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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4464, 26 April 1883, Page 2

A lad named James Ta°ker, employed as a blanket washer at the Alburnia battery, met with an accident yesterday evening. He was going on with his usual work when his foot slipped and .he fell, fracturing his left arm at the wrist. He went to Dr Payne, who set the limb, and he is now progressing favor* ably. . . .

We hear that the battery of the Martha Extendel Company, at Waihi, commenced crushing yesterday, and that the turbine and all the machinery connection therewith is working in a highly satisfactory manner. It worked 85 blows a minute, with a nine-inch drop, and uted about half the water that was in the raoe. It is to be hoped that the '* hope deferred " bo long in this promising district is about to be realised at last.

Another mail bag was recovered in the Waibi River this morning by natives. The postal officials are treating' the contents of the three bags recovered. Many addresses arc obliterated.

. " A EA.TBPATEE " complains that although it is advertised that the County rale list is open for inspection at the Parawai School, he has gone there, and was informed by the in* mates that " they knew nothing about it."

*• Thr only news received of the mail accident at the Waihi, further than we hare alseady published, is that the body of the carnage and two mail-bags were recoTerei and handed to the Postmaster at Paeroa. No trace, ofthe drjver!_s:Jbody has as yet been discovered. ; .

The dose ef " salts " with which the Bench (Dr Kilgour) was expected to deal this morn* ing was settled out of Court. Mr Miller, who appeared for one of the parties announced that the squabble between the Captain and the tar had been settled. ' ' -

■ As will be seen by an advertisement in another column, Mr E. H. Taylor's lecture on " Carpenter's Tools," which was to have been delivered in tbe Oddfellows' Hall this evening, has been unavoidably postponed.

Mb J. Cobgbave, who sold out his drapery business recently, intending to proceed to England, has made up his mind to stay in Auckland, affd has been the successful tenderer for A. Linabury's stock of drapery. He has purchased the lease of the premises, and re-opens them in a few days. '

An application, was made to the ViceChancellor's Court the other day, which will interest the Thames Gtoldfield's folk. The applioant was a Mr Eioke, and he demanded the modeßt sum of £5000, alleged to be due to him for the loss of payment for, a property in New Zealand he. was to have worked on behalf of the fictitious " Haven G-oldmining Company," advertisements of which appeared in the London papers s^me years ago. He declared he had bought this land from the Maories in 1868, and it was extremely valuable. - The Vice-Chancellor curtly remarked the whole thing was a juggle, and promptly declined the application.

Two whales were observed spouting in the harbor this morning, and some fishermen's boats, which 'were coming down the Piako Hver and a waterman's boat went in pursuit of the monsters. The b.s. Huia, with a punt in tow, was coming down the Thames rirer, and when the skipper sighted the whales h«j made his punt fast to a beacon and went to the assistance of the fisherman. Eventually they succeeded in driving one of the animali ashore near the mouth of the Fiako river, and by this time will no doubt, hare sue* ceedrd in despatching it, though at 2 o'clock it was observed to be "blowing," proving that, a little life yet remained. Tlie captured whale ia between 70 and 80ft. in length. It is to be towed over to'the Kopu wharf,' but will not be out up for a day or two, to give people an opportunity, of seeing it. Another whale, we are informed got ashore this morning at Tapu, at about the same time as the one was caught here.

Mb Gk M. Watbbhousb, M.L.0., of Wellington,. "tf.Z., was recently in Corfu ; he is at present in Athens.

The machinery for the Caswell Sound Marble and Portlaud Cement Mining Conpanj is now almost completed, and will be ready for shipment next month. Large orders for the marble hare been received frem the At stralian colonies, besi es those from various parts of New Zealand,

. It is understood* that the Colonial Treasurer will be detained for some time in Wellington in connection with the work of his department before commencing his lectures in the North Island on Natunal Insurance and other subjects. The exact date of his departure for the North has not yet been settled.

Akchbishop V a ugh an was visited on board the mail stes" er by a number of the Anokland Catholic Clergy. Owing to the delaj in the steamer's arrival he was unable to receive a welcome from the Auckland Catholics. Ha is accompanied ou bis risit to Borne by the Ber. Dr. GHllett.

Db. Keati q, of P»tea, was fined £5 and coats for giving a receipt and not affixing a penny stamp thereto.

Db. Hectos is visiting the Kawakawa coal minei

Ovbb£SooO went through the totaltsator' at the late Auckland Autumn Meeting. The settling of accounts between the members of Tattersall's and the public took place on Tuesday evening, over £10,000 changing hands, j The metallicians won, with the excep- ; tion of Enko, who, on settling night, , parted with £500, and the betting on the, part of the public was on the.whole pretty fair. , Reform, the winner of the autumn steeplechase, and Lady Bab were offered at auction, but the offers made were not good enough.

The members of the West Coast' Railway League have been busy during the past month addressing meetings in ell parts of northern and central Canterbury, and have met with warm support—their resolutions condemning an East Ooait line and 'advocating one to the West Coast being adopted everywhere except at Kaiapoi, where a motion was moved by Isaac Wilson, M.>'.R. for the. district, and carried, in favour of expending £180,000 in the construction of a northern railway to, a point available fot the proposed -West Coast railway. On Tuesday 'night Mr Wilson's proposition was rejected at Rangi ra, and the League's resolution was agreed to.

The sequel to the marred marriage ceremony at Newmarket has just come to our knowledge, and it is pleaßing to note thai all ends happily It turns out that the cause of the bride's objection to the nuptials was a rather trifling but truly feminine grievance. Her prospective lord and master had denied her some particular article of adornment for the important occasion, and she, with the determination of her sex, resolved she would not be married wit Lout it. Her woman's wit and woman's will carried'the day, for her requirements were soon complied with, and the interrupted nuptials have now, been sucessfully " pulled off," No doubt it is a hopeful augury for the future happiness of the youthful couple that this little preliminary skirmish has decisively settled the question of who is " boss " of the situation.— Star.

The singing at the Salvation " free and easy" last night was accompanied by a cornet, but even this did not make the time fast enough to suit" Captain" Pollard, who repeat* edly requested his audience to" grease the wheels" and "move it along quicker." In the course of his remark*, he said a Dunedin reporter bad said his voice was any thing but musical, and he knew it. He only wished it was more musical, and he would be better able to use it in the service Of the Master. In a subsequent hymn, tbe first verse was sung rather slowly, but at the request to " clap more steam on" the time in the second verse was much faster. '"Captain" Pollard there* upon took occasion to inform his audience that the two ver.-es reminded him of railway travelling—the former in New Zealand and the latter in England. The movement appears to be well sustained.; There was a crowded attendance, • the service being conducted > by "Captains" Pollard and -Wright. The former officer stated that he would only be here for a few nights, but he wanted to see a Salvation testimony meeting before he went away. They would have one that night. During the next halfhour a cumber of persons testiied, and at the call of the " captain "J some two hundred hands were held up for Christ. Thelarrikine at the back of the hall also "declareJ," but they were threatened with^expulsion. Most of those who addressed, the meeting, however, claimed to have been converted before the advenfrof the "Army," while one well known gentleman commenced his address in these words :" Beloved brethren,—Christ has saved me, although I never was very deeply sunk in sin."^-Star. ;■ , ■ ,• ■■ ■. •■, .■.;■.■ ....;:. ■■•