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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3336, 1 September 1879, Page 2

In order that no time may be lost, Mr Sheeban will meet Mr Puckey and Superintendent Thompson on the river as he proceeds to Paeroa as soon as the tide permits this afternoon.

Upon receipt of tho news reported in another column brought by our pigeons, which speedily got about town, Major Murray waited upon Mr Sheeban with an offer of a detachment of men to proceed at once to Paeroa. The Native Minister thanked Major Murray and stated if tho men were required he would remember the generous offer.

The new bridge across the Ohinemuri river, lately erected by (he County Council has been christened Sheehan's bridge, as it, was owing to the Native Minister's exertions that the money was voted for the purpose. Mr Sheehan spoke highly of the substantial manner in which the works had been carried out by Mr Aitken, the County Engineer.

It is stated that Mr Leydon intends to contest the Middle Ward election. Mr Frater has been asked, but refused.

Mb Leydok, with praiseworthy expedition, upon the receipt of the news on Friday night of the outrage at Ohinemuri started at once on horseback to render all assistance in his power, and to ascertain the truthfulness or otherwise of the information.

The following appeared in the Herald of Saturday last in the report of the Ohinemuri outrage:—At two o'clock this morning the bugles sounded in Grahamstown for the Volunteers to fall in, and it was expected that every man would turn out ready for an expedition up the river. Colonel Fraaer had 50 men'all ready, with arms and ammunition, and provided with several days' rations. 1b was suggested that there should be a general turn out of fche Volunteers on Saturday to proceed to tin; Uppur Thames, but Major Murray hoaitatcil to Jake the responsibility upon himself. All the people at the Thames are in a must excited state,' and are ready ta do anything.

Befebbino to Sir Bowland Hill, the news of whose death is just to hand, 11 Men of the Time " says :—" Hill, Sir Borland, E.C.8., P. 8.5., F.R.A.S., D C.L., Ac, author of the penny postal system, third son of the late Mr Thomas W. Hill, a schoolmaster near Birmingham, was born in 1795. In 1835 ho waß appointed Secretary to the Commissioners for tho Colonization of Bouth Australia. In 1837 Mr Hill published a pamphlet derelopinj; his postal system; and the House of Commons appointed a committee on the subject, which, in 1838, recommended Mr Hill's plan for adoption, and reported that the evidence proved that injurious effects resulted from the old state of (Lungs to the commerce andindusof the country, nnd to the social habits and moral condition of the people. In 1839 more than two thousand petitions were presented to Parliament in favor of the plan; and early in 1840 the penny postage was carried into effect with the assistance of Mr Hill, who, for this purpose, received an appointment in the Treasury. A change of Government having taken place, Mr Hill was, in 1842, removed from office, on the alleged ground that his services—the value of which Government fully acknowledged—were no longer required. The public, however, justly considered him ill-used, and he was rewarded in 1846 by a public testimonial of the value of £13,360. In 1843 he was engaged in the management of the London and Brighton Bailway, of which company he became Chairman ; in 1816 was appointed Secretary to the PostmasterGeneral, and in 1854, Chief Secretary, in the room of Col. Maberly. He was made a KC.B., Civil division, in 1860, in acknowledgment of his services at the Post Office. In March, 1864, his health having suffered seriously from tho great labor he had undergone, he retired; and tho Treasury, in a highly complimentary minute, declaring the entire success of his plans, awarded him for life, his full salary of £2,000 a year. In the same year he received a Parliamentary grant of £20,000; the Albert gold medal of the Society of Arts, and the honorary degree of D.C.L.

A Cohomandbl correspondent writes as follows: —"Reviewing the whole of the mines here, we think that most of them are on the way to prosperity. Notwithstanding the late depression, caused by a number'of them knocking their hands off in consequence of no gold being forthcoming, happier times seem to be dawning."