The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4032, 30 November 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1881.

The concert in aid of tbe Prize Fund of the Kauaeranga Schools, will take place this evening in tbe Theatre Royal. A most attractire programme has been drawn up, and a most enjoyable evening's amusement may be anticipated.

In another column Mr McCullough publishes hie address to the electors, in which he gives bis reasons for retiring in favor of Mr Sheeban.

Mb John Sheehan will address the electors of the Borough as. follows:—-To-morrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Academy of Mueic; on Friday, the 2nd December, at the Faeroa Public Hall; at the schoolroom, Parawei, on, Monday evening; at Tararu, on Tuesday; at Shortland on Wednesday next; and on Thursday evening (the night before the Poll) at the Academy of Music, at 8 o'clock.

. A HOST enthusiastic meeting of Mr A. Brodie's election committee was held last evening at the Greßham Hall. Several electors arranged, to proceed to Coromandel to*day to take part in the nomination proceedings.

To-dat being St. Andrew's Day, the Banks were closed.

No business transpired at the B.M. Police Court this morning.

A Native Lands Court was opened at Sbortland this morning Judge Brookfield presiding. After some preliminary business being transacted the Court adjou.nad.

Mb Speight, we understand, addressed the electora of Tararu last nigh% but, as we were not honored with an advertisement of the meeting, or an invitation to attend, we are unable to give a report of the proceedings.

A TOUN<J man of Wanganui named Oswald S. Brodie, a settler who was recently at the front with the Alexandra Cavalry, shot himself with a revolver in a solicitor's office this afternoon. He is badly injured, but it is hoped the wound will not prove fatal. Private affairs are supposed to be the reason of the rash act.

The following telegram has been received from Auckland :—" Thomas Petty, one of the Thames contingent, was arrested on the arrival of the s.s. Botoroahana on a charge of robbing John Power of the Hauraki En* gineers, of £4 10# on the passage up. Seaman Jamieson, of the Thames Navals, saw the accused through the skylight putting the money in the heel of his boot, where it was found. Prisoner, on being accused first, denied having any money on him, and afterwards said it was part of his military pay."

The heir to it legacy of £3000 has been discovered by an Auckland solicitor in the person of Dr B. 0. Beale, of Hamilton, who was unaware of his good fortune until apprised of it by the lawyer's inquiries.

We are informed on good authority that in the Abbott lease at Te Aroha, on which work was started only a few days ago, gold haß been discovered in considerable quantities, the stone being by competent judges considered to be worth an ounce to the ton.