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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2527, 10 February 1877, Page 2

Mb James Craw sold about 1200 sci'S* in the Annie Gfoldinining Company, Owharoa, at the Exchange Buildings 4hiss morning * .forfeited:for ! rn^n s p.aynienfc, of first call of 6d. Mr John Calder was the purchaser, and the price realised was 5d per share. ~" YK&goTd^&VLty icblle^ted^iF'Xttckland" for the quarter, ended^aist December, 1876, was £2,059^11s "lid, ajid the goldfields revenue amounted to £1,510 12» lid.

Messes Gudgeon and Company announce a sale of freehold and leasehold property on Monday—the house belonging to Mr Donovan in Pollen street, opposite Mr Airey's, and a valuable freehold allotment. .ffqntinß;. gealey,,.anA Baillie streets, ? which! will (ml sold at per foot to suit purchasers.

The appointment of Hudson Williamson, Esq., to be Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, vice A. H. fine, Esq.,,transfe/red, is notified in jthe e\r Zealand Gazette of February'lsti/

The adjourned meeting of the Thames Water Supply Committee was to hare been held yesterday* evening in the Borough Council Chambers. As, however, only, one jmember^ Mr , John; .Gibbons, thdught fit to attend*, the meeting, after waiting half an hour, fell through.

The Bijaii' Comedy G/dniplaky will give an,,ent^ipi;Sinment. at the Academy of Musicfthis eveniii^ <" The Company comprises tMr and Mrs Fred Wilton, Mr Harry Maynard, and Mr Tom Burton, and the progfatmneTembracies comedy, singing and comicalities.

We have received^ a pamphlet entitle " State Forestry: its aim and object;. a paper wad!be|b#e> t;h!e !jotigoiln|titute, Dunedin, December 21st, 1876, by Captain Campbell-Walker, F.8.G.5., Staff Corps, Conservator of State Forests, New^ealanMviO yvrmi^l.lOD ■

There was rather a meagre attendance at the Academy of Music last night, to witniss^ne^last'bf M^Sever'n'sJ^p^ular scientific lectures. The only part of the house that was at'all respectably filled was the stalls, and they were not over full. The first part l6f the programme was a lecture on the Solar System, illustrated by beautiful colored diagrams, on the screen^*l The 5 * second'part was "an exhibition of views of Paris and Egypt, which,, were hignly .appreciated^ by r; the audience! " Several' micro'scbpic*Mides were then put in the lantern, and among other effects the^enormoussizepf a moth's head created grWti wonderland' admiration. Brewster's kaleidoscope, which had been tried unsuccessmlly:. t the. previous evening, was e^MMted "during {the evening, and worked splendidly. At the termination of the^entertainment ■',".,':.? Severn thanked those 15preiient for tli. :•

attendancs, and informed them that .-.c would leave the Thames this afternoon.

The seal for the' Tha?m^s County Council and that for the Domestic Water Supply Corporation were received to-day from Auckland, where they were pro{cjared Ifrbm^^3l^r< TeuVeaburg.'^elQgraver apd die'sinker, through Hopcraft McCullough and Co. The County, seal is.very simple, having the^wordsi'/Thames^Cbunty Council " round the garter; a shield, quartered,' occupying the centre of the seal, with the constellation of the Southern-Cross and a monogram " N-Z." The VVater Corporation is of similar design, but has a fountain inithe shield,!and the wqttQ/'fiFpr;;the good of all."

The chairman of jjhe .P^rawai t Highway District Board tiasr, iir pursurnc'eof a requisition in that behalf, called a public meeting of the ratepayers; of the district to consider the advisability of'merging into the County. The meeting will be held at the Parawai schoolhouse on Monday evening at the hour of seven. The resultip^ the.meeting, and, the arguments adduced ''will probably ;exerciserconsiderable influence upon other highway districts in regard to the question of dropping their identity and merging into the Couilty. 0./. ■ "■■:. '- X ■;. :l k r'-'-r d

The showery .weather, of, the last few days culminated this-niorhiiiK' in a very heavy downpour of rain, which quickly caused the water tablesito: run like rivulets ; and the culverts not being large enough to carry off such a body of water, in Brown street there was a partial flood, the water being at the Bank corner level with the footpath and running over a pciltion of it. All through the Colony the rainfall for some days has been most unusual —indeed unprecedented for this time of year. ...--,

We learn that the Nonpareil Gold mining Company, the winding up of which was some f time ago entrusted to Mr K. Scott, has been able to pay .twenty shillings in the pound, and this entirely through the assiduity of Mr Scott as liquidator. Some promissory notes held by the company's'banker have been retired, and.the company may now i be said to be extinct, every creditor being paid in full, a state .of matters .which ', must be considered very satisfactory.

We have been shown by Mr W. Gordon _of Block 27 some extraordinary sized potatoes, remarkable' not 1 onlyl for! their size but for their number, as the whole quantity, we are assured by Mr Gordon, is the produce of, a single potato, planted by himself. From this "single potato tie has dug no less than 60, weighing in the aggregate 21f lbs, six of'them weighing over lib, and one weighing l^lb. Tie jield from this one tuber is now at r office, where.it may be seen.

The following is the continuation of our report of the first meeting of the Thames Harbor Board, the former part of whicb appeared in yesterday's issue. Mr Macdonald movedr—^That the secretary be instructed to intimate to His Excellency the. Governor. >the-fact of the formation of this Board, and to request that His /Excellency will, by. Order in Council, be pleased to delegate tothis Board such of thepowers conferredvoa^him by the Marine Act as may be thoughtl fit?;; Some discussion thsuedj after whic]^ it was. resolved that thie secretary be instructed to apply-to His Excellency- the-Governor that tjiere be gazetted to this Board all landstHat are authorised to be $6 granted by the provisions of the 29 th sectiori-of the Thame3 Harbor Board Act, 1876. Mr Macdonald said that as far as he could give permission the Board might have the use of the Council Chambers until such times as they had an office of