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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3345, 11 September 1879, Page 2

Ms OsBOB.tE at great length appeals to tlie electors of the Middlo Ward. He promises to attend well to the sanitary wants of the township, and appears to thoroughly understand the future requirements of such a community as ours. New blood is frequently found of advantage, and prevents the management of public affairs from running too much in the same grove. Mr Osborne will no doubt give his best attcn^on to the business of the municipality, and that is as much as anyone can do. Me Brasset addressed the electors of the Middle Ward last night at the Academy of Music. Mr McGowan occupied the chair. We haye received a bundle of papers from the Government printe?\ including the last reports of the Thames and Waikato Kailway Committee, papers on immigration, tables connected with the financial statement and other papers of interest. Mr James Renshaw places some facts before the electors which deserve consideration. He lias had large experience in Borough matters, and gratitude for past services should recommend him to the electors. "Ajf English paper says:—"New Zealand in ius6 now attracting more attention, probably, on the part of all piusses of English people, than any ofcue? colony. Thousands arc seeking recent-and reliable information o# the •übject."

Oue telegrams stated yesterday that Parliament was to meet on the 24th hist., | so it will not be until that data that Sir ! George Grey Jwill make his election as to which constituency he will represent. We notice that both the Banks of New South Wales nnd Union Batik are furbishI ing up their somewhat seedy looking premises. As a reason for this extraordinary step, the intended closing of the National Bank is cited. It is asserted that both bunks are desirous of looking as well as possible, in expectation of an increase of business. The emulatory spirit displayed is most commendable. In our Tuesday's issue wo referred to the trial of a parcel of stone from tbo Wairarapa district. The trial was finished at tbe Moanatairi single stamper to-day, the one ton put through producing 23dnts of gold. This is considered fairly satisfactory by Mr Williams. It will be seen in our telegrams that the Wellington local bodies are bestirring themselves in the matter of prospecting the Wairarapa, and are voting money in aid of that object. We have to acknowledge tbo receipt of No. 1 of the New Zealand Punch, a comic paper recently started in Wellington. It contains 16 pages, and several well-executed wood cuts, besides a largo cartoon i*epresentiug a pugilistic encounter between Sir George Grey and Sir William Fox. The Premier has justfloored his man, while the Hon. John Sheehan, in a black bell-topper, looks admiringly on his great chief. The number before us is exceedingly creditable for a first production, and as the journal has strong Grey tendencies, we predict it will become a favorite in this district. Mn John Bright has written a letter, in reply to a communication from a meet* ing in favor of Free Trade, recently hejd in Bradford, in which, referring to the advocates of Reciprocity and Protection, he says :—"The simpletons who have no memory and no logic, forget that the state of the country from 1839 to 1842 was ten times worse than at present, although that was the period of the fullest ' Protection.' He points to the United States, which he calls the ' most protected nation in the world,' and says the distress there during the last five years has been in every way greater than in this country." Wellington, who wrote as he spoke, plainly, was led into the committal of a ludicrous blunder through an unreadable correspondent. Mr J. C. Loudon, the botanical writer, had a great desire to see the beeches at Stratbficldsayc, and wrote asking the Duke's permission to inspect his trees. The Duke took the signature for that of the Bishop of London —C. J. London—and misreading another word as well, wrote to Dr Bloomfield:—" My dear Lord, —I shall always be glad to sec you at Strathfieldsaye, and my servant shall show you as many pairs of breeches us you may choose to inspect, but what want to see them for is quite beyond me." . : Wakefield's paper, the Timaru Herald, makes capital, out ; ,of the recent Ohinemuri Outrage. The .Herald says: —" Our firm belief is.: that the" feeling of the Natives of the Uppetf^f&ames is so strongly against Europeans intrusion, that to make this railway under existing conditions, would cost the s a sanguinary; war, as well as isnarter of a million of money.-'Xlwirbrst-part of the business is'that there-is absolutely nonnecessity for such »• railway at all. The Thames river is navigable by steamers of .large tonnage the whole way from Grahamstown to To Aroha, ; and produce can be, and is now, carried at lower freights than it could be carried at by rail. r If therefore, there were no. flats, BwampSj bush, arid broken country, or broad streams to obstruct the engineers, and no armed 3Vf fipris ready to shoot the surveyors, along the line of route, it would still be an act of sheer folly to make a railway from Grahamstbwn to Te Aroha. /That folly assumes the aspect of a much more serious offence, when it is persisted in gainst the injunctions of Parliament and in direct: violation of the law."