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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3043, 15 November 1878, Page 2

The Ladies' Benevolent Society's annual flower show will take place in the Academy of Music on next Wednesday, and we hear that the prizes to be given on that occasion will be of a superior kind, the lady collectors having been very successful in their annual canvas. Besides money prizes there will be valuable fancy and useful articles, and for every exhibit three prizes will be offered, thus offering extra inducement to exhibitors to make the show attractive to visitors.

We noticed with pleasure that our fellow citizen, Mr H. Mcllhone, was presented with an addition to his family in the shape of a son on the morning of the 13th instant, the day set apart by Act of Parliament for the election of County Councillors. Knowing the paternal parent for his election proclivities, and all matters connected therewith, we regard the event as peculiarly auspicious and significant, and we have no doubt that the infant son will turn out to be " a chip of the old block :" certainly, if he takes after his father, he will in time become an active agent in political affairs—perhaps attain to the position of County Chairman, or even that of Premier. In order to signalise the event the successful candidates and those particularly engaged in Wednesday's proceedings, should be selected as godfathers, and if the happy parents are at a loss ■ for. names, we would suggest that they should be chosen from the nomenclature of the successful candidates. Call him, for instance, Alexander Brodie Brown Coutts Fraser Porter Mcllhone— in fact, an alphabetical naming. A boy born on such a day should have something by which he can be identified when the history of the County system comes to be written.

A cbiceet match, Colonials v. The World, will be played at Parawai Gardens to-morrow. The teams will be selected from the . follownig, who are requested to be on the ground:— Colonials: Burgess, Hargreaves, Gellion, Bull, Buttle, Cameron, Waddington, Gudgeon, Gray, McGregor, S. C. Schofield, Young, Lumsden, and McLean. The World: Smeaton, Lawless, Paul, Murphy, Potts, Lough, Crump, Whitford, Schofield, R. Baxter, T. Baxter, Wardell, West, Steadman, Munrp, and Mills.

A MEETING of the promoters of the proposed Thames Woollen Factory was held yesterday, at which there were present Messrs L. Ehrenfried (in the, chair), F. C. Dean, Alexander Brodie and W. McCullough. The latter reported that when he was in the South recently he, bad visited the Woollen factories at NelBon and Kaiopoi and had obtained some information regarding the cost of plant and working. One of the principal items in the cost of working was the motive power, which could be obtained here at little cost if the large water supply was taken advantage of. Some papers and documents on the subject were considered, and Mr McCullough was requested to prepare a report on the project, embracing all necessary information regarding the establishment of a Woollen Factory, to be submitted and considered at a future meeting to be held as soon as possible.

Among the wonderful effects of the floods the following may be chronicled. It is said that Mr Harvey'i barn, which floated away when the rirer was at its highest, has Jbeen found at Oamaru, stranded on the beach, so that it must hare been carried out to sea, and then driven by the current and winds along the coast to the point indicated. The bags of grain inside, says the Clutha Times, were found with Mr Harvey's brand on them. We give the statement as it was received by us. Another lees remarkable item is that the schoolhouse whioh was removed from Inch Clutha during the flood is occupying an upright position at Saddle Hill.—Dunedin Herald,

The adjourned meeting of the Committee appointed to report on the Tararu and Karaka Tunnel scheme was held at the Pacific Hotel yesterday. Present— The Mayor (in the chair), Messrs Brodie, Souter, Aitken, Murray, McCullough, Greenville, Renshaw, and Otto. The several proposals submitted as the basis of the scheme were discussed at some length, and ultimately Messrs Otto and McCullough were named as a sub-com-mittee to draw up a circular and forward the same to gentlemen well versed in mining company matters, setting forth the nature of the scheme, and asking those jgentlemen to prepare draft prospectuses. Several of the gentlemen present expressed themselves in sanguine terms as to the success of the company, and their approval of the scheme to combine capital and labor in carrying it OUt. '■'■■'• , ■.«•. ■ •■ ': ■ . '

Caff. Best, Harbor Master, received the following telegram from Capt. Edwin this afternoon:—" Expect bad weather from N.W. to W. and round to S.W. Glass fall soon. Expect hard gale 24 hours.—E. Edwin."

A schooner arrived in the harbor this afternoon supposed to be the Atlantic from Lyttelton with a cargo of bread* Btufis.

The continuation of the water table from the place where it was laid down some time since in Pollen street east is now proceeding. The asphalt pavement is completed from Willoughby street corner to Mr Bobbett's shop, where it was proposed to commence the three feet wide footpath. Mr Garrett's protest seems to hare had the effect he and his neighbors wished, as the water table only is being done, the wooden footpath undergoing repair. In carrying oat this work it appears to us that it would have been better to have commenced at Cochrane street or Karaka bridge, where the footpaths are simply execrable.

Ms A. J. Allom wishes to acknowledge through the medium of our columns the receipt of 10s from the Rev. Mr Nixon to the Colombo Accident Relief Fund.

A San Francisco telegram in the Melbourne Argus announces that the Australian Cricketers had arrived in San Francisco, and were to leave in the outgoing mail for Australia on the 28th of October.

Aw American gentleman who not long since obtained a ticket and paid a lengthened visit to the Boyal Arsenal at Woolwich, said to a friend on his return: —"I have seen; the arsenals on the Continent of Europe and those in my own country, but I have been astonished—indeed, may say, appalled—at what I have seen at Woolwich. You ought to make no difficulty about showing it to foreigners You have only to admit them freely; let them see your preparations, and no country in the world would think of fighting you."—Ex.

One of the questions asked the gaoler of the Wellington Gaol at the late Commission of enquiry was, " What part of the treatment is most irksome to prisoners, and what do they most complain of ? " the answer given to which is, " Loss of liberty — being kept constantly and steadily at hard labour, and being unable to obtain newspapers." We have been assured by several gaol authorities, says the Post, that the prisoners miss the newspapers as much as they would their tobacco if deprived of it.,

A Wesleyan clergyman ou Bendigo, according to a Victorian journal, has taken a singular plan of pointing out to his people their shortcomings in the way of properly supporting their church. On one Sunday recently he says that 1135 coins were collected. These consisted of. 1 half-sovereign, 9 half-crowns, 10 florins, 146 shillings, 495 sixpences, and 3 pennies. He estimated that 2300 persons attended the church, so that the average subscription from each was 3£.

The first prize of £1500 in Mr Cameron's £4COO sweep on the Melbourne Cup falls to Mr M'Donald, a fellmonger, at the North end of the town, the £500 prize to Mr Maitland, of Oamaru, fend the wife of a publican in Walker street the £250, or third prize. In Mr 'Dodson's £1000 consultation, Calamia was bought for £32 10s, and, the same horse in another large sweep for £20, the buyers now have a profit of £200 each upon their bargain. The second prize in Mr Dodson's goes to a well-known City Auctioneer, and the third prize to a resident of Port Chalmers. One party of ten took 33 tickets, and got nothing. We beard of one person who took 100 tickets, and only drew one horse. £1 invested by four persons brought them an interest worth £150 in one sweep, and one worth £25 or £30 in another.—Dunedin Herald.

A coebespondent informs the Echo that the breakfast on the occasion of the Prince of Wales' visit to unveil the statue of the Prince Consort cost £2000. The Thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales cost £13,000. That, too, was the amount spent in the reception of the Emperor of Russia. The Sultan's cost £30,000! The flowers alone at the reception of the Prince of Wales on his return from India cost £2000. The banquet in honor of the Czar, £2676. The upholstery bill was nearly £7000 more. The cost of the menu cards at the dinner wai £93. £170 was spent in bands, £25 for wands, £22 for gloves, £282 in gratuities, and £7 upon corkscrews. The flowers at the Shah's reception cost £527, and the gloves at the Czar's £57. There is now a big bill to pay for the installation of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury as freemen of the Gity.