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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4232, 25 July 1882, Page 2

The Circus did not open last night ■as the proprietors were unable to prepare the tent, satisfactorily in time for the performance. Everything is, however, now in applepie order, and to-night business will begin with as fine a legitimate circus company, we are assured, as ever visited the colony. The company h s worked its way up from the South, and received high encomiums from ibe Press whereever it has performed.

Wimiam Savage, who was injured at Waibi, died at the Hospital this inormngr

Two lads, Thomas and Wjd, Oats, aged renpectively eight and six years, sons of a Mrs- Margaret McOleary, were sent to the Thames Orphanage*—one for- seven and' the other for five years. -

At the Police, Court to-day, before Messrs Lawlor and Murray, J.Pa., George Martin, an apprentice, was charged with absenting him■elf without leave -from. his master's semen, William Fagg, plumber and tinsmith. Mr Fagg informed the Court that the boy was a good lad, but he had remained away without consulting him. The sharge was withdrawn on the understanding that the terms of the indentures were to be adhered to.

Mbbsbs Qabtbj: and Pabty, of tKe Bright Smile Claim, Waiotahi, hare a large quantity of quartz out ready for the mill, but cannot get it down on account of the wretched state of the road. Now that the weather has improTed, the County Council should got the slips cleared off 'and the moist places metalled, to permit of carts getting up. By not doing so, they are retarding the progress of the district, for who will take up ground when it is impossible to get quartz to the mill?

A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held yesterday afternoon. Present: The Chairman; (Colonel Fraser). and Messrs Oaborne, McGowan, Bead, and Marshall. Mr Beere wrote:—" Sinoe sending in my report on the improTement of the Kauaeranga Channel, I bare made a surrey for the purpose of preparing contract plans, and I find that, for a distance of about fourteen chains from the Shortland Wharf, the depth of mud is too great for the construction of a stone training bank, and consequently sheet-piling would have to be substituted. As this would materially increase the cost, I recommend that the dredging of a new channel from . the light towards the sea be undertaken only at present. Should it be found fcbat the natural scour is sufficient to keep the'channel open with the assistance of occasional dredgiag, the proposed training banks,' might perhaps be dispensed with. In any cms* I think it would be unadvieable to close up the existing channel until the new one has first been excarated so as to allow vessels like the Enterprise to get to the wharf." It was jdecicUd-to senda telegram to Mr Errington, of Auckland, to ascertain his terms for reporting on the harbor works.

Thb road between the Thames and Tapu is in a shocking state. Last week two horses were completely bogged in a hole about two miles off Tapu, and it was with the utmost difficulty that one of them was dug out. The settlers are of opinion the ground in its virgin state would be far preferable to such a road.

The bearing of the charge againit Alexander Beattie for the murder of Sarah Adams, near Oamaru, was concluded yesterday. His Worship said that this was one of those cases in which there; were so many contradictions and matters requiring further investigation that he feifc bound to send the case to a higher court. The prisoner through his counsel, reserved his defence, and was then fully committed to stand bis trial at the next session of the Supreme Court at Dunedin.

A meeting of, the shareholders in the Invincible claim, Otanui, is. convened to be held at the Hozelbank Hotel to-morrow evening.