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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3878, 3 June 1881, Page 2

Mb J. B. Mason has been appointed, regisitit under the Itog Registration Act fertile Borough, In looking tbroufb the Act, we find that the fee to be charged .for the half year ending December will be oi»ly 5«, but the yearly charge for the future will be 10s. I. the increased fee suoeeeds in clearing the Borough of • great Many of the useless curs at present to be seen abont the streets, it will confer • boon on the community. Ebox Messrs Price Bros.' establishment this morning, • large boiler was taken to ShortlandIt is for Messrs Bagnail's mill at Turua, and is 31 feet 6 inches in length, by 6 feet diameter. The boiler was tossed from the wharf into the Kauaeranga, and will he at once towed up the river to Turua. By the Argus' Exhibition supplement, publishedillay <Otb, we notice with pleasure that our enterprising fellow«citMen, Mr L. Ehren. fried, has been successful in the highest degree at the world's fair recently held at Melbourne. Messrs Ebrenfried Bros, hare been awarded no less than three prizes, a number excelled by no brewer conpefing, for their celebrated bottled and draft beers. The

fact that the competition was open to the whole world, adds still more to the lustre of the laurels gained by Messrs Ehrenfried Bros., who are also, with the exception of one Wei* ling ton firm, the only prize takers in their class in the North Island.

Is it true ?—That one of the Finance Com* mittee of the Borough Council, noticing that the accounts for horse feed were heavier than usual, made some enquiries, and found that His Worship the Mayor had had bis horse fed for the last three months at the expense of the ratepayers. Is it also a fact that the Foreman of Works, when interrogated, said that when he kicked up a row about the matter, having found the Borough carter feeding the horse, that he was told by the carter that Mr Wilkinson had instructed him to feed his horse, and that it had been so fed for the last three months. We should like to be able to contradict these rumors in our next issue, for if the statements are correct, His Worship the Mayor has taken a liberty with Borough property, and the officials have been in the wrong for not reporting the circumstances to the Finance Committee.

We asked a Borough Councillor this morning why it was that no works were recoin ■ mended in the South Ward in the Works Committee's Report, presented at last night's meeting of the Council ? His reply was, the Mayor refused to go with the Works Committee to inspect the requirements of the Borough, and so no matters) were brought under their attention affecting the South Ward. What do the South Ward electors think of their representative t In referenqe to the request contained in " Tim's " letter for thirty-two young Udiei to proceed to Owharoa and Waitekauri to take charge of the bashful bachelors there, we kaye had half a dozen applications, and a? soon Ws the balance it made up we will forward the list for the inspection. of the would-be Benedicts. In the meantime, the boys have decided to build a large hall at Owharoa, so that dancing and other amusementj (looked for on the Thames by young ladies) will not be wanting in that part of the district. Vabious threatening notices concerning the Queen, which came to the knowledge of the Home Office, led to extraordinary precaution being taken in her recent purney to Osborne in the Isle of Wight. Personally the Queen has no fears, but those responsible for her safety, believe there is much cause for uneasiness. Foreign socialists are beliered to be at the bottom of taese threats.

According to the Press, the Ghristchurch | Besident Magistrate, Mr Wbiteford, object! I to lawyers making long winded speeches in hit Court. Daring the hearing oi » ewe on Monday, he laid that in every twopenny-halfpenny ease that they Drought into Court many of the counsel employed took every opportunity they could force to apeak. They ipoke on introducing their case; they spoke on concluding their casei; they spoke, if they got a chance, on every law point that could be raked up during the conduct of their eases, and every ont claimed a right of replying to every one else, until at last the Court had come to be little better than a debating club for the d«v oussion of frivolous questions and the wistr of time.: Gentlemen frnew perfectly well that the liberty (hey thus took was * license not allowed them by the Act which regulated proceedings there. . An Irish major recently declared in a Dublin debating society that "he was no mere political tyro, but came to the bar of public, opinion armed with the experience acquired in three hemispheres."