T H E (Swumrj ,;fte PPHT.TBKHU lmiVT 4T VOVK o'oiOOOK Pit!. Returrexi. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3808, 12 March 1881, Page 2

T H E (Swumrj , ; fte PPHT.TBKHU lmiVT 4T VOVK o'oiOOOK Pit!. Returrexi. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1881.

We are informed that the Catholic Sunday School children's feast will be held this year on the festival of the patron saint of Ireland (17th March) in the Tararu Gardens under the auspices of the Christian Doctrine Confraternity. Arrangements have been made by which the children will be conveyed to the scene of the festivities on the tramway, and the H.A.C.B. Society has kindly granted the use of their .band for the occasion. The committee are indefatigable in their exertions to render the ftte as attractive for the juveniles as those previously held, and tho only desideratum, iß.fine weather to ensure the thorough success of the affair.

One of the pleasantesfc public excursions of the year is generally that to New Brighton, Miranda. We understand that one will take place on St. Patrick's Day, the proceeds to be devoted to the building fund of the Primitive Methodist Church. We have no doubt it will be well patronised.

The Rev. S. J. Neill will continue hia lecture on the " Plan of Salvation " at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening. From the interest taken in the subject, and the ability shown by Mr Neill in his treatment of it, a largo congregation will doubtless assemble.

The wife of a North Shore gardener has eloped with a young man following the same occupation as her husband.

A BABY show will be one of the attractions at St. Patrick's Day festivities in Auckland. A Btrict watch will be kfpt on the " exhibits," so that fond mothers will not " Hurst " their darlings.

DuBING a particularly pathetic scene at the Opera in Wellington the other night, the sublime was suddenly metamorphosed into the ridiculous by the appearance, just above the proscenium, of an enormous rat laboriously traversing the arch, while it carried a juvenile rat in its moulh after the manner of affectionate cat-motbers with their kittens.

The Observer gives a Eketch of Procoffy, the supposed Te Aroha murderer.

At a bazaar in England £10 was given for a rose which had been in the fair grasp of the Princess of Wales. Shfikeepeare says that " a rose by aDy other name would smell as Bweet," but it may be added that a rose by any other hand would not sell aB high."

We are informed that the annual collections will be rnnde in the various churobes tomorrow for the benefit of the Thames Eo pital.

We are glad to notice that the connecting culvert in connection with the Queen of Beauty waste water is now running down both sideß of Cocbrane street. A good stream has been diverted into Queen street water table between Cochrane and Albert