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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4341, 29 November 1882, Page 2

The Naval Cadets are making good use of their sailing boat, while they still possess it. The port watch crew under coxsvsain Webster practised sail drill in the harbour yesterday afternoon. This evening Coxswain Kirbj and the starboard watch will proceed to Auckland on service. Captain Barlow accompanies them, to interview the Defence Minister.

A meeting- of the Railway Company's directors was held lust night. It was resolved to engage Mr Lindsay Jackson, surveyor, to proceed to Auckland to carefully examine the plans and records in the Lan^s Office to ascertain the quantity and class of land available. An amount of routine work was also transacted, including payment for incorporation of theiQofhpany.

Kindness and cbufcesj in little matters tend t' rsndf-r the sicto chamber more cheerful. This is all the more incumbent in an institution like tht hospital, where the patients are probably strangers, or at, all events practically separated from their frienda. Yesterday evening this axiom might have received a practical application in the hospital, in an instance where it did not. In the accident ward a patient was visited by his friend, and he and his boy were looking oversome books, probably presents, with-much interest, when Wardsman Cane entered and nbruptly turned down the gas. This was about 8 o'clock, ttni possibly it is a rule of the instiiution that ttfo eas should bejowered afc that time. Still, there are more ways than one of doing things, and a kindly hint that it was his duty to do so would have been calculated to leave a more favorable impression on the minds of those present, than suddenly finding the light withdraw while yet glancing over the volumes.

Me Aitken, County Engineer, proceeds to Owharoa to-morrow, to arrange for the putting in good order of the road between Paero* and Owharoa. A sum of £4000 is coming lo the Council from Government for expenditure upon the Ohinemuri roads, and of this £1000 has been placed at their disposal. The balance will be avaiUble' when the loans authorised last session have baen raised. This is work up >n which the district may be congratulated, for the outlook for coaching between the Thames and the Upper Conntry next winter was not at all cheerful.

A BU9HI mishap occurred in Oochrane street, opposite the Waio Ktraka school, about noon tc-daj. Mr Forgie's,.-baker's cart was being riven along the street when the horse became restive. "While kicking out it got one of ila legs OTor the shaft, and'-stumbled into the drain which carries off the water from the Queen of Beauty turbine, nearly overturning the cart and throwing out the two boys in charge of it. Some men standing near observed the accident, and by their help the animal was lilted on to the road again. Neither of the boys were hurt, and the ho'ee only received a few scratches, but both shafts of the cart were broken. Mb D. Gk MaoDo swell, Legal Manager, notifies in another column that calls havo been made in the New Find and Eureka Companies, Te Aroha, payable on the 13th proximo.

Thb annual meeting of shareholders in the Waitekauri No. 3 company will be held at the office, Auckland, t -morrow. The Juvenile Opera' Company, at present playing in Auckland, has eDguged the Acad«my of Music for a week, beginning on the 11th December. Shareholders in the Thames Deep Level Tribute and Southern Cross mines are notified in another column that an extraordinary general meeting will be held in Auckland on the 29t,h December, when important resolutions relative'to the proposed amalgamation of the two companies will be considered. A meeting of shareholders in the Welcome Claim will be held at the Pacific Hotel this evening, to form a company.