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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4360, 21 December 1882, Page 2

The leasehold residence of Mr J. W. Walker, Mount Pleasant, was offered for sale to-day by Mr R. R. McGregor, but no buyer* were present. Leaseholds on Mount Pleasant ure no*, in request at present.

Wk are requested to state Ihufc the Post-master-General has authorised tho following arrange ments in the Post Office and Telegraph Departnieut for 26r,h December: —Boxing day: Tue Post Office will be open to the public from 9 to 10 a.m. A lettercarriers' delivery will take place ufc 8 a.m. Mails will be dispatched as usual. The telegraph branch will ba open from 9 to 10 a.m. and 7 till 8 p.m. The privnte box lobby will remain open all day. The street letterreceivers will be cleared at 5 p in The Naval Cadet Minstrels will appear tonight at the Academy of Music. The programme provided comprises an excellent selection of negro melody, witticisms affecting noted celebrities, and several amusing Ethiopian j dramatic sketches. The performance to-night is tendered by the Cadets towards assisting to raise a sum of money !'or the family of the late Mr E. Ellinjrs, whose untimely end a few ..weeks ago is still fresh in everyone's memory. The band of the Naval Brigade, always to the front on such occasions, will play a prelude on the balcony of the Academy. A dance for front seat ticket boWers will take place after the performance. Volunteers are invited to don their uniforms.

It was too bad of C? Speight not to be present at the Mayor's installation spread ; especially after tint gentleman bad provided half a dozen bottles ef Belfast lemonade, which he considers almost equal to champagne, specially for his use. They must have been refreshing for Councillor Carpenter had placed himself outside t!ie whole before anyone was aware of it. Cr Speight is laboring under a wrong impression, as the banquet did not last till 5 p m., being over by 2.30. If he avoided this feast of reason and flow of 6OU 1—and champagne, on conscientious grounds, why does he attend the fire brigades' annual meetings, where the flawing bowl passes quite aa freely ? EbpußjlKO to the nominations for the Tna-ngnhun Cup, n Beeft-on pa par says:—The redoubtable Mala, however, is likely to give the handicappero some trouble, for how anything short of a blacksmith's anvil can bring such a ftyer down to Ibe calibre of some of the other horses entered it is difficult to see. Reefton, however, is the first West Coast district that has been favored with a nomination fom a veritable Melbourne Cup horse, and the chance, such as it is, of the presence of such a distinguished, and the same time extinguished visitor, certain'y invests the meeting with more than ordinary importance.