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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2992, 17 September 1878, Page 2

Thebe was a clean sheet at the It. M. Court to-day.

The s.s. Eototualiuna will leare G-ra-hamsfowato-rabrrpw morning for Auckland direct, and will leare Auckland for Coromnndel at 4.30 afternoon, Coromandel on Thursday at 10 morning for Auckland, and leare Auckland for Thames at 5 afternoon. .. .

A very unfortunate accident occurred at the Pakurariga Hunt on Saturday. Mr Woolfield was riding a valuable mare, the property of Captain Frasef, R.M., Thames, when in taking a fence the animal was staked, suffering such severe injuries that she had to be destroyed.

Mb W- J': Speight will lecture in the Templar Hall this evening- on " Goldsmith: his critics and his friends." Two illustrative readings will be given by Mr George Newell Phillips The chair will be taken by the Rev. V. Lush.

The Native Lands Court, which finished its,session here on Saturday, has transacted a large amount of important business, and great credit is due to the officials fot the way everything has been conducted. The ; total acreage of land that has gone through the Court is 181,539, and is ivalued at- ler.Bt £350,000. The Crown 'gets 123,262, and the natives the remainder. Amongst the largest and most important blocks that have been successfully dealt with, are the Te Aroha, Moehau (cr Cape Colville), and Waikawan, and the passing .of these lands through 'the Court will sit at rest long vexed disputes concerning them, and. facilitate .the ■opening up of large areas for settlement.

: With reference to the paragraphs which appeared in yesterday's Herald and this morning's Adrertiser, seating that a 'Moanataiii tributer named Campbell had I;absconded with. £75 belonging to his mates, we may state that the man has turned up:all right. It appears that after selling the gold at the bank on Wednesday last, he made an appointment with his mates to meet and divide the proceeds. 1 Eitber he or they , friled to, keep the appointment, and Campbell was next day induced to go into the bush to see a newly discovered reef, expecting to be home the same night, whereas he. was detained several days. Hii mates are satisfied that he had no intention to defraud, and oae of them has sent us the following letter for insertion :—" Sir,—-I obser?e in this morning's contemporary- a notice to the effect that John Campbell had absconded with his mates' money. As a shareholder I beg to state that such, statement is entirely without foundation, as I have received every fraction I was entitled to, and my mates the same. We ars all of opinion that he had no intention what' ever to defraud us. —I am, &c, W. Adams.—Sept. 17tb, 1878." Campbell is a steady, hard-working man, and his mates could jardly believe he had defrauded them, notwithstanding the suspicious circumstrnces corrected with« r's r^sap* pearance.

About a month ago (says the Timaru Herald) a certain married woman, living near Timaru, who acts as a nurse, recjived a letter from a person in Lyttelton, asking her if she could take in Mrs ■■■■ to be confined. The very same night Mrs -—— drove up to the door, and, much to the inconvenience of the nurse, was taken in. The child was born, and the mother remained at the house some days. One • afternoon,, however, she went into, town, and was. never afterwards seen or heardi of. The baby still remains on the nurse's hands, who does not know; what to do with it. The mother left without making any provision for it, although, from all appearances,- she was well provided with money, and belonged to something above the ordinary class of pebble; We understand that "the nurse, after waiting over a fortnight expecting to bear from her, or . ffbia the man who wrote in the first instance from Lyttelton, placed the matter in the hands of the police, who will probably have little difficulty : in tracing the mother of the child, and causing her to resume charge of her helpless infant.

Thebe has been, the London Volunteer Service Gazette regrets to say, one case of misconduct on the part of a Volunteer officer in camp at Wimbledon. He was sent away, forfeited all his entrance fees, and ii disquplified from ever shooting again at Wimbledon. This is, we believe (says our contemporary), the first case, and we may fiuess it will be the last, in which a gentleman holding a commission has subjected himself to these penalties at a meet:og of the National Bine Association.