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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3032, 2 November 1878, Page 2

Messes Frater Bros/ Share; Investors' Guide for November is issued—this time in a more compact and handy form than the first issue. Its use is well appreciated. "' ', ■ ;''' "■ : ".r-";" ■'-' ;

Mb Wm. Eowb, M.H.E., was entertained at dinner last night by a number of gentlemen formerly resident on the Thames but now in Wellington. Mr John Gwynneth, C.E., was in the chair, and the affair is reported as having been a great success. ; i ,

At the B.M. Court, this morning the only business was a case of permitting two calves to wander at large, for which the defendant was punished in the usual manner.

A. Taubanga correspondent of the Herald says it has been determined to start a new journal there. The extensive plant brought out by Mr Vesey Stewart.is to be at once utilised. Extensive support has been promised to the new journal, which is to be the same size as the Auckland Star, and will be issued bi-weekly.

The Naval gun boat, with about 35 members of the corps, under Captain Wildman and Lieut. Bennett, left here last night for Coromandel, for the purpose of attending the benefit tendered by the Naval Christy Minstrel Troupe to. exbandsman Avery who is blind. This morning forty more left in the steamer Piako and the company's gig, Mr Robert Comer having with praiseworthy generosity placed his smart little steamer at the disposal of the Navals gratis. On leaving the wharf the band played several airs, and three cheers were given for Mr Robert Comer. Lieutenant Gavin was in charge of those who went this morning The performance will be given this evening, and it will donbtless be a great success, as we learn no less than 400 tickets at 3s each have been sold at Coromandel, while the Navals also purchased tickets.

Most people who hare indulged in the mild dissipation which going into " society " entails, and which frequently results in " taking it out in the morning," hare experienced the deplorable inconvenience of a rude awakening by the milkman or some other untimely morning caller. It is not pleasant at any time to be roused from your first sleep, whether, it be during Jhose hours before midnight which writers oh health so fervidly praise, or in the shorter hours before sunrise. In any case it is voted a nuisance, and conduces to the use of forcible language. A case occurred yesterday morning, in which the occupants of a bachelor establishment in the fashionable suburb of Block 27 were aroused by a pertinacious " knocking at their door." Some of them had been "at a party," and the knocking, commenced in a modest soirt^fashion, wasoontinued

until sleep was rendered somewhat impossible ; Still the knocking was kept up at regular intervals, becoming more pronounced at each recurrence. One of. the ■ sleepers, more tired than the rest/ was at last thoroughly roused, and throwing off the blankets he tumbled out of bed t6 take a look at the disturber of his repose: He saw at the door a small boy with an envelope in his hand. " A telegram," thought he. On going to the door he was handed an envelope accompanied by a request to " buy a ticket" for some teafight or muffin scramble. His answer may be guessed, but a regard for the proprieties prevents us from reproducing the flood of eloquence which accompanied his dismissal of that small boy.

The Elder troupe of gymnasts, song and dancistg, etc., will make their first appearance here this evening at the Theatre Royal. The troupe have been very successful in the various places throughout the colony which they have visited, and the opinions of the press speak highly of their performance. The singing and dancing of the two little boys, Masters A. and H. Elder, is said to be wonderful, and Mr J. Elder, the onelegged gymnast, is a clever acrobat.

A musical and literary entertainment of rather a varied and extensive character will be given by the Shortland Wesleyan choir and friendi on Wednesday evening. Mr May (of Shortland) will play the cornet accompaniments,, etc, during the evening, and as they have not spared any trouble in getting it up, we might expect a treat in every way. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Choir.

Thb survey of the Waimate Plains is being proceeded with very rapidly. The surveyors are now engaged (on the inland side of the main road, and the natives are on most friendly terms with the men, and numbers daily visit them. Even Titokowaru and his men often come uninvited to dinner. The natives, have also shown their friendship by allowing the men connected with, the-survey .party to bail up two of their cows and to have the milk from them, besides showing many other little acts of kindness. One party of the surveyors is engaged cutting the block boundary on the inland; side of the road near Kauri. The line is three and one-eighth miles straight over everything, and runs up a wooded gully on the high land above the plains. Another party is surveying the land a short distance from the, road.

" Men of the Time " has the following biographical sketch of Cardinal Cullen, whose death was reported by calogram yesterday: — " Cullen, Cardinal Paul, Eoman Catholic archbishop of Dublin, born in Ireland about 1800, left his native country at an early age to study in Rome, where he remained thirty years, during a considerable portion of which he was Hector of the Irish College, and member of several ecclesiastical congregations in that city. The death of Dr Crolly, Eoman Catholic archbishop of Armagh, which took place in 1849, was followed by a difference of opinion amongst the Irish suffragans as to the nomination of his successor. Many of the Irish Eoman Catholic bishops having suggested the name of Dr Cullen, he received, at the hands of Pius IX., his appointment to Armagh, was consecrated Eoman Catholic " Primate of all Ireland" in 1850, and was transferred thence to Dublin in the following year, on the death of Dr Murray. He is strongly opposed to the mixed system of education represented by the government schools and newly* founded Queen's colleges, and as he was one of the first to conceive the idea of a Eoman Catholic University in Dublin, so he has ever proved himself a patron of that institution and the main pillar of its support in Ireland. He was proclaimed Cardinal in June, 1866, being the first Irish bishop who since the era of the Seformation has been advanced to that dignity."

WATBE'KiCB extension—Harbor works — Railway works — Karaka tunnel —-Tararu; flourmill—What aext P food, money, plenty for all. " Adyance Thames! "' To keep pace with the times J. G-BIOG is increasing his already large stock of Pianos, Harmoniums, Sewing Machines, &c, and offers bis goods on terms within the reach of .all persevering citizens.—J. GteiOG, Pollen street. —[Advt.]