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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 212, 13 June 1872, Page 2

The Waiotahi District Board met yesterday, and did a considerable amount of business, of which a report will be found in another place. We have received from Mr Samuels of the Varieties copies of the Australasian, Leader, and Tocnand Country Journal of the 25 h May and the Ist June, of which lie has received a large supply by the City of Melbourne.

Great credit is due to the owners of the steamer Duke of Edinburgh for despatching her from Auckland yesterday, otherwise, rs the Crown would not face the weather, the passengers desirous of reaching the Thames would have been detained for another day* The weather, although boisterous yesterday, was certainly not rough enough to prevent any ordinary boat making the passage. Frank Weston appeared at the American Theatre, Shortland, last night, and spoke a piece, digging down at intervals, very mmh to the edification of a large audience, who thoroughly relished the fun. To-night the Wizard Oil Prince will ve-appear at the Royal previous to his departure from our midst.

Mr James Craig will offer for sale by auction at noon to-day, the machine site and tailiogs plant of Messrs Raithby, Muir, and Co., near the Prince Alfred Battery. This offers a most eligible opportunity for persons desirous of investing in mining property of this description, and presents an opportunity not to be met with every day.

In regard to the telegrams which we publish elsewhere from Auckland touching the payment of £SOOO to the Provincial Government by the Harbour Board, we take it to mean that the General Government having refused to sanction the payment of the money out of the £25,000 given to the Board when the Kaipara Railway was taken over, they (the Board) are about to pay the £SOOO out of their own reveuue.

At the Police Court, yesterday, Mr W. J. Constant, of the Camden Hotel, Pollenstreet, was fined 40s for supplying liquors on Sunday last. E, Chinnick was fined Is and costs for being at such a distance from his vehicle as not to have control over the horse drawing the same, at Parawai, on the 7th instant.

AVc perceive, by advertisement in another column, that Mr George Taylor, late proprietor of the Wharf Dining-rooms, Auckland, has opened a chop house, in Brownstreet, Grahamstown, where chops, steaks, etc., can be procured at all hours during the day. and suppers until midnight. Mr Taylor is well known as a first-i’ate cook aud caterer, and we have no doubt will obtain a fair share of public patronage at the Thames. Owing to the inclemency of the weather there was no entertainment at'the Academy of Music last night, as the public could hardly be expected to leave their homes in such a storm, no matter how great the attraction. The chair was to have been taken by the Rev. Mr Lush, who was in attendance had the entertainment come off. It is not decided whether any performance will take place tonight or not, but should the elements allow of it, Miss Aitkcn will again delight the public with her readings, &c. Wc perceive that good progress is being made with the Moanatairai aqueduct, there being now 15 sets of timber erected, aud a considerable portion of the flooring of the water channel laid. This will be caulked like a ship’s deck so as to make it entirely waterproof, and will also be well tarred. It seems rather awkward to have a bend in the channel, as in case of a very heavy freshet aud consequent heavy rush of water, we imagine that it would be apt to rush over the side°at the point where the bend occurs and so make a great mess of the road.

A running match came off at the Albert Barracks yesterday afternoon, between Mr James South, erstwhile comedian, but now director of the board of green cloth at the Occidental, and Mr Benjamin Clarke, the tenor singer attached to the Simonseu Company. The distance was 100 yards, the stakes were £5 a side, the start simultaneous to a second, and the race fell to the tenor, who came in an easy winner.— Cross. Yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock, Mathew Rogers and Peter Daws had a fight at Rogers’ residence, which resulted iu Rogers being dangerously wounded by a pick in the hands of Daws. Rogers was struck in the back under the right shoulder blade, the pick entering the lung. There are many conflicting accounts of the affair. Daws is uuder arrest. The parties are well-known Cornish miners of this place.—Grass Valley paper, April 8.

At the Warden's Court, yesterday, the case of Thomas and others v Bright Smile Cold Mining Company was further adjourned until the 10th July, the R.M. intimating that it will then be struck out if plaintiffs fail to appear. The case of Wickham v Kelly was withdrawn by consent of the parties concerned. C. S. Brown v Britt and others was also withdrawn, notice of the discontinuance of the action having been given. _ Hugh Mawhiney was fined in the mitigated penalty of 5s and costs of Court, Lis, for occupying a residence site without a miner s right. A Sauc(eYy Affair.— The fact of the entire faculty and press having so highly recommended, for its purity and wholesomeness. the produce of a new local industry, the patronage of the ladies of the Thames is respectfully invited. Ask your grocers for Austin’s Parawai Genuine Tomato Sauce Price : Half-pints, Is ; Pints, Is 6d ; Quarts 2s— ADYT.

' Agitation lias been commenced against the; Order of Jesuits, withiu a few years, and it seems to have beeu increased by the action of the CEc imenical Council. The members of the order have beeu banished from portions of Central America ; a proposition to banish them from Switzerland seems to find'favor in the Catholic cautous; and similar propositions arc discussed in various parts of Germany and South America. It is worthy of remark that, according to late letters, cxQueen Isabella of Spain, wheu placing her son Alphouso in a Vienna school, requested the superintendent of the establishment to keep him away from the Jesuits. In Protestant countries, ou the other hand, the Jesuits are scarcely distinguishable from other Catholics, except by tkeir devotion to the cause of education, aud the special opposition to their order is scarcely heard of. — Alta California . • The Monster Cake of Gold. —With the view of bringing prominently under the notice of the people of Europe and America the vast mineral resources of this colony, Messrs Foster and Kelly—the purchasers of the monster cake of gold which was taken from Krohmanu’s claim, Hill End, and which was on view at the late Exhibition — intend exhibiting it in Europe and America.. They will also exhibit specimens of other minerals produced in the colouy, together with plans, models, &c. They also contemplate publishing pamphlets, giving information as to our quartz and alluvial workings, mining laws, &c. The exhibition is to extend over a period of two years, and all the chief towns aud cities of Europe aud America are to be visited. Messrs Foster and Kelly have communicated with the Government, with the view of procuring aid, in order that the mineral collection which they iutend to exhibit may be made as complete and interesting as possible.— Sydney Morning Herald. The Licensing Bench, which comprised the Resident Magistrate, -his Worship the Mayor, aud ten Justices of the Peace, sat yesterday to hear adjourned and renewed applications for hotel licences shortly after noon, and broke up in some confusion a little before 3 o’clock, without the chief business which was to have come before the Court haviug been entered upon, excepting in a very preliminary stage. The Bench were not only at issue with the Bar, but they were divided in opinion among themselves. The differences existing were in this wise : —At the last annual meeting of Justices held in April, several applicants for renewal of licences were refused them, and the Court, after a long sitting, adjourned until to-day. During the interval of the sitting and the adjournment, applicants who had been refused their licences emplojmd counsel for rehearings. When the first case of this kind was called ou yesterday, Mr Beckham informed the Bar that the Justices had decided not to allow any applications to be rc-opeucd which had been refused ; whereupon a very long and acrimonious argument ensued between counsel aud the Bench, but principally with Mr Beckham. It appeared, however, that the Justices were not unanimous among themselves, and several of them were for allowing applications for re-hearings. When this determination had been expressed, DiNicholson, one of the Justices, vacated his seat on the Bench, and retired to the Magistrate’s private room, where he was followed by Mr Beckham, aud a number of the Justices. The Mayor then touk the chair, and, after a short consultation with the Justices who had remained with him, he adjourned the Court uutil 12 o’clock to-day.— Cross.