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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3954, 31 August 1881, Page 2

Th:s popular and energetic Captain of the Rifle Rangers has in band a large number of prizes for shooting, attendance at, parades, and general efficiency in drill. pecial priz -s are promised by a, lady friend, which will be presented for efficiency at the end of tbr.e months, together with the prizes fcr attendance, which will commence to-mori'6w evening, when the company will parade with rifles and side arms, and hold a special meeting after drill. We certainly must congratulate this veteran corps on its popularity, especially amongst the fair sex, whose sympathy has designated the corps as " The Ladies' Own."

Whiting- upon the stopping of the New Plymouth Harbour Works, and the action of the peopleof Waitara a correspondent of the T. Herald says : —" Id the annals of ingratitude surely no year will bear a blacker mark than 1881 —the year in which Waitara tiiecl to stop the New Plymouth Harbour Works. Waitara as a. settlement, owe 3 her very existence to the pangs of New Plymouth and the seamy settlement, which in 1860 adjoined it. It, was in order that Governor Browne's purchase of the Wnitara land should not be invalidated that New Plymouth underwent years of warfare. Her men were slain ; her women died of fever 5 her families were banished to Nelson ; her houses were burned; her farms were laid waste ;h r cattle were driven off. What wa,? hardest to bear of all—she was be3i«;d "by the suints. Through cuc'n throes was Waitara born, and now she a rikos her mother.

Mb .John Towjsenb, who has been in business on the Thames as a butcher since the opening of the field, has a new advertisement in another column. Mr Townscnd lias reduced the price of meat at his establishment, and vn ho keeps none but the very beat the market can supply, his cußtomer3 may consider themselves favored. He is now selling boiling and corned beef at 3d per pound, and h;is made corresponding reduclions in the price of all meat sold by bipi.

A concert will be given in the Academy of Music on Thursday, the 15th of Sapfc. by the Choir of St. Greorge's Church, assiattd by the member* of the Naval Brigade Band. The cantata " The Marry Men of Sherwood Forrat" will bt» given, and also glees and solos innumerable. A dance for the young people will follow the concert, and the charges for admission will be as usual.

The following hits appeared in the Illinois Independent: —''James M. Swanrstedt prodiets the end of the world on November 12th at midnight. It is very remarkable that at midnight of November 12th, the seven utaw from whence Christ will descend, and jupiter the earth, and the sun will be in a direct line with eiich oth< v, The comet will come straight from this lino. The most direful effects will follow its contact with our plan t. It will produce the most awful earthquakes, whirlwind?, and tornadoes thn world has ever

A veey serious accident happened on Saturday last, to a child of Mr Irvine, of Tararu. It appears the child who is about 10 years old, was playing or using an axe, -which slipping, fell on the right hand, cutting off the little finger, besides injuring the next or third finger. Dr Hnxtable was immediately sent for and dressed the wounds.

witnessed. The mountain* will flow down with liquid hvu, also with torrents of vvntov, causi;d by the inciting of the accumulated snows of centuries. Isaiah, XXtV., tells the earth will reel to and fVo like a drunkard under the mighty bomb^riment through which it will have to g>. Sfc. John sayß the heaven will depart a3'a scroll when it is rolled together. This indicates that tlie force of the great concussion will be co dreadful and produce such v. tempest that the clouds which surround the earth will be " rolled together as a scroll " and carried off by the comet. The earth will present a wretched appearance as it emerges from the catastrophe. According to St. John, the world will bee >me panio stricken ua the cotnot approaches t'»e earth. Kings wi'l desert their thrones, great men their estates, mighty men their armies, and ■ will flee to caves and the rocks of the moutains for shelter. All who give thernseiros to G-od now, will be made immortal af the coming of Ihs son of Q-od,"

Wa understand that Mrs Hampsou will vi'it the Thames in the course of nest week.

Labg-e meetings have been held at Stoke, Eichmond, and Wakefiold, in the Nelson district, to consider the cloture resolutions and the Keprescntation Bill. Gre.-it indigoation was expressed, the aieet.ii)!:*. urging member? to still continue their opposition to fcho bill and cloture.

Ms Beight, seedsman, has on aale Bridg ford's Antiseptic Liq.iid, used for destroying all insects infesting fruit trees and flowering plants. M.v Bright, has testimonials from persons who have used the liquid.

Mr LAWLESS, the Secretary, announces that the next, competition for the District Belt will take place on Saturday next. Kntries are to be niudo not later than 8 o'. lock on Friday night.

Mr Datxes notifies tha withdrawal of Mr PricUer from the contest for tho North Ward.

Whe,-E Mother Shipton'a prophecies came from.—in 184-1., one John Adonis Spencer, .pattering from an old bit of do^ur^l, forged what is called " Mother fcUnpion's Prophecy," prei.euilin^ that it, wsis some 200 years old. As ir, foretold the steam engirif, ocean telegraphs, the wars of Buonaparte, &0., those who believed in its genuineness were naturally iistonised; but when it proceeded to foretell ihe end of the world in 1881 it was evidently playing on the gullibility of the public. The forgery was long ago brought home to Spencer, nnd confessed by him, but the " prophecy " t<till finds tools to study ii, <vith awe.—West Briton.