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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3605, 16 July 1880, Page 2

Last evening "Under the 0-aslight" was produced at: the Academy of Music. There was a fair house. This evening Lost and Won will be produced.

It wou'd not do to vaise hopes whioh might bo cruelly bluoted, but if report bo true great things are in store for tbe Amateur Pinafore troupe practising for performance on tbe 29th. Mr DeLiae, proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Auckland, has made overtureß ta Mr Owen for the appearance of the Company in Auckland. Just fancy, the amateurs "lowly born" drawing nightly crowded houses at the Theatre. The gold flowing in upon them. Feasts, fetes, and greenroom pleaeurer, and rounds of applause from the spectators. Their fame noised abroad throughout the Colony, and who knows but an engagement in Melbourne or Sydney ! Stay ! It must be ! The troupe will be invited to play at the Vaudeville, Convent Garden, HayniarUet, Koyalty, or some other first class London theatre. Even higher the ambition ! Perhaps Royalty itself with all its pomp and splendour will witness a performance of the Thames amateurs in Windsor Castle, and who knows but one of the Princes of the Blood Royal will lead to the altar one of the gentie followers of Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. Time will show.

OITE contemporary has charged us with surreptitiously obtaining a copy of the letter from the Bank of New Zealand to the Borough, but omits to state that Mr Wilkinson, taking advantage of his position as a Councillor, obtained the letter we were refused perusal of, and kept it in his office for over two days. " People who live in glass houses should'nt throw stones."

We are requested to state that our reporter made a mistake when he said that Mr Hogg signed the petition for tbe removal of the R.M. Mr Hogg informs us that he said nothing of the kind.

A cable despatch brings intelligence of a terrible colliery explosion near Newport, in Monmouthshire, by which orer a hundred miners lost their lives. A strange fatality seems to hang over Newport, as it is not long since that one of those terrible catastrophes for which the collieries of England and Wales are unfortunately too well known, took place in that town.

We are glad to see that the Borough Council at their meeting last night decided to look into the proposal respecting the aßphalt before assenting to the erstwhile Borough workmen. Many of the gravest blunders of our city fathers have been made through deciding on a line of conduct before being conversant with the deti"' 1'!, and the Councillors who " wanted to know you know " at last night's meeting deserve the thanks of the burgesses.

We would remind our readers of the meeting to be held this evening in the Theatre Royel for the purpose of considering the petition sent to Wellington for the removal of our R.M. .

The foreman of the jury at the Supreme Court, Wellington, in the case of the man Wilson, acquitted on a charge of indecently assaulting a little girl, complained to the judge that some of the jurymen were accused by others of their number with having partoken of drink with the prisoner's brother-in-law during a recces for luncheon. " '

Mb Dudly 'Eyre is reported to have discovered a very rich specimen of gold in the river near Turakina, but he refuses as yet to disclose the situation of the find.

Thb following is the complete list of thosa persons who signed the petition asking for the removal of Mr Konrick:—Thos.'Heale, W. J. Barlow, ? Richard Maginn, James Jeffrey, James Smith, Thos. Clark, S. S. Driver, George Basham, Robert T. Penk, H. Clinker, R. Thompson, James Stodall, Edward Parney, F. Herding, J. M. Syms, M. Couroy. James Wilson, William Murphy, James Garney, John Townsend, Thomas Mills, T. B. Hicks, Wm. Inns, Chas. McLean, Hugh Mcllhone, Alex. Hanlon, Jas. Hickey, Thos. Scanlan, Edward Heydon, Samuel S. Forsaitb, J. Jennings, Geo Henderson, Giles Ardern, H. Ratmann, H. Mose, A. Griffiths, H. T. Rowe, W. S. Greenville, John Leydon, Robert Kelly, O. Grant, Matthew Vaaghan, Peter Landy, John Bamp, Alex. Davidson, John Christie, James Gold, T. Mawey (Kirikiri), James Sawson, Patrick Nanar, James M. Williams, Michael Really, Wells. E. Samson, F. C. Dean, Geo L. Zinna, Thos H. Crosbie, Henry Stephensbn, James Capill, W. Stephenson, Alex Hutchinson, H. R. Jones, W. Climo, John Wilson, L. Molhose, George Black, James Forgie, John Neill, C. Fugill, Henry Menary (Omahu), Richard Toomey, Edwin Edkins (Hikutaia), Charles O'Hagen, Ephraim Byrne, Michael Emigth (Hikutaia), Richard Fraser, Wm. S. McCormick, James Wilson, Timothy Carroll, Henry Reed (Hikutaia), Thos. W. Rollings, James Allan, Wm. Reilly, John Hawkins, Wm. Syms, Henry Godwin, Frederick Rodewald, E. C. Corbett, Edward Beere (Ohinemuri), G. H. Mason, S. Piercy, Jacob Endo, George McCaul, Robert Smith, Matthew Teaadale, Robert Norris. .

An item of interest to New Zealand is the knighting of ,Mr Weld, Governor of Tasmania, and formerly Premier of New Zealand. Mr Weld is one of the few men who have won Imperial preferment for services rendered in a purely colonial capacity. His self-reliant policy when Premier gained for him his Governorship, and the wonder is that the distinction which has now been conferred upon him was not bestowed before.

Ik the match between 'Australians and the Leicestershire County team, at Leicester, the Australian team, in their second innings, when stumps were drawn, had lost 7 wickets for 200 runs. The match was drawn, Austral-'ans having 3 wickets to fall. Murdoch was bowled out after making 73 runs.

A correspondent of the Star says :— Great indignation is felt amongst respectable members ut the utterly unjustifiable and cowardly attack upon Mr Hurst last night, and the members of the extreme Opposition hang their heads this morning, feeling ashamed of themselves. The uamanliness of their conduct is the more striking that it proceeds from such petty causes. Some time ago Messrs J. C. Brown and George, the real Opposition Whip, thought to play off a practical joke upon Mr Hurat by proposing and seconding that he should take the chair in committee. The motion was carried, and Mr Hurst performed the duties mo9t ably. This exasperated some of the Opposition, and when the Premier last night proposed that Mr Hurst take the chair the attack was made. Many of the speeches of the. Opposition were very scurrilous, particularly Messrs Andrews', Seddon's, Downie'e, and Stewart's. Mr Hurst got up and made 'a most excellent Bpeech. The general consensus of opinion is that Mr Hurefc completely put all the Opposition in the wrong. I think the people of City West may be satisfied that the man who showed himself, in a position of great difficulty to be possessed of such calmness and presence of mind will not do them discredit. Mr Hurst was able to convert what was intended as a crushing defeat into what all intelligent men in the House and out of it now admit to be a complete victory.