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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3013, 11 October 1878, Page 2

. The following is the substance of the agreement;' entered into between New South Wales and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, as telegraphed by the Hon. Mr Burns toMrßerry, the ratification of which by the Parliament of Victoria we were advised of by .submarine cable yesterday. The reductions agreed to are considerable, showing that the recent Trlegcaph Conference (of which this agreement is the outcome) was not entirely barren of results :—" Chairman of the Extension Company has telegraphed yiat he is willing to allow 75 per cent reduction of press messages over their own linesi without any restriction as •to combination. The company cannot at present control lines between India and England, which have hitherto prevented completion of agreement; but even paying Indian lines in. full, the terms wouia be a reduction td 6s Id pef word for messages between Port Darwin and London, as against the present charge of 9s sd; Government messages to be 6s 6d ; as against 9s sd. We are, of course, to receive the benefit of any reduction which may hereafter be made in the charge on the lines t between India and England. The company also desire that the right to purchase cable shall not be exercisable until the company has for five years paid dividends equal to 10 per cent."

Of Judge Keogh, whose death is announced by calogram to-day, " Men o^ the Time " has the following:—Keogh', the Right Hon. William, son of the late William M. Keogh, of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the Crown for the county and city of Kilkenny, born in 1817, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated and obtained the highest! honors in science and history. He entered as a Student atLincoln'>s Inn, was called to the Irish Bar in 18dO, became a Q.C. in 1849, and on the formation of Lord Aberdeen's Coalition Ministry, in 1852, was offered the post of SolicitorGeneral for Ireland. Though with the late John Sadleir, and other Irish members, ho had agreed not to take office under any government which did not concede the repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, he accepted the Solicitor-Generalship, which he held till 1855, wtien he became Attorney-General, and was sworn a Privy Councillor for Ireland. He was returned to the Uouse of Commons as member for Athlone in Aug., 1847, and continued to,

represent that borough till April, 1853, when he was made one of the Judges; of the Common Plena in Ireland. Judge "Keogh is. the author of some political pamphlets, of a work on the " Practice of the Court of Chancery in Ireland," and of an essay upon the prose writings of Milton.

In the first and fourth pages of to-day's issue will be found the report of yesterday afternoon's Parliamentary, Stanley's Impressions of White Men and other reading matter. ' -

There was a clean sheet at the E.M. Court to day.

The opening match of the season of the Thames Cricket i 'lab will be played at Pajawai to-morrow botn-een the first eleven and the next twenty-two. The former will be represented 1 by Messrs Steedman, Whitford, Burgess, Lawless, Hargreaves, Bull, Youug, Buttle, Lumsden, Paul, and Crump; and the latter by Messrs West, Eowe, Bayldon, Pickett, Gellion, Siueaton, Murphy, McGregor, Baxter, Baxter, Cameron', Carrick, Lough, Potts, Tregonning, McLean, Gudgeon, Pulleine, Heron, Woodward, Ferguson, Davies, Mills, Otway, Otway, Connell, and Schofield. The game will commence at twe o'clock . sharp,- and players are requested to be punctual.

WE-regret to learn that the cause of education is about to sustain a severe loss by the departure for Australia of Miss Bowen, senior assistant teacher of the Tararu School. Miss Bowen has for a long time been on the teaching staff of schools in this dislrict, and her genial disposition and high qualifications "as an instructor of the young, have won for her the affection of her pupils and the esteem of the committees under whom she had worked. We hear that a iuoTement is on foot in Tararu distriti to make Miss Bowen a suitable presentation on her severing her connection with the' school.

The Hauraki Engineers muster to-night at .the usual hour for parade. Competition in drill is to take place between several aspirants for posts as non-commis-sioned officers, there being vacancies in the corps for one company sergeant-major, three sergeants, two corporals and six second corporals. When these are'appointed the non-commissioned ranks will be filled up in the proportion observed in a service company of Eoyal Engineers. It is not- intended by the officers to ap< point their sergeant-major for a few months, as considerable emulation may be expected for that onerous and responsible rank. With good non-commissioned officers for the supernumerary rank and for field works, the Engineers will doubtless maintain their character as one of the leading corps of New Zealand.