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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3174, 22 April 1879, Page 2

The Borough authorities were informed this morning that workmen employed by J. J. O'Brien and party were removing the rails on the line of tramway from Godkin's corner to the old Tararu wharf. Information was at once given to the police, and the attention of the SolicitorGeneral was called to the matter. It is probable that an action in the Suprome Court will be laid against the delinquents, who without any authority have taken upon themselves the right to remove tramway rails. The agreement with the Supenutendent and the persons who laid down this line of rails is plain in its wording, for it says the line shall be maintained in good working order. Such evidently cannot be done if the rails are removed. While the Borough Council may be willing to assist contractors in every way, it still has its duty to perform to the whole community, and should not allow public property to be interfered with. By advertisement it will be seen that the time for sailing of the Enterprise for Auckland has been altered to 6 p.m. this evening. She has been delayed through taking in a cargo of kauri gum shipped by the Thames Produce Company. We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government Printer of a bundle of reports, correspondence, and papers laid before the last session of Parliament. Me Ashman, telegraph operator in Gisborne, has been asked to go to the Sydney Exhibition as champion operator of the Australasian Colonies. The Chronicle says the Telegraph Department of Wellington undertakes to pay Mr Ashman's expenses. Thebe was a clean sheet at the E.M. Court this morning. A sTOEEKE^rEB in one of the Wairarapa townships (says the Standard) sold a box of collars for cash a day or two ago. All the other storekeepers in the town were savage with him for taking all the ready money in the place. By telegram we learn that the Catholics of Dunedin on Sunday presented Bishop Moran with an address, on the completion of the twenty-third year of his episcopate. In replying to the address he characterised certain statements mado by the " Christian Ee.cord " about Catholic theologians as a foul lie. He intimated that he wdtfld visit Home in two years, and would make arrangements for an additional supply of pries' 3, urns, and Chriatian Brothers.

To-moubow being the day of the patron saint of England— St. George—the Banks in Grahamstown will be cloned. A paragrapher in Monday's Herald sagely mentions that Wednesday will be St. Andrew's day, but we re-assert and are willing to back our assertion that it will be St. George's day.

Mb Leydon today sold by auction 1.'.0 Kerr's three-roomed cottage in Campbell street for_ £15 ss. The furniture also fetched fair prices.

Me 3 Brittan, free-thought and spiritual lecturer, delivered her first address in .Uunedin on Sunday evening. The theatre was crowded. She is a flueat speaker, but reveals nothing new.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from Mr Jefferson of a copy of the Australasian Sketcher for April 12th, and the Australasian of the sth inst.