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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4383, 20 January 1883, Page 2

The case of assault with intent, in which W. W. Gudgeon stands committed for trial, will be heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday next.

The total amount collected in aid of the fillings' fund reaches £151 Is 6d.

Mb H C. LawIOB, J.P., last night swore in the first members of the new Hauraki Rifles. Promisee to join the company have been made by a number of persons. If all suck promises are kept there will be very few Thames residents without a uniform.

A btfndee of tracts and pious placards have been received by the Police. We presume that after their careful perusal by the force, they will be placed in the various cells at the station for purposes of reform.

Captain Febgtjson, the Piako County Chairman, and Mr James Stewart, Engineer for the railway from the Waiorongomai mines to the battery, passed through Grahamstown this, morning on their way to Te Aroha in connection with some alterations being made on the line.

An interesting subject is announced for the evening service at the Oddfellows' Hall, Biohmond afreet, to-morrow, »iz., " Why was evil permitted."

The decision of the Resident Magistrate, given this morning, "in the case brought by Mr T. Spencer against the Chinese gardeners for intercepting the course of the Waiteikei Creek, was an award of £6 damages to the plaintiff, with £4 12s costs. The defendants were cautioned against damming the creek again. Bepobe quitting office the members of the Parkes Ministry dined together. It was a melancholy banquet. , The system of " delayed telegrams," in vogue in New Zealand^ is to be introduced into New South Wales. . Last night a native boy named Paerutu, son of Keepa te Wharau, of Te Aroba, was brought to the Hospital having both arms broken. The injuries to the right arm were very severe, the fracture being a compound one. From the father's statement, it appeared that the boy fell from a .peach tree, and almost imme. diately after the. accident was treated by some one in the district, who administered medicine | until mortification Bet in, when he advised the father to take the child to the hos° pital. After consultation, the doctors concluded that the case was too far gone, and the patient too weak to submit to amputation. The father took the boy home this afternoon. No hopes are entertained for the poor little fellow's recovery. Some steps should be taken by the authorities to ascertain the truth or otherwise of the statements made by Keepa as to the treatment of the boy, for the fracture, by the person at Te Aroha.

It was rough on the old lady who got into the smoking carriage, to aek her if she had a match i a milder way of hinting at her mis* take might hare been adopted.

The Key H. Bull will proaoh to-morrow night at the Wesleyan Church. The subject chosen is " Joshua com naanding the sun and the moon to stand still."

The Wairoa County Council has applied for £7,070 under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act.

Thb Rer. T. L. Daviea will preach on 11 Justice and mercy" in the Church, Willoughby street, to-morrow evening at 6.30 o'olock.

Sbbvices will be held at the Primitive Methodist Church tomorrow morning and evening.

Eubtheb complications are threatened in the native ejectment case at Cambridge. The propriety of allowing one of the persons committed to withdraw his ~ hail bond, and thereby being lodged in prison, so as to enable him to be brought up under writ of habeas corpus, and having the legality of his commit* tal tried, is now under consideration by counsel. The gentlemen of the long robe in that vicinity are certainly in clover.