The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1881.
Teams will be chosen from the following for the costume cricket match, 1 Married v. Single, to be played at the Purawai Gardens on Saturday:—Married: Lawless, W. Gray, Ehrenfvied, Buttle, Airey, Brueeey, Gudgeon, Weßt, Stead man, Young, Munro, Lough, Osborne.Bayldon, Wardell, Kenny, Cuff, Perry, Spencer,Hunter,Smith. Single: Burgess, Law Jno. Gray, Spencer, Rhodes, Webber, Weston, Qellion, Crump, La wry, Tregonning, A. Allom, Harris, Fergusson, Robinaon, Poulgrain, Muir, Turner, Eggiuton. The wickets are to be pitched at 1.45, and play will commence at 2 p.m. sharp. There was no business at the R.M. Court to-day. It is said that the directors of the Waihi and Young Colonial mines at Waitete have made arrangements for the conveyance of two ten ton parcels of quartz from their claims to the Smile of Fortune battery at Owharoa, in order to prove the payableness of their reefs.
A NOTICE respecting the striking of a rate for the Parawai Highway District appears in our advertising columns.
Samuel Mobley, the famous philanthropist., and member of Parliament for Bristol, has arrived in America, accompanied by his eon, Arthur Morley, also a member of Parliament. They propose making a trip through the country, visiting all the principal cities, and returning to England about the beginning of winter. '
The Diamond Rook Drill Company (says the Sydney-Town and Country Journal) are at work in several parts of the country. According to a report received last week their drll at. Gosford had readied the depth of 552 ft on Mr Allison's land. The seam of coal recently reported as being touched at 536 ft iv thia bore has been passed through, and has proved to ha a sft seam of clean co*l. The drill ab Temora is still boring iv diorite at a depth of 246 ft. Another drill at Hex* ham has met with aleak of water at 112 ft, which will necessitate a slight delay in plugging and cementing be fora boring is recommenced.
A HAOBI did a smart thing the other day at Masterton. His horse was impounded, and fees and damages amounted to £2 7a fid. No owner claiming the beast, it was put up to auction in due course, when the Maori proprietor bought the horse for 6* 6d, thus saving £2 Is.
Mv James G. Fair heads the personal assessment roll just filed in San Francisco with 42.000,000 dollars. Mr J. C. Flood is assessed at 36,000.000 dollars for himself and 20,500,000 as trustee for J. W. Mackay. Mr Charles Crocker is asaesaed at 20,000,000 dollars. The electric light hag been in use for some time on board the Inman Royal mail steamer Oity of Berlin, and has given great satisfaction to all concerned. Two of the other steamers of the Inman line hare also the electric light, and the whole fleet is in process of being similiarly fitted.
Tbbuk is v very handsome, rich and tit- | tractive San Fraueisoo girl nt one of the Saratoga hotels. Tliere is always a string of devoted youths about her, and -one of them, in urging his suit, hud the bad taste to mention that, as far us money, wentj .the match would not bo unequal. Whereupon the blonde heireas calmly m<pondo:t: "My dear sir, I have more tnonpy thun I wunt now. What lam looking fji- is a, man with brains." She is evidently sinurt enough to fiad one.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3996, 19 October 1881, Page 2
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573The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1881. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3996, 19 October 1881, Page 2
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