THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 26 January 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1880.

A meeting convened by His Worship the Mayor, was held at the Council Chambers on Saturday evening for the purpose of appointing a committee to superintend the raising of the fund for benefit of Mosea Ensor, who was so seriously injured in the Alburnia mine some time ago. There were present, His Worship the Mayor, Messrs Wilkinson, IVlennie, McCullough, Allom, Wilson, Osborne Jiadford, Cloonan, Comer, Brodie, Bawden, Crawford, McCaul, and Dr Kilgour. It was resolved that those present bo a committee for the purpose required, and that they have power to add to their number. The committee decided to accept the offer of the concert and dance in aid of the Eusor Fund, and passed a vote of thanks to Mrs Kilgour for her kind interest on behalf of the unfgrjjinate ™j»jv : ---Jt-TTi" dtTmecvto 4-3575 the arrangements for Ensor's passage to Sydney in the hands of the Ladies' Benevolent Society, and the committee agreed to become jointly responsible for £50 for expenditure on the visit. The following gentlemen were appointed a sub-committee :—The Mayor, Dr Kilgour, Messrs Cloonan, Wilkinson, Brodie, Osborne, liadford and Comer. Thebh old topers were charged with drunkenness at the E.M. Court this morning. One who had been on bail was fined 5s and costs, and the other two having been on the square for over a year and who had been locked up since Saturday were discharged with a caution. One of them, an old fish hawker, offered to lay odds with the Bench if he was let off that he would not appear again for a long time. Mr Kenrick, R.M , occupied the Bench. We have received the sum of £317s 6d, subscribed by the employees of Messrs Price Bros, for the Irish Belief Fund. This good example may with advantage be followed by other business places on the Thames, and amounts so subscribed, will be acknowledged through our columns. In another place we publish a report of the stsps taken for the purpose of raising means to enable poor young Ensor to visit Australia for the purpose of obtaining medical advice and treatment. A number of kind-hearted ladies and gentlemen are exerting themselves on his behalf, and will probably raise a considerable sum from the public. We think besides the donations of the charitable the Alburnia Company should be called on to contribute handsomely to the fund, and we are sure if the matter was brought under the notice of the directors, they would see their way to make a contribution. We throw this out as a suggestion, and hope to see it acted on. A man named William Lincoln, a painter by trade, was knocked down by a horse and dray at Waitoa, the wheels of the vehicle passing over his body. He was frightfully injured in the abdomen.

We are glad to see Mr Laurie, turncock to the Water Supply, who fractured his leg some weeks ago, about again. He will not be fit for duty for some weeka yet, the peculiar nature of the break rendering great care necessary. A friend of ours was nearly scared out of his life this morning on waking up to see a large centipede crawling on his pillow. He was out of bed like a lamplighter, and speedily . despatched the intruder with a hair brash, cutting him up fine afterwards with his razor. Strange to say, there was life in the dismembered body for some hours afterwards. The phonograph was exhibited to a large number of persons on Saturday night, when all expressed themselves botb pleased and astonished at the marvellous properties of the instrument. In the afternoon, the proprietors gave a private exhibition to several gentlemen, Mr G-rigg, Mr McCulloush, Mr Phillips, Major Murray, and others, when not only did the instrument repeat what was said to it by those gentlemen, but the tinfoil taken from the machine in Auckland, having recorded upon it and Mr Grigg's "My Own New Zealand Home," when replaced, the latter rather a delicate operation, repeated the tune in a most perfect manner. Mr Hunter played upon the cornet, and the air "My Grandfather's Clock" was easily recognised. Al together, the results were moat satisfactory, and as the proprietors leave for Auckland to-morrow, all who wish to see one of Edison's wonderful inventions should take the present opportunity to do so. The mining properties mortgaged to the Thames County Council, consisting of the Caledonian. Golden Crown, Tookey 3,nd Imperial Crown mines, will be submitted to public auction to-morrow, at 11 o'clock-, by Mr Carpenter, auctioneer. After the mines are sold, the Golden Crown, Caledonian, Imperial Crown and Tookey batteries and plant will be offered and altogether some of the most valuable mining property on the field will be placed at the disposal of the public. A good price js expected for the mines, and more than one party, it is said, hns been formed. to purchase the more valuable portious of ground.

Thebe was a large meeting of the Thames Scottish Battalion on Saturday— the first after the holidays. A considerable amount of business was gone through and arrangements made lor drills, prize firing, &c. It was unanimously agreed to send competitors to JSeisoo fop the forthcoming prize fifing, and competitions to decide will take plase to-morrow and Wednesday, beginning afc six in the morn' ing. A rifle challenge was received and accepted from the Wajtoa Kifle Club, the match to take place on Thursday the 29th January, beginning about 10 a.m. the team several other members of the battalion are likely to go up and baTe ft look at the soautry. The steamM

leaves Grahamstown at lv p.m. on Wednesday. Tho inspection of the battalion will be made by Major Whithers on Saturday next with the other district corps, and church parade on Sunday. The shooting men of the battalion unanimously resolved to subscribe for a Christmas box for the marker, petty-officer Potts, for the excellent order he has always kept the range in since his appointment, and for his general attention and civility throughout the year.

A commitxee of the Borough Council decided to-day that notice under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act should be given to the owners or lessees of all the empty and delapidated dwellings. Empty houses, and we arc sorry there are so many in the township, are frequently taken possession of by larrikins and half drunken persons who do not "usually exercise that caution necessary in using matches, when playing about or smoking. The township may some night suffer from this carelessness, and the Council are determined to do something towards preventing such a catastrophe by requiring owners either to make their unoccupied dwellings secure from intrusion or to remove the same. If this course is insisted on the lower poriion of Tookey's fiat will no doubt see some changes.

The new Kauaeranga Girls' School was formally declared open this afternoon by the Mayor. Several gentlemen were asked by the Committee to attend, and speak upon the occasion, including Mr Speight, M.H.E., Mr McCullough, and Mr -Kenshaw.