Untitled

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2970, 22 August 1878, Page 2

We have been requested to cr.ll attention to an alteration in Enterprise's time table for to-day. The steamer was to have left at half past two o'clock this afternoon but, owing to a lowne?" 1. of the tides and the severity of the weather, she has been detained until twelve o'clock to eight. .

Owing doubtless" to the inclemency of the weather, there was but a moderate attendance at the Marionettes last evening. The , --o^ramme was, however, gone through in its en;irety, and the audience wore highly delighted.

The Chairman and a few members of the Colombo Accident Belief Committee met last evuuing, pursuant to adjournment, at the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel Shortland, but were unabi'e to transact business satisfactory owirg to the absence of Mr Pulleine, the hon. Secretary to the Committee.

Captain Fraser, E.M., and Mr Superintendent Thomson have been appointed a commission to inquire into some charges, brought against members of the police force for alleged „ill-trealmpnt of the daughter of Mrs McManus while detained in the watchhouse.

Accoedino to Goldsborough's Monthly Circular, the export of wool from Victoria for the season from Ist October, 1877, to August sth, 1878, was 287,474- bales; total corresponding date last year, H22,013 ; deficiency, 34,529 bales.

LiST week (says the Standard of Thursday last) there were three-local newspapers in th# Wairarapa. The Register, the Guardian, and ourselves. The Guardian has collapsed pro tern., the Begist-r is burnt < ut, and we are left alone. We are glad to say, however, that the Eegister will rise Phoenix like from its ashes without missing more than an issue.

The Times (Uunedin) had recently an article on the success of the public works policy. The Times says : " While numerous telegrams are being sent by cable to lord Beaeonsfield and his colleagues to congratulate him on his recent triumphs, it would not, we think, be an ungraceful or inappropriate thing if Dunedin con gratulated Sir Julius Vogel in a similar fashion on the occasion of the first successful through journey by rail between Cbristchurch and Dunedin, which will mark an important era in the history of the public works in New Zealand. It was a bold and even a dangerous policy, so also was Lord Beaconsfield's. Success in both cases has justified the venture, and each in his degree is entitled to gratitude from those whom he has thus benefited. Sir Julius by his bold and successful policy has given many a citizen to the state, and if he is himself withdrawn from our midst, he is representing us ably at Home, and doing as much to further the interests of the Colony as if he were amongst us. Although many of the acts of his political career are open to criticism, and he owes something to the final success which has attended his scheme to the restraints of a powerful Opposition, and the aid of such colleagues as Mr. Richardson, we can afford to admit that the one public man who has given the grealest stimulus to the material prosperity of the Colony as a whole is bir Julius Yogel."

E^opeionts are becoming popular, says tbe Auckland Star, in Auckland, and. seem to have :n irresistible charm to some young folks. On Monday a well-known young gentleman eloped with a young lady froia the North Shore. His name is not unlike that of one of our most illustrious poets. He is a £,ood. matured youth, full of fun and frolic, good at all athletic sports, and a capital runner. He has new ran away with Polly. Polly is a fair, pretty young lady, with a pleasant, graceful manner. She did not return home all day on Monday, nor at night, neither on Tuesday; and the absence of Mr Spokeshave being identical, and as Polly had taken her jewels, it became evident that the two had journeyed to Jerusalem together. The police were requested to take them in charge, Poily being but young. Nothing, howeFer, has been heard of the loving pair since Monday. He left the North Shore by the 9.30 boat, and she left by the 11 o'clock. The event has caused great excitement in domestic circles, both being not only well-known but very well liked.