THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1878.
A meeting was held in the Council Chambers this morning for the purpose of considering the following telegram :■— " Wellington, November 20th.—James Kilgour, Mayor, Grahamstown.—ln reply to your telegram of yesterday I am directed' to reply that prior to commencing work numerous necessary steps have to be taken. —John Enowi.es, U.S. P.W.'* Present—The Mayor, County; Chairman, Chairman of the' Harbor Board, and Councillors Bagnall. and Porter. The telegram was in reply to one sent to Mr Macandrew, asking that steps might be at once taken in the formation of the. railway. The result of the meeting was that the following telegram was sent: —" Under Secretary of Public Works.—Be telegram of yestetday, we are aware that numerous necessary steps have to be taken, and it is to get those steps at once taken we now address you. Will you authorise the Commissioners now in Auckland to visit Thames and start survey. Sir George Grey has requested us to ascertain your views as regards this, and to telegraph your reply to him to Kawau." ,
Thebe was a large attendance at the Flower Show last evening, the hall being crowded. The Mayor presided, and, after making a brief speech, called upon Mr G. N. Phillips to read the ninth annual report of the Ladies' Benevolent Society. The.balance sheet showed that the total receipts had been £92 18s 6d, and the expenditure £7 9s lid lets. Mr Benshaw moved and Mr Ehrenfried seconded the adoption, of the, report. Carried. Several lady and gentleman amateurs then enlivened the proceedings with a musical interlude. Mesdames Kilgour and Payne, Misses Mason and' Hunter and Messrs Airey, Pulleine and Meachem sang songs. Mrs JDodd and Miss Belcher ably officiated at the piano. After 1 the musical entertainment Messrs Craig and Gudgeon sold a number of the exhibits by auction, The total receipts of the show were £44 8s Bd.
vlk our report of the prize-takers at tbe Flower Show we stated that Mr Wildman took the second prize for the best cactus; it should have been Mr Wiseman of Brown street.
This afternoon several smalF boys were running down the Albert street wharf with the goods truck when a dog belonging to Mr Paul, of the Bank of New South Wales, got on the line.' The truck, which was going at great speed at the time, ran over the dog's leg and broke it, and" at the same time the wheels of the truck got off the line and fell over the side of the wharf into the mud. Some of the boys had a narrow escape from also going over the wharf.
Pbince Henry of Germany will shortly visit New Zealand in a msn-o'-war.
We wish to call attention to the advertisement fo* a public meeting thiseveaiug re the Karaka and Tararu Tunnel scheme..
The schooner Reward has arrived from Auckland, and has commenced to load at the Burke street Wharf with timber for Lyttelton.' Her present cargo will be 32,000 feet.
We are requested to state that the subcommittee appointed by the Hospital Committee, to collect subscriptions towards providing prizes for the Annual! Demonstration will make their rounds in the course of a day or two.
Ouk other member—Mr William Eowe —who was expected to arrive by steamer to-day, adviaes us by telegram that he "cannot possibly come to-day, but positively to-morrow." '
At Mr Frater's office the friends of Mr MeCullough met last night for the purpose of considering the best means to secure Mr McCullough's return as Mayor for the coming term of office. Mr Bobt. Comer was called to the chair, and at once stated the object he had in calling the meeting, and the desirability of returning Mr McCullough as Mayor for next year. Several other gentlemen spoke in complimentary terms of Mr McCullough and their willingness to assist at the coming election. A very large general committee, was formed, and the Chairman and Mr Mcllhone were appointed to see that several sub-committees were nominated And other necessary steps taken to secure' the return of Mr McCuJlough. - ■ i
We learn that Mr Watson, the contractor for the erection of the new Thames School, is put to considerable trouble and expense by , a number of children congregating on the school lite in the evening and playing about the timber. In an advertisement in another column Mr Watson warns parents to j keep their children away from the. timber. •■ •.■ ■ * . ' ' • ■' | The new brigantine Oamaru recently ' launched at Mahurangi, and of which Messrs Bagnall Brothers are part owners, is at present loading with timber at the Hauraki Sawmills. This shipment will be about 120.0 C J feet, and is- for Messrs Montgomery Brothers, : of Christ church^ This is the maiden trip of the Oamaru, which is a fine vessel of 156 tons register, We heartily wish the enterprising firm of Messrs Bagnall Brothers success in their new venture.
Yestbbdat some men were employed repairing the All Nations' shaft, and when they knocked off one of them carelessly left a candle burning against the woodwork. The oonsequence was that (ibis morning* it was found that the timbers of about IC3 feet of the shaft had. been burnt,,together with, the poppet legs.
Thb police instituted enquiries into the circumstances attending the setting on fire of the City of London hopper on Saturday afternoon, and discovered that three little imps not out of knickerbockers had been the would-be Cyrus Haleys. The young rascals conyeyed a large quantity of straw, fragments of rope, chips, and other inflammatory material, into the hopper, and then. induced a boy of weak intellect to set it on fire, and but for the timely discovery of the fire, £400 or £500 worth of ? property would hare been destroyed. Owing to the extreme youth of the lads the Queen of Beauty Company, who own the hopper, will not prosecute them. Complaints about larrikinism have been pretty frequent of late, and the gay and festive youngsters in the habit of indulging in these pranks will hare to be careful, or a few of them will shortly be looking bitterly repentant at theR.M. Court. !
At a recent meeting of a Harbor Board in the Provincial district of Auckland a circular letter' was received from the Commissioner of Customs, notifying the said Board of the existence of two islands named Rennells and Bellona somewhere near Formosa, off the coast of China. The circular gave their position and general features. Why it was sent to them the Board could not imagine. One- gentleman, with not the slightest distortion of his facial muscles, proposed, "That tenders be called for the immediate removal of the islands of Rennells and Bellona." Another member- remarked that'they had no funds for such a purpose, and the matter was finally relegated to the Chairman' and a committee to consider what was best to be done under: the circumstances. . ' The London Referee has the following —"Mr W. G. Grace had the control of the arrangements respecting the Southern te~m which played at Nottingham a fortnight since for the benefit of : George Parr, and for the ser. vices of his side he claimed and was paid £75. His eleven consisted of four gentlemen, who paid their own expenses, and did not play for ! hire, four professionals, who each received 30s a day; himself, his brother, end his cousin (Mr Gilbert). The payment fo the professionals accounts for £28, leaving a nice little balance of «£57 for division .amongst ' the family,' and a very comfortable family arrangement, too. But they subscribed to the benefit fund ? you will ask. Nothing cf .the kind. Not one of ' the family' names is set down for so much as sixpence ; while Kichard Daft, professional, appears as a donor of .£5 to the fund, and he did not charge a farthing for his services. Such appears to be the difference in these days between a ' gentleman ' and a professional cricketer. This is by no means an exceptional incident, and a good many leading cricketers have got so accustomed'to these, arrange' ments that they cu,n see. no reason whatever for alteration. Truly, use is second ■ nature."
The Dunedin Morning Herald says :— A building in which timber is to be dried in the American fashion is being erected for Messrs Guthrie and Larnach's^ Com-' pany in Bond street. The building is a continuation of their present premises, and will be 6Gft. by 75ft., and have a height of 20ft. The timber wUI be dried by currents of hot air, and the heat will be generated by utilising for the purpose the exhaust steam of the engine; 70,000 cubic feet of timber will be able to undergo the process at one time; and working the stock by rotation, 10,000 ft. per day will be turned out. The timber will be stacked on cars, and while at the first stage'the air. will be comparatively cool, the seventh temperature will be about 130 degrees. No handling of the timber is required, each car simply being moved forward every day. Mr Minto,. who is superintending the erection of the interior arrangements, is agent for the patent* right, and Mr. E. M. Eoaoh is architect for the building.
A Yankee widow refused an* offer of marriage.because she didn't now what to do with her first wedding ring.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3048, 21 November 1878, Page 2
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