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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3884, 10 June 1881, Page 2

Thk Rifle Rangers are notified that shooting for the Manning Champion Belt takes pace to-morrow morning. ' The Thamei bcottish are .warned for drill eaoh: Thursday and Saturday night. ' SieGkobgb Gbei, it would'appear, intends losing no time in.moving in the matter of Patetere, for our telegrams say that he asked yesterday afternoon as soon asi the House reassembled, that all correspondence upon the subject be produced. Thb address in reply-: will be, moved on Tuesday next, the House probably adjourain g till then. : ■ . , y?WH,,reference ; to the discredit thrown on the statement of'our Wcihei. correspondent we may inform our readers that we hare the opinions of several disinterested parties in support of our correspondents' remarks. Mr Clarking says he saw " gold washed from the Prospectors' that rattled like shot in the dish," while Mr Mackic saw, •' half an ounjje weshed from a dish of dirt." Neither of these gentlemen were interested in the Prospector*. \ ■: ■Mb Mokonet, one of; the pioneer bootmakers of the Thames notifies that he has removed to those centrally situated premises aext -Mr _■'< Renehaw's, Qwen street., Mr Moroney is a skilful son of St. Crispin, and' we feel sure that when our readers have given him a trial they will ohorus, " /nd so say all of us." _ _. .-■:. ; ■ ■■ . .■■ ' * Tfcß Qeelbng '.Times says:—We hare lost absolutely, 70,000; *of our people. Where is: our population jibing ? To Neir South Wali-s,: South' Australia, and Queensland! Where is our-trade going? Where is 'our capital going? .There dan be no question but much of our capital.has gone to New- South Wales: Whence are our investors -travelling ?-> The. same answer can be made—across the border. The tune/ will not [be, long in coming when the neighbouring ' colonies may ' laugh \ at Victoria, "and will tell her' that they want none of her assistance in any matter whatever.They will occupy the status in population, the trade, the capital and the labor (hat Vie* toria-©ijC£.pressed, and this colony from its .policy of isolation is finding its way to the 'rear.'?3Birery^6&j l we''have evidences of this colony drifting behind, purely'owing to the bad policy of our rulers. Surely it is quite time that the ayes of all the people were opened to a full knowledge of the fact that the longer the Berry Government remain in office the poorer ..will they become, for all classes must suffer wholive in a colony the trade and commerceiif which is being crippled, and the population of ] which is: leaving their •bores on every available opportunity. ; : - The following is the total railway revenue for the four-weekly period ending 31st MarcH?:ifl|oetli Islitod; I7s^|d} Middle "Island, 12s sd. £75,618 9a BAP Expenditure: North Island, £10,877 6s lid; Middle Island, £29,728 15s sdi Total, £40,606 2s 4d. Per cent; of rerenue to date: North, 71 "86;: MicUi le, 6tfm Average, 6240. ? .v r / in the s Melbourne Herald speaks of the Assembly asfollows :-^Those who have visited a country circus half a dozen times in succession will remember how^the first in terest in the performance waned, night by night; until the stale joke's of the clown, the weary cantering of the'^pie-bald pony, with the posturing; of the grinning young lady perched upon' one leg.upou a pack saddle, became absolutely abhorrent;. So with the proceedinga in-our Assenibly. We. never-get afij, thing new now-a-days.- Wit has fled in disgust from the Chamber, *nd reason .slumbers. The droning is ■somnoWVin.jti influence, Jik? che burr of a water mill; or the monotonous groaning of the crank of an engine. ■ : !i'Hi intention to; make application; for an hotel license, at Mount Eden has for some time past caused considerable excitement among the residents of that district. A pefci^ tipn was got up against the; application, and public meetings have been held. When the question came before the Commissioners, a question of>symp«thy towards Mrs Hedley and her children was introduced by Mr Tyler when applying to the Onehunga Licensing Comnaissioners for a new hotel, at Mount JBden. j:Mr Russell said he felt compelled to point out ito ,the B«nch 'bat ,the pryfWas a false one. The general welfare of the district w»s the Teal matterat stake, < After judgment had been given,'the opponents of the license.' put the sympathy of the other side to a praoticttl.tesf.; l2[r Russell announced that h» had been authored by the objectors toi challenge the publican to deposit £60 for Mn Hedley^ and he w.ould cover it with a similar amount. There w^as no response to this offer, and the opposition subscribed £15 for the j widow and her children on the spot. This j war^one to show they had merely contended j

against the general prinoiple of opening hole in the district, and were not animated by any personal feelings against Mrs Hedley. The Freeman's Journal, Auckland, publishes the followittgr:—The Arobbuhop of Cashel, the Most Ber Dr Oroke, will be the nutf Irish prelate t6 receive<the re^ hat. This, appoint* ment, it; is needless to say, Would be nighty pleasing to the people Petandr-especially I in the face of the fact that this illustrious prelate invariably takes the part of the people against their intrigung and relentless enemies. The feeling in his favour at the present time 4«,mor«enthusiaeticthaa the dignified and quiet rebuke he tfdministered to a .certain miu«H friend of Dublin Castle in relation to the questions" raised about Ireland's charitable Indies «tnd thefeMtetmn in behalf of their suffering brothers and sisters; in that persecuted and down trodden country The line is drawn now, and it can be readily see a who arethe genuine friends of the Irish at, home and abroad hy the action taken" in public matters affecting the welfare of the Emerald Isle s» regards its sither spiritual or temporal welfare. ■ ? ; ; A late Melbourne cablegram says :—" In the Legislative Council yesterday the Reform Bill, 88 amended? byftb| Assembly, came up: for discussion, and althoHgh no decision was come tr, the tone of the debate Bhowed' that the majority of the members ara determined to \m\6l on amendments to the measure previously passed'in Council;" ' ,' WHriLKinlndia,the Srince of was presented Wy the.Rajah;of RuckaiucM Dfiabad" with a pipe valued at 2000 rupees, orlabout £100 of our own currenoy. Such a pipe is worthy oJt'tievaV'filled'.witliJMoljivaß'tf.^Venus or Straight Cut, and smoked by Sir Walter Raleigh himself.—[Advt.] ;:...... Says Dugald: " Hoo are you, Maggie ?"; "Am no weel ava, Dugald." Dugald: " Ay, ay ! willl-make of you a^up of tea ?- I hey some o' McQ-owau'a here." " No, no, Dugald, he'll do no coot." "Will 1 make you a newporn egg ? " " It's no use, Dugald; I'm no weel whateffer, man." " Weel, Maggie, will I marry of you ? " " Oh, Dugald, you make me laugh, an' me no weel:' Get me some o' that tea noo ? " —PAdvt.l"