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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2623, 5 June 1877, Page 2

We understand that Mr Evans,: agent for the t>ave;aports,:. Professor Fay and Mr E. D v Davies| leaves for Auckland to-night-en route 1 for Australia to arrange for another tour through the Colonies. Mr EvanSj who.was,,formerly...here with the Alice May Opera-Troupe, is an experienced avdni courier and business agent,' and we hope soon to see him again in New Zealand, working-a big show.

The annual licensing meeting which waa-fbehave been helcfatihe"Court-house, Shortland, at noon to-day, was adjourned, there ;Ik>! b^ing^a quoruMpf Commissioners present. - .

Some dissatisfaction was expressed tq. day by the licensed victuallers at being taken 1 ' away ■ irOm their businesses for nothing. This was the. annual licensing day, and a large number of the applicants for licenses were in attendance, but the Courthad. to-be adjonrned;ibhe only Comtnissioner in attendance being Captain Fraser^ Chairman: 'The absence of the three Commissioners on such a day was not very considerate, to siy the least of it, for it inconvenienced a number of men whose timeis justms valuable "as the Commissioners'. If any of. the' applicants for licenses" had been unavoidably''absent we doubt if the Commissioners would have adjourned the Court; for !ia week to suit the convenience of such absentees. They who undertake hdnorary 1 duties like those of Licensiug Commissioner should honestly fulfil such duties. '

One effect of the recent improvement in mining matters is the move made by the management of Tookey's to carry out the; decision arrived at=in 1574 !o increase the capital of the company bythe issue of 20,003 new shares of £2 each. This was decided upon at an extraordinary meeting held on.thp. 17th August, 1874, and confirmed at. an extraordinary meeting held on the 11th day of September, 1874, but "the resolution appears not to bave been acted -upon until now. The new shares are ofFered to shareholders, and must be taken up by {hem on or before the 30th June, 1877, and after that time the directors will dispose of shares not tukea up by shareholders in such manner as they may seem fit.

Wk have received several numbers of The Wnii'oa Free Press, anew paper just established by Mr H. E. Webb, proprietor of the Poverty Bay Standard, in the Wairoa district, provincial district of Hawke's Bay.

The total export of wool from Victoria from Ist October, 1876, to May 12, 1877, was 308,806 bales. During the month of April-May 6700 cases of preserved meats were exported.

We learn that it is in contemplation by a number of gentlemen amateur actors to shortly give a performance as a complimentary benefit to a young lady whose valuable services as vocalist and amateur actress have been given on many occasions for charitable and other purposes.

This'" tip "we were able to give some mdnths ago regarding the meeting of PaTl'ament. has proved ;to be correct. Parliament is summoned 1 for the despatchof business on July 19. - , '.'.

Mb Edwin^Binney held a morning seano of rope-untying at his store today in presence of a large" number, of loungers at the corner, including.brokers and- clients, professional and unprofessional gentlemen, and members of the corporation. Mr B;nney offered to giy.e a piano if he could not free himcelf. The tying was done by a gentleman who knew the ropes, and it was done apparently ve^'y securely, but Mr Binney freed himself in a minute and a quarter, whereupon one of the spectators remarked that Mr Binney appeared to be" au fait at the business.

The only business at the E.M. Court this morning waa a case in which Augustus JBalcke was charged with being able to contribute to the maintenance of his son, John George Balcke, who was recently sent to the-Naval'Training School for a term ending September, '79. Mr Balcke informed the Bench "that he had a family of nine, exclusive of the boy in question. Order that defendant pay 2s 6d per week, until a further order be made. Captain Fraser presided. ;

It is asserted by the Wanganui Chronicle "on most reliable authority," that Winiata, who brutally murdered Packer more thuu a year ago in the Auckianl Province, and then made his escape to the fastnes.es of the King Country, is now in the habit of visiting the township of Cambridge night after night, and that np effort is made to apprehend him. [Perhaps the Waikato Times has not heard of this.] , . , ; , ■"■ '

An accident of a serious character occurred at a football match iri Nelson to Mr J. Firth, the captain of the college team. Strictly in accordance with the rules of this noble game, the gentleman was charged by a player on the opposite side and thrown violently. The force of the fall may be gathered from the fact that Mr Firth was unconscious for some time, and eventually had to be taken home in a cab.' It was also reported that some of the sufferer's teeth had been loosened by a kick accidentally administered during the game.—H.B. Herald.

Four gentlemen (observes a Wellington contemporary) representing the legal and commercial talent of this city, were, standing in front of the Star ffbtel, a day or two ago, discussing the question "whether or not England would go t<j war against Russia, when suddenly one of them conchived the idea that they might as well " wet." the question. They/accordingly tnr'riedo" as they thought,in'fci) : tKI' pi'iyate door of-^he hotel, but when .tftey" asked for th'citwmjks they found 5 tMt' tliey had got into the office of.a temperance journal. They did not ask 1 for drinks when they discovered - their mistake, but obtained four copies of;the Reformer,'and -went their various ways., •.

. The Sheffield Telegrapn cays"'::--•" Wje have been informed, on what we consider excellent authority,, that one of the large steel manufacturing concerns is at the present time actively engaged on a. heavy order for bayonet steel dh''account of the Russian. Government, and that another Jarge localcoacerh is wo'rlripg ofi" an order for .the same . Gdverrimpnt, for another class of warlike 'ipaf'erial:-.' In" bpth .cases s worjk is. being pushed Tor ward as rapidly' ,as ppssib'le. : : „ ~." '.-j^;/,..

'■•■ •An incident'which lately occurred'-in Waikouaiti is thus graphically and somewhat mystreiribusly described in ihe columns of the, O.amaruMail (—"The peaceful bliss "which usually characterises Waikouaiti^ in common with other of our country"towns, was ruthlessly disturbed on Friday last. We will say that two gentlemen met—<one-slender and gentlemanlyin.appearance, the other physically coarse and uncouth in detneanOr! An altercation ensued, language more powerful than elegait was made use of ou; one side, till at last, as the position became more and moreoiripleasarit for the person of gentlemanly instincts, ho raised his whip and belabored his opponent. A horse-whipping match in Waikouaifi is an exciting event that will probably linger 1 in the minds cf its inhabitants for many a day to come, more especially as thecastigator is said to be a gejtlemon in the em-. ployment of the Government.

The Napier Telegraph says :—The following choice specimen of an easy transition from the sublime to the ridiculous is extracted from a leading article in a Thames contemporary :—" It is to, our volunteers we must trust to repel all danger from foes within the colony, as well as to co-operate, if necessary, on- the shore with Her Majesty's ships in defending the coast, and in our opinion it is most requisite that the Government should speedily allay the fears and doubis that trouble the minds of our volunteer defenders on'the subject of their land scrip " Our readers will not require: to be told that the extract is not from our columns.;

" Atlas," in the World, says:—"Prac. lical Mr HoUingshead has followed uphis researches into the statistics of loss of life from fires in theatres by making arrangements, which will shortly be made public, for gratuitously insuring the; lives.of his audience. Thus every visitor to the Gaiety, from the back row of the gallery down to the front row of the orchestra stalls, will be able 1 to console himself with the rejection that if heis; burnt to death his representatives will receive a sum of £10,CC0. Such is the inviting douceur which Mr Hollingshead is about to present to all his patrons. I understand that the cost to the manaoemeut will, after all, be ludicrously sm.ll; for the actuar.es declare that though 150 millions of people have visited the London.theatres during theJast fifty/years, and a few have lout their lives by foolish panic, only one has actually perished by fire;