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We would call the attention of the trade to the cattle sale of Messrs Banks and Co., at Parawai to-morrow, when a splendid lot of fat cattle from the station of Messrs Gould' Bros., at Waitoa, will be offered for their competition, in addition to the usual lot of Napier wethers and lambs.- Dairymen in want of good milking cows will find to-mor-row's sale offers a capital opportunity of adding to their Btock of milk purveyors, and should by all means be in attendance.

A bbaitch of the American Photographic studio of Messrs Lovewell, Wing, and Co. was opened yestarday in the premises next the Grahamstown Office in Williamson street, and the Management are now prepared to execute the latest novelties in photography at the exceedingly low rate of charges notified in their advertisement.

By the courtesy of the Chief Postineiter afc the Thame3, Mr J. E. Coney, we reoeived a copy of the Postal Guide, No. 29, for the first quarter of 1881. .The work is an eminently useful one, and we should advise everyone to purchase a copy, as it is a handy work for reference on postal and telegraphic matbrs.

• At a Cabinet Council held yesterday in Auckland, it was resolved not to carry out the death sentence of Wi Warhepa, who3e punishment has been commuted to penal sevTitude for life.

The election of the Waiotahi School Committee will take place in the Waio* Karaka School on the 24th inst.

The talented and versatile American correspondent of the Otago Daily Time.9 dea. cribes the Presidential election a3 being unparalleled in the States. He says :— "Ib is well that the thing is over because it could not have lasted much longer without a rupture of some kind ; and, indeed, I don't know that it can ever happen again under similar conditions without a rent which would defy political Btitching to repair."

Up to the time of going to press the incom* ing San Francisco Mail Steamer, City of New York, bringing the London mails up to the 2nd December had not arrived in Auckland. She left 'Frisco on the 21st December, or one day later than the authorised time, and consequently waa not due in Auckland until yesterday, but from the regularity with which this Company's steamers have been running, she was confidently expected to put in an appearance on Monday. We sincerely hope no accident has occurred.

An extensive robbery took place at Churchill, Lower Waikato, on New Year's Eve. Mr Bell left his store, and on his return found it had been broken into, and goods to the value of about £ICO missing. The polics have made diligent enquiries, but bo far they have not been able to trace the thieves, whoare now believed to have been natives.

It is with regret we hear that Mr W. 0. Symonds, of the Telegraph Office, is about leaving the district, owing to an alteration iii the Telegraph arrangements. During the time Mr Symonds has been in our midst he has always been foremost in any attempt to enliven the monotony Aat usually prevails on .the Thames. Mr Synods, by bis affability and agreeable manner, has gained the.respect and esteem of a large circle of lady acquaintances, and we fear that hia departure will cause an irreparable blank in that society, of which he was an indispensible member. He laaves for Auckland on Friday, and carries with him the good wishes of bis numerous friends for his prosperity in the sphere to which he is called, where no doubt his abilities and attainments, will rank him as an ornament to society.

C. B. Kin&, foreman at Austin and Co.'s shoe factory, Auckland, who was r.seutly stabbed with a knife by an apprentice, Hugh Storey, whom he chastised, waa to-day charged by Storey with unlawful assault. The evidence of Austin showed that he had delegated the authority *\i King to chastise Storey for misconduct. His Worship held that defendant had no right to strike the boy. If the boy had bean brought before his master, it would have been a different matter, but he must hold that no mastar had power fo delegate a foreman. He must fine defendant guilty, and order him fy pay a fine of 40a and coßts, £3 7b, and be bound over to kcap the peace for thrre months, in two sureties of £20.

A coebeseondbnt, writing ,to the Te Aroha Miner on "The Thames High School Goveraors," says:—The stand taken by the Governors of the Thames High School in reference to the terms asked for the usual goldfield rights, is likely to retard the development of the district. They, Shylcok-like, aie not satisfied with the terms that the natives are getting, but want exactly double the amount for all rights. Just fancy paying ten pounds for a timber license per annum, and one pound for every tree over ono foot through. For water rights they want twice the amount that has been asked on any otber goldfield in the colony, and us for taking up' land, their terms are so preposterous that few will be found to accept them. It is a shame that gentlemeri like Dr Kilgour and W. J. Speight, M.H.R., who have so often trotted out on the platform iv Grahamstown, trying to persuade the miners that they were badly treated by the native agreement for the opening of the Thames district, want terms that are infinitely worse ia every respect than any that Luve ever been given to the natives. I trußt that when the new Governors are appointed they will have gentlemen of more liberal views than ttiose that I have referred to; gentlemen who will take some slight interest in the district and not try to cripple the mining industries, as has been attempted by the present Board of Governors. All they seem to think of doing is to draw funds from this district for the purpose of educating the eons of those who consider themselves belter than the majority of their brother*."

In connection with the burial of the old West Coast chief Tainui, it was. told to the Grey Eiver Argus by the deceased's family that there is still believfcd to be some, of the old Maori tribe living in the eouthern parbs of the West Coast,, and that not long since a female was captured with fiager-naila like claw*, some inches in length, but in consequence of the appearance of a number of

males of the tribe her captora were compelled to let her go. Mr Taiaroa, who is regarded as the head of tho all but lost tribe, has several times desired to send out a party of Natives to ascertain the retreat of the tribe, but it has been considered up to the present time that it would be almost useless as the ti;ibe is no doubt concealed in fastnesses unknown to either Europeans or Maoris.

Bishop FiTZGhBBAU), of Columbus, TJ. S. America, preached a sermon in which he thus speaks of thu Press. The rev. gentlemen is anxious to praise up Catholio newspapers at the expense of Protestant publications. This is kind, but; the excuse held forth of the Protestant newspapers being the " sewers of filth " of the times is no doubt a sufficient reason to deter good (Jatholiea reading them, and so tunning the danger of shaking their faith in the ceremonies and rites of the Ohnrch of Borne. This is an extract from th« Bishop's apeech:—" The newspaper is become a necessity of our modern life ; we must read; we must hava a newspaper. What we can do is to lessen the evil by trying to provide an innocent and pure litarature for our young. • This we are to do by encouraging and supporting sound Catholic publications* If you value the purity of your hearts, if you would keep the minds of your children uneontaininated, keep them from those newspapers which are sewers of filth and the veritable Policj (3-azettes and Daj's Doings of our times. Especially aid your local Catholic publications. Do this for your children's sake and for your own. Familiarity with vice in the columns of the daily newspapers will deaden the sensibility of the moat delicate conscience." The abovs is from Bishop Fitzgerald's sermon at theconsecration of Bishop Wattereou, of the diocese of Columbus, U.S. America."

AccOßDiNa'ta the Home News, Sir Julius Vogel, on receipt of the instructions to dock 10 per cent, off the staff of the Agent Q-eneral-Bhip, presented all the clerks ia the department with thfl amount of the reductions in their salaries for the next six months.

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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3757, 12 January 1881, Page 2

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Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3757, 12 January 1881, Page 2

Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3757, 12 January 1881, Page 2

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