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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2616, 28 May 1877, Page 3

A Learned Judge.—A baillie of Glasgow was noted for the simplicity of his manners on the bench. A youth was charged before him with abstracting a handkerchief from a gentleman's pocket. The indictment J?eing read, the bailie, addressing the prisoner-, remarked, "I hae nae doot ye did the deed, for I had a handkerchief ta'en oot o' my am pouch this vera week." The same magisterial logician was on another occasion seated on the bench, when a case of serious assault was brought forward by the public prosecutor. Struck by the powerful phraseology of the indictment, the baillie proceeded to say, " For this malicious crime ye are fined halfa-guinea." The assessor remarked that the case had not yet been proven. " Then," said the magistrate, " we'll just mak' the fine five : shillings." An Intention Defeated.—An accomplished and charming young lady was married by her parents to an old man, who was as disagreeable as he was rich. Grief and melancholy soon brought her to the edge of the grave. As she lay at the point of death, she resolved to leave all her little savings, amounting to about £1000, to a young friend, in order, as she said in her will, that the latter, more fortunate then herself, might be able to marry the man of her choice. And what did the young legatee do but, after a decent interval, marry the old Widower! —Once a Week.

. Soiress, etc BAPTIST CHURCH, SHORTLAND. ANNIVERSARY TEA MEETING. THE usual TEA MEETING of the above Place of Worship will be HELD on TUESDAY, May 29th, 1877. Tea oh the table at half-past 6 o'clock. . -^ • Tickets, 2s each, may be had of any of "the Members. The Rev. Aii/A 1* Webb, of Auckland, with the Local Ministers and other Friends, will take part in the Meeting. . S. T. Whitbhouse, 770 •■...,-• -Secretary. Tenders THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL. KAUAERANGA BRIDGE. fpENDERS addressed to the Chairman of Thames County Council will be received till Noon of THEESDAY, the seventh June, at County Council Chambers for CONSTRUCTION of a BRIDGE ACROSS the KAUAERANGA RIVER at PARAWAI. Plans and Specifications may be Been at County Council Office, Thames, avid at the Offices of Chabies , t ToTHiiiiij Shoftland street", Auckland. ." . By ordor. : •- • AIEXB. AIXKEN, . County Surveyor. Thames, 25th May, 1877. '";. "' 111

CROWN PRINCESS No. 1 GOLDMINING COMPANY. mENDERS will be received up to Noon of J_ WEDNESDAY, "the 30ih instant, for DJKIVING in the above Company^ Mine. Tenders to be left with tbe uodersigned, from whom all pariiculars can be obtained. Wm,H. Dawson, 772 "■.? 75 Mine Manager. Meetings BLACK ANGEL 'GOLD MINING COMPANY (Limited.) THE Annual Meeting of the Shareholders ■will beheld at the Mechanics'lnstitute, Queen street, Grahamßtown, Thames," on TUESDAY, May 29th, 1877, at 2 p.m. Business —To approve of Accounts and Report; elect Two Directors and Auditor. By order of the Directors. Day. Philp, Secretary. Thames, May 14, 1877. 7i7 MOAN AT AIRIGOLDMINING COMPANY (Registered.) A N Extraordinary General MEETING of XA. Shareholders will be held in the large room of the i> Tew Zealand Insurance Company's Building, on Thtjbspatt, the thirty-first day of May, 1877, at one o'clock p.m., for the purpose of passing, if approved, the following resolutions:— • That the Rules of the Company be altered as follows:— ". ■- (1.) By striking out the words " may bo a director " from tho Ist rule, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "hold? ; ing one hundred shares in thia Company, or in any incorporated Company holding shares in this Company, may be a director." (2.) Rule 6 shall ;be .rescinded, and in lieu thereof" at the general meeting to be 1 held in the yoar 1878, two of the directors shall retire, such' two, unless the .•''■ directors agree among themselves, to be determined by ballot, and in every subsequent year the two directors longest iii office to retire. ■ By order of the Directors. - F. A,; White,. . ; : ,' . '..■"■'; Manager. Auckland, Bth May, 1877:" ■■' 671