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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2835, 16 March 1878, Page 2

The only business at the E..M. Court this morning was the granting of an extension of license to Mr Curtis of the Pacific Hotel for Monday eyening next, on the occasion of the evening party in connection with the Thames Scottish Band. The management of the Grahamstown Wesleyau Bazaar desire that all donors and workers send in their contributions on or before Wednesday next.

It is announced that after the usual vrot-kly drill of tho Thames Scottish this evening there will bo held a meeting for the consideration of important business.

Ovh own correspondent informs us that tho Hon. J. Sheehan, addressing the JNativesat Paeroa, said that bis present visit would bo followed by another in about a fortnight's time. Possibly by that time Tukukino will bo induced to meet a Minister of the Crown, and withdraw his opposition to the road and tho telegraph line.

We notice that Mr 11. Cucksey/jnstr*ment and music seller of Auckland has opened temporarily in a shop opposite Allaway's, lirown street. His stock, which is a large and varied one, consists of music, musical instruments, books, etc., and is to be sold very cheap.

, The Hon. John Sheehan was expected to arrive at Eopu at four o'clock today, and land there, to be driven into town. Ue proceeds to Auckland this evening.

The cricket match between the teams of Coromandel and the Thames, which comes ofl here on Monday next, is likely to be a, great success. Members of the Club have been employed during the week rolling and shearing the grass*) and a first rate wicket has been prepared, while arrangements hare also been made for the comfort of visitors, by the providing of seats, etc It is expected that the Thames Scottish Hand will be attendance. Mr Murphy has been indefatigable in raising subscriptions to defray the expenses of the visit, and has been successful in raising a considerable sum. A luncheon will be provided on the ground for the members of both teams and their friends, and in the evening a dinner will come off at the Governor Bowen. The members of the Coromandel team are expected to arrive this evening in the steamer Pearl.

Members of the Scottish Volunteers are notified of a meeting for the transaction of important business after parade this evening.

The benefits of free trade in gold buying, and no combination between the monetary institutions, are already being experienced by the gold producers. Several parties of miners in the Karaka have, we are informed, received from the National Bank as much as 2s to 2a 6d per ounce for their gold more than they could get anywhere for the same quality of gold during the continuance of the arrangement arrived at by the banks to give only a certain price. It is to be hoped that no fresh combination "will be effected.

The V'ajor Commanding the District notifies in another column that the firing for the first set of district prizes will take place on the 23rd inst. at 8 a.m. at the Government range. The second set will be fired for on Monday nest, and Monday the 25th at 8 a.m., and the Cadet companies compete for their prizes on Friday next next at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The smart little s.a. Piako is advertised to, make an excursion to Ohinetnuri on Monday next, leaving Shortland (calling at Graliamstown Wharf) at 7 o'clock, and returning here at four in the afternoon.

The members of the Hibernian Society and the Juvenile contingent are requested to assemble at the Hall, to-morrow morning (St. Patrick's Day) for the purpose of attending divine service at the Shortland. Catholic Church. The society, headed by its band, will march in procession to the church. In the evening Father Chastagnon will deliver a panygeric on St. Patrick.

The gossiping writer in The World, " Atlas," writes : I have reason to believe that a marriage will be arranged between H.E.H. the Duke of Connaught and the Princess Louis 3, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles. The Princess is seventeen years of age, and much liked by those who know her.

At the annual meeting of the Coromandel County Council, held on Monday last, a proposal to adopt the working clauses of the Counties Act was negatived.

A coBBEsroKDKNT of the Herald, telegraphing from Dunedin, says:—The youngsters of the city scour the streets for cats and dogs, Cooper and Ba;ley having offered 6d a head for those animals, for tigers, hyenas, &c, to feed on them. It is expected to wipe out the mongrels of every city they visit.

Sib James Fbbgusson, formerly Governor of New Zealand, contested the election for Grcenock in the Conservative interest, but was defeated by Mr Donald Currie.

A lady correspondent of the S.F. Chronicle, writing from London, contributes the following gossip about royalty :—lt ia rumoured that the Crown Prince Rudolf of Austro-Hungary has come over to England as well as his mother to do a little hunting on his own account, though not the tearing madly across country and orer hedges, fences, ditches, etc., in which Her Majesty the Empress-Queen of that realm indulges, and which in this case is forbidden, bub to see what the Princess Beatrice is like. That is all nonsense, say of course the people to whom the rumour was late in p^uetratiug, and who are therefore bound, in defence of their own dignity, to poohpooh it and to invent some other startling " positive fact." How can that be, say they, when it is well known that the insuperable objection to the difference of religion exists to divide the youthful pair ? There may be something in that argument, it is true; but seeing how, in the case of our two last royal marriages, the old bars to matrimony were flung to the winds, it seems by no means impossible that a third instance may not be allowed to occur. A Prince or Princess of the English blood, royal may not marry any but a Protestant, yet the Duke of Edinburgh (the Queen's favorite son, as some will have it) marries a Princess of the Greek Church. Again, a Prince or Princess of the English blood royal may not marry a subject; yet Princess Louise flirts with Canon Duckworth, and on discovery and frustration of that grand affair of the heart, her prayer to be allowed to become a Protjstant nun being also denied, marries the eldest son of the Duke of Argyle.. So why, in the name of all that is expedient, should not our youngest of the house cf Brunswick marry into the Catholic house of Hapsburg ? Such a union would be anything but unpopular among us here in England. It the first place, people, in this ngo of don't-careabout-any-thing-isra, are sick of the savage old battles of the creeds, and in the next, Bismarck having demolished all the trumpery little separate German States, to weld them into one powerful whole, and the Princes and Grand Dukes belonging to them have, .in consequence, become mere nobodies.