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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4333, 20 November 1882, Page 2

The usual meeting of the Athletic Club at St. George's schoolroom fcliis evening will bo open for visitors. At the conclusion of the usual exercises the prizes won at the recent carnival will be presented.

Two representatives of Engh*3h capitalists were on the Th >xnes on Saturday, and bad interviews with some leading gentlemen in connection with the Thames Valley Railway. They made minute i quiries, and full information was furnished them.

Ok Saturday afternoon a little child of Mr Kendal, Tararu road, bad a miraculous escape from death. A young gentleman connected with the Bank of New Zealand was riding along the road, when his horse bolted. The girth being loose, it turned round, and the rider was precipitated inta the perambulator containing the child. The horse kicked the perambulator, but the only injury sustained by the infant was its boot being split.

Coii. FfiASEE, being the only candidate, was doclared Mayor for the ensuing year at noon to-day.

The Resident Magistrate at Christchurch on Saturday guve judgment in a case of an unugurl character and importance tocotninercitil men. A sewing machine firm sent out a machine to a clieat under the usual conditions of payment at so much per month, with a guarantee not to move the machine without the firm's permission. The client did move the machine, sending it to an auction room, where it was sold in due course. The firm sought to recover the value from the parson who bought it, but the BM. in a careful judgment, said the 'emedy was against the person to whom they delivered the machine, and not against the purchaser at the auction ; that if such a principle were allowed it would" be giving unlimited means of defrauding commercial people. Lejve was obtained to appeal-

These are days of romets, eclipses, and great wonders. The latest novelty is a tenderfa »arted sharebrok^r. One prominent and affable member of the Stock Exchange is reported to have found time daring <■, lull on Saturday, while washing his hands in impalpable water with invisible soap, to remurk con dentially, " I wes heartily sorry to see so many poor, working men come in and buy Prince Imperials at 95a." Our informant does not go so far as to say that this rara avis declined to sell them any—but that would not be business. -

The Lancet of August 26 contains a solemn warning egiiDst the vicious habits, so oommon in Australia and New Zealand, of " nobblerising" at odd times. Our contemporary proceeds to point out that medical authorities are almost unanimous in the opinion that 1 nips" of spirits and glasses of wine taken at odd times without food ate an unmixed evil which should be discouraged by every

sonsib'e person. " Therp nny be differences of opinion as to the amounts of diluted alcohol nt mciils whiuh i* consistent with health.and longevity ; but nlcohol on the empty stomach of ft city man, with but little fresh air and exercise to turn ifc off, is sheer harm —injuring u8 ifc does"the fine textures of the stomach 'and the neighboring liver, and demoralising every function of the body from that of the brain to that of the kidneys." "No mixture of ' bitters '" it U solemnly added* " will make fcb'B truth s^ein sweeter nor the habit less '."nmorfcal." Finally, it is suggested that the tee o'allers mitjht do an immpnee amount of good if they would form a society " the members"of should drink rib alcohol but at meaK"

The auditing of the accounts of the Vincent County has resulted in the discovery of a deficit of about £400. The clerk, Mr George Clark?, has been su*pended, and it is understood he admits that he has appropriated the money. His accounts are being carefully gone th ough by the Government auditor. This discovery involves Ibe affairs »f the unfortunate County, the struggles for the chairmanship of which have become so notorious by deadlock meetings aod Supreme Court proce dings.

A veby curious case wts advanced a stage in Wellington on Saturday. Mr Edward Shaw moved before Mr Justice Richmond, sitting in banco, for a rule nisi calling upon a Maori named Winiata to show cause why he should not deliver up to the custody of Miss Freebody, her sister, Annie Freebody, aged about nine years. About eight years ago the djother of the child brought it into this colony from Engl »nd, where she had left her husband. There she became acquainted with WiniafcH, a resident, of tbe Taitai district, who now has possession of the Jittle girl. Miss Freebody, sister of the child, has now arrived from England, empowered by her father to obtain its possession, but Winiata refuses to give it up on the grouud that he had adopted it. A rule nisd was granted,and yesterday Mr Buckley appeared to show cause against it, Mr E. Shaw attending in support of it. After argument His Honor made the rule absolute, and a writ of habeas corpus has been issued for the surrender of the child to the Judge at 11 o'clock on Tuesday next..