THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1879.
Tenders will bo received at the Queen of Beauty Battery up to noon tomorrow for taking down some machinery; further particulars can be learned at the battery. , ■ . In order to raise niopey for the prize fund for the schools, under the control of the Waiotahi School Committee, an entertainment will be giveu ia the Academy of Music on Tuesday evening next by the teachers and scholars connected with the schools.
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At thn M.M. Court (his mornintr, ono drutikiiru was t\c::lt wiiii in the ordinary manner.
An incident occurred yestcvclny afternoon on the railway in the Domain tuunel, not provided for in the programme of tho day's amusement. By the evening tsain from Kllcrslic to Auckland were a soutimental young couple, who to tho intense amusement, of their follow travellers in the railway carriage, affectionately leaned towards each other. On enfcr-riug tho tunnel, a wa^ suddenly struck a match when lo ! and behold the sentimental panwere caught, jhgrante delicti), kissing. The embnrrassed victims blushed like peonies, and did not recover the Belf-pos-session until they reached the Auckland station. —Herald.
Mr Edwards, of the hematite paint works, has revived a communication from the Under-Secretary for Public Works, orderiug one ton of his pigments on behalf of the Government. Halt a ton is to be sent to Wellington, and a quarter of a ton each to Auckland and Napier.
We yesterday bad the pleasure of inspecting some articles of pottery, manufactured by Mr Plant,'.of. Mary street. The articles comprise teapots, sugar basins, vases, and telegraph insulators, all inado by Mr Plnnt from Thames materials. Though they have scarcely the finish of the imported article, yet -they demonstrate both the patience and ingenuity of Mr Plant in turning out such work with appliances of his own make, nnd the adaptability of the Thames clays for the manufacture of pottery.
OB3EKVES the New Zealander :•—" We have all heard of the squatter who bu;lt a library, and then ordered from his town agent a ton of books and two tons of best coals. We have heard how the ownor of an inland palace, who had sent an indent for a pair of globes, gave them away after an inspection because he couldn't find Hopkinsbill on ihe celestial globe, which he took to be the southern hemisphere. But it has remained for an advertiser in a daily paper to place pictorial merit in quite a new light. This is his intimation : ' Pair oil-paintings, good, heavily framed, 4xß, nearly new, a bargain.' That ' nearly new ' is delicious. They don't recommend port wino or Sevres china that
;,ay." The Wellington Chronicle remarks :— The price offered by the "Ifatcatchors " for Auckland votes was, we are credibly informed, half a million extra subsidy for the Provincial District of Auckland. The parties sought to be bought were Messrs Wood, Swanson, Colbeck, and Hurst. The bribe is not a large one for the bribers, as the Continuous Ministry acknowledged that they had spent £3,0Q0,C00 of the public funds for the purpose of retaining office and purchasing totes. Major Atkinson, it is well known, graduated, and took high honors in that school of corruption which debauched the Press, and degraded every function of our political life.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3399, 13 November 1879, Page 2
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547THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1879. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3399, 13 November 1879, Page 2
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