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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3843, 23 April 1881, Page 2

Fob many years a man and woman rot united by the bonds of wedlock lived together as man and wife. The man was fairly prosperous, and until lately things went ns happy aa the proverbi&l. maariage bell; but a season of adversity advented, and aa " poverty came in afc the door iove flew out of the window," the woman giving the man who had played the part of husband to her the "sack" in a somewhat ignominious manner. Hb cleared out to try his luck in an adjoining district two or three months ago. A week or two back the lady reoeived a Property Tax notice to her " husband " requesting him to pay the assessment on £1000 worth of property situated near Auckland. She had known! nothing of this, and is now endeavoring to ' diicover the whereabouts of her whilome j lover. A man with £1000 worth of property,, I although he may keep it sub rosa, is nob to be met with every day in the week. Thzbe was a clean sheet at the R.M j Court this morning.

Thb following is the correct dramatis persona of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "The Sorcerer," to be performed shortly here by the Amateur Opera Company in "aid of the building fund of St. John's Church, Tararu :— Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an elderly baronet, Mr Coney ; Alexis (of the Grenadier Guards), his Bon, Mr Airey ; Dr Daly, vicar of Ploverleigh, Mr Hilton; Notary, Mr C. Brown; John Wellington Wells, of Wella and Co., family sorcerers, Mr Steward ; Lady Sangszure, a lady of ancient lineage, Mrs Corrigan ; Aline, her daughter, betrothed to Alexie, Mrs Kilgour; Mrs Partlett, a pew opener, Mrs Hawley ; Constance, her daughter, Miss Coney.

The Observer says that Mr Kolleston is the only man in the Ministry worthy of the appelation of geutleman. The monthly church parade of the Thames Naval Brigade, and the St. George's Naval Cadets will take place to-morrow.

At a meeting of the Board of Governors of fcba Auckland Grammar School, Sir G. M. O'Eorke was electtJ Chairman. A letter was read from Mr Bolleston re the application that he would select a Head Master, which, he presumed, had been sent to him as Minister of Education. He stated he had resigned that office, and as a private individual declined vto entertain the request. A committee was appointed to communicate with the Governors of the Canterbury High School as to the question of a Head Master? A boy named Mulhean, 14 years of age, belonging to the Industrial Home, Auckland, placed out with Mr S. Wyatt, at Tauhoa, Kaipara, has stolen a horse, saddle, bridle, sealskin rug, and tomahawk, and taken to the bush. The horse has been recovered, but the police have not yet succeeded in capturing Mulhean.

Aw inquest was held at tin Auckland gaol on Friday on the body of Fidgett, who was tried for incendiarism and attempting to up»et the Waikato train some time ago. A verdict of death from nnlural causes was returned. His real name is belieVed to bo Sheldon, and he is eaid to have been formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. The Auckland Harbour Board on Thursday agreed to increase the salary of their Engineer to £450 per annum, on condition that he devotes the whole of his time to the work of the Board. Upon arrival of the s.s. Argyle afc Auckland from Whangarei on Thursday evening it was arranged that the whole of her crew should be transferred to the s.s, Glenelg next morning, and that the latter steamer should take up the Whangarei trade of the former under command of Captain Crawford. The Glenelg made her first trip to Whangarei at 5 p.m. on Friday. Me Cole, the basket-maker, whose premises were destroyed in Thursday's fire in Auckland, had insured in the Victoria Office for 18 years, and the inspector, on his last visit to Auckland, declined to renew, owing to the character ot the buildings. Much sympathy is felt for Mr Cole's serious loss, and.a subscription is being raised.

At a meeting of the Auckland City Council on Friday, the Mayor gave notice to move, " That notice be given of the intention of the Council to levy a rate of 9d in the £, payable in one sum." It is said that at least 400,000 oranges have come into Auckland market from the Islands during the last week. Captain Stee'ie, Messrs Q-ranfc and Foster's agent, has settled all the outstanding difficulties, and expects to pat some of the settlers, who are already at Auckland, on the land at once. ' At Wellington the other day, a well-known Sunday School teacher named Masters was looked up on a charge of stealing a tub from a Chinannn. On being searched at the police station, in his pockets were found a bible, hymn books, tracts, and Sunday School tickets.

The Government offer a. bonus of £500 for the first 190 tons of fresh meat exported from New Zealaniin vessels fitted up with f rigerating machinery. Such meat must have been collected in a refrigerating chamber in this colony, and must have been landed in Europe in a sound marketable condition. Messbs (Juthrie and Larnach have been very unfortunate in the mattar of fires during the past six months. The mill destroyed at the Manukau Heads is the third loss they have sustained during that period. "*A bbquisition has been forwarded to Captain Jackson Barry by the leading residents •■ of Green Island, expressing their desire to hear one of his lectures before his departure for New South Wales. The Education Department is going to keep a black list. The Minister has sent a circular to the several Education Boards asking them to furnish him with a list periodically of teachers who have been dismissed for disgraceful conduct.

Theke are said to be 40,000 lawyers in the United States ; 198 of them are in Congress. The Minister of Justice has, we learn, declined to interfere in respect to the sentence passed on Warnstead (oommonly known as " Bismark ") for using threatening language to Mr G-oldie, sanitary inspector ot Auckland. Me A. BboOden, M.P., and Mr Lawson, late Commissioner of Railways who paid New Plymouth a visit during the turf carnival, were obliged to goto Waitara for sleeping accomodation, as even a shakedown could not be had at a premium in town. ,