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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3000, 26 September 1878, Page 2

We would draw attention to the programme of the variety performance at the Academy of Music this evening, tendered by the Eoyal Combination Troupe to a fund being (raised to erect a headstone, &c, over the grave of George Hurley, a late member of the troupe. The programme is certainly of a most varied character, and one that should draw a crowded .house. It consists^ of gymnastic feats, songs and dances, farces, &c, and though many of the performers will^ only make their debut to-nigh*, the many careful rehearsals should ensure success. The trapeze business of Reddy, the songs and dances of Barchaid, and the ballads of Ibbetson are really good, and, indeed, with reference to the latter, it ha* b^en remarked by one who might be supposed to know something of singing, that he has a really splendid tenor voice. There will be a dance after the performance, to which holders of front seat tickets will be admitted. .

The matter of a National Rifle Association is likely to* be heartily taken up on the Thames, and a meeting of officers and a committee of members fioru each company will be held at the Governor Bowen Hotel on Tuesday evening to dravr up suggestions and information for tbe \vellington Central Committee. The same meeting will a 1 so arrange preliminaries for a review and sham fight to be held On the 9th of November. As there is to be no review In Auckland on that day several of the companies there have signified their willingness to join their Thames brethren in any review- which may be got up here. . Thb County Chairman yestew3ay communicated with the Government asking for authority totave the plans and specifications for the extension of the water race prepared at once, so that no time may be lost, when the vote of £6500 has passed the House, in finding work for the unemployed of a. more Congenial: and remunerative character than tl at which some, have had to fall back upon lately. The Mayor also sent a telegram backing up. the request of the Count/ Chairman. Tf*; mot thly inspection of the Thames Eifle Bangers will -ake place at the Volunteer Hall this evening, Major Murray being the inspecting officer.

A wbitee in Truth says :—I was talking a few days ago to a Russian about the Anglo-Turkish Agreement, and I asked him whether Russia was likely to take active steps against it. He replied, V Why should she ? It is greatly to our advantage. It has destroyed all future European concert, and establishes an excellent precedent for us. One of these df ys we shall surprise you with a RussoTurkish Agreement and various RussoAsiatic Agreements, whilst as for your mads in Asia Minor, we should be glad to contribute to the making of them, for the absence of roads in Bulgaria constituted the real difficulty of our advance." The Herald's special telegrr>hs from Wellington: The murderer Hiroki has been seen this afternoon, not many miles from Mouinahaki. He was armed with a gun, and the native who saw him, being alone and unarmed, - did not care to attempt to seize him, and went for help to an adjoining kainga. . Hiroki meanwhile disappeared, but tae pursuers appear to be steadily closing round him. The steamer Napoli, the first of a line from London to Larnaca, was despatched for Cyprus by Messrs Oilier and Go., of Great St. Helens, on August 3, with a number of passengers and a full cargo of miscellaneous goods. Previous to the steamer's departure from Gravosend, the passengers forwarded the following telegram:—"To Her Majesty Que°n Victoria, Osborne, Isle' of Wight.—A few loyal subjects, passengers on board the Napol", being the- first steamer sailing from the River Thames to your newlj - acquired island of Cyprus, beg leave to tender their respectful homage before leaving."

A disagreeable epiiode, especially to the indiscreet individual who was the cause of it, occurred at Guildhall at an early stage of the proceedings in connection with the presentation of the freedom of the City of London to Earl Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury. A misguided gentleman shouted out at the moment that Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury were saluting the Lord Mayor, " Traitors to the Constitution." He. paid heavily for his indecent and untimely exclamation. He Mas hurled from his seat by the indignant, crowd, and in a couple of minutes was expelled ,the room, his coat torn, his body bruised' and bleeding. Thus was the honour of Jingoism satisfied. The American, sail-boat Nautilus, which has been reported near the English coast by different vessels lately arrived, reached the Lizard Point on July 31, but the only safe course to be adopted was putting back into Mount's Bay, and about noon the little craft was run into Nullian Cove. Her length over all is 19ft.; her breadth, 6ft." 7in.; and her depth, 2ft. 3in. She draws 6iin. of water. At the masthead were flying the American and French flags. The two men, named Andrews, who brought her over, are typical Americans, apparently well educated. The log they have kept of the voyage is well written, and interspersed with many original and quaint remarks. They say that they have never been to sea before, but have coasted in fishing-boats. One, the elder, is by trade a pianoforte-maker;

and the younger, Walter, a joiner. Their object now is to get across to the Paris Exhibition.