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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1975, 4 May 1875, Page 2

We learn that 160 summonses have been received from the Receiver of the Education Bate to-day for distribution amongst Thames residents ] —~ defaulters for their education rates. These missives have been delivered by constables to-day. Two brothern named Cook, one of them •ah employee of the Crown Princess Company, have recently come into a legacy of £6000—£3000 each.

A number of persons left for Tairua tliis afternoon ; among them Mr Beeche, manager of the prospectors' claim. Mr Beeche returns oa Friday, as there is to be a meeting of shareholders held on Saturday. ■

ly'is reported that ;;3fr George Jones, junior, proprietor of,the Waikato Times! and Echo, has sold the former paper in; order to devote Ms whole time to the Echo. v;:';v „/>:■ :'^,.- : . ;-.l'

'The North Otago Times says :—TKatit is an ill wind that blows nobody any good has been verified at the Acheron, Canterbury, where a bush firo has been burning during the last fortnight. 'The thickim*" penetrable scrub has been cleared away, and in one place has disclosed a rich, reef with lots of specimens lying on the surface. The ground has been pegged off and registered. ■

Up, to Saturday afternoon one hundred and fifty-five licenses to kill game had been issued. Over a dozen Thames residents have taken out licenses to kill. Birds are reported; to" be plentiful but rather wild. M '■■

-; The disposal of one charge of drunker^ •ness was the only business before the Resident -Magistrate's Court this "morning. ■ ■ \

\ The members of; the Thames; Miners' Accident Relief Fund Committee met at the; Governor :Bowen Hotel last night Present: Captain Richards (who occupied the chair);'Messrs-:P] W. Donnelly;' J. W. Walker, T...L. Miirray and Mr X F. Day, hen. sec. ; Certificates .for/ relief were grfmted-'in two-cases, and Messrs Power and Chapman were appointed auditors. ,The_ half-yearly meeting of subscribers "will be held on Monday evening, at the Governor Bowen~ Hotel. """"' \

Mr G-eoMe Smith informs the Daily; Telegraph that, he found, during his ez-; cava'.ions at KouyuDJink, a tablet con-: taining "the history of man's original innocence, of the temptation, and of the fall," and he fitly describes it, as •" the most interesting and remarkable cuneiform tablet yet discovered" inasmuch as' " The history upon it is much longer and fuller than the corresponding account in the Book of Genesis."