THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2775, 5 January 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1878.

The interest in the Mining Inspectorship lias been revived during the last few days through its having been brought under the notice of Sir George Grey by the Mayor, and by the circulation of a number of rumours regarding the disposal of the office. It was stated on Thursday that Mr J. M. McLaren had received the appointment in connection with his present office. Another version was that Mr Aitken had been confirmed in the appointment. Then we heard that Captain Goldsmith had been reinstated, and finally, that as a solution of the difficulty the Government had decided to appoint Mr W. C. Wright, who"*Js at present on the Thames, and who is a gentleman; thoroughly competent for the office. What truth there may be in these rumours we cannot say, but it is probable that during the next few days something will be heard of the matter of a more definite character than the gossip we have mentioned. Sir George Grey would likely meet Captain Fraser in Taurnnga and confer with him regarding the appointment. An advertisement calling for tenders for alterations aud repairs to the Parawai School-house appears in our advertising columns. The members of the Thames Scottish Volunteer Corps are requested to attend a meeting to be held this evening at 7.30 for the transaction of important business. Tenvbbs are called for taking portions of the Queen of Beauty mine on tribute. The clipper barque Iron Queen, which arrived in Auckland last week, has on board a beautiful Walnut Boudoir Pianoforte, and a further supply of printed Music, to the order of Mr Gbigg, Pollen street.—[Advt.J . We were sorry to learn by a private telegram received from Auckland to-day that Mr John Arthur was not expected to live many hours. Mr Arthur was well known to many on the field engaged _in mining, he having had charge of a mine at Tairua for some time after that portion of the goldfield was opened to mining enterprise. The agent of the United States Minstrela has arrived on the Thames to make arrangements for the early appearance of the company at one of our places of amusement. The Academy of Music has been fixed upon, and the town is already well "billed." One of the neatest of the numerous calendars circulated at this season of the year by newspapers and insurance companies is that of the Imperial Fire Insurance Company, a copy of which we have received from the local agent, Mr Wm. McCullough. In addition to the ordinary calendar the Imperial card has a mechanical arrangement for showing the day of the week, day of the month, and mouth of the year, very suitable. for offices. It also contains time table of Suez mail, and is excellently got up as regards its printing. Thb Criminal Session of the Auckland Supreme Court begins next Monday at 11 o'clock. Tlie following is the calendar : —William Matthew Moyle, attempt to commit suicide by hanging himself; Abel Fletcher, two charges of larcepy; David Nelson, alias Jones, alias Nesbit (committed at tbe Thames), horse-stealing; Margaret Carroll, alias Bedford, John Ellis, Patrick Carroll, and Patrick O'Brien, alias Brown, stealing from a houso ; Jane Ilolfe, alias Reid, and Elizabeth Speers, larceny ; Henry S. Meyers, two charges attempting to defraud his creditors; George Mullen (committed at Coroniandel), breaking and entering a dwelling, and stealing golden ore therefrom ; John Henry Evans (committed at Coromandel), rape; Dauiel Mcloancy (committed at the Thames), stealing from # mine; Arthur Utting, defrauding his creditors by wrongful disposal of goods ; William King (committed at Coromandel), burglary, with attempt to commit a rape; James Miller (committed at Hussell), horse stealing; Edward Piercy, two charges of larceny as a bailee and three charges of embezzlement. ♦

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Board of Education hold yesterday afternoon, an,application from Tararu for £5 for. the purchase of a harmonium was refused;

Meetings of creditors in the estates of William Seagar and John Bobinson were held at the Court House this morning, when in both cases resolutions were armed at granting the bankrupts their discharges.

We are glad to learn that Dr W. A. Perston, who has been seriously ill for a fortnight past, is getting better, a marked improvement having taken place in hit condition.

We have to bring under the notice of the public the valuable properties of the new colonial production advertised in our columns under the name' of Eucalypti Essence, a valuable liquid prepared from the leaves of the Australian blue gum. This essence has been discovered by Sander and Son; of Sandhurst, and is now being extensively used in Australia, besides gradually finding its way into other countries. The virtues of the essence are set forth in the advertisement. Mr George Denby has become the sole agent for its sale in this district.

The funeral of the late Mr William McCloughen, which took place yesterday, leaving the Eden Vine Hotel at half-past 1 o'clock, was very largely attended. Mr McCloughen was one of the pioneers of the Thames Goldfield, arriving on the field at a very early stage of its existence. He gained the esteem of all by his manly, straightforward conduct. On the opening of Ohinemuri as a goldfield, he case in his lot with the new field, and erected the Pioneer Hotel and Store at Mackaytown, of which he was the proprietor at the time of his death, and he was largely instrumental in the development of that section of the goldfield. He willingly entered into every scheme for the prospecting of that large district, and by his probity and enterprise he made himself a universal favorite. Some months ago Mr McCloughen lost his health, and his friends becoming alarmed, he came to Auckland, and placed himself under the care of Dr Philson, but his disease, cancer of the stomach, proved too much for medical skill, and he died on New Year's Day, leaving a wife and a young family of three children to mourn their loss. The funeral was attended by a very large concourse, composed mainly of Thames residents, many of whom, at great inconvenience to them■elves, remained in town for the purpose of testifying their respect for the deceased, while a number of others arrived from the Thames and Ohinemuri yesterday for the same purpose. Mr McCloughen was interred in the Presbyterian cemetery, and the funeral service was impressively read by the Eev. JR. F. MacnicolcHerald.

W. FiNtiT, one of the earliest established Watch and Clock Makers oh the Thames, WISHES IT KNOWN that he has again commenced business in Williamson street, iv 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. Re pairs executed with promptness. Charges moderate. —[Advt.]