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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1953, 8 April 1875, Page 2

At the Resident Magi*'rate's Court this morning a man named Thomas Prendeville wits convicted of drunkenness, and Robert Skeen was fined for haying permitted a. goat to wander, by which he committed a breach of Byelaw No. 3, section 28. The Court is supposed to sit at half-past ten o'clock, but it was close upon eleven before a. justice oould he secured.

Mb Kobeet Btot»e, shipbuilder, &h oHland, has been lor some time engaged in bui'ding a schooner to the order of M" 1 Souter. "Her dimensior s are- keel,69 feet.; be»m, 19 feet; »nd her depth, moulded, is 10 feet. She is diagonally planked, with an ordinary citing of ]J inch boards, which gives additional stoutness. The frame is made of pohetikou, and for the boarding kauri has been used Her ton age wll be about 90 or 100 tons biuthe,rn, and she should be admirably adapted for the trade for which Bhe is intended, namply, the Bay of Islands, coal traded v Owing^o the diifiteaUy in--jjj|prhtg-timber, on account of the prolon ed drought, Mr Stone has experienced much delay Jri his ■ yard; all circumstances being favorab'e, however, it is expected thst ilia bo+t wtil be reidy for launching ia about three weeks time.

It if understood that Mi' Juttf c Johnston i» c ga*ed on a codification of fie NewiZealand Statutes in pursuarce of a niotio > carried ia the Assembly by MrD. M. Luckie, Mfl.R. We b'aieve no attempt lias bean made to pub is'i the Acts of the Kew Zealand I*gi«la v c in a connected form, ea«y of leferiphce, since the " Provincial Btatu es" compiled and edited by the late Mr Wilson, barker, whose untimely end must be still fresh in the memory of our readers. Thk writer oa " Current Topics *\ lit. the Dunedin Evening S»ar says:—What i| the meaning of this. Not an advertisement* not a ressel on the berth j Ohinemuri! thojl art neglected. Prophets arj not honored in their own country. They cannot say that of ihfe, for incised thou art worshipped, and well I know how lavishly thou wilt empty ihy golden hoards to thy believers. But abroad, I fear tby plory is departed.' The fevered Palmer has chirmn, the distant Cape has its vi ions ; but thou—thou are negleered. Not 10 was served t!>y wealthy sistvr Thames, »nd how ungrudgingly she responded. Wouldet thou, Ohinomuri, be as kind, did we become gushiog?

It must blow some in Wellington occasionally. The New Zealand Tim^s of a 1 recent cUte says:—The donkey-engine belonging to Mr Ganna»ay, which was Mown off the deck of the hulk Rorebud in^p the harbor oa Saturday morning last, has b-'«n recovered by a direr.. Bejo/id slight dmnage to the fly-whe^l, and the bieaking'of fauge glasses, the engine and boiler hare lUitaiued I: little injury.-,.. . - -n.

The following is a new pha«o of repeating enterprise:—During a liecret session » Chic >go board of o»mnii<-sioners, one wo« astonished *to see an aiugur-tip pre jecting through the carpet, and, on cxumina ion, found that a party of reporters had bored through from the cellar for the purpose of hearing what was said.

The San Francisco News letter remarks that a man who lies is no lon?er a Ha1 *, but the victim of that "dire disease called aphasia* The man who is tongue tiei or who stutters, or who for years has diligently pursue! the peaceful occupation of culling h a friends a blank dash liar* will? now be obliged. to train himself into saying, "My dear fellow, fxcuse me, "but you are aboul, the worst case of aphasia that 1 know." If has tab n the doctors to smooth cut t!ie tangled wfcb of thia wicktd world. Mur ilerei bae the viptirab of instantaneous'ineaniiy. Thieves hare a nervous affection called kleptomania, arid are sot to. blame. Adultery is a species of dfbiliiy, and lying is aphasia, which bo one cun help any more than ll<e colic, besides which, Jamaica ginger is powerless 10 help it. In view of thip, we move for the total and eternal abolishing of gaokaud pen tentiaritt, and hope that ii stead the 0 overnment will • tab* li?h a petmaient circus, where all these afflicted cna'ures may give vent to tieir nervous troubles in a. scries of scientific f ipfl»ps. Nothing doctors the mind like physical ex#wiw*iiii&j£# x&teix; -* w- :

A cobbe3PONDe> tx of an Auckland paper has taken to writing about the weather, becau c ho can find nothing elae to write about. This ia. foolish of the correspondent. That a subject way b« interesting it mutt be new, whereas the weather — the present kind especially—hm become so very old and objectionable as 10 be regarded with general diep euture. ■ The South Australian Register's calcu'ation* of Ihe harvest, show an acreage of 866,000, and a product of 10,900,000 bushels, Iwrinjr bji estimated surplus of a shadei bvtr |200,000 tons. „ „,