THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3694, 27 October 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O' CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1880.

We are pleased to be able to give credit to the Borough Council for the diligence and earnestness shown at a meeeting of the Water Supply Committee, when it was decided to lay the mains along Pollen street at once, to pay Mr McCaul the amount dne to him, and in other ways to attend to the requirements of the community in the matter of a supply of water. When writing upon this subject, it might.be wise if the Committee should determine to cause their turncock to periodically (say twice a week) flush the water tables of Pollen street from the mains when laid, which would greatly benefit the residents, and hare the effect of assisting in preserving the health of the community. This fact might be taken into consideration by those competing for the prize offered by the proprietor of this journal for the best scheme for improving the sanitary condition of the township. It might even be taken into consideration the matter of providing swimming baths in a central part of the town, where miners returning from their work could have a plunge to remove the dust and dirt accumulated from their mining labors, and those who are partial to a fresh water bath might enjoy that luxury. There should be no want of water in this place, and the greatest possible benefit should be obtained from it before it is allowed to reach the gulf. In the upper parts of the township water might be obtained from the large race, which would clean out of the drains and water courses not benefited either from the Pollen street supply, or from the waste water from the batteries and pumping shafts. Mr Bawdon, the Borough Foreman of Works, has the levels of the town and would no doubt furnish information to those competing for the prize, or persons desirous of offering, suggestions for the better carrying out of an object of the greatest importance to the whole community. ' •

It is probable that the Warden will give 14 days pnblic notice of the date upon which the Te Aroba goldfield will be opened, and that during that period miners' rights will be issued for the new field. How the many disputes arising out of the pegging out are to be settled, will probably be a poser for Mr Kenrick. The prospectors' claim it is likely will be granted in a few days, and then another vexed question will arise as to who, besides Hone Wharekino, are to be included in the grant, for it appears that beside Mr A. Porter, who was the first to claim a partnership with Hone, Messrs C. F. Mitchell, Mclntyre, and Ferguson also include the lucky native in their particular party. The Warden will likely hear evidence upon the subject, and award the ground to Hone and those persons who shall have the best claim to it. It is not surprising that old friends like C. F. Mitchell and D. Molntyre and P. Ferguson should all at once conceive a friendship for the native prospector, but these gentlemen will be very smart if they succeed in convincing the Warden that their late preferred claims to a partnership are other than a desire to participate in the good fortune which seems to have fallen to Hone Wharekino's lot.

We are requested to state that intending passengers by the steamer Te Aroha on Saturday neit, will please leave their names with Mr Lawless, tobacconist.

Messes Banks and Co. will hold their usual sale of stock to-morrow at 2 o'olock. The postponement of the sale was oaused by the stock, although on the hard, not boing landed in time for the sale advertised for this afternoon. The stock to be offered is mentioned in the advertisement.

We desire to call attention to the advertisement appearing in another column signed by Mr Bobert Graham, the enterprising proprietor of hotels in the principal places of interest and wonder spots of the Province of Auckland. In addition to the Waiwera Hotel, with its Bplendid springs, Mr Graham has hotels at Botorua, Wairoa and elsewhere, and tourists visiting any of these localities can not do better than patronise Mr Graham's establishments, where civility, quality, and cheapness are the watchwords. The many wonderful cures from rheumatism, soiatica and kindreds complaints by the use of waters of the Waiwera, should induce a large number of visitors to go from the Thames during the coming summer.

Wshear that the brigantine Wentwortb, which arrived here a few days ago, will take away about 100,000 feet of timber to Sydney, shipped by the Shortland bawmill Co.

By the Botomahana this morning a young couple left who are determined to get tha registrar to make them one. The lady is a resident of the Waiotahi Greek, and though anxious to take upon herself the duties of a wife, is not yet of that age which the law recognises as giving her a right to dispose of herself without her parents having a roice in the matter. We shall not be surprised if another Supreme Court case arises out of this determination of the young lady to marry when and whom she pleaseß.

A pabliamektabt return which has just been issued contains statistics which do not support the arguments of those who demand the total closing of public-houses on Sundays. It appears that in the whole of England and Wales, with a joint population of about 23

million, there have been only 47,400 convictionß for being drunk on Sundays during the last three years, which is at the rate of not much more than 15,000 a year; thia gives an average of about 300 convictions for each Sunday, one to every 7570 of the population. Sunday closers and teetotallers.demand that all public-houses shall be entirely closed on the Lord's Day, to.try and prevent one of these 300 drunkards from taking too much, and they would ignore the legitimate wants of 7570 sober persons,—Brewers' Guardian. -

Thb Thames Scottish Cadets will parade to-night at 7.30 for Major Withers' inspection, and the Bangers to-morrow evening at tbe same hour.

Yesterday Borne bricklayers removing an old melting house at the rear of the Building Society's office, made a find of gold, over six ounces of the precious metal being discovered amongst the bricks and mortar.

Thb Australasian, of September 4th, in criticising the performance of Loßt in London at the People's Theatre, writes as follows of an old Thames favorite:—•" Of the others who appeared in this play. Miss Wiseman is to be mentioned with a kind of surprise for the unexpected force of her acting as Nelly Denroyd. It is not in characters of this kind that she has made her successes, nor, is it probable tbat it is in that direction she will be best known on the stage, but it must certainly be mentioned to her credit that she acquitted herself on this occasion in a. fashion which attests strongly her olaim to the merit of versatility."

Wise's Directory shows that the Colony has 966 Smiths, 496 Browns, 312 Jones, and 170 Robinsons. '■■■..

AccoßDlNa to the Wellington Chronicle " Sir Arthur intends to take up his residence in Auckland during each recess, and will in all probability make occasional visits to Fiji, for the purpose of exercising an administrative check upon tfee affairs of that interesting Colony, and the initiation of which was entirely his own work. During the session of Parliament, of course, Sir Arthur will reside at Wellington.

A rfiIEND writing from Te Aroba says that the business people of the Thames must have their, eyes sliufc not to at once take steps to open up trade relations with that district. If they don't mind the Auckland people will cut them out. • There is every prospect of payable reefs being found, but at any rite the settlement of the country is progressing rapidly.

The Eastern Question is thus wittily summarised in a ballad in the St. James' Gazette on Mr G-ladatone's superior merits as a political cook:—

That precious oJdJiujkey too, what is your view Of that bird which he boasted so loudly he knew, How to-bone and to carve ? Dear, Sir, you would starve, Did you wait for a slice to be offered to you.

He hacks it, but fails in obtaining a. piece, He bastes it, its toughness appears to increase, And he's made such a mess Thas no mortal can guess Which part of it's turkey, and which of it grease,