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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 273, 23 August 1872, Page 2

The s s. St Kilda, Captain Flowerday, left Onehunga on Wednesday, for WiDganui, with the following passengers : —Mrs Morey and two children, and Messrs Smith, McDonald, and Muir.

Some twenty-five civil cases are set down for hearing at the R.M. Court to-day. This is rather more than the average number of late. Most of them, apparently, are of the usual description.

A meeting of the Fire Relief Fund Committee was held last evening, when the report of the sub-committee was adopted, and the meeting adjourned until next Thursday, when all accounts, Sec., will bo wound up. A report will be found in another place.

In our report of tlic Volunteer parade yesterterday an error occurred in the numbers of the Engineers who were on parade. It was writen 16, but allowed to be printed as 66 rank and file. With regard to all the officers being present, our reporter saw them all on parade before leaving Graliamstown, An omission was also made in the report of the giving of the marksmen’s badges, Mrs Bruce’s name having becu left out.

We are happy to state that the sufferers by the late accidents, viz : —Smith, Millard, and Mann arc getting on as well as can be expected. With regard to the poor fellow Preece there is no improvement in his case as yet. Frisso Itotto, the victim of the late knife assault case at Tararu, is an out-patient at the hospital, and is getting on well. At the Police Court, yesterday, John Panes was brought up and remanded, for a period not exceeding eight days, on the charge of violently assaulting his mate Frisso Rotto, at Tararu, on the 21st iust. The injured man is now in the hospital, but is expected to be able to attend the Court within the time named. William Weston, an omnibus driver, late in the employ of Mr Godkin, was fined 10s, with the alternative of 48 hours, for careless driving in Brown-street, on the 16th inst, Thames Hospital.— The following letter has been received by the Secretary of the Thames Hospital, and acknowledged bv bim with thanks “ Grahamstown, August 22nd, 1872. To the Thames Hospital Committee. Gentlemen, —The sub-committee appointed for carrying out the banquet in connection with the opening ceremonies of the Freemasons’ Hall, Grahamstown, present to your Institution, for the use of the patients, the following cordials: 7 bottles colonial wine, 2 do. brandy, 2 do. port wine, and a portion of a keg of [sherry.—We are, Ac,, A. Dewar, M. Brearley, W. McCullough.”

“ We are well taken care of in this district in the vaccination way,” says our ( Cross ) Mauku correspondent, “ for we have a grandmother here who is a great advocate for vnccination, and has weekly, and sometimes daily, a considerable number of infants and grown up people to have the operation performed, and she has now a considerable supply of the best lymph ready. Thus the whole population are well attended to free of charge—not that said ‘grandmother ’ would thus act if a medical practitioner were duly appointed, which has not been the case, and we have no medical man within 20 miles. I think Government are quite as much called upon to 1 subsidise ’ medical men in thinly populated and scattered districts as they arc to subsidise steamers and railroads.”

The attendance at the Theatre last night was only moderately good, owing chiefly, no doubt, to the counter attraction of the Exhibition at St. George’s Hall. The performance was of a superior order, the various performers sustaining their respective characters truthfully and well. “ Caste” and “Andy Blake” are the pieces intended to be played to-night. This is a programme that should be particularly attractive to all theatre-going people. But, in addition to the excellence of the programme, to-night is set apart as a benefit to three well-known members of Mr Jones’ company, namely, Messrs Dunn, Aveling, and O’Neil. It is hardly necessary for us to 'say any word of commendation for these gentlemen : their public exhibits speak for them. Although not usually appearing as what is termed “ leading characters,” yet they arc all well and favourably known as good careful actors; and we trust the public will show their appreciation of these gentlemen’s many and long-continued efforts to amuse and entertain, by conspiring to fill the Theatre Royal to-night, on the occasion of their benefit.