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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4406, 16 February 1883, Page 2

Mesbbs Mabshaed and Bawd en will probably be nominated by tha Government to the vacancies on the Hastings Licensing Bench, owing to an insufficient number having been nominated by the ratepayers.

Feom ioquiries made this afternoon we learn that no change took place in the condition of Mr Bichard Hudson up to early this morning, but since then he is not so well.

The B.M. to-day stated that.he would make a rule to fine all .first cases of Sunday trading £5 and costs. ■

A bbpoet having been circulated that the police bod given the man Blackraore the money to buy beer on Sunday last, to Becure the conviction of a publican, the attention of the bench was drawn io it, and the B.M. remarked that whoever caußed Buch a rumor to be circulated bad acted very wrongly, the evidence showed that it was quite true that the man had obtained the money from the woman named, and the police had done their duty in the affair ; no matter how unpleasant that duty was, it had to be performed. .

An ancient damsel was heard to remark at the Circus last evening to a female friend, " Well, I'm glad this ain't no niarrid men's sukiss." " 'Ow'a that ? " asked her companion. "Why," explained the first, "I mean one o' them leg shows, with gals in it." Poor married men, what a lot you have to answer for.

That modest and giddy young thing, Mrs Jane French, appeared to-day as witness in the case of a man charged with supplying her with liquor, she being a prohibited person, and when the case was over Jane coolly aßked the Bench to grant her expenses for attending the Court. She looked somewhat astonished though, when the R.M. said that so far from doing anything of the sort he regretted hiß inability to inflict a month's imprisonment on her for encouraging the man to break the law. Mrs French sidled out of the Court rather expeditiously.

The defendant in a case brought for the value of milk supplied, very curiously pleaded infancy in defence of the action. Mr Miller, who appeared for the plaintiff, urged that the plea did not relieve those under age of liability incurred for necessaries, and remarked that milk was certainly necessary to infants. The plea waß thrown out.

The schooner Advance, 55 tons register, Captain MeKenzie, which has been loading timber at Bagnall's mill for o week or more past, dropped down the river yesterday afternoon as far as Kopu. Another attempt to get out was made this morning, but she had to anchor opposite Shortland till the tide rode. The fine breeze this afternoon was taken advantage of, and at high water the anchor was again lifted, and she tacked out of the Firth. She is bound for Lyttelton, and has on board 50,000 feet eawn kahikatea. The Julia Price, schooner, 41 tons, Captain Ohonhames, also left this afternoon for Rueaell in ballast.

The business at the " Corner " to-day was confined almost' exclusively to New Prince Imperial stock, wliioh changed hands this morning from 60s to 63s 6d. In the after, noon it was a little easier, and the market closed with sellers at 62s 6d, and buyers Is Mariners and Londons have advanced slightly, and Deep Level Crosses are firm.

The defendant in one of the cases .heard in the R.M. Court this morning deposed that when a partnership botvtreen himself and bis brother was dissolved, the only notice given to the public was by himself verbally. larocent child! An advertisement iv the local papers to that effect would probably have saved him a good .few pounds.

A diamond prospecting party, consisting of the two Courtneys and Douglas, left Auckland yesterday to prospeot the Eaglan district. The Mayor and City Councillors of Auckland inspected the Waitaterei falls, under offer to the city authorities, to gee if it was suitable as an auxiliary to the present city water supply system. ./

At the Crown Lands Board, Mr A.Walker applied for a lease of a portion of the foreshore of Manukau harbor, adjacent to the lease of the Manukau Iron Sand Works, in order ; to remove iroosand, bub tho Board thought it inadvisable to grant additional' leases till they saw the result of the present experiments, and decided that the right of utilising the iron Band in future be disposed of by auction. /*'<■. '- ; <■

Thomas Watson, proprietor of the Southland Hotel, Gore, hanged himself yesterday in Dunedin. No Cause was assigned for the deed. At an inquest subsequently held , a verdict of "mental derangement" was returned. V H

, A comparison between the traffic of Dunedin and Christchurch tramways is published. For Christchurch the figure) were : Receipts, £11,454; passengers carried, 687,828. For Dunedin the receipts were £25,108, and passengers 1,998,679. ; .

The Dunedin Harbor Board has just let a contract for reclamation which will give them about 10 acres for leasing within a> few hundred yards of the centre of the city.

.- Thj! Kumara Times understands that at'the* adjourned inquest to be held at Lyell on Manday next as to the cmse of the death of the man Q'!iinlan,.Johu Davidson, who is comißitted for trial for [attempted Buicide, will be charged with the wilful murder of Denis Quinlan. . , . ... . •.■■..

Adbath is reported from one of the country districts of Dunedin of a farmer who had drunk large quantities of water in the harvest field.' He was seized with''abu'te'inflammation of the bowels, and died after, some hours of agony. This comes of the man not having qualified it with something " short."

I'he arrangements .for freeing the Wanganui bridge are approaohieg completion, the Harbor Board, in whom the Bridge is vested, decided to acoept the £17,000 ou the,esti» mate, and abolish tke tolls on condition" that the loss sustained by the Board, from the bridge's revenue was made up by the County Council, Borough Cauuoil, and Harbor Board by a contribution of one-third each. The Borough on Tuesday, and the County yesterday, agreed to this course ; the third eaoh being £236, to be continued for twenty-two years, unless tb* Government in the meantime relieve the local bodies of these payments by giving the Board further endowments. The arrangements betwven the three

bodies has to be confirmed by Act of Parliament; npxfc session, but it is probable the Harbor Board will throw the bridge open on the Ist-April, when the existing leaaa of the tolls' expires.

THEOhristchurch telegraphic correep ndant is a bright and intelligent individual. Through his instrumentality we are in a position to state how retail prices iv the Cathedral City run : Freeh butter is Is, eggs Id 2<\, cheese 8d to Is, milk 4d, beef 5d to 6d, mutton 2d to 4d, pork 6d, ham Is, bacon 10d, kmb 2s to 3s per quarter.- He omits onion*, buns, and babiuß' feeding bottles. Doubties6 before we publish another issue we will know the market value of soda water, corks, and butt hinges in Canterbury.

Messes G-oldsborougb and Co , the Austral«in wool merchants, in their annual report, on the market, state that if a reaction should set in among manufacturer* in favor of English bright hair, some classes of colonial . wools will suffer heavily, and they therefore advise growers to breed fine merinos, of a class specially adapted to the Australian climate. The Continental trado has been a murked feature of the season ; the exports to Antwerp alone amounted to 18,750 bales, and altogether 28,000 bales have been Bold from transraisßon to the continent. These facts they consider to be indications of a large prospective trade in wool between the Australian colonies and the continent. In conclusion they declare that everything points to Australasia as the great wool market of the future.