THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3164, 9 April 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1879.

The Thames Scottish Battalion and Band will parade this evening at seven o'clock sharp for their annual inspection by Colonel Lyon, who will probably be accompanied by Colonel Fraser, Honorary Colonel of the Battalion, and Doctor Kilgour, Battalion Surgeon. After the inspection several .prizes lately fired for by No 2 Company will be presented to the winners by Mrs Fraser, who kindly consented to do so at the request of Captain Watson.' As there will likely be a large muster, the whole will parade in the Academy of Music. The large hall of which and stage have been set apart exclusively for the Battalion and Band, the gallery being open for any friends or honorary members of the corps who may wish to see the inspection.

The English Mail via 'Frisco is due in Auckland to-day, but up to the hour of going to press we have received no word of the arrival of the mail steamer.

Messes Gellion and Co. will sell, at their sale rooms, .Albert street, on the 16th of April at noon, the right to sluice or remove tailings from the foreshore.

We hare been informed that an Auckland lady teacher of singing and music, Mrs Revitt, has kindly offered a* Thames gentleman to come to the Thames and sing at any entertainment or concert for a charitable purpose. This is extremely kind of Mrs Eevitt, and should be borne in mind by our amateurs when next their services are required for a laudable purpose:

These was a clean Bheet at the S.M, Court this morning.

We notice that the Borough asphalters are employed just now in filling up the gaps in the asphalt footpath in Pollen street between the Karaka bridge and Willoughby street, and also in top dressing the footpath. Want of timber prevents the Foreman of Works from pushing on with the asphalting towards Grahamstown.

One way of announcing a change of proprietorship is clipped from the Bay of Plenty Times:—As some ill-natured scoundrels have been attempting to spread a lying report lo the effect that the editor of this journal has been discharged, we beg to state once and for all that the assertion is utterly false, and was invented by blackguards well knowing it to be so. The real facts of the case are these. By last mail? Mr Eathbone received unexpected, but good news from home which entirely alters his personal prospects, and will oblige him to proceed to England at an early date. He immediately made arrangements with Mr Vesey Stewart, who kindly consented to take over the whole business, and is now (as may be gathered fr< m the imprint) sole proprietor. Mr Eathbone will relinquish his editorial duties in about two months, and leave for Europe early in July.

Mb Thomas Rawdou, Treasurer of the Grahamstown Volunteer Fire Brigade, requests us to acknowledge the receipt of the following donations to the funds of the Brigade. Mr Tiller, £1; Messrs Foy Bros., 10s 6d. Since the fire at the Commercial Hotel the Brigade has received over £30 in donations.

By the mail Mr Gudgeon received a copy of his book " The History of the War." The copyright was purchased by Mr Wayte, of Auckland, who has had the book printed in London. It is very well got up in red cloth, and has a good chalk lithograph portrait of the author as a frontispiece, and throughout fie work are portraits of Sir George Grey, Colonel Whitmore, Major Kepa, and other prominent characters mentioned in the narrative. We are informed that the whole of the first edition is bespoke, and another will have to be ordered at once.

The Enterprise brought down a large quantity of telegraph material yesterday for the extra wire to the East Coast. The work of laying it will be commenced immediately.

The Eev. John Nixon left by the Eotomahana this morning to commence his duties in Auckland. He was accompanied to the wharf by the station steward and a large number of friends, who wished him God-speed.

The body of a youth, apparently 15 years of age, was found yesterday at Waiomaru, near Maraetai. Constable McKnight, in charge of the Papakura police-station, telegraphed to the central station from Drury that the body was found on the beach at Waiomaru, near Maraetai, and that it had been buried by the Maoris. The constable had communicated with the district Coroner, and an inquest will be held on the 10th instant. No identification has taken place, but it is more than likely that the body is that of the youth Quinn who was in the boat belonging to McShane, of Chancery street, which was found a few days ago capsized in the passage to the Sandspit. -Herald.

Bicycles, especially when mounted by small boys, and ridden on the footpaths after dark, are dangerous articles —at least, so Mr T. Veale, of Parawai, found it so while going home last evening. While passing Mr Bright's house on the Parawai Road, he was suddenly struck on the back with something and knocked down, and immediately after a bicycle passed over his arm and leg. He was partially stunned for a few moments, and on coming to his senses again, found the bicycle, or rather the debris thereof, lying on him, while it's rider was sitting on the middle of the road, nursing his shin and uttering ejaculations of pain, probably caused by being shot a dezen feet through the air on to the hard metal road. Mr Veale was severely bruised, but managed to limp home, while the youthful owner of the bicycle wheeled his machine towards Shortland, looking considerably crestfallen.

A hew species of " narrow escape," is reported by the Nelson Colonist. Shortly before midnight a man was found lying at full length in the roadway, and the discoverers in endeavouring to satisfy themselves as to whether the man was really dead drunk, or whether h» had fallen in a fit, consumed all the matches they possessed, throwing them as they were expiring upon the ground. Being satisfied that the man was drunk, the services of the police were called in aid, and with the light obtained it was found that the man was surrounded by packages of powder and shot, which apparently he had dropped. Had one of those matches touched the powder, not only the Samaritans, but the, man likewise, would have quitted that spot even more rapidly than the latter was " run in."

The newspapers have been telling a story about a rich young lady shoeing her horse with golden shoes. How wicked! What right had she to put gilt on his sole P