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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 246, 23 July 1872, Page 2

A general meeting of the Fire Relief Fund Committee will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at Butt’s Hotel, when the report of the Bub-Committee will be laid before them. A full attendance is particularly requested. We havejreceived from Mr Samuels of the Varieties copies of the Australasian and Leader of the sixth of J uly, and the Illustrated Australian News of the ninth, which ar.ived by the Novelty, also the A’eng of the World per Nebraska. A meeting of tlie Orange Lodge is convened for this evening, at 7 p.m., at the Karaka School-house. Visiting members are requested to at.end. We are glad to hear that it is in coutem- I (Jatiou to make some public rectlgnitiou «.f I ihe services rendered by tho>e who first discovered the recent fire at Shortlaud, and those who gave assistance on the occasion. •

vNe\V| Zealand Sharks in Austra-ia The S. At. Herald of July 12 reports : ‘‘ Bank of New Zealand shares, L2O ; New JJe dand debentures, LIO3 to L 104.” The Inspector of'Nuisauces, who has been ill for some time past and inc apacitated from duty, has recovered, and is again in full force. YVe observed him yesterday ius| ecting some back yards at GrnliimsUnvn ; and all owners and occupiers, whose premises are in a dirty state, will do well to put things ‘•ship-shape ’ before M* Brennan pays them a visit.

In the letter published yesterday in our columus by our correspondent “ Vox,’’ we perceive that wo made a m..stake in a paragraph. It sh uld have been as follows : “ Iu some countries liberty of speech is suppnssed both iu politics and religion; in others, only allowed in private ; in our own, both. I Invievc,” etc. Also, the worn “truth" should be ‘teeth.’’

Messrs Bagnall and Hollis have convene 1 a meeting of those favourable to a secular system of education, to be held iu the Mechanics' Institute, this evening, at 7.20 o’clock, to arrange the preliminaries preparatory to fonvardiug a petition to the General Assembly in accordance with the amendment carried at the recent meeting. The advocates of the denominational system will also, we understand, forward a counterpetition embodying their views ou the subject.

A man named Thomas Clarke, who was yesterday employed in discharging sugar from the p.s. Nebraska, met with an accident by which his 'eg was broken. One of the casks of sugar slipped from its fasteuiugs, and fell upon his leg, breaking it. He was removed to his own residence, aud was promptly attended to by a medical man.— Herald.

A meeting for the formation of a Drama'ic Club was announce 1 to be held last night at ilie Mechanics’ Institute, but at the hour uamed the room at the Institute was engaged, so they adjourned to the Eccniny Star oilice. where all preliminaries were arranged and several gentlemen put down their names as members. Another meeting will be held this evening, and those who arc desirous of joining and caunot aiteud caii leave their names at Mr Fleming’s, Brown-street.

At the Police Court yesterday four persons were dealt with for being drunk, one for indecency aud assault, and one, a boy 13 years old, for breaking a lamp-glass at the theatre, who was discharged with a caution. The two Maoris who were tightiug. iu the street the previous day, were brought up ; oue was discharged, and the other bound over to keep the peace. Edward Higgins, charged with using threatening language to his wife, was ordered to liud two sureties of £lO each, and himself be bound iu £2O, to keep the peace for the next three mouths. The Sydney Morning Hccald says :—“ A most exciting contest came off at Fort ltowan. Two j-eat 'e nen made three bets as fol o vs : First; iliat twenty picked men could hold the st amtug Watchman, of twenty horse power: second, that ten men could hold her ; third, that twenty-five men could s op her while under way, aud the men to have 100 feet of coil to get under way. The tug lost iu all three contests. Two miuuts were allowed for eneh trial. The contest was witnessed by a large number of sp :ctat >rs.” A correspondent of a medical journal, writing from Gibraltar, states ou the authority of Mr Henry Stokes, the officer of health for that port, that ou the arrival of the Peninsula and Oriental steamship Nyauza, at Southampton, from her late trip to the Meditcrraueau, the whole of the officers and crew, save one man, a sailor, who obstinately refused to have the operation performed, were re-vaccinated. When the Nyanza reached Gibraltar, on the Ist instant, on her cut ward voyage, she lauded this identical n:a i for treatment at the civic hospital covered with small-pox eruption. The Sydney Morning Herald says :—“ It is reported that uo less than seventy murders have been committed iu course of a *• labour” cruise among the islands of the South Pacific. It is said that the practice pursued was to induce the natives of the different islands visited to go on board the vessel under various pretexts, aud then to drive them down the hatchways by force of arms. The brig Carl was seized some weeks ago by 11.M.5. Cossack, at the port of Levuka, Fiji. An investigation has beeu held at Levuka, but the evidence takeu does Dot appear to have been published by the Fijian Press. The depositions have been forwarded to Sydney, aud are under the consideration of tne Attorney-General. It is said that eight men are implicated. Three men arrived here under arrest, in the Duke of Edinburgh ou Wednesday, and will be probably placed on their trial at the Water Police Court, on Monday, for offences said to have been committed on board the Carl. The rest of the crew are ou board the Meteor, which was to leave for Sydney about the 12th iustaut. The Carl was fitted out from Melbourne, and ihe “ lalxiurers' 1 were intended for plantation work at Fiji. The NU alt.-Pox. —Some curiosity (says the Bathurst Times) was aroused in town on Monday evening last, when the mail coach and other vehicles from the railway station arrived under mounted escorts. Upon inquiry we learned that instructions hau been received from the Government by the police to the effect that six men had escaped from the Hero—which vessel had been placed in quarantine iu consequence of small-pox having broken out on board—and that all passengers from Sydney were to be strictly examined with a view' of discovering if any of the persons " wanted ’’ had come westward. Acting upon these instructions, orders were given by Mr Superintendent Lydiard for the se cral coaches and vans from Macquarie Plains to be placed under escort, aud each vehicle was taken to the <_lubhou e Hotel, where the examination of the different passengers was conducted ; but none of the escaped •• Heroes ” were found.

The Wanganui Chronicle s lys :—“ A man named James Gannon, formerly a private in No. 1 company of the 18th Royal Irish, who has for some time past been iu the service of Father Tresaillett, made a most desperate attempt at self-murder at midnigut on Monday. It appears Gauuou has been rather peculiar in his manner lately, but hot sufficiently so to excite any doubts of his sanity, and on Monday night called Father Tresaiilet to bis bedside and told him that he (Gauuon) was going to die that night. After praying with Gauuou some little time and endeavouring to. calm his fears, Father Tresaiilet went into the Catholic Church next door for something he;; required. On returning to the cottage occupied by Gauuon, he found the room door locked, aud heard some straugc noise inside the room, which induced him to look through the key-hole, when a ghastly sight presented itself to his gaze. Gannon was standing up hacking his throat with a pair of scissors, and spitting out large quantities of blood. Father Tresaiilet at once ran across the road to the Victoria Hotel, and tried to rouse Mr Thurston, but could not succeed, whereon he went and called Dr Ebbs, who at once hurried to the scene of the attempted suicide, when he found Gannon standing up in the room with stfeams of blood issuing from, his throat, mouthy,and neck, and his bowels protruding through a long jagged cut in the abdomen. As soon as Dr Ebbs had finished dressing- the wounds, Gannon was taken to the Hospital on a stretcher, aud now lies at that institution in a most dangerous state. It is not probable that he can recover, as peritonitis yip be very apt to supervene, and end his sufferings befoie the end of the week.”