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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4372, 8 January 1883, Page 2

Some telegraphic and other interesting reading matter will be found on our fourth page. Thbbe was only a solitary drunk and disorderly ease heard at the Court this morning. As the accused had been .looked up all Saturday night, and this waß his first appearance, he was. fined 20s and ooßts, or in defeault, a detention \xntU the ming of the Court. Messrs Bagottll and Kenny were the presiding justices. Aboot six o'clock* on Sunday night two men belonging to the outter Whangarei were proceeding along Pollen street, when they picked up a purse containing £119 a 7d, and some documents, by whioh means the name of the owner waß discovered. The men, whose names are Johuiec aud Reavy, at once

handed the puree to Sergt.-M-jjor Kiely, who returned it to its owner, Mrs Richardson. Ib is a pleasure to have to chronicle such instances of-spontaueous honesty.

Theee will be a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Thames Orphanage and Training Sohool held in the Council Chambers to-morrow at three o'clock p.m.

The Herald states that John Johnston was brought up at the Police Court yesterday, on a charge of stabbing. Edward Scotter, at the IS orth Shore, on Christmas Day last. Mr Lusk watched :the "case ; for the accused. Johnston was committed for trial.

The local J.P.'g aro not too punctual in their attendance to their public duties. Some time whs occupied this morning' in hunting up two of the great unpaid to Ixar a single case. Shortly after tho arrival cf the Bench, the accused individual, who was out on bail, turned up.

Two prohibition orders under the Licensing Act were gi anted in Auckland on Friday. One man lives at the North Shore and the other at Parnell.

Thk opposition offered by the Union Sash and Door Company to the railway reclamation at the rear of their premises in Auckland haß been withdrawn, and the injunction proceedings have been discontinued. The work is now proceeding. Dtjbing a trip at holiday time to Waitekerei, near Auokland, three citizens were staying at a roadside hotel, when a goose was killed, and several email nuggets of gold found in its crop. We have received a letter from a 51 Working Man," referring to the evidence of a witness in a case heard at the R.M. Court on Saturday, in which the correspondent objects to an employer of labor Betting a trap for his workmen. As the matter is slightly mixed up •with a cage now siih judice, we miut refrain from publishing it. A Geeat deal of unnecessary talk has been indulged in about the town over the closing of the Court on Saturday, and the fact that it was kept open during the hearing of the Rolton case the previous day.- We wish to explain that it was not in the power of the Magistrate to close it on Friday, as the case was one for trial, and was not an indictable offence. It had to be disposed of summarily In that of Saturday the case was different. The hearing was merely a preliminary enquiry, and not a trial, and upon the application of the solicitor for the prosecution, the Magistrate could not well have done otherwise than he did. The Supreme Court officials in Auckland are a particularly prompt set of people. In the case hoard in the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday last the Court did not rise until about half past three p.m.," and the. steamer for Auckland started about four o'clock. We hear that this morning some Jack-in-oflbism was displayed in Auckland in sending a somewhat curt telegram to the Clerk of the Court here requiring depositions to be sent at once. It was quite impossible that they could go up before the next mail could take them. Our genial friend Mr Allom has done a smart thing in getting everything ready so quickly.

The little iron steamer on tho stocks in front of Price Bros.' foundry is rapidly approaching completion. The hull is finishedj and the carpenters are now busy fitting up the cabin, caulking the deck, &c. Her boiler has been placed in position, and the engines will follow in a few days. Holes haye been cut in tho hull for the screw shafts, which will also work close to the propeller. Bach screw will be driven by a pair of 6^in high pressure inverted cylinders The boat is expeotpd to travel at a rate of 11 miles per hour, and should therefore make the trip from here to Te Aroha in about 6 hours. As she is intended for passenger traffic, the cabin will take up nearly all the room forward of the boiler. It will be 24ffc long, and 6ffc Sin clear in height.

A NOTICE to the ratepayers by the Thames County Council regarding payment of rates appears in our advertising columns.

Me Wh. Carpenter, announces. by advertisement thas he will by virtue of a bill of sale, sell on Friday tb.6 12su, at the Haymarket Shortland, 10 horses.

A " PINK bibbok " army has been organised at Geraldon, Wesfc-rn Australia, the members of which exclude spirits, but not beer. A "red ribbon" army has also been started, the members of which refrain from drinking water except wh<?n ifc is mixed with spirits. Those who can't afford to buy a ribbon, color their noses.

An inmate of the Swu.naoa Workhouse, named Jane Jones, has just reached her 101 st birthday. Her father, who was a well-known local-pilot died at the age of ninety-nine.

The Freeman's Journal thus attempts to give the Wellington morning paper a lify.__«< It is stated that a' new regulation lias been 1 issued for the'direction of the civil servants in Wellington, that each member residing 'in the Empire City is to subscribe to the New Zealand Times. By this order it is computed that £50,000 a year, at least, will be saved to the country from the number of surplus officers th.it will be forthwith dispensed with. Finding the Times on their breakfast tables they will not require to occupy official time in its perusal. They wili have no work to do and will therefore be discharged. It is not a bad thing, by-the-by, for Mr J. C. Harris, the proprietor of the paper; The wonder to our mind is that it was never thought of before."

Mrs Omen, who wna so fearfully treated by her hnaband in Auckland last week, ip progressing favorably.

Cetbwayo, when in England,, complained that, so far, "he had had none but female children. A wag of a doctor at once assured him that he would provide him with pills that would infallibly results in male offspring, arid the " simple savage" actually took out a £25 case of these said pills to administer to himself and his favorite cbiefe. —Star.

The correspondent of an English paper is responsible for tho following:—-"I hare seen a letter setting forth Arabi Pasha's own defence ; and if the facts as stated in his epiatle be borne out in evidence, a very sinister light will be thrown upon the part played in the defence of Egypt by the Khedive himself. Arabi Pasha states that he was actually authorised to defend Alexandria against the English invasion ; that the authorisation was given to him at a council of war, over which the Khedive himself presided; and at which every member of the Q-overnment was present, together with three of the Viceroy's cousins. Th 6 eagerness which is now exhibited to hang Arabi almost without trial is not inconsistent with oriental habit, where it is found convenient to dispose summarily of an awkward witness."

| iTHB most formidable stand against oppreß» »ioii ever made was the inkstand.