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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3914, 15 July 1881, Page 2

' Anothib action for libel, we hear, is about to be entered upon, and the editor of the Advertiser is the viotim again, for the article in this morning's issue. Wa don't like hearing of these threatened actions at law; they are getting too common, and are calculated to hanrper writers and to destroy that freedom of speech which editors are so fond of indulging in.

A merting of the Board of Gorernora of the Thames High School, for the purpose of appointing a second master, is being held as we go to press. ,

At the last Hospital Committee meeting, reference-was made to the, case of the man Moore,.hurt in the bush, who had been discharged from the. Hospital. The poor fellow waa without money, and his friends were at at the Bay of Islands. The Borough Council hare undertaken to pay his passage to the North, and he learei tomorrow. Sinco his discharge he has had a friend in Mr Joieph Williams of the Provincial Hotel, who, when he found the poor fellow in want, kindly offered him food and lodging until he could leare for the Bay. He has been a week or more at Mr Williams' and desires to acknowledge the great kindness he haa received at h« bands of Mr and Mrs Williams Joe's good nature is erer to the front.

A mbmobial, signed by seventy-one Wade settler*, has been sent to Superintendent Thomson, , asking for the removal of Constable Moore. A petition hearing 225 same* ha* also been sent to the Catnuiiasioner of Customs, praying for th» release of Polkinghorne and Emerle, recently committed to gaol ob a cUai-jja of injugguug, or ing to &

belief is their innocence. We have heard it stated that the goods—wines, spirits, &c, supposed to hare been smuggled, were really taken from a building subsequently burnt down, and that the men mentioned, no* undergoing a, «entence jfor smuggling, were only in-charge of the goods for the owner* Had, however, the men stated the facts of the case, they might hare laid themselves and others open to be accused of another breach of the law, so they suffered for smuggling. Probably the release of the men may bring the real culprits to book.

The Government have sated thah it was not intended to introduce a bill this session dealing with Volunteer land scrip.

~ Mb Bob3ON is exerting himself very much in the direction of securing for Faeroa postal an I telegraphic facilities. He has a petition to the Government praying that the promises already given may be carried out, now that the Komata obstruction is removed.

. The following gentlemen formed the jury at the inqvVat held on the body of W. S. Carrol, before Mr Ken rick, yesterday afternoon :—Messrs Culpitt, Theo. Wood.MoKee, Driver, May, Twohill, Butter worth, Wight, W. Htslett, T. Garrett, J. Hamilton, Wilkes, E: Jennings, sepr. Mr Wilkes was tlected Foreman.: The Verdict was that the man died from heart disease, Dr Huxtable having given evidence to that effect.

Otiß friend across the way discusses in his leading columns the opinions of a writer of a letter which appeared in our last icsue over the signature of " Elector/ We have no objection to the editor .discussing) the opinions of our correspondent, but when he so far forgets the lesson experience of journalism should have taught him as to jump to the conclusion that Mr So-and-So wrote the letter, and then acting on that assumption to pitch into the individual, we think it time to enter our protest. In the article, the editor also says that the correspondents " Waitete " and " Elector," are the same person, and that we seem to keep him on bjMtarben any thing in the shape of a snarl at tH^pdvertiser is desired. Now, we don't deserve such.a compliment. We cannot afford the luxury of a dog to do the snarling. Dogs are taxed now, and so we have to do such work ourselves. We cannot help thinking our friend is making fun of us, for bis past knowledge of us should teach him that when we have anything to say we say it out straight, in the plainest language, and in the most direct manner. We want now to tell him that bis want of experience has led him as, a journalist, to make a grave mistake, the writers "Waitete" and "Elector " are not the fame individual. We would refer him to v paragraph in his issue of the 13th, in which he says he has not the " most remote idea who ' Waitete' is," and in this morning's issue be confounds "Waitete" with "Elector." Don't do Ibe like again, Mr Editor; you are on the wrong scent, but if you will only wait a little you may hear more of both personages.

By a letter received from an Australian in London, who take- great interest in Australian sporting matters, we learn that Trickett is in splendid buckle, that I c has altered the fittings of his boat materially, and rows with 'shorter sculls inboard. He has also discarded the rudder, and rows with his feet encaeed in shoes screwed on the stretcher, a la Hanlan. He must hare been rowing in fixed shoes when he capsized at Saratoga. The practice is a very dangerous one, and ought never to be adopted except at regattas, where assistance is always at hand.—Sydney Bulletin.

It is astonishing to what extent zealots will go, or what inconvenient expediencies they will resort to when they take a thing in hand If Smith is a Good Templar, the vengeance of Heaven is hardly enough punishment for the man who drinks a glass of beer. Jones is a Protest ant, and he revels in the thought that Robinson, who is a Catholic, will {a* we once heard a gentleman piously wish) " frizzle on the ramparts of Hell;" while Brown, belonging to neither, believes that all religions but his own will lead men to perdition. These men who inflate themselves with such fulsome bigotry, and wrap themselves up in such selfish exclusiveness, do not, unfortunately, think that others scan them, as they scan others. They conclude that there is but one way to do anything, and that way is theirs—P.B. Standard.

Ukdeb the heading of " A Warning to Bankrupts " the Lytt-lton Times tells of an insolvent in Cbriatchurch who recently absolutely refused, when ordered to do co by his creditors' trustee, to give the customary information respecting his property, and set the trustees at defiance. A few hours after his refusal an application was made in Chambers to Mr Justice Johnston, who immediately itsued an order to the refractory debtor to submit to be examined by the trustee within three hours oi the service of the order, failing which he was to be at once committed to Addington Gaol, there to remain (without bail) until he arrived at a more submissive frame of mind. It is needless to say that, the bankrupt at once saw the error of bis ways, and mate the desired statement.

Among the papers laid before Parliament is a copy of the remonstrance addressed to the Secretary of State against the introduction of Chinese by the Gorerninent of Western Australia at tbe public expense, as executed by the members of the late Intercolonial Conference at Sidney. The remonstrance points out that the population of the six colonies represented by them is over 2.50 C.OOO, while the population of the Crown ColouA of Western Australia is under 30,000 souls, and that in all the six colonies a strong feeling prevails in opposition to the unrestricted introduction of Chinese, this apposition arising principally from a desire to preserve and perpetuate the British type in the various populations. An immigration form is appended, as issued by the Government of Western Australia, showing that it is prepared to import Chinese immigrants, in batches of 50, at the public expense, provided employers guarantee 12 months' employment, and wage* as follows: —Bough carpenters, £2 5s per month, with food and lodging ; shepher Is, £2 ditto; house servants, £1 15s ditto. The representatives state that if Western Australia persists in her policy, it cannot fail to engender among the people of the other colonies a seme of public injury and of resentment, as it cannot be expected that the people who object to receiving Chinese immigrants direct from Chins will submit to their arrival by way of Western Australia. The remonstrance it signed by the representatives of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Now Zealand.—Herald.

Lotkbs of oysters had better call at A. Cullen's, where a fresh supply of those delicacies have jnst been reoei?ed.

Fbom a notice in another column it will be seen that the Sbortland Wesleyan Sunday School will be re-opened on Sunday next, on which occasion special services will be held in the Church, the Rev. J. T. Pinfold officiating.