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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3960, 7 September 1881, Page 2

It was carried at the meeting of the Harbour Board last evening that port charges be remitted on local productions. la 1 is now understood that the business of the session will bs pushed on with all possible rapidity and that should any further obstrution be attempted by the Opposition the questions may be pub without debate. There are still rumours of a no-confidence, motion, but I cannot learn anything authentic about it. The prevailing opinion now seems to be that the session will be finished before the end of the month.—Herald. The Waste Lands Board,of dtugo granted leases of 320 acres to the Caswell Sound Marble Company, and Government made some further concession iv the way of carrying., freight in the Government steamers. Wfl believe there is only one hotel ia Cambridge who provides the novelty of a barman who plays billiards with his nose, and is able to concede to the best of players forty points out of fifty. This rather extraordinary person (we do not think we could call him a " luaus naturce ") is prepared at any lime to accept challenges from those who doabt his expertness with his most prominent facial organ; of course he is allowed to chalk the end of his proboscis as ordinary players do their cue. —Waikato .Mail. A NEW light is to bo erected iv the channel of the Kauaeranga creek. The following were the tenders for the silt works :—W. (Montgomery, £930 — extra stone, 6s 6d per cubic yard; Samuel Montgomery, £1089; McDurmott and Griffiths, £1185 -extra stone, 7s per yard ;P. Trainor, £737105; A. Butler, £749—extra stone, 6s 3d per yard; G. P. Hilton £1194 19s; M. Casey, 1284 10a—extra stone, 10s per yard ; J. Horn, £650—extra stone, [6s per cubic yard. Thbbe was no business at the R.M. Court this morning. Rbndms, the Post Office official of Uapier, was yesterday sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for having skeleton keys in his possession. He said he had found them in the lodgings previously occupied by him, buh had not used them. The object of dealing summarily with him in this charge was to prevent an application being made for bail, pending the sittinga of the Supreme Court on the various charges of opening letters and stealing the contents. He was committed i for trial.

Wb learn that a summons is being pre pared againab the Bey. Mr Davies in that he •visited -without permission Mrs Gibbons, the woman sick of the acarlot fever. The " Tourists" will open for a season of two nights at the Academy of Music on next Tuesday night. Thr Borough Council are colling for ten-; dors for a bridge over the Karuku Creek at Queen street. The plans aud specifications pre f ared by Mr Itawdon may be seen at the Borough Chambers. Thk Warden publishes notices under section 109 of the Mining District Act in tho matter of applications for forfeited ground at Te Arob.it. Applications for licensed at Waitekauri are also notified. The House commenced sitting at 11 o'oloek to»day, and will continue tho practice of sitting on each. Wednesday and Thursday ac that hour for the remainder of tho session. | Last Saturday afternoon, it having become i known that Mr A. Phillips, manager for \ Messrs Ehrenfried Bros., was about to sever his connection with the firm, the employees of the brewery, by the bands of Mr Wardell, presented Mr Phillips with a handsome locket and an illuminated address. Mr Wardell, in a lengthy speech, referred to Mr Phillips' long connection with the brewery, and t/e uniform good feeling th it had always existed between the employees of the firm nnd Mt Phillipß as managor. He wished Mr Phillips, on behalf of the men, every success in his new sphere of duties. Mr Phillips returned thanks in a suitable manner. The gentleman was accompanied to the sceamer by a large number of friends, who cheered him as the steamer pulled off from the wharf. In another column a notice appears under .the hand of Mr McCuliough, inviting all persons not on the electoral rolls to ciil at the Stab Office and prooure the necessary forms. An entertainment is to be given in the Academy of Music on ti-e evening of the 27th instant, in aid of the funds of St. George's Sunday School. The advertisement says it will be a surprise to those who come to see it. Hebe is an extract from a verdict recently returned by a Victorian jury :—" That come insurance companies are responsible for a large per centagc of the incendiarism which takes place, by accepting risks far above tho value insured, thereby offering a premium to dishonest people, to the disadvantage of those who insure to protect themselves against total loss in case of accidental fire." Another attempted outrage, which is attributed to Fenian . agents has been discovered at Birmingham, at the railway station of that city. The attention of the authorities was directed to a package forwarded for transmission, and which purported to contain boots. There were, however, 6UB--picious circumstances connected therewith, and the package was opened and examined. 'It was found to contain a considerable quantity of gunpowder. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police. The Irish Land League purposes making a presentation of v farm to Michael Davitt, one of the moßt prominent agitators. Davitt, who was at large on a ticket-of-leave, was re-arrested a tew months ago on account of seditious utterances, and is now confined in Kilmainham gaol. The Government have Bt&teA that the' expenditure of the voTuhteejl' vote would .fee in accordance with a report to be obtained from a board of officers to 'consider the question of reorganising thn 1 force, as recommended by General Davidton and Col. Scratchley.

Dk M. P. G-beenswobd (Medical Summary) was accidentally led to regard nitrate of Bilver ac a remedy for worms. Further use of this drug has convinced him that it is one of the most potent agen a We'have for the' destruction and expulsion of worms. He gives a teaspoonful three times a day, of a solution of five grains of nitrate of silver in six ounces of rain water.

SPEAKING of the ihferntl machines sent to England a New York paper Bays : —"The whole plot waa carried out so idiotically that it gives rise to Mie suspicion that. the affair waa instigated by the English police agents who are maintained in America to watch Fenian proceedings, and whose business it is to discover such plots.

Gladstone has h^d a trying time witb the Land Bill, but it will probably become law at a very favorable time. The potato crop in Ireland is the most abundant that hrr been grown in twenty yearß, and the fisheries are unusually prolific. The scientists have never been able to explain why it is that a good potato year is always a good fishing season, and that when the rot is prevalent the fishing is poor. The peasants say it is "in tho air."