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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5133, 30 June 1885, Page 2

We desire to again remind our readers of the concert which will be given in the Academy of Mueio this evening by the choir of St. James' Presbyterian Church, assisted by Mrs Kilgour, Mrs Payne, Miss Stuart, Mies Phillips, and Messrs Wiseman, Anderson, MeLirer, Coatb, and Master Wells.

Tee rain of the past few days has had the effect of enabling Mr Blair's emplojcs, at Hikulaia, to drive over seventy logs to the booms on the river; the next fresh will bring down a large number of logs which are ready for floating.

The pupil teachers' examination for the year 1885, under the Board of Examination! commenced in the Kauaeranga Boys' School to-day, when the following subjects were disposed of—Geography, History, Method of Teaching, Needlework, and Gymnastics. Tomorrow the programme will be:—9.3o to 12, Arithmetic; 1 to 2.45, Grammar; 3 to 5> Drawing. On Thursday :—9.30 to 11, English Composition ; 11 to 12.15, Literature! 1.15 to 2.45, Laws of Health and Domestic Economy ; 3 to 5, Algebra (Boys) and Gymnastics (Girls). The subjects of Beading, Eecitation, and Singing will be attended to during tbe examination time. Mr Fidler (Inepector), and Messrs Newton, Whitakeri Lowe, and Moy (Training College students) are supervising the examination.

The heavy rainfall last night had the effect of causing a considerable fresh in the Kauaeranga river, and about 3000 logs were brought down to the booms. This will enable the Sbortland Sawmill to continue operations for some time to come.

We have been shown a case of sugar boiler's and becuifc moulds prepared by Mr E. Price, of Maty Btreet, to be shown at the forthcoming Industrial Exhibition to be held in Wellington. We are informed that this work is rarely executed in the colony, and Mr Price's samples appear to be cleanly and neatly executed.

Tse slip City of Florence, Capt. Least, 95 days from London, arrived in Wellirgton yesterday. During the passage a lad named Frederick Strutton, fell from aloft, and wes killed.

By adver'isement appearing in another column, it will be seen that a company recently arrived from Sydney, will appear in the Academy on Monday next in an entertainment entitled " The Garden Party." The Agent is now li6re making arrangements for their per« formances, which we are informed have [been favorably criticised in Australia.

A iah&e quantity of exhibits for the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition have arrived in Wellington.

Capt. Cameron, of the b.b. lonic, has reported to the Customs authorities at Wellington, that on Sunday, on the passage from Napier to Wellington, while off Cape Palliser, he struck lightly on some hard substance; the vessel was two miles off the land. On examination by divers she showed no damage as far as as-ertaiuable. The report has been submitted to the Secretary of Customs, who will decide if an enquiry is necessary.

At a meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, the proposed increase of the Customs tariff duties was condemned.

The Auckland Committee of the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition has agreed that the committee should act on behalf of the Colonial Exhibition in Loadoa in ISB6. No further steps are to be taken till Dr yon Haast is communicated with as to ways and means.

A WBESTiiiNa ' match between Messrs Graham, of America, and Beany, of Dunedin, for £30, took place at the Auckland Theatre Eoyal on Saturday evening. There was a good atteßdance in tbe lower part of the house. It was explaiced before tbe contest commenced that as Graham was nearly three stone lighter than his r pponent, there should be two falls, catch as catch can, and one fall Cumberland style, this being considered a concession on the part of Beany. The contest proved very unequal. Beany was victorious in all point?, and proved far t:o good for Graham. Both men thanked the uudi* ence for their attendance. Graham acknowledged his beating, which ho attributed to his opponent's heavier weight, and he offered to wrestle any equal weight in the colony.

The annual report of tho Union Insurance, Com puny shows a credit balance of £20,285. It is proposed to pay the usual annual diridend of 10 per cent., absorbing £10,000, and carry £10 285 forward to next year. The directors state that, if the Bill now before Parliament, proposing to allow Insurance Companies to register with limited liability, becomes law, they will consult with tho shareholders as to registering under the amended Act. They aleo say they do not tdvocate thoae clauses in the Bill requiring deposits from foreign compani°s. -

DtrEiNG the progress of a particularly interesting caaein the Wellington Bankruptcy yesterday, Justice Richmond said he should be glad to find that the duty of taking notes cf evidence had been taken away from him and placed on the shoulders of shorthand writers. Mr —-, after pointing out that the idea of employing shorthand writers came from America, remarked that he had his doubts as to the efficiency of the system introduced into that country. His Honor taid it wa3 somewhat singular that in New Zealand people who were most concerned were fully consulted when a change was contemplated. His opinion was that if the shorthand writer was able to take the notes which the Judge was obliged to take, the shorthand writer would be quite fit to occupy the Judge's seat. He thought, however, that the system was not •uch a good one as many believed it to be.

At the Auckland Polioe Court yesterday the nineteen Chinamen arrested while playing fan tan in a Chinese gambling-honse in Wake* field street, were charged with the offence. Gong JT.ep, keeper of the house, was fined £5 and co&te, and the eighteen other offenders 10s and costs, and over £100 and all implements seited ordered to be forfeited.

It is certainly a remarkable, though wo aup» pose quite an unintentional coincidence, (says the Jewish. Chronicle) that the day on which the Bevised Version of the Old Testament will be published trill be the >ye of the Jewish feast of Pentecost, which commemorates, according to tradition, the revelation on Mount Sinai—the first "publication" of the Decalogue in any version.

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Mb Deak, the Secretary of the local Com mitteo of the coming-Industrial Exhibition in Wellington, to-day received the following telegram :—•" Exhibits must leave Auckland .by steamer of the Bth July at the latest."

Thb Wellington Press says it is stated; apparently on trustworthy information, that the wife of a snail settler near Timaru, who has recently been in very embarrassed circumstances, has come into a fortune of three millions sterling. When the news came, bo the story goes, the husband had left his family and w»s trying to pick up a living among some of the islands, and the children were out in service and employed in other humble pursuits.

The Auckland Star writes that Mrs Addie L. Ballow, inspirational oratress and clairvoyante, last night commenced a Beries of lectures in connection with the Psychological Society, and, notwithstanding tbe fatigue of newly coining off the mail-boat}, held tho people in wrapt attention from beginning to close of her lecture. Mrs Ballow's mediumistic powers are of a versatile nature including tho power of painting what she sees clairvoyantly. A number of questions were put to the lecturer, and answered satisfactorily. Mrs Ballow traced the progress of religion in a brief but graphic manner, contending that the gods progressed according to the ideas of thoee who conceived a notion of them, and gave as her opinion, based upon scientific facts that the more human intellect advanced, the higher man's conception of nature and nature's God, until »H should eventually prove by demonstrable facts not fancies or beliefs, that there was a great and glorious hereafter, and that as we sow, bo shall we reap.

At a special meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce a resolution was unanimously passed deprecating any important change in tbe tariff of 1882.

S. 8. Hutchison, who was arrested in Auckland for fraudulent insolvency, appeared at the Bankruptcy Court at Dunedin, for examination yesterday, but the case was not concluded. ■ « ■

At a meeting of shareholders of the West port Coal Company, it was agreed to wait as a deputation on the directors, as to the reason of the last call. At the half-yearly meeting it was stated that no more calls would be made without consulting the shareholders, but this was not done.

At a well attended special meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, a series of resolutions condemnatory of the proposed alterations in the Customs tariff was agreed to. The resolution affirmed that in the opinion of the Chamber, the new tariff is calculated )o be prejudicial not only to the agricultural and commercial, but also to the manufacturing and general interests of the colony.

Ah artist in modelling in this city is en* gaged in finishing a colossal group, " Victoria Guarded by the British Lion," which is to surmount the facade of a lofty building in West Melbourne. The other day an elderly English gentleman strolled into the artist's studio, a ter he had been reading some journalistic fulminations against the baseness and pusillanimity of England. From the position in which he first caught sight of the effective group, the lion did not appear by the side of Victoria, but rather behind, her, and he ejaculated, " Ah! Australia sitting on the British lion. Admiralty done, and most apropos at the present time, too."—iEgles in the Australasian.

The c.c. Aorangi left Auckland for the South last night, with 7000 carcases of mutton, valued at £5,250.

Moihxbs with sickly, fretful, nursing children, will cure the child and benefit themselves by taking American Hop Bitters daily.