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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3786, 15 February 1881, Page 2

Befebbino to a pigeon message received at a late hour from Te Aroha, we have reason to believe that it is perfectly correct, the natives being highly incensed. It is not improbable that fuilher and serious complications may arise. Mb Jenkxhs, of the Block, called at our office this morning and left a fine lot a plums. For flavour and size they are unsurpassed by anything we have seen on the Thames. In another column Mr Jenkins notifies that he is prepared to supply fruit at a very low price. We have to asknowledge the receipt of the first copy of the Ooromandel Mail. It is exceedingly well printed and contains a great deal of information, the editor says it shall be the duty and first object of the Mail to make the richness of the late finds and the wealth of the district more widely known. OtJE contemporary, with that vituperative malignity which characterises the actions of it 3 proprietor, choo3es, in this morning's issue, to give publicity to a local from " One who was present," attacking us for " our garbled and untruthful report of the Borough Council meeting," and stating that " our representative was not present." We do not consider that our Lilliputian contemporary is worth notice, but, in justice to ourselveg, may say that our information re the meeting was gained from the most authoritative sourr )s, and we challenge our contemporary or " One who was present"—for they are one and the same person—to point out !o us where we envd. No doubt the unpleasant position in which the Mayor was placed ye3terday is sufficient reason for the "mangled and distorted " report of the proceedings in this morning's issue of the Advertiser, who, although represented by two persons, utterly failed to give a report of the proceedings, but merely a " hash up" of what appeared in our last evening's issue.

A cabi/eghjaM says :—The Conservatives are entirely in harmony with the Government in the endeavours to put a stop to the continued obstruction by the Home Rulers The Fenian member for Enais,, having obstructed the proceedings of the House, was expelled, and the twenty-seven remaining Home Rulers refusing to quit their Beats, were, on a division, thereupon named by the Speaker and likewise expelled. Mr Dillon was expelled for interruption to Mr Gladstone, and Mr Parnell and Mr Finigan were expelled individually for persisting in proposing " that Mr Gladstone be not heard." Twenty-eight Home Rule members were then expelled in a block for refusing to leave their Beats and go into the lobby during a division, and five 01 hers were expelled individually for interrupting Mr O-ladstone. These members did not follow the example of Mr Parnell and Mr Dillon by offering forcible resistance, but withdrew from the Chamber upon being touched by the Sergeant-at-Arms.

Another ghost story. This time from Wellington, which s'3ms to be more prolific of that kind of sensation than any other part of the Colony. Some time ago, during the session ot the House, the whole town was electrified by the story that poor Mr Cantrell, at that time member for Carersham (Otago), who was known to have gone home dangerously ill, was seen in his seat in the House one evening, and spoken to by Mr B. W. Stafford and others. After looking at them fixedly for a few seconds he vanished, and those, -who saw the ." shade " were horrorstruck. This time the Government Buildings is the scene, and the unquiet one is said to be not unconnected with a late G-overnment architect. At all events, people are chary of walkiDg about in the buildings now after dark, and the night porter is rapidly wasting away from sheer fright.—Liberty.

An old farmer's wife who had a servant that was notorious for breaking dishes on one occasion fell asleep in church. During her slumbers her elbow unluckily overturned a Bible, when to the amusement of her fellowwoi'shippers she wa3 heat-i to mutier in a very audible yoicf—"Laither bowl, ye hissie.", ... . .

One day this week a weU-known and handsome young lady entered one of our leading, establishments and enquired for a " bow.".; ,The polite shopman threw himself back and remarked that he was at her service. "Yes*:; but I-want a buff, not a green one," was the reply. The young man went an measuring calico immediately.—Ex.

At last the cricketers are gone. Thank Heaven! I don't fiud fault with the game. It's a splendid one, and thoroughly English, bub why upset business for three days simply because eleven gentlemen have gone into the cricket-show business and came here on their round. It's making too much of it; and how the Australians must have chuckled over (he greenness of us Oanterbnry people in running cheap trains, and shutting up shop' to enable them to make money. I'm glad they came ; it's taken our people down a peg, and taught them something; but cricket is not the business of Ohristchurch people, though it is of the visiting tsam. Nine-tenths of those who were out to see it know nothing about it, could see little, and would gladly nave been away. It was the rage, however, for the time. Everyone was cricket-mad, and I hope now they'll" get over it. Surely we've had nough of the game to last us for half a century at least. —Liberty.

Honoes are conferred on men for various and curious reasons. Art, science, or literature, seldom leads to titled distinctions ; pills, Bauce, wholesale murder, and accident, often do ; but ill-health, no far as I can remember, never has yet. If, however, the Argus Special telegrams are to be believed, the recommendation of a physician regarding Gladstone's health, will result in his elevation to the peerage as Earl of Liverpool. On (he point of clearing out! Sale of Meerschaum and Briar Pipes, L ouches, Purses &c, at cost price for a few days. Everything will be sacrificed to reduce the stock.—T. Lawiess. —[Advt.J You can be measured for a Trousers for 17s 6d, or Trousers and Vest 28s 6d, at Ciooitan's (late Copgrave and Co.) Plenty of Tweeds to select from.—[Abvt.]