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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2162, 8 December 1875, Page 2

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning there was a clean sheet.

A special meeting of the ratepayers of the Kauaeranga district was. held, according to advertisement, in the girls' school, Sandes street, last night, to consider the advisability of bringing into- force the* " Fencing Act Suspension Act,' 1874/' The meeting was very email, but more than a quorum. (10) being present it was decided to proceed with the business for which the meeting was summoned. Mr Bagnall was voted to the chair, and read the advertisement,and explained the object of the meeting. After a considerable discussion, in which Messrs Scott; Barron, Power, and Wood took part, it was proposed by Mr Wood,-seconded by Mr I Brian, that the district be put under the powers of the " Fencing Act Suspension i Act, 1874." The Chairman on putting the motion informed the meeting that if they found the working of the Act unsatisfactory they cd'uld alter their resolution at a subsequent meeting; on the motion being put there appeared for the motion 16, against it 1. The motion was declared carried, and after some conversationrelative to the advisability iOf; constructing a pb«iß.d for stray goats the meeting broke up.

A mysterious occurrence, says a telegram to the Auckland Evening Star, has arisen at. L*ke Ohohou, between Thursday and Sunday. Mp pick, Manager of Lake Ohohou station", scot two men named Hueh Hannah and Ma#bw Pun.ningham with.s beat across for&jload of chaff. On Saturday njght they had noit returned, and fears were entertained fop their safety. On the following morning a search party was organised, and a thorough search round the shores of the Lake was instituted. The boat was

found with the chaff, oars, etc., strewed along the shore, and inside the boat lying across the thwarts, face downwards, was the body ofcHpnnah. There were two or three bruises oh" *"the head, notably one on the left temple. Blood was flowing from the' ears and mouth v and - his neck on being examined. was thought to be dislocated. There was| no of a struggle in the bojiti ,The deceased's clothes were disarranged^' It is" supposed by people on the station that the man was murdered, and the surmise is that the deed was done by Cunningham of whom no traces have been found, although the Lake <:and-rats?.-* enr, virons have been searched. What leads to the supposition that the man's neefc. is dislocated is the fact that it could be moved backwards and'"fdrwards?"an'iffcH pr.two.- An. inquest was held on the spot, and the' jury returned an open verdict. The neighbours buried the body. The police. atQamaru are, enquiring into |the matferLpDhe fbody ''isj; tofie eihumed for a post thdrtemexarhmdiion. -'•■■• "• '

The first quarterly meeting of the Thames Licensed Victuallers Association was held yesterday evening at the Pacific Hotel. The meeting was largely attended by -those already members, and in addi- ; tion a large number of gentlemen were; proposed^ many of whom became members forthwith. The meeting, partook .largely of a private nature,'so much so, that we are unable to give some particulars which might otherwise -be interesting. Mr Thomas Beresfprd. will, we hear, cbntiAu'e io a'cfcas? Secretary.

In consequent of the _ lines. being down .jfcelegraphie) comniumc&tion^ jjirith;Vais "'"interruptVd^ibr ""some time to-day.. ' We hear that it is probable that Mr Wm. .Carpenter jwill.be induced r |o re;cdssid^t^is^? d|cisionv\?aßgardin| l his candidature for the Assembly. It is saidi that Mr Carpenter will be influenced in] j his decision by the ultimatum of Sir George Grey's friends inAuclfland, and ' by .'the' adftbe^cC tjib^hames'^dver tiser. The Ngatipoua natives, headed by Te Hptene; (a ;chief;born,(Without legs, and ■ydap is carried &!?Pfis f n?a dish), intend, says thei.^iacktand -/Star,* after, the m'the Native Lands Court ■"at^Sbortlan^o*? • jProJs:ee4l'tp; I'Taupo, in old native settlement hear the Saud■pit, Thames j for the purppseof exhuming "the bones of their people buried at that pla.ce.-; rfhe land was purchased by Charie'sßason.....de_.Thierry ibz..Mr-B. Iteane, and the natives now intend to convey the remains of their people from the old burying place to: the caves at Whakatiwai, where a large settlement is ; being formed near the Miranda redoubt.

A.society lias, been formed jn.. France,; under higli ■ auspices,: • says^cbje^ Home News, for abolishing the English custom lately adopted very generally by our neighbours of shaking hands. "Le shake hands," as the act in question is pleasantly called, had become quite a familiar, gesture, among the French,) especially thole of the upper aid' middle-classes ; and it has now been discovered that •. this mode of; salutation is not only familiar, but essentially vulgar. We even find it stated by a writer who has imade this^subjeet one - of' -his .'special studies, that it is "destructive of all honorable ■: and profitable association between meni" Still less is this " offensive manual act" to be thought of between men and women, but it is above all between parents and children that the practice of ■ shaking hands, or, as the members of the new society put it,! "shaking the body by the arm" —as, though the arm wore a sort of handle', to the body—is thought.,reprehensible.' This odious custom against which the, authority: of the phurch, has at • last beeni invoked is • said by the authors of this movement to have been) originally invented by the Freemasons, and to have been generally introduced in England as a; cheap and convenient means of currying favour at elections.; In theiwords of one of the chief promoters ofotheriew> social, or, as some think; anti-»ocial<moyement, it was " generally an insincerity, always a familiarity:" Moreover'"■'familiarity led >to a sense of equality^ and equality to communism and revolution.