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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4529, 11 July 1883, Page 2

'-Th> Seoretary of .the Auckland Rugby Union (Football^Association has received.^ letter t© the folio wi> % effrot from Mr Fletcher, of the Sydney Ru by Union :—" On the re* c*ipt of your te eg am I held a meeting of my committee, and we (oun4 thai as the ground oommittee hud decided not ,to allow football after July, owing to the preparations being made for-orioket|/that the ofaly dates open would be the 21st and 28th of July. The term* offered are: All gate mo^iey taken, Jen ground charges .and ad?ertiiing» It is late in the season tom\ they catinot name any other date later on than fhatgiten. There is only one ground where a charge oan be made, and after,this month the whole, field fisto be top-dressed* : ' ~ •>. Csaju^l Hißßi«T:CotßpFJß.»,elerk of the B.M. Court si Tapanui, was charged—that being within the, •pace ef six months past a Receiver, as defined by the Public Revenues Act, 1878j he did neglect to r furnish, the accounts and papers wbieh he was .required to make or forniah under the provisions k of ,'the. said Aofc,/an.d thilrjae did neglect to sen-*, to the Bep#iver-Q*tteraJ a oopy of bit ©*sh book,' shown?* the moneys received by'sjiai from the' ,Ist of frecembeir, 1882, to the 28th of April, 1883.\ On application, mad »on behalf o£ the, Government, the. ease was pastponed for a fortnight. ■_ < •' _ • ' ■ '';„ ■' . TJM appeal made by Mr D. Barly i'ag»n»fe, the,decision of the Resident Magistrate In a> recent cue against him for supplying, an intoxicated person with liquor w*» allowed today, and in the Supreme Court the conviction ,was quashed. *".-. "' '~j ' \ >_„,,' n'• Thi polling re the Auckland city loan of £200,000 look p lace yesterday.with;the ,fol--lowing result—For the: Joan,- 686; , ugainst, 850. Majority, '289, and only about, onefourth of the ratepayers poll. tr At the inquest held, on'rierbjirt Harris, killed in Auckland on Monday by .being fun over by a baker's cart, the jury desired to add a rider censuring the diiver of the ,b»k*r.*« Jjsrt for not having the wheel |eeared['|(y |Wiain. The Coroner pointed ouVtba£jliie |r,^Pb«nted to » ▼erdiet of manslaughter. *-?AV of" Accidental death" was returned "rpnsspd his passage By- the en. Hawea for X; Wellington by five minutes, fle took a boat k»^s followed the steamer, but failed to orer"limilher. TBSkEnierprise will leave the Goods Wharf to-rnorsro«7 »fc 12 o'clock-noon, and on Saturday afc 12 o'clock midnight, instead of 5 p.m. on Thursday and 5 30 p.m. on Saturday, as previously advertised. T)vbis9 the meeting of the delegates from the Harbor Board and Borough and County Councils, held yesterday, there were no reporters present. < The Chairman thought their proceedings should not be made public. We learn that resolutions in the direction of an amalgamation of the Borough, County, Parawai Road District, and Harbor Board were recommended. We cannot say why all the mystery.

OwiFO to the alaeritr displayed by Mr T. Bawdon this -, afternoon a fire was prevented. In Mr Bateman's smoking establishment in Bolleston street one of the pieces in the process of curing fell in the fire and the smoke arising attracted the attention of Mr Bawdon, wbe immediately prevented the fire taking any hold.

A Ngatiwhatua chief who it at present in Auckland has been visiting the Waikato settle* ments He is awaiting the arrival of the Very Rev. Dr Macdonall, from the Bay of Islands, with a view of accompanying him to Waikato. It appears ,>bat owing to the motp hopeful prospect of affairs in the King Country, the ecclesiastical authorities of the . Catholic Church contemplate re-establishing there the Catholic Maori Mission. • Thk Susteritation Fund Committee of tbe Presbyterian Churob, at Dunedin, have declared a d'vidend to ministers of £108 14s as a half year's salary. -„ , At the N«lson Pol ion Court yesterday, Parmenter and Moss, a firm of undertakers, were , charged, on the information of Mr Heeps, Collector of Customs, with importing a package containing goods which did not' correspond with the, c"try. From the evidence it appears defendants ordered goods to the value of £6 from Schielerani Scbafer, of Melbourne % they received more, amounting to £9 8s 3d, and pave it to 1 the Customs agent to clear. Just before the agent went to clear, Moss received a second invoice of goods, amounting to £23. The Collector tof Customs stated that, owing, to doubts he had respecting goods received from Schieler and Schafer, be desired tbe importer to make a declaration. A. Moss attended and denied that be had a further invoice respecting these goods. He made a declaration, and, in reply to the Collector, offered to show all the papers he had. The second invoice was then nbown by the Col'eotor, when Moss explained that he imagined as the second was marked «'Te Anau/Vand the first " Manapoun," that the shippers were sending two packages, and the goods in the second case had yet to arrive. On the case being opened the goode were found to correspond with the second invoice, and. were seized. .;;The mitigated penalty of £25 wag inflicted, with costs.

Thk. Victorian EWb'ill 'Association ■ has given £140 to Melbourne charities. Stdkbt Taiwhancu ,ss likely to have formidable obstacles in the way of his making another trip to England. Some of those who gave him aid and countenance while he was in London hare, we are informed, written to him, saying that they cannot see that he can do any good there. Besides, hie wife declares thot he will not go away, to star in England, and* leave her to dig gum in New Zealand. Bke will sooner lay a ofcarge against him for wife desertion. She ; states I that shi has reasons for thinking that Sydney's desire to re-visit London is not solely owing to his patriotism, but that be has other motives.

to give a written ••pinion on th<* ' Kind r»gurteri " sy^'cOQ of se'cool maixig" ment, a JNew Z";tar'd pupil teacher wrot"~- ---' Kindergarten was greatly defeated, and hi•rmj fl«d, and he was killed "

/ A Nsw S »tttx WaxM CM 0., whil« under «X»minntion in a court of law recently, was to tpell " January," bat hud ta give it up after four blundering attempts. , ;