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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 160, 13 April 1872, Page 2

Two cases of druukenuess comprised the whole of the business at the Police Court yesterday. To-day there are several summons cases set down for hearing. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday a considerable portiou of the day was occupied iu the eases of E. Binucy v. R. Baird, aud R. Baird v. E. Biuney, in which a quantity of accounts were gone over. The case was not concluded at the risiug of the Court, itud will be proceeded with again this morning, at the conclusion of the Police Court business.

The Theatre Boyal will be opened to-night by Messrs Collin’s, Carroll’s, and Beut’s Minstrel Troupe, and will, no doubt, be well patronised by the public, who have had a quiet time lately as far as amusement is concerned.

Our Coromandel correspondent’s letter con. tains nothing of any great importance to the Thames community, there being no new finds to chronicle nor any returns of gold to hand, so we hold it over from this day’s issue. \Vc are informed that Mr Kelly, mauager of the Tokatea, narrowly escaped a serious accident at Coromandel, ou Thursday afternoon. Whilst riding home from his day’s work, the horse shied at something ou the road, aud rearing, fell over, seriously bruising one of Mr Kelly’s legs, but fortunately not doing him any further injury than causing him to feel a little stiff. As will be seen by our advertising columns, the p.s. Challenger has made some alterations iu her time tabic. .She will now run three days a week from Grahamstown to Coromandel and back, viz., Tuesdays, Fridays, aud Saturdays. This will prove of great conveuieucc to mauy of our business people, and also give us more frequent opportunities of rapid communication, pending the erection of the telegraph line, which we may here inform our readers will most probably be completed about the middle of Juue.

The idea seems to have occurred to Government that a plan which proved so effective in matters theatrical might be introduced with advantage into politics. One of their first steps upon taking office was to set about organising a political claque. The means lay ready to hand. Mr Stafford had been accustomed to speak slightingly of the Press ; but Messrs Fox and Vogel, wiser men in their generation, knew how to make use of it. There is now not a town or district iu New Zealand callable of supporting a newspaper in which they have not established an organ. The leading papers of the colony, with a very few exceptions, have been brought under their influence, and are enrolled in the ranks of their professional applauucrs. And to this tribe of domestic elagueurs they have added others outside the colony. Promiucnt among the latter is the writer who styles himself “ The Auglo-Australian in London whose monthly letters invariably contain—lugged in by head and shoulders rather than omitted—some fulsome panegyric of Mr Vogel or his policy. These paragraphs are so evidently written to order that one is tempted to iuquire, what is the consideration ! — Press.

A promoters’ meeting was held in the commercial room of the Occidental Hotel last evening, for the due formation of the Paul’s Creek Goldmining Company at Coromandel, when the following business was transacted: —Mr J. Mowbray was appointed legal manager, with Messrs Whelan, Williams, Jackson, and Appleby as directors. The capital was fixed at £B,OOO, iu 8,000 shares of £1 each, 10s paid up. Mr Thomas Williams was iu the chair. The whole of the business arrangements were considered most satisfactory, and the prospects of the mine very encouraging. The reef was looked upon as very promising, some of the specimens taken from it being exceedingly rich.- -Cross.

The jewels belonging to the .Apollo Gallery of the Louvre were concealed during the Commune iu a small room, carefully walled up on the second story of the building erected by Francois 1., over the Salle Henri II„ aud the Salon des Sept Chcminees. The work bad been so skilfully executed that the insurgents, during their t;vo mouths’ occupation of the palace, must have passed before it a thousand times without suspecting that this treasure of jewellery, rock crystal, enamels, &c., estimated at fifty millions of francs, was so near them. The credit of this success is due to Count Clement de Bis, conservator, and to the employes of the museum, who were several times on the point of being shot for refusing to disclose the place of concealment.

Aleuts are busily engaged just now iu London and elsewhere endeavouring to secure the services of one thousand men to be employed iu the construction of railways in New Zealand. Capital terms arc offered, but the success has not been very great hitherto Of course, none but the best class of men will be selected, and they are just the men who can do well at home. A challenge from Mr Bernard Biglin to the Trne champion crew has been accepted, the only stipulation being that as the Tynesiders hr /e twice crossed the Atlantic to row the Americans, the contest should on this occasion take place on the Tyne. A party of friends of the Melanesian Mission including the Right Reverend Bishop Cowie. the Hon. M r . Sv/ainson. and others, assembled on the Wynyard Pier, yesterday morning, for the purpose of bidding a farewell to the Rev. Mr Oodriugton and Mr 8. C. Tilly, who embarked thence for the Southern Cross. — Herald.

Yesterday's Herald gives the following, by which it will be seen that three more lawyers have been admitted to practise in Auck"knd “ Before the commencement of the criminal proceedings in the Supreme Oomt, yesterday, Messrs Lliott Mcyci, Cnailes Kdmund Madden, and Joseph Augustus Tole, attended before bis Honor Chief Justice Arncr, in open Court, and on the application r.f Mr Brookfield and Mr Bennett, were admitted to practice their profession in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, after having taken the usual oath. Mr Tole was admitted iu Sydney. His Honor observed that the two other gentlemen liad passed a very creditable examination."

The following is the balance-sheet presented at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Agricultural Society, held at Otahuhu, on Tuesday last. Notice of motion was given by Mr”Vercoe, “That the headqurters of the Society he moved to Auckland.” Balance-sheet, April 2, 1572 liceeipts : By balance in hank. L2l 18s 6d ; cash per Mr Vercoe, £ll 10s : from Provincial Government, LIOO ; sale of gates and catalogues, L 145 12s lOd : subscriptions, Lla.l 3s fid" Bank of New Zealand, £lO 10s ; entrance fees, LI7 19s fid ; members, Llfi jOs ; sale of tickets, L 3 17s fid ; total. L 483 Is lOd. Expenditure : To cash for printing, 1,81 8h ; Horticultural Society, Llfi ; Arcliard and Brown. L 46 ; Hale, LSI IDs fid ; prize monev, LIBB 10s; prize money, 1869,1,4: Stock Importation Society, L 24 ; tickets and catalogues, LI7 Is ; sundry expenses, Ll 9 11s 8d“ stationery and postages, L2 8.3 9d : secretary’s salary and gratuity, LlB ; iu hand, 1,34 2s lid ; total, L 483 Is 10d.--Examined and found correct—(Signed) A. Buttle, Treasurer ; IT. W. 1 ercoe and F, R. Claude, Auditors.