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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4253, 18 August 1882, Page 2

Sebot. O'Gbady has been re-installed in charge of the district. vi

An application was made to-day to Mr Kenrick as Trust Commissioner, by Mr Miller for an adjournment of the hearing of an application by Mr Thorp and Mr F. Cock for the transfer of some land from the natives in the Tawa Block.

It is well known that the natives are entitled (o certain revenues in conned ion with their lands, such as miners' right feeß, licenses, fees for kauri trees out, &c. Bat many of the natives have parted with the freehold to Europeans, who have not been placed in possession of these rights, which it is alleged go with the land. Mr G. N Brassey, solicitor, placed himself in communication with the authorities on the matter, and receive 1 the following telegram yesterday :— "Yoer letter of 30th May has been considered, and the matter is now in the Treasury Department, and will probably be settled shortly.—Oiiveb Wakeheid, Under Score tary for G-oldfields."

A deputation waited on the Warden today re the.Otanui road. Mr Greenville urged that that by the Kauaeranga would not answer the purpose, and there was a gap whioh the sum promised would not complete. The grade up the Hape would be good enough for a dray road, and the subsidy should provide a good one. Mr Kenrick asked Mr Greenville to have his case fully stated in writing, and he would get the Mining Inspector to report upon the question. The3e documents he would forward t) Wellington, accompanied by his own recommendations.

At the Academy of Music last night there was again a good house to witness the Panorama of the Zulu War. The fairer portion of humanity figured conspicuously in the stalls, pit, and gallery—and, consequently, the 11 gods" were more on their behaviour, and less yelling and whistling was the result. The lecturer, Mr Thompson, rivetted the attention of the audience by hie eloquent description of the passing scenes, as they unfolded to their gaze, and elicited frequent applause, and a pronounced " Hear, hea.-!" from an enraptured listener in the body of the ball. This was when the lecturer passed encomiums of praise on the much-maligned but brave Lord Chelmsford. The Panorama is a great success, and will well repay a visit. We noed not go over the ground of description again, but we simply say, go and see for yourselves. The distribution of prizes is well and fairly carried out, and is the source of great fun as the description of each individual is cried out by the lecturer : perhaps two or three will step cut answering to it, as was the case last night when he presented the watch. Howerer, these little contretemps are invariably righted, to the satisfaction of all parties. To-night, a gold watch aud 70 other presents will be given away. To-morrow, a Grand Matinee for the convenience of schools will be given, commencing at 3 p.m., as announced last night, when evei y child will receive a present.

A 3?ootba ti. match is to be played tomorrow afternoon on the Waio-Karaka Flat between a team of eleven picked from the Pioneer Football Club and a team from the High School. The following are the names of the players :—High School: Airey (Capfcain), Watana, Aperahatna, Nahe, W. Watana, Douglas, Adams, Burns, Phillips, Farrell, Coney; emergency, Xenriek and and Dodd. Pioneers: Christie (captain, Hall, Gibbons, Muir, Taylor, Brabant, Lowe, Allom, Murray, Pearte, Thompson; emergency, McGregor, A. Bae, and Morgan. The High School challenged the Pioneers, having beaten the Shortland team two weeks ago. Play commences at 2 o'clock.

Thomas* GkaiDON was brought down from Waitekauw yesterday by the p.s. Patiki, suffering from a compound double fracture of the left leg, caused by the kick of a cow, which he was driving from his garden, The accident happened at 2 a.m. A telegram having been sent to Dr Payne that the patient was coming, preparations were made for his reception, acd he was admitted into the Hospital at 6 o'clock yesterday evening. Gordon was conveyed by a number of friends to Paeroa over a very rough road.

The Thames Harbor Board is not the only body which gets mixed up through the engineers diftering. A Napier Exchange says :— Hawke's Bay stands in no debt to eminent engineers. In the Borough of Napier the waterworks and the drainage scheme proclaim the mediocrity of their design. The harbor, from first to last, has swallowed in the course of its tinkered career a huudred thousand pounds, and cries aloud for more. The railway for a great part of its length passes through waste sheepruns, from which no 6tream of steady traffic can flow. The ruliog idea, apparently, in the minds of all the eminent engineers who have giren us their attention has been to half do things,.to carry nothing out, to be cheap in design and extravagant in spending.

At the Waste Lands Board yesterday, the following letter wa3 read from Mr Samuel Grant, and dated Brigg June 14,1883 : " Sir, —I have the honor and p'easure to inform you that more than the number ©f settlers specified in the agreement for tho purchase of the block at Te Aroha—225—have been secured, and the last instalment of "families will sail for Auckland in June and July ; the number of houses will be duly erected for them on arrival. The land on the east side of the river has nearly all been disposed of to respectable settlers, and will soon be laid down with English grasses, Some portion west side side has also been sold to settlers, but owing to its swampy nature, it is not so available for immediate settlement as the other. The land on which the drains have been cut to carry off the water will require time to become solid so as to bear stock upon it. lam also told that the wettest parts will require a couple of years before they can,be sown with grasses to advantage. I have also the pleasure of informing you that considerable interest is still manifested in the colony of New Zealand, and though America absorbs the great mass of emigrants, ye^ thnre is a graduar and steady outflow to the various ports of New Zealan •, and about 600 of my correspondent* have already sailed. I know of several more families who contemplate leaving when their present yearly tenancy expires. lam sorry that I have beon unable in these depressed times to dispose of my own property here, or I should certainly have been in Nt>w Zaaland ere this. I have, however, one son at Te Aroha, who is attending to the general supervision of the settlement, and whose reports are very encouraging."

A MAN named Walsh was finei £5 and co3ts at Eakaia Polio Court this week for working horses'while suffering from sores. He vraj fined £7 more for threatening to shoot, and otherwise obstructing the constable

who went to the farm to inquire into the matter ; and the Magistrate told him he was let off exceedingly c 18y. Two men employed by' Walah were fined £1 each for working the horses in their low condition.