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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3108, 3 February 1879, Page 2

The Bank of New South Wales shipped for Auckland per Eotomahana on Saturday one box containing 13750zs lldwts 12grsofgold.

The Mayor invites attention to a notification extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, fixing to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at seven. o'clock as the time, and the Borough Council Chambers as the place for the first meeting of the Board of Governors of the Thames High School.

At the first meeting of the Tararu; School Committee Mr J. B. Steedman wai elected Chairman, and Mr B. Wolff Secretary to the Committee.

The only business at the B.M. Court this morning was one case of drunkenness, in which the defendant was punished in the usual manner. A. J. Allom, Esq., J.P., occupied, the Bench. :

The weekly state of sick in the Thames Goldfields Hospital from 26th January to Ist February, 1879:—Satistical Nosology.—Constitutional—remained 1, discharged 1; local—remained 6, admitted 1, remaining 7 ; developmental—remained 2, remaining 2 ; violent — remained 1, discharged 1. TotalsH — remained 10, admitted 1, discharged 2, remaining 9. Out-patients, 48. Mr Aitken requests us to acknowledge the receipt for the benefit of the patients of a large basket of buns from the Wesleyan Sun. day School, per Mrs Hicks; quantities of peaches from Mrs Walters, Mrs Ehrenfried, Mr Mason and Mr Ashby; and some clothing from Mrs Leo.

iEGLES in The Australasian says :— The good people of Arnolds-bridge were startled the other day by the sudden approach of three men on horseback, carrying ominous looking saddle-bags and waist-pouches. They were, of course, presumed to be the Mansfield marauders. The ruffians, however, conducted themselves with singular propriety. They peacefully dismounted, modestly refreshed themselves, paid the score, and went their way. Information of the incursion was rapidly transmitted, and, as a consequence thereof, a trooper and a detective were despatched from Sandhurst and a constable from Inglewood to arrest the criminals. As it subsequently transpired, they were two station owners (one of them a magistrate) and the teacher of an important public school. When his worship ■at on the bench a day or two afterwards he inquired as to what had become of the sergeant of police. He was informed that that officer was in pursuit of a supposed Kelly, and on making further inquiries he discovered that the sergeant was actually in chase of his worship himself as a presumed bushranger—with the customary success which has lately* crowned police efforts.

We (Gardeners' Chronicle) are not aware what are the chemical properties of electriclight, nor whether any experiments have been made as to its effect on plants, but we trust experiments will soon be made in this direction, for should it be

proved that the electric light could be used for forcing operations what a revolution would be made in our gardens, what a saving of time effected. We require first of all a few laboratory experiments to ascertain the fact—that done satisfactorily, all the rest is a question of expense and time.