The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1882.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4363, 27 December 1882, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1882.

Services were held in St. George's Church on Christmas Day, and appropriate anthems were sung. The church was tastefully decorated. ; A meeting of shareholders in the Albion claim, Otunui, will be held at the Pacific Hotel to-morrow evening. The carol service held in the Academy of Music on the evening of Christmas Day on behalf of fche Grahamstown Wesleyan Sunday school, was well attended, and proved very successful. Chbistmas Dax was ushered in by bands of singers, some of whom had the assistance of instrumental music, in the form of a concertina, parading the streets for sereral hours after midnight. To say that Christmas Carols were not numbered amongst the music would be untrue, but much lighter, livelier airs—of the earth, earthy—were by far the most, striking, the song, "I wish I was Bingle ugin" being speoially so.

Thbbe has been a considerable influx o visitors from Auckland, Coromandel, and the up-country dtstricta during the holidays, bo that while a large number of Thames people have gone elsewhere, the district still appears pretty lively. On Saturday night the streets were crowded more so than for years previously, and the shops did an excellent business up to midnight. DOBING 'he hearing of the charge against young Anderson this morning for conducting a game of chance on the Parawai race course, Mr Kenrick K.M., said if all the games of chanoes were as simple as the one before the Court, there would not be nearly so much harm done. At a tea given to the sailors in port, at Port Chalmers, by the Committee of the Seamen's Best, on Christmas night, five hundred persons were present, and it proved highly successful. Tbndbbs for the Kauaeranga portion of the Thames-Te Aroha railway are invited through our advertising columns. In an altercation at the Flagstaff Ifotel, j North Shore, Auckland, between John Johnston, Edward Scott, blacksmith, and another,,the first-named, after a few rounds drew bis knife and inflicted a severe wound in the abdomen of Scott, and leaped on his horae and galloped off. Constable Hutchinaon started in pursuit, and captured Johnston at Lake Takapuna. - On his return to the North Shore, Johnston bolted again, but after balf-a-mile's spin the constable again captured him, while entering the scrub at the borders of the lake. At St. Paul's, Auckland, yesterday Bishop Cowie ordained the Rev. T. K. Davi», M.A., Messrs '&. J. McFarland. 8.A,, and A. 8. Fox to the deaconate. The Rev. B. J. McFarland, 8.A., is to proceed to Katikati; the Rev; A. S. Fox to Hokianga. Algernon Thomas, of Oxford, Professor of Natural Science, has be*n appointed by the Agent-General to the Auckland ITniverßity, nnd Thomas Tucker, Fellow of Cambridge, Professor of Classics and English to the same institution. ...