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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3724, 1 December 1880, Page 2

We would remind our readers of Mr Brown's lectmv w ich is to take pluce in the Hauraki Club room this evening at 7-30. The subject will be, "Is tivil Eternal ? or is man in present possession of Immortality ? What saith the Scriptures ?" *

Thb first batoh of applications for water race lioen«as for theTe Aroha district, appears in our columns to day under the hand of| our respected Warden, Harry Kenruk Esq.

Wb would remind our readers of the mee'ing to be held this evening in tho Academy of Mu»ic, for tbe purpose of tmpressiag on the Government the necessity existing lor coming to an arrangement with Tukukmo respecting the passage of the main road through Komata. A krgf attendance is particularly desired, as the necessity for the road is well known, and some step* should be taken to bring about a aatisfactory understanding with the native chief.

A LECTOHE is to be given in the Congregationul'Cnnrch tomoTow evening, under the auspices of the Young Meu's Christian Association by the Rev. R. Laisliley, entitled, 'An flour wilh the Poets."

A G-band concert and dramatic performance takes place tomorrow evening at the' St. Joseph's Schoolroom. From the programme which appears in our advertising oolumns, we may expect a great vocal treat. Trie ladies taking part in the concert are Mesdames Lawless, and Kilgour, and the Mi-sea Coney, Douglas, Mahoney, A. Mclihone, Stephenson, Moore, Bunks, Gibbons, and Messrs Brown, Coney, Stewart, Haydon, Batchelor, and Weston. Special features of the entertainment will be performances on the hn'p by tbe Misses Eva DougKaand A. Mclihone, and a clariuuet solo by Mr Batchelor.

Mb Hbnby Peck's freehold land at Parawai was offered at au tian by M McGregor yesterday, but a satisfactory price not being offered, the property was withdrawn. .

The only c»«e in the R.M. Court this morning wns .that of Mr F. Dmn, who was fined 10* and costs for allowing his otiimiiey to tHk« fire.

A CAPITA! way for visitors to Te Aroha is to travel by Phillips' coach to flikutai*, and thence by horse from Kelly's Hot.l Mr Hobert Krtlly, of MikutaU, advertises th s route hb beiig the ohortest and cheapest, only taking five hours to accomplish tfro distance, and the cost being on y 9s.

Oue Yankee friends could scarcely beat the following :—" Mr Chambers had an extraordinary swarm of bees at Te Mara. The nwarm w»b at last, four feet long, and averaged about 18 inches in diameter—a solid mass of bots. It was so heavy that the branch of a blua gum on which the bees settled was borne down almost to breaking point. The swaim filUd a large barrel and a box, and then tboueauds were unable to get inside., It is est.ima.ed that there were ever 50,0u0 bte«."—Hawk«s Bay Herald.

Thb Poverty Buy Standard Ihus speaks of the pai'simoniousneßß of the Government, and the printing turned out of the Bay of Plenty Times office. To say the least the Standard is candid in its ret! arks. Some time since we noticed ii local in the Bay of Plenty Times that the Electoral 801 l for tho Huu*e ot Representatives had been turaed out of the office oi that paper, iv & very creditable style, the neatness of printing and business like appearance of the Hull being commendable features iv its production. One of the eopiea beiag iv our poaseeuon, we cannot

endorse tha opinion expressed with regard to it. We hitve only cursorily perused the Roll, but we can say that it bristles wiih errors ; the printing is not creditable, and the gt-neral faulty, slipshod appearance of it is the reverse of bunriees-iike. We do not, however, blame the printer. The Governrrenb has'got info such a porsimouious rein, that the conditions etjoined in,the execution of this paltry job were such as to place it. beyond the p'Oßsibiliiy of any office in the Colony dome i'eelf justice, unless it wa* deairouf' of matting the Government a present for nothing. The 8011, aa it lioa before us, in a disgrace to all concerned.