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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2077, 31 August 1875, Page 2

The New Zealand War Medal has been granted to Edward Henry Power, but in the Gazette the name is erroneously printed " Peevor."

We are in receipt of No. 8 Parliamentary Debates, bringing down the debate to August 19, including a portion of Mr Stafford's speech. ,

We learn that neither of the Thames football players who were invited to go South with the football team will be able to do so. The team will certainly be weakened by their absence, and the secretary has telegraphed to say that some of the players will not %o unless Mr' W. W. Robinson goes with them. This he is unable to do, but had he done so he would have had the honour of being captain of the Province in football as well as cricket, having been chosen by the team to act in that capacity for them.

The following is the text of the petition signed in Auckland to the members of the Assembly asking them to prevent the passing of the Abolition Bill during the present session of Parliament:—" To Sir George Grey, K. C. 8., Reader Wood, G-. M. O'Eorke, J. Sheehan, W. Swanson, P. Dignan, and C. Yon der Heyde, Esquires, Membersof the House of Bepresentatives, We the undersigned, Electors of the City of Auckland and surrounding districts, beg respectfully to urge upon you our desire for your continued and persistent efforts to prevent the passing of the Abolition Bill during the present session, of Parliament in order that the people in a general election may have an opportunity of considering and determining respecting a matter so grave as the alteration of the Constitution. We cordially thank you for the resistance which you have hitherto given ; and knowing that it is in the power of the Opposition to so obstruct as to prevent the measures parsing through Committee, we earnestly urge that the Bill be contested word by word and clause by clause, and by the use of such other means as are provided by Parliamentary practice, so that if rendered necessary by the persistence of the Government, the passing of the measure may be deferred until the dissolution of the present House of Representatives, by effluxion of time, in the month of February.—We are, gentlemen, very faithfully yours." „.

"About three weeks ago," states the Melbourne Argus of August 9, " a man named Herman Hampton was committed for trial in Adelaide, for embezzlement, and allowed out on bail. Early last week' it was found that he had absconded from his bail, and that there were other charges against him. Detective Forster and Dixon traced the offender as haying come here, from Adelaide, oyerland, and taken his passage to New Zealand per s.s. Omeo under an assumed name. He was going by the Omeo on Saturday last, but just as he was leaving his hotel the police arrested him and lodged him in the city lock-up."