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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 112, 17 February 1872, Page 2

At the Police Court yesterday four cases of drunkenness were disposed of in the usual manner. A husband charged with threatening to kill his wife, was ordered to find two sureties of £25 each, to keep tlic peace for tlic next six mouths, or go to gaol for that period. A considerable amount of business was transacted at the II.M. Court yesterday. Several cases for non-payment of Highway Rates were settled out of Court or adjourned to a future day. A call of threepence per share lias been made in the Christchurch G.M.C. Registered.

The Thames Scottish met for drill yesterday. There was a very good muster. It was announced that the District Prize Firing will t ake place on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. at l’arawai and 'Parana All members of the Thames Engineer Volunteers arc requested to attend parade on Thursday next, as Captain Howe has stated that before resigning he will recommend that the company be disbanded, unless there is a good muster on the above date. The p.s. Challenger will leave the Grail runs town wharf to-night at 12 o’clock for Auckland. The Zavistowski sisters will mnkc tlicir first appearance at the Thames on Monday, at the Theatre lloyal, and will, we have no doubt, meet with a cordial reception. The charms and accomplishments of these young ladies have been rapturously spoken of by the American and Australian Press, and the Thames is capable of appreciating genuine and artistic talent as any community in the world. On Monday the burlesque of “ Ixion ” will be presented with all the accessories of snlcndul new scenery by Mr Williams, dresses, and stage appliances. The sisters will be supported by Miss Grainger, of whom report speaks very highly indeed. The petite comedy of “ Perfection, or the Lady of Munster,” will be presented for the first time, in which the part of Kate O’Brien (with song) will he taken by Miss Granger. We shall certainly be surprised if we do not see a bumper house at the Theatre Royal on Monday. The return cricket match between the North and South takes place to-day, on the glut) ground. Shorthand ; wickets will he pitched at I .20 p.m., aud play will commence at 2 o'clock sharp. The Northern team will be chosen from the following Robinson, Mowbray. Simpson, Alpc, Lascclles, Schofield. Maddock, Gelliou, Scotter, Saudes, Clayfortb, Alderton, Jackson, and Sykes. The Southerners choose from Messrs Howard, Dixon. Barnett, Ptilleiue, Bull, Crawford, Bcerc. Warded. BePers. J. E. Macdonald, llulme. Roe, Alston, Newby, andßulmer. A good game is anticipated. The Calefornian G.M. Co. have declared a dividend of 2s (id per share, it is payable to-day. at the company’s office. It is reported that some small pieces of quartz containing specks of gold have been found in Onchanga. The 0. mill M. Advertiser says that the scourtre diphtheria has completed its work in the family of Mr Thomas Smith, of Boggy Creek, the seventh aud last of his children having died on Saturday. The Melbourne Argus of the Oth instant, quotes Tookeys double issue at .-Cl 1.

There was a full house at the Theatre Royal last night, when Professor Haselmaycr again astonished and delighted his audience with his surprising feats of Legerdemain. Verdi's “ Carnival of Venice ” was again admirably executed on the piano with an ordinary clothes brush, and was warmly applauded. The bank note trick was very cleverly done, as indeed was everything mentioned iu the performance. This afternoon there will be a grand afternoon performance, iu which tlic professor will appear in a programme especially composed for ladies and children, who, wc have no doubt, will muster in full force on the occasion. This evening will be the last, for the. present, at all events, when the professor will appear at the Thames.

The s.s. Star of the South, Capt Holmes, arrived in Auckland harbour a little before twelve o’clock ou Thursday night, after a capital run of 52 hours from Napier, which place she left on the 13th inst. She brings a full cargo of sheep, and the following passengers :—Saloon : Mr E. Robson, Mr H. State, Miss Boulton, Miss Shelford, Mr Watt, Mr and Mrs Charles, Mrs Rollcston, Captain McKinnon, Mr H. Alley. Steerage : Mr Simson, Mr Kent, wife and child. A meeting of the owners of several yachts that took part in the ten-ton race for yachts at the late regatta, was held on Thursday afternoon, at tlic Thames Hotel, for the purpose of getting up a sweepstake. The following boats were entered : Hippie, 7 tons; Saubrina, 9 tons ; Lily, 7J tons ; Energy, 9.) tons ; and Calypso, 8 tons. The course is to be from the Queen-street Wharf round a flagboat moored between Wangaproa and Rakina. and back past the south side of a boat moored off the Quccn-strcct Wharf. Captain Williams was appointed starter, umpire, and measurer, and the entrance fee to the sweepstake was fixed at 445, making thus £25.

Mr Samuels has received by the s.s. Hero Australian papers of the latest dates. The Australasian of the 3rd instant contains the Christmas number of All the Year Hound, and the first part of a new story by George Eliot. The publishers of the Leader announces that there will be issued at a early date portraits of successful colonists. We have been furnished with the following :—The Pride of Tokatca have 9001 b. of specimens on hand, and the lode is improving. Thirty-five tons of general stuff will be crushed this week. A lower level of 80ft. will soon be completed, when a connection will be made with the present level by a winze. 501 b. specimens can be seen at the office of the company.— D. S. Cross.

Eight inquests have been held in Auckland within a period of five weeks. Of these a verdict of Died from natural causes was returned in three, one by poison, aud four by accident.— I). S. Cross.

On Wednesday, tlic 31st January, it was reckoned there were one hundred and sixty persons in Auckland who pursued the calling of sharebrokers. On Thursday, the Ist February, the numbers were reduced from one hundred and sixty to less than a single score. The Sharebrokers Act had done it all. Over one hundred and forty men by a Parliamentary ordinance were compelled to beat a retrest from their beloved “ Corner,” aud the cry of Two and half comm.,” and “ Half comm.,” is no longer heard from the crowd. The following names arc those to whom licenses have been issued for Auckland proper:—A. Saunders, W. Aitkcn, J. T. Garlick, E. B. Robinson, W. J. Hunt, J. Newman, J. I’, du Moulin. Martin Sholl, S. 11. Smith, Charles Alexander, John F. Clark. H. E. Williams. R. Garlick, Charles Burton, Hugh Campbell, Samuel Vicurs, John Mowbray, J. M. Lcunox. At the Thames the number of sharebrokers lias been reduced by the operation of the Act from sixty, there or thereabouts, to four. These are—T. Hunter, J. Fletcher, J. Frater, J. Buddie. Coromandel does not boast of so much as one licensed broker. It was thought that the general “ weeding out ” would have caused a large number of offices so become vacated. This, however, has not proved to be the case. There is not an office uulet on tile lower floor of the Insurance Company’s building, and only two or three ou the upper lauding. Offices in good situations are rather more difficult to obtain now than was the case some weeks ago.— l>. S. Cross. A man named Thomas Aldridge, who had been connected with the district surveying party aud the geodetic survey in the Beechworth neighbourhood, was found drowned the other day in the Broken River, having, as it was believed, committed suicide. With reference to the report by telegram received from Cardwell, respecting a schooner, name uukuown, having been picked up by H.M.s. Basilisk, we may state that a schooner named Kuiri, of about 42 tons,Captain Sheppard, master, and hailing from Auckland, left Levuka, Fiji, on the Bth February, IS7I, aud lias not since been heard of. But a second craft is also missing, namely, the schooner fieri. This vessel is reported to have left Lomo Lotno, Fiji, five or six weeks ago, with twenty-six Solomon Islanders aud two white men iu charge, bound to Levuka, another island in the same group, but who hsd not arrived up to our latest dates. A. vessel was scut iu search of her, but returned without obtaining any intelligence. The probability is. therefore, that she has touched ou one of the numerous reefs, aud, becoming water-logged, has, by the action of a prevailing easterly wind, drifted on the N.E. coast, where she was fallen m with by H.M.s. Basilisk. —Sydney Morning Herald. The Monitcur, of New Caledonia, of the 24th of January says “Wc have news from the mines. Not far from the spot occupied by Messrs Hook aud Companyother miners have discovered traces of copper, of gold, aud of silver. Some specimens have been sent by the discoverers to the office of the Colonial Secretary. The quantity of mineral sent has, however, been so small that one cannot judge of tlic richness of the deposit. The discoverers promise to send specimens shortly iu a larger quantity, iu order that they may be submitted to scientific tests.”

We arc informed by Mr Mitchell, M.P.C., who arrived by the steamer Fairy last evening, that there is no truth in the statement made with reference to him in connection, with the stoppage of the Ohinemuri mail.