The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4492, 29 May 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1883.

It is absolutely necessary for the safety of those ,who use the Karaka Flat that the poppet heads over the Piako shaft should be removed. They are liable to come down with the leas', provocation, and fthen some liability is incurred in paying damages to persons maimed by their fall, or who suffer from injury through it, perhaps thoee answerable will be sorry that our hints were not taken notio of. : A call of Is has been made in the Dart Gold Mining Company, and to-day a telegram was posted at the corner notifying shareholders in the New N"orth Devon Company that a call of 6d had been made payable on June 13th.

At about 8 o'clock last night the supply of water in.the 20-inch main coming down the Waiotahi Greek was cut off by a breakage in the Waio-Karaka tunnel, and the milU on the flat worked by water power had to cease crushing. The Queen of Beauty pump, which takes its water direct from the reservoir, continued work till that had been emptied, which was about 12 o'clock. The contractor for keeping the race in repair, Mr Law, immediately on finding put the stoppage, turned the water into the Karaka creek, and set about clearing the obstruction. It was found that a rotten set in the tunnel, about 20ft. from where the wa t flows, into the reservoir, had broken, and two other sets had-been displaced. Men #ere at work all night, but progress wus slow owing to tbe ground being very Boft. Mr Law, however, expected to finish in time to allow the batteries, to resume work this evening. A breakage occurred very near the same place last year. Mr Law was through the tunnel .and also the one from the Waiotahi on Sunday last, and both appeared to be quite safe. This contretemps was unfortunate for the con; tractor, as his time for keeping .the race in repair expires to-morrow.

Thb Government have forwarded to the County Chairman a copy of a petition forwarded by certain residents of Waihi asking that Government ibfluence should be exercised with, the Council Council in connection with the erection of a bridge at Waihi at the crossing near the hotel. The petitioners wish the Council to re-consider the decision to erect the bridge on the old road, owing to the other one bang more convenient to travellers and coaching. This seems havdly practicable, as we learn that the bridge now being constructed on the old road should be completed within three weeks

" Edwahd Toi/LEr, appeared before Mr Wardell, R.M., at the Police Court, Feather' efcou, yesterday, on a charge of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to the Waihenga Hotel on the eveniagof the 21st March. Mr Edwards appeared to prosecute, and Mr Gray to-defend. The case is likely to last over tod»7t

During-- the thunderstorm in Auckland yesterday afterno.on the Ponsonby Public School, in which were 500 children, was struct by lit? hilling;. The woodwork of the In-r t w<ia displaced, and some fell down ; arid the zinc sheathing was torn off. When the flash of lightning came it was followed instantaneously by a deafening peal of thunder. The children were in a great state of commotion, numbers running out of the

school

Yestekday morning a child named Andrews, while playing : with others on some trucks on the railway siding near Mount Eden Gt-aol, Auckland, bad its leg severely lacerated by the wheels of a moving truck. The injured child was at once removed to the hospital >iud its hurts attended to.

A ntjmbeb of Wellington tradesmen had their shops open on Sunday, but no notice was taken by the police.

The Dunediu School Committee now find they have no power whatever to compel the attendance at the public school of the children playing in the Pinafore Company.

Aix the female immigrants by the ship Caroline have been engaged at Dune<?in. The Immigration Officer reports that- twice the number could have secured employment

Ma Fletcher Johnson, solicitor, who has been engaged for some months pa«t in the collection of evidence at Fiji in the case of Hunt V. Sir Arthur Gordon, has completed his task, and returned to Wellington 3'eaterday.

The Oliver Thurlow sailed yesterday from Auckland bound for Noumea, with 6200 sacks flour, the second instalment of the Auckland flour contract with- the French Government.

The Nelson Mail states that on the evening before the polling day £200 was sent from Timaru to be invested on Mr Watefield in the Inangahua election, every penny of which was taken up.

At a meeting of the licensed victuallers at Wellington yesterday afternoon it was resolved that in consequence of the poor support which has been given the Association by members in the trade its affairs should be wound up. The present Association has only been in existence about a moath, and the attendance at the meeting to-day was very small considering the number of publicans who had agreed to pin.

The only case before the Police Court today was a summons issued against George Atkins for driving a horse across the footpath at the corner of Grey street. The defendant was fined 2s 6d and costs.

A very, good story is told of Lady Robinson when she was in Auckland. On the morning after her arrival she, in company with a Gapt. Cook, visited the Orne silk establishment in Shortland street. Amongst other articles examined was a pair-of suspenders for the Marquis of Abergaveany.* Noticing that the title was worked in as " Marquesß," the lady remarked that it was wrongly spelt, and should have been " Marquis." Mr Greenshields replied that that was the way in which hie son, the Earl of Lewes, had spelt it, and he ought to know, at the same time producing a card with the hand-writing of the Earl. She remarked that she knew the writing very well, and the Earl too, but it was wrong, and ought to be corrected. Mike a new pair of suspenders, and tell Lord Lewiß that I told you to do so with the spelling corrected. Wondering who the lady could be, Mr Greenehields shortly afterwards went up to Captain Cook, and quietly aeked him if that good lady was his " better half?'" "His wife," laughingly exclaimed the lady, " bless you I am his mother !" As Capt. Cook was no chicken, the bracemaker appeared doubtful of the vouched maternity, but said nothing. After "yarning" for some time, the visitors took their departure, promising to call again, as both visitants and visited appeared well pleased with e«ch other. During the day, his Excellency visited the same place, and when getting measured for a p«ir of suspenders, Mr Greenehields told him that he had had the honor of a visit from his good lady that morning, but he had no idea who she was all the while. The Governor smilingly asked how be found out ? Later in the day Captain Cook returned to give instructions about Borne things he wished made and sent to London. On being asked why be did'nt tell who the lady was, he replied, " Ob, it was all right. We put the Governor in roars when we went home !"

Fbofessob Sample is announced to deliver another lecture on horee-taming in the Academy of Music on Friday evening next. Sereral new members have joined his class, and his next lessons on the management of the borse will include his controlling an untamed fiery one, which we are informed has been secured for his cl >ss lessons.

BecentXiY in Wanganui a gentleman was stopped in the street by a person of the loafer type, who requested the loan of a sixpence. The reply was that he bad nothing bub halfcrown but perhaps his interlocutor had change. The bai took splendidly. The man pulled out a two shilling piece, at the sign of which our friend pooketed bis half-crown, silently credit, ing himself with exposing "another fraud."

With reference to the reported misconduct of female immigrants per s.s. Westmeath, tho Gh>vernment have had inquiries made with the result that the Immigration Officer at that place reports that the behaviour of the girls while in the dep6fc was excellent, and there was not the slightest sign of intemperance, while not a word of dissatisfaction had been expressed to him as to their subsequent conduct. The Auckland police corroborate this account, and the ship's doctor stat-a the behaviour of tho girls during the voyage have been " most exemplary."

Besides £50 collected already in Christ - churob and sent by the G-erman Consul to Berlin for the sufferers by the Rhine inundation £27 6s 6d hai been collected by the Q-erman Society in Kumara, and will be sent by the outgoing Orient eteamer.

The Ghristchurch Diamond Company have resolved to increase febeir capital to £300 by the issue of 100 shares, for funds. to secure a mineral lease for 21 years.

Wb learn that Carr 8 mill, bush, plant, &c , have been sold to Mr Baggot, of the Thames, for a sun very considerably under that put down ac their value in the statement to the creditors.

The Wellington Post says that the late law examination is generally admitted by those competent to judge as far find away the " stiffesb" of the kind ever held in the colony —in fact, it is said to have been much more severe than the corresponding examination in England. Of course this was not because Sir Gco ge Grey's Lhw Practitioners' Bill passed.

An insect named Timuoria terebraua is eating away the street piling from Waterloo Quay n Wellington.—[ We wonder how a policeaau would have called out this delinquent's name in the Police Court, if they had pulled it up for wilful damage to property.]

The wreck of the echoonpr Isabella Anderson, which went ashore at Hokitika, realised £200 at auction,