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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2785, 17 January 1878, Page 2

It was reported in town to-day that Mr Bo we had broken his leg, but on making enquiries we found that, though he had sustained an accident, it was not so bad as represented, ho having given his leg a bad twist, having slipped whilst returning from a visit to the Nonpareil United mine.

Pbofessob Ben Allah, the renowned magician, opens to-night in his select entertainment. A gift distribution forms a prominent feature in Ben Allah's entertainment, ii is conjuring and ventriloquism are highly spoken of by the Colonial and American Press, lie will appear at the Academy of Music.

At the Eesident Magistrate's Court, Auckland, yesterday* Elizabeth JDogherty was charged with stabbing her mother, Mary Bogherty. Owing to the latter being too ill to appear, the accused was remanded till Wednesday next.

Ojwe fchiog is to bo regretted, that the heary rain of last night did not bring any logs down to the booms of the Shortlarid Saw Mill Company, the fresh in the creek not being high enough. As was the case en Sunday week last, if the rain had continued a few hour 3 longer it was expected that at least a thousand logs -would hare beeu brought down to the booms, which would hare kept the mill going for months. Unless a fresh occurs soon the mill will have to be stopped, ajs the supply of logs is very low. •

It is at all times matter for regret to Bee old residents leaving a place, even when it may bo known to bo tho case that the change is to bettor their condition, becauso the inference is that tho place they nro leaving is retrograding. On Tuesday tho Tarnnaki carried away for tho South Mr W. C. Wright and family. Mr Wright has been for several years in business as mining surveyor—at first by himself and subsequently with Mr H. D. Bayldou, who succeeds to the business. Booie seven months ago, when business was slack,Mr Wright was induced to accept au appointment on the Colonial Government survey staff, and proceeded to Timuru to fill that appointment. He, having now decided to retain it as a permanency, has removed his family to the South. Mr Wright was thoroughly competent in his profession, and liis present appointment is a proof of it, having been couferredupon him by Mr J. T. Thompson, Surveyor-General, with whom he was engaged in Otago ninny years ago as one of tho field staff, when Mr Thompson was Chief Surveyor of that Province. Attached to Mr Wright's present appointment is n salary of £400 a year.

A mistake appeared in our report of the proceedings in the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. Two men named Robert Nicholls and James Climo were charged with rowdyism in the street, and were fined. The former's name appeared as " Robert Nuttal." We make the correction because JNicholls' companion in mischief feels aggrieved that his name should have been printed correctly, while the other was changed, and also because we are informed that Nieholls has been bragging that he " squared" the papers to keep his name out of the Court proceedings.

The Australasian, in concluding an ar» tide on the material progress made by New Zealand, as shown by the recently published volume of statistics, says :—lt will be seen from the foregoing figures that the people of Now Zealand are making rapid strides along the path of prosperity ; and that, under favour of a fiscal system which levies taxes for revenue and not for protective or confiscatory purposes, and with the aid of a steady influx of population from without, her progress is all that her best friends could desire, and offers a reproachful contrast to our own slow rate of advance, thanks to the blundering incompetence of the men who have seized the reigns of power in Victoria, and are making us the laughing stock of our neighbours.

Last evening a little fellow named James Garreighty, aged about two years, had a Tery narrow escape from death. It appears that the child was amusing itself on a small plank bridge over the race in Block 27, near Mr Gordon's residence, about 20 feet from the mouth of a tunnel, when he fell into the race and was swept into the tunnel, which is about 200 feet long. Some lads who had seen the accident* pluckily jumped into the race and reached the mouth of the tunnel just in time to see the child swept along into the Cimmerian darkness of the under ground channel. The mother and a number of neighbors, who had been informed of the accident by the shouts of the lads, ran down to the lower end of the tunnel, and after a couple of rcinutes of anxious waiting, the child was seen coming, when a little boy named Norton jumped in and placed it in its,mother's armi. The little fellow was soon reacusitated, and has, we understand, quite recovered from his immersion. It has been suggested to us that it would be advisable to erect a grating over the mouth of these tunnels, as the accident above referred to is only one of several similar accidents which have occurred lately in the same locality.