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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3677, 7 October 1880, Page 2

Tx: is probable that our respected County Chairman will be appointed one of the New Zealand jurors for the Melbourne Exhi. bition. .

The tide of retrenchment has at last reached this district, and the fiat has gone forth that the services of Mr Sub Inspector Kenny, the respected • officer in command of the armed constabulary .force in this district are to be dispensed with. Sub-Inspector Pardy, of Auckland will also be dismissed or reduced. Mr Kenny has a similar option but it in probable he will resign. We are sure this news will cause a general feeling of regret* as Mr Kenny by his gentleman conduct and officer like fulfilment of his duties, has won the regard and esteem of every person in the district, whose good wishes are worth having.

The following tenders were received by the County Council for drainage works on the Te Aroha road. C. Comes £50 4s, Marrinan £51, Butler £57, Punch £74, Haley, informal. The first mentioned was accepted.

The Zillah, which arrived yesterday afternoon from Orakei r brings a consignment of 23 head of cattle for the enterprising batchers, Messrs Neal and Walsh, who have respective establishments at Grahametown and Shortland. The cattle were landed on the hard to-day, the whole lot being in splendid condition. En passant we would remark that the carcass monopoly is somewhat shaken by the enterprise of the above gentlemen "fleshers" (as the Scotch term has it), and we hope they may succeed aad prosper, and that they will call personally and allay the fears of our contemporary as regards the loss of £2,000 in establishing a healthy meat trade, and also allay his anxiety regarding the withdrawal of the " big " notice to that effect which appeared for some time in our daily sheet. We can assure him (from information received) that they «re not "up a tree " yet, and that they have a little more money left to their account, as they hope to be able to announce again shortly. Go-ahead, we say! A "poob victim" of the graduated scale writes to the Christchuroh Echo and puts these pertinent inquiries:—" I "want to know how lam to live on and pay my way out of 6s a day? I have a wife and four children to support, and my cost of living is : rent, 10s per week; firing, 3s; butcher, 7§ ; Kaker, 3s 6d; grooer, 10s ; vegetables, 2s 6d ; leaving for clothing, tobacco, and beer, nil. At to recreation, I don't want any; and, as to sickness, take its course. I must get into debt (and that I mean to do), for that is my only, means of preventing semi starvation ; but then, sir, being a Civil servant, I cannot claim the protection of the bankruptcy laws under pain of dismissal. So I ask a generous public what am I to do? "

The Star corresponden says in the matter of the redactions of the District Judges and Magistrates the process will probably be simplified by some voluntary retirement. One out of four District Judges will go. It is not yet known who is the one to go.

Wb are informed that Messrs Molntyre and Ferguson in going to Te Aroha have a fixed object in view, the latter being cognisant of the existence of a spot at which auriferous indications have been met with. It is rumoured there will be considerable delay in opening the land*

The members of the Auckland Presbytery gave a complinieistary bra akfast.to Mr Henry Barton yesterday, at Mr Canning's. The Rev. B. J. Mackay, Moderator, presided. Mr Bart m in a lay proitcher, licensed under a resolution carried at the lust General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

At a aprcial meeting of the Waste Lands Board, held yesterday, it was agreed to reconsider the former decßsion, and the Board agreed to sell out of the Te Aroha block 17,600 acres to Mecers Forster and Grant on the valuation of Mr Percy Smith, the Chief Surveyor, at 33s to 34s an aore, subject to the former stringent condition! respecting the introduction of immigrants, the erection of houses, the cultivation of land, and residence on the blook, and also the Bame mode of deferred payments. Captain Steele, as the representative of Messrs Grant, and Foster, agreed to the arrangement., and olso to the introduction of 125 adult immigrants—4s families to be settled on the land six months after arrival.

We hear that the long-pending amalgamation between the local Poet and Telegraph Offices will shortly become an established fact.

One person was charged with disorderly conduct at the Police Court this morning, and discharged. Mr Brasoey was on the bench.

We understand that a requisition is in course of signature to His Worship the Mayor Mr Bhrenfried, asking him to allow himself to be nominatrd for the office of Mayor for next year.

We wonder that the noble game of football has fallen- into disuse here, seeing the zest with which it vai once entered into by our young men, and the manner Thames athletes distinguish themselves in the game after they bau left the district. At a football match between the Auckland Post Office and Telegraph employees, a few days ago, several of the principal players were gentlemen who acquired both their muscle and science in our midst. Mr W. Lumsden, captain of the Telegraphists, and Mr Henry Bloxaome both distinguished themselves, making the best play of the day. Long may "our boys" continue to bring the name of the old Thames to the front.

Ms J. Bhotvk, accompanied by his wife, left by the Botomahana this morning en route to the Melbourne Exhibition.. Mr Brown will proceed via the South, visiting Gabriel's Gully, in the sluicing operations at which place he is so largely interested.

Messes Armstrong, Reed and Grahami managers of Auckland Insurance Companies* arrived last evening, and the members of the loc il fire brigades gave »n exhibition of their appliances and their skill in ueing them, to the edification of the visitors.

A committee—comprising the following officers, namely, Sir Henry Barkly, KO.B, G.G.M.G.; Sir T. Gore-Brown, K.0.M.G., C.8.: Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G.; Captain Walter Stewart, 8.N.; Major Aylmer, Somerset Rifle Brigade; Major Francis Bulkeley, late 65th Regiment; Commander Sir W. Wiseman, Bart; Lieutenant J. L. Armit, R.M.L.L.; C. G. Broooke-Hunt, midshipman on board the Orpheus j with Messrs C. Hopkiiison and Sons, bankers, 3, Regentstreet, as treasurers; and Mr W. G. Franis Hunt, R.N., Naval and Military Club, as hon. secretary—has. been formed for the purpose of raising sufficient funds for the erection of memorial obelisk to the gallant officers and men, numbering 189 in all, who were lost in H.M.S. Orpheus, on the Manukau bar, New Zealand, February 7,1863.

Ik our columns will be found a long adyer tisement from Mr Graves Aioken, chemist of Auokland, referring to his preparation known as Syrup of Eucalyptus with Hypophospbites of Lime and Quinine.' The preparation is most beneficial in all bronchial and lung complaints, and is highly spoken of by those who have used it. The faculty hare of late years acknowledged the great use in medicine of the essence of eucalyptus, and the qualities of the other component parts of this preparation are well known and recognised. From • a knowledge of the careful and skilful way in which Mr Aioken compounds his medicines, we are prepared to believe all that has been said of this new syrup of his, and recommend our readers suffering from chest com plaints and severe or chronic colds to use the preparation. Mr Aioken has gained quite a reputation for his own preparations, and when a resident upon the Thames was well known and esteemed for the careful and attentive practice of his calling as a chemist and druggist. We shall be happy to publish any testimonials from our readers who are usii g Mr Aicken's preparations ; for, from the reasons: we have already given, we feel a confidence in speaking of any preparation recommended by him.

A HITS of Ligurian bees, to the order of Mr Thomas Wilson, of Kaiapoi, was brought in by the Hawera on Thursday, having been forwarded from Chicago. The bees were apparently none the worse for the land transit to San Francisco und the sea voyage to New Zealand. On the application of Mr Wilson, the Hon. John Hall, who is a known enthusiast in the cauee of acclimatisation and the interests of the farmers, allowed this hive to be taken charge of by the mail agent, and requested the Government agent at San Franciico to see to its proper shipment. With the bees also arrived a machine for the making of comb foundation, »nd several nations in connection with the feeding and management of bees. This hive was placed on a stand in Mr Wilson's apiary lust evening, and the bees will be allowed their liberty to-day.—Globe.