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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4057, 30 December 1881, Page 2

Thebb will be no publication of the Siab on Monday, in order to give our employees a holiday. With this eveni ig's .issue, we present our readers with an almanac. Should, by any oversight, each not contain ' an almanac persons calling at our office can be supplied.

At the Academy of Music on Monday, January 2nd, a grand entertainment will be given by Lieut Herman and a number of ladies and gentlemen amateurs in aid of the Patrick Meehan family -fund, A dance will be given after the entertainment. We hope to ccc a crowded house.

PheSeevino peaches.wl] be carried on rigorously this season, and already our tinsmiths are fully engaged making tius. We bear that Mr Fagg, of Pollen street, has orders for 500,000 tina. ,

The members of the Hibernian Society intend to present Mr Mcllhone with a testimonial previous to his departure from the Thames.

Mb McGregor sold by auction this morning the right to the gates, gra^d stand and booths at the race n eeting lot Monday. The gates were purchased by Mr Spencer for £30; grand stand, £3 ; publican's booth £8; fruit stalls, £1 10a and £1; cards 10s.

Ax the sale of racing stock this morning the prices offered were greatly under the reserve prices. Redeemer found an offer of £1.00, and v similar amount * was offered for Rocket. The Garry. Owen filly did not finds purchaser. Redeemer, the winner of the Trial Stakes, is by Gladiator out of Bailie. He won the Wanganui Darby in 1879 against a field of 12 horses, and in the fastest time on record. Rocket, the winner of the Goldfield's Handicap, is by Gladiator, out of Fanny, an 'mported mare. ;

Thb New Zealand matches of the English team are set out as follows:—Jan. 12, 13, and 14, Otago ; 16, and 17, Oatnaru or Timaru ; 20, 21, and 23, Canterbury; 26, 27, and 28, Wellington ; Fed. 2, 3, and 4, Auckland. Canterbury is set down to -play with fifteen, the others with twenty-two. The Canterbury players, however, iatand to play with eighteen.

" Scbipi'OE," in the Dunedin Echo, writes : —" I wonder what made Mr Bryce ride on a white borse into Parihaka ? He seems to have been careful to have used none other. Why was this? Were there no blaok or brown horses Bear Parihaka ? Yes, there were plenty, for no one pare Mr Bryce rode a whit*

one. The use of this co'ored animal has not been without its effeot. The Maori interpreters of prophecy see in the civcumntance an nttornpt by Mr Brjce \o follow Revelations. For is it not written? —'And I saw the lioiven opened ; and behold a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and Truo ; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And his eyes are as a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems ; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself.' (Ohapter xix., v. 9, 19). The Maoris say that the rider on tbo horse is only the forerunner of Him that is to come. Again, I wonder what made Mr Bryce ride on a white horse! "

At a late meeting of fc'.ie Social and Revo* lutionary Congress, Herr Schaub, the representative of the German Socialists in America described the situation ot capital in that country, and condemned the maintenance of a Preßidental establishment in Washington. He discussed the advisability of strikes. The following resolution was then revd in three languages :—" In consideration of the facts that the English Government, acting under the influence of Foreign despot ism, have been guilty of a gross outrage against the rights of individuals and the liberty of the press, and regarding the sentence of. sixteen months' hard labour passed upon Herr Most, editor of the Frebeit, as cowardly and unjust, this meeting hereby protests against such conduct, and viewing in the policy of the English Go* vernment an attempt to still further enslave the people, calls upon working men- everywhere to combine and resist such tyranny and gain their independence.