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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3782, 10 February 1881, Page 2

Thb Miner says:—Three Lincolnshire gentlemen have been visiting this district during the past few days with a view to selecting their sections, they being connected with Messrs Grant and Foeter's settlement scheme. The New Zealand agent for the delegates— Captain Steleo—arrived here on Saturday, and showed the gentlemen referred to the land on the west bank of the river, and yesterday the latter inspected the country on this side themselves. The annual meeting of the Hauraki Sawmill Company was held at the office of Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co. on Monday. Mr Nathan, the chairman, read the balance sheet and auditor's report, which were adopted. Mr Nathan was re-eleoted a director, and Mr Baker auditor. Tenders were received for a new boiler. Messrs A. and Q-. Price's tender, being the lowest, was accepted. The Waikato Mail of Wednesday the 3rd inst. passed into the hands of Mr C. O. Montrose, recently sub editor of the Auckland Star. In announcing the change of ownership Mr Montrose says :—" With the present issue the Waikato Mail passes into new hands, and upon a fresh career. The proprietor Btarts absolutely free, unfettered, and untratnelled. He is a free agent, and cau work his own sweet will, for good or for evil, without let or hindrance. He is burthened with no sins of the past to atone for, either of emission or commission; no personal grievances to ventilate }" no disappointments to grieve over; no failures to lament; no shortcomings to excuse. His past is as clear as his future i is promising, thanks to the liberal measure of support and sympathy already received and assured. With the past conduct and views of the Waikato Mail he has no concern." A scene was witnessed in the Police Court this morning which might well have shocked the moralist, and shadowed" the brow of the philanthropist and friend of education. Two young girls were charged with assaulting .the daughter of decent people while on her way to the Sunday evening service at the Theatre Royal; but it was not the assault alone which was co bad, although bad enough, but the impertinent and filthy questions asked of complainant by the young girl Armstrong, merely for the sake, it would seem, of letting the Court see to what a depth of demoralisation a young girl of fourteen could sink without a blush of shame. —Star. The following, from The World, is not very complimentary to Lord Beaconsfield:— Beau Tibbs, with brainß and money; an Appetite, habited by the beat fitter, Lord Beaconsfield has been most things to moat men, but never ridiculous—to himself. There is not a part in the Human Comedy which he could not have played with self-satisfac-tion, and even to the satisfaction of his audience, save that of dupe j and perhaps the one infallible method of drawing all Disraeli out would be to take him in. A political Caglioßtro, his character iB an unreality, his career a phantasmagoria, his face a mask. His real kindnesses seem aa artificial as salutations : his salutations have the air of sarcasms. Has, for an homme fort, one infantine taste : an inconquerable love of " dressing up," the leggings and velveteens of Hqghenden being as overdone as the Knight's mantle of St. George's Chapel. Like most men who can hold their tongueßj knows no amusement like wagging his; but does not altogether disdain the more tangible pleasures of the table. Martha would have had. nothing to fear from this Mepbistopheles. Motto: " La fo-orme, Bridoison, la fo orme." Yott can be measured for a Trousers for 17s 6d, or Trousers and Vest 28s 6d, at Cloonan's (late Coegrave and Co.> Plenty of Tweeds to select from.—[Adtt.]