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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3101, 25 January 1879, Page 2

Wb are requested to state that the Rotomahana will be down on Monday (as per time table), having bad her repairs effected, and will leave the Burke street Wharf on Tuesday at 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. (twice that day).

It has been brought to our notice that a great deal of silt was still being carried out to sea for want of a few feet of reclaiming wall, returning from the extreme end of the North wall in a line with the Moanatairi tip, and so we are glad to hear the Chairman of the Harbor Board has given instructions to have the necessary work done.

We understand that Mr T. Rawdon has been requested to become a candidate for reelection to the Waiotahi School Committee, the election for which takes place on Monday, and that it is probable he will accede to the request.

Theee wai a clean sheet at the R.M. Court to-day.

The annual treat to the school children of the Tararu District, which has now become a regular institution, and is looked forward to eagerly by the children, and which also is a matter of considerable interest to many parents, took place at the Tararu Gardens yesterday, and was in every respect a decided success. The pupils of the school, to the number of 220, mustered at the snhool-house at 9.30 a.m. and were marched, under the supervision of their teachers, to the gardens, where, after about two hours of thorough enjoy* ment amongst themselves, their creature comforts were attended to in a most plentiful and substantial manner. After dinner, the young people jumped, ran races &0., for a number of prizes, kindly given by an anonymous donor, which occupied the time, till shortly after four o'clock, when the tea was provided in the same bounteous manner that dinner had been, and too much credit cannot be given to those ladies, who, so kindly and at no small personal inconvenience undertook the charge of the commissariat. After tea all ordinary juvenile amusements were indulged in and at dusk the singing of " God save the Queen," the customary cheering, and a distribution of sweets terminated one of the most successful children's entertainments ever held in the most agreeable suburban retreat on the Thames.

I? our paternal Government should be aroused to a sense of its -''duty" by the recent alarming leaders in the Advertiser, we shall soon all have to go soldiering, or at least, drilling, or perhaps have to sleep frequently in the titree: meanwhile let ub make ourselves as contented as possible; pianos and harmoniums for the amusement of our leisure, and comfortable bedsteads and bedding may be obtained at J. G-rigg's, Pollen street. All goods marked at lowest cash prices. Credit by agreement.—J. Gbigg.