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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4476, 10 May 1883, Page 2

Tueee waa no business dene in the Police Court to day.

The Warden's Court sat this morn'ng, but merely formal bu&inese waa done. There we j no attendance of the public.

The body of John Moore who was missed at Wbangamata on the 9th ultimo, was found on the beach near the Wkangamata Heads on Saturday last. The deceased, it will be remembered left Sainsbury's Hotel to go on board a vessel lying in the stream and was not afterwards heard of. Diligent search was made for him, but without avail. His remains were discovered about threo miles from where he was last seen, and the residents held an enquiry into the cause of his death and buried the body.

The presence an of audience in Court seems to be requisite to make the administration of the oath perfect. The verbatim et literatm report of the o»th put to one unfortunate staring witness to-day was, " Ev'dence yoush'i gi'fore courtsh' be 'o' truth, nut but truth Beep," &o. Government o' cial perfunctoriness over again.

Wb have been requested to remind members of the Choral Society of their usual weekly practice to-night, at 730 sharp.

The Chinese gamblers, George Wong and Miing Quong, pleaded guilty yesterday, by their counsel, at the Auckland Police Court, to playing fan-tan, and were fined £1 each. The other charges were not pressed.

A MOVEMENT is on foot for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument to the late Mr Ireland, M.H.R. for Waikaia.

The Meteorological Observatory, formerly in the Government Domain, bus been removed to the Auckland Museum, and will be placed under the supervision of Mr Cheese' man.

The Hinemoa, with Lady Jervois and party, had an excursion trip yesterday round the Auckland harbour.

A committee, consisting of me nbers of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed to collect information as to the best track for the railway line to be continued from Te Awamutu southward towards Wellington.

Mb Jas. Macpib, for many years town missionary in Dunedin, and esteemed for his Christian character and benevolent disposition, died yesterday.

Yestebdax the Governor visited Hamilton, and was received by the Mayor and Council, who presented an address. In reply, he said the projected frozen meat enterprise opened up a splendid future for Waikato settlers. He visits Paterangt and other Waikato battlefields to-noorrow.

The Mataura ships a quantity of frozen mullet for the London market.

The shareholders of the well-known Golden Eagle Gold Mining Company, Marlborough, have decided to wind up their affairs and dispose of their crushing plant

" "Dps and downs are " proverbial characteristics of colonial life, and should a story that reaches us from an authentic source prove correct, a man who at present tools the ribbons on an Auckland hansom, will ere long be the possefeor of something like £20,000 per annum. An old and highly respectable colonial family are reported to have fallen heirs to a fortune of about one million sterling, and as our friend the cabman is the husband of one of the daughters of the house, he vrU come in for a respectable slice of the windfall.

Thb Herald correspondent in Wellington telegraphs—" The Government printers are hard at work getting into type a number of measures which the Government propose to introduce during the session. It is probable that meinberß will have little ground for complaint regarding the measures submitted to them, as regards quantity at any rate. As to the details of the proposed Bills, however, considerable reticence is, as yet, maintained.

THEjHobart Mercury of the 3rd of May contains an article headed " A Case for Enquiry," referring to Captain Logan, of the Manapouri, having, on his last passage from New Zealand, caused a passenger who died to be buried at sea within 1 four hours' steaming of Hobart. The passenger was McKay, a compositor, who embarked at Lyttelton, and who died after a fit of delirium tremens. It is stated that Captain Logan buried the man at sea because the body being on board was offensive to the passengers, and because it would save the deceased a pauper's funeral, and would prevent the vessel being detained in port until au inquest upon the body had been held, and being satisfied in his own mind that death had been caused by the effects of delirium tremens, and believing that the deceased was a waif and stray, without anyone to call him friend or acquaintance.

The rather exceptional circumstance of a man dying from the effects of drinking a glass of cold water- while overheated occurred Beveral days ago at Maraetai. Deceased was a bushman, named Henry Bruce, and from the evidence adduced at the inquest, it appears that he was cutting firewood on the 27,u1t., in company with Henry Doidge, when feeling rather heated, he went to a running stream, and. quenched his thirst. The result was an immediate pain in the side. Painkiller was taken as a remedy, but without effect, and Bruce died on Thursday last. Dr. Fitzgerald, of Howick, gave it as his opinion that the deceased came by his death from acute inflammation of the lungs, caused by drinking cold water while being overheated by work, which caused a sudden overflow of blood to the lungs. A verdict was given in accordance with the medical evidence. So far as is known, deceased had no friends in the colony. He was a German by birth.

Fhom the little advantage that is taken jf the Acts that encourge the planting of trees, it would appear, says the New Zealand Settler, as if settlers were either totally unaware of the existence of those Acts, or the Acts themselves did not hold out sufficient inducements to anything like extensive tree planting. Although for a number of years settlers have been promised land orders to the amount of £4 for every acre of trees they may please to embellish their homesteads with, strange to say that twenty-five orders have been issued. The number of acres planted have been 1,260, of which 835 are in Canterbury, 301 in Otago, and 124 in Hawke's Bay. During the last year, only seven orders have been issued, represents ing 220 acres 1 rood 24 perches. When it is remembered that every acre planted adds materially to the value of a farm, it is surprising that greater advantage has not been taken of the provisions of the Acts. ,

At Sydney, Matilda O'Brien recently brought an action 'against a dead man's estate for breach of promise of marriage. Verdict for the corpse. .