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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2560, 21 March 1877, Page 2

Mb James Craig sold by auction today in the yards behind the Evening Star Office, Kirkwood street, fifty sheep. The prices realised were satisfactory, from 10s 9d to 12s per head being obtained. All were sold.

The attention of intending passengers to Auckland is called to the fact that the Star of the South will leave the Goods Wharf for Auckland at 11 o'clook this "evening. One half of the new bridge over the Karaka Creek, in Pollen street has been completed, and was opened for traffic last night. The work appears to have been well done, and no time has been lost over the job. The second half of the work has been commenced with vigor. We hear that the Naval Brigade will elect a captain at their usual meeting tomorrow evening, and wo hope that they will be enabled to elect a gentleman suitable to command this fine company of volunteers. The ' tramway arrangements between the Welcome and Young New Zealand mines which have been pending for some time have at last been completed. It is stated that £100,000 is required for the endowment and erection of the new bishopric of Liverpool. Of this sum £10,000 is already promised.

" Anglo-Attstbalian," in the European Mail, writes :—" A marriage has been arranged between Mr J3. L. Farjeon, the popular author, and Miss Jefferson, the daughter of Joseph. Jeffercon. Esq., the eminent actor of * Kip Van Winkle.' " The Canterbury Press of the 13th inst. strongly condemns the recent appointment S>f Fellows to the New Zealand University. It considers that " the list bears evidence on the face of it that the members have been chosen for nomination, not on any of the grounds that ought to be the cardinal motive of choice, but merely in deference to their official status, or for political reasons, or as representatives of religious denominations." A maekied woman in Grenfell, New South Wales, having reason to believe that she had been slandered by a young man, determined to fake the law and vindication of her character into her own hands. Accordingly she armed herself with a substantial riding whip and laid in wait for tho transgressor. As soon as she espied him, in company with some confreres, she boldly walked up and inflicted a tolerably smart castigation over his head and shoulders. A great crowd quickly assembled ; peace was ultimately restored; but the lady said she had still •* a rod in pickle " for some others of the sterner sex.

Last night's Auckland Star says:— Matilda Davison, a young woman aged 19, leaped from a window this morning, in West Queen-street, a distance of 20 feet. It appears from the evidence of Mrs Fentou, that the girl had been very strange in her manner during the last few days, and this morning threatened to murder Mr Fenton with an axe. She subsequently: went up stairs and jumped out of the window and got fixed in a narrow space between the closet and the house. The police were at once sent for, and the girl was extricated from her perilous position and taken to the police station.- She has since been examined by Drs. Goldsbro' and Ellis, who consider the girl to be afflicted with hysterical mania, requiring care and. medical attendance. The bench (Mr Home and Mr Cosgrave) ordered her to the Whau Asylum. The medical gentlemen: expressed regret that there was not some more suitable place of safety where persons of this character could receive due attention, and where in such circumstances they might speedily recover from their mental maladies.

A savage assault was committed last evening in Abercrombie street upon a wife, who lies in a most critical condition. The offender, a powerful looking man, named John McGrath, who recently came to this couutry from London in the Jessie Osborne, is described as a shoemaker. It-appears that he and his partner had been put together on St. Patrick's^ Day, and that McGrath had not acted in the sober way that the patron saint would have dictated. McGralh's wife bears tho character of a decent, sober woman, and had passed the holiday free or* those excesses which her husband pursued until the hour of his arrest last night by Sergeant O'Connor. The.neiglibors in Abercrombie street, hearing screams of .murder and the heavy blows of the prisoner, rushed to the police for assistance. Sergeant O'Connor went immediately to tne house, and the door being partly open, walked in and prevented immediate murder, which might have been the issue but for his timely interference. The prisoner had his wife down, and was beating her in the most savage manner over the head and face with a heavy stick. Feeling the heavy baud of justice upon him, he assailed the sergeant with the most dreadful imprecations and curses, and was taken from the house to the Police-station. TKe poor woman was literally blind, not being able to see oat of either of her eyes, and her body is one mass of bruises. Dr Dawson attended her, but has not yet been able to ascertain the extent of her injuries. She was brought down to the station this morning in a cab, but was too ill to wait. She became delirious and was immediately taken back to her place in Abercrombie street.

From the last intel'igence it is feared that she cannot survive through the day.— Last night's Star.

Wanted Everybody to Euow that all kinds of Watches apd Clocks can be repaired at J. T. Clabkk's, Pollen street (corner of Mary street). N.B. Balance Staffs, Cylinders, and Pinions worked in for the, Trade. English Hunting Levers, £8 10s.—Adyt. W; Finlay, one of the earliest established Watch and Clock Makers on the Thames, WISHES IT KNOWN that he has again commenced business in Williamson street, in connection with the Manufacturing Jewellery Business of his brother, Mr James Finlay, and is prepared to undertake all branches of the Watch and Clock-making business. Repairs executed with promptness. Charges moderate. —[Ai>vt.]