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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4393, 1 February 1883, Page 2

The new wheel lately erected at the Herald ba( t°ry is working rery satisfactorily. Twenty head of stamps, and the berdans are being driven at a good speed, with a little less than two sluice heads of water. It is expected t however, that when an injector it used to supply the tables, the quantity wiU be reduced to slightly over 1$ bends.

Tub County Council are calling for tenders for cutting and filling, reforming and metalling portions of road between Paeroa and Mackajtdwn.

The manager of the New Eureka G-.M.Ca., Otunui, in another column calls for tenders for the removal of a 12 stamper battery from the Karaka Creek to Ofcunui. Tenders will be received up to 4 p.m. on Friday, the 9th inst. A parcel of 1651 ba of picked stone and specimens, bagged from the reef in the com* pany's mine,, was put through the single stamper at the Alburnia mill to day, but was not finished in time for this issue. It shaped for a satisfactory return.

In the Besident Magistrate's Court to-mor-row an assault case, arising out of an information laid by a Mrs French against a Mrs Donovan, will come on for hearing. Mrs French has lately been discharged from the Hospital, where she has been treated for wounds on the head alleged to have been in* flicted by Mrs Donovan.

The half-yearly meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge, S.C., was held on Tuesday evening in tbe Masonic Hall, Princes street, Auckland. All the officers were present except the R.W.P.GKM. (Bro. Wbitaker), who is at present in Wellington. The representatives from the Thames were D.P.T.GM, McCullough and P.V.Gr.T. Rawden. A large

amount of business in connection with the craft was transacted amongst which was a high tribute paid by the K.W.D.P.Gr.M. to Brother Rawden for bis services, and congratulations on his restorations to health.

The Herald's "own" comments on the urbanity of Sir Win. Jervois as contrasted with that of his predecessor.

A iiETTEE appears in the Auckland Star of last evening signed • " W. W. Gudgeon " distinotly denying the truth of statements made by Mr Ehrenfried in his evidence in the late cape, as to his owing Mr Ehrenfried a sum of £35, or any money whatever ; he further says he never asked Mr Ehrenfried for any loan, and invites that gentlemen to prove his assertion s by suing for the sum alleged to be due.-^

A PEW days ago we referred to a murderous assault committed by a native at Fiji named Waidau, on the wife of a settler named Moore, and described bow tbe wounded woman after being nearly billed with an ax*, had to drag herself to ber father's house, a distance of three miles. We are glad to see by the Fiji Argus that Mrs Moore has recovered from her injuries sufilcientlv to allow her to appear at the trial of her assailant.

Ik the Besident Magistrate* Court to-day there was only a solitary crunk to adjudicate upon. The defendant denied the charge laid sgaiost him, but two constables swore to his inebriated condition. Mr Ken rick, 8.M., who presided, inflicted a fine of ten shillings, or in default 24 hours'imprisonment.

Fob some time past fears have been enter* tamed as to the safely of the Auckland schooner Sovereign, one of the boats belonging to her having been picked up recently on the Australian Coast. The brother of Captain Caitcheon, the master of the Sovereign, has received a letter stating that tbe vessel had arrived safely at Dungeness. The master reported that during some very heitvy weather, when off the Clarence River, the ship's boat was washed overboard, but, that no other damage was done.—Star.

A coaBEsroNDBNT of the N.Z. Times having accused Mr Milner Stephen of unfulfilled "commercial and moral obligations" in Victoria, Mr Stephen lias written denying the charge, and threatening proceedings at law.

The transit of Vonus was successfully observed at Penzanee, Plymouth, Cork, Philadelphia, South, and several stations in North and South America.

Mb Justice Q-ti/Tjles is the most unfortunate of men. la the Supvome Court wo have his juries twice within four days bringing up verdicts in opposition to his directions. At the Civil Sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday, in the case of Hammond v. E. Wayte, an action to recover £500, damages sustained by the pl&intiff in consequence of a malicious prosecution by the d-fenHant, tho jury found a verdic for plaintiff, damages £100. Judg< Gillies said: "Tbe verdict of the jury is in the teeth of my express direction, and cannot have any effect, i his vardift cannot possibly stand. Gentlemen, your verdict is of no avail. lam afraid you have put the parties to the trouble and expense of anew trial." If this sort of thing continues, we will have Hia Honor advocating the abolition of trial by jury.

Thk Barolin Plains estate (Queensland) of 12,000 acres, selected fifteen years ago by Messrs Brown at 5s per acre, has been sold by those gentlemen to a Bun^aberg syndicate for £50,000—£4 3s 4d per acre. Two fish hay«» been caught in the Opotiki River, which are thought to bo the American salmon. The male weighs 191bs. The average yield of gold per ton in Tasmania is nearly three times that of Victoria, yet only one or two companies oan pay dividends. Thbee hundred thousand acoordeons are made yearly by one manufacturing company at Berlin. After this information it is easy to account for the immense volume of emigration crowding out of Fatherland. It is stated on the authority of Mr A. B. Biggs, Tasmania, that the comet which is still dimly visible in the sky has already commenced its return journey to the sun, which he expeo'g it will reach'about next April. Thk highest) bridge structure in the world has recency been completed in Pennsylvania. It is the Kinaia viaduct, on a branch of the , New York Hnd Lake Erie railroad, running i through the Eradfood oil region, into the filk county coalfiefde. It is 301 feet high, 2025 feet long, single tracked, containing 3,600,000 pounds of iron, and cost £55,000. The roadway of the viaduct is 2065 feet above the sea level, on a spur of the Alleghany mountains. —Exchange.

It is proposed that Bismarck's system of c oropulsory insurance shall be introduced into Victoria. .

SINCa 1861 five squ Vina li -ms in New South Wales are stated to have acquired a quarter of a million of aores each.

The will of the late Hon. S. C. Brown, formerly Postmaster-General of Sydney, has been proved, personalty at £36.829.

Thb death of Prince Charles, brother of the Emperor William of Germany, ban proved a severe shock to the latter, la consequence of the melancholy event, the celebrating of the sibrer wedding, of-the Crown Prince and Princess Royal of England has been definitely abandoned.