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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3904, 4 July 1881, Page 2

The Town Clerk is getting ready a large number of summonses for defaulting ratepayers. A visit to Mr Fleming by anyone owing rates will'pay. A word to the wise is sufficient.

JTJDGB Macdonald will arrive this evening in order to preside at the usual sitting of the District Court, to-morrow. The principal case down for hearing is that of Mcllhone v. Merimana Konu, for a dishonored 1.0.U We hear the Resident Magistrate, before whom the case waa first heard, has been summoned as a witness.

The Tarn O'S'aanter will leave for Coro mandel to-night at 10 o'clock. She is pre pared to take passengers and cargo. Application to he made to Mr H. C. Gillespie.

Mb Eobbet ISAAC 3, many years ago an officer in the local branch of the Union' Bank, is at preßent on a visit to the Thames. Bob thinks the glory has departed; he cannot " divine the signs of the times."

The proprietor and editor of the Observer, Mr E. S. Rathbone, is at present on the Thames. Business matters are claiming his attention.

One female wag charged with drunkenness at the Police Court, but as the offender had been looked up all nighfc and it was her first offence, His Worship discharged her with a caution. Prisoner thanked his Worship and withdrew. H. Kenrick, Esq., occupied the Bench.

John Walsh, the miner who died suddenly at the Tiki went lately to Coromandel from Te Aroha. He was working in Barrett's claim.

The case of Campbell v. Hosie appeared in in its first etage before Judge Gillies on Saturday, It will be remembered that the cause of action is over the sale of a mine at Owharoa. The present step was a summons on the part of Hosie calling on Campbell to amend his declaration; the judge, however dismissed the summons, holding that the declaration filed was good.

THialbeinj; the Fourth of July, Mr Curtis, of the Paoific, as is his wont, had the Stars and Stripes floating over the Pacific.

Coionbi. Danes, of Kopu, is at present in town celebrating the " Glorious fourth of July," Yes, sah! I can stay Kopu all year, but I must celebrate the day of the independence of my Country in a becoming manner, and drink success to the Stars and Stripes.

Wb are gratified at finding that Mr EhreHfried has nearly recovered from the attack of quinsy, in fact he is himself again, and a day or so will see him bossing round as of old. He had a bad time of it however, and had it not been for the unremitting attentions of Mrs Ehrenfried and Dr Callan, his sufferings might have been much worse.

Thb crush at the theatre doors on Saturday was so great that tbe management have wisely provided a plan of the dresa circle seats; ii i» to be seen .at Mr McLiver'e, the stationer of Brown street, and intending visitors would do well to book their seats to insure their own comfort. Another facility offered to the Pinafore seeing public is that tickets for the stalls can ulso be bought during the day at McLiver's.

A humbke of the Italian girls from the Marquis de Bay's settlement have been happily mated in Sydney. It is reported that a IVfeih batch of iiuiuigi'iiUtß, including the

Marquis himself, has arrived at Singapore en route for New Ireland. When these arrive at their destination and find their producessoi'B conspicuous by their nbsenoe, it is not; at all improbable that they wili follow.

Mb Comeh wants tenders for 200 feet of driving. Tenders to be in to-morrow at 3 o'clock.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has declared an interim dividend at, tho rate of 10 per cent, per annum for the six months ending 30th June.

A CTTRIOTTS condition was attached to the renewal of n license at Gisbornn the other day. The following ia the report from the local paper :—" N. Fmlay applied for a renewal v of tho license for the Waitotara Hotel. Mr Firm applied for the applicant. Tho only objection the police had agaiust this applicant was that he was unmarried. Mr Finn said hie client wus a good looking man, and intended entering the bonds of matrimony as .soon as he could find a suitable wife. l"hef Bonch thought that females were Decessary to conduct these places, and granted the license on the understanding that until Finluy geta married he keeps a married couple on the premises."

The sight at tho Theatre Royal ticket box last Saturday night—the rush for tickets, the crushing and scrambling—reminded one of the olden daya, when Johnny Hall was play ing in the American Theatre, when for hours before the performance the crush and hurtle for tickets was something; to rsmernber, but anything but pleasant to take part in. On Saturday night at the Soyal the rush for tickets for Pinafore was something like the daya of twelve years a^o.

" A Cabpenteb" writes from Tauranga to the Star:—"l would like to let the carpenters of Auckland kuow that there is nothing to warrant a rush of men in Tauranga, as ihere arc some nrriving by nearly erery steamer, nnrl none of the late buildings at the fire have been started. The new Sta? Hotel will bs completed in a week or two, which will throw ahoufc fifteen hands out of employment, which means an over-stocked market in Tauranga."

A telegram from our special reporter at Wellington conveys the important announcement that there are serious dissensions in the Cabinet, which threaten an absolute rupture. Mr Bolleston's objection to Mr Wakefield as a colleague, and to the interference of Sir W. Eos., with the Native Department, of which he (Mr Eolleston) ia the head, are said to be the causes of disturbance. There is an air of extreme probability about these surmises. Mr Rolleston is nne of the most honourable aDd high minded men in Parliament—a man with a v. ry keen sense of honour, and one who will make no compromise of his principles, lie has always identified himself with earnest Liberalism, a fact that lends colour to his reported dissatisfaction with the Local Government proposals of the Cabinet, which is coupled with the other alleged grounds of discontent. Should the present differences ond in his retirement from the Cabin©!, the chances of the Ministry surviving the session would be materially weakened. His colleagues, however, are more likely to risk th < enmity of Mr Wakefield (who though undoubtedly brilliant, is not afc all a "strong" man) than break with Mr Eolleston. The wonder is that they have allowed the internal discord to extend so far as it.appeara to have done already.—Star.

The released prisoners are still at Parihaka and those amongst them who have visited their tribal homes, have done so but for a day or two, and returned to Parihaka, which, it appears is to be the home of all for the future. Tohu has issued a proclamation by the mouth of the public crier of Parihaka, depreciating all frivolity and miscbieuous amusements, censuring the ways of the women, and forbidding all larrikinism for the future.

SIE Geobgke Gbey, in his last letter to the Government on Patetere, a copy of which we have seen, says: —It seemed wrong that the Government should join in trampling the laws under foot by showing any persons, however powerful and wealthy, that Government would aid them in acquiring property and wealth as a consequence of illegal acts. Ec thought the fact established, that the conditions had been agreed upon by the Government with private parties regarding interests in land, at the time that all the rest of the Queen's subjects were shut out from acquiring those interests. The concealment from the public .of the Government's intention to remove the proclamation, gave the Patetere purchasers great and unfair advantage over others.

The following table—extracted from the Registrar General's report on the vital statistics of the undermentioned Boroughs for the month of May, 1881 —gives the population, number of births and deaths, and proportion of deaths to the 1000 of population of each borough : —

Auckland .. AVellington.. Christchurch Dunedin.... Thames .... Napier Wungaiuii .. Nelson .... Sydeuliam .. Lyttelton .. Timaru .... Oamaru .... Hokitika .. Caversham.. Invercargill.. BonoUGU. Estimated Population. 15,022 21,582 15,15(J 23,959 5,814 (5,650 4,1(53 0,504 7,796 3,653 3,791 5,098 2,668 3.786 4,283 Total Births. 41 75 66 77 14 17 •20 • 35 13 26 '25 17 9 15 Total Deaths. 30 32 10 30 6 ■1 a 17 3 0 1 9 7 Proportion of Deathsto 1000 of population. 1-81 1-07 1-05 1-23 1-63 i o-os ; l-os 1-33 2 01 073 0-7(5 1-48 0-38 2-25 1-52 T0ta1.... 453 171