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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2514, 26 January 1877, Page 2

These was a clean sheet at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. The usual quarterly district meeting of delegates from the Lodges of the Ancient Order of Foresters met yesterdayevening in the Odd Fellows' Hall for the transaction of business connected with the Order. The first price list issued by the Sharebrokers' Association this year was published in yesterday's Herald. There does not appear to have been much business done, what there was being Moanatairis sold at 14s, and Bismarcks at 7s 6d. In the notices of calls made in three several instances calls of Is each are set down as having being made for only Id per share. The following amusing advertisement has been posted over the entrance to the South Melbourne Bathing Company's baths :•—" £100 Reward.—The above reward will be given to any man under 14 stone who will successfully drown himself in the presence of five members of the South Melbourne Club. Hot blankets and other means of resuscitation will be supplied to competitors if necessary." At the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court at Christchurch a common juror complained of being described in the panel as a gardener, when, he was chief clerk in one of the largest mercantile firms in the place, which provoked from Judge Johnston the remark that if he (the Judge) had been called or put down as a gardener he would not have felt insulted. Adam was a gardener, and he was the first gentleman they knew of. We (Wananga) are glad to hear from all sides that the native crops are looking first-rate, and are being got in without damage from the weather. It is in fact a most favorable season, what the natives call a " tau witi," or a " wheat year." We are glad to be able to record this, as for some years past the results of graingrowing have not being very encouraging. We shall endeavor to keep the Maoris who have grain to sell posted up in the correct prices. A meeting of the Waiotahi District Board was held yesterday evening in the Board room, Waiotahi Creek. There were present—Messrs A. Brodie, A. Butler, J. Smith, and J. Taylor. The chief matters transacted were that an extension of the Eureka Road was authorised. The chairman was appointed to represent the Board on the Water Supply committee, and Mr J. McNiece, Foreman of Works, was appointed Health Officer and Inspector of Nuisances for the district. An accident which might have resulted fatally, happened to-day. A cab driven by a lad named Carlton Hill was going along Brown street toirards the Bank of New Zealand. The vehicle was rather heavily loaded, and a little girl named Finerty was standing up inside, the door being open. When opposite Mr Denby'a shop she fell out on to the road, and the hind wheel of the cab passed over her leg, which, straDge to say, was not broken, though rather badly bruised. Besides this and a few other scratches, the child is none the worse for her dangerous fall. ■ . The annual meeting of the residents in Tararu Educational District was held last night in the school-house. The main business of the meeting was to elect a committee for the current year. Mr Thorburn was called to the chair, Mr E. Johns, the hon. sec, then read the annual report. The report stated that the average attendance of children for the past auarter was 48, and regretted that the Central Education Board had not complied with a numerously signed request, and consented to the appointment of a schoolmaster instead of a school-mistress. The management of the school by Mr Herbert Mason during his term of office was much praised. The report was on the motion of Mr E. Brown, seconded by Mr C. Weston adopted, after some discussion had been raised regarding the appointment of a master, and the conduct of the Central Board, severely censured in not allowing the wish of the residents to be carried into effect. We believe Mr Thorburn telegraphed on this subject to-day, and Mr Steed man will interview the Board in Auckland next week. The following gentlemen were elected a Committee for the present year:—Messrs Thorburn, Steedman, Stewart, Johns, and Hughes. Tbe latter gentleman was subsequently elected secretary; and Mr -Thorburn chairman. Special votes of thanks were given to Messrs Steedman and Johns for the way they had carried on the school affairs after the other portion of the late committee had resigned. Judging by the telegram from our own correspondent at Coromandel, the dwellers in that remote mining township appear to be laboring under a misapprehension regarding the disposition of the £4000 for school buildings, their impression apparently being that the Thames Committees have laid their hands on the money and are now dividing it. Our Coromandel friends may disabuse their minds of this at once. The £4000 will probably.be first»handled by the Board of Education, and there is yet time for Coromandel people to enter a protest it they believe the distribution of the Thames Committees to be unfair.