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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3300, 19 July 1879, Page 2

Owing to the mismanagement of the Press Agency? we haveh not received any report of the conclusion of last night's Parliamentary proceedings, though our own correspondent telegraphs criticising some of the speeches made after the last speech mentioned in our report! „, i * We would again remind our readers of the public meeting to be held tonight at the Theatre Eoyai re the railway. We hope to see a large attendance. ; ' ' The* Eoyal Illusionists will' appear at the Academy of Music for the last, time this evening, when they promise ' that everything ,will be fully explained to the satisfaction of the audience. Dr Slade's slate writing, which caused such a sensation in England a short time ago, will be exposed, as also will the so-called Materialisation , of, spirit forms and faces. We expect to see a good house. A meeting 5 of the Chairmen of the several District School Committees of the Thames was held at the Waio-Karaka School 1 this morning. Present—Messrs Steedman, Spencer, Ijawlor, and;' Mr ' Farrell representing Mir Benshaw, Chairman of the Kauaeranga School Committee. Mr iLawfor was voted to the chair., '.:[ The object of the meeting to secure the permanent services of a drill instructor for the whole of the schools at , the Thames, and after some discussion it was proposed by Mr Steedman, and seconded by Mr Imwior, that the Board o£ Education at Auckland be respectfully requested to appoint a drill instructor for the various district schools at the Thames, in the same way as one has already been appointed 'for the Auckland school; Carried; It was resolved on the motion of Mr Steedman: -seconded by Mr Farrell, that a cdpy.:of the minutes of this meeting be forwarded to the Board at Auckland., Carried. A vote of thanks was accorded the Chairman, and the meeting dispersed. ' Theee was a clean sheet at the E.M. Court to-day. ■ ■ '■ A Wellington telegram to yesterday's Auckland Herald says :—" H.M.S* Pina-! fore " was played at the Theatre Eoyai last evening. C. Florence, the chief tenor, was unable to take his part, and' was hissed off the stage, the performance 1 coming to ah abrupt termination. This afternoon the prima donna,' Madame !Le Couteur, gave birth to a son. 1 > •' ; l ; The County Chairman left ; by the 1 Enterprise this morning en route for Wellington on County business. A large number of friends were on the wharf to see him off. : , • .: i : Membees of the. Hauraki Engineers are : requested to assemble to-morrow: morning to attend Church Parade. ' ' ' ,-w>Keeoei >a, & notorious, ruffian from V\Tai-J totara, some little time ago threatened; the i settlers that if they came on a certain; piece of land he would serve them as' Hiroki., served McLean., On being! brought before^ the Magistrate' at Wan-i ganui the case lasted two days, arid he was committed for trial at the Supreme; Court at Wanganui. Bail was allowed for himself in £1,000 and two sureties of; £100. No bail being forthcoming, he was I sent to gaol. ; Thb Customs revenue of the quarter! ending 30th June is published in the; Gazette, .showing £278,636, as against j £303,544} decrease of £24,808. Spirits,, cigars,'"and tobacco show the heaviest; falling off, except tea and sugar ; but the; decrease on these would be accounted for ; to a large extent by the lessening of; duties. The Customs revenue for *the year .ending June 30 was £1;300,515. f j The quantity of gold exported during the j .first half of the present year was 147,714] ozs; value, £589,665. The corresponding • period last year, 177,709 ounces; value,

£711,401. The returns for the principal ports for the quarter are —Auckland, £47,575; I)unedin, £76,785; Lyttelton," £48,546; Wellington, £40,737. Some time ago we chronicled how a Thames man dropped a set of false teeth overboard while Buffering from malde pier.' The American poet laureate got hold pi the »tpry^ and immortalise! ; it; a>, fallows:— -V,.;!,;-..:!,,;•;,> *<%}{ffl , He dropped his teeth in the flowing tide, , As he feebly leaned o'er the vessel's side, His troubles internal and mental., " Quite a riiisfortuno,"- they said to him. But he answered coolly, with yisjgp-jßfjajJJ^T^,.-.