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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4325, 10 November 1882, Page 2

There are few \»ho will not regret to learn that the popular draper, Mr Dan Cloonan, is giving up business and has sold his premises. He begins a clearing out sale of drapery and clothing to-day. The stock has been recently purchased and 13 valued at £10,000.* The goods have been marked down very considerably to effect a speedy sale; and tenders will be called for the balance left unsold. A cricket match will be played on the Waio-Karaka Flat to-morrow afternoon between an eleven of the Thames Cricket Club, and 22 of the same Club. The following are the names of the teams: —Eleven: Lougln Hoskins, Smith, Hunter, Brassey, Frater, Eggington, Griffiths, Pearc«, Mills, and Muir, Twenty-two: Slight, Coney, Airey, Grubb, Fletcher, Taylor, Lowe, Radford, Jobe, Maddenn, Newton, Andrews, Coad, Aitken, Noonan, 1 Delahunty, Lawry, Bennett, Scott, Hill, and Simpson. Mr GK Clark will captain the 22. Play will commence Bt 2 p.m. The following additional nominations for the Midsummer Meeting have been received by the Secretary : —Thames Plate Handicap : Chequita and Yuba Bill. Q-olifleld's Handicap : Cbequita and Yuba Bill. Steeplechase : Harkaway and Champagne. Handicap Hurdle Eace : Harkaway and Champagne. At a meeting of the Naval Brigade, held yesterday, it was resolved to entertain their comrades who so well sustained the reputation of the corps at the Colonial prize firing, by a ball on their return. - Mb C. W. Goodson announces in our advertisement columns that he will open the London Arcade, Brown streat, to-morrow evening. All articles will be marked in plain figures, and inspection is invited irrespective of purchases being made. Mr Goodson having just returned from England, where he bought an extensile stock of goods, the public ■will have a large selection to choose from at but a small profit to the storekeeper, who believes in turning over his money quickly. His trade extends over many departments of business, but i« chiefly devoted to jewellery, cutlery, stationery, watches, clocks, and fancy goods generally, and bis stock affords ample scope for choosing Chriafcmasor wedding presents, the former time being now near at hand, whilst the latter is always in season. As the Rototnahana neared the Auckland Wharf on Wednesday evening the result of the Carbine Match was anxiously enquired for from numerous passengers on board, and when the reply " Gordon " was returned from the wharf, three ringing cheers went up from the steamer's passengers in his honor. At the Auckland Agricultural Show Mr James Wilson, formerly carrying oh business at the Thames as tinsmith, carried off the first prize for preserved meats and mullet, Mr George Hulme, formerly one of the principal butchers of this place, taking second prize. Mr John West, blaokmith, Willoughby street, also sustains the reputation he has already acquired, having taken first prize for anti-friction and swing ploughs. The Golden Crown G.M.Co. has declared a dividend of 2s per share. Me J. Leydon advertises a sale of general goods at his auction mart, Brown street, tomorrow morning. Mbs Honiss bega to acknowledge the receipt of £1 from Mr W. H. Dampier for the Ladies' Benevolent Society. JUSTICES of the Peace, says an exchange, have their work cut out. The new Act for their guidance which Parliament was good enough to pass last session weighs about half a pound. It forms a volume of 100 printed pages, contains 327 clauses, and has annexed to it between 30 and 40 pages of schedules. Of course every J.P. will be obliged to have the law ho has to administer at his finger ends, otherwise he may commit himself instead of those who appear before him. We do nut envy the gentlemen who form the army of the " great unpaid " the labor they have before them of making themselves acquainted with all the details of this bulky statute. Should any of them find their bruin reel under the operation, they may derive consolation from an occasional study of the Lunatics Act, which contains 346 clauses, and a heap of schedules.