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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4016, 11 November 1881, Page 2

Several residents of the Watotahi are anxious to know by whose authority the chandeliers were ,takon from the sohoolroom yesterday. It is said the object was to inconvenience the candidate who addressed the electors last evening. We understand that Captain Morris had a telegram yesterday from the G-overnmenfcj stating that instructions had been givon to proceed with the construction of a line of telegraph from Tauranga to Pacroa and on to the Thames by the line of the County road. A young Maori girl of 18 years, died at Ohineoiulu this week from inflammation of the lungs. She had been ailing for some time, and he; fiienda believed she had been bewitched, so they sent her outside the whare during a terrible storm oa Monduy night in order to drive the taipo out of her. She died the following morning. A cbiokbx match was played in the Parawai gardens on Wednesday, November 9th, bo. tweeu the Union C.C. and the Kauaeranga School, with masters combined, which resulted in an easy victory for the Union CO. by one innings and 14 ru.is. The bowling- of Muir and Brown for the, Union was excellent. The batting alio of Brown and Adlam for the Union was good, and the bowling of Morgan and Pearce for the Kauaerang i was fair. Me Wm, Carpenter, a candidate for re-elec-tion to the County Council for the Parawai riding, met the electors at the schoolhouee Parawai last night. Mr Alexander Hume was elected chairman.' There was not a very large attendance. Mr Carpenter at great length narrated the chief doings of the County Council during the last three years. He | referred to his efforts to reduce the office expenditure, and the reduction which were at one time mac>e, in the salaries of Chairman,. Engineer, Treasurer, and Clerk. He showed that he had succeeded in securing for Parawai fully £700 in excess of the total amount of the revenue contributed by the ratepayers Ho attached great weight to the ill effects of the several petitions by residents to merge j into the Borough, and believed that the district lost betweeen £3GO and £400 thereby. By a calculation rcade by him, ho found the official expenditure, or the cost of administration of the affairs of the County, was equal to 9 per cent, upon the receipts. He was greatly opposed to the late increase in the salaries of the Connty Chairman and Engineer, but having found his opposition overruled, he had nothing left but to submit. He held that members of the Council gave to their public duties about forty days in the year, and he thought £100 88 a bonus would compensate for the extra time given by the Chairman. After the address, which lusted an hour and a half, Mr Carpenter answered several, questions. Mr Hume asked if the wages paid workmen employed on works done from special votes was charged to the particular vote or to a general uccount for wages. Mr Carpenter: i Charged against the particular vote. Mr I Hume asked the circumstances under which a road through the Waitoki block had been undertaken. Mr Carpenter said although he opened the tenders for that particular road, he was not aware the work was for the Waitoki block, as in the tenders it was called by another name. Had he known the true position, he would have opposed the work. Mr Hume uskfcd other questions about the mission bridge, the mode of keeping the accounts, 4c, after which Mr Osburne proposed that Mr Carpenter receive a vote of thanks for his pa:-t services. This was carried unanimously.

A German steamer has been seized in the Dardanelles with 20 tons of dynamite on board, which it was intended to have discharged at the seaport of Odessa, in the Black Saa, and Taganrog, v fortified town in the Sea of Azof. l< ourteen thousand cartridges of dynamite had been previously landed in Sj?ria and the islands of the Grecian Archipelago. The Nihilists are suspected of being connected with tho shipment. Mb Thomas Sexton, member for County Sligo, and a prominent member of the Home Rule party, is seriously ill. His condition is such that bis medical advisors havo given up hope and believe him to bo dying. Mb Wbst, of Willoughby street, having taken two first prizes at the Agricultural Show, his workmen had in waiting for him last night, on the arrival of the Rotomahana, two open carriages, one of which Mr Hunter's brass band occupied, and played appropriate airs from the wharf to Mr West's residence. A large number of persons had congregated in Willoughby street, and Mr West was greeted with cheers. Mb R. X Smitli will address the electors at Puriri to-night, Mr Bagnall on Saturday evening, while Monday evening will be taken up by Mr Murdoch's address to the electors of Farawni. The Thames Rifle Rangers parade for inspection to-night. The Taranaki Herald publishes a romantic story, which has reached New Plymouth,"with reference to the death of a daughter of Hone Pih ma, the well known native chief. Sne desired to go to Parihaka, in order to be near her lover, but n onePihama resolutely forbade her going there, and adopted measures to prevent her going, so she appeared to be very low spirited, and on Friday last she was missed from the settlement at Oeo. On search being made her dead body was bund lying at the foot of a cliff, the unfortunate girl having ended her grief by ending her existence. A OAioaaAM dated Capetown, October Bth says :—There have been very serious riots at Port Elizabeth among the natives. The PiogaU and Zulus, on the night of the 4th, attacked the Kaffirs and drove them right out of their location, ransacking their huts and killing every living thing, v even the dogs. Eighty of the citizens were sworn as special constables, with orders to quell the disturbance at all costs. Owing to these measures the town l>as now become quiet.