THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2990, 14 September 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1878.

Owing to the space occupied by the report of the complimentary dinner, to M? James Mackay some interesting matter is crowded out of to-day's issue. In the fourth page will be found two columns of reading.! ! i

The following tenders for supplying 170 tons of 9-inch pipes for extending the water supply were rt-ceived : to-day. :— G. McCaul, £1508; J. Watson, £1777 10s ; Hawkeswood, £WBS ; T. and S. Morrin, £8 10s per ton; Por£er, £9 9s 3d- per ton. The tender of .Mr G. McCaul, being the lowest, was accepted.

At the II.M. Court to-day two persons were dealt with in the usual manner for drunkenness.

The death is announced in Dunedin of Mr Albert' Dornwell, senior, for someyears carrying on business as a butcher in Auckland, and for a short time having a branch establishment at Thames. .'

A bathes painful accident happened yesterday to a man named Eyan employed at the Alburnia mine. He tramway, on the mullock tip, when by some means a portion of the tramway gave way and a loaded truck which was on the line passed over three of: his fingers, smashing them seriously, and he was thrown down some distance but fortunately, met with no further injuries .of any consequence. He was taken to the Hospital and his injured hand attended to. It will be some time ore he is able to resume work.

To-day a'number of the Whakatano natives, who for the past few months have been employed here putting up Taipari's carved house, left by the steamer Rowena which had been especially chartered to convey them to their homes on the East Coast. The, majority of the men belong to the volunteer company which has been formed amongst them during their residence on the Thames, and this morning they were all attired in their neat blue serge uniforms. The cabs made a good profit conveying the % natives to Tararu to where the Howena was lying; During their stay here the utmost unanimity has existed between them and the Ilauraki natives, many of whom saw the Whakatanea off. ,'■ \

.Newshas been received of the death of a Native rangatira of some note, known as Te Grahe or Grace, which occurred at the Komata kainga (Tukukino's). The deceased was the- husband of Mere Titia, the only remaining, daughter of the late chief Turiu Ngakooti.

" Paddy Ryan," the Plevna doctor, who has juat returned to his friends in Melbourne, appears not to be an Irishman, but an Australian. " Wallaby " writes to the Brisbane Mail:—" As a countryman and friend of his, you will permit me to say that Charley Ky'an is but a stripling, and is an Australian, having been born and bred near Melbourne. He went through the usual curriculum as a medical student at the Melbourne University, and a fevr years ago went home to ' finish.' at' the London and Continental hospitals. While there the war broke out, and he became what he is now.. On his father's aide he is a veritable ' Paddy'; but on his mother's he goes back to the Combermeres, and appears to have inherited the fighting strain they were so celebrated for. Many people are of an opinion that an Australian is a species of civilised savage crossed with a convict; and it is to dispel this illusion that I have written to show that good men can come out of it, and, when called on, can perform their duty as heroically as their ancestors in the old country."