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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3176, 24 April 1879, Page 2

His Worship the Mayor a fevr days ago telegraphed to the Premier regarding the School of Mines promised to be established on the Thames. To-day he received the following reply:—" School of Mines. The matter to be considered in Cabinet— G. Gket."

We believe it is the intention of a number of gentlemen to call a meeting of persons willing to join in forming a cavalry corps on the Thames. It is probable that a meeting will be called on Monday evening, and a number of gentlemen have already signified their intention to the promoters to join such a company if it was ouce < started. There should

be very little difficulty in forming a troop of 60 or 70 in number on the Thame», and with Mr Hymen as an instructor in cavalry drill, a most efficient corps might be organised trithin a very few months.

Thebe was a clean sheet at the B.M. Court this morning.

Trainer and party, the contractors for the water race tutinel through the WaioKaraka hill, fiading (he air getting impure conceived the idea that if a small hole, 3 or 4 inches in diameter, similar to that made in boring for water was made from the surface to the face of the drive, ; -a sufficient supply of fresh air might be obtained. Mr -Amy, who thoroughly understands the boring process was consulted on the matter, and decided to undertake the work, and today is down about 50 feet from the surface of the hill, with a bore hole of four inches iv diameter. -

.We hear there is some dissatisfaction expressed at the contemplated action of the Auckland Education Board in dealing with our local Kauaeranga Committee. It is stated that the Board intends, instead of building a new- girls' school in Kauaerenga, to transform the present boys' school into a girls' school under the charge of Miss Hazeldean, trusting to the. new Waiotahi School on the flat to afford accommodation for all the youths in the two d stricts. That ample room should be provided in schoolrooms is a fundamental, rule, and the Education Board will be very much to blame if in a spirit of economy they try and make one school fulfil the duties of two, and throw the charge of six or seven hundred youths upon the shoulders of one head-master. It is to hoped that the representations which have been made to the Board by the JTauaeranga Committee will have the effect of changing -their intentions.

The following is what the critic of the Sydney Punch says about Miss Wangenheim, the prima donna of the opera that opens here on Saturday next:—"The announcement, that Miss Wangenheim was to give her first concert since her return from England, attracted a large and enthusiastic audience to the Masonic Hall on Wednesday. The result was a complete and unqualified success. The tour in Great Britain, and the experience acquired by means of it, hare left their mark upon the voice and style of singing of Sydney's fair songstress. Her voice has improved, to a remarkable degree, in robustness and flexibility, while her execution, free from effort of stiffness, would dp credit to any prima donna. Her rendering of the scena, •Ah force c* lvi,' from 'La Traviata,' at once arrested the attention and gained the applause of the audience. The good impression was, if possible, heightened when, later on in the evening, she sang ' Ah non credea/ from ' La Sonnambula.' Nor were Miss Wangenheim'a successes confined to operatic scenas. . Her render* ings, of ' Maid of Athens ' and ' Comin' thro' the Bye' created great enthusiasm."

Some amusement was caused in Auckland last night by an exposure in the Auckland Star of tbe piracy of their cablegrams by the Herald. It would appear that.our Auckland evening contemporary, with two Sydney newspapers pay a considerable sum annually for cablegrams direct from London, and for gome time past the Herald has been, publishing these messages. Tho Star has frequently " walked into" tho morning paper, characterising its action with respect to these cablegrams as "piracy,"and determined to lay a trap for the pirates. A bogus message re the resignation of Sir Julius Vogel of the Agent-General-ship was concocted in the Star office, and sent over to the Star's Sydney partners, with the request that it be published ns a trap. This was done, and the poor Herald correspondent swallowed the bait, sending the message, which was published in yesterday morning's Herald, as from " our own correspondent." Not only was the Herald trapped, but nearly every newspaper in the Colony had the item transmitted to them, and fully 50 per cent, of them " leaderised" the startling intelligence. Last night's Star contains an exposure of the whole plot and how it was worked and as will be-seen by our telegrams to* day, the Herald makes a lame excuse for the piracies, and attempts gratification of the same. We can thoroughly believe the gratification with which Messrs. Wilsons and Horton would have punched the head of the proprietor of tho Star, when, on reading yesterday evenings' issue they discovered how they had been befooled.