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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3493, 5 March 1880, Page 2

His Honor, Judge Macdonald, handed a cheque for £5 to the Hon. Secretary of the Orphanage before leaving the Thames yesterday morning. Several of the witnesses in the case of Driscoll v. Norwich Union Insurance Co. have given Mr Mason the costs allowed them as donations towards the Orphanage.

Mas M. H. Payna desires to acknow. ledge the receipt of one pound from an anonymous donor for the funds of the Hauraki Ladies' Benevolent Society. We shall have pleasure at any time in acknowledging such gifts. .- .

Mb Gbant, confectioner, of Shortland, whose confectionary attracted, some attention at the Sydney Exhibition, has received a letter from there asking if he is prepared to dispose of his exhibit as purchasers can be found for the goods.

Hib Worship the Mayor and Mrs Ehrenfried and Dr and Mrs Kilgour retnrned to Auckland in the Glenelg yesterday after a tour in the East Coast district.

Thbee was no business at the I£.M. Court to day.

The Committee of the County Council met this morning and discussed the offer contained in Mr Stone's letter re the Caledonian mine.

Mb F. Bennett, of Tararu Gardens, who has discovered a valuable lode of crude hematite at Tai iaru, proceeded to Auckland to-day -for the purpose we believe, of making arrangements to advantageously work it. It is not improbable that some arrangement will be made with the owner of the Thames Hematite Paint Works.

Mb Donotaw will deliver his lecture on 11 Ireland,-her Miseries and Misfortunes," in the Templar Hall, Mary street, on Saturday evening, commencing at 7.30 p.m. The charge is very small—one shilling.

The Waikato Times writes as follows, and as the remarks may be of interest to some of our mine managers w© insert the paragraph:—We regret to notice a primitive style of advertising in this district, which the fact of a 10-al paper circulating widely amongst all classes ought long since to have rendered obsolete —that of posting written notices at the doors of hotels and other similar places If an employer requires' a number of swamp hands his readiest and surest means of obtaining them is to insert an advertisement to that effect iv our columns. The charge for this class of advertisements has been reduced to a minimum for the convenience of both employers and unemployed, and it is not fair to journalistic enterprise that it should be called upon to compete with dead wall announcements of this kind. A public journal in a country district is only maintained at great expense, often at positive loss tothe proprietors, while at the same time the district reaps an immense benefit by its issue, and it is only reasonable that the public, individually as well as collectively, should do all they can, and es pecially in such a legitimate matter as this, to encourage and foster an enterprise in the prosperity of which they are per haps more nearly concerned than many of them at first are aware.

Lohd Derby, in a recent speech to the Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce, exhaustively reviewed the commercial position of the country, his conclusion being that England had not yet arrived at the point when material progress ceases and decadence begins. He pointed out that England was no worse off than her neighbors, all countiies having shared in the depression of the last few years.

By telegram we learn that a prominent member of the Australian team, writing to a friend in Dunedin says :—" As we leave for England on March 19th, visiting you is now out of the question, but the team are very desirous ot visiting New Zealand. Are considering how it can be done. On our return, if a lump sum is offered for a tour through the colony our visit will be assured, but to come on our own account requires conside* ration.

The Star says:—The hot weather does not seem favorable to married life judging from the number of applications for '• separation " daily made at the Police Court, by married women, sighing for the freedom of single blessedness. No les9 than four such applications were made this morning by women in distress, groaning under the tyranny of their husbands' iron rule. The cause of the discontent is only guessed at; some say it is the heating nature of beer, some the influence of the Mormons, and others the nightly worry of mosquitoes.

Frederick William Henry Oolson expired on Tuesday at the Provincial Hospital, at the early age of 32. Mr Colson had received a college education, and was we understand, intended for the ministry. He was a person of literary repute in connection with the press and was a favorite in the cricket field, where his conclusions on knotty points were generally accepted as final. His health had been failing for some time. He had recently been engaged on the Northern Advocate, but was unable to continue his services, owing to failing health. He was brought to Auckland on Saturday last, and received as a patient in the Provincial Hospital, where he finished his course. Many on the Thames will remember Mr Golson, who for years was on the staff of this journal.

The la'est telegrams from our own correspondent shows thnt Thomas of the Navals is leading for the Carbine Belt. There are two" ranges yet to fire in the match for the Belt, namely, 400 and 500 yards, and to morrow these are to be taken. For the Rifle Belt none of our men have taken a prominent position, and as only one range, 600 yards, has to be fired, it will likely be between Okey and Purnell.

Mb Cabpenter sold in the Academy of Music to-day the land and residence of Mr Guilding, a y bankrupt. The buyer was Mr Cooper, aud the price paid was £244.