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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 245, 22 July 1872, Page 2

There will be a mcetiugof the Kauaerauga Highway District Board this eveuiug, at the Beudigo Hotel. The Fire Relief Fund Committee will meet at Bmt’s Hotel, at It) o'clock, tins morui ig. A full aiteuduuee of members is requested. Au American paper says that the girls in parts of Pennsylvania are so hard-up for husbauds that they sometimes take up with printers aud lawyers. We understand that proceedings have beeu taken to upset the recent Kauaerauga Board election. The solicitor who has been instructed in the matter proceeds toAuokland. we understand, iliis afternoon, armed with the uccessary affidavits, &c.

A boy named Wayte was taken iuM custody ou Saturday eveuiug for breaking glass at the theatre The boy, who is about 13 years of age, we understand, forced n board aud got iuto Mrs Hill’s dressing-room, where he did the damage complained of and was handed over to the police by Mi Jones.

We notice that the railway locomotive engine has been safely stabled in a large shed which has beeu erected for its accommodation a little way below the tunnel. As soon as it is iu working order we believe that it will be used iu the railway works, to the great saving of labour, both of men aud horses. — Herald.

The glory has departed from the Theatre Royal, and O. ye gods, the building iu which a Duret, a Bamlmann, a Charles Mathews, a lalbut, a Joey Gougenheim, and a Dillon have played to •• houses ” so densely packed that the audience might have beeu cut out iu solid blocks, is now a receptacle for duty, unwashed potatoes, for carrots, for fowls’ aud pigs’ food, aud for the produce that comes in sacks and gunny-bags.— Crags. Our Alexandra cere s oudent, wriCng in reference to the pro eedings of the mee ing of the ratepayers of the Maugapiko taiga way District Board, says : “ About the moving of the Hall- this matter requires explanation. During the visit of the Hon. D. McLean to Alexandra, two gentlemen waited upon him as a deputation, and asked him to grant a more favorable site for the Hail. What transpired at this interview is not yet a matter of history, bat the result is eminently unsatisfactory to the public, as the decision of the meeting abuudantlyproves, The questiou arises—from whom did the deputation comc ?' Certainly not from the people ; but, as the Yankees,say, I daresay a “ ’cute ’coon could guess in twice.” Waikato Times.

A meeting of gentlemen, convened by circular, was held yesterday afternoon, in the large room of the Insurance Building, for the purpose of forming a Gymkhana Club. There was a very good attendance. Mr llobert Graham was elected to the chair. Captain Daveney moved, “That a committee should be formed to draw up rules, etc., to submit to a future meeting.” Seconded by Mr J. S. Macfariane, and agreed to. Mr Macfarlane proposed th.it a subscription of £SO should entitle the subscriber to be a life member ; that the entrance fee for ordinary members should be £lO, and the annual subscription £5. He stated that it would take £2,000 to cover cost of grand stand, etc, Mr Every McLean moved as an amendment. “ That the entrance fee be £5, and the and nual subsenptiou £2 25.” Seconded by Captaiu Daveney. There beiug no seconder to Mr MaeJarlane’s proposition, it laps-e I, and Mr McLean’s motion was unanimously carried. It was resolved that all mt.-uding members of the Club should be pmposeand seconded and balloted for. The following gentlemen were formed a committee, after which the meetiug adjourned :—Messrs James Watt, James Williamson, K. Granam, J. 6. Macfarlane. J. McLiver, B. J. Daveney, Walmesiey, A. Martyu, J. DLworth, J. Beuuet, A. Wardrop. W. Weston, J. Hay. W. Marks. J. Cruickshauk, Charles Taylor.— Herald.

" r •-—: * T * We are informed that a twrws mistake occurred on Saturday afeernoou with rsspect to the mails between here and Auckhin l The mail bag which came dowu from town was. through some error, sent back again, audi-ihe.bag which had been sent from o.ir Post Office was taken back from whence it came, lu these times of heavy business in the sharemarket, this may cause a g< o l deal of bother with respect to transfers, etc., which may have been sent down, more especially Uu\v that the market is so excited.

Telegrams. —lf Grevillc’s Telegram Con.pauy had not already distinguished iisolf in a similar manner, the scraps of English i o umercial and shipping news given in another column would entitle it to great ced t foi—- nlatoiin ss ami confusion. Debentures. we are loid ,are dull. What denatures ? Aud what is the date of the consmcuously paraded “ latest unpublished Who is the authority for the statements it contains 7 Most of the items iu this precious telegram, for which we have to pay,of course, have been published before , aud there is nothing to show that what is not stale is not doubtful.