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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3939, 13 August 1881, Page 2

Another patient has died at the quarantine station at Sydi.ey from the effects of small pox. The person's name was Dougherty.

The steamer Ferret, about which so much was heard lately, was offered by auction in Melbourne yesterday, but was bought in for £9000.

In another column wo publish an extract from'a letter, showing the state of feeling in South Africa re the recent humiliating cession of the Transvaal, We venture to predict that ere long petitions for compensation from ruined settlers, will inundate the English House of Commons.

Messes Frater Bros., land agents, of 'the Thumes and Auckland are prepared to lend several sums of money at current rates. They have for sale land in Ohinemuri and the Thames Valley, besides dwelling houaes and freehold allotments in several parts of the township.

Habtman, who is now in America, has confessed to complicity in the Moscow railway outrage, in which the life of the late Czar was sought to be taken.

Mb Jackson, licensed surveyor, has prepared a plan of the Fame, the name given the area lately taken up by J. W. Walker and others, and intended to be floated on the English market. The plan shows in detail the lie of the reefs in that district and all the adjoining mines. It is certified as correct by Mr McLaren and the mine managers of the Alburnia, Whau, and several ©ther mining companies.

Mb Pond, the well known entrepreneur and caterer of the firm of Spiers und Pond, is dead.

The Eev. S. J. Neill will deliver his second lecture on the Revision of the New Testament at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening.

King- Kalakana, of the Hawaiian Islands h on a tour through Germany, and has been feted at Berlin.

The Naval Brigade muster for a Captain's inspection on Monday evening, and at the conclusion of game hold a special meeting for the consideration of important business.

Wallace Boss has challenged Hanlan to a sculling match for the championship.

Somb days ago we received a copy of the first number of the N w Zealand Schoolmaster, a monthly Educational Jour ai and Review, published by Messrs Dinwiddie and Walker, of Napier. The editor states in bis introduct tory article that the Schoolmaster is nostarted with a view of profit., but to benefit the'cause of education The journal is welj got up, contuins a great deal of interesting matte-, and will no doubt, be well received.

Thr Chinese loan has been successfully floated, three times the amount required being subscribed locally.

Lodge Sir Walter Scott will hold its regular monthly meeting ou Tuesday evening.

The Liberal Association will meeb on Monday night.

Sheehan has had a lot of information compiled and extracted as to the relative cost of conducting Local and Central government. In 1876 the departmental estimates for the General Government, including the vote for municipaities, whs £800,000. In the estimates before the House for the current jear the amount alone for departmental expenditure is £1,660,000. In 1876 tho cost, of provincial charges for all the provinces in the way of management were as follows:— Administration, £24;,408; Legislation, £2,352 Printing, £9,357; total £36,097. During the year ending 31st Marsh, the manugeiuent and miscellaneous official expenses of county management was £56,550. For Itoad Boards, during the same period, similar charges, £30,538.—Observer.

The Observer says . —" Great amusement is felt in the House when Weston asks a question; his manner of deference and modo of diction mark him cut fr^m all other members. Thus whan he wanted the other day to ask a question, he commenced—' Mr Speaker, may I have your permission to ask my lion, friend the Postmaster-General a question ?' ' Certainly you may,' said Shrimaki, who sits in a corner of one of the middle benches. The disgu3t of Weston, it is said, was as -great as the amusement of Shrimaki.

Much interest has been created among naval architects by the adoption by Germany of a new type of war vessel. The German Naval authorities have given instructions for the building of a gunboat ou a novel and improved principle. The vessel will be constructed for speeJ, and will carry gUvs of unusual power.

Captain BoiGan believes that the feeling aguinst him bus subsided sufficiently to enable him to again return to Ireland.

An article in the Gisborne Standard commences as follows:—There is no telling to what extremity men with perverted minds will go in search of a spurious popularity, or what amount of self-imposed immolation they will undergo, on t c altar of a vain, personal conceit. In all communities men are to be found into whose actions one has to look closely to discover whether their motives be honest or the reverse, for it is the intention with which men act that imparts either a sterling value, or an utter worthlessness to all they do.