Untitled

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3982, 3 October 1881, Page 2

At tbe B. M. Court this morning one person was charged with being drunk, and disorderly in Queen street last night. He pleaded not guilty, but Constable McKay proved the offence. Sergt.-Major O'Grady said there were thirteen previous convictions against the prisoner, and Hia Worship cautioned the prisoner, and lined him ten shillings, or in default 48 hours imprisonment, H. Kenrick Esq, 8..M. occupied the Bench.

Richabd Sbeeljy, a bushman working at Tairua, met with a painful accident on Saturday. In felling a tree a branch rebouuded striking him in the abdomen und seriously injuring him. His mates took him to the Thames.

The funeral of Mrs Sophia Barnes O'Beilly took place yesterday afternoon, Mr Caldcr officiating at the burial service.

We learn that the sum of £17C0 was given for the steamer Te Aroha by the Thames River company. Captain Morris, of Tauranga, is likely to offer himself as a candidate for that district in the event of Mr Hall refusing to accede to the requisition now being sigaed asking him to allow himselt to be nominated as a candidate.

A kumsbe of gentleuin on the Th&mea bare had letters from Mr G. ■ "V. Stewart, of Ttturanga, asking for their support at. the coming elections. Some favorable replies were returned. ;

A COKC£EC is to be given in the schoolroom, l'araru^ on Friday evening next, the.proceeds of which are to be devoted'to the fuiMs of the Turaru Pesbyteriau Church, which at present are iv a rather languishing condition. Wo understand a rzty attractive' ptcsgrn^me is in couree of pr&paraiiou, , .■■,;,

Thk contract for straightening the Waiotahi Creek culvert beW the Queen of Beauty battery ia nearly completed, and the water was Mowing in ifc this morning. Judging from the fall from the battery to the beach, we Bhouid aay there will be no further difficulty in keeping the culvert clear of debris, even during a fresh.

The remains of the old Imperial Crown battery on the beach, Grahainstown, was blown down by the wind early this morning. The portion of the building left standing waß not in a very safe state; the supports to it were scanty. A giei. named Dora Keeneally, daughter of a Battler at Pukerimu, was killed on Saturday ia Auckland by being thrown out of a dray through the horse bolting.

Thb Rev. Mr Davies preached yesterday forenoon at St Georges Church, and Mr Calder in tbe evening. Large congregations assembled at the services. Mr Calder produced a very favourable impression, and will no doubt receive a hearty welcome when he takes charge of St George's.

A temeqbam from Coromaodel on Saturday says :—The Tokatea district crushinga are showing up well. The Colonial Company yielded 141ozs ; Comstock (12 tons), 113ozs. Hope Company is getting Btuff to battery Tierman's freehold company at the Tiki has started crushing.

A MEBTING- of the shareholders in the Rose mont and Nevada Licoused Holdings is to be held at the office of Mr Thomas Horsburgh on Thursday evening next.

Onk of the few men who have been in business on tho Thames for 12 years past—Mr W. Bobbet, of Pollen street, desires to again remind the public here thai; tins meat supplied by him is unsurpassed in quality by any to be had elsewhere, and that customers will find it to their advantage to pay his establishment a visit. A public meeting was lately held in Dune* din, when it was decided to erect a Btatue in that city to Eobert Burn;. A meeting of the shareholders in the Smile of Fortune will take place at Mr Horsbrugh's office, to-morrow. The business is to elect directors, and determine the future mode of working the mine.

An emergency meeting of Lodge Sir Walter Scott will be held to morrow evening at 7.30 p.m.

Fifteen cases of new season's drapery, to tbo order* of Mr S. Hetherington, of Pollen street, appear on the manifest of the ship Zsalandia, which arrived in Auckland on Thursday last.

The anniversary 6emce3 of the Grahams, town Wesleyan Bunday School were yesterday preached by the Rev. Mr Isitt, of A uckland, to large congro ations. In the morning the rev. gentleman delivered an eloquent and impremve sermon from the Bth chapter of John, 12th verse—" lam The Light of the World." In the afternoon he gave an address to the children, taking for his texts. "The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads." The rev. gentleman has a happy way of at once riveting the attention of the children, whom he exhorted to diligence and the fear and love of God. At the evening service the church was crowded to overflowing when the rev. gentleman gave an impressive address from the well-known text, " G-bd bo loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, &c." During the services special hymns were sung by the scholars, tssisted by the teachers, and were l endered in an highly creditable manner. MrH. Meachem presided at the harmonium. The amount of the col* lections for the day was £14 12s lOd. Tomorrow evening the annual soiree will be held in the schoolroom adjoining the Church, when, after tea, a programme usual to gatherings of this kind will be gone through.

Wbitino- about the situation on the West Const, the Free Lanca says :—•• Te Whiti is a more bogie, the Eaw-head and Bloody-bones of a nuisery tale. He Ims neither the romantic heroism of a Sjhamyl Dor the formidable numbers of a Silting Bull. Be is a mere commonplace nigger in a breech-clout, with the repulsive surroundings of dirt and squalor. There is nothing to distinguish him from the average type of savage beyond a certain degree of craftiness in disguising his utterances in enigmas. He is tae oracle of a New Zealand Bundaliuda. He veils his grovelling ignorance and seditious counsels in raving imaginings which pass for profound wisdom and inspired prophecy. He is one of the Frankensteine developed by a long course of maudlin pbilo-Maoiism amateur diplomatising, and pet-pampering."

Banana growing by the natives ut Mayor leland is proving very successful this reason, and the natives elsewhere ure so hopeful of the future of this industry that plauts are being brought from Mayor Island to Malapihi and Te Puna. By next season the trees will be properly tested, and should they succeed wel, a large export trade should be done, as nearly all the fruit of (his kind at present used in the colony has to be brought from the Islands. —Bay of Plenty Times.

There can not be nourishment in wine, beer, or spirits in the ordinary acceptation of thai word, because the quantity of nutritive matter in them is so small. Liebig, no enemy of beer, says this : "We can prove, with mathematical certainty, that as much flour or meal as can lie on the point of a table knife is more nutritious thau nine quarts of the best Bavarian beer j that v man who is able daily to consume that amount of beer obtains from it, in a whole year, in the most favorable case exactly the amount of nutritive constituents which is contained in a five pound loxi of bread, or in tbree pounds ol flesh." >Sj of wine | when we have taken from a glass of wine the ingredients known to be innutritious there is scarcely anythiug left but a grain or two of sugar. Pure alcohol, though a product dPhighly nutritive substances, is a mere poison—an übeolu c poiaou—the mortal foe of life in every one of its forms, animal and vegetable. If, therefore, these beverages do us good, it is not by supplying the body with nourishment. .