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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3178, 26 April 1879, Page 2

The monthly church parade of the Naval Brigade will take place to-mor-row.

The only business at; the R.M. Court this morning was the punishment of one drunkard in the usual manner. A. J. Allom Esq J.P., occupied the bench.

Thebe was exhibited at Mr' Nepal's shop, Owen street,"this more ing, one* of the largest carcasses-of pork we have seen for some time. Piggy weighed close oh three hundredweight.

We understand that the time for receiving tenders for repairs to Government Buildings has been extended till Wednesday next. - ■ . - '

We have been informed that Miss' Wangenheim and several members of the Opera Troupe will assist at;both' morning and evening services in the Roman Catholic Church, Willoughby street, to-morrow (Sunday). '

The Honorary Treasurer of the ITaitangata Relief Fund, Mr T. L. Murray, forwarded, by direction of His Worship the Mayor, this day the sum of £39 18s 6d, contributions raised on the Thames in aid of the Kaitangata disaster. Taking into consideration the state of business on the field, and the number of other deserving objects calling for the support of the charitable, the amount is a very fair one for the district. We are sure it goes with the wish it had been more.

Coopbe and Bailey's circus has been singularly unfortunate in America. During their passage through South America they only played ten weeks out of seven months, and they lost fifty thousand dollars, and had to dispose of a portion~of their menagerie to raise the means-of reaching New York.

We call the attention of the studious to an article on our first page extracted from a work by Professor Froude.

In Thursday's issue, our Auckland morning contemporary attempts to explain away their action re their bogus cablegrams. It accuses the Auckland Star of using shameless * tactics to throw discredit on the telegrams supplied by the new Press Association, and states there is nothing easier than to concoct bogus news in Australia and trarismit it to New Zealand, as there is no direct service between London and New Zealand The article concludes as follows : —" It is not necessary for us to say that we have never copied telegrams from our evening contemporary, and are not likely to do so. We feel much more inclined, as-he well knows, to render him friendly assistance when he occasionally finds himself in a dilemma, than to filch from him anything to which we have right. Our readers, we trust, will excuse us from entering into these purely private and business affairs, but it seems necessary to place the matter simply before them. We know, as a fact, that the expenditure of the Herald upon cable messages last' year exceeded that of any other newspaper in New Zealand. The books of the Press Association shew that to be the case." In: the issue of the Auckland Star of the same evening a challenge is thrown out that the Star will forfeit £20 to any local charity if its cable account be not more than double that of the Herald, the Herald to pay' a similar'amount if the Star proved its assertion. In this matter, of cable piracy, the Herald appears tb have been thoroughly -bowled out and perhaps the lesson will have a'salutory effect not only on the Herald, but on the many other colonial journals that plagiarise the fruits of someone else's money or . brains. As journalists we cannot say we pity the Herald in. the least. ;

Twenty- five Pianos per week are now regularly turned out at the great factory of Messrs Chappell and C 0.,; London ; the machinery is so perfect that the very blest instruments' are now being made at prices which ensure an increasing demand. Chappeli's pianos are imported direct by J. Gbigg, and sold on terms i to suit purchasers. - ;i