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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3905, 5 July 1881, Page 2

Ix is said that a gentleman from Victoria offered yesterday to a miner intimately connected with Waihi £2000 to be expended on a battery. If the Martha project should fall through the offjr will be accepted.

The 8.8. Hero arrived in. Auckland yesterday morning, aad was ordered direct to quarantine, and accordingly proceeded thither. The steam launch, with Dv Philson on board, followed about an hour afterwards. They are to remain in quarantine six days. Paßseri, gers : —Mr and Mrs Hungerford and childMrs linger, Mrs East and two children, Mr and Mrs Hutchison .and three children, Misses Graham (3), Mr and Mrs W. B. Dickson, Rev. Clark, Mr and Mrs C. Taylor, Mr and Mrs J. B. Taylor and four children, Miss Leaf, Mr and Mrs Hobby and four children, Messrs Blackworth, Parker, Henry Shera, Thumber, Smith, Graham, Sfcarkey, Ellis, Turnbull, and 25 steerage. The passengers are staying on board the Hero, but can go ashore occasionally if they like.

Mb Kbneice left for Coronaandel this morning.

DIRECTLY after the delivery of the Statement, Mujor Atkinson will introduce two out of the three Bills which embody the Ministers local government policy. The second reading will be taken the next day, when the Treasurer will embrace opportunity of makiug a uujnpleta steteuieul as t*j the wlicy of the tyereiiiui&at ou this aue^jou, and a.v

exhaustive explanation of the plan proposed. His financial statement and local government speech will probably occupy nearly two hours. The third local Government Bill will be brought down later. The reasons for this plan will appear when the full explanation is given. Me Mason, Health Officer, has hud made an improved earth closet; from the designs given in the pamphlet furnished by us. It now stands in the Borough Chambers, and is worth the inspection of citizens. We direct attention to the advertisement of postponement of fc'ie Evening Classes held afc the Waio-Karaka School. Students attending them lust quarter are informed that early notice will bu given of date of reopening.

Br telegram from Wellington to-day, we learn Sir George Grey <*avo notice to introduce a bill to provide that no elector shall voto at any election in more than one electo rate.

Many persons have worried us with enquiries as to how many members the wonderful Pollard conpany numbers. Would (hey be surprised to hear that *'■*<!&. up (piitur and mater-fauiilias •it^lfe^d) :io f Ujo prodigious total of nineteen.. They are even more clever than tiuinorouß.' Every member of the group ia a first-class musician, several of them playing no less than five different instruments, and not merely piajtag them, being capable of such execution upon them as would not disgrace the best solo instrumentalists in the colonies. One of the youngest, Miss Olive Pollard, is nothing short, of a prodigy, her facility on the king of instrument-, the violin, is something to be astonished at. Mr Walter Eeynolds tells us that he will endeavor to induce Mr Pollard to allow her to perform on that most difficult of all instalments before the public on an evening during the week. The family is certainly the most unique and remarkable in the Australasias, combining everything in itself necessary for any dramatic performance —from a nigger breakdown to the most brilliant operatic sccna. We owe our thanks to Mr Walter Keynoldsj the manager of the troupe, for their introduction to us, and it is a work of supererogation to wish him and them success, for that wus assured from the moment the curtate went up on Saturday night last. We are also informed that t hat beautiful opera " Les Clochea dc Corneville," which has been such an enormous success in England, has been in active rehearsal with the troupe for three months past, and it is whispered that the Thamesites may bo allowed a glimpse o' it on their owri stage ere the troupe wend their way southwards again to the sceuo of their former triumphs. Mr J. J. Pollard the exceedingly accomplished musical conductor, Mr Harry Pollard, the choru3 master, and Mr Darbysbire,, the indefatiguable stage manager, are Ijard ut work daily with their clever pupils, and we can assure our renders that when the result of their combined labors is placed before them, they will be even more delighted with it than with the univei sally popular Pinafore. Mr Thornton is working night and day at the scenery, which be is copying from authentic pairatings of the district of Normandy, where the scene of the opera ie laid.

Ok Thursday evening of last week some Maoris brought information into the township that a man had been found dead on the bridge leading from She Tiki Road to the Thames. Dp Hovell was sent for—he was at the hospital at the time—and hastened out, but found the mau Buffering fron: a fit, having been seized while, on horseback and fallen off. Hia rigid appearance led to the impression that be was quite dead. After the sufferer had been taken to the Waiau hotel and laid on a bench' he gradually showed signs of consciousness, but lay for a long time in a feeble state. Sergeant MoMahon, on heaving of the supposed fatal accident, obtained a horse and started through the heavy downpour of rain to take charge of the dead body. On arriving at Uncles' hotel he found the man laid out on the bench, and as the doctor and others were stancing quiet ucd motionless as be entered, the sorgeanfc never dreamed that the man was other than dead , aa reported, he accordingly proceeded at once to empty the man's pockets, and laid the contents on the table. No one interposed, but as the sergeant was assuring himself of his work being properly done he was aßtounded to notice signs of life, and putting his hand to the man's lips fell, the warm breath. With quite a start the sergeant turned round on the quiet group and said, "D it, doctor; the man's not dead."

The following letter from the Queen to Sir George Grey appears iv Theodore Martin's " .Life of Priaee Consort," recently issued from the press :-—" Though Sir George will receive the official expression of the t^ueeu's high seiiso of the manner in which Prince Alfred has been received ut the Cape, she is anxious to express persoually, both thu Prince Consort's and her own thanks for the v ry great kindness Sir George showed our child during his n>o3t interesting tour in that fine colony ; and she trusts that the effect produced on the nation and people in general will be as lastiug and beneficial as it must on Prince Alfred to have witnessed the manner in which Sir Graor^e Grey devotea his whole time and energy to promote the happiness pud welfare af hia fellow creatures."

We understaad that a meeting of the County Board of Health will be held to-morrow, at which the question of tse prevuilance of scarlet fever wiil be discussed, and the best measures to be takeu to prevent the spread of the disease. The school committee we believe will be asked to close the public schools for a few waeks, a course followed in the Waikato with marked success.

Me Moss, after trA-relling with Professor Haeeluiayer tor eleren years, has, amid mutual regrel c, severed bis connection, resolving to remain iv the colonies where his relatires reside.