We notice that Volunteer Weir, of the Thames Scottish Battalion, succeeded in setting third place in a sweep at Nelson. Brave Stephen ! The honour of the Thames is placed in your hands. It has been proposed to start a singing class, to be held in the Walter street schoolroom, in connection with St. Francis' Church (R.C.), Shortland. Ladies and gentlemen desirous of joining will receive all information from the organist of the church to-morrow j morning, after Mass, and also after the conclusion of Vespers and Benediction. The Assessment Court for Parawai district was opened this afternoon at 4 o'clock. In an advertisement in another column Mr James Jeffrey notifies that he has a large assortment of Obinemuri apples for sale. The fruit is luscious io taste, pleasing to the eye, and should command a ready sale. A PETITION has been largely signed, nnd will shortly be forwarded to the Post-master G-eneral, requesting him to re consider tbe case of Mr Balcke. We hope it will be successful. We learn that a valuable horse the property of Mr Phillips, carter, kicked itself to death while being conveyed to the Thames by the Enterprise last evening. The animal was consigned to the deep. " Bat catch er," writing in another column suggests the formation of a book and magazine club on the Thames, now that it is proposed to deprive our readers of the " Nineteenth Century," and " Contemporary Reviews," at the Public Library. We find that. " New Zealander" was iv error when he stated that a teacher in one of the public schoola had visited a house in which there was a patient suflfaring from fever. We are informed .that the statement is as incorrtct as it, is harmful to tbe parly accused. HaeveST Thanksgiving Services were held in St. Peter's, Hamilton, on Sunday. Holy Communion was celebrated at 8 and 11, Evensong at 7. The Church was very effec tive)y decorated with grain, fruit and flowers, tbe offering of members of the congregation. There was a fair choir, and the singing was hearty. A novel and artistio feature in the decoration wcs the introduction of banks of moss in the window embrasures, surmouted by grain flowers and fruit. The chancel waß de -orated with the same as last year, and the coup d'ceil was good. Tbe sermon morning und evening was on the Gospel of the day. —Waikato Times. The Ottigo Witness has the following :— " Ke the ' character book' in which, for the* Education Board's information, tho Inspector records his estimate of the moral, intellectual, and professional calibre of tbe teachers under his supervision, a suggestion has reached me which the Board is humbly overtured to take into its benign consideration. Give to the teachers the equivalent privilege of recording their estimate of the Inspector. Let tJiem compile a book for the Board's information, setting forth their impressions of the Inspector's manners, bearing, temper, scholastic efficiency, impartiality, and general fitness for his post. lam not insinuating that the Inspector's ' record ' thue obtained would be a bad one. INothingof the kind. All that the suggestion involves is the equitable extension of tbe Board's system of espionage. The teachers are at present uneasy because the Inspector makoß a, secret report embodying his estimate of their ' character.' Allow them to report secretly upon Ids character, and the thing will be equal." AIfOTHEE proof of the increasing attention which the colony is receiving at Home is (the Southland News says) afforded by the arrival of Messrs Edward Herring and A. B. Broomhall. These gentlemen have been deputed by a number of capitalists in London to insfject and conditionally purchase very large areas of agricultural and pastoral freehold and leasehold lands. The enterprise includes both the North and South Islands, and it is understood that the intention of the capitalists interested is to subdivide the blocks they may succeed in eecuriog, and settle thereon a number of agricultural and pastoral farmers from Great Britain. Mr Herring has, we believe a double commission, having been requested by over three hundred farmera and others in the West Biding of Yorkshire, headed by the member of Parliameut for Wakefield, to bring back a report on the capabilities of the colony from a farmer's point of view. , Ladies and gentleman who ure good pianists are invited to call and inspect a piano just imported by Mr GfllGGt, of Jfollen street, as a specimen of the result of the most modern inventive talent in improvi;"u»nta. Its power is' imuionae, yefc b} 7 its perfection in touch, it can ba shaded down to the most perfect pianissimo.— [Advt | You can be measured for a Trousers for 17b 6d, or Trousers and Vest 28s 6d, at CIiOOWAN's (late Copgr&ve ana Go.) Plenty of Tweeds to select from.—[Abvt.]
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 26 February 1881, Page 2
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794Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 26 February 1881, Page 2
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