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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3609, 21 July 1880, Page 2

Ybstkbdat afternoon Dr Payne performed the operation of amputating the thumb of the man James McEnteer, injured at the Alburnia mine yesterday. The first joint of the thumb was found to be completely shattered.

After a recess of a few weeks the Shortland Private Quadrille Assembly will resume their weekly dance at the Hibernian Hall tomorrow ereriing at; 8 o'clock. The serrices of an efficient M.C. have been obtained, and the music will be supplied by the fine band of the Hibernian Society.

It the proposed reduction of ten per cent, off the estimates is carried out, it will save to the country £194,021—n0 mean sum. The annuel appropriations now set down represent an amount of £1,940,210, and if the proposed reduction is can led out the amoust will be reduced to £1,746,182.

Txebb was only one case at the Police Court before the B.M. this morning, -that of drunkenness. The culprit was discharged with a caution. , ;

Ws understand that; a sub-committee of the Borough Council waited upon Mr I IffcGaul re the matter of nine inch mains. 3?ue whole question was discussed when Mr 1 fcCaul in a rery fair spirit Agreed to take int erect at the rate of 10 per cent, upon the c ott of the pipes until such time as the rate w»s collected or the committee in a position to» pay the whole sum.

IThe chimney of Mr Horsborough's office wai< blown over last night.

"V,7b hate to acknowledge the receipt of Miller's Pooket Pamphlett. The work is of great interest to sporting men, and contains information on evety subject connected with either the field, the turf, or the ring. ■:

Essr.HTUiiiiY American is the statement coming from California that a town in that State is so healthy that they had to kill a man to start their graveyard.

At the Dunedin Jockey Club annual meeting yesterday it was stated that the year's receipt* were oveY £6,500; balanoe carried forward, JE1.900..

Sib George Groy and several members of the Liberal party have jointly signed a congratulatory message to Mr Graham Berry, and cabled it to Melbourne to be read at the meeting of tho Victorian Parliament. Some members of the Liberal pariy, however, declined to sign it on the ground that it should be addressed to Sir John O'Saugneesey, to whom they think the credit of securing tho Liberal majority in Victoria belongs.

We would remind our readers of the Service of Song in connection with the Sunday School Centenary Celebration, by the Thames choirs united, which takes place this evening in the Academy of Music. Some little excitement was caused in Brown street this afternoon by the endeavor of a horse attached to a baiter's cart, to bolt. The wheels wtro each secured by chains, one of which the animal broke in starting. He cantered a short distance down the street, dragging the chained wheel, but was stopped without any damage being done.

Mb Speight's speech on the no confidence motion occupies 28 columns of Hansard. The remarks read very well, and show that the speaker has taken trouble to make himself acquainted with the principal feature? of colonial politics.

The Mounatairi Company have written to the Borough Council stating that unless contributions are given towards pumping expenses of the Big Pump it is the intention of the directors to cease pumping in three months time, or on about the 20th of October.

Tjiebe was evidently some fun in the House on Friday evening. Sir George Grey commenced his speech on the Native Prisoner* Bill, but seeing the Premier correcting proof*, took.it as an insult, and refused to proceed till Johnny Hall gave him attention. The eld warrior propped himself up against a chair, and Hall still continuing his inattention, Grey kept the House waiting for about an hour. Eventually the Premier caved in, but not before several members had risen to points of order several hundred times. The scene: is described to have been intensely ludicrous.

A cobbespondent of the,' Herald writes, saying, at Waikauan there is a kauri tree 70 feet in circumference. We remember some years ago in the north, ceeing a kauri whose diameter was 28 feet, which is equal to a girth of over 84 feet.

Ik the honorarium debate in the LegislatiTe Council the Hon. Ifr Mantell summed up the question thuely:—"The councillors gore the country full value for the money. They are better able to deal boldly with legislation through their only constituents being their consciences. I am on such good terms with my own constituency, that I am not afraid of being reproached for voting for the honor* arium. I believe other members are in the same position."

We are glad to welcome back to the district the well known face of Mr D. M. Mclntyre, long known in cot nection with mining ventures here. Since bis departure from the Thames, Mr Mclntyre has visited the old country and Australia, having been at Ballarat during the recent mining " boom."

The best of materials manufactured in a proper and workmanlike manner should gire satisfaction. Hence we are pleased in daily, almost hourly, hearing such exclamations as " My word Douglas your loaf is now splendid," "Those biscuits are really beautiful," "My compliments to Mr Douglas and tell him I harn't eaten such bread for years, &c, &c."

SfICiAXiTUS of great men: Gladstone for politics, Kelly for sticking up banks, and McLiver/ for tobacco. You can't rub the latter out. Just try his specially imported Cowtail Twist and Vanity Fair.-