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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4497, 4 June 1883, Page 2

The recognition of law and order by Thames inhabitants still continues. The sheet at the Police Court this morning waß a clean one.

The District Court which should, in the ordinary course of things, be held to-morrow has been further adjourned for one month. The case of Garvey V. Ema Te Aouru will stand over until next session, and the only other item on the list, viz., that of ealing with an application for discharge, will be dealt with before the Begistrar, Mr Allom.

Two of Messrs Dickey and Verran's horse b bolted with a dray near Capfc. Fraser's residence at Tararu at noon to-day, and cantered in to the stables, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, and fortunately without any mis hap. They kept on the centre of the roadj and evidently knew where tbeir dinner was kept, as they palled up when the stables were reached.

jAbotjt one o'clock on Sunday morning some inebriate on the lurch, or an evily disposed person, broke a large pane of glass in the window of Mr Farrar, chemist, in Pollen street. Tbe Nemesis-like authorities are on the track. It may have been caused by " a glass too much,", but it appears to have been a paneful case.

The railway contractors have now nearly removed the Big Pump mullock tip for ballasting the line between Shortland and Grahamstown, and it is probable they will Bhortly lay down a branch line to thn Moanatairi tip.

Some larrikins amused themselves by putting out the light on the end of Curtis' Wharf laßt evening. Not content with merely leaving the wharf in darkness, they reversed the wick, and then turned the top of the lamp upside down. This kind of thing may be fine Bport to them, but if the delinquents are caught by the Harbormaster or his assistants they will probabljr take another vi°w of the matter.

' A LOCAL appears in our morning con temporay to the effect that telephonic communication has been established at Waiorongatnai. Upon enquiry we learn that the instruments have not yet been received from Wellington.

The directors of the Moonstone G-.M.C0., of Waitekauri, encouraged by fcVe good news from that district published by ua on Saturday, are making preparations for actively commencing operations in their ground. Hollis' find is also stated to be near the boundary of the Waitekauri No. 3 GKM.Co.'b property, through which Sutler's reef strikes.

A CTBBIOUS cage of concealment of child .i*4ish has come before the Resident Magistrate at Christchuroh, which has resulted in Ada Boy'd, an elderly^pman, aiid three young girls, Ada Willet, Sarablpillet, and Alioe^ Hulberfc being committed for trial. The leading facts for the prosecution •were that the body of a child was found on the premiies occupied hi the accused, and that it was subsequently buried by them under the direction of Mrs Boyd. Otfr McCoanel, the counsel for the accused, submitted that there was no charge to answer. Referring to the singularity of the proceeding?, he said that he had searched in Tain f:r a case in which four people were ever charged with concealment of birth, a birth too in which no evidence was forthcoming as to the mother. From the evidence taken we gather that the mother of the child whose bodj was found had died in giving it birth. She was buried but bj some bad management the body was left expoed in Mrs Bojd's garden. Altogether the affair is one without its equal.

An application to the Appeal Court at Wellington by Mr E. Shaw, to have the name of Mr W. S Staite, formerly of Palmerston North, restored to the roll of barristers and solicitors was opposed by Mr Chapman on behalf of the Law Society, and was refused. The publicans charged with a breach of the Adulteration of Food Prevention Act, by mixing brandy and spirits with .water, got off; the information being dismissed. The Magistrate, Mr Smith, held that the English Act fixed the limit at 25 degrees under proof for brandy, whisky, and rum j and the reduction in the present cases being only 21*9 degree?, no raudulent intent had been been disclosed.

The following are the results of the Waimate Steeplechase Meeting, held on Friday at Waimate, Canterbury. The weather was line, but cold, and the attendance from 500 to 600 :—Steeplechase Handicap : Six ran. Barbary 1, Kosciusko 2.—Maiden Plate : Melbourne 1, Warlock 3, Commissioner 3.—Steeplechase Cup : Wild Boy 1, Melbourne 2, Clarence 3.—Hack Steeplechase: Encore I, 1 Doctor 2, Saracen 3.—Consolation Handicap : Bateman 1, Commissioner 2.

.The Albiou Company's battery, at Terawhiti (near Wellington) being now nearly ready, while the tramway for conveying the stone from the mine will take several weeks !o complete, the company has undertaken to crush 200 tons of atone from the G-olden Crown Company's claim as soon as ever the battery is in working order.

At the Native Land Court, Cambridge, Mr Gwynneth, surveyor, would not produce a plan, as the surrey is not paid for. The Judge ordered the production of the plan under penalty, and Mr Gwynoethtben submitted. In future, recalcitrants will be fined £20 for each non-appearance.

Haebihoton, of Biverton, not having replied to the terms offered by Hearn, of Wellington, the latter now offers to row him 3£ miles in Well ngtoo harbour for £100 a side, and to allow £25 for expenses.