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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3165, 10 April 1879, Page 2

To-moebow, being Good Friday, there will be no issue of the Stab, but it will appear on 3aturday and Easter Monday.

The Zealandia arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon, and by the Enterprise we received our files of English and American papers, extracts from which we publish in other columns.

Thebe was no business at the B.M. Court this morning.

We have received a copy of the Londonderry Standard by the incoming mail. It can be seen in our publishing office.

The Chairman of the High School Board of Governors has received a communication from the Education Reserves Commissioners, stating that £61 4s 3d had been granted to the Thames High School out of the funds at their disposal for distribution amongst secondary schools.

The members of the Court Pride of Thames, Juvenile Foresters, are notified by advertisement to meet at the hall tomorrow, to proceed to Tararu Gardens at which place a programme of sports will be gone through for their benefit and amusement. These Juvenile Foresters seem to be in luck's way so far as sports, &c, go.

We hare received from Mr H. Driver, of Shortland, a pot of peach jam manufactured by him. It is well flavored, and should command a large sale in this township. We are pleased to see efforts to establish such industries on the Thames, and trust that Mr Driver's venture will prove remunerative.

By a letter from England by to-day's mail we learn that for 15 weeks, snow has lain on the ground in Yorkshire. The very thought of such weather is enough to make one. Bhiver in New Zealand, and our Yorkshire friends, were they to return to the old Country, would scarcely like such a reception after the warm, sunny climate of New Zealand.

Me John Leydon sold to-day Mr Vercoe's property in [Richmond street, consisting of a four-roomed cottage, on leasehold ground, for the sum of £24. The sundries also fetched satisfactory prices.

A good story is told of a lady who presides at the counter of a store in one of the suburban districts. The clergyman, who is noted for his love of the bawbees, insisted on being supplied with groceries at wholesale prices, and the lady, anxious to retain the custom of one so respectable, agreed to the proposal on condition that the other customers were not to be informed of it. But the good lady had her revenge. Formerly she and her husband, who were regular attendants at the chapel, were each in the habit of placing a shilling in the plate, now they give nothing, and the good woman says she is trying to make things square.—Star.

The " Herald " today, alluding to the leasing of a small piece of ground in Stanley street, at the bottom of the Domain, by Chinamen, as a market garden, asks why " those too lazy or too shortsighted " Europeans who signed the antiChinese petition did not utilise that and other pieces of ground which have been taken up by Mongolians P The petitioners might fairly reply to the question by asking another.: Why did not the writer follow his own counsel and " seize upon these advantages staring him in the face," since it is apparent that the cultivation of cabbages is more within his capacity than the solution of social problems ?—Star.

He was very spooney on a barmaid, and he went into the nev?ly-painted Hotel in Owen street and stood with his back against the newly-painted wall, thinking of something to say to the object of his affections. After considering for some minutes, and unwittingly smearing his back with paint, he ventured to remark that it was a fine day. He then asked if there was "anything fresh? iV "No, nothing," replied the fair Hebe on the other side of the bar, " Nothing except that paint on the wall." He sprang forward, stuck bis head over his left shoulder, looked disgusted, and made tracks for Shortland by the back way. Fact.