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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3617, 30 July 1880, Page 2

A sad accident occurred at Par awo i yesterday about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Mrs Buckley missed two of h« children, and becoming rtuious as to their safely made a search. After rome fruitless calling she found that her two little boys had fallen down the well. She with some difficulty rescued them, but it was some time before they recovered. Drs Huxtable and Payne were soon iv attendance, and succeeded in rallying the younger child. Since writing the above we learn that the younger child has died from the effects of the shock.

"The charge of perjury against Mr L, Bees at Gisborne has been dismissed. No evidence was called for the defence. -

The only business at the R.M. • Couvi this morning was the punishment of a man for drunkenness. H. Kenrick, Esq., R.M., occupied the Bench.

Thebb Btill Beems to be very little interest taken in the matter of registration, and although facilities are- offered, ell persons qualified to be plu-ced upon tne roll very few beyond those placed there by the exertions of the Begistrar, Mr .A Horn, appear to take the trouble to ask to have their names enrolled. There are only, we understand, 2,600 names on the roll,- and all wjio have applied during the last three months, have found their names already thereon, a fact that speaks well for the care taken by the Begistrar.

The critic of H.M. Pinafore in this morning's Advertiser was evidently igaorant of what he was criticising, or was writing it for a special purpose.. No doubt iteis a pretty thing to talk about Buttercup holding a basket of flowers, but we would point out to the critic of our contemporary that bumboat women do not as a rule gain a livelihood by the sale of flowers, but those articles, such as " snuff and tobaccy and excellent jaokey, etc.," so coveted by the average man-'o-warsmen. However we must suppose that the critic this morning made Buttercup a flower-seller, r.s being a more romantic character than of a bumboat woman. .

We would remind our readers of Mr George N. Phillips' lecture, on "An evening at the Gamck Club," which will lake place this evening at the Academy of Music.

Specialities 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 Tanity Fair.

The best of materials manufactured in a proper and workmanlike manner should give satisfaction. Hence^ we are pleased in daily, almost hourly, hearing such exclamations as " My word Douglas your loaf i 8 now splendid," " Those biecuits are really beautiful," "My compliments to Mr Douglas and tell him I havn't eaten such bread for years, &c, &c."