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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 147, 29 March 1872, Page 2

His Honor the Superintendent returned from Ohinemuri yesterday, and proceeded to Auckland.

Wc would again remind all persons desirous of having their names placed on the Electoral 801 l that their applications must be in the hands of the Returning Officer, Jackson Keddell, Esq., 8.M., Coromandel, on the last day of the present mouth, which happens to be Sunday. There is, therefore, no time to be lost in forwarding applications. To-morrow being Good Friday, Divine service will be held in the several places of worship at the Thames. The Telegiaph office will be open from 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m-i and 5 p.m. to 5.30, the same as on Sunday.

An notion was brought, in the District Court yesterday for a breach of .contract for the sale of land. Samuel Stephenson was the plaintiff. The defendant Tautari denied making the contract, and pleaded that the laud was native land, and therefore the contract was void. It was further pleaded that • tlie defendant had been induced by fraudulent representions to make the contract. The only witness examined yesterday before the adjournment of the Court was Mr John Chas. Young, licensed interpreter, who deposed to drawing up the contract and reading it over to the Maori, who also read it himself before ho signed it. The defendant received £32 on account in his presence. The hearing of the case was resumed to-day. and a report of the proceedings will be found in . another column.—Auckland Star. On Sunday afternoon an eleven of the T.C.C. will proceed to Auckland, where a cricket match will be played against an Auckland eleven. The team will comprise cloveu of the following gentlemen : —Messrs liobinson, Clay forth, Alpe, Mowbray, Boilers, Schofield, Howard, Saudes, Steadman, Hulrne, Ward, Crawford, and Barnett. A practice will take place this afternoon, on the Club ground, at which members are particularly requested to attend.

The following is a list of passengers by the Phoebe Saloon : Mrs Bunny, Mr Donald, Mr Miller, Master Seecombe, Mr Townsend, and five in the steerage. Game shooting will be permitted in this Province by persons holding game licenses during the months of May, June, and July next. Partridges, swans, and curlews arc not allowed to be shot. Native game may be shot in April and August, in addition to the months named.

At the Police Court, yesterday, Hector Urquhart and Peter L. Corston were convicted of smuggling tobacco. There were two charges against Urquhart, who was fined £2OO, and one against Corston, who was fined £IOO. At the rising of the Court, the line was not paid in either case, and the defendants were removed in custody.

A very handsome sum of £3OO was subscribed in Melbourne for the relief of the sufferers by the late Hood at Greymouth. The amount was brought over in the Claud Hamilton by Mr J. S. M. Thompson. “A fruitful vine !” as may be judged by the following from the Sydney Umpire At her residence, Bunyan, on Monday, oth February, 1872, Ihe wife of Mr W. Scancs, senior, of a son ; the seventeenth child.

Proressor Haselmaycr caused some amusement on the wharf to-day, at a time when it was crowded with people witnessing the arrival of the Maori prisoners, by apparently finding sovereigns on the rim of Mr John Martin’s white hat, and in Mr Pliarazyn’s whiskers. The astonishment of the Maoris, in particular, was intense. — Wellington Pont,

“The continuation of the wrestling match (.collar and elbow) between Mailing and Bray,” says the Christchurch Promt, of the 13th instant, “was resumed yesterday at the Plough Inn. After settling preliminaries, and appointing two new umpires (Messrs Holman and Smith), the men stripped, and took the field shortly before three o’clock. Both men appeared in pretty good form, and seemed determined to do their best to carry off the laurels. The betting was slightly in favour of ‘Curly’ at the start, but later on in the afternoon the Auckland man rose considerably in the estimation of those assembled, and, as the sequel proved, not without just cause. Before the liuish of the match, Mailing threw liis opponent no less than eight times, hut it was only at the termination of the eighth tussle that the decision was given in favour of Mailing, which was, without the remotest doubt, what is termed a‘fair back fall.’ The announcement was received with cobsidcrable enthusiasm bv the admirers of both competing parties. The way in which both men governed their tempers, and the thorough good feeling which existed between them during the severe contest they underwent redounds greatly to their credit, and elicited the warmest culogium on all sides. As was plainly to be seen from the first, it was simply strength against conscience ; the fine build and long reach of tlie Aucklander contrasting boldly against the superior skill displayed by ‘ Curly' Bray. AVc should like to see Mailing more evenly matched with regard to prowess, as it would be more satisfactory ; the more especially so when we consider that in this contest he was contcndng against a ten-stone-six man, while he himself scales over twelve stone.’