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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 84, 16 January 1872, Page 2

The annual general meeting of the Thames Hospital subscribers will be held at the Theatre lioral (by permission of Mr B. X. Jones). Grahams town, at 7 p.m..ou Wednesday.

The District Court will sit this morning; at ten o’clock, at the Grahamstown Court House. ;

Annie Si (ley, alias Mnrv Smith, has been apprehended in Auckland for stealing £2!) in gold from Edward l’arson, at Grahumstowu.

There was a good attendance at the Academy of Music, last evening, when the “ Battle of Sedan ” was introduced for the first time, and was very well received. “ Ixion ’’ was again repeated, and as usual drew shouts of laughter from the audience.

There was a very numerous attendance at the usual fortnightly meeting of the Thames Total Abstinence Society last evening at St. George’s Hall. Captain Ninths was called to the chair, and the following gentlemen were also on the platform : —Messrs Nodder. Bagnell. juu., Jones, and others, who addressed the meeting during the evening, in conjunction with some members of the Hauraki Tent of Itceliabitcs. The latter delivered some very interesting dialogues, Xc. The singing of the doxology terminated the meeting.

Elated with the success attendant upon the exertions of the Volunteers against the Cricket Club, last Saturday, tlic legal profession of the Thames have challenged a team of the club. Certain members of the club will not be allowed to play, thus making the cloven as equal as possible. We believe stakes will be played for, but it is not yet known what.

Prayers were offered up on Sunday, in some of the Auckland churches, for rain, the want of which is now felt so severely throughout the province.

Signor Donato, the celebrated one-legged dancer, was a passenger from Melbourne by the s.s. Hero on Saturday last. After performing in Auckland be will proceed South and back. From here be intends going to Honolulu and San Francisco.

Two very exciting private matches came off on tlic Epsom Course on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The first was between the wellknown horse Black Eagle and Marquis, for £SO a side ; distance, one mile. Time, one minute 51 .J seconds. The next race was between Harkaway and Daydawn, and was won by the former. A protest was made against Daydawn, on the ground that bis jockey had gone inside the post. It was not allowed by the arbitrators. — Cross.

At the Supreme Court, on Saturday, Matter George Pratt was tried upon the second indictment charging him with selling warlike stores. After hearing the evidence, and his Honor having summed up, the jury retired to consider their verdict at a few minutes before 7 o’clock. They were absent about a quarter of an hour, when they came into Court with a verdict, of “Not guilty.’’ The prisoner was at oucc discharged, and left the Court with his friends.

The Solicitor-General of England, Mr Jesscl, is a Jew by race and faith.

The railway works at Timaru are being pushed on rapidly. The Herald says that an immense amount of earth has been removed, while on No. 2 section rather less than half the section is finished, and the remainder is about three-quarters completed. The other sections of the work arc also being rapidly proceeded with.

A grass fire on Bank House run, the properly of Sir David Munro, did a good deal of damage last week, destroying a quantity of fencing, huts, and a large plantation. The wool-shed had a narrow escape, and was saved only with great exertion. From the absence of rain and the frequency of strong drying winds, the whole country is dreadfully parched up, and grass once ignited, the fire spreads in a most alarming manner, baffling all exertions to extinguish it. The loss sustained by Sir David Munro cannot be less than L3OO.

The house of a settler named lugcstre. at AVailii. norlli of Wanganui, was last week burnt down in liis absence. It is supposed to be the work of drunken bushmeu.

Alore Plunder. —The Hon Colonel Russell has been appointed Inspector of Native. Schools, with a salary, stated at £OOO a-year. There arc about- six native schools for the honorable gentleman to inspect, but then he is said to be entirely ignorant of the native language. Air Worgan is delegated, under the title of Commissioner, to investigate certain confiscated native land claims on the AVcst coast at a salary of £4OO a-year. Both of these gentlemen have been very useful to the Defence AI mister.

The Ne/reasrle Chronicle, of lGth ult., says —The heat yesterday was intense ; the wind blew a scorcher, and a cool spot there was not to be found in the city, The sun rose in the morning like a ball of fire, a thick, lurid mist hung overhead, and all nature wore an air of suffering. The heated air was rarified to such an extent that even the smoke refused to rise, and the steamers’ funnels belched forth their black clouds, only to float away, as it appeared, on tlie surface of the water. The termometer showed the temperature at 105 deg. in the shade : what it reached in the sun we arc not aware, nor was it worth the trouble of ascertaining; suffice it to say that had it stood at “roasting,” it would not have been far wrong in its indication.

The Knight of the Burning Brand, the—par excellence —gallant colonel has changed his venue, and commenced his bailiff like vagaries in Auckland. The correspondent of ° the Handle's Bay Herald reports : During his late visit Colonel Gorton was very inquisitive about the Governor’s blankets, and cast wistful eyes on the A r iccroy’s bedroom crockery, handling it with everincreasing affectionate solicitude, and making memos on the same with a black-lead pencil. His alleged irruption into G overnment House, at AVcllingtou, during his Excellency’s absence from home, is not looked upon in Auckland, as evidence of disrespect, for disrespect of superiors of any grade is quite out of the gallant Colonel’s line. Colonel Gorton deeply lamented, when last in Auckland. that he was not a favourite with ministers, excepting (as he implied) the Hon. Air Gisborne, but seemed to be partly consoled with the reflection that he could twist that gentleman “ round his little finger."'— Wellington Past.

The Wellington correspondent of the Jrmche's Bay Herald reports that a lady is now confined in AA'ellingtcn gaol for a £3O debt. She is obliged to spend her days in the same room with the lowest prostitutes, drunkards and criminals. The poor woman (says the writer) has not tasted food since her incarceration, and, unless released, will pine away and die long before her term of imprisonment is completed.

The following is a fist of passengers by the Sussex :—Saloon : Airs AValsh. family (3). and servant; Alessrs Ford and Holms. 2nd cabin ; James C. Hall. Emily AVaters. .Tosiah Langford. .Tames Sidle. Amy Sidle, Sarah Sidle. Wm. Lamb. 3rd cabin ; Alatthew Hobson. Margaret Robson, infant, and two children ; John and Elizabeth Ann Nicholson ,nn(l 4 children. Francis Glaistcr. Susannah Lewis and 2 children, Grace Arthur and 2 children, Alary and Honora Sullivan, George D. Austin. James Blamire. Thomas Chick, Morris Abrahams. Charles Lewis. John Gay, Ba Awin (5). Chegwin (2), Hcnrique Teterie, Joseph Aliller. ALoritz Brodsky. AV. Cock, Edward Draper. James Dalrymplc, AVilliam Armstrong. Theodore Montague, AVilliam Legassick. Fraud’s Bourne. Greig Boyd, and AVilliam AValkiugliam.

The Sr. Hilda arrived in the Mauukau.ou Sunday, from Whanganui. with the following passengers : —Mr and Mrs Howe and family, Mr and Mrs Palmer and family. Mr and Mrs Trenwitli. Mrs Kendall and child, Mrs McDonough. Miss Avent, Miss Goad, Mr Halcombe, Mr Clarke, Mr Chapman,