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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3148, 21 March 1879, Page 2

-11 The Rev. D. Button will lecture at tbe Congregational Church this evening upoir -the subject: "Knowledge, its importanoe and how to attain it." The lecture is one *bf a series i»~«onn«ction with the. Thames? Toung M^. cfctiw^ Aviation, W trjeated by so able a speaker as Rer. Mr 'Button, should be very interesting. His Worship the Mayor has been requesjefll t# preside. We "trust to see a good attendance, which will encourage the AsRelation to continue their efforts in this" direction.

/ fWb have received a copy of the first number of the New Zealand Free Press, published in Auckland. The editor writes p*fcy jgrent # length • rfspectinfj; the action taken to. stifle th| Auckland 5 Free Press/andupol* "in^end^d* io be followed for the future by his paper. A lecture by fier. C. Chiniquy, a chapter of a new tale, some extract matter.rand a reply to some remarks ditiejia&lit make up remaining portion of ihuusfre. '" " ' We notice in the manifest of the Star of the North no less than 76 packages for our enterprising townsman Mr J. Marshall. This should be good news to his customers, the latest fashions and the best goods of tha^ season coping to hand. Thk followingjubicriptions have been handed to the Treasurer of the Grahamstown Volunteer Fire Brigade :—G. Symington, 20s ; Stone Bros., 20s; T. Short, 20s; James Renahaw, 21s; Geo. Denby, 21s; R.U. McGregor, 21s; W. Maho]|ißl^2l«f J^as. Marshall, 21s; W. EoweV 20s iMJ Arllaway, 20s; R. Burra 20s; J. W. Hall. 10s; J. Muir, 10s; C*.' Joslin, 2s 6d, and W. Davies, ss.

A FOTTB-boomed house was burned down on Saddle Hill, Dunedin, on Thursday under suspicious circumstances. It was occupied rby one Bartels, who declares that last night, when a quarter of a mile from home, he was accosted by a man on horseback, with his face muffled, who said, "You will lose more than a little blood to-night." At the same time the ruffian struck him with a whip. Shortly afterwards, Bartels says, he saw smoke issuing from his shop; The place was insured in the .New Zealand office for £100. jqfji A ceicket match will be played tomorrow afternoon at Parawai between the second eleven of the T.C.C. and first eleven of the Union. Flayers are requested to be punctual; play to commence at 2 p.m. sharp. The second eleven of the T.C.C. are—Bull, Munro, Buttle, Gellion, Beere, Lumsden, Grey, Young, Gudgeon, Heron, and Murphy. Emergency man — Tregonning. The Dnion team will be : Bozall, Hunter, J. Smith^G. Smith, Gribble, JLough.George, Mills, Williams, Hoskins, McM Han, and Fieney emergency man.

In an information heard before the Court this day, and laid by a well-known solicitor, it was stated that the plaintiff sues the defendant for that a certain dog, the property of the defendant, on divers days, and times during the month of February, 1878, broke into and entered the land of the plaintiff, situate at Owha* roa, in the Thames County, and killed the same. *

We are requested to remind ratepayers that those who do not pay their rates before the end of this month forfeit their electoral privileges for a year.

Fbom an advertisement in another column it will be seen that Mr Byers and Miss Julia Hudson, the accomplished artistes, will appear at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening in one of their favorite programmes. We would refer our readers to the advertisement for full particulars.