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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3959, 6 September 1881, Page 2

Tekdebs for a number of works were being opened at the BoroughCOouncil as we wen t to press. - ;■; ■ ■:- ; ';'... ■';■ . ■,'''.•'•■■ ■■■'•"• ' We are sorry to see that Lieutenant Brownlow'a resignation has been accepted by the.Government, as Mr Btownlow has been one of the moat assiduous and efficient officers of the Thames Volunteers. In two several corps he has held commissions with credit to himself and satisfaction tohis brother officers and comrades—hence we are sorry to learn that his services as first Lieutenant of the No. 1 Scottish .have ceased. Lieut. Heron becomes senior Lieutenant of that Company through Mr Brownlow's retirement. The Scottish. (Cadets and St George's Cadets have been amalgamated, and now form one corps under the command of Captain Meanie the senior captain, aad "the company will in future be known by the designation of the Thames NavalCadeta. • f What with the -inclement weather, and the sickness 1 of several of the members, the Liberal Association meeting was bub poorly attended last evening. Dr Kilgour opens the subject of " Insular Separation " next Monday evening. » News is to hand under date of yesterday from Limerick ttiat a serious eviction riot has taken place there between the police and the people. The police succeeded in dispersing the rioters, of whom fifteen were severely wounded in the encounter which took place. We learn that a further injunction has been placed upon the Martha claim by Mr J. H. Nicholls, pending an appeal to the Supreme Court upon the recent ruling of the Warden in reference i o the question of estoppel raised during the recent hearing of the, case. In the event 1 of the appeal going in favor of the plaintiffs, it is said a new trial will be instituted, and a searching .investigation n>ade into all the facts connected with the suit. '

Ouit Wellington correspondent, says: —A man name Hoderick McDonald was charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday with stealing a set of bagpipes, the propertyof a Mr MeLellau, on the 10th May last. It appears that prisoner and prosecutor: were driu&ing together, when prosecutor asked prisoner to_giv.e him a tune on-tHe pipes, which prisoner did. After playing "The Cameron Men," he .finished with thu "Rogue's March,"' and being fascinated with; the itißtrment took his departure with'the pipes. The dsfence h<*.»et up was that they were all dru.uk abjtlie .time he took them. He would have returned them had ho known prosecutor's address. But this tale did n^fc have the desired effect on the Magistrate, who ordered McDonald to undergo two months' imprisonment. THE Waihi Q-oldmiuiug Company are t calling ior tenders for the erection of a battery, water-race, arid tramway. Mr Bayldoii will give all partieulara. Tenders to be addressed to Mr A; Porber. | . The Orphanage Committee meet this I afternoon.