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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1697, 11 June 1874, Page 2

At the B.M. Court this morning a case of stray cattle—the property of a native—was heard.. The defendant pleaded guilty. The fine amounted to sj. His Worship remarked on the great expense incurred the Govern* meat, the fine only ■mounting to sb, and the interpreter's fee alone biing one guinea.

Owing to a mistake in the advertised data of the sale by auction in the estate of Edmond Wade, the sale has been postponed until tomorrow, when it will positively take pla c at eleven 6'clock on the premise*, Brown-street —Edwin Binney, Auctioneer. • A rBiiTTEE'a joke : " Good morning, Mr. Pecksniff," Baid a printer in eeareh of female compositors. " Have you any daughters who would make good type setter* ? " " No; but I have a wife who would make a very good devil." " Shoetlakd " writes us a letter on the charges made against Mr. James Mackay, junior, in connection with the land purchase business. For obvious reasons we decline publishing the letter, as it appears probable that the matter will be fought out in a court of law. Mb Jefeebson lias received his usual parcels of Australian papers by the Hero, including eevcral numbers each of Australasians, Leaders, and Town and Country, and the current numbers of the Australaeian Sketcher •nd Illustrated Sydney News. The Sketcher contains a capital portrait of the Hon. Julius Vogel, and the News is a very superioi number, with extra double pnge supplement engraving entitled " The Sleeping Partner." The Manager of the Tookey Quartz Mining Company had given notice to shareholders that it is the intention of the directors to call an extraordinary general meeting of the Company, to be held at Craig's Royal Hotel, Ballarat.on the 3rd day of August, to increase the capital of the company, to repeal clause 85 of the company's regulations, and to consider the action of the Pumping Association as to borrowing £50,000 from the New Zealand Government and the advisability or otherwire of giving security over tho company's property for repayment of the money. Fbom news by the Hero we learn that at a full dress parade of the N.S.W. Regular Artillery, by permission of Major Airey, Lieutenant-Colonel St. John, of tho New Zealand Militia, Military Secretary to the Hon. Ponald McLean, presented a silver watch ©n behalf of the New Zealand Government, to Gunner Beattie of ths Regular Artillery. It is a silver hunting watch, bearing the inscription—" To Gunner Beattie, N.S.W.A., in recognition of the faithful attention to the late Leutenant-Colonel Fraser, New Zealand Militia. The following' appointments appear in a recent number of tho Gazette—Honorary Captain Henry Thornton Rowe, Thames Engineer Cadets, to be Captain New Zealand Militia, commission to date from 26tli December, .1873 ; Lieutenant Samuel Charles Schofield, Thames Scottish Rifle Volunteers, to be Captain New Zealand Militia, commission to date from sth January, 1874; Henry Eyre Russell end Dudley Robert Eyre to be lieutenants New Zealand Militia, commissions to date from 29th December, 1873, and Ist January, 1874, respectively.

The Southland Times publishes the following :—" An tccentric German at Auckland nominated a number of his friends. to emigrate to New Zealand, and amongst them, the Emperor William. An autograph reply was received in d«o course, to the effect that he (the Emperor) felt highly gratified at the interest shown in his welfare by his countryman po distant as the antipodes. He hnd consulted with his Ministers in the matter, and they had all agreed with him that he had better stay where he was, and that it was quite uncertain that ho could better his prO3 p»cts by emigrating to New Zealand. Thanking him for the consideration shown, and wishing him (the eccentric German) prosperity in lus new home, he decided to remain, 4c."

Thb Thames Young lien's Mutual Improvement Society held their weekly meeting last night in »he Hall of the Mechanics. The proceedings of tha Society are not limited to debates: the different members read essays of their own compositions, give recitations &c, thereby giving a more varied interest to the meeting. The subject for debate last evening was " Universal suffrage." Mr Scott in the affirmative j Mr McGowan supporting the negative argument. The Society as far as can bo seen from its short existence, gives promise of permanency, the members generally taking a lively interest iq their work. Three gentlemen enrolled themselves as members yesterday evening, and there can be little doubt tha*; the Society will continue to increase in strength as its usefulness will become apparent.

" Yankeb Grab," a game well understood and two*well practice* in* Wanganui, hos been made penal. The 11 h Section of " The Wellington Publican's House Management Act," lately passed through the Council, gays r "If a~y licensed publioan shall permit any game of chance or skill to be played by persons under sixteen years of age, or to be played for morey or moneys worth by persons above that age, in or upon the premises with respect to which he shall be the bolder of a license under the said Act, he and the parties engaged in such game shall severally be liable to a penalty not exceeding fire pounds, and the said licensed publioan •hall on a second conviction forfeit his license, and be incapable of holding another within the Province of Wellington f- r six months after such conviction."