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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3504, 18 March 1880, Page 2

Owing-' toHhe' visit of the, Hon. Mr RollesfJbn the Scholarships Examination in connection with the High School was postponed until Monday next afc the same hour and place. We believe the competitors will number about 20, about equal numbers of boys and girls.

We hear that an action will shortly be tried here, viz, County Council v. Moorcraft and party, Tookey tributers, for the gold obtained from their tribute. An injunction has been filed keeping the the men from working the ground.

We hare received from the Librarian to the Thames Public Library a copy of the new catalogue of that Institution.

Mr Mnginnity, General Manager of Telegraphs, is at present on the Thames /on au official inspection.

Me Pebcy Smith, chief surveyor of the Auckland district is at present on the Thames, and will accompany the Hon. Mr Kollcston to the Upper Thames tomorrow morning.

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

It is our pleasing,duty to chronicle the success of'another Thames exhibitor at the Sydney Exhibition. Mr W. Plant, our local amateur potter, takes the first class gold medal for pottery; Boyd, of Auckland, second.

We regret to have to, announce the death'of Mr Thomas Haliiwell, which took place at the Thames Hospital this morning. Deceased was well-known nnd respected as Lead master of the Tararu School, the duties of which he was forced to relinquish through ill-health. JHe has been ailing for some time past, and but little hopes were entertained for bis recovery.

Our cablegrams informed us lately of the fact that Lord Beaconsfield had issued a manifesto, addressed to the Viceroy of Ireland. The following are the principal subjects troated :—The relations between England and Ireland, and the policy and tactics of the Home Rule party. He claims that the aetio'n of the Government has had:the effeefc of defeating the arts of Irish agitators, both in and out of, parlia : inent. He lays stress on the promptitude with which (he Government took "steps to afford relief to the sufferers by the famine, in Ireland, and insists that the interests of England and Ireland are inseparably connected with each other. Any disunion must be calamitous to both. The noble Earl also expresses the hope that the leaders of both of the great parties will repudiate the vicious aad absurd claims put forth by Home Rulers, against whom be would warn the people of Great Britain and Ireland, as being actuated by a desire to destroy the essential bond of unity that should exist in a great nation {ike ours. The Premier also challenges the op'niou of the country on the policy and administration of his Government. -He holds that the presence, find, perhfps, the ascendancy of England, in the great councils of Europe, is essential to the preservation of peace, and this ascendancy, he points out, can only be acquired by unity amongst her own people.

We have added a, reading and smoking room to our establishment; all the Provincial'and Intercolonial papers filed ior reference. Business and othsr men will find this a convenience that for a long tipje. has be.eu very naneh felt.— LiifhEM 4 Co., Tobacconists, <&c.