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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 252, 30 July 1872, Page 2

The Golden Crown will be laid up on Thursday and Friday next for repairs. We understand that the Thames Scottish and Naval Brigade Volunteers are prepared to accept a challenge from any two companies on the field to fire a friendly rifle match. There was a full house last night to witness the performance of '• Formosa," which was put on, if anything, better than on Saturday uight. The same piace will be repeated to-night. The Fire Brigade had their usual weekly practice last night, and went, .round the different fire plugs in the town to see if they were in order. We believe most of them acted well. A meeting of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund was to have been held last night at the Governor Bowen Hotel, but at the appointed hour there were only two members of the committee and the secretary present, so that the meeting was allowed to lapse. A meeting of the Thames Total Abstinence Society was held last night, Captain Ninnis (vi-e-president) in the chair. Messrs Stanton, Cook, and Mason addressed the meeting, and Mr James Jones Tendered admirably in bis humorous style the song? “The Spider and the Fly” and “The Publican and Peasant, ’’ aud Master Pitkeithly. gave a recitatiou. A good meeting was closed by siuging the doxology. In the window of Mr A Cookson, manufacturing jeweller, Williamsou-street, may be seen a very beautiful gold pectoral cross and an episcopal riug (intended for presentation to the Bight Reverend Bishop Croke), in the centre of which is a very tine amethyst. The tracery of the cross is beautiful iu design aud execution, and the ling equally so, reflecting much credit on the artificer. These gifts will, we are sure, be valued, not for their intrinsic worth, but for the spirit in which they are given, as tokens of love aud esteem from a large Christian flock to the episcopal head, who is not only endeared to them, but has gained golden opinions from all sorts of men.

In a General Government Gazette pub* lished on July 16 we find the annual report of the Accountant in Bankruptcy. The list of bankrupts occupies nearly 40 passes. Auckland gives 78 ; Canterbury, 89 ; .Nelson, 21; Otago, 116 ; Wellington, 46 ; Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay, 20; Greymouth, 42; and Westland, 41 for the twelvemonths ; or a total of 463. Several hundred other bankrupts are in another list, which includes all who came before the past year, whose cases had nut hitherto been reported. Another Gazette contains the Governor's speech. Another very old colonist- has gone to his long home, and but few now remain of those who saw tne inauguration of British authority in these islands. Mr Samuel Mill, the notice of whose death appears in our obituary column, arrived with Governor hobson thirty-two years ago, and acted in the capacity or carpenter for the Geueral aud Provincial bioveruuieut 2 9 years. lie was spared to sec his threescore years aud ten, aud witnessed the gradual growth of Auckland from an uncultivated waste to its present proportions, — Cross.

An incident occurred at Tamahere on the 23rd instant, between 3 ana 4 p.m., by wntch a mau named Robert iStewart was brought to au untimely end. It appears ihat he aud his mate, William Smith, wero attempting to roil a log into a pit. i'uo skids were slippery in consequence of tne ram whicii haa laueu. i'uey uad succeeded in getting it up a considerable distance, when “it suddenly supped aud fell across aiewart’s cueot. Deatu was almost iustautaneous. We regret to say that the deceased leaves a wife and enud unprotected.— Waikato Times:

The secretary of the F_re Relief Fund Committee, Mr ¥ouug, was busy yesterday paying dividends at the rate of 26 per ceut. on tne amount to whion the Committee onut out altogether, as tiverai are, the Uomdtcineu sutfeiers to oe entitled. Those who are inittee not considering them entitled, are naturally not very well satisfied, but there cau be no doubt that the Committee had a must difficult and invidious task to decide upou the merits of the Several applications. Ail outstanding debts are to be sent in on or before Thursday next, the Ist August. ,

Mistakes iu the nou-delivery of letters are often of serious consequence. We are informed that on tht 3rd of July, instant, a letter addressed to the Provincial Accountant, at Auckland, was posted at the pillar receiving bon at the corner of Albert aud Prown streets, GraUamstown, enclosing a puo ican’s certificate for tne saleof aicunoiic liquurs, aud that it has not yet been received, m consequence of which the puulican might be prevented in getting his ucence for winch he has already paid. The person by tvnom the letter was posted has made a statutory declaration betore Captain Goldsmitu, J.P., emoodyiug the facts, aud we presume the matter will be satisfactorily settled, otherwise, a very great injustice will de done.

An inquest was held -at the Farmers’ Hotel, •Drury, on Friday last, beldre Mr Parstow, coroner, upou tue body of Xtie man who was found dead in a creek, as previously reported in this journal. The principal evidence was that of Hr M. E. B.;Hicholson, who was of opinion that the man had been dead about ten days, aud that he died from asphyxia, but whether from the effect of strangulation or drowning the Doctor could cot say, as the body was iu too advanced a stage of decomposition. The jury accordingly returned au open verdict, iu accordance with the medicaL testimony. The body was not identified ; it appeared to be that of a man about thirty-five years of age. — Herald.