THE Thames Advertiser. TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1874.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1845, 1 September 1874, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser. TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1874.

We . have before, us. a .Parliamentary.. paper containing some very interesting and instructive preliminary tables, giving "abstracts < of- .certain, principal results in relation to the numbers of the population and dwellings,,and, the land and jive sto l in March last. The general results— the population in: each electoral district and each already byn ' published in ,thia ibarhai / i i arid ia Vtherefore not necessary to go back upon themy but in the reWrn before its; there are details /of our': own district ivhich are of" donsideraible intereaK;.j ]. f ..Taking the:V electoral diatricts'! jgrsfc -. —that is the districts as divided for the return.of members to the Geaeral'iAs--Bembly—we find.that' Dunedin stands at. .the.^head--of .the jvith, ; a -population (exclusive of. those on ;Qf; 18,499, . and M the;. Thames second, with a population of j12,239 isouls. Then we have, next in ton with 10,547, and bhristchurch City West with 9,174j r Aucklaud City West follows fifth the list, with a population-0f'8,'688. :: -The .lowest'on the list.is^heviq^witli;a population of, 1,253 aiid yet itj has aa large a share of representation as . ,the Thames, . .. ' In ihe thii'd table we 'tnd: :a ..return of the total number of persons in " cities," ' boroughs, and We give a fewof the highest numbers as-follows-:— •Dunedin, 18,499; Auckland, 12,775; Wellington*- -10,547; - Ohristchurch, 10,294; Thames, 8,073 j Nelson, 5,662 j Napier, 3,514; and Hokitika, 3,352, ■It is explained, in a ,note at * ihe foot of ; the table, ; that ; this.'-return does'; not. really; represent;.the population of the cities,;and boroughs,' because the suburbs,are not included, If we add thq population of Parnell, 3,976, and Ifewton,) 4,839, to'the numbers given for Auckland city, wo have a' total' population of 21,190. In the. case of Ohristchurch the/.to tab is.brought up, in a similar'way, •to 16,959, No- mention,-'' however,'" is 1 made : of the suburb"3 ! 'of' the :, ' Thames, .. Dunedin,' Welling ton,-pr-other towns. The'return" for the' Thames, given above, only,, includes -, ithqse : persons resident within the .boundaries of the ma?io|^itif t| .'9^d >i .4<>ep[. ,nofc take in ?mwai, Ll ,jK^eranga, : and the creeks,'-.so' that: we. may, safely'put down; the-population- of the towii-iat: more : than 9,ooo'souls.;; ; ; J Jn'the.characte^ the Thames/'a., most isat^ provement is shown, although there is; ample room yet, for : further improve- . menki- 'Bufc'-a-'-comparito-goldfields is largelyfit"- favour ; of the 3 * I Thames. With a popuiation' of; 5,'606? - :people more .than HokitikS, we )have v x ' fewer one-roomed shanties, but a jlai'ge excess of the better class of residences ■— of three rooms and upwards. In the Grey River district there are 1,245 one-roomed dwellings, to a population of 8,204 persons, whilst at the Thames there are only 537 one-roomed places, to a population of 12,239. Of two- ; roomed houses at the Thames there are; 735, of three and four rooms,; 1,14:6,; ofV five and six, 353; and of those'over six . rooms, 276. "Considering the few years 1 that the I'hames has been settled, and - making allowance for the fact that the great'bulk of Hhe land: is' only leasehold, we think it .compares mOst' favourabiy even' with the settled dis- - tricts of the colony, in the character of its dwellings. We notice one great improvement in-\ the present- census returns for, .which Mr Brown, the Registrar-General, is deserving of every credit, He has given the ." distfibufcioa of the population" in the, various towns, -and, districts, and localities,'arranged according to provinces and electoral ''districts; 1 ; The total population" of the given" ib. this l'eturiif in the'following form ■. ' ; ,. ; Thames. *~... Persons., if. P; •• ; Tirau flum Diggings , ... 11 11 •• — Puriri ... ... ;• 45 35/ 10 Kirikiri ... ... .32 20 12 . Kauaeranga ... 38 -. 33 5 Parawai ... :; j .1. 265: ; 132 133 Town of Thames ... 8073 4345 3728, Sape and Karaka, outside r " / town, ... 1 "...' ... 132 72 60 . '•Waiotaiii, outside toffa ...; 378 '208 170 I'Moanataiari,'outside town"' 306 • : 202 • 104 i , ■ . Irish Town ... ;... 120 60 00 Collarbone ... 73 .39 . 34.. •Pnnga Flat 115 71 44 . -Eureka Hill' ' ... ... 75 43 - 32 Tararu, outside town .;. 78 50 28 Whakiwau' .v.,.- :41 28 13' Coromahdel ' ~. 1174 643, 531 .Tokatea ... "... ... 204 174 30 ' Kennedy's Bay ....; ...: , 35 -24 11 Cabbage Bay ... . ... 65 46 - 19 Charles Cove ... , 61 50 U Whangapoua ,201 171 30 IMereuty Bay ... ... 319, 215 104 Tairua. ~V ; 167 121 46 ; Hikutaia ... . ... • 71 50 21 ,Ohinemuri ... ... 48 ■36 12 ' Others ... .u v..' - ... 112 70 42 ■It must ; be.remembered that the above localities comprise the Thames "electoral district." ; ., . j- The s.s. ,'City of Melbourne,' .is appointed to leave -Auckland for San Francisco on Friday : next, ;■ in connection, with, tha 1 Califomiaa Mail Semce.

' ■; The following gentlemen were duly nominated yesterday, at the; Borougli .Council offices, for - the vacant seats in the Council Messrs Arthur . Anthony, JVilliam Carpenter, James Kilgour, Bichard Kennan, Duncan Macnab, and William Eowe. It will' be' seen by notification, 'under the hand of his 'Worship the Mayor, that '.' Thursday, the 10th instant, is fixed for the Section, and the Council offices will.be used for *he purpose.' 1 The' advertisement elsewhere is the only public nomination the Act recognises, so that unless the candidates chose to make known their the same channels, or convene meetings for that purpose, they have no opportunity of airing 'their eloquence, and enabling the burgesses.to decide upon their respective qualifications for the office they seek to fill. ■-.'■■ ' ' ;Thelast ofthe : series of United' Prayer Meetings was held, last eveningin'the, ; Church, : Mary-stjeet,. The attendance was yery g00d.,,; devotional; exercises, of the. ' meeting, the question "How best ,to conduct tbc future meetings so as to realise the object i sought," _ was taken into consideration, the - meeting ' being'thrown oprn for suggestions. . . VariduS' SUggestions were made,'sueli : as in- ; creased frequency of meetings, out-door,preach- I' ing, cottage prayer meetings, private prayi r, ■: &e. ,j It'was dedided that the'ministers, with •: Messrs Manners, Kenshaw, McKee, J. Hudson, ' and-j.iKern'ick;'he : a committee to' take the ;• . various suggestions; into consideration, and. to ; ; report at the next united prayer meeting, which. ; : it was decided sliould be held' in the Grahams- ! Wesleyan Church, "on Monday evening \ . next. ' j -, Th,e Kauwaeranga.School Committee met'at i • the Girls' Sdhdol, Shprtland," yesterday, to receive ••possession -from Colclough, head ; teacher,:.who retired from the duties,of that \ office.' Asthat lady .-was absent, they handed over the_ charge of the, school.to _ Miss Boon, ; assistant will retain'control iiutil j Mrs Colcloiigh's successor is appointed. Miss • . Boon'was appointed assistant teacher soon .after- i the opening, under Mrs Miller, and has held thatappointment;up to the present. We think ! the Committee, iias made a good choice pending j the appointment of another head teacher, an ad- J verlisemdnt' for which' appears in another column. : v.The; Committee also notified the ' boy 3 attending that they were in future to go 1 \ to the Boys'' School, : "t'h'ur making this exclu- ? '' sively a girls' school, and the.,other exclusively; 0 . .. ... - ; j A New Zealand Gazette of tlic 20fch August, [) jiiaV trt Han<j, 'contains J a : notice of the aecep- a tance of (l..M..olßorke'sresignation of his seat, a • iii the Ministry," and of the" offices of Secretary f for Crown Laods* Lands Claims Commissioner, g and Commissioner of Stamps; appointment of t -. Major ,I?pake .to command iVlilitia and. Volnn- j teers.in the RaugitikeiTMiiitia (lisfcrict:; pro'-,, j motion of second' class'• Inspector 'J.' B. Thorn-' son to be first class inspector, vice Cummin's „ deceased; firstcjass'Siib'-Inspector Richardson jj to'be first'cliis'a Inspector ; first : class Sub'-ln- y spector Goring to be second class lnspeo- tj tor; second clas3 ; Sub Inspector 'Forster to be ,j : first.class Sub-Inspector/ Vice Bullen proraoted. Jj A Bupplement to tlie- New Zealaiid Gazette uoa!tains the regulations ' 'respecting' Government jj Industrial Insurance,', and atable' of'industrial v policies, showing the sums payable at death by j weekly payments enumerated' in the 'published table. ; "•• j It is fortunate that diiring.the present spring 0 .tides there are no floods,, or .'northeast gales, otherwi- e the townships would be flooded to an j a'arming extent. .Last, night, at ten o'clock, t' although there was not,the faintest breeze,' the s | .water-tables, were flooded by the tide to such ), an extent that the water , was in most places on 0 a level with the footpath's, and in." Albert and „ Davy-streets flowed over the paveihent in several ; ;< j places.,; Many houses in the.neighbourhood of „ the Thames iwaihped, and back r( w^ : uniiJ«f l waiar,". It, was ode of the v highest tides, which ,;has;occurred j'sincj. the C( opening of the goldfield. p Major Cooper held bis monthly inspection of > o the Thames Naval Brigade last night. The a brigade mustered about 80 jank and file, ex- 1 elusive .of .' band,; and wis divided into two w companies, in consequence of the large muster, P through -battalion- drill; by Drill-in- y strhctor Grant. - . The way in which, the men v went through the, driU v .reflects great credit fi upon the. Sergeant-ffijor,.and t also upon .the ,tl officers of theVconipariyJ who'have been .v4y' ; o ■ attentive to their drill, and devoted to' the in- o tere3tof their company.. After drill Major ;d Cooper presented the big gun! prize for 1874, e £10, to P." 6'; J. Thomas;' the officer in' charge t of .No 2 crow, and also tbreo priz-a for'good l attendance to gun drill, consisting of 30s, 205," aud'iOs,'won by Petty Officer Thomas, Seaman ' J C. .Walker, and P.O.C. Brown. . Tie Majir t - complimented'the successful winners in the £ usual mauner, and also the brigade and officers j upon their really excellent attendance -and turn ] out, and the men were then dismissed by iVI ;ijor Cooper. The Company had a march-out after- ' wards,-followed bya meeting, when some mem- j hers and several hon. members were elected, , We understand the boat which the Brigade are j having built will be ready for launching in | about two ( months, and will be a credit to the . builders. i(i the corps, and, to tho district,. We • ; are glad to see that. Major. . Gordon's report of J this corps his not di-pirited the officers aud j -members, but rather stimulated, them to fur- j ther exertions, and we are sure that the pub'ic j will acknowledge that this company deserves every credit. There ,is no doubt that the . officers-arid men are made "of the right stuff, and will not take a snubbing'by the Inspector j when th'ejconsider that they do not deserve it • , The drainage.question is to come on in the ; . . Warden's Court this"week, when the!liability i . ' of the : WaiprKaraka mines to contribute to the joint'expe'nses of the Pumping; Association and the Bright Smile Company will be tested—that is, provided the hearing of the case's progresses bo far. -So many adjournments have already taken place for the accommodation ; of counsel ' ; that they cannot with any good grace ask for further delay; - It- would be beneficial to the interests of the whole field if this vexed question was Bet finally at rest, ; At th.e Odd Fellows' soiree, to be held tomorrow evening, a presentation is to be made to Mr L. J. Bagnu.ll. It will'consist of a gold hunting wakh bearing the following'inscription:—"Presented to Past-Grand k J. Bagnail by the members of the Loyal Waikato Lodge, No, 5,414,1.0.0. F., M.D., September ?, 1874."' '' . ||Our attention has been drawn to the state oE the - Tararu road (O'Neill's Ksplanade), which wants.repairing in order to preyent serious damage to the pitching, .the stones of which are in many places exposed.. Jhe. road has not yet been handed over to the control of the Borpugh Council. It is in the hands of the. ' Provincial Government,: but is,- y/e believe, to be handed over by them in January next to the. local authorities.... It ought to be repaired, without delay, to. prevent serioU3 damage to the. ; road between Abraham-street and the boundary, creek at Tararu. There has , been a large amount of traffic on the, road : for some '* time past, which has cut it up very seriously. gWe are glad to notice that the resolutions of the Borough Council for sinking wells and jg- providing lire escape ladders are being carried out.. The well at,the corner of albert and ; Brown streets is to be sunk a further depth, and a new well is to be sunk at the corner of Abraham and Brown streets. These wells will provide a large supply of water, which will be available for two or three valuable blocks in Ciseatire should occur in them, It is singular that in the faco of well equipped lire brigades, and adequate preparations for emergencies, that the rate of fire insurance levied by the various insurance -companies should be so.preposterously high that cjtizens have to ta v e their,, insurance into their, own hands. We presume that if the residents, in other blocks follow the example set them by the propertyholders in the-block surrounding Trice's ■ foundry the insurance companies might be-in-iluqed' to Elites, or their ;age'nts HThere were np casesaet down for Hearing at Ilia Folice Court jesterdaj.

''Pro bono Publico" writesTo the Editor:—Sir,—Mrs Colclough's remarks 'That many of her neighbours fail without thought of paying' coming, from one occupying such an important position in the community as a teacher in a public school, calls for contradiction, it being contrary to fact, the percentage of those who fail hot being large, while of those who do so without thought of paying are fewer still. Such, while having the £a. d, benefit of their swindling, have nevertheless to suffer, by knowing that the respectable members of society look upon theiractions as an outrage on public morality, The ambition of being 'something more libnest' than rogues, is certainly not an unattainable one. • The remark that lady has made that a tenth part of the business people of the Thames have failed, is a slander on . the community,. and endorses the opinion of the Central Board of- Education, as being a correct one," . ... The following is the state of the Thames Goldfield Hospitalfor the week ending August 29 Remained from last week, 17 ; admitted, 5; discharged 1 • .died," 0;' remaining, 21. The liseases are asfollowsFever, 1; fracture, '4'; spinal iujury l.; : ornychia, ljinjury by explosion,.!;; ;debility, 3;.. wounds and.injuries, t; eczema,l; uterine complaint, 1; orchitis, 1 : ; isthma,.l; abscess, 1; lumbago, 1. Remaining— Male?, 16; females,. 5; total, 21. Outpatients,' 24. '" , The Waikato railwny.faays the Auckland Star) a now complete as far as Papaluir.), and •might je opened for traffic by the Government any lay they chose ..It is. ; verydesirable..that; no' iime should be lost in making this section availiblo f"r the use of the settlers of Otahuhu, Papatoitoi,.and Papakura. ,'J lie districts which vill_.b'e tapped by the ; line as far as it is now ious'tructed are the'.most".thickly populated rarts lof ith'e'country between Auckland' and ;he Waikato, and if this section in, itself tfill lot pay,'-then we fear the. pVospßcts'of the ivhole line are'very unpromising iiideed.. . : The Herald says'a telegram received iu town in Saturday, states that the meniber.for. lideu,. Itr R,, J,. Creighton; has received;; an appointnent from the 'fenoral Government to go home is an immigration agent. - 1 "~ ■ The Auckland corre'pqndent of a Coromandel :ohteiiipovai£ writes" 70u.-Stunner,' the rrepre:sible Von,. tired of the ma'iha dropping' rom the clondtf : iu Coromaiidel,' is sighing for he ileshpois of Aucklaud.'.',.Helias-offered 'his ilarit,'two or three cases: of typo and ail old ness, -to Mr J. S."; Macfarlan'e, "'to' start an vening paper to crush the Star. MacfarlanOj inny Scotchman, has no objection to Voir ;atting an evening; paper on his own,account, nd'ho. will support it with ut Macfarlane has helird'the story of t{ie'deyil nd' the daily, .paper,',, and' .declines to have nything '~to,. do ; with- such : a.'sinking md. -I- saw ; a' - telegram from your place ;atingv that .Von ' had "been , : olfercd'' a lousand pounds to bring :,his plant to ■uckland. Bosh! He is too well known here, id no one would trust'him with a tlioulud brass ferthiugs. Ee.is; sick ; of Cqrov latvlel, 'and liis partner, too, who has. such: a" quorisli tooith, .hut he .will, have to try else'here besides. Auckland.-- I heard a rumour, ie other day that he ra likely'to remove his lant to Waitiipu, ; and enlighten the .Maori pas j id ma' 3 with .his. lucubrations, and Mr Hill' lought that if he 1 took out hi 3 subscriptions in umeras; 'dried, sharks, and' karaka nuts K he,' ould be able to live,' whiijh is more ,than he Desnow." ■ /.. We have been informed (says, the krnld) that the Hon. Samuel D. Hasting?, one E the highest dignitaries in the Order of Uo;d emplars, is about to visit New Zea'and. •. 'Mr Hastings is a member of the American Legislaire, and has, from his, youth' upwards, been. a arcing advocate', of.' tlie ■ 'temperance... reform, j rom early boyhood, up through the varied iaoges of life, . be; ,always found 'time and. leans to spend .in this, c iuse. ...He never', iias rank intoxicating liquors nor used tobaccybut as.energetic'in- endeavouring to effect these forms, - embracing' 'every' opportunity of siting , societies, makings.speeches, engaging, legislation, and attending l'emsrance Associations. He became a member ; the Capital Lodge ,of Good Templars ; Madison,'' " Wisconsin, in, 4 February, 357, and has ever since been a membir, and as in 1865 elected E.W B.T. He was a reabyterian;' but when about twenty-four jars of age, the .anti-slavery agitation growing ;arm in Church and State, he wjs compelled ir the maintenance of his principles to sever ie fondest church,' relations and join with ihers in establishing'a, : Pree Church connection i the auti-slavery basis-in the City of Philaelphia. At one time' Mr Hastings was lected Moderator of the State Convention of ie Congregational churches, a position .which ut one layman had ever attained. A Switzer'a correspondent-reports, tliat.a man amed Greenwell was brought to the Lock-up uder the charge of attempting to commit uicide, at bis residence, some four miles up the 'omakaku, fromiientoul's Aecomodation-hoire. t would seem, for a number of months past, uisoner has had rather more than the average f ill-luck," to which all vyko follow mining for"a lumber of years are, more or less, subjected, nd, getting weary of imitating Job, resolved 0 take up arms against a sea of troubles, and iy opposing,- end the n, The meaus for accomdishing the object he had iii view were easily ittaiuable, a fowling-piece, the property of one if his mates, being hung up in the hut. This ie charged with slugs, ami, hia mate going out or a few miuutes, placed the muzzle against lis forehead and; fired, • Fortunately,- the. piece fas not sufficiently angled to send the contents hi-ough the brain, and, with the exception of a leep. furrow, ■ the .track of the slugs up the orehead, the unfortunate man in nothin" the yorse.' That he intended deliberate suicide;'i jretty conclusive, from the fact of liis.keeping ,he intention a profuund,secret from his mates? New Zealand comp my promoters have learnt 1 sharp lesson from Vice-Oluucellor Malins, at ilie instance of Mr A, L. Elder.. There are possibly people in Adelaide whom the following lis losures will remind of another land speculalion lately adjudicated upon by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. But Mr Elder limself : will admit that'the New Zealand case ,vas rather worse thau that of the Northern territory land-orders. Certain gentlemen, said ;o be iu a respectable position cityward, issued i prospectus of a-New Zealand Land Improvement Company. . It was registered iu July last, with a nomiual capital of half a-million, in 25,000 shares of £20. ■ Its ostensible objects were the purchase of public and other lauds in New Zealand, and their re-sale in allotments for agricultural .purposes. Fencing,, housebuilding, clearing, and other improvements were to be conducted on the latest principles.of settlement . Haif the 25,000 shares were offered for subscription last year, on condition that no allotment should be made unless two thirds of of the shares were applied for; and; further, that the expense of forcing the company should not exceed 1 per cent, of the nominal capital. Mr Elder applied for 200 shares and got them, but soon afterwards he ascertained that, including his'own, only 900 sham had been alotted, which made the capital of the compauy £18,000 instead of a quarter of a million. • The expense! of promotion would have been £1,200, apari from a cjaim of £5,000 advanced by on< i. J ritchard; the original promotori AftefclV.rn ing these facts, Mr Elder demanded the retuu of his money, and, failing that, he filed a bil iu Chancery. The defendants demurred, oi the ground that tliere..was no jurisdiction ove: the internal arrangements of. a.company, li support of the demurrer, their counsel contendei iliat the allotment of shares was an exorcise o discretion on the part of' the director wit which the Court had no right to interfere, Th Vice-Chancellor, who lus had hundreds o such cases through his hands, treats the plea o no jurisdiction with great unction,' In th iourso of his judgment he said:—"Th directors had been guilty of a grosser breach c duty in not returning the deposits. The seemed to have been playing with thisgentli man's money, and it appeared to his min perfectly'clear that the plaintiff had an tquit to restrain them from using his money in eiide; vouring to carry on a scheme .so ridiculous: this,"'; : An, editor,says that when he was in prisq fdr libelling a ustic»V ofthe" peace, ; he was r< seated by the gaoler !to the jrisoaa pulj