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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3705, 9 November 1880, Page 2

We hope that the Flower Show will bring or leave a good credit balance to the Ladies' Benevolent Society. We understand that the Hon. Treasurer is almost without funds, and unless money from some source.is forthcoming many of the poor people at present getting relief will have to go without for some time. We hope the public will come forward to the assistance of this very useful society.

Thb High School reserve at Te Aroha will be included in the new goldfield.

Mr Kbnbick is still in Auckland re the opening of the Te Aroha. Mr Whitaker has devoted a great deal of time to the details, and it is expected the district will be gazetted by the 18th itfst., or sooner, if no further complications arise with the owners of the reserves.

A telbgbam: from Auckland states that, the Thames exhibitors at the Show have been very successful in securing prizes. Mr L. J. Bagnall takes the first prize for Cochin China fowls; Mr A. Hogg the first and second for Collie sheep dogs ; Mr Hopkins the first for bee hives and aparian utensils; Mr West second for ploughs; A. and €r. Price first for steam engine; and MrlEhrenfried first for draught beer. . '

Thb New Zealand Freeman's Journal may be a well-informed and cleverly edited journal in Borne respects, but not much on gold, if we are to take the following as a specimen :— The assay of Te Aroha specimens was as' follow: Gold, 69700Z3.; silver, 39200z5.j base metal, lOOlozs.; and the price per ounce £2 15s lid.

The Fiji Argus quotes^the facts connected with the outrages and mnrder committed by the New Hebrides Islander Joe, and concludes thus: —"A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against him by a coroner's inquest held over the remains of the man Rees, and this bloodthirsty savage will probably get hit deserts—viz., speedy capital punishment—as he need not look for much sympathy at the hands of a New Zealand jury on account of his color."

At the Tolunteer Hall this evening a dance will take place. The Engineer band will supply the music, and a programme of about eighteen dances will be gone through.

The result of the recent reduction in the Civil Service hero will be the amalgamation of the offices of bailiff and messenger, whilst the duties of Clerk to the Warden's and R.M. Courts will likewise be unified, Mr A; J. Alloin filling the dual office. This will por/nit of Mr Burgess* services being made use of as receiver of goldfields revenue at Te Aroha, should such be required.

It has been determined to introduce in this colony a new system of postal savings bank deposits, lately originated in England by Postmaster-General Fawcett. It consists in the issue by the postal officers of a blank card ruled into twelve squares, each large enough to hold ft postage stamp. Any depositor can fill up these squares with penny postage stamps, and so soon as the card is full he has only to present it at the Savings

Bank, where the stamps will be obliterated and filled up, and the card accepted as a deposit in the usuhl way. This will enable ohildrcn or others who may desire to deposit pence or any Email sum under a shilling, which at present is not received by the Savings Bank, to make such deposits with as much facility and security as larger sums.

The last draft of Thames volunteers bound for the Auckland Review left last night by the Kotomahana. They mustered about 80 strong, bringing the strength of the Thames contingent to upwards, of 200 men.

The legal manager of the Queen of Beauty notifies that all shares upon which the last call has not been paid will be sold unless the arrears are paid before the 13th insfc.

A oalTj of sixpence has been made in the New North Devon Coir, pany, payable on the Bth of December.

Some individuals, no doubt as a lark hare forged documents, bearing the seal of the Magistrates's Court of Timaru, and served them on some of the Orangemen attending the late procession, charging them with carrying firearms. Official envelopes were used. A searching investigation is asked for.

At an inquest held in Dunedin on Agnes Weir, who committed suicide by taking poison, a verdict of" Suicide while temporary insane " was returned. A rider was added censuring the husband for not taking more care of arsenic in the house, and for abusive language towards his wife. <

Haif the business of life is to leave things alone. More mischief is done by fussiness than by occasional neglect, which soon rights itself. Arrangements had been completed with Messrs Grant and Foster with regard to the Te Aroha block, everybody was content, and now the Minister of Lands puts his finger in the pie, with a fair ohanca of spoiling it. It's the too many cooks over again. If the Lincolnshire farmers should cry off, a a pretty hubbub there'd be, and what would Mr Bolleston say or do ? It might be too late to go back, and what then of the opportunity lost, the capital transferred to America ? It's a mistake to fiddle over a good. thing. What does it matter whether the first payment, £44C0, is paid at once or within six months ? We shall have to believe that Mr Saunders is right, that the end of all' things financial is at hand unless Major Atkinson can appropriate the stupendous sum in question. Of course, if the Treasurer must have that £4400 to make a surplus, Mr Rilleston must be pitied, not chid. The Minister of Lands has made a mistake ; his motto should have been " grant and foster." —Herald.

The Dog Registration Aot comes into force on the on the first of January next, and as its provisions are materially different to those of previous enactments repealed by it, it may not be uninteresting to give an extract of its salient provisions. Any persoD who keeps a dog of greater age than six mouths for a fortnight without registration is liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 above the fee payable. Registration shall hold good throughout the colony, and in caße of change of ownership of dog all that is necessary is that the name of the new owner be inserted on the register, and the name of the former one erased. In any proceedings under the Act, the proof of registration and age of dog shall in each case be on the defendant. Dogs not registered may be destroyed. The Court may order a dangerous dog to be destroyed, and the owner, for every day's neglect to fulfil the order, is liable to a penalty of 20s. Persons allowing dangerous dogs to be at large unmuzzled irt-e liable to a fine of 40a, and the dog may be killed by any constable. The owners of dogs attacking persons or frightening horses may be fined £5 for every sueb offence, above the damage occasioned by the dog, and any person may destroy the same without being answerable for damage occasioned thereby. Dogs running at large amongst sheep may be destroyed, and it is not necessary to prove mischievous propensity in the dog. Penalty for using counterfeit labels is not to exceed £20; for obsolete labels, not exceeding £5; for removing registration label, not exceeding £10, and the value of the dog if destroyed for not haviug on collar or label. . All penalties are to be recovered in a summary manner.— Herald.