SIR GEORGE GREE'S MEETING.

Thames Star, Volume xii, Issue 3852, 4 May 1881, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREE'S MEETING.

(Tojthe Editor of tliy» Jffemnjf Btar.) Sib,—l- was at^^^^or^-^lSlej'g:, meeting on Saturday night. I didn't go on to the stage, though number^ o_f othor men, not nearly so cmrer or goodlobWing as myself, ascended the steps, and were admitted b^f the obsequious doorkeepers* But then yfn know '? jfooi* step on where angels fear tread," your humble servant being, for the sake of- argument, on* of the latter. I was standing outside -when Mr Hurley, the Shortland bootmaker, not being Ui*h-*^c4;enough, was refused admittaitje to the sacrd vicinity of Sir Gorge and his attendants galiaxy of sucking candidates— Now, old Hurley is a re.y decent man, a cle^r-heari .ai mm, a man who has made the bttid^uetiion ooe of the studies, of hig Hfe/faad I:tbink was as much entitled ; 't»: adDU««ion*«s others who were therei 'Ilis avqueftiea needirig au aosvrerji #hd 'j^i#f theWJWw at the door instruction* wjib <b rfarii? If they r.ceiv^d V'pß 'in^r)actiqia^'thi>j desei ye kickioj; fot, their impje^tineijc*. I think the way the aadiehoe 'hc^^|lig Worship showed execrabie t«sto>., ff ilie people of the Thames cannot rqspect tfie maa, surely they should hare some consideration for the position he holds. On an occasion like SatuTday night, the audience should hare applauded 'the Mayor t> the echo,' and shored m a •'Bravo Wilkiel" or V;(fO it Bantam 1" on erery possible occasion. But they didn't. They've got no feelings.—l «ea,

• ■ •' ' • ■■■ ■ ' ■■■.Vi ,'SX >w Some inleresti»rftict»tiio«Jfcittt*gßiiifc of England were girenbyiMr Bitch; the Ororernor, the other night, in ; replying to the toast of his health, giyen by the Lord Mayor, at a banquet .h^ld^altheeMjMHjifln House. Mr BindftMii^e business of the Bank of England Immlhio parallel in any other estabiishmwt ii»!|bv#orld/inasalMh as it combined witU ire ordinary bmnkuto busines/the management^r the j^itidnal) Debt and the issne and payment oTtife greater portion of the note «ir«uUtioiLjof the country. Some idea of the greatness of the work might be formed from'" the facts that there -were no lew than 233*500 accounts o^eti in the pohjio ftinds, that the namber ~«f Kmk note* issuefd during the' last year wag abore 15^ millioiiß,Te|M:esenting a sum of £338,000,000, aod t\ie® *W*g^ X i££ ampu,nt cancelled. Aa accurate register of erery operation wasTdpi;, so that any note paid into the bank during the hut fire years could be produced within a minute or two, with information as to the. channel through which it had found ite way back Jo the bank, and this aotwitt staudmg that the register repres^dm K»lhon o notes, stowed „»^%jx£y boxes. It was generally thought that the iiank was extrayasant in cancelling tbo notes which flame in, but the matter has U?ps Th 1 n»idered. »nd it-wtf- call*. lated that if they wero to keep a register or the notes, th,i* present system was the cheapest, .

As t ? p newly waited Irishmen were walking up t. street in San Francisco * parewent trap door opwwd suddenly, and a Chinese B tp» porter eml»ed. ST f h*ren"« «^ * tuTnel danS through from Ch^ bad lock ta An attornej, about to furnish a "bill of KWRSr