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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2635, 19 June 1877, Page 2

We understand that the Shortland residents and owners-of property :'.ite»d holding a public meeting to protesi against the * removal. of the Resident Magistrate's department from its present location to Grabamstown. The visit of the man of war Sappho is postponed for a day, and she will not arrive until to-morrow, tha state of the weather yesterday being such that it was not' expected to clear as it baa done. Besides the weather, we believe that it has been deemed advisable to take some soundings before bringing the ..Sappho down. This has been done by the Harbor crew, and Captain Best, who is in Auckland, w.ill probably pilot the Sappho in to-morrow. We have not yet heard of any steps being taken to entertain the bluejackets. Mb Jeffeeson has favored us with a , copy of the Skeicher for June. Its con-

tents are of the usuwl interesting character, and the illustrations include tlie Humors of the Elections, the* Sydney Exhibition ; portrait of Mr Angus Mackay, Queensland Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition ; Seal hunting at Julia Percy Tslaod ; Inside a turret of the Cerberus : 'Load;" Scene outside the Argus office during the general election; some very pretty scenery, views of public buildings and other pictures make up an excellent number.of this popular.publication.

An Australian ealogram yesterday anuouuced the death of Mr John Fairfax. Of this gentleman the N.Z. Plerald says : —" The oldest newspaper proprietor in the Australasian colonies—Mr John Fairfax, the owner of the Sydney. Morning Herald, the oldest journal in these colonies—died on Saturday at a ripe old age. Mr Fairfax came early to the colony of New South Wales, and by his judicious management, his high character, ajd his knowledge of men, and of the wauls of the colony, he made the Herald the powerful, and successful journal it has become. Mr Fairfax was characterised by liberality in his dealings, and in public afiv.u's was also a generous supporter of al Jeabrving movements and institutions. Ho was the architect of his own fortune, and has left in the Herald, aud i.i other property, a handsome patrimony to bis family—the work of industry and probity, for which Mr Fairfax's name will long be remembered. ; . The author of yesterday's conundrum, has been and gone and done i<; again with the following result, which is headed "Power-fally wOi-se;"— :

Among the best stories on the subject of carelessness iv. the Turkish administration may be placed one told by Mr Barkley, in his recently published book, of a Pole, wbo received an appointment at Constantinople, with orders to proceed to a town on the Danube where " instructions would be immediately sent to him." - He insisted on being provided with an order on a local governor to pay his salary out of the provincial taxes, and then quietly, settled down in the towa to which he was sent. Two years afterwards he had not received any instructions, and the only work,. he had done was signing receipts for his salary. Mr Barkley asked him why he did not write and stir up the Government, to which he replied—" What for—to get discharged ? Wo; the place suits me; And bear in mind, Mr Barkley, when your are in the service of the Porte, the only crime they wi"l not excuse is too much zeal."