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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4214, 4 July 1882, Page 2

The concert to which reference has been made in our columns on several occasions daring the past fortnight, will be held this erening, and as it is for a'good purpose, riz., to help the Sisters of Meroy to get rid of some of the debt incurred by them in securing the freehold of the ground on which their school stands, it is not expecting too much, considering the serrices they have rendered the community for the last eight years, that a bumper house should greet the efforts of the ladies and gentlemen who have at great personal inconvenience volunteered their assistance in aid of the good cause, and will hare the honor of appearing before the Thames public in what promises to be one of the most successful entertainments given here for a considerable time past.

Pbofkssob Dehton'b lectures oa Geology begin to-morrow night. A full programme is contained in the handbills issued with tbe Stab. Of him the Californian Daily Morning Call says : —"Mercantile Library Hall was fairly packed on Thursday evening with people eager to receive the glowing expositions of the learned lecturer, who has evening after evening so magically plucked tbe grand secrets of the earth's formation,. and presented them for our edifi cation and delight."

The manager of the New Prince Imperial invites tenderß for the erection of poppet heads and other works.

A MEKTINO of shareholders in the Eureka mine, Otanui, will be held at the Salutation hotel this evening.

A csbioTts little domestic drama came to a conclusion to-day at the Supreme Court, says a Christchurch exchange. An ill-treated wife had fled, with her male lodger, to Oamaru. The guilty pair had taken sundry goods and chattels, the property of the deserted husband with which they furnished a house in Oamaru. To-day the lodger got 6 months for larceny, and a few minutes after the husband and wife joined bands and went away together with the stolen and now restored goods, in the same express thnt had conveyed the flying pair and the then stolen goods. This is a queer world !

An amusing instance of " walking into the lion'- den" is recorded by the Bangitikei Advocate Mr J. O. Fulton was talking to somebody in the street at Marton, when a man came from the rear of a neighboring hotel, and, after looking up and down the street cautiously, made for Mr Fulton and his companion. To the latter he offered to sell a coat, which he produced from beneath the coat, he was wearing, Baying that he was very; hsr.i up, and would take anything within reason. His surprise was great when the " somebody" put the handcuffs on and marched him off for larceny. He was a constable in plain clothes. The thief got " sent up," for a month."