to select the most suitable place for the proposed bridge over that stream. The Mayor and Councillors were rowed up the river by the St. George's cadets in their new-;-bbat,- "under the Command of Lieut. Hamjin. v,,-. ; :m'i r ;. • lT;is satisfactory;! to, notice,; from the Auckland papers that they... are,.often enabledtp'acknowledge amounts of tiibney fof theßenefit'^f :MrS-]fetcQ*ath, the poor woman whd;;was Nearly- murdered by her husband lately. -,"■■■-'• , The scholars attending S. George's Sunday 'School repeated the Oratorio they .gave last Christmas yesterday eYening. Proceedings were opened, with .prayer, r ,and the Rev. V. .Lush read such portions of Holy Scripture, as -served to connect the musical portion. .-.- The:; singing was generally 1 regarded as very good, and at the conclusion a collection was made in aid of the funds of the Sunday School.

The adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr James Stewart, of Tararu, was ■I^d"'itttle District Court^^ House 7 it 12 o'clock to-day. Present—- 'Mr. Louis Ehrenfriedin thechair. Mr J. A. Miller appeared for iKeiibahkrupt, and Mr G. N. Brassey, -rinstructed by Messrs HesketU and Eichmpnd f for theppposing creditors. Creditors present— Messrs Ehrenfried, Osbprne, and Mr, Cameron Jiß'' rfepresefitip^'-|"the, rJSratioiiial' Bank.] A resolution was proposed appointing Mr Macffarlane as.trustee, and tjiat the procee/iings, .in, tfie B^^Ptpy. c transferred from the District C&tirt here to the Supreme Court at Auckland^ A great discussions-ensued as* to the propriety of sthisstepjynd: it thought,by those ,pr.esen.t,that the,..estate w<iuld/be waited,.- whereas. IP judiciously managed,, would .realise, more than 20s in the £V Mr was instructed, however, to bllain itrenibval of the proceedings to the Supreme Court, Auckland,, which.was. carried by one vote, Mr Brassey holding several proxies. • At the present sitting- of -the Supreme Court in Auckland twenty-four persons .were charged with twenty-eight offences, MBlvo^ofcwhidhUwere^ against- r thMperson, one being a charge of murder, the other :twenty'.three. offences^.were.against property. Of th^se the following disposed of yesterday :—8...L. Kemmingtoh, charged with Tdrgefy.Asententceld td 12 months' hard labor (there was another charge against this prisoner) ; Henari Pahi, sentenced to a; two years' imprisonment withhard labor for horse stealing; William Bpse,,Against whom there wire three indictinerits of obtaining money under'.falsepretehcesi was: sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor for each offence,'the sentences to run concurrently;- George - Beggs was acquitted of a charge of forgery;; %rid the sentence on Henry Collins, found guilty -jpi the same, offence, was deferred; until to-day ;"Te" Kiti was ordered "to be]imprisoned for four months for assault. The Court resumed its'sittings to-day.

Pbeachinch on a recent Sunday evening at the Scotch Churcti, Piccadilly, London, on "Our £I-atipnal>Safety, or England the Tarshish of Prophecy," Di Gumming said that from whatever quarter they lopkedin Europe there werethe^ elements to be seen of an earthquake that would shake nations to their very depths. Whilst other countries. would be smitten England would be spared.r She' was the chosen nation of God, ,and had ,a grand aiid prosperous future before her. In any forthcoming conflict this nation might be chastened, but' it' would be for her purification. She would keenly feelrthe rude blasts of the tempests; but so long as she-remained a God-fearing nation she had nothing to fear. England was the Tarshish of prophecy mentioned in Eze~ kiel, said by the prophet td be a land of promise charged with a great mission-^-, viz., the restoration of the Jews. It was destined to be prosperous and powerful unto the end of time. Its future would ; be unprecedented in the history of nations.

A good story comcg to the Birmingham Post concerning a town bred curate, who had consented to do duty on Sunday for his friend, the rector of a country pariah in the Midlands. ; The f subject, of : -the, morning 'sermon was thei parable 'of''the; prodigal son, and in the hope of impress-' ing upon his hearer 3 the joy which the patriarch felt on the return of his son, as instanced by his ordering the fatted calf to be killed^ thtf^oung burate felt a jpairdonable pride indwelling iipon a subject which could not fail to be comprehensible to the dullest ploughboy in the congregation. " Eemember," he said, " this was no ordinary calf which was to be killed; it was no common calf

or beast suffering from murrain; no halfstarved calf, slowly awaiting death. No ! it was not even merely a fatted calf; but," becoming more impressive, "it was the fatted calf, which had been prized and loved by the family for many years.'" A I sea of wide eyes and gaping mouths arrested for a moment the eloquence of the, fledgling parson, and in the next there. wa«. such a cbuckling.and grins and fluttering of old heads below, as had not been witnessed even in the memory of the quaintlegged sexton for more than " many years."

W. FiNiAT, one of the earliest established Watch and Clock Makers on the Thames, WISHES IT KNOWN that' he has again commenced busineiSr ia 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 Clock-making business. Bepairs executed with promptness. Charges moderate.—[Advt.] .. j