THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1872.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 220, 22 June 1872, Page 2

THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1872.

Owing to the arrival of the English mail our leading article and several other local items are held over.

All who desire to take part in promoting the rifle match—Auckland v Thames- are requested to meet at the Pacific Hotel, this evening, at lialf-past 7 o’clock. The s.s. City of Melbourne will not be detained longer than Monday evening next, the 24th iustaut. She has been waiting the arrival of the Nevada with the English mail. Mr Worthington, head master of Devouport School, North Shore, will lecture on “ Historical Fictions,’’ for the benefit of St. George’s Sunday School Fund, in the Schoolroom, on Monday evening next. The s.s. City of Melbourne, which sails for Sydney on arrival of the now overdue mail steamer Nevada, will be the bearer of 12,18!)oz, ldwt. Ggrs. of gold, valued at £41,2(10. There are several summons cases set down for hearing at the Police Court to-day, but none of them, we believe, of very much importance.

A case will, we understand, be heard at the Shorthand Police Court, on Monday, in which Karaka, a native, who gave evidence in the late shooting case, will be charged with assaulting Lachlan Allan McCaskill. We have heard that the accused and his friends are desirous of engaging Mr John Sheehan for the defence.

During the hearing of Mr Smythies’ case before the Court of Appeal, on the 6th iust., the Chief Justice remarked Modern authorities show that cases taken by solicitors on the principal of 1 no cure no pay,’ are now deemed legal, and cases ou our goldfields of payment by mining shares are not uncommon.”

At the Police Court, yesterday, two sailors, belonging to the Prince Rupert schooner, were sentenced to 21 days’ hard labour each for being drunk, assaulting Constable Oouglin and Private Watchman Graham in the execution of their duty, and using obscene language. The s.s. Southern Cross will take her departure on her first trip to Tauranga on Monday. It is intended to place this vessel permanently on the trade between Auckland and that port, a subsidy having, we understand, been granted to the vessel to carry the mails.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, judgment was again reserved for a week in the ease of Macdonald v Honiss and Young. Several cases which were ou the list for hearing were settled out of Court, and the business was got through at a much earlier hour in the afternoon than has been the case lately. A report will be found in auothi r column.

A daughter of Mr T. Henderson liad a narrow escape yesterday, at Onehuuga, It appears that Miss Henderson and another young lady " ! crc out driving a buggy, when the horse suddenly took fright aud bolted. Iu attempting to arrest the course of the horse, the reins broke. Luckily one of Mr Hardingtou’s busmen, who saw the accident, at great peril to liimsclf, managed to stay the progress of the horse. The Event nj) Star of last night says, “ Wo have just learned from a private source, aud one which we believe to be perfectly reliable, that Messrs Nolau and Barry, the prospectors sent by the Superintendent into tile Waikato, have been stopped by the Kingites, and not permitted to enter their country.” We understand that an unoccupied house of niue rooms, belonging to Messrs. R. and E. Maclean, of Penrose, near the Great South Road (known as McPherson’s cottage), was wilfully set on fire about 9 o'clock ou the night of Tuesday last. The whole building was burned to the ground iu two hours. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police, who, we believe, have obtained a clue which may lead to the apprehension of the incendiary. An inquest will, it is hoped, be held. The building was uninsured.— Cross. Our Mercury Bay correspondent writes : ‘•As a little girl of Mr McLeod’s was taking a tea-kettle from the fire, she accidentally let it fall, the contents (boiling water) falling over her little brother, who was playing near the fire at the time, scalding him very seriously and extensively iu the upper part of the body, and the inner parts of the thighs and legs. Dr Agassiz was soon ill attendance, aud applied the usual remedies to the relief of the sufferer.” — D. S. Cross,

We have received a copy of a well-written pamphlet entitled “Notes of an Overland Trip from Auckland to the Lake District,” which is printed for private circulation. The writer proceeded to this interesting district via Cambridge, and describes what he saw in a plain but attractive style. To those who are helplessly tied to the city the “ Notes ” come almost as a tempter, the remarkable natural scenes of which they treat, and their easiness of access, creating an almost irresistible desire to be off on the writer’s track to breathe the pure air amidst the glorious scenery of the Lakes, — I). S, Cross. The third lecture of the winter series under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, will be given this evening, in the Rooms, Wellcslcy-strect, at 7.30, by his Honor the Superintendent (T. B. Gillies, Esq.,) on “ Our Laws, and How they are Made.” No one can peruse the New Zealand statute-book without seeing stamped on almost every page the evidence of Provincial jealousy, selfishness, and log-rolling. Some of these statutes are highly suggestive of “the lobby,” others equally so of Bellamy’s,—while of not a few it may be said that, like their framers, they are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” lie who said, “ Give me the making of a nation’s ballads, and anybody may frame its laws,” must have bad prophetic glimpses of New Zealand jurisprudence, for assuredly it would require but little discriminative power to decide as to whether a bundle of decently-strong ballads or a volume of New Zealand statutes were the most valuable.— Herald.

There are some persons who deny that the aborigines of Australia are amenable to the influences of civilisation and religion. Their denial has received a practical refutation, however, in the experience of our own native institutions at Poonindieaud at Point Macleay, where a number of natives are engaged in agriculture, and are apparently living a reputable and religious life. From a petititiou presented to the Victorian Assembly, the influences of a native institution at Lake Hindmarsh, under the management of Moravian missionaries, are thus spoken of :—“ The institution has,” it is said, “been most successful in reclaiming the blacks from their wandering and depraved habits. Most of them are now residing there, and have adopted a civilised life, and have comfortable habitations. The proverbial ‘ dyingoui’ has ceased. Children are born, aud now a young and healthy generation is springing up under good educational aud moral trainng,”—South Australian Advertiser,