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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2038, 16 July 1875, Page 2

We learn that the shareholders of the; Tairua Goldmining • Company intend 'petitioning-the Assembly for compensa--tion for the expense they have been put to in defending their position, and for dam agon sustained through nonfulfilment of agreement by the Government. It is stated that the Tairua shareholders and other clniniholders in : the neigherhood are about to petition the r Aaaembly-3 for- a -sum- of- money, -to-be expended in making a dray road from the landing place at Tairua river to the Prospectors, in order that machinery may be taken up. With the exception of 'some trifling repairs to the footpath effected by private individuals the effects of the late gale and. high tide along the beach still remain. The foothpath in many, places is very unsafe, and sprained ankles or fractured bones will have to attest the necessity which oxists for something being done in the way of repairs. The Government steamer Luna willleave Onehunga on Sunday with the Auckland members of the Assembly, aud a number of reporters and " specials!' from the Auckland papers, who proceed to Wellington for the session as members of the Hansard,staff?or;for duty inthe interests of their Respective journals. , The regulations forwarded to His Honor the Superintendent by Capt. Eraser as Warden of the Ohineniuri Goldfieldion the subject of |agricultural leases in;that; block, we understand' have been approved of and signed, but will not come into operation till the 3rd August. With a view of obtaining some practice before their match with Auckland our local football players have to meet to-morrow at Bhortland,-at'3sp.&.* to have a scratch match amongst themselves. All who: care to take v parti in the game will be welcome, the principle being " the more the merrier." — To-night, the Sisters Duvallij take a benefi't'at the Academy of Music, when! the programme will be changed, and a piece, played by the Sis.ter^;-pver.4soO. nights,entitled "Magic Toys,"substituted. To-morrow night prizes will be awarded to the., authors....of., J;he^ Jbeit ..and: r jworst, conundrums. All riddles are to be sent to Mr C. P. Coutts, at the Pacific Hotel. A cuaioirs incident occurred (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Warrnambool Standard), during the trial of Barret for what is known as the Carlton murder. When Mr Justice Barry came to pronounce sentence of death, he mentioned all the formula except the essential portion about hangin^by the ieclci, , It was some little time before the Associate, in what was necessarily a whispered communication, could make his Honor under-"' stand what was the matter, after which withrmuch formality the-, sentence was wpj|ate,d.! Tiiepris^nej^as to iaercy7 and if the recommendation should be allowed to weigh, he will be able to recall it as a curious episode in his. career that within a few minutes he was sentenced to be buried alive and to be hanged. The Hong Kong Times says:— The i Japanese are decidedly J.erjy cut^ in some thing!.; A. native paper "relate* Jhe following "circumstance. f A jiriricksha'man was travelling along a road at night near a town called Trainguchi, and was startled by the cries bf'-a Woman in distress. left his vehicle an,d proceeded towards the spot whence the wie's came,:and observed a robber stripping a female of her clothes. The robbe^r Ihaidvarnaked [awoifa, ,so jin-' ricky considered it rather a dangerous proceeding to attempt a rescue, therefore went back to his jinricksha and quietlywaited till the man came that way, then accosted;, and hitavto take ,a ride, offering"'to tak^-Mm v'kt4(; Very low irate. The bait;..succeeded; and the irobber seated*.^himselfiliri^ the -vehicleV [little thinking he had stepped into a trap ■in. more ways than one. Away the coolie, trudged and. took the man to the poljce--1 station, where, to., tuejno,little astonishment of the robber; lie 1 was" handed over 1 to the police. Of the Hon. S. D. Hastings, recently in New Zealand as Delegate pf the Grand' Lodge of Good Templ^,' ( the. S., A." iMfthodist / s.ay,s :~This -gentlemeja .'■ 'j.s', ' Ametteah'bora/ffodugh. '•' desceladed.ff'o'ni' a Danish chief wno himseli for- ( midable on English,soil.to Alfred the | Great." 1 His "TCnglish -ancestors having •espoused the of the Puritans,' ' found it expedient 7to,.migrate to America in 1634, where'they settled in Massachu- ; setts. For the past thirty years he has been essentially a " public man " in America. . At the age of" thirty he was appointed a justice of the peace i_n the State' of Wisconsin, and two years after returned as a member of-the State For eight years he filled the ! position ,of Treasurer r to'the State, during--1 which period the financial exigencies of the civil war proved him to be a man of 'fertile resource and wise administrate ability. .. , A pabagbaph is published in the Japan sMaiLconcerning a; mji,nia exi^ting ; amopgsb »the nafiveifori/h'd constrnction'of railway lines, and the Editor . considers > the, >ambitious engineersi'WiMoipfdpb'ae io"-Tun' l',a lino 24.0 miles into the interior, would do well ta try their prentice hands on something not quite so extensive. Of ' course the cost of constructing such a line would be some'hing considerable, but there is no doubt the advantages in a thickly populated country like Japan would also be great, and we firmly believe more than counterbalance the expenditure. We"are rather" surprfsed~that tlie "Editor" •of the mail, should cast cold ,water, ,upon sueh 1 a 1 scheme/ for the more the country is opened up, the faster civilization will advance. Money caneasily be obtained for such works when it might be difficult to get it for war purposes'. There is a vast deal of difference between borrowing it for the construction of such substantial works vb railways./ Thc 4 is a»lottery for the capitalist, b'ufc the second is a solid, in fact .an'iiron speculation", in;more .than one sense.—Hong Kong Times. An estate in England, let for 999 years,' recently reverted to the original owners, or,, rather, their representatives. The land,4s'at Woolwich', 1 and was church property a thousand yeara'ago, but,was, leased'to the Crown for military purposes. " Few incidents," as an English journal remarks, " could speak more eloquently of the stability of English institutions, and the law-abiding nature of Englishmen,

and their respect for the rights of property, than that there should be an unbroken continuity of possession from the time of Alfred the Great to that of Queen Victoria." A cobbespondent of the Hong Kong Times tells tho following 'story -of the effects of the green-eyed monster :—The unusual sound oft the large drum sus-< pended on the right hand side of the, courtyard of the Che-hsien's yamen r yesterday startled that mandarin's attendants into astonished activity; and on rushing to the spot they beheld a certain member of the theatncal.,,^.ofe^siqn^..in, Shanghai^ "apparentlyfrantic with rage, and hammering the drum with a Japanese sword.; - Surrounded* swzeU, and. dis-: armed, he,was led before the localsJDracG- Swhere in the midst of bursts of passion j he, told his tale. It wa» not, perhaps, an uncommon one. He had been long ac- [ customed to pay visits to a lady, who in I the course .of time wheedled him out of '$960/; and then,* finding he had no more to bestow, the fair and false one had smiled upon another, a rival actor, and he (the Che-hsien's noisy visitor) was dismissed. He declared that he was on his fway to: slay them both with the £rap|nese sword; and? tbJat he had called at the yam6n to announce this his fixed intention to the magistrate..- The idea; of the bamboo of course occurred /at 'pnce| to the Che-hsien's -niirid, 1 and" he ordered the betrayed one three hundred blows; to .^hich the latter demurred loudly, declaring that to flog him before he had M 3 revenge was beyond all reason; but if sthe r Hsien would let him go apd ! settle matters 'with* lii'sfoe's by the assistance of the sword, he would be content to lose his head if the law required it. This was of no avail; the flogging was administered, the sword confiscated, and the angry actor sent "to digest his wrath in durance vile. A cobkespondbnt ©f the Cromwell Argus, writing from Lake Wanaka, says :—lt is a matter of surprise th*t a curiqiitp of the, kind I am about to name has |dt attracted considerable attention among the " savans." It is the existence of, a;large-vessel, said:;by some to be French' build,-embedded in the centre of a large swamp about half or threequarters of a mile up the Haast river from the,, seashore, and jis>evidence; of _its extreme antiquity there isatree growing right up through her deck, or where her de'ek j should have been. There were no facilities for approaching in order to make a close examination, but it gives room for a whole-series-of-surmises"a.bout rising land or receding water, which might be pf some service'to science, or at least add to our information about Old New Zealand, and perhaps prove fatal to the claims of Captain Ccok as the premier white man on New Zealand soil. It is some time since we were calied upon to record anything in the way of " selling off" or '• immense reductions " rin jrthe clothing, department^ But we fta^eljnow remihdedilmat'JVfesjsrs J. Cosgrave and Co., are calling a sale of drapery and clothing at their establishments in Owen and Albertstreets. The stocks in these establishments ?embrace; ? £2oioooiforth:" off goods; jjvintfejp \clpthi)pg Jwill now be the order of the day.—Advt.