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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3319, 12 August 1879, Page 2

; Messbs 0. D: Grant, and W. Plant's exhibits for the Sydney Exhibition were despatched to-day, and Messrs Ehrenfried Bros.' exhibit'will be'sent in a few days. Tks p.s. Enterprise leaves here on Thursday morning at 6 o'clock, having to take the. members of the Loftus Variety Troupe.

We have received from the author and composer, Mr John Grigg, a copy of "My Own New Zealand Home," a song which has been sung by Thames school children for some years past. The lithographing of the work was given into the hands of Messrs Wilsons and Horton, Auckland, and the get-up is very creditable. The pictorial cover was designed by Mr H. D. Driver, and is quite a work of; art. The piece is issued at the low price of 2s, and we have no doubt that it :will become a great favorite .with the boys arid girls of the colony.

H. Kbneice, Esq., the new Resident Magistrate, arrived here last evening, and took his seat on the Bench for the first time this: morning. We have not anything further to chronicle re local election matters, the only candidates as yet; before the public being Mr Sheetian, Mr McGowan and Mr Kowe. There still appears to be an amount of uncertainty as to whether the Premier will again woo the suffrages: of the electors of the Thames, and until that uncertainty ij set at rest, the local men whose names have been so freely, men-! tioned during the past week appear reluctant to announce thenwelves. We believe, howeve^; that should 'the Premier be elected for Christchurch there will be a good fight here for his seat, and foremost

v in the fray will bo Mr Jas. McGowan whose address appears in our advertising ' columns. This gentleman is well-known I on the Thames as a shrewd, far-seeing tnnri.- He is well acquainted with the' I wants of the district, and has already mivde his mark in our local parliament, and we have no doubt will make a good fight should he go to the poll;' A kemahkable Railway Bridge is in course of erection in Scotland. The centre pier, that on Inch Garvie, a small island in the centre of the Forth, is 530 ft. high, about 100 ft. higher than the loftiest chimney, and nearly equal to the combined heights of the London Monument and St Paul's Cathedral. The wide diversity of climate in the United States is shown by the fact that, while the grain has just been sown in the north-west, the wheat harvest in Texas is almost finished,. and harvesting in California will begin in three weeks. On the hills of Vermont and New Hampshire there ia still plenty of snow. • ■