The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4271, 8 September 1882, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882.

Owing to the importance attaching to Mr Graham's alleged reserve on the flit, which at the presen. time is acting as a wet blanket on mining enterprise, we have had a digest of the Mining on Reserves Bill, which will be found in another column, telegraphed by our special correspondent in Wellington. The bill has passed the Upper House. If Mr Graham haß not a reserve, and his title, we are convinced, is by no means strong, there is no need of any legislation. But it so happens that this bill will enable the Government 'to make all the rules and regulations applic-

able, to the goldfield generally, apply to this reserve, should it exist, without Mr Graham's sane.ion, • under certain limitations. All revenue therefrom would accrue to him.

At the Police Court this morning, William McCormack was fined Is and 7s cobls, for trotting bis horse and vehicle down the Croods Wharf. '

Mb E. Bateman, butcher, announces that he will be able to-morrow'to supply the first

lamb of the season. . The manager of the &olden Crown Company invites tenders for driving 200 feet.

• . Eamd coal is evidently earning a reputation for itself. A telegram from there Bays: — "The Mahinapua called here on Wednesday. The Lizzie sailed with coal for the Big Pump. Now loading, the schooner Marion fcr the Thames."

I A TKnTOBAM from Wellington Bars the City ] of Sydney, with the. AugUßt English mails, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 27th August, one day later than her time-table. The Australia, -with the August colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 4th inst., three days earlier than her timetable date.

It will be remembered that some months ago a daring and inexplicable robbery of a a;»fe and ita contents occurred at the Black Horse Hotel, Christchurch, in ',which the notorious Longmore was supposed to have a hand. The safe could never be found, despite all search ; but one was found yesterday in a ditch on the Cashmere estate, which is supposed to be the missing artiole. The ditch was full of water all the winter, but is now dry. The contents were all gone, of course,