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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4433, 20 March 1883, Page 2

The County Chairman has received from the Public Works Department ;he following reply Io a telegram sent by the Council asking Government assistance in repairing the roads damaged by the late Ohinemuri floods. " The Minister of Mines is unable to make provision for the expenditure,, but application o»n be made under the RoHdn and Bridges' Construction Act for a grant of the estimated cost of euch of the worts as are upon the main road." . The steamer British King, the first of a line of direct; steamers from London to the Colony, arrived yesterday at Wellington. His Excellency the Governor will leave Wellington for Auckland on Tuesday, the 3rd proximo. The Premier will »tart for Welling' ton on Thur d«y next., ft r Napier, viaMnsterton. From Nnpier be will proceed on Saturday by theTarawfjra en route for Auckland. Thbee was no sitting of the Police Court to-day. • • , A MEBTisa of the creditors of Mr George Thompson was held in the Court-hpuse todny at ten o'clock, Mr J. J rvis in the chairThe liabilities were set down at £96 13a, and there were no assets. The principal creditors were Messrs Grng £20, Fulljames an* Scott £16, J Read £15, and J. Yeale £14; the remainder ranged from £5 downwards. Mr Grigg was appointed trustee. A special meeting of the County Council was held at three o'clock this afternoon to consider the new by-laws in connection with the regulation of water supply. A MBBTlsa of the Thames Harbor Board was held yestrrday, at which a tariff of charges for lessees of the Shortland wharf was prepared, and in connection with tbei application of Mr Perry to lea»e a portion of the foreshore, it was decided to off^r him an allotment on the north side of the goods wharf. T»»B County Engine • has been working night and day preparing plans and specifications of the works to be done out of the graut in aid cf goU fields, w! ich are to be submitted for the approval of Mr Godon, Inspecting Bnginoer of the Mines Depart-, mant. These comprise two contracts for Karangahske, one for Karaka Creek, one for Otunni— from the mines to the battery, one for Waitekauri, one for the Waiotabi, and one for the MaungaV erikeri roads. Betwbejt Saturday nijhb and Monday morning an entry was effected into the Star Office by breaking a window in the rear of the premises, and this morning Constable O.Brien succeeded in arresting two boys about the ages of 9 and 11 years, named McA'ister. The boys confessed to having broken the window and entered the offi c, but nothing was taken from the premises. The proceedings at the meeting of the Mutual Improvement Society last evening were animated, not only by the presence of about tuirfcy of the gentler sex, but by the vigor with which one fair essayist ■ defended her ground against hostile criticism. A worthy member of the fourth estate, who did not quite hold with the views contained, in the essay un^er discussion was informed by the nuthoress of it to the eflVct that its merits were supremely transc ndental when compared with some of the 'eadi-'g articles written in the j urnal to which he was attached. Another opponent to the ide 8 vented in the essay was scathingly •'let down;" in fact, the lady showed the possession of " real grit," and held her own against her opponents in verbally a forcible manner. The following telegram -w«b received yesterday evening in reply to one seat to Mr Cheeßeman, the Secretary of the Acclimatisation S>ciety, Auckland, asking wh-n the native game season would commence :— ."Season for native game in Auckland commences on May Ist.—F. F. Chee3em\n." Thb privileges in connection with the en« suing race meeting were to-day sold by Mr R. R. McGregor at the following prices:—Grand Stand, £10, Collins; Publican's Booth No. 1, £11, Winder; Publican's Booth No. 2, £10, Tonkin; Fruit Stall No. 1, 35a, Wood ; Fruit Stall No. 2, 50s, Wakeham ; Cards, £5 10s, Adams; Templars' Booth, £2 15s, Grant. The gates were withdrawn at the j Stewards' reserve of £60. A footballi club has been formed at Sbortland, and the following officers elected —: Pres'dent, Mr Sp'hcer; vice-presidents, Messrs Y^ale and Speight; captain, Mr Irwi j vice«cap am, W. Thompson; secretary, W. J. May ; treasurer, Mr M. Butt. A Committee was elected, and the colors of the club deoided upon. The team ,of Taranaki repr«ientati c oricketerr have' been cordially received in. Auckland.

The good peopla of Waipawa are not very consistent. It is only ft fvw days ag > since they burnt Mr Bryce in effigy for pardo ing andfhabine hands withTaKooti. A day or two ago they entertained Tawbiao afc a banquet, find drunk the health of the man who harbored Te Kooti, wag a friend of To X oti. *nd prevented Te X loti from being brought to justice. The rehearing of the new trial case Donnelly v. Campbell takes place b'fore a jury in the District Court on the 3rd of April next. . ' ■-' ■ ' At the Hon. C. H Bromby's lecture last night in Auckland on "The English in Ireland," Mr J. A. Tble, M.HR., presided. Among those present were Bishop Luck, Monsignore Fjnes. and a number of Catholic clergy. Bishop Luck, in moving a vote of thanks to the lecturer, said when he listened to vhafc hie countrymen had done in Ireland he felt, ashamed of his country, - of being an Englishman. The brave, patient, long-suffer-ina Irish would always haee his sympathies. These ntferftnces of the Bishop greatly mollified ' hut, section of his flock which had been irritated by his letter to the Hibernian Society re Mr Redmond's mission.