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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2880, 9 May 1878, Page 2

The commencement of the skating season was inaugurated by the Thames Skating Club, at St. George's Hall, last evening. An excellent band was attendance; and about 50 ladies and gentleman entered into the exhilarating amusement of skating, the proficiency of the majority showing/that they had net got rusty, through want of practice, since last season.

We have been requested to draw attention to two sales of valuable properties which Mr John Leydon will hold tomorrow. The first of these, which will be sold at 11. o'clock, consists of leasehold premises in Sealey street, the property of Mr William Baker, comprising six-roomed dwelling house, stables, &c. At one o'clock'he wiil offer for competition Mr «J. Pearce's four-romed cottage, Terrace street, Block 27. It is beautifully situated, and attached, to it is a well sibeked garden, containing fruit trees, flowers, &c. Both these properties should realise good prices.

The New York Sun announces that the reunion of Theodore Tilton and wife is an accomplished fact She has capitulated to Tilton and her mother. The news created quite a sensation yesterday in the congregation of Plymouth Church.

The new seal for the Thames Harbor Board has arrived, the cutting of the dies having been executed in a most efficient manner by Mr Teutenburg of Auckland, to the order of this office. The design is the work of Mr F. C. Dean, secretary to the Board, and is a very handsome and appropriate one. In the centre of the seal is a shield on which is quartered a cfesent moon, a representative of the Southern Cross, a full-rigged ship and an anchor. On a scroll beneath the shield is. inscribed the motto, Pour tout le monde, and encircling the seal are the words, 11 Thames Harbor Board, N.Z." The seal is, perhaps, the most appi'opriate of any belonging to the public bodies of the district, and reflects credit on both the designer and the engraver.

A jiADY correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle tellsthe following story : —Eeuter's Telegram Company, in a recent mesrage from Brisbane, made a supremely ridiculous mistake. Through this agency the announcement was made, some days ago, in several of our papers here, that Lady Kennedy had given birth to twins, of whom the elder was a son." The statement being doubted for the best of all possible reasons, namely, that Laly Kennedy had no earthly existence, tbe company explains that the message they had received from Australia contained the words : " Governor of Queensland twins first son." On the fact, however, being made plain to/them that Sir Arthur Kennedy was a widower, .whereby it became clear that the telegram must contain an egregious error, c. repetition was demanded, when it appeared that the words really Bent were, as follows 5 " Governor Queensland, turns first sod." alluding, of course, to the Maryborough.-Gympie Railway, now in process of construction in that colony.

We have been requested by Messrs .Ronald Macdonald and John McCabe (directors), and Mr D. G. MacDonnell, manager of the Queen of Beauty Goldmining Company, to say that the statement made by our contemporary, to the effect that "the directors of the Queen of Beautyaye likely to take advantage of

the improved price of their shares to offer the SOCO reserved shares to public tender," is utterly without foundation. The directors have not contemplated or given the matter even consideration. The same gentlemen also wish the public to know that the statement re the Piako Pumping Association, tba<; there " will likely be a stoppage cfc t>n early date," is equally mendacious. Besides these authoritative contradictions, we may remark that considerable comment has been made on the two paragraphs containing the staiements above referred to. If there were any prospect of the stoppage of the Waio-Karaka Pump it would be a very inopportune time for the directors of the Queen of Beauty Company to bring forward their reserved shares; besides which their doing so on the eve of. stopping the pump and so preventing mining operations from being carried on, would be open to grave censure. Independently of these considerations, the publication of the two statements in such close proximity looks suspicious, and is calculated to do serious harm in the prescribed circle within which the morning paper is known.