THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3539, 29 April 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880.

A meeting of the Borough Council was held this morning for the purpose of hearing all claims and objections to the burgess list, and to correct, sign, and certify it. The roll as revised was received and adopted, and tenders were ordered to be called for printing it.

Game licenses have been issued at the Custom house to the following:—W. Fraser, Lipsey, Gordon, Barker, Simpson, Clarke, and A. Price.

Messbs Casey and Co.' have completed their contract for connecting No. 1 contract railway reclamation with the reclamation at Karaka Creek. The work has been efficiently and expeditiously performed.

We are informed that there is a considerable amount of speculation as to the result of the skating match which will take place at Professor Taylor's benefit at St. George's Hall to-night, under pc auspices of the Thames Rinking Club; The representative of the sharebroking interests is heavily backed by his confreres, and the bankers put great confidence in their man. We regret to learn that the proposed match between Messrs Baggott and Symington is postponed for (he present, but notwithstanding this disappointment we hope to see a bumper house.

We learn that in response to an invitation from the Auckland Volunteers that the Thames men take part in the Birthday Review in that city, Major Murray has sent a reply declining. At a meeting of the Thames officers held on Tuesday; the subject was thoroughly canvassed, and it was decided that it would be undesirable to attend the Review on the 24th prox., but it was unanimously agreed that an effort would be made to attend t» review at Auckland on the Prince of Wales' birthday.

ItussiA is said to be busy re-building Sebastopol. Sixty steel cannons of the largest size, and many armour-plates have recently : been- ordered ia European foundries. The Bussian Pacific fleet will," it is reported, shortly be increased. :&, Albany woman brings a suit against a telephone company for trespass in putting its wires on the roof of her building. It isn't the trespass, however, that troubled her so much as the fact" that there is gossip going on over head that she cannot get hold of.—Boston Post.

Shobeditch Workhouse must be; a jovial place at Christmas time—at anyrate for its officers. A day or two ago the guardian had under discussion the case of a nurse whose illness was said to have been caused by taking too much champagne at a party given by the matron, the nurse in question having acted as waitress on the occasion.. According to some of the guardians, the doctor had reported the case in order to spite the matron.

The Mormon organ, the Deseret News, of tho 10th ulfc., contradicts the rumors current that the Mormons are negotiating with the Mexican Government for the establishment of a Mormon colony, preparatory to makiag a fresh exodus from the Salt Lake. It says :—" We are very well satisfied .with Utah, and dd not propose to vacate in favour of those who would like much to profit by a. Mormon exodus to Mexico, the Sandwich Islands, Canada, or Jerusalem : anywhere, so long as they cuter into possession of our homes, and the control of the Territory. We have some missionaries in Mexico, asft we have in other parts of the country, whose business.it is to preach the Gospel., As to colonisation, that is another matter, and* the papers would do well not to trust to rumors concerning Mormon emigration. We are here to stay."