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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3619, 2 August 1880, Page 2

The Fire Brigades celebrate their anniversary on Thursday night by a dinner. The membera will form a torch light procession and march through the township headed by a band of music.

Mb McGoWAW'S " Little Shop," aai he once termed his place of business, will be best known for the future as the "Big Shop," for so rapidly has his business increased that ho has been'compelled to add one building after another until now he occupies an entire block of buildings in Grahamstown., The last addition has been the large building at the corner of Abraham and Pollen streets, in old days occupied as a grocery, which he puri chased and refitted throughout-, and h.23 now furnished with a large stock of crockery, and eavfenenwaregoods of every description. A better example could not be found on the Thames to prove the value of advertising liberally in the locil jourjals than the progress made by Mr McG-pwan in his business, for like many of the most sucasssfiU business men in the world he baa found that making widely known tolhe public.the goods he keeps in stock and the fair prices he charges has always resulted m eeeuKcg good customers and advancing his busicea^ connections. Having once induced people to try hin goods he succeeds in retaining their custom by the care and attention he gives to their wants, and the display of the many other good business qualtiej he possesses. .

A GENTKJMi'y now on a visit to the Lake district,^ telegraphs to the Herald aa follows: —" Ohinemutu, Friday.—Ail Auckland-gen-tleman sent t? the natives,of Kotorua two casks of beer and ten gallons: of run^ which were landed at Mokoia Island, Lake Kotovua, where the Maoris have been extensively imbibing ; and one of: them, while under the influence of alcohol, in crossing in a boat from the island to the fficiskud on Monday, • the' 26th, caps'zid it, and was drowned. Is there no law forbidding the supply of intoxicants to the Maoria ? "

LiBEBALiTsr, writing in last Saturday's Star, must have been in error in reference to the refreshments for the.amat3ura at the performanco of Pinafore on Thursday night, for we have been shown by Mr Owen an account paid by him in whioh charges are made for the refreshments provided on the night ia question.

We would remind members of the Gresham Hall Private Quadrille Assembly of their dance this evening.

Sib George Gbey is ever showing his great concern in the matter of education, especially for this island. He has moved in the House "That he would direct the attention of Government to the inequalities as between North and South New Zealand in the matter of university education.

A OFBious htsiis naturte saw light last week in the shage of s fine heifer calf born at Mr W. Marsh's farm at Obinemuri. The animal had two tongues, but being minus that very necessary organ, the palate, it had to be destroyed. ;

The Provincial Grand Lodge, 8.C., he.ld its usual quarterly communication on Friday evening last in Auckland. In the absence of Bro. the Hon. F. Whitaker, Provincial Grand Master, the chair was taken by Bio. Anderson, Provincial Grand Sustitute Master. Agreat deal of business in connection with the order was transacted, and the attendance was large. ■/ ■■:■■ ■■'■ ..-:■:■■ ' ■ ; V,' ■'.

On Friday evening the annual meeting of the Auckland District of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, took placs in the District Chambers, Odddfellows' Hall, Cook street Besides others, deputies from Grahamstown were present. It was decided to hold, the; next meeting afc the Thames. A banquet followed the meeting in the United Service Hotel, at which Mr Owen Mahon, the Past Provincial Grand Master; presided. The usual loyal and appropriate toasts were honoured, p.ad that of ~" Our guests " was suitably responded to by representatives of the Delta Lodge (Ngaruawabia), and the Thames Lodges—Waikato and Charles Bruce lodges.

There was no.business at the R.M. Court shis morning.

; On Monday evening a public mealing was held at Fei aside, Canterbury, at which about twenty farmers were present, Mr D.Mclntyre in the cheir. The mealing .was called with, a view of forming en Association of farmers. It was resolved to form a Farmers' Mutual Improvement Society, for the discussion of matters to far-aing, and the dissemination of information obtained by the same. A managing committee, was appointed as follows : ~ Messrs Manning, Parsons, Mclntyre, Harrison, and. Gow. Eighteen, of those present signified their intention of becoming members. It was decided that the entrance fee be 2s 6d, and the monthly subscription sixpence per member. A discussion in reference to the sparrow nuisance question followed, when it was resolved that each member present should adopt his own system of poisoning or exterminating the birds and report the result at next meeting.

Thb mistake many advei/iisers make i» to' place. their advertising expenses to current account instead of to capital cccount* Suppose a yearly expenditure of £100 ia . Advert thing produors a net profit of only £20 for tb c first year. Undoubtedly this does not met an a loas of £80, but it means a return of £20 per cent upon capital invested j for the bri siness is' there, and will remain if proper rly looked after, and a second year's Advertising will most certainly increase the profit on the full 7 capital f o 30 or 40 per cent. As a setoff to tueee expensesin the;capital account of the enterprising bedncss-man.; he can show the increased value of the article advertised, and also of the good of hi's business. Some business men Ic3o sight o( this fact.—Adver* tiser's Mauual. .

! It is, says tho Dunlin Star, staled by a gentleman just returned to Sydney from tha pountryrreontly infested by the Kelly gang that in conversation with members of the Kelly family he learned that last Christmas l)ay the whole of them, including the gang, sat down to dinner together j and he was assured that the police knew of the gathering j that the party were not molested; and that they had not the. slightest fear of being interfered with- . He also mentions, from information given by. members of the Kelly family (who ought to know), that there is no truth in the statement that the Kellys took to hushranging in consequeoca of any rudene3B on the part of any member, of ; tbe police -force to one of the members of the Kelly family.

At a meeting of the burgesses of Hamilton, the following resolution was passed because of the incompetency shown by the Council in matters relating to the new bridge over the •Waikato riveri—"That tlie burgesses Bare no confidence in the Borough Council aB at present constituted, owing to the emergency meeting on Friday night last re the bridge ' -

When, the Thames Water Supply Bill wag before the Upper House, Dr Pollen is reported to have made the following remarks: —" He was not going to oppose the motion but he felt very~.Btrongly tbat a property so valuable, or which was at least so coßtly, as the. Thames Water-race, ought not H be handed over absolutely, as was proposed, to the Thame3 County Council, without a condition that it should even bo kept in proper order. The inhabitants of the Borough of the Thames, as well as the inhabitants of the county, had acquired a large and very important interest in this water supply, and, if by any negligence on the part of the Thames County Council this water supply were cut off or greatly reduced, they might Buffer vory materially. ,

The Wellington Post thus speaks of the members of the Legislative Council:---"They are all attired in evening dress exoept one honorable member frozri the East Coast, who for some inscrutable reason, has on a very high clerical cut waistcoat and a pair of tweed trousers. What strikes me particularly about our colonial Lords is their particularly sad and downcast expression. Whether it is owing to the fact of their being in what Mr George Augustus Sala always calls 'clawhammer' coats, or a guilty knowledge that the eyes of their ' better halves' are on them, I cannot say, but, outside of a fashionable funeral ' cortege' ia which the * mutes' had been double paid, I never aaw such unutterable melancholy."

: A society has been recently formed in London for the purpose of reforming the abuse of street; music, and for prerenting vendors of commodities'bf any kind crying Waves or otherwise attracting attention by noises ia public places.

The Scottish Guardian states that lately two ladies were set apart with imposition of hands by the Bishop of London as deaconesses. The service was held in the chapel of the London Diocesan Deaconess Institution, Westbaurne Park.

SpbciahtlKS of great men: Gladstone for politics, Kallf for sticking up banks, and McLivar for tobacco, You can't rub «he latter out. Just try his specially imported Cowtail Twist and Vanity Fair.

The best of materials manufactured in a proper and workmanlike manner should give satisfaction. Hence we are pleased in daily, almost hourly, hearing such exclamations as " My word Douglas your loaf is now splendid," " Those biscuits are really 'beautiful," << My compliment* to Mr Douglas and tell him I harn't e»teu such bread for year*, Ac., &c."