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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4400, 9 February 1883, Page 2

The Borough Council had another slight, skirmish o?er the settlement of the purchase of St. George's HhII last night. It is to be hoped the matter will be definitely settled at the next meeting. A call of the whole Council is to be made for the purpose of disposing of it. ...

The only case set down for hearing in the R.M. Court to day was that of James Eyres, charged with neglecting to adequately provide for the support of his wife and five children. In the absence of the R.M. the Clerk of the Court adjourned the cese until to-morrow morning.

It is to be hoped that the Thames Winding Association will lose no time in starting the tramway line from their shaft to the intake at the foot of Albert streeet. An estimate of the cost of the works has been given to the Council, and it is said it can be carried out for less than £100.

Mr-Allom, Secretary of the Thames Saricultural Association, has received a box from the Government containing silk and three varieties of Indian, Italian, and Japanese cocoons, which have been produced in Canterbury under the Superintendance of Mr Federli. These interesting objects a^e in the Borough Council Chambers, where they are open to public inspection.

The Thames Rifle Rangers met at the Volunteer Hall last evening. There were present. —Capt. Douglas (in command), three other officers, Drill Instructor Grant, and 30 rank and file. It" having been decided by the new company to start at the beginning, the sew men were put through recruit drill. Mr Win. Smith was elected Secretary in place of Mr Pope, who has resigned through illhealth. The roll now contains 50 names. The attendance was sufficiently large for an inspection. . '

At the new ironworks at Onehunga wrought iron "blooms" are now being made from Munukau iron Band.

A Dttnedij* telegram states that Guthrie and Lnrnach's liquidators have sold (he Kew saw-mills, near Invercargi'l, to Messrs Henry and Munro, for £40C0. ■..-,"■'

The four-inch main which supplies tho Kuranui Hill battery with water burafc in front of the manager's residence at about 1.30 this afternoon. The mishap was observed by tho company's engineer, who at once turnod off the water.

Bhabbhoi3>bb3 in the Thames Newspaper and Printing Company should '" take heart or grars," as the 50 shares offered at auction to-day fetched the good price of 9s 3d each. Some of our 1\ men are still prepared to supply a few lines at about the same figure.

The Taranaki Herald is informed by a reader that she has been relieved from rheumatic pains, to which for years she haa been a great martyr, by taking an infusion of blue gum leaves, made palatable into a beverage the same way as horehound beer is manufactured. We give publicity to this, bs others who are suffering from rheumatism may perhaps obtain relief in the same way.

It is estimated that when the Sydney Town Hall is completed it will have cost at least £200,000, or about £2 per head of the total population of the city.

Sib Arthur Gordon, we. (Post) observe from an English paper, has been taking great interest in some experiments at Aberdeen, in the way of pouring oil on the troubled waters. It is a pity he didn't take some lessons before coming to New Zealand.

A COBBBSPONDBNT writes in reference to the statement appearing in various colonial newspapers that Mr Knowles, the. retiring Under-Secretary for Public :Work« c has been forty three years in the Governments service : --" Mr Knowlea did not, as slated, enter the Government in 1842; at that date, and for some years after it, he was a clerk in the office of the accountant to the New Zealand Company at Wellington. In 1850 and 1851 he wna in London, employed as a clerk in the office of the Canterbury Association, in —— street, Adelphi. It is therefore certain that his first employment by the Government could not have been previous to 1852 or 1853, or about 30 years ago, and nut 43 as has, been stated." 'i ;

' Five ranas and two ewes from the Prince of Wales' flick,- at Sandringham, bars been imported by Mr Shire, of Christchurch. He also brought out two shorthorn bulls, but one died aft Melbourne, and the other is in quarantine at Dunedin. „

Last evening's Auckland Star publishes a lengthy correspondence accusing Capt. Fairchild, of the steamer Stella, of discourtesy and inattention to solitary settlors and prospectors at Big Bay and other places on the West Coast in this province..- The complaints have been brought under, the notice of the Government. ; i : ;-

In the alleged: debenture; stealing case, heard in Dunedin yesterday, the Melbourne witnesses gave evidence identifying Mrs Massoy as the Mrs Allen and Mrs Brown who sold the debentures there. The two accused were fully committed for trial, the two additional informations being withdrawn. The bail for Massey himself (who has never been able to find ,it) was increased to £1500 with two sureties of £750 each.

It has generally been understood that the bankruptcy 01 »t mayor deprived bim of his office, but the JB*y of Plenty Times publishes the following opinioc—•' Wo are disposed to think that bankruptcy does not disqualify the Mayor, and as Mayor he may act as Councillor notwithstanding Section No.. 61.-t-Hbskbth and Bichmokd " A few years ago, the then Mayor of Wellington lost his offioe ; through making an assignment for the benefit of his creditors.