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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2606, 16 May 1877, Page 2

Thebe was no business of any kind at the .Resident Magistrate's Court to-day. We have pleasure in referring to the announcement which appears in our advertising columns, that Ho worth's Original Hibernica will be exhibited at the Academy of Music next week, commencing on Monday night. This entertainment is a very popular one, aud has played for a number of nights in all the principal cities of the colonies, everywhere being highly spoken of by the Press.

Mr H. MclLHONis notifies to all whom it may concern that he purposes making a tour of inspection over the Hauraki Goklfield, commencing next week; and that he has been instructed to take proceediug against all persons engaged in mining, or occupying laud on the goldfield, without bein^ in possession of miners' rights. After this notice, which shows a certain consideration on the part of the landowners, if any persons should be prosecuted for mining without the necessary right, they will not receive much sympathy.

Ekom a return of balances at credit of accounts in the Trust Fund of the Colony on the 31st March, 1877, we find tnere is a sum of £191,025 3s 8d under the head of "Government Insurance," and £676,645 17s 7d to the "Post Office Savings Bank" account; so that co'onists have saved o? expended in making provision for a rainy day over three-quartevs of a million of money, and this in Government institutions, to say nothing of friendly societies, other savings banks and other assurance offices.

Several members of the Borough Council proceeded in the Pearl this morning up the Thames Kiver. Their object is to view the land, with the intention of applying to the Government for certain blocks to be set apart as endowments for the borough, under the Municipal Cprporations Act. Each borough may under this Act apply for an endowment,of 2000 acres of land outside the borough, and 100 acres inside the boundary.

At a meeting of the Northern Pioneer Lodge, 1.0.G-.T., held in the Good Templar Hall, Rolleston street, on Monday evening, May 7th, the following persons were duly installed officers for the present quarter, by Bro. T. Hammond, assisted by Bros. J. Somervel and W. Nicholls :— V% .C.T., Bro. D. Scott; P.W.C.T., Bro. W. J. Speight; W.V.T., Sister JN icholls; W.S., Bro. J. Danby; W.G., Bro. E. Stevens; W.F.S., Bro. J. Scott; W.T., Bro. J. Eodder; W.M., Bro. W. Eose; W.I.G, Bro. Finlay ; W.O.GL, Bro. Keen; W.K.H.S., Bro. J. Mm-chant; W.L.H.S., Sister Wood ; W.D.M., Sis-tt-r Finlay; W.A.S., Bro. Flatt. Last Monday evening; the lodge received a visit from the officers of the Star of the Thames Lodge and Pride of the North Lodge, when a good programme was gone through consisting of songs, readings, &c. A veiy enjoyable evening was spent.

The following appears in a late Wellington paper :—" A well-known civil servant Darrowly escaped coming to an untimely end to-da/. He was eating his lunch at midday in the presence of two or three friends when he was observed to turn pale very suddently. Then he gave two or three gulps, and looked around in a dismal manner. Then he began to claw the air and put his fingers down his throat, evidently reaching for something that had stuck there. His friends looked bewildered, but did not know exactly what to do, so they let him alone. At last he hooked out of bis throat a common pin bent nearly double. It appeared that the pin had been baked with the bread. The civil servant in question says he will change his baker."

A teliEgbam from the Guardian's Christchurch correspondent says that the accident to Turner turns out not to be quite so bad as at first reported. Although trampled on, his legs were not broken, "and his. chest was uninjured. His jaw, however, was completely torn off along with part of the profile, and the eye was injured. The bull was standing over the mutilated portion, lying 15 yards from its victim, licking it when discovered. Turner, strange to say, is apparently lively and perfectly conscious, and able to write. The doctors administered food by means of a stomach-pump, and if secondary hemorrhage does not set in, they think his life may yet be saved."

.As a hint to those who apply for appointments as schoolmaster, we may mention (says an exchange) that at the last meeting of the Oainaru School Committee, when the question of candidates for a third master for the Grammar School came on for discussion, it was found that the rector had recommended a Mr Frazer, But Mr Frazer had not sufficient hair on his upper lip to suit the appointment, as the following resolution will show :—" That owing to MrFrazer's youthful appearance his appointment be not confirmed." The Oamaru School Committee have been guilty of some extraordinary freaks lately, but this last achievement eclipses all previous efforts.

The Wanganui Herald is " authorised to state that the Bishop of Wellington is willing to meet tho Hon. Mr Fox in a public discussion on the merits of the different views held by each disputant on the liquor question. The only condition attached' to tbe challenge is that the tickets for admission should be equally divided, and distributed by each party to the discussion. This would prevent a packed meeting,, and is in itself a perfectly just arrangflinent." "We trust, says a Wellington paper, " that the discussion will take place, and that the locale will be St. George's Haiti in this city. Mr Fox once bore the reputation of being an ab!e' debater and a hard hitter. Nevertheless, we should be 1 * inclined to think that in this instance he would meet more than his match in his Lordship the tßishop of Wellington. Few men in. New Zealand approach the latter dignitary in logical power.

Says the Press—lfc appears that the members of County Councils require official letters to be sent signed by the heads of departments, and those written by clerks are treated as being discourteous towards the' Council. At a County cil meeting within a thousand miles of Christchurch, one councillor gave it as his opinion that an acknowledging letter

written by a clerk was an act of discourtesy to the Council, while another less timorous member considered thafc letters from the Colonial Secretary's office " signed by Clerk Cooper," was not treating them with respect The Clerk Cooper is Mr G. S. Cooper, Under-Secretary; and if the members of the Conncil think to harass or snub the Government by not accepting the Counties Act, it would not seem strange if the Government did the same in return, but in this case the usual course was followed ia<acknowledging the letter. Next thing, we suppose, will be that the County Councils will require all correspondence to bear the sign manual of his Excellency.. At any rate it is doubtful where such nonsense will end. Sir Height Havet-ock is undersiood to have got into some difficulty in consequence of his remark at the St. James's Hall Coaferance, that he would never draw his sword in a war for the defence of Turkey. It was not quite the thing for a soldier to say. Vanity Fair asserts that he wrote to the Duke of Cambridge to explain that he made the remark as a politician, not as a soldier ; to which the Duke replied that he did not see what politicians had to do with the drawing of swords.