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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

The Engineer of the County Council requires tenders for grading and widening portions of the road between Owharoa and Earl's; tenders to be in by Wednesday the 4th prox.

We understand that the Imperial Hotel Shortland, is charigirig Thands. The,present licensee, Mr John JTogarty, an old and respected resident, is leaving for freih fields and pastures new, and'his place* will be filled by Mr B. Penk. Mr Fogarty and his brothers were amongst the first to invest money in Thames mining ventures. Phbabamt shooting commences on Saturday next, the Ist of May. Licenses to kill wHlbe issued at th« Custom-house f-r £2, and licenses to »ell for £5. ME3SBS Gewson & Co. notify a sale of property in Pollen street, Shortland. The carved Maori house behind the New Zealand Court of the Melbourne Exhibition has been presented to the South Kensington Museum, London. Wi are sincerely sorry at having to record the demise of Mrs J. L Hal}, the talented comedienne, and daughter of Mr Bichwd Wiseman of this town, which sad eveut took place in Adelaide yesterday. The bereaved husband cabled to the Bey. V. Lush, that he might break the sad news to her parents. Miss Wiseman made her debut on the stage in Ok V. Brock's company at Melbourne, and some years later appeared before the Duke of .Edinburgh in the same place. Meeting Mr Hall in New Zealand, they were soon married, and starred the colony. In connectioa with the late Captain Butt, Mr Hall built the old American Theatre at Shortland, where with his talented wife he for.two years delighted Thames audiences. The deceased lady had. just attained her 37th birthday, when she was called away. She leaves three sons and one daughter to mourn her irreparable lose.

Da Geant the great aurist, oculist, and specialist from Europe, intends to visit the Thames in about 14 days. With a letter we received from Dr Grant, he sends a great number of testimonials, many of which speak very highly of his ability as a surgeon, and the success of his peculiar treatment of persons suffering from diseases'of the eye, ear, and head. < > * Mas Himpson is reporfcad to be drawing large houses in Dunedin—the free thought city of the South, - ,

Me Fbicxeb obtained the contract for painting St. George's Church. The price was £65.

Mb McEsb, of the Coach and Horses Hotel left .at bur office this morning. aomo pears grown at his farmfrt Te Rangiora, above Turua on the ThwaiN river. We have never seen any pears to surpass in size the samples left by Mr McEee, and when we mention that in weight each exceeds two pounds, a good idea may be obtained of the fruit. The quality is highly spoken of and the variety is that known as the Cape pear.

T*W3f t?wef»" stfewn to-day :a| the establish* ment of Mr Thomas Teale, Pollen street, some splendid samples of Swede turnips and carrots grown^by Mr Fredk, Strange, pn his estate at Waitbb. They aria large, well-grown roots, some of them weighing over 121bs each, and prove beyond doubt the capabilities of the Upper Thames a« a farming district.

Mr Coheb, manager of the Moanatairi Company, .notifies that the battery is at the disposal of tributers and.mine owners for the treatment of quartz. The charge is reasonable— 10s per ton. Considerable expense hae been gone to in making the battery available for the treatment of stone from mißes situated elsewhere than in the Moanatairi Creek, by erecting a sloping platform similar to that in use at the old Imperial Crown battery.

Is another column will be found an advertisement from Thomas Staple ton, of Christchurch, ; giving the particulars of his .great novelty consultation on the Titnaru races. —which take place on the 24th of May. Mr Jubel Fleming, an old Themes resident, and a man greatly respected in Christohurch. in treasurer, and will receive and pay all monies in connection with the consultation. This course has been followed by Mr Stapleton in order to give greater satisfaction to his clients, and to show the boHa-fideness cf the speculation. The advantages offered are worthy the attention of speculators^ in sweeps, and Mr MoLiver, of Brown street, is the local agent.

Tins Waikato Times says:— " We learn with much satisfaction that it is the intention of many of our farmers to go into sugav«be?!b growing this next Reason." '

The Wairarapa Standard e^ys :—Government having taken up the Insurance business, there seems no reason why they should not add to it that of Banking. Precedents from an old country form no guide for men in new conditions. The Bark of New Zealand deing nearly half the business in the Colony, there seems no sound reason; why the Bunk and its business should net be taken ovc by the c olonists. Strange ay the propocal may appear •we k'uow very well, end can see very cle&rly, what we am writing about. By such a means BDd such a means alone/does itaeeru probable that we can obtain a coin currency in New Zealand, and a store of " unused cash " to fall back upon in times of mercantile disaster.

i The Hawkee Bay Her Id remarks:—An important item of information is iumished by the Taranaki Herdd. Oar contemporary cays that at a recent meeting of the Education *Eo2i'd, when advocating the allegation of a sum of money for the Wcidville schrol, Mr Coutta said he had been infoi'aied by the Colonial Treasurer that the sum of £100,000 would beptesed on the rsumatea next session . for school buildings. Noticing the surprise with which' the' statement was re?eived, Mr Coutta repaated it, and said Major Atkinson had made the announcement during bis recent visit to^ Patsa. Asit-waa generally supposed Tjuildingg?ant~wou!d be-ruthlessly curtailed, this Minisisrial statement, if true, is of the greatest import-ined to the colony generally;

TH2 Tablet writes as follows:—"Two most dire ou'rages have lataly been committed in Ireland! They are of a nature to her* ify us all, end we^ only hope they may freeze the blood in tbe veins of all our colonial youlb, and so put p.n end to tbe exuberance that; produces larrikinism at once. Meantime, we blush, to record them. It is humiliating to think that our dear native land, even disturbed and torn as it has been of late, has been the mother and nurse of beings in whom suoh depravity has so early manifested itself, aud those of us who have in out day been Irish boys, or Hibarnian urchina of aay kind, may blush to think it h s been so with us. One of these horrible outrages ia even reported to have been directed straight against majesty itself, the' other aggrieved and injured a reverend justice of the pease. Here they are. On January 23rd, then, while most of ua were sleeping peacefully in our bads, for, let us not forget, it is a:"ghfc here when it ia day at home, a boy named My lea Ambross, who ought to have known better, for he was ten whole yeara of age, was amusing himself by "intimidating " Hugh Murray Gunn/Esq., a magistrate of Newcastle West by.whistling at him in a ?' tane of derision." . It is an awful offence, 78 it not"? and for the sake of human nature generally we a: c glad that at least the southern hemisphere was wrapped in darkness while it took place. Bub there is worse to follow; at b? about the.same time, and in the sslfaame place another individual named Patrick Lse, also " whiatled with derision amounting to abuse" at Her Majesty the Queen. Here, then, we have two specimens of Irish outrages thought sufficiently grave to bo brought before a court of juatice. After this the old song of the "Peeler and the goat" chroniclea only a very natural and everyday occurrence.

A gentieman writes in the following strain to the Herald:—"lt is a fact that the expenses connected with the railway hare increased since the 10 per cent, reduction. One naturally asks why it should be so? The answer is plain, that the 10 per cent, has bean a rankling wound in the breast of every railway employs since its adoption. The question then arises, what is the remedy ? I would suggest that as the Government now know the amount of receipts under the present system, let them now offer to make a fund, to be diTided according to the present rat 3of pay between all railway employed thus: that 10 per cent, will be devoted for that purpose on all increase of receipts realised from increase of business, and the Government would soon find the receipts increased, for now there is no inducement j as at present the clerks anl officials get their pay 'whether the traffic be Jittle or much. Then, Mr Editor, greater efforts would be made to study to increase the accommodation of the travelling public." The personal pronoun " I," says an exchange, occurs 400 times in Mr Bryce's recent speech.

To show how profitable walnut growing may be made, we hear that a gentleman in Akaroa gathered over 20,000 off one tree, sold them at 15a per thousand, or £15 for the crop. A few trees of this sort are quite equal to a Government billet under the Hall Ministry.

"The Coming Australian" is the title of a remarkable paper, in the Victorian Review, ia whioh Mr James F. Hogan maintains that the tendency of young Australia is decidedly downwards. The three main characteristics of the native Auetrilian appear to be (1) an inordinate lore of field sports; <2), a very decided disinclination to recognise the authority of parents and superiors ; and (3), a grevions dislike to mental effort. Mr Hogan says tkat nine out of every ten native Australians spend all their leisure either in cricket or football. The insubordination of the Australian " larrikins " .he attributes largely to the extent to which State education takes the placa of parental training; and, whatever its cause, there is no doubt that the proportion of juvenile crime in Victoria is abnormally large. His evidence is less conclusive as to the dislike which he thinks he discerns to all mental effort. He sums up his conclusions

by saying thit " the coming inhabitant o' the southern continent will be peaceably disposed and sportively inclined; rather selfish in conduct, and sfecular in practice; contented and - easy going, but non-intellectual and tasteless." In other words, remarks the Pall Mall Budget, Mr Hogan thinks that the Australian of the future will sink to the level of the Sandwich Islander.

Thb Marlborough Express with sincere conviction prints the following paragraph :— Predictions concerning the near approach of the; end of the world arc multiplying on our hands. Dr Wild, of Toronto, gave the earth quite a few years to exist, but a scientist of Washington has knocked spots out of this reverend preacher. He says there»is an immense black block moving about somewhere in space which i» coon to come in contact with our earth and knock it into smithereens or a cocked hat. Now then is the time for the subscribers of the True Witness (and Marl, borough Express) to come along and go into space with pur receipts in their pockets.

We have of late given extracts touohing the dispute of the Melbourne Presbyterian Church and the Bey. Mr Strong, and by a late telegram we learn (bat the committee of the Melbourne Presbytery have presented a report in connection with the Rev. Mr Strong's article in the Victorian Review. The findings were olassed under four heads, the purport of which is that the article is inconsistent with infellible truth and the Divine authority of the Scripture, and leaves out the essential element of Christianity. Threa of the committee dissented from most of the report.

It wouldVnp'poa* tnafc the home of the Kellys is yet a source of trouble to the police. Superintendent Sadler, of Melbsurne, informed the Police Board on the 24th inst, that he considered the Glenrowau district was still in an unsettled state, and that an outbreak might be expected at any time.

Thb Kelly E3ward Board has awarded Superintandent Hara £800 j Curnow (schoolmaster), £550; Constable Kelly £377; Sergeant Sfe- 10, £280; Superintandent Sadler, £240; O'Connor, of Queensland, £237; and Guard Dowßett, £175. The above distribution of money is nob entirely approved of by Mr Berry, who intends to take time to consider the mattar before aating on- the report. '■-„.