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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3327, 21 August 1879, Page 2

. "We hear the formation; bf a Thames branch of tHe j;feat ,Li,bi9ifir. Association, of which wd hare h^arii so much lately is on the tapis. If- this is formed we,have no doubt but that the majority; of the electors will enrol themselves > under its standard, (the branches p(F this organisation in other parts; of the colony have nominated candidates, and of course will work might and main to seat their nominees. On the Thames, we should say the; nominees of a Liberal Association would stand a much-better chance of election than outside liberals standing on their own bottom; "! '•• ■■

At the R.M. Court this .morning, before H. Kenrick, Esq., E.M., a man named Stackpole was fined Is and .costs for permitting his- chimney to take fire. A man charged with ■drunkenness discharged with a caution; .;■< j

The -. Cromwell -. Argus, says.—" Mr Larnach did ,not make, such a bad thing after all out of his brief tenure of ministerial ofiice. /Salary, travelling' expenses, and after nis resignation the nice little sum of £2,000 for doing nothing but bother Sir Julius Vogel in his negotiation relative to the last loan." ;

In reference to a recent bereavement in a well-knf'wn politician's family, the Ashburtion Mail observes that " for the third time in successive sessions Mr William Montgomery, the member for Akaroa, has been summoned from his parliamentary labors to the death-bed of family relatives. On the previous occasions he lost two of his children, and on Sunday last his sad losses culminated in the death of his wife, at the age of 43.''

The chimney of a house in Burke street occupied by a man,named Stackpole, caught.; fire yesterday evening. The firebells rang,and the firemen turned out. Mr Leydon;and others extinguished the fire by f means of wet sacks. .;

Mb Edwards is proceeding with his, investigations of the hematic deposits* of the Thames, and informs us he has found an unlimited quantity on various' localities. He.has been grinding some of the mineral at Spencer's lteduction Works, and some of the paint has been tried, by, Mr Lymburn. We have been shewn a specimen of the work that can be turned out with the paint, and. are informed by Mr Lymburn that it is of good body, and he is well satisfied with it. We hear that some of it will stfortly be ' tried at Messra Price Bros.' foundry on • iron work. Mr Edwards has * every confidence that a, valuable industry cau bo started on the Thames.

Wis hare received a copy of the Auek-land-f-fFf&o-.Lunce of yesterday's date. The paper is.nqvr in an enlarged form, and as. a bi-weekly. * jTtiit&:$ ovt [Zealand Sun says:—"A .Ciyristchurch tradesman went homo, the othbi- evening and found his house locked upV,.',,'G{;"tting";in, at the window with considerable difficulty, he found on the? table a note from his wife ; ' I have gone out; you will find the door-key on one side of the doorstep.' "

„,,.A coNTEM^pjiAßty. jays thpre is really no limit to a Maori's roguery. Having learned through the; medium of a Maori newspaper published in Gisboine that Mr ■Or. B. Worgan, lute native interpreter, is undergoing a sentence of two years' imprisonment, it has occurred to these innocent aboriginals to repudiate every deed of lease, sale, or mortgage that has been negotiated by them through Mr Worgan. Ab usual, they are prepared to swear to anythiug. "How," they say, '• can a man Save truly interpreted a deed who is now in gaol for dishonesty ? "

Says the Christchurch, co-respondent of a Dunedin paper:—The growth in one short week-of the " Canterbury; Liberal Association" to its present proportions is what is just now astonishing som,e weak minds in this part; and at a large and influential meeting held to-night the greatest .enfchusiasitu \ prevailed/ 5 aY the determination* of > -Sii? George ''Grey-to stand for Cbristchurch. "They'll never get rwitbia coOejr'qf jhis coat stail. On the poll" jseimejd jtQ be about!th'elpreTailinig opinion.

We take the following from the Auckland Herald:— Recently, the overseers of the Pentrid^e Stockade" discovered an illicit still in the quarries, at which the hard; labour gangs were working. It had bepns in operation for some* time;arid was found in the posession of a young prisoner named Sutton. The habitues of Mount Eden Stockade have never, ventured on any expirin)|ntsin"distilla*tiba-| tb&'worst thing with whidh ihey were'eredited in the good old times,,,was,passing, t,h ( e morning papers round the* penal servitude men for perusal before proceeding to the duty of stone breaking for the day".