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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4412, 23 February 1883, Page 2

' Theek wag a clean sheet in the Palice Court this morning.'

' Tl'a turbines and a-quantity of other ironwork for the battery at Te Aroba were being, loaded into a punt at the Goodi' Wharf to-day. They will be towed up-river by the s.s. Huia.

ASCBATOH cricket match will be played on the Waiokaraka- Flat tomorrow afternoon play to commence at 2 pm. We learn that a challenge has been received from one of the Auckland clubs and that there is every probability of a match being-arranged for Sfe Patrick's Day. ; *"'

An advertisement offering a reward for the conviction of fruit stealers" up the Waiotahi Creek, appears in another column. Several complaints have recently been made to us of robberies committed in various fruit gardens about the Borough, especially the ueighbourhood ef the Hape Oreek.

We understand that the necessary preliminary steps have been taken by the defendant in the case Donnelly v. Campbell lately heard in the District Court to obtain a rehearing of the case. A BEiSON given by the Borough valuer, today in the Assessment Act, for not going over a certain property was that a dog was kept on the premises, and he did not like dogs. This is a hint to persons desiring toquietly increase the value of their properties. A PAINFUL acoidenfc happened at about 2 o'clock this afternoon to Mr Dawson Crawford, the manager of the Karaka mine, and a man named John Rohan, who w. :i working with him. They had put in a hole and lit the fuse in the usual way, but it did not take effect, and while preparing to re-charge it, a quantity of powder in a can by fome means exploded. Both men are badly hurt from the neck upwrds, the skin being taken off except where protected by hair, thoujh happily the sight of neither is impaired. Rohan's arms are burnt from the shoulder downwards, flnd below the elbow. The men walked down to Hospital, where their injuries were attended to by Br Payne, the House Surgeon.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church sat in Auckland yt,3tsrday in St. Andrew's Church, with clo^ed^ doors, for tbe purpose of investigating the action taken by the Cb\i«f church Pre-.bytevy in deposing the Key C.Fi'aser from the ministerial office. After making m inquiry into certain charges of immor:?ily tbat bad been preferred rg^nst him, the following decision waß ciired at: — "That Ihe Assembly having reviewed the proe dvre of the Church Preabytjry in the cse of the • Rev. C. Fraser find that in aU respects the foim9 of procedure sact'ODed by the Assembly and given by it for the guidanre of Presbyterie have b;en complied with." The Rev. D. Bruca aud Dr McLcod were the only diseentients.