THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3584, 22 June 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1880.

■ .. ■■■■..■ ♦-.' ■ ■ Thb soiree in connection with the Sunday School Anniversary of the Congregational Church, which was to hare taken place to-night b postponed t'l to-morrow 'a consequence of tne inclemency of the weather.

*' The Orangemen of the Thames propose holding a soiree on, the 12th July in celebration of the famous b&ttlo of the Bojne.

A meeting of the Works Committee of the Borough Council was held to-day.

Wi regret to hear that a'i accident of a rather serious nature oeeirved to Miss Clara Stephensoo, one of our favourite actresses, this morning. Ah Miss Stephenson was descending the back stpirs of the Pacific Hotel, her foot slipped and she sustained severe injuries to her back through filling down almost from top to bottom. Through tl>;s unfortunate mishap and t'>e inclemency of the weather the company w ;1l not appear this evening. William Johi? Habbis, aged IG2 died at the Auckland Hoijpitp' on Saturday. He had been a resident of the province for hrlf a century.

A Waikato correspondent of the Auckland Herald says :•—" An impression has got abroad that the continuation of the Thames line from M'V'JenkinVfrrm' at Pinko to the head of the navigation, will be shelved for a season. It is scarcely likely, however, that the Government would have let No. 1 section of the latter line remain a piece of useless and unremunerative expenditure, unlesß they bad resolved to continue it to the head of the 1 names navigation, beyond which, for years to come, it will be unnecessary to take it. We do not think the Waikato people have anything to fer*. Their portion of the railway, bb Mr Sheehan remarked, goes through the right sort of country.

A box lafc^y appeared at a witness at the Melbou ac (Rly (Jou-t, wifh his hair rolled up in a myst -riors way behind, and wound over the frost with a braid something like a Chinaman's pigtail. Mr Call was curious to know what it meant. The city. missionary, Mr Hill, explained that the youth was a Christian Israelite, which sect was numerously represented in Melbou ne. They are known also by the title of Wroeite, after a perfon who rejoiced in the prefix of Prophet to bis name. v . . '

. Sobv weeks ago we published an article supplied by a passenger of the ship Earl Grrnville regi -ding the slate of the Auckland qupranti'ie station. Another passenger under the norn depl me IS.. R. wiltes as fo"ows to the Auckland Herald:—"Being one of the immigrants per Earl G-ranville, and one of the firit Bhown over the buildings by Dr .Andrews and the officer in okarge, I had an opportunity of seeing the state of the premises on arrivpl. They were not Jn such a filthy coa#tion as eUegei, or anything approaching toiW It is not tiue that, the buildings were alive with vermin, but certa^oly—it being warm weather —the fl'es were as numerous as the vnem* ployed in New Zealand. It is possible that the fever-strioken passengers of the ship British Empire may have left behind them the germs of a contagious disease; but although, unfortunately, four adults died there, including the medical officer, twelve have' not, as stated. And, although the remvnder have not yet discovered that 'land flowing with milk and.honey' which they 'bad seen in dreoirV or'y two instead of 100 as stated by yop* contemporary's exaggerative correspon* dent, have 'shuffled off this mortal coil.'"