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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3030, 31 October 1878, Page 2

A meeting of miners and others interested in the formation of the projected Karaka arid Tarctru Tunnel Company will be held at the Pacific Hotel to»morrow evening at half-past seven o'clock. The scheme of this tunnel originated some three or four years ago, but it ia only now that the necessary authority has been brought to bear on the matter and the carrying out of the scheme is feasible. Almost all the practical men who have expressed an opinion on the scheme seem to think that its carrying out will be attended with satisfactory results, and we trust that the company will when started be successful. It behores all who hare an interest in the success of the district to attend the meeting to-morrow night.

We hare been requested to remind the members of the Thames Eifle Banger Corps of their inspection to-night by Major Withers.

The annual flower show in connection witE the Hauraki Ladies' Benevolent Society will be held on Wednesday, the 13th proximo. In our advertisement columns appears a list of the flowers, fruits and vegetables for which prizes will be giren. The former shows of the Society have been highly successful, and this year will doubtless be no exception. We understand that the Thames Cricket Club intended playing the first of their scratch matches this afternoon at Parawai. The sides were to $4 chosenon the ground, and the scores will come to hand too late for insertion in to-night's issue-. We believe that it is the intention of the committee to have weekly scratch matches, and on. Saturdays (weather permitting), will have a series of good matches. . ,

Major " Mxjbeat yesterday afternoon received from Ohinemftbi a requisition signed by a number of inhabitants asking to be enrolled as volunteers to form a detachment of the Thames Scottish battalion. The memorial! was handed to Major Withers, by whom it will be forwarded to the Defence Minister, and we have no doubt the request will be granted, and the nucleus of a third company be formed. .

The presentation portrait shield to exSuperintendent J. E. Macdonald, of photographs of the officers and men of the Shortland Firs Brigade, is on exhibition at Mr Dann's Furniture warehouse, Pollen street. The photographs were taken by Messrs Foy Bros, in their usual excellent style, and the frame is the work of Mr F. Dann, the whole forming a handsome picture. > .

The County Chairman received the following Very satisfactory telegram yesterday evening :—" Telegraph to Sir George Grey to get a portion of the money voted for deep-level prospecting— £15,000—set aside for Thames. I shall interview Ministers to-morrow on the subject." The following message was sent to the Premier:—"Mr Bbwe has informed me that the House has voted £15,000 for deep level prospecting on goldfields. I deem it unnecessary to remind you that Thames has strongest claims to consideration for portion of vote, expenditure of whioh would undoubtedly exercise a powerful influence for good upon the future of the colony.—A. Beodib."

The Directors of the City of Glasgow Bank presented their 39th annual report to the shareholders on the 3rd of last July. The balance-sheet showed liabilities, deposits at head office and branches; and balances at the credit of banking correspondents, £8,102,001 os4d; notes in circulation, £710,252; drafts, &c, £1,488,244 18s 6d, making a total of indebtedness to the public of £10,3G0,497 18s lOd. In addition to this, the liability to partners amounted to £1,592,095^ 12s lOd. The assets were stated to beeBills, credit accounts, and other advances upon security, £8.484,466 9s 2d; advances upon heritable property, bank buildings and furniture, £265,324 9s; cash on Hand, Government bills, railway stock, and balances in hands of banking correspondents, £3,142,802 13s 6d. The profit for the year was shown to be £142,095 12s lOd, and a dividend of 12 per cent., free of income tax, was declared. This is, we believe, the second time the Bank has had to suspend payment.

Evbrtbody (says Atlas in the World) knows how fond Lord Beaconafield.is of a surprise., One of the moil intelligent Jews I erer met with said to me the other day, " He has yet a great surprise in store for you, and it will be the greatest act of his life. He will die a Jew, and be buried beside his father in the graveyard' of the Jews at Mile-end. He was baptized by a trick of the poet Rogers, and no Jew is ever sincere in renouscing the religion of his race. He will die' a Jew, I tell you." There is something to be said in favor of this view; but I believe the greatest charm of Christianity in the eyes of Lord Beaconsfield, and its firm hold over him, is contained in the fact which he himself pointed but in the celebrated twenty-fourth chapter of Lord George Bentinok's biography, that one half of the civilised world worships a Jew and the other a Jewess. A man so strongly impressed with such • view as Lord JBeaconifield mist no doubt feel that i

it feeds and flatters his pride of race quite enough to keep him true to the religion of his knighthood, and to make him content with burial beside his wife instead of beside his father.