THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1879.
A fbessube of telegrams, and the continuation of our report of proceedings at the banquet to the Hon. John Sheehan, necessitate a curtailment of the reports of some deputations to-day, and the exclusion of leading and local matter. The Eotomahana will leave the Burke street wharf to-night at 11.30 o'clock, and in consequence will make no trip from the Thamei to-morrow. In the last number of the Australasian Sketcher appears a picture of a giant blue gum tree in some part of Victoria which measures 44 feet in circumference. A gentleman from the Kauaerauga informs us that any one wishing to see a forest giant of similar size can do so by risiting the Kauaeranga Bush, where there are three immense Kauri trees —two of which measure 43 feet in circumference, while that of the third is one foot greater. We hare been requested to state that the drawing for Mrs Addey's Art Union will not take place until the 20th of February, and that particulars of time and place will be duly published through I our columns.
Complaints hare lately been made of the depredations of petty thieves on the candles used for lighting the asphalt aud water table works. These candles are fixed to the lanterns by pieces of itring, but when the man whose duty it is to light them has come to do so once or twice lately, the candles have been yon est.
The Thames Boating Club hare received the invoice of their long-expected, racing gig, which should arrive in Auckland in about a fortnight, having, been shipped aboard the Endymion, now nearly due. The boat is a four-oared outrigger, with all the latest improvements, such as sliding seats, &c, and,will carry Iti! U stone crew, and we have only to metitibn that it has been turned out" by' the celebrated English firm of Salter and Co., which is sufficient guarantee of the general excellence of the boat. It will be one of the best gigs in the Colony. When the boat was ordered the committee became guarantee for the money, on which some £20 of the amount promised is not yet to hand, and the boat will not be unpacked till all the money has been paid. We trust those who have not yet paid will " ante up " at once.
The London correspondent of the New York Times, referring to Dr McCabe, the coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese, and the probable successor of Cardinal Culleri, says:—Dr McCabe has long been connected with the diocese, and is very much esteemed for his mildness of character and abstention from interference in politics." ' The Wellington Chronicle says that Sir George Grey appears quite hale and hearty after his trip to the North.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3092, 15 January 1879, Page 2
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469THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1879. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3092, 15 January 1879, Page 2
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