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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3564, 29 May 1880, Page 2

We learn that the Registrar of Electors (A. J. Allom, Esq.) has accepted the tender of a local office for printing the electoral roll of the district.. Tenders were received from Auckland in addition to those from our local establishments.

Information was receired hereto-day to the effect that Qilmour's tender for the New North Devon and Columbia pass has been accepted. .

Tee meeting of the Electoral 801 l Committee, to have been held last night, but postponed in consequence of the visit of the Railway Commissioners, will take place on Tuesday at 7.30 o'clock;

We notice that Mrs Bae is about to dispose of her pawn broking business and premises in the course of a few days. A gosd opportunity is here afforded persona desirous of embarking in a highly lucrative business, which has been established on the Thames for several years. >

This morning the Commissioners under the guidance of Mr Strange visited the reclamation works. They left the Thames by the Rotomahana at noon to-day.

A competent authority says that during the present scrip " boom" the Thames brokers are averaging £50 per week in commissions, while one firm at least is making much above that amount.

I'HE programme of the grand concert in cooneotion with St. James' Presbyterian Church, to be held on Tuesday next, will be found in our advertising columns. Mr Grigg, the precenter to the Church, has used every endeavour to, make the affair a success, which should be a sufficient guarantee that a most enjoyable evening's entertainment will be provided. -- -*-'■• ;" The Chairman of the Thames High School is calling for applications from duly qualified persons for teaching music and singing in the school. Notice is also given that two scholarships will be competed for during the ensuing mid-winter holidays.

As Harbour-master Burgess was in charge of the mail steamer when she ran into the Auckland wharf the- Auckland Harbor Board will have to pt»y for the damage.

Through tumbling off an omnibus at Edinbnrgh Gaptaiu Barry escaped the Tay disaster, at leusl so he says. The captain vaingloriously thinks that even if he had beea on the all-fated train he would hare come out all right. "Barry-cade" is a Dunedin synonym of a tall tough square lie.

Manx readers of this morning's Advectiser must hare been at a lots to account for ita valiant championship of the correspondent of the Auckland Star with reference, to the Wbau telegram reprinted from that paper in our last night's issue. It is easily accounted for— the fact being that the Advertiser itself in the correspondent of the Auckland Star. When the mendacious reports appearing in our contemporary were exposed by this journal the sapient bo;s of the Whau ring adopted another method of puffing up his property, viz., by corresponding with the Auckland evening paper, which has in consequence been made the vehicle for many far-fetched reports about the mine. With respect to the telegram and its correction, we are very strongly of the opinion that both were in the programme, we, not even " hardly ever," being able to give the editor of the Advertiser credit for acting squarely in anything. The paltry falsehood regarding a threat on our part to injure the Whau stock, is hardly worthy of notice. We will act in the future as we have in the past—we will do our level best to prevent the public being gulled by any ring, whether controlled by the editor of the Advertiser or not.

The two visitors, upon whose report our fate is bj many supposed to hang, have come and gone ; let us not fold our arms and wait in palpitating suspense their " recommendation," but stick to business and help each other. Buy y^ur pimos of the local importer and save time and money.—J. GtaiQQ, Pollen street.

Impobtaht information: 0, McLiver has just received a shipment of the. celebrated Mermaid Cigarette Tobacco, the latest novelty. Superior to Vanity Fair. Also Tin Tag, Wary, Venus, and other brands, which ore pronounced ,by smokers to be the beet obtainable in the town. Constantly arriving Ibe latest novelties in Meercbautn, Briar, and Cherry Wood pipes. N.B. Although tho ancient Egyptians are all dead, C. McL. still continues to supply tho Best Tobaecoes obtainable in the colony. Smoking Boom unsurpassed.

Thb ancient Egyptians did not use tobacco, and mark, the ancient Egyptians are all dead. Exceleior Cigarettes, just imported direct from W. S. Kirn bull and Co. Vanity Fair, Old Judge, and Richmond Q-ems Cigarettes, all superior to 3s Tea. Best brands of Tobacco. Smokiug-Boom unequulled in the Colony.— Lawless and Co., Tobacconists, &o.

We have no desire to make invidious distinctions, but simply state the faot that the loaf now being manufactured at the establishment of Mr It. T. Douglas (late Douglas and Co.), is of a very superior description. Biscuits of every variety, also cake Ac, &c, of a really Al class.

To a Northern woman belongs the honor of billing a man after he was dead for wishing his corpse and .laying him out.