THE Thames Advertiser. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1874.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1809, 9 May 1874, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1874.

9- , The A.S.N. Company's s.b. 'Rangatira' is due ia Auckland to-day from Sydney and Melbourne, and the mail steamer' Cyphrenes' from the South on Monday. Tho 'Cyphrenes' will leave for Kaudavu with the outward American and English inaila on Tuesday next, at 4 p.m. The extraordinary meeting of the Nonpareil Sold Mining Company called for yesterday did not proceed with business, owing to an informality in the advertisement relating to it. Mr Binncy was voted to the chair, when Mr Tyler, the solicitor olthe company, explained that as no time had been mentioned for the meeting it was not legally constituted, and a fresh meeting would h.\ve to be convened. The Act made it imperative that the hour of meeting should be named in the advertisement, but this had not been done. Mr Scott explained that the orror had been discovered too late to be remedied, but the proxies held by the diroetors aud others would lie available foe another meotiug. They had sufficient proxies to carry the proposal for increasing the capital. It was resolved to call another meeting at the earliest possible date.

, , -iwij , ' An iuquhy intotho lalo lire, which origin. • atcd in the melting-house of tho (Jnion Bank, 1 will be conducted by the police to-day, before a 1 district coroner and a common jury, summoned 1 to attend at the Warden's Court for that pur--1 pose at 2 o'clock. We are requested to state that there is no truth in the report, sent from Aucklaud by telegram, that the mines on the Waio-Karaka ■ had arranged for a loau to the amount of i £25,000 from the Loan and Mercantile Agency. [ The members of the Thames Football Club 1 will meet on the Shortland ground to-diy, to play an alphabetical match, A to H versus I to 1 Z. The members are requested to appear in 1 uniform. A boiler accident, which was fortunately un- . attended with loss of life, occurred this week at the Cornwallis Steam Saw Mills, Manukaii Heads, the property of Mr M. H. Roe, It appears that the men had left tho mills for > their usual dinner hour when the accident occurred,, and were startled by the noise of the explosion, followed by an ascent of steam and the debris of the mill building, as it was blown into pieces and carried through the air. If tho explosion had occurred before or after the dinner hour many lives would doubtless have been sacrificed, as the mill is in full swing, turning out a large quantity of timber for shipment to other ports. The boiler is an old one, but no explanation has been given of the cause of the accident. , . The Secretary of the Thames Miuers' Accident Helief Fund begs to acknowledge tho receipt of £1 from Rev. Father Limdergau towards the above fund. The Superintendents of the Fire Brigades desire to thank Messrs Mennie and Dey aud Mr Gertz for their subscription of £3 10s to each of the brigades. The Thames Naval Brigado will compete at the Pnrawai ranges to-day for the gold medal presented by Mr Tylor and the pin presented by Mr Shappere. Somo time has elapsed since' tho last competition, there being no public rifle range, but by the kind permission of the i owners of the land in the neighbourhood'the' members are allowed to fire at the Par&wai range to-day. An alarm of fire was given yesterday from some houses in Abraham-street, opposite Lamb's timber-yard. A chimney of one of the houses had caught fire, and there was danger , of the fire catching the woodwork. Superintendent Young, and Captain Wright, of the Grahamstown Fire Brigade, in a few minutes had one of the brigade ladders up to the top of tho house, which was a two-story one, and passed up buckets. While doing so the ladder broke, and Mr Young aud Mr VVrijlit fell to the ground. Luckily they escaped with a few braises. It is obvious that the Brigade requires a new ladder. A meeting of the maintenance committee of the Shortland Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Exchange Hotel last eveniug, and well attended. Mr J. E. Macdonald was oalled to the chair. Mr Renshaw, treasurer, reported that the sum of £48 was the balance to tho credit of the committee. Mr Macnab handed in £2117s 61, a sum which had been in hand for some time, and Mr J. Bull handed in £15 2s, £11 of which had been subscribed since the fire in Grahainstown on Tuesday last. It was stated that a hose-reel, with hose and couplings complete, ordered by Air J. Bull, superintendent of the brigade, during his recent visit to Sydney, would arrive by the first steamer, together' with an additional hand engine. The brigade held their usual weekly practice last evening, and five new members . were elected. Mr J. Alston, captain of tha brigade, and Mr R, B. Wiseman, secretary, being aboat to leave the district, were unanimously elected honorary life members of the brigade. The Claus-Rekel Troupe of violinists and vocalists will appear in the first of two performances to be given by them at the Thames prior to their departure from the colony to-night. Tho performances of these clever musicians are very highly spoken off by the Auckland Press. Tho Herald of yesterday, in reference to their last performance in Auckland says:—"The first part of the entertainment was concluded with a fantasia and variations (Vieux-temps) by . Mdlle, Jenny Claus on the violin. The delicacy of touch and dexterity of manipulation minifested by the fair violiniste ontoe instrument was something marvellous, while the liquid strains elicited under her witching hand would 'create a soul even under the ribs of death,' Her performance evoked the first exhibition of enthusiasm thathad yet taken place during the evening. An. encore was rapturously demanded and gracefully complied with. The second part of the programme consisted of miscellaneous selections," A few days ago, Mr Bull, superintendent of the Shortland D'ire Brigade, wrote to Mr A. (J, Millar, manager of the National Insurance respecting the annual subscription of the insurance companies to the Thames Fire Brigades. Yesterday he received an answer stating that Mr Millar had seen the representatives of other companies doing business at the Thames on the subject, and that as som as the amount of their contributions were determined, ho should again write, Mr Millar concludes his letter by stating that he is gratified to notice that the efforts of the Thames brigades were successful in extinquishing the Union Bank fire. About half-past firo o'clock on Thursday afternoon, some of the residents in the neigh' bourhood of the school in Hepburn-street discovered the school to be on fire. They at once rushed to the building, which was just catching fire, and fouud that a most deliberate attempt had been made by somo person to burn, the building. The school is raised upon blocks a short distance from the surface of the ground. Under tho building they founds large quantity of materials, consisting of cotton cloth, a woman's apron, news* papers, &c„ thoroughly saturated with keroseno oil, blazing furiously. The burning material was pulled out, and the fire extinguished. The police wero then communicated with, and Sergeant-Major Pardy and Detective Ternahan proceeded to investigate the matter, The' result of their investigation was that an old woman named Hunter was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the attempted arson. The circumstances whioh haTe led the police authorities to deprive the woman of.her liberty will doubtless be fully detailed when the case comes before the presiding magistrate at the Police Court,— Grots. f Mr A. W. Burrows, 0.K., of the Public Works Department, Tauranga, has commenced an action against Mr J. T. Morrison, hotelkeeper,. Rotorua, in tho.Supreme Court of New Zealand, for slander and defamation of character, The damages are laid at one thousand pounds. Messrs Heskethand Richmond have been retained by. Mr Burrows, and the writ was served on Tuesday. '■'-.. ... The timber exported from Mercury Biy. aud Tairua amounts iu value to abpat £35,000 per annum; whilst tho kauri gum exported from the same place amounts to about £18,000, The Colonial Secretary wrote stating,that the General Government would contribute £40 towards the current expenditure of of the proposed City Fire Brigade. The Government suggested that a steam fire-engine of full power and a quantity of hose should be imported of sufficient strength to stand the pressure necessary for forcing sea water up the main portion of tho city. 'With such an engine there would be no difficulty in controlling a very large fire, Tho Estimated"cost"of the engine and hose would be about £1,000, and if the Council acted on this suggestion the General Government would bo prepared to contribute one-fourth of the purchase money, provided that fourth did not exceed £250.— Cross, , ■■< -~.:{ Tho London .correspondent'of'the Du&a Advertiser snys that "Mr Holloway, tho well known vendor of. patent medicines, who not longsinco devoted £100,000 to building two hospitals out at Caterhara, has recently consulted a well-known member of Parliament as to tho disposal of no less a sum than two millions sterling in works of charity." . J. Marshall will offer for sale this day all' the Blankets damaged by saving the buildings from fire, T [ADVi,]

The Western Times (Exjter paper) mentions the case of a young couple who were ruined by the Tichborne case. They set out in life with every comfort, but' the husband, much against the wishes of his wife, invested, £14,000 in " Tichborne Bonds." After the cross-exami-nation of the Claimant by Sir John Cileridge the young man became disheartened and desponding, and died in a short lime, his early death being attributed to vexatiou consequent upon the feeling that he had lost his money, and had shown a great want of prudence, A horrible discovery was made in Newtown,

Bolton, a district inhabited chiefly by Irish,

The houses there are built back-to-back, and . underneath a pair situated in Soho-street aud Back vSoho street respectively was a cellar, divided into two compartments, called front and back cellars. Over the front cellar lived an aged widow, named Winifred Roach, and her son, who held the key of both cellars, The occupant of the house over the back cellar, was a tailor, named John M'Loughliu. The cellar had been closed for many months, and the front window was both boarded and shuttered. On Monday afternoon, a little boy, named John James Cooper, aged eight years,"a grandson of was playing in the 'yard of his grandfather's house, when he dropped a stick into the cellar area, tie went down the steps

for the purpose of picking it up, and on returning he happened to look through the cellar

window, when he saw. a human body lying on the floor. Heat once gave an alarm, and the police having been communicated with, an

entrance was effected, A horrible sight then presented itself. Lying upon her back on the

floor of the cellar was a woman, who, to all appearances, had been starved to death. There was not a particle of flesh bonos, nothing but skin; She was but thinly and poorly clad, having on an old tattered dress, a petticoat, a pair of stays, and clogs. Bound her neck was a double link of blue beads A piece of worsted was tied round her right wrist, as though she had teen suffering from a sprain, and there had been severe bruises on her arms and legj. Marks of violence were observabVon her neck and at the back of her head, theT hair of which—black—was clotted with blood. Nothing is.known as to how or when she got into the cellar, as both doors were' fastened when she was found. From the quantity, of dust which covered her features and clothes she must have lain there several weeks. The police are investigating the affair. On Monday, a man, named William Smith, identified the deceased as his sister-in-law, Her name, he stated, was Lonsdale, and she was a widow, aged 46. She had been in the workhouse for some time, and was given to drink, From the wounds upon her head and neck there is strong suspicion of foul play.

On the last night of the old year a poor woman, the wife of a labourer in the village of ■Aber, near Bangor, was delivered of twins, 'fhe first was born during the closing hour of the old year, aud the second an hour or so after the opening of the new year. The peculiarity of this little interesting and doable event, therefore, is that the twins were not bom in the same year, the same month, nor the same day.