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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3968, 16 September 1881, Page 2

Mb Skddok, it would appear, is desirous of making the law of divorce of man and wife even more easy than in America, for his proposal, which was rejected by the House last sight, was to the effect that either parly could claim a divorce upon one being convicted of drunkenness three times. We dare say there are men who would submit to the disgrace of being a convicted drunkard to get rid of a bad or.Bcolding wife.

An influential meeting was held in Auckland yesterday to promote the formation of a steam company, to be called the Auckland and South Pacific Steam Company, with a capital of half a million. Upwards of 5000 shares were subscribed for in the room.

At a meeting of the Auckland Waste Lands Board, it was stated that 122,000 peres were declared waste lands of the Board by the Government.

The Counties Act Amendment Sill has been thrown out for this session. The Sill provided for the rating of Highway districts.

Obime on the Thames seems to be on the wane; for the past four days the police have not been able to catch even a solitary "drunk."

The Legislative Council adjourned yesterday as a mark of respect to the memory of the late M? Moorhouse, M.JELR.

The Licensed Victuallers Association of Dunedin have telegraphed to the Hon Mr Dick and other members of the Conference on the Licensing Bill, covering a resolution condemning the Bill, and showing reasons why it should be allowed to stand over till next Parliament. .

The Hopeful annual meeting is advertised. Mb D. Gk Macdorinell advertises in the matter of the Columbia Gold Mining Com pany and the annual meeting of , the Old Golden Calf. Mb Lbtdon holds a miscellaneous sale at auction to-morrow.

The school holidays are advertised by. Mr Rice.

The following tenders were received by the Borough Council yesterday for the erection of a bridge over the Karaka Creek in Queen street, in a line with Pollen street bridge. The tenders are very close, the lowest being within six pounds of the estimate made by the Foreman of Works. The following are the tenders:—H, Hay, £211 ss; A. Boyer, £211; .McDermoU and Griffiths, £217 j li. N. Smith £259; W. Mclntosb, £182; Thompson and Binclair, £247 ; Mucandrew, £228 % J. Punch £217 10s; Scbofield and Co., £190 15s; Al Hanlin, £229; T. G. Cornea, £170 (accepted): •',:, . ■ :..-■.- - „/.:. :.;

The Auckland Board of Health, acting on professional advice, and, in their opinion, according to law, have decided to send to Sydney to have a cow vaccinated with matter from some of the small pox patients, with the purpose of using the variolous matter here for vaccinating purposes. We have already endeavoured to show that such a course was dangerous and unsafe—a course from which deaths have already occurred—and altogether unnecessary. It may, however, have more effect on the minds of the members of the Board of Health to call their attention to the fact which they and their adviser or advisers, ought to have known —namely, that the course they have adopted is illegal, and is punishable by a heavy penalty. Clause 158 of the Publn Health Act, 1876, is as follows : — " Any person who, after iho passing of this Aot shall produce, or attempt-to produce, in •ny person by inoculation with variolaus nutter, or by wilful exposure to vuriolous mbtter, or to any matter, article, or thing impregnated with rvariolous . ai*tter, or wilfully by any other - m ans whatever, produce the disease of -small-pox in any person, who shall use vaccine lymph not produced or formed in the manner defined in this part of the Act, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to be prooeeded against summarily, and upon conviction to pay a penalty not exceeding-£lO, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month."

CoiiONBL Bullur in the Contemporary Review gives the following description of common Irish scenery : —" It is midsummer —the blue-grey limestone road stretches away over hill and dale—dlistless, grass bordered and eilent. On the ditches, over the fields, arid up the rounded hillt the grass is green as ouly Irish graas cau bo—soft-greau in the phadowe, goldeu-|re&p -whej-e the sua, now

sinking slowly towards the west, touches it with slanting beam—many meadows are deep in yellow ilagger lilies, the corncrake is loud amid the tufts of meudowsweet, and the outline of the bills lies in wonderful cleitrneas against the sky; there are dark patches of bog and lighter bits of heather scattered here and there, with uores of potatoes in blossom and fields of

—Droopiiig oats 'Bhrougli wliioh the poppies show their scarlet coats. Now and again on either side of the road ii solitary shuttered tower stands out upon v bare bill-side, or a rounded 'ralh/ fringed with thorn bushes, is seen, and often the ivied gable 6. a roofless church rises near the roadside—the ruined reminders of forgotten times."