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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3993, 15 October 1881, Page 2

We have authority for stating that Mr A. J. Gadman, the popular and highly respected Chairman of the Ooromandal County Council, is a candidate for the rep mentation of the Coromandel electorate at the ensuing election, and that his address will appear in our Monday's issue. We are glad to see that Mr Cadman has at length decided to enter the lists, and to hear also that his chances of success are very good. He can depend oa a large majority of the votes from Coromandel propee, and should have a good following from this district. In politics he is a consistent supporter of the Liberal.party. ' Theke was no business at the R.M. Court this morning.

Now that the roads about Paercu are fit for traffic we hops the Government will loss bo liuie in proceeding frith th« construction of

the telegraph line between that place and th Thames. The residents should urge the Government to proceed with the work, m the mining prospects of tho district would likely keep the line fully employed. .

PuorESSOE Webten gives his initial performance in the Acadomy of Music to-night. We cannot at present do more than remind our readers of the entertainment,, but may refer to it more fully after haviog witnessed it.

Mb Tho3. Scanlan, tho contractor for the cutting on the Kuuaeranga Valley Road, writes uf denying in tolo the allegations m«de by "XY.Z" in a let,t.er, wh oh appeared in last night's Stab. He bhjs tho contract is not noarly finished yet, aud that. " X.Y.Z.' is a coward to try and injure him in the manner he tries to do. If " X.V Z " will publish his name next time ho writes, it would loak more straightforward.

Thb prospectus of the Morrineville and Rotorua railway will be notified in the course of next week. Tho capital will bo in £1 shares, and already the principal merchants and leading business men of Auckland have largely invested. The number of shares will very likely be two hundred thousand, on which only small calls will be made at intervals ranging over periods of throe months. It is said Mr Rollesion has handed over charge of native matters in Ttirauakito Major Atkinson. The gallaut Mijor will no doubt find time to do a little electioneering as well as settling up with Te Whiti. Mr Rolleston will do a bit of electioneering for his party, visiting in turn, the. West Coaßt of the Middle Island, Auckland, and probably the Thames and Coromandel.

Mb Louis Melhose has kindly left at our office a plan of the Waihi G-olrifield which he has had lithographed. It shows in a plain and concise manner the position of the several claims in that promising district, and should be of considerable value to speculators and others. The plan was drawn by Mr L. Jackson, and copies are for eale by Mr Melhose. The Rev T. Spurgeon has gone to Coromandel, but will return in time to take part in the installation services of the Rev Mr Carter, new pastor of Fonsonby Baptist Chur h, on Tuesday next. Tbe members of the Baptist 0' urch on the Thames should invite Mr Spurgeon to visit the goldfield. Thbee settlers are now on Messrs Grant and Foster's block —Mr Roche and Mr Squirrel, 1500 acres, and Mr Craig 650 acreß.

The £2000 grant for the CambridgeTmirunga road, it is stated, will be divided between the Piuko County Council and tho Tauranga County. The Wanganui Herald states that the Government have decided to put a stop to the natives fencing at Parihaka on the 17th. The Sank of New Zealand will observe a general holiday at all their establishments throughout the Colony on Monday next. The occasion is the celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of the Bank.

Me Gr. V. Stwabt transmits to the Bay of Plenty Times a telegram from Mr Hall declining to etand for Tauranga, and in doing so Bays:—" His choice of me as the channel through which to communicate his decision to the electors I am entitled to regard us evidently showing his intention to further my candidature."

Ii is not known when the Moanatairi Company intend to start working on the oo operative basis, but when they do, all the hands at present in their employ intend to " seek fresh fields and pastures new."

PaoM a communication about which there can be no doubt, we learn that the telegrams sent from Hamilton, relative to the appointment of Mr Carrick to the editorship of>tbe Waikato Times were without foundation. It will be remembered these telegrams led us to write the complimentary paragraph about Mr Carrick, and which our contemporary took leave to question. It would now appear the telegrams were sent from Hamilton to cause some little annoyance to the staff of the Times, but our reference to the subject was simply made out of reapecfc for a fellow journalist, and nobaa a reflection upon the present editor of the Waikalo Times, a gentleman we have had the pleasure of meeting, »nd of whom we hold a very high opinion. We felt a little aunoyunce with our contemporary for, as wo thought, eueering at the terms in which we thought fit to speak of Mr Carrick's abilities, and were perhaps a little hasty in roplying thereto.

Owing to business matters requiring the presence of Captain Alex. Mennie in Auckland he has been reluctantly compelled to Bever his official connection with the Thames Naval Cadets with which, and the old Scottish Cadets, he has been connected for the past eight years. Mr W. J. Barlow has, we understand, been nominated far the vacancy, and at a meeting of the Company held laßt night signified his willingness to accept the post. From the interest taken by Mr Barlow in volunteer matters, we should think the Company will in no way deteriorate under bis command.

This Scottish Battalion will hold a meeting after their usual drill to-night.

The Licensing Act provides that meeting of the committee ahall be held a*; noon "on suoh one of the iirab ten days in December March, June, and September in each year, as shall be appoinled by tlio returning officer— the June meeting to be the annual licensing meeting." The business to bo transacted on fcheae occasions is delitiod a« follows:-—"To consider all applications for certificates of license as ai*e authorised to be granted, and the renewal, transfer, or removal thereof, of which due notice'.shall-have, been given to the committee for the district in whicih the premises are situated." It will thus be seen the committee has aa large powers ,as the licensing bench under the old systeta po.-sessed. It has the power absolutely to refuse any license in its discretion, and there is no effectual remedy against arbitrary or unequal decisions except tho influence of public opinion acting witbin a very narrow compass. The committee elects its own chairman, and regulates its own proceedings. 'It is not surprising, therefore, 1 writes a coatemporary, ' thatjSir W. Fox glorifies in the anticipation of a ' big row' once a year over the elections of these committees. TheQood Temper organisation v t ill lose no time in disposing its forces and preparing for the fray. The publicans; on the other hand, will be compelled from the necessity of self-preserva-tion, to organise and carry the elections, so that at any rate fair and impartial men may be on the committees."—W. Times.

The New Zealand Tablet says:—"The Borough Council at the Thames has thought good to reprimand a minister who, the other day, visited a lady < upposed to be at the point of death from scarlatina. It would appear, then, that the over-careful, ond uselessly careful, order of the day is on the point of making illness of an infectious disorder a kind of criminal offence, against which there is to> be issued sentence of death without benefit of olergy. We doubt, however, whether, while any pretence of religion still exists, the selfish and cowardly progress of the times will be permitted without loud protest to advance quite go far as this.

A " WO3KCUG man," writing to the Star, ia very hard upon Dr Wallis, and quotes largely from Hansard the doctor's utterances on some of the questions of the day. Among other extracts, he gives the following remarks of the member for City West on the Eailway Question :—"I would ask this vary important question: How did the railway policy inaugurated ten Tears ago affect our matters—4

numerous class in this comiiiunity—l mean | tho working classes ? I say it has prevented wages fiom being lowered to a large extent. It has raised wages 30 or 50 per cent, in many parts of the colony. If it, be true that thia railway policy lias enormously raised the wages of the labourers, artisans, aud the working classes generally, the logical conclusion is that the working classes ought to be specially rated for the support of these railways. It is true that the. working classes contribute through the Customs dutios. But would the honorable member for Motueka vote for an increase of the Customs duties paid by the working man? Wo, he daro not do so. The towns have largely beuefitted by the railways, especially the large centres of population, aad the working classes, in so far as the wages are greater than they were in 1869 and 1870, have been greatly benefitted aud therefore a tax ought to be put upon them."