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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3044, 16 November 1878, Page 2

Spicial' sermons will be preached at St. James' Presbyterian Church to-mor-row in connection with the introduction into the church of the splendid sew harmonium. In the morning the subject of the discourse will be "The Temple in Heaven," and in the evening " A visit from the dead." , ;

These was a clean sheet at the K.M. Coun.tbißmornin«At the meC ihlM of ft 6 Board of Edtt<! a; tmn h*\A ...wi. "*afternoon a memorial town and an adjacent towni,.." lor jj! erection of schools.—The Inspector, . - O'Sullivan, stated that Mr Porter had undertaken to give full information in respect of these applications.—The Board resolved to wait the report, .

Emm^tt and Ullyett get £200 a-piece and all expenses paid with Lord Harris' Team. Morley was asked to go, but had to decline, in consequence of sickness in his family.

At the Provincial Hotel, Queen street, there is on exhibition a very fine group of artificial flowers uu der plass globe, the work of Miss Nano McManus, at the Convent School of the Sisters of Mercy. The very elegant piece of work has been presented by Miss McManus for a charitable object, namely, the temporary relief of a widow with ten children, whose husband wad for some time employed by the Moanatairi Company as blacksmith. The flower group will be disposed of by art union.

The Thames must be rery dull when it causes the children to resort to incendiarism for the purpose of amusement. Some days ago a number of children set fire to the City of London hopper, but it was extinguished without much damage. This afternoou, as Mr James Garvey was coming down _ the Waio-Karaka road he heard a crackling noise in the hopper, and looking to see the cause,' saw flames issuing from the bottom, there evidently being a fire inside which had burnt through the solid planking. He procured the assistance of Mr T. Kadford, the manager of the Queen of Beauty, and others, and a few buckets of water soon extinguished the flames. The young fire-raisers had collected a large quantity of straw, wood, coal, etc., in the interior of the structure and had evidently designed a grand conflagration, as, if the flames had got way the changing-house, poppets, and probably the engine-house would have been burned down. Mr Badford intends putting the police on the track of the young vagabonds.

The Bay of Plenty Times has changed hands, Mr E. M. Edgcumbe having sold to Mr A. S. Bathbone,, for some time editor of the paper. The new proprietor promises to enlarge the paper almost immediately.