THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3785, 14 February 1881, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1881.

The Lydia Howard troupe will open at the Academy of Music this evening with Robinson Crußoe. They arrived by the boat this afternoon. The company are twenty strong, and we should advice the public to take this opportunity of seeing this excellent troupe. The following are the members of the new Harbour Board.:—Messrs Bagnall, Brown, Wilson, Read, Osborne, McGowan, Marshall, the Mayor and Mr Carpenter. A NO JIWOATION was received by the Health Officer to-day to the effect that a lad aged 10 years, resident in the Waiotahi Creek, named Wishart, was ill with scarlet fever. Mb Hitchens, of Blood Restorer celebrity, has called at our office and left a nicely got up advertising show card. The card, besides containing excellent testimonials, bearß upon it a life-like portrait of the discoverer of this far-famed blood restorative. A meeting of the Parawai Highway Board was held this afternoon for the punpose of electing a member to represent the Board on the Harbor Board. Mr Carperter was elected. A spkoial commission consisting of Messrs Seed and Batkin are at present on the Thames. Their object ia to ascertain what further reductions can be made in the cost of maintenance of the various public departments. The following is the State of Sick at the Thames Goldfield Hospital from 6th to 12th February, 1881:—Statistical Nosology — Zvmotie Eiseases —remained -3, admitted 2, remaining 5 ; Local—remained 10, discharged 3, remaining 7 ; Violent —remained 5, admitted 1, discharged 2, remaining 4. —Total, remained 18, admitted 3, discharged 5, remaining 16. Out Patients, 59.—Mr Thomas Aitken, Dispenser, desires us to acknowledge the receipt of a parcel of periodicals from the Sunday School children of the Baptist Church for the patients in the Hospital. We are informed that Mr George Brown, who so lately lectured here, has had an attack of an old complaint to which he is very subject, and is obliged to be cautious in his labors during the present extraordinary hot weather, or he would era this have again lectured at the Thames. His nest two lectures will most likely be upon the autlienticityqftJie Scriptures and upon tJie divinity, or supernatural nature of Jesus Christ. His second number of " Bible Standard," we are informed, is now published, those requiring the same Bhould apply to Mr Nodder, bookseller, who is the agent. A eiee broke out in Messrs J. V. Carr and Son's premises, Custom House street west, Auckland, on Saturday night. The top storey was used by the Messrs Carr for boatbuilding stores, and the lower story is leased as a blacksmith's shop by Messrs Cleaver and Bennett. The premises are destroyed. Messrs Carr's loss is £200. They are uninsured. Messrs Cleaver and Bennett lose all thair tools and stock-in trade, which are also uninsured. The block of houses adjoining was saved by the Fire Brigade*- but Messrs Carr's residence adjoining is partly damaged. The cause is unknown. Incendiarism is suspected.