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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4513, 22 June 1883, Page 2

Thtc names of the following were struck off. the electoral roll this morning on the Aground of non-residence. Wm. Courtney, G. N. Phillips, G.N. Parker, Thoa. Presscott, Tbos. J fiealey, John McOullock, and J. J. O'Brien. Thbbe civil ca^es on the list for hearing at the'R.M. Court this morning were adjourned. They were Fraser v. Comes,- £2 15s lid, for goods sold • same v. Qfitßt s £5 Is 6d freight, nnd Anderson v. White, £7, money received. Tt,e r. moval of the goods shed on the Shortland wharf his been effected by the the Government, but upon commencing; the work it was found that the lower timbers in the ereofions were rotten, and it will take at least. £25 to make the building fit for use.^ Where it stood it wiis perfectly safe, as it was built on the erround, and would hare lasted for a considerable time, bit its removal and being placed on a different foundation ,wiß necessitate *n outlay before it can be used. The coal shed adjoining it—for* which the Harbor Board received a rent, of £10 per year, cannot be re-erected owing to its condition^ The Government should certainly leave those sheds in, the condition they were before removal for railway purposes. We understand that a communication has been sent to the Public Works department in con* nectiqn with the matter. Ax a meeting of the Directors of the Thames Valley Railway Co., held last evening it was decided that Mr Jackson should make a 'plan showing land in the Piako Block available for the Go's, purposes, and that situated within 15 ' miles on either side of the proposed line; in accordance with section 101 and 94, respectively, of the act. These plans will when ready be forwarded in support of the Company's claims on the Government. " A case of the breach of a Borough by-law j was heard in the R.M. Court this morningThomas Short was charged with driving over a footpath; Mr M. Casey appear d and stated that the defendant was in his employ and has been in the habit in common wi h many other persons of crossing the footpath at the place complained of. He was ignorant of any breach of the law being the effect of doing so> as the place was used aa the meant of entry to. a number of dwellings., A fine of one shilling was inflicted. -.•■..; ■•-,■•; Waibonsomai will be connected with Te Aroba by telephone on Wednesday or Thursday next. . ■..-.., ■,-.. „-.. . . ,;.. ■,_ i J Two hofcelkeepers appeared before H. Eenric^, Esq., R.M-, this morning. The licensee of the 3 unction Hotel—Wm. Burton, was complained against for having no light burning in front of his premisu early on the morning of the 11th insfr. Mr Burton explained that the occurrence was not through negligence ; an accident bad happened to his gaspipe, and upon finding it out be remedied it. 2hts Bench inflicted a fine of one shilling. The other oase was against James Rennick of the Imperial Hotel for supplying liqao r after hours'.' It appeared that some lodgers in the house had been visited .by a friend from Auckland, and sat up ratber late, while they we.c doing so, a woman knocked at the buck door and obtained ii' bottlo of stout. The defendant admitted the otfenos, but explained as above tb,at.he did, not open the house, but sui'plwd the liquor aod closed the door again. Tbe Bench said that under the circumstances, it would inflict a fina of 10a, but the Act required that the conviction should bo endorsed on the license. . . "Doußtß BASS" writes:—"Only a Clod" in the Tiser thia morning must be indeed a thick "clod:" He /finds fault with the organist of St. George's Churoh for not play- ( ing right through every hymn, and psalm so thai all the " clods" m»ty aiag. I would ask, what is the business af thy ohoir bufc to lead the singing? The organist should only j Company tiio voc'ies,' ;ahd when the organist j "keeps his fingers still," it is to encourage ! the congregation, ' and' especially the " clods," to sirig with the -tihbir, and tirely o fl the instrument;.J 1 Only a Clbd" has either wilfqljj'or,-stupidly murepresented the incumhent'lsremarki; .wrlitib he "did was thar. a deeper devotion could bo shown'by listening reverently to' other pnoplo praising OtoA and j lining with them in heart and mind if they:cauld not do so with tlilfr voices; this he said when speaking of anthem siogjng by the choir.' I cordially agree with the reverend gentleman, especially if there avu many > " Clods " in the^congre^jation who require the roar' of a bourdon pipe in-their ears to enable them to sing in tune If of the. congregation cannot foil.-.w the lead of the choir they had better j >in' in the praises of Qroi only in heart ad mind, otherwise they may prove a aeriuu* hindranto to the devotional'feelings of their f-llow-worshippers in the hou-e of .G-od. -The new hymnal will arrive shortly,, which will, perhaps, remove some of the difficulty of which "Onl, a Clod" complains. ■' , Ihh Secretary of the Canterbury Education Board reported to the Board that the Act is being broken aft Rangiora in the matter of religious leaching. A Gtrir-MGrCrEE, nasjsd John McGruire, \has been misaicg at Dargaville for a fortnight. It is feared he has oommitterl' suioide, as'he had threatened t* do so. Ibok columns are to be erected on the spots whero the bodies of the liitle boys Tilly and Mason were found on tbe Port Hills'; Ly ttelton. The following tenders for the formation of 31 miles of the Morrinsville Litchfield section of the Thames "Valley Rotorua railway were received :—Mercer and Marshall (accepted), € 2,998; Hunt and White, £17,522 j D. Jfttlioni £18,148; Foughey and .Darrow, £19,669; Brett and Mulligar, [£19,729 ; W. Gh Baivett, £22,900. 1

IN Ui<? RM. (hurt tlvs mor.if.sg a fir t offender was finpf) 53 or imprison ment, until, the rißing of the Court on the charge of b in-- ' drunk and disorderly. At the Duneiin goal inquiry yesterday the evidenca consisted of wriifcon complaints rrade to the Inspector of Prisons and Minister of ( Justice by prisoner; tbes^ ware tiow igned by the.said prisoncre. The charges were that prisoners were made to w >rk when sick, that, prison goo'ls were taken to prirtue houses by gaolers' orders; that, prisoners died after sickness which was put down to malingering ; that labor g-tngs* books were falsely kept in order to mike out t.hut the sflol was selfstioportlng; thifc prisoners worn treated as favorites; that officers had boen the worse for drink; t.h'aft malp prisoners grot; to t.h'-bifch-room with female prisoners; and that female priijoners^ had gone into the chie f gaoler's quarter*|without being attended by the matron. '■ ' --* iNjtbe Auckland Supreme Courr, Lowry Wilcock was granted a derron absolute dissolving bis marriage with his i 7i ro, Mary Price Wilcook, on the ground that, she hud committed adultpry with Charles Edward Forder,' and was cohabiting with him. iAt the> .Nelson Supreme Court, Mary Grimafct.ica wbb arraigned on fh'' charge of being accessory, afler the fjcfc, to the murder of Denis Quinlan. Tlie Crowa Prosecutor ofFererl no evidence, and the jury 'eturned a ye diet of.not guilty.- In discharging the prisoner, his Honor, s*id he w s convinced eh« w»3 innocent of the murder, and as to the'ebargo of b?ing accessory, she was, more sinned agiinsh than einning. She excited the piauion of men, ane| Jpd up to crime. He hoped" wh^n she left the Court she ' would consider the cteprated knd * disgraceful life she had led/ and woultf lead a better life in future.

The subject of lighting the Borough is au all en«rosxing topic at present, and the streets in GrahHrnatowH certainly require a liitle illuminati'-.n. The lighting of Brown street, though, hue been .■ attended to by Charlie McLiver, who«e illumina'ion never grows dim. His windows and their attractions are sufficient in that locality.—[Advi.]