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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3441, 5 January 1880, Page 2

We hear that the stewards of the late race meeting are so satisfied with the manner everything went off that they are inclined to form a district Jockey Club. A meeting for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of adopting this course will be heldin a day or so. It is also proposed to hold an Autumn Meeting here on March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), and a very liberal programme is talked of, comprising a Steeple* chase of say £50, a Hurdle Bace of £40, and a flit race of £40, besides smaller events. < The funds for this purpose can easily be found, as there is a very handsome balance over from the late meeting, and the sale of gates and privileges will more than make up the amount required.

Soke dastardly individual this morning poisoned a fine bull terrier dog belonging to Mr Thomas Bawdon, Borough Foreman of Works. We understand that the owner is making enquiries, and if the poisoner is discovered he will be stricken heavily with the pains and penalties of the law. It is believed the poor animal died from a dose of strychnine. $

" Tfefc increased duty on spirits," says a Wellington organ, " has had a peculiar effect on some publicans. A 'long' lemonade and beer has been increased in price from 6d to 9d. It is * one of those things a fellah never can understand' how duty on spirits affects lemonade and beer, both made, too, in Wellington." The Auckland publicans are even more eccentric. In some hotels they charge as much as Is for a long " Scotch champagne," as Thames people call a mixture of fiat lemonade and flatter beer.

A babeisteb up North, attempting to brow-beat a female witness, told her she had brass enough to make a saucepan. The woman retorted, " And you have sauce enough to fill it."

The police aremaking inquiries regard, ing the origin of the late fire at the Moanatajri Creek, and in a day or so an inqueßt will be held. It would appear that Mr Bennett's stock was insured by a friend in Auckland for £200, bat this will not cover his loss. Some years ago he was burnt out while residing in premises on the site of those recently destroyed.

A jedesteian named Harper, while running a race for £50 at Sheffield, was taken ill, and the doctor who was summoned declared he had been poisoned. It is alleged that the poison was administered by the friends of his adversary.

Thx following are the entries for the principal events at the Cambridge Jockey Club meeting to be held on January 15th: —Cambridge Cup—Gillie Callum, Loch Lomond, Sinking Fund, Malvern, Libeller, Lady Elizabeth, Lady Gertrude, Pinfire, Lara, Yatapa, Harold, Laertes, Templeton, Lone Hand, Ariel, Orakau, Lalla Eoobb, Tui. Steeplechase—Grey Momus, Lone Hand, Agent, Sportsman, Honest John, Waverley,. Harry Mount, Truthful James. Publicans' PurseLaertes, Loch Lomond, Harold. Malvern, Gillie Callum, Libeller, Billingsgate, Sinking Fund, Lady Elizabeth,- Lady Gertrude, Barney, Omega, Pinfire, Lara, Yatapa, Templeton, Ortkau, Tui, Emu (late Osman Pasha), Sweet Briar, Lalla JRookh, Destiny (late Lady Godiva).

Wamee Wiileis, charged with receiving stolen property, was further remanded till Friday next at the request of the Inspector of Police. His father's bail was accepted for his appearance.

Tie Globe of Christchurch speaks at follows of-the latei riot:—That we should have imported into the midst of our quiet and law-fearing population the fierce passions and lawless deeds too often practised in other countries is absolutely intolerable. No man with any stnw of

self-respect, or with any love for the land of his adoption, will be able to read, without his blood boiling, the account of the dastardly outrage that took place this morning on a body of men who were totally unprepared and unprotected. It is not to be borne that quiet citizens are to be set upon by rowdies and beaten and maltreated —and that in open daylight, and in one of our most public thoroughfares. The feeling of indignation which will arise throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand when the news of the outrage is known will be no light surface feeling. The general safety, the majesty of the law—all, indeed, that makes the difference between civilisation and barbarism—demand that this sort of thing shall be put down eharply and sternly. Nothing but the summary punishment of the ringleaders, and sharp and stern justice meted out to all the culprits "will satisfy public opiaion.

A cobeesponpent of the Herald says that at at a recent meeting, held at Te Kuiti, at which the Ngatimaniapotos alone were present, Rewi, who has quite recorered from the effects of his, late accident, intimated to the meeting that he left all matters in their hands; that in future he intended solely to^ook on, and watch how others could conduct affairs in which he and Sir Gr. Grey had failed. After Rewi had retired from taking part in the proceedings, one of the conclusions arrived at by the meeting was to the effect that no surveying within the Hauhau country was to be allowed, and any natives intriguing or conducting surveys were to be shot, the Europeans to be kindly treated and sent back to their homes.

The Tasmanian Eleven (says an Exchange) has-been treated to a nice bit of " leather hunting " by the East Melbourne Club. The Tasmanians, who had left home and travelled to Melbourne for the match, were in the field for two! days, namely Saturday and Monday, 6th and Bth December, and on Tuesday went back home without having a ohance of an innings. Their opponents kept their stand at the wickets during the whole two days' play, and totalled the wonderful score of 742, of which Horan made 250 not out. Such a score is almost unprecedented in the annals of cricket, and quite unprecedented in the colonies.

A cobbespondbnt of the Chicago Tri* bnne, writing from the Dairymple farm, California, lays: —" Just think of a eea'of wheat containing twenty square miles— 13,000 acres—>rich, 'ripe, golden; the winds rippling over it. As far as the eye can reach there is the same golden sunset rule. In all, there are 115 selfbinding reapers at work. During the harvest about 4000 men are employed, andduring thrashing 600—their wages being 2dols. a day with board."

The line of argument taken up by Pastor Chiniquy will not surprise anyone acquainted with the doctrines referred to by the lecturer. But there will be some difference of opinion as to whether the tone of the discourse is wholly in acordance with the charitable profession of the speaker, " that his object is to convert souls to God, and not to give offence."— Herald.

At the special meeting of the Cambridge Farmers' Club, Mr J. Eunciman, in the absence of Mr Maclean/ President, in introducing the visitors from Lincolnshire, Messrs Grant, Foster, with Bey. Mr Berry and Mr Eoache, briefly referred to the struggles of the early agriculturists, thirty years ago, as compared with the present time, contrasting the limited area it was then possible to obtain, with the almost limitless extent It is possible to get now. The heatttrof the visitors was .then drunk with great enthusiasm.—The Bey. Mr Berry rose to respond, telling., the simple origin of the movement in hit own effective way, and there can be little doubt but that he inspired wi& hope many a dispirited agriculturist. He concluded a very effective speech by saying that sines he was stationed at Cambridge " he bad travelled over nearly the whole of New Zealand aud round the globe, and the conclusion he had come to was that New Zealand was the best count rjjpjti the world, and that Waikato was the best part of New Zealand', and that Cambridge, with its enormous district, it the best part of the Waikato."—Mr Granf followed, acknowledging the compliment paid them by the Club. He spoke of the agricultural distress in England and its causes: bad seasons and colonial and American competition, the latter being the proverbial straw which broke the camel's back.—Mr Foster spoke to the same effect; after which a general conversation followed, and this ended a very pleasant evening. 1 Theee must be something which blunts i the sense of delicacy in inland life in Australia (writes JEgles). That is, at least, how one might construe the follow* 1 ing incident, which took place last month. Up near Midlands some shearers crossing a branch of,the Darling to the shed, in a | cut down tank upset the ship, and one ' was drowned. His mates scrambled out ' (the water was nowhere over seven feet ' deep), but no effort was made by them either tor find the missing man, nor afterwards to recover the body. Information, was tardily sent to the police at Midland two days after the mishap, and they hastened to the spot and soon fished up the body. Having no message from the i coroner that evening, they, (as they said, ;to " keep him sweet") put a rope round i the neck, and anchored the body for the 1 night. Next day nothing from the coroner. The man in charge of the shed suggested to the police to take their find ito Midlands. Tney, however, preferred to tow it half a mile down the river by the head, to drag it ashore, to throw it in a hole a foot deep between two sheets of bark, and cover it up. The pastoral tenant has since given decent burial to the poor refrains treated with such callous indignity.

A manotactubeb may be described as a "gentlemen," but not|as an "esquire." That important point has been settled by Colonel Morley, a county magistrate of Derby. A list of persons liable to serve on juries was placed before him, and he reprimanded the overseers for describing as "esquires" those who were not. A Derby manufacturer was so described: and Colonel Morley ordered the "esquire" to be changed to "gentleman." A Mr John Brans was ordered to be described as "esquire," and it was-explained that he was entitled to that distinction as having been a captain in the army.

Cardinal Manning addressed an audience of about four thousand people recently in Liverpool on the influence of women. Of all the powers upon earth, ha ■aid, there was in the ha,nda of mothers and daughters and sisters a power which could control the greatest strength of man, and this was the power of good

example, of good life, of true Christian lore, the persuasion of their patience in waiting until the faults of those whom they tried to win to better ways should be wiped out. Men might reason and wrangle, and might convince one another, but they had not the power of persuasion that a mother or sister or daughter pos> ■essed over a father or a brother. Many a man had been brought to heaven and the sacrament and a holy death by the influence of wife or mother or sister. It was most certain that the character of man was formed for life by the mother, and he had rarely known a good mother who had a bad daughter or a bad son. Speaking of drunkenness he described, it as the sin of the Christian world, saying that among the Africans and the people of the East drunkennes . only came in when we brought it. During all the time he spent' abroad, in France or Italy or Home, he never Baw a drunken woman, though here and there a drunken man, but ?ery few. When Frenchmen and Italians oame over to England ttiey often, for the first time, saw men and women druak in the streets. Toward the, conclusion of his remarks he condemned the employment of married women outside their own households, saying that when a women married she entered into a solemn contract for life that she would give her time to her husband, her home and her children, and if she did not do so it destroyed the whole domestic life.