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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4675, 31 December 1883, Page 2

With this issue we present our readers with the customary sheet almanac. To-morrow being New Year's Day, there will bs no publication of the Stab.

We would again remind our readers of the excursions advertised for to-morrow. The Rotomahana leaves Goods Wharf to«morrow morning at 7, leaving Auckland at 5 evening. Two excursions are announced to proceed up the Thames River—the Shortland Fire Brigade are leaving in the Waitoa at 6.30, and the Congregational in the Patikiat 6 o'clock. The Te Aroha leaveß the Shortland wharf at 7 o'clock for Brighton, with the Baptist Sunday School excursionists.

There were good congregations at the Church of England yesterday morning and evening, when the Eev — E?ans conducted the services. At St. Francis Church, Willoughby street, there were also large congregations. In the morning, high Mass was celebrated by the Eer. Father Lannuzel, assisted by the Key. Father O'Bielly j a large choir sang a full Mass cousieting of selections from Winter's, Webbe's, and Farmer's masterpieces very admirably j and in the evening at Vespers and Benediction the vocal assistance rendered by tho former priest was well approciafcod. " Mineb " writes to us in the following strain :—" I was pleased to see the paragraph in your issue of Saturday on the subject of enforced holidays, and hope it may have the effect of preventing anything of the sort occurring here nexb year. I am a married man, with a family, and am not able to afford the luxury of a nine or ten days holiday, and I am sure plenty more are in the same fix. If the directors of our leading mines are of opinion that their employes would be benefitted by a holiday of unreasonable length, the best thing they can do is to pay the wages of those men, who are prepared and anxious to resume work, for the time they are idle." . \

X Mb "F. W. Miraia, whose merits as a ventriloquist the Auckland papers are loud in their praises of, opens in the Aoademy of Masio to-morrow—New Year's—night, and continues his entertainment on the following evening. At the Academy of Music on Saturday night the jnrenile company playing there, closed their season by producing "Tom Cringle's Tog.V' and a laughable farce, to a 1 moderate audience; Both were well performed, and showed care on the part of their instructor. BscorETA and Welcome Jack were scratched for the Auckland Uacing . Club Handioap at . 2.45 on Saturday. . -. (

Albx PhiIiIIP3 was charged to day with being drunk. The Police pressed for severity in dealing with the case, as the defendant was bo frequently brought before the Court j the present was the second time within six months, and an order had been made prohibiting hotelkeepers in the district supplying Phillips with liquor. In order to evade this he had got whisky from Auckland, and generally carried about a small bottle of it in his pocket. The Bench lectured the defendant on the folly of hie conduct, who said that if he appeared again be.would be treated as an habitual drunkard, and imprisoned for one or two montks. In the present case the maximum penalty of £3 and costs would be inflicted or in default seven day's imprisonment. The Court then rose.

A CBICKEX match will be played in the Parawai G-ardena tomorrow between teams selected from tKe Clubs attached to Messrs Fraser and Tin no's foundry, Auckland, and that of Messrs A. and Q-. Price, Thameß. A ,good match is anticipated. ,

We learn that the Fire Brigades do not intend to give a display of water and fireworks this evening, as they did last year, the reason being the want of fundg. This is to be regretted, as tbV'displays of water and colored fire alone, without the fireworks, are much appreciated by the public, and the exhibition last- year was much better even than that in Auckland.

| |Wn are informed that the children who have written the Scripture exercise, Ephesians VI, 1 to 17,,. may have their prizes on application to Mr M. Whitehead, the Society's agent."

ABBiaraEMENTS were concluded this morning between Mr W. J Burton and the Thames River Steam"Navigation Company for the purchase of the screw steamer Waitoa, and she will commence running on the company's bshalf tomorrow.

At the conclusion of the inquiry as to the accident to the steamer Charles Edward, at His Worship, Mr Curtis, E.M., said that although there was not sufficient evidence io satisfy him as to the immediate cause of the accident, he was further of opinion that the master, Capfc. Scofct, was so far suffering from the effects of liquor taken previously to the vessel leaving port as to be unfit for the duties of his command, and that had his condition been as it should, the accident would most probably have been avoided. He therefore suspended the master's certificate for three months, and adjudged him to pay the costs of the inquiry, which amounted to £1

A pom. was taken at New Plymouth re raising a loan of £4COO to complete the waterworks, the result being: Ayes, 319; noes, 12. ,

A team match was fired on Saturday between the Alexandra Cavalry and the battery of Wanganui Artillery. The Alexandra made a total of 607, the highest scorer being Sergt. Laird, who made 85 out of a possible 105.

A MSETIK& is to be held at Christchurch on Wednesday next to establish a people's Cooperative Protection Society of New Zealand..

One hundred and seventy natives from along the Opunake coast went to Waiaua bridge on Friday, and were stopped by a strong guard placed there by Colonel Roberts. After being told they would not be allowed to proceed, Titoko warn stood up in his buggy and beckoned to the crowd to double back, which they did; they were well dressed, and veiy orderly.

At the quarterly meeting of theOhristchurch branch of the North Canterbury Educational Institute held on Saturday, 16 members were present. Professor Bickerton was in the chair. The annual report shewed 64 member?, of whom 13 were ladies. The following officers were elected*:—President, J. S. Poster j secretary, E. N. Just treasurer, J. GK L. Scott; librarian, C. Bossence; Committee:—Messrs Bishop, Cumberford, and Speight. A discussion on homeless ones and corporal punish* ment versus moral suasion in primary schools was opened by the Eev. T, Elauell, who was accorded a vote of thanks. The general meeting of the Institute is fixed for January 23rd 24th, and 25th.

According to one of the local candidates for the mayoralty, Dunedin must be one of the most extravagantly governed cities in the world. He stated that for the financial year ended the 30th September last the revenue of the city from all sources was £96,222, and that out of this sum £42,251 had been expended in the payment of interest on loans, bank charges, and sinking fund> This is at the rate of aßout 45 per cent.—or, iay, s£d in every shilling. A Melbottbne paper says: Rarely have the foolish people who Bpend their money in sweeps the luck of a young German at Petone, New Zealand, who drew four big prizes in sweeps recently, amounting altogether to over £2,030. A Scolding Woman. —The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure ol scolding women, though abolished by law, are now" oftentimes practised by a kind of social barbarity none the lose reprehensible. Women scold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted and acerbity of word and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Read. That Husband of Mike is three times the man he was beiore he began using " vVells 1 Health Eenewer." Druggists. Moses, Moss & Co.', Sydney, Q-eneral Agents.