The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3615, 28 July 1880, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1880.

Tl E believe the report to be submitted this erening re the drainage question recommends that no subscription chouid be asked from the Queen of Beauty mine. There was no business at the R.M. Court this morning The Herald correspondent says:—A lobby rumor that Sir E. Stafford is to be appointed Agent-General at £500 per annum (Sir Julius Yogel ha?ing the Agency for the Tneci-iption of Stock, at a commission of Is 8d per hundrei) has been set afloat, but I have authority for stating that there' is not, the slightest foundation for the report. Tbs, St. George's Cadets and the Thames Scottish Cadet corps meet for monfb'y inspection to-night. In the Tuapeka District lately 1,100 rabbits were destroyed on a 200 acre paddock in the cowrie of a week, the means ured being poison. The best of materials manufactured in a proper and workmanlike manner should ((ire satisfaction. Hence we are pleased in daily, almost hourly, hearing such exclamations as " My word Douglas your loaf is now splendid," "Those biicuits are really beautiful," "My | compliments to Mr Douglas and tell him I havn't eaten such bread for years, &c, Ac." Specialities of great men: Gladstone for polities, Kellf for cticking up banks, and McLiver for tobacco. You can't rub the latter out. Just try his specially imported Cowtail Twist and Vanity Fair.