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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3967, 15 September 1881, Page 2

Tjir Medical Officer to Ithe \Board of, Heal h, Dr Payne is offering a banus of £10 to anyone placing at his disposal a heifer afflicted with natural cow-pox.

We hear that Col. Fraser is negotiating for a newspaper plant with the object of starting another paper at Tnuranga. ;

A very large number of the friends of the late Robert Wingate followed liis remains to. the cemetery this afternoon. The Scottish Battalion and the other volunteers mustered in force, the bunds playing music suitable to such a solemn occasion. ,

Ik reply to a question, Ministers stated Government had. make prevision for the destitute natives in the Middle Island, and would continue doing so in the case of deserving natives. To such a sl;>to of pauperism will many of the. natives of this island come to unless the nefarious system of land sharking it put n stop to by the legislature. "

Therk was no business at the R.M. Court this morning.

A fbiend of ours »sked the question,"What good are the olives.?" We replied, "For the fruit they bear, from which id manufactured olive oil ; they 1 are aleo good pickled." And what do you do with thorn then, said our friend, " Why eat them ?.."■ "No thank you'J replied lie ? I was onee~pbi!osopher enough to try pickled olives, and when you catch me at that game again, you cull me a fool."— SelaJi. :■...-'■ :■--■■ ■■■•;-

Mb Radford, manager of the Alburnia Company is cal ing for tenders for driving on the ons of Freedom level.

The Service of Song, which the Auckland Band of Hope Union has arranged to bring to the Thames, promises to be very successfully rendered. A choir and orchestra of 100, an efficient organist and le«der, and such a reader as Mrs Hampton should a'tract a large number of visitors to the Academy of Music to-morrow afternoon and evening. Tlie afternoon.""performance, is arranged specially for ladies and children, and we would strongly advise those to avail themselves of tho opportunity afforded Copies of the words of the service will bo supplied. The history of the Cornish miner is highly interesting, and told in Mark Guy Pearse's best style, and how he became a blind fiddler is related by Mrs Hampson with all its pathos and simplicity. »

A tbiegkaji says it i* rumoured that tho Governor's disregard for the cjlony is bo great that be will probably be absent for several months, and will not return to administer th* affdirs of New Zealand. It is on the cards that he will be removed to a neighbeurin colony, where he will be handier to Polynesia, and will then be in a better position to perform the dual office of Governor and High Commissioner. .

In our report of the evidence given by one of the witnesses (Frederick Stone) at the inquest yesterday, a slight discrepancy occurred. Instead of " heard a voice overhead" it should have read " heard a noise overhead." The error was purely a printer's one. .

Mb J. B. Fisher gave notice in the House tojmove that tlie constitution of the Legislative Council should be amended, und settled upou the following basis :—(1) The council to consist of fifty members, liolaing office for fire years, and no longer. (2) The number now, short of fifty, and all future vacancies to be Glled by election, conducted by Hire's system; (3) The present members of the Council to be deemed und taken to hi elected for-Jlie next succeeding five years. (4) Every' nominee, member resigning his ofliua within sit months from the passing of tba bill hereiuafter referred to shall receive the sufn of £600 for compensation. *rilmt a bill to give effect to the foregoing proposition be prepared by Government, and introduced into Parliament during its next session. In un article on Fiji affair&^ii contemporary says :—Wj.fiave UListion-i-y evidence that the natives are now brginni g to kill white men as a nieana of earning uu, honorable distinction ainon^ |]tpir' fellows. From that evidenco we loirii that a savuge orator stirred up a noble spirit of emulation in (ho dusky brea-ts of his '■auditors, by tuunling tho rTwifcu. the fact: that IhVy had KB»er killud a while inun, whoreas ho and his people had-put. quite a number of ■Ihem out of the way. Tiiis fact shows us. • what is.probtbly a n ;W —nml what certaiuly is ii' very powerful—incentive to the murder of "oiir couiitrymo' ; and if mutters are- uilowed to go on us tit present, we thalt soon find " Your father ntver k.lled a white man ".used as a cjmuion taunt between the isl ■ndore in their quarrels, juct hs ''Your father nerer saw white man's lurid " is used among the Bptutnuns, that nation of sailors, at the present day.

We regret to lnar that another viclim has succumbed to scarlet fever—we refer to Mas*, ter John .Whyte, who died last night. About three weeks ago;he wns altuokad by the fever; and hud, as his friends thought, safely passed the crisis, but, venturing out too soon, he suffered a relapse, which his weakened system was unable to withstand. He was for a long time a scholar at the Xtuaeranga Boys' School, aud was a general favorite With nil who knew him. When Mr Gh N. Phillips took charge of the Wuio-Karaka School, Master Wbyte followed him, and there also he gained tlio esteem and confidence of both scholars and .master?. On leaving school he went to tho Telegraph Office as a messenger, and before long was taken into the operating room, and was, until his late illnrss, employed therein, advancing rapidly: in the knowledge of his profession. He was a lad of great promise, and would no umbt have made a capital operator. We feel sure Mm Sullen has the sympathy of all who knew her son, a* well as her own numerous friend*, in her bereavement. .

A cjebespondent of the Lyttletcn Times contends that the Liguriun bees lately introduced are (i^tyojiug other bees aud taking

tbe honey. Ho urges that measures should a r onoe be taken to destroy them. He says :— "If the Acclimatisation Society does not take any steps to abate the nuisance, I am determined that the whole of the colony Bhall be made acquainted with tho real nature of the bees, bo that no beekeepers will remain in ignorance of the matter."

The Government have stated that nominations for immigrants from the Home country were accepted, subject to fie approval of Government, but if they thought n't they had a perfect right to roturn these nominations, and refund tho deposits.