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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3946, 22 August 1881, Page 2

We are given to' understand that the difference in connection with Butler's tribute and some parties who claimed an interest with him in it, has been amicably settled There bus been more ta'k about this affair than there was any necessity for, and without going into particulars we may say that Mr t'utler, from the first, acted square, and that it wsb solely owing to outride parties putting their spoke in, that cuuaed the delay. Mb McQ-BEaOR will sell to-morrow (Tuesday), at Mr Irvine's residence (who is leaving the Thameß), the whole of his superior stock of furniture and household effects. Thb Liberal Association discuss the question of representation at their meeting this evening. Messes Foy Bros., photographers, have lately imported a new process by which they can take instantaneous portraits. The pro. cess is known as the Gelatine Bromide, and for children's portraits is unsurpassed. Mb Cabpentjbb advertises a sale for Wednesday of th» household effects of Mrs Marshall, of the Beach road.

Mk Datiks, the .returning Officer for the Borough, notifies that tlm annual election for councillors will take place next mouth, and ; that Monday next will be the day of nomina- ! tion. The Naval Brigade meet tonight for monthly inspection by Major Withers. On Wednesday the Thames Bifle Rangers are notified by Captain Douglas to assemble for monthly inspection. The Councillors who retire by rotation from the Borough Council this year are Root. Graham, North Ward ; John Wilson, Middle Ward ; and Thomas Veale, South Ward. Several gentlemen are spoken of a3 intending candidates, including some old Councillors. As a piece of local workmanship, the dray built by Mr Hayes, wheelwright, at his workshop, corner of Maokuy and Willoughby streets, cannot bo surpassed by any imported article. Thi<.% dray has b.een made to the order of a local carter, who has found to his coßt that imported drays, while they may be very nice to look at, are not suited to the work on the Thames, nnd so he determined to have a locally built vehicles. Mr West, blacksmith, of Willoaghby street, made the ironwork, and it is needless to to say it ia well and faithfully constructed, and of the beat material. The dray as it stauds ia worth tho inspection of peraons interested in seeing good workmanship, or desirous of enoouraging local productions. The Dutch Parliament have passed a bill dealing with the abuse of alcoholic liquors in Holland. The maximum number of licensed houßetn is to bo in future one for every 500 inhabitants in cities containing over 50,000 pe;vons; one for every 400 inhabitant in towns of 20,000 to 50,000 people ; one for every 300 persons in places containing from 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants; and one for every 250 people in all places inhabited by a population of lesß than 10,000. The bill also provides that all persons convicted of drunkenness in any public place shall be punished with imprisonment without tho option of a fine. The uninterrupted stream of imu igration which flows into New York is one of the most Bignificunt facts of our time. The exodus this year is attaining unprecedented proportions. Most of the emigrun s come from Germany, driven out of the Fatherland, they say, by " poverty, military service, and excessive taxes ; " while some who come from Posen say they are flying from persecution. Three thousand three hundred Irish have landed at New York since the month of June began, and, tays the Daily News correspondent, " thero is a constantly increasing proportion of skilled artizans and families with considerable sums of money, who say they are obliged to leave Ireland on account of the Land League. They go directly west to Colorado and Nebraska, where they buy homesteads of uncultivated land.

Another astronomical phenomenon of the present year his a direct relationship vtich the Great; fyramid of Egypt, which, whatever other significance belongß to it, is pretty generally conceded to have been eiected for astronomical observation. But one of the most notable aftronomical eve ta which the Great Pyramid commemorates, and which will this year be repeated, will be the appearance of the star Draconia in a line with the Great Gallery or entrance passage of the ancient structure. Such an es-ent has not transpired since the cornplelion of the Great Pyra^ mid, which is computed to have occurred in 2170 B'C. When that particular star reaches the position mentioned it is further maintained that the celestial dial will have completed a circle of over 25,000 years, or, in other words, the heavenly bodies will have resumed the position they were in that remote

period.

The Hauraki Tribune says :-- Bitter complaint is made of a new regulation said to have beeD recently promulgated as to the completion of purchases of land from the natives. As all 3mow who have been unfortunate enough to have anything to do with native lands, the signature of a native to a deed has to be attested to by a Resident Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace. This costs a guinea for a Native Interpreter. But in addition, the brands Commissioner is said now to require that the native be brought before his deputy at the Thames to acknowledge this payment! If this bo not intended as a premium on swindling we should like to know with what other object the regulation has been framed. A Maori will repudiate his signature as barefacedly and as impudently as the Hall Government would the order of the late Native Minister, Mr Sheehan.

The Dunedin Echo does not expect any good Representation Bill this session. First, toe Government have not backbone enough to stand any well-defined principle an which such a bill should be shape. 1. Second, last year's bill was manifestly drawn in the ink-rest of many members of the House, and wo do not expoct a change in that respect in the new bill. The Groy Government in the early part of 1879 had a .Representation Bill roughly drafted, and there was no increase of members proposed by it. Indeed we bolieve the members could bo reduced with safety to sixty, and ought not to be increased to ninetyone.

A Galveston Irishman bus a brigkt boy who reads the papers. The other day the old man asked Patrick junior, why he riidu't return the clangs from the marketing. There was no answer, excpt that the boy muttered. " The toirant." " Have you fed tbe pig, Patrick?" A stoney stare was the only reply. Then for about fifteen minutes there was ii vision of a son closely pursued by a bare-heurled father revolving around the house, until th« latter overtook the former, and yanked him over a water barrel. " I was only trying Boycott on yer, father; for the sake of ould Ireland, leave me aloue " "It's boy caught you are," panted the old man; "I'll teach you to trifle wui the home rulers," and he reached out and gathered a barrel stave. Tbe application of coercive measures could be heard Jour blocks off.