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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4026, 23 November 1881, Page 2

This is the last day for the electors to register their claims to vote at the General Election on 9th December next. As it appears that some electors may lose their chance of registration owing to their being employed at a distance until after 4 p.m., when the Government Offices close, the Registrar of Electors for the districts of Coromandel and Thames wishes us to notify that he will attend at his office from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m. this evening, for the purpose of receiving applications and cor* recting any error that may be pointed out to him in the printed Electoral Rolls for the above mentioned districts.

The Volunteers who hare recently returned from the front have been treated in a disgracefully parsimonious manner by the Government. After signing an agreement to serve for two months "at least" the Government wish to only pay them for the actual time they were on service. Such a disgraceful I action on the part of the present Government would scarcely have been contemplated by the Volunteers, or indeed very few would have responded to the call to arms. We are informed that Major Withers bas instructions to pay the men for one month only. We would advise the men to stand firm, and insist on the agreement being carried out in its integrity. If the Government do not pay their just liabitities to the brave men who have assisted in the demonstration at Farihaka, they will find that when next the Volunteers are wanted they will not be willing to serve. The following is the balance sheet of the Flower Show, held on November 15th, 1881 : —Receipts; Money taken at doors, £30 5s 6d; sale vegetables and fruit—prizes returned* £9 2s; caßh given for prizes and not used— Mr Symington 10s, Mrs Frater 10s, Mr Jurvis Is 6d, Mr Gellion 10a 6d, Mr L. J. Bagnall, sa; total, £41 4s 6d. Expenditure : Mr Curtis, for hall and gas, £3 13a 6d ; Mr Wilkinson, advertising, £i 143j Mr McOullough, ditto, £3 16s; Mr Marshall, calico, 6s ; Washing calico, 5s ; cartage of prizes, 2s 6d ; telegram*, 3a 9d ; ferns, 5s j man for fixing tables, 6a; total, £13 lls 9d; balance to Society, £27 12s 91—£41 4j Gel. The Committee desire to thank all persons who to kindly gave prizes for the Show. The Bay of Plenty Times says:—ln reference to the so-called peach blight, an experienced horticulturist suggests that the cause may be the trees getting bark-bound. Peach trees he says are liable to get barkbound, which prevents the sap circulating, and the result is that the trees die or else become almost moribund. The remedy is to slit the batik from the grouad right up to the

first, fork, so as to allow the sup freedom to circulate. This is an easy remedy, which might be adopted by everyone, and whether efficacious or not it would not injure the trees. Mk James Walsh, bo long in business as a butcher in Bolleston street, baa purchased from Mr Eead his store and public house at Owharoa. Mr Walsh has already had plans prepared for additions'to the house, and intends to largely increase the accommodation. Mr Walsh, with hia well known bußineßß qualities, is cure to succeed in his new line of business. At a meeting held this afternoon of the sub-corn mittee appointed at the last meeting ot the Borough Council to take steps to urge upon the Government, tho continuation of the Thames-Waikato railway, it was resolved to communicate with'the Couuly Gouncil and BBk that a committee should be appointed to act in conjunction with the Borough subcommittee. Wb would draw attention to the sale of Sergeant Mulville's household furnitnre and effects, which -will take place on the premises, Amy street, Beach, at 11 o'clock, tomorrow. We would advise our numerous readers to pay a visit to the gardens owned by Mr frtilwell, of Parawai. Great attention has been paid to make thes.i gardeuß really worth a visit, and the utmost success has been achieved by the proprietor. Anyone going to see the superb roses and other fbwers will, we feel sure, be highly pleased with tha exhibition. i A nabbow escape from death ocourred to a man named James Rorke, of Tairua, a bush contractor. On Monday he was engaged in cutting the bough off a tree, and by some means accidentally got under it as it fell. The blow rendered: him senseless, but he recovered slightly on being attended to by one of his co-workmen who bad a slight knowof the practical surgery necessary.

The Tablet says:-Captain Wilkes of the American navy arrived in New Zealand in time to wi'ness the gravest event in its history. He saw Captain William Hobaon land at the Bay of Islands on January 29, 1849, accompanied by a military force, and bearing a treaty, that would justly be named hereafter the act of taking possession of New Zealand by Great Britain. The American officers report that the arrival of Mr Hobson in the character of Governor appeared to surprise both the European inhabitants and the Natives. As the treaty obliged to nothing less than the abandonment of the lands and all authority in favour of Queen Victoria, on one side there were seen the most lively protestations, on the other they had recourse to unheard of efforts to convince the population Nothing having been gained at the first meeting; they again called together the inhabitants of every race. Tobacco and p:p'es were offered to the islanders to put them in good humour; the Europeans were urgently assured that they would derive a great advantage from the treaty. The aborigines never intended to surrender their right to the soil, and on the contrary, thought that it was guaranteed to them. But what matter if Captain Hobson met with the most; serious opposition up to end ; he hud snatched away some signatures, and the British Government could not fail to hold as perfectly valid the Act that is named after the place where it was signed, the Treaty of Waitangi.