THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOOK P.M. Resurrexi MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3354, 22 September 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOOK P.M. Resurrexi MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1879.

As will be seen by our southern telegrams there is every probability of Unintended petition against Mr Bowen taking his seat for Eaiapoi, on the grounds of some irregularity in repecfc' to the roll, coming to something after all. Mr Bowen, who is one of the great euns of the Opposition, defeated Mr Wearing, the Liberal candidate, by the substantial majority of 81 votes. It is stated in our telegrams that the Ministerial party intend making a vigorous attempt to gain this seat for a Government supporter in the event of the late election being declared null and void, and no less a personage than the Hon. John Sheehan has has been selected as the Government champion, in the conflict. Messrs Kichardson, Feldwick, and White are also spoken of. Should Mr Sheehan stand and be elected for this southern constituency he will probably resign his seat for the Thames—thus giving us an opportunity'of electing two local men as our representatives. The occurrence of such an event would doubtless be exceedingly gratifying to some of the candidates! if not to the generality of the electors.

It was stated in town to-day thai; the Ngatihako hapu have vetoed the passage of vessels up and down the Waihou. A gentleman from Ohinemuri informs us that the confidence of the settlers in the wisdom of the native policy of the Governmerit.will be seriously shUken if prompt steps are not taken with reference to the native outrage. That the natives believe an armed attack will be made on their settlement, and that they are making preparations to defend the same, there is a good reason to surmise. They are kept well posted in all movements at Paeroa.

We have heard that the authorities have made representations to the Government to the effect that they consider it necessary for the due protection of tho out-districts, that the settlers of'Waitoa should be supplied with arms and ammunition.

It ia stated that the Ohinemuri outrage has already cost the country between £2000 and £3000. It is with regret we learn that Mr E. Kennan, one of our oldest residents, and a niOHt energetic business man, has decided to leave the Thames. Mr Kennan at one time held a large interest in the Piako mine; then known as the Bright Smile, and juainly by his enterprise the lodes in that piece of ground* were developed. Mr Kennan has always taken a great interest in matters appertaining to the progress and welfare of this district, and his leaving at this time is a loss to the field. We trust that better fortune than has of late attended Mr Kennan's Tentures may be with him in his new field of operations. .

Tendees wore opened at the Thames County Council Offices this morning for cutting in Hill street, and ranged from £297 to £49,. that of Mr Davis, which was accepted.

The Thames Scottish Battalion fired for prizes on Suturday at the Government range; distances'2oo, 400, 500, and 600 yards; fire shots each distance. The following are the principal scores:— McLeod 6'Jj, Downio 63, Grey 61, Price 61. This match counts as the first of two for Mr John Brown's prize, and also first of two for Mrs Eiehards' prize. The latter is for young shots only, and tho 1 top at present is Vol. Vangemert, with 45 points.

In order that the concert in aid of St. George's Church may not chtsh with Mrs Home's Hospital bazaar, that lady has kindly postponed tho bazaar until Monday, the 29th inst.

Lieu'jll. Pbbby on his return from Paeroa arrived in Grahumstown on Saturday at 5.30. He reports the road in many places in very bad condition. By his kindness wo are enabled to furnish our readers with the latest news from the Upper Thames. The quarterly competition for t" • Manning Champion Belt and other prizes took place at the Government rauge lat.t Saturday. Ranges 200, 400, and 500 yards, 7 shots at each range. The prizotakers were: — 200 400 500 yds yds yds Tl. 'Volß. Long, Belt and Ist prize .. 25 23 J9-C7 Vol Doidge!2nd do 21 20 22-03 VolWUcox, 3rd do 20 23 20-G3 Vol Willis, 4th do 21 21 IS-C0 ■Vol Woods sth do 23 21 Id—CO

Quite a crowd of citizens collected at the Bank corner on Saturday afternoon, to listen to the sweet strains of music discoursed by the Thames Scottish Band, which was stationed on the Exchange balcony. We understand that it is the intention of the band to perform at the same place on Saturday afternoons during the summer months.

The members of the Liberal Association meet this evening.

A man named Hawkins Lad a narrow escape from a serious accident on Saturday. He was employed on the N0..2 Railway Reclamation Contract, and while engaged in moving a truck, he slipped and fell and the truck wheels passed over his f ieg» strange to say, without breaking the bone. The sufferer was conveyed to the hospital, where his hurts were attended to.

On Saturday afternoon two bushmen had a little dispute over one of the thousand and one little things that bushmen will quarrel over, and to settle the same, they decided to adjourn to the seclusion of Tararu flat, and there settle the grievance by an appeal to brute force. In a cab with their backers they left Owen street bound for Tarara. The nowa of the fight spread like wild-fire about the corner, and proved a perfect godsend for the cabbies, as, within five minutes after the belligerents had driven off, five other loaded cabs were on the road, the occupants all eager to see the sport. By the time they arrived at Tararu, however, the fight—if there had been one—was over, and the bushmen, it is said, were found forgetting their differences in foaming tankards of beer. The citizens, who had been so horridly sold, returned to town, looking considerably disgusted.

At the E.M. Courfc this morning, before Messrs G-. IS. Brassey and John Brown, J.P.s, Wiremu Tuwhewehe, the native lunatic from Kerikeri, was committed to the Lunatic A sylum on the testimony of Drs Gilbert and Payne. Au order for the payment of the expense in connectiom with the removal of the native out of his estate was made.

Ottr readers will doubtless remember reading in the local papers in Sept. last of the strange disappearance of Thomas Scrimegour, an employee of Messrs Ba^nall Bros., Turua, and, subsequently, of the arrival of the missing man's brother from Scotland to endeavour to clear up the mystery surrounding his fate. "We are informed on good authority that Mr Tetley, of this town, has received a letter from his daughter in Christchurch stating that she had seen the missing man there, and had conversed with him. In the letter referred to no cause is assigned for his strange disappearance. If Scrimegour's brother is not already aware of this information we have no doubt lie will be glad to hear that there are good grounds for believing his long-lost relation ia still in the land of the living. . s >=

Weekly state of sick in the Thames Goldfield Hospital, from 14th to 30th September, 1879.—Statistical Nosology : Zymotic Diseases—remained 3, remaining 3 ; Constitutional—remained 2, remaining 2; Local—remained 6, admitted 2, discharged 1, remaining 7; Developmental — remained 3, remaining ,3; Violent—remained 3, admitted 1, discharged 2, remaining 2. Total—remained 17, admitted 3, discharged 3, remaining 17. Out patients 28.

A life of Dr Livingstone is in preparation, under the supervision of his family, and has special reference to his personal and domestic character, and his work as a. missionary. Professor Blaikie, of Edinburgh, has it in hand.

Levy's (the great cornet player) occupation is gone. His lower lip has become paralysed, and no longer will he enrapture crowded audiences at million prices w,ith his silver trumpet. This should prore a sad warning to people who bolt without paying their printers' bills. We write more in sorrow than in anger.

AiTELEGBAM to the Herald says:— " Both sides are hard at work trying to aecure the doubtful members, especially the Nelson ones, who are generally regarded as having fairly offered themselves to the highest bidder.

A fuethee extension of the Oddfellows' Order, under the American constitution, is contemplated, and in all* probability a lodge of this order will shortly be opened at the Thames. Thero are, it appears, a number of members of that order there who joined in other places, and there are how anxious to have a lodge established. Several influential Thames gentlemen have recently been proposed as members of the Loyal Star of Auckland Lodge, a special meeting of which is to be held at the Insurance Buildings,'for the purpose of receiving them into the order, and conferring degrees on those already initiated.—Herald.

Says a contemporary:—The Maoris regarded the Olive election proceedings as great fun. After recording their votes they entered the public-houses and called out, "Me vote Heehan; gib me pint beer," and thought they were going to get their drinks gratis. Finding this was not the case, the necessary hikapenmes made their appearance, aud the Maoris consoled themselves by saying, " Kahore me vote Heehan. Alia the humbug, >f Me gibbe my vote Ormon; he te fellow."

1 The New Zealand Times says:— *' The general result of the election so far as they have" yet uone will not discourage the members of the Opposition. It is nowclear that there will be a majority in favor of the Constitutional or Anti-Grey party to necessitate a reconstruction of the Ministry if nothing more. Victory has been claimed by Opposition members oven in Waikato, which has been looked upon as tho very stronghold of Greyism. At Napier the return of Messrs Sutton

and Itussell is also a triumph to tho antiGrey party ut a place where defeat was confidently predicted.

The entertainment that was to bo held in tho Weslojau Sunday school at Tararu this evening is postponed till Thursday evening.

The attention of members of the New Zealand Bifle Association is called to an advertisement in another column. We have seen tho programme for tho next Auckland Annual Regatta. There is no out-rigger race, which wilt exclude our Thames club from sporting their new gig. Wo would suggest to the llegatta Committee the advisability of so amending the programme that an out-rigger race will be one of the events.

The project of erecting in New York a magnificent Episcopol Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which was checked by the panic of 1873, has been revived. Two hundred thousand dollars have been promised.

In speaking on the subject of coffee palaces in Melbourne recently, Bishop Moorhouse spoke of the beneficial effects of a pipe, and stated that after an exciting day he found solace and comfort in the weed. An eccentric tobacconist at Stawell, to show his appreciation of the Bishop's viewß, has forwarded to him a neat little case containing a lilver-mounted cutty (modest in appearance, and not over costly, since the Bishop expressly approved of economy in smoking), a supply of tobacco, a mussel-shell matchbox or two, and, in fact, all that will be necessary for the right reverend smoker's comfort, together with a note wishing the Bishop long life and health to enjoy the pleasures of a whiff.

The Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales, will complete their term in the Britannia, and pass out of the ship next month, and it has been arranged, that they shall then have a sea-going cruise. Tbe screw-corvette Bacchante, is the ship in which the young Princes will ser?e, and Commander Lord Bainsay, will be the commander. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Cooper Key (the bydrographer), and Lord Scott hare met and decided the course to be taken by the Bacchante, and the officers to be appointed to her. Tho young Princes will visit in the course of their voyage most of our colonial possessions.

A cubious trial for abduction, resulting in the condemnation of the Lady Superior of a convent, has just taken place at Bordeaux. A.M.T., employed in a large house of business, having separated from his wife, had placed his two young daughters by the marriage, who had remained with him, in the convent of the Presentation de Marie, the wife in the meantime going to live in England. A short time back M.E., a commercial traveller, godfather of one of the girls, called at the convent, and obtained permission to take them out for a couple of hours. As they did not return, information was given to tho police, and it was subsequently discovered that they had been conducted to their mother, who was waiting for them in an hotel, and that all four had left immediately by train for London. M.T., subsequently received a letter from his wife, stating that she had gone with her daughters to America. The father prosecuted tbe Lady Superior, as responsible for the abduction by her negligence, and she has now been condemned to pay 800f. damages, and tho costs.