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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3383, 25 October 1879, Page 2

The Bifle Bangers and Naval Brigade are summoned to-morrow for Church parade.

The Herald's correspondent, speaking of the Cabinet meeting, aud discusaintr tiie appearance of the members, says ;—Weil, Ministers had a meeting in the Cabinet room at one o'clock, and aat till nearly two. Their countenances were keenly scanned, but nothing could be drawn from them. Mr WMtaker put his hands in his pockets, placed his glass in his eye. and puckered up his cheek on one side, Major Atkinson was solemn and oracular, Mr Oliver was inscrutable behind his speotacles, while Mr Bryce cannot possibly look anything else but gloomy and saturnine.

The anniversary services in'connection with the Presbyterian Church, takes place to-morrow. The Eev. Mr ('arrick, from Auckland, preaching; both morning and evening in the Church, Pollen street. On Thursday the annual soiree will take place, when the customary address will be given.

The Eotomahaua will leave the Thames for Auckland on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.

We have received from F. Stevens, Esq., Secretary to the New Zealand Rifle Association, the programme for the Association. The total amount to be given in prizes is larger than last year. Several prizes are also offered for a cavalry tournament.

Theee was a clean sheet at the E.M. Court to-day.

It is probable that one of the prizes at the next year's meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association will be a " Press trophy," which it is suggested should be subscribed by the various newspapers throughout the colony. The trophy will take the form of a cup, to be held by tho winner for twelve months, and to bo won twice in succession or three times at intervals before it is the absolute property of the winner.

At a dinner at Cambridge this week Col. Lyon jn responding to a toast regretted the Volunteers in the Waikato district were net able lo go to the Thames on the Prince of Wales' birthday, so as to have the experience of brigading together.

Dunedin 13 building a Town Hall to cost £16,000. The Herald correspondent speaks sensibly of the situation as follows:—I may pive the opinion of calm and judicious men here upon this matter, which must hare made a sensation all over New Zealand. The Opposition have not managed well since they have commenced the attack upon the Ministry. They ought to have accepted the fair offer of the Govenment to have a division on Tuesday last. Then the Bhilly shallying about who was to be the next Premier, was exceedingly tanta* Using, but the Auckland members are to blame for not going to Mr Macahdr<-w and stating their causes of complaint, and gif i' g notice that they were about to secede. They should have called a meeting of the party and told tltetn that they were going, when they could have gone to the Government and made any terms they liked.

Loed Casnabvon has, in consequence of the present depression in agriculture, returned the tenants on his estates 10 per cent, on the amount of tkeir respective rentals. Similar reductions have been made by several other proprietors throughout the country.