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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4401, 10 February 1883, Page 2

The election of three persons to the Thames Harbor Board comes off on Monday next at 2 p.m., at the Harbor Board Office, Albert street. The attention of parties entitled to votes is particularly requested to the notice appearing in our advertising columns. It is of the utmost importance that those entitled to the privilege should bestir themselves in the matter. A list of persons duly qualified to Tote may be seen at the Borough Gounod Chambers.

The' Thames Naval Artillery Volunteer Company has received a challenge from theD Battery of Artillery, Dunedin, to fire a carbine match. The shooting will probably take place next Saturday.

Wb are pleased to learn that; Mr L. W. Parsons, a well known resident here, who was for some time connected with the literary department of this journal, was the fortunate recipient by the last Frisco mail of a legacy, reaching, we believe, into the four figures.

The Q-ermaa residents in Auckland are raising a fund in aid of the sufferers by the Rhine inundation b,

A CASE waß beard in the Supreme Court at Dunedin yesterday of importance to patentees. The action was for damages for breach of patent, but the defence pleaded that the plaintiff, the patentee,, had worked his plans in Ms own workship before he applied for the patent for it, and the plaintiff practically admitted the plea was unanswerable by withdrawing hia action. ,' M

The tender of Mr M. Casey has been accepted for the filling«in of the shore end of the Goods Wharf, and a start has been made with the work to-day.

Messes Woodyear and Ross' Royal Australian Circus is announced to open at the Thames on Thursday night next. The well known popularity of the talented company attached to thia circua renders it superfluous on our part to do more (han state that it is coming. Mr Robert Love, the adranoe agent is indefatigably engaged in billing the town.

OAPIAIH Bashbe's experiment for saving gold by passing a current electricity across the plates is still in operation at the Golden Crown mill. The battery is connected wit'i the plates below 5 head of stamps, and the mill handf are much pleased at the splendid condition in which it keeps them. No special test is being made, but the experiment will be awarded a fair trial, and judging from present appearance?, it will at any rate save a considerable amount of time in the oleaning-up of the plated,. which it keeps as bright as a looking-glass.

At the Baptist Church to-morrow evening the Key. T. L. Davies will preach on " The Bins of youth productive of the retribution of age."

A caiCKET match, Married ?. Single, is being played on the Waio-Karaka Flat this afternoon us we go to press, between the following teams :—Single: Mills, Thomas, Tregonning, J. Muir, W. Muir, Newton, Lowe, Newman, Frater, Grrubb, G-illi3a, Bennett and Coney. Married: Clark, Smith, Moorcraft, Egaing'on,' Slight, Aitken, Colhoun, Griffiths, Hindman, Airey, Edmunds, and A. Bowe. Clark woo the toss, and went to the wickets..

The services at the Wesleyun churches tomorrow will be taken alternately by the Key. Oliver Dean, an old Thames resident, aud Mr A. 0. Lawry.

At the Oddfellows' Hall, Mr J. Dison, of Auckland, will preach to-morrow evening on " The ißJury done to the cause of Christianity by the doctrine of eternal evil."

A TBIEGEAM has been received from Weilington to the effect that Mr J. Chantry Harris, who was for some time on the Thames, and Mr Geo. Fisher, the Mayor of Wellington, are at loggerheads over the assertion of the latter that he was the originator of a water supply scheme for the city. Chantry, as he is generally called in Wellington, is right as far as denying the truth of Mr Fisher's claim, but both are wrong ju

their method ' of diicuaeing the ques» tion. Ohuntry says thftt Flßher is malignant and low • minded, and accuses h m of " brain-sucking." Fisher rather illogically responds by calling names. He dubs Chantry " Shellback Milner Stephen Harris." In the use of elegttDt language both are proficient, when it comes to a slanging match. As self aufiioient, blatant,- and harmless writers, both are on a par, it .being the habit of each to indulge in as much printed abuse as in their- power lies. His Worship delights in pandering to the ideas of the mob, and would sooner raise a laugh, and wound an opponent, than use sound argument or attempt to conrinee Ins hearers. Poor Chantry's journalistic imbecility is hardly likely to do more than raise a smile occasionally at his guilelpssness. Woen he tries to use sl-dge-fut-nmer force, one can compare the eff-cts of his blow to that of a moßquito trying to kick a hole in an ironclad.

The s s. Staffain about to commence making periodical calls at White Island in order to bring away sulphur, for whioh the owner of the island, Mr Wilson, has received an order from .a firm of acid manufacturer.* in Dunedin. —Herald.

A CONTEM2OEABY gays :—" We hear, upon what we consider to be good authority, that Mr 0. 0. Bowen has had the honor of knighthood conferred on him.

The locals appearing in tho Auckland papers, from the pen of the " prince of agents," little Smythe, have; helped the wonderful Forbes considerably. As a par writer for his Bhow, no agent can g:ve R. S. points.

The Now Zealand Timber Company has declared a dividend of 15 per cent. £2000 was carried to the reserve fund, whioh is now standing at £10,000, and to the new account over £2000.

DrPhilson was yesterday presented by the Mayor of Auckland on behalf of the oitizens, with an addresa aad a gold watoh of the value of £100, and a purse of soys. of £220, on his retirement from the Provincial Hospital. A silvor card case was also presented to Mrs Philson.

Thjb Hon. Mr Eolleston, and family, and M. Cesare, Maltese emigration agent, left Auckland yesterday for a tour in the Northern settlements.

It baa been decided to wind-up the Duneriin Deep Sea Fishing Company, which, though only a few months in operation, had lost £500.

Me Boiijbston, the Minister of Lands, was waited upon by Archibald Douglas, asking for a prospecting lioense for himself and two others to o-'arch for diamonds in Raglan County. The permission was granted.

In the Dunedin 8..M. Court today a publican sued a laborer for £3 on a promissory note for bottles of brandy and other liquors supplied. The EM, gave judgment for the defendant, remarking that he had no sympathy whatever for the plaintiff, who had allowed a laborer, with a family to support, to incur a debt for drink which he was not able to pay.

At an inquest on the bodies of Q-eorge White and Mary Oreal, burned to death at \V uktfield street, fire, Auckland, a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned. It came out in evidence that the woman had been enticed away from her husband in Melbourne by a man in Auckland, and her name is Hodges. The supposed cause of the fire was a defectively-constructed hearth.

The Herald's own correspondent says :— "Tawhiao and hie party appear to be doing well on their journey. I have just seen a letter from him. At Whangaebu he received a present of £200, 20 mats, 33 blankets, a quantity of tobacco and waipiro, and a large quantity of food; at Turakino, £10, 20 blankets, 5 mats, food, &c.; at Bangitikei, 2 tons of flour, and other food ; at Kakariki, £15 10a, blankets, 2 horses, 3 ca&ka of beer, and food; at Awahuri, £120, 4 tons of flour, i-ton of sugar and food ; at Awapune, 95 blankets, 16 shawls, 3 tons of flour, and other food."

With re rerence to the applications for assistance made to the Government by local bodies under the roads and Bridges Construction Act of 1382, it has been announced that about one half the amount applied for for forming roadH will be granted in respect; of those applications that are in due form. The Minister will confer with local bodies with a view of providing for the completion of some portionß of the works for which ■he moneys were applied for in terms of section 38 for district roads and river works. The whole amounts asked for will be granted where th • applications are made.in compliance with the Act. The above are subject to the conditions imposed by the Act being fulfilled. Applications not made in terms of the Act will have to be renewed in time for consideration, with others to arrive on or before 30fch June next.