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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3972, 21 September 1881, Page 2

We bare had a communication from the Kniapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, asking if it is contemplated to hold during this year an agricultural or industrial exhibition, us the company are desirous of being represented. The bint ought to be taken by the authorities, and if not an agricultural, yet a local industries exhibition might be projected. We are sure many of our resi_ dents would contribute towards it, and if, would have at least the advantage of advertising the Thames to the outside world, and probably securing customers for our locally manufactured goods.

The Enterprise leaves Auckland at eight o'clock this evening for the Thames, and will leave tbe Goods Wharf to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.

Thebb was no business at tbe B.M, Court this morning.

The annual meeting of the Thames Jockey Club will take place at tbe Governor Bowen hotel on Tuesday next the 27th instant. Business : to elect officers for tbe ensuing year and to make arrangements for the aunua races. PaopßSSoa and Madame Eraser notify tbat they may be cousulted afc AUaway's Temperance hotel. Persons requiring charts of their beads and information ou phrenological subjects are invited to call upon Professor Fraser.

Mb Cubtis, of the Pacific Hotel, bad the Stars and Stripes flying half-mast high out of respect for the deceased President o€ the United States of America.

We learn, a cash box^ containing notes and valuable papers was stolen from the Bendigo Hotel sometime yesterday afternoon. Mr Robert Scott, bootmaker, discovered the box in tbe creek which runs by his garden in Block 27. There were some three pounds in the box when Mr Scott found it, but we have not heard wh»b sum was in it at the time it was stolen. A man living in Sandes street has been arreßted.

GUbvey and porty complain to us of the wretched state of the Waiotabi road, especially that portion between Punga Flat and the top of the rang c.

In future New Zealand wheat will be quoted in the English telegrams, ex warehouse, per 4961ba,, in the same manner as Adelaide wheat. Tbis will enable the rates commanded by the produce of the two colonies to be more readily compared than under the old system.