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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 6 October 1874, Page 2

One inebriate was fined in the usual amount at the B. M. Court this morning. This constituted the business. • A MEBTina of the Borough Council will be held thiß evening to decide on the acceptance of tenders for the construction of the WaioKaraka Road. The Steamer Hauraki was to have sailed from the Grabamstown wharf at 10 o'clock this morning, but the time was altered to 3 o'clock this afternoon. A MAN named John Drew died suddenly in the Hazelbaak Hotel, Brownotreet last evening, there being no apparent cause for his sudden decease. The particulars of the case will be seen in our report of the inquest, which was held at 11 o'clock this morning in tie Hazelbank Hotel. At an txtraordinary meeting: of the Tookey Company, held at the Royal Hotel, Eallarat on Friday, 11th September—Mr. W. H. Barnard in the chair—tke resolution* passed at a previous; meeting relative to an increase of capital, and other matters in connection with the United Pumping Asiociation (already reported) were confirmed. The Californian Minstrels performed last evening for the last time to a crowded house, and the acting was in. consequence most spirited throughout. No question cau be entertained but that this talented troupe have enjoyed a most unqualified success during their stay on the Thames. They left this day in the Hauraki for Auckland, where they purpose playing for a few nights before departure.

A SPECIAI Berlin letter of 17th Maivb, published in the London News of the 21st ultimo, contains the following announcement: —" Mis* D. Heenan, the sister of the wellknown American boxer, died some days ago in Berlin, literally of suffocation. She was undoubtedly one of the most corpulent women in the world, and had been for some time exhibiting her not uncomely features and her all too solid nißss of flash to an admiring Berlin public, together with a selection from the silver cups and other presents received by her from enthusiastic citizens and crowned heads during the course of her travels, when, almost without any previous warning, the poor lady's career was rut sbort in the way! hare mentioned." ■

A FEAEFtri. accident happened at Mangapai one day last week. A settler named David Cole was returning from the Creak with a loaded bullock dray, when the dray capsized, falling on the man's head, crushing it completely. His wife thinking he had been gone too long, went to the road to lookfov him, and found the overturned dray and her husband dead. Deceased was an old settler, and much respected in the district.

Ohb of our (Pastoral Times) staff met in Melbourne the other day a man who witnessed the firjt dray load of wool that was ever passed through Melbourne for shipment. It is bow more than thirty years ago, and Melbourne people were then jubilant. They employed a fiddler to play " See the Conquering Hero Comes " before the dray as it passed slowly along, drawn by a dozen bullocks. Messrs G-oldsbrough's wool stores now hold upwards, of 50,000 bales at a time.

" I have glorious news for the teetotallers," says the Trentham correspondent of the Kyneton Guardian. "Mr. Streikfuss, at Wheeler's saw-mill, who is one of the most experienced chemists in Victoria, has discovered a cure for drunkenness. One dose of his medicine, which is perfectly innocuous, will effect a revolution in the most confirmed drunkard. Ha will present his prescription to the Philanthropic Society of Bechabites for the small sum of £500." ■

On September 14, tbo Warnambool Standard quoted potatoes at 30s per ton. It is a pity there are n6t more Tower Hills ftf bring over the surplus stocks of the Western District potato farmers, as the price ruling oa the Thames at the present time is, we believe, £12 per ton, and a badly supplied market at that price. The Western District of Victoria is noted for its potatoes, and it not unfrequently happens that growers have to leave hundreds of tons ou; the ground, simply because there is no market open to them in which to dispose of their produce at a price that will pay for putting them into bags.

An extraordinary meeting of the Caledonian Q-oldmining Company is convened for 12 o'clock on Wednesday, the 11th November, in the large room of the New Zealand Insurance Company's buildings, Auckland, to consider certain resolutions proposing to wind up the present company, to form a new company under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860, and to issue 2860 shares'of £12 paid up and 2860 on "which £2', per share may be called up. The length'of time which must elapse before the meeting comes off wilL afferd shareholders ample opportunities ef considering the proposed alterations.

The following touching lament for a de" ceased wife, from a disconsolate editor of a Missouri paper, appears in the columns »f that journal :>-u Thus, my wife died. No more will those loving hands pull off my boots and part my back hair as only a wife can. Nor will those willing feet replenish the coalhod «r water-pail. No more will she riss amidst the tempestuous storms of winter and bie away to the fire without disturbing the slumbers of the man who doted on her so artlessly, tier memory is embalmed, in my heart of .hearts. I wanted to embalm her body, but found I coul«| embalm her memory cheaper. I procured of Eli Mv dgett, a neigh - bor of mine, a very pretty gravestone. His wife was consumptive, and he kept it on hand several years ia anticipation of hier death; but she rallied last spring, and liis hopes were blasted. Never shall I forget the poor man's grief when I asked him to part with it. ' Take it Skinner,' he hoarsely whispered, • and may you never know what it is to. hare your soul disappointed as mine has been ;' and he burst into a flood of tears. His spirit was, indeed, utterly broken. I had the following epitaph engraved upon the tombstone: 'To the memory of Tabitha, wife of Moses Skinner, Esq., gentlemanly editor of the Trombsne. Terms 3doh. invariably in advance. A kind mother and an exemplary wife. Office over Coleman's grocery, up two flights of stairs. Knock hard. We shall miss thee, mother, we shall miss. thee. Job printing. Job printing solicited. i Thus, like Rachel weeping for her children, did my lacerated spirit cry out in afeony. But one ray of light penetrated the despair of my soul. The undertaker took bis pay in job printing, and the sexton owed me a little account I should not hare got any other way. Why should we pine at the mysterious ways of Providence and vicinity (not a conundrum ?)."—Pall Mall Gazette.