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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4225, 17 July 1882, Page 2

At the Warden's Court tlrs morning judgment wa3, given ia the luit of T. and J. Webb V. Gk Symington and other* relative to tbe Old Nut Licensed Holding, Owharoa. Bis Worship decided that T. W. Gudgeon, James Stevenson, Wm. Shakespeare, and Edward Ecc'ee were the only persons whose names were entitled to remain on the plaint as defendants. Of these only Shakespeare and Stevenson had been duly consulted and admitted the liability. They would therefore be adjudged to pay £18 2* between them, being half of the amount claimed. Tbe partnership was declared dissolved, aud the ground was ordered to be sold by auotion, the whole expenditure to ba refunded to the plaintiffs. No costs were allowed to any of the defendants, for the Warden held that they -were in a. measure to blame, being shareholders, not to ascertain what wm being done. Mr Konrick said sleeping shareholders were only coholders and not liable without consent. When they registered they went a step farther, and become partners. But even then the working shareholders could not go on inoiming liabilities on their behalf without consultation or consent express or implied. They should ask the non-working partners to contribute, and if these refused or failed to do so they should come before that Court for relief, by dissolution of partnership or other* wise.

A spjccial meeting of the Board of Gorernors of the Thames High School was held ut the Borough Chambers this morning, at which the following Governors were present: Messrs W. Wilkinson (Chairman), L. J. Bagnall, A. Brodie, J. Marshall, and Or Ktlgour. The Chairman said difficulty was anting owing to the condition of. the road* leading up to the Waiorongomai to persons getting up timber, mining requiiites, 4c., to the township; and that at present people were going through one of the seclioDs already leased, instead of on the roads shown on the plan. The lessees of sections 6 and 7 (Messrs Wilson and Joy) had made him an offer to dieposa of their iuterest iv the sections for the sum of £300 each, and through them the Governors could then lay

off a road. Considerable discussion ensued on ihe offer, and eventually a com mil tee was appointed to confer with &fr Warden Kenrick oo the advisability of bringing the whole of the leased sections again under the operation of the Goldffeldt* Regulations; such commit tec to bring up a report "at a special meeting to be called for its consideration. Several other matters affecting the welfare of the ichool were discussed, but nothing further was done.

The Naval Brigade competed at the range on Saturday, the finishing match for the aggregates for Ist and 2nd class prizes. Owing to the boisterous weather, there was not so much interest taken as would hare been had the weather been fine. The first class prize was won by P.O. W. Armstrong, and the Second by P.O. J. Carter. The Moanatairi tramway was put into 1 working order last week, the first parcel of quanz being ■: sent down on Friday. On Saturday, another stoppage was necessitated by the rope at No. 5 station breaking. This has been repaired, and we believe the Alburnia Company was sending down quartz to-day. Mb John Lbydon was arrested at Te Aroha on Saturday on a charge of stabbing a person named Michael O'Keeffe. The matter will probably be investigated here. 'Ihe injuries are not of a serious character. Two boys named McCoid and Harvey, aged 16 and 15 years respectively, started in a fishing boat on Thursday for Tapu and Coromandel. They have not been heard of since, and fears are entertained for' their, safety.

Thxsk was a good attendance at the Odd fellows' Hall, last, night, to hear Mr E. H. Taylor'6 lecture on "Where are our dead friends now." ' The lecturer.took as the basis of his discourse, the 11th chapter of StJohn, from the 17th Terse. For a long time it had been commonly taught that death was a friend to the Christian, by whose agency he was transferred to brighter realms abova, but be could not find this theory in the Bible; there death was always characterised as an enemy. Our lives showed we did not welcome him, but always did our lest to keep him from the threshold. It was also commonly believed that children who died young were taken straight to heaven, but in Jeremiah 31st, 15 to 17th verses, God raid they were still in the land of the enemy, but He would redeem them. Also, when Christ raited Lazarus from the dead, he told him to come forth, and did not command bis spirit to come down and re-inhabit the body. From similar passages to these, ho contended that the dead were yet in their .graver, and would be there till the resurrection. A meeting will be held at the same place on Thursday evening, when discussion is invited on the above subject.

MeJ. Hobn writes j—"^lf your object in publishing that letter against MrDenton from one of your correspondents was to advertise his (the correspondent's) ignorance, intolerance, conceit, and bigotry, you could not have done it more effectually." For Jeremiah Horn's special benefit, we- may state that our object in inserting the letter was to let every one who chose have a e&y. Our correspondent (J.H.'s bete noire) was quite right in the list of eminent names I c cited as being opposed to the theory of evolution. And as to Mr Denton, clever as be is, who ever heard him quoted as an authority it geology or spok n of in any other capacity tban an itinerating Freetliought lecturer on a money making tour.

The Thames Naval Cadet corps, which it will be remembered, has been supplied with breachloading carbines, are very assiduous in practising at the target. Though the rain may come down in torrents, and the " stormy winds do blow," tbe cadets, on their appointed practice days, are to be found at the buttr. It is well for our boys to practice in stormy weather, for ia the event of actual hostilities, the services of sharpshooters would be r • quir<:d in rain or shine. The lads are to be divided into two classes for shooting, and prizes to be apportioned to both first and recond class shot's. The Naval Cadets are sixty strong, which number has been eteadi'y maintained for the last six or ci ;ht months. Many lads apply for entry to the ranks of the corps, but as every candidate is balloted for, about two out of every three, are rejected as ineligible, and the character of the company for smartness and esprit de corps is thus kept up.

At noon on Saturday Titokowaru was liberated. Mr John Winks, of Hawera, being one of the bondsmen, and a natVe named Mania deposited £250 in cash. Titokowaru signed his recognisances for £509. He wa3 supplied by Government with a new suie of clothes when he put off his prison garb.

The Native Land Reserves and Crown Land and Rating Bills will be abandoned, or left to die easily. •