The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4533, 16 July 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1883.

Tkb following telegrams were posted at the Corner to-day:—" Broken hangingwall leader; good colors, gold, also few pounds picked stone. C. Waiib, London."—" 701bs specimens sth •tope, No. 2 section west, No. 5 level.—G. S. CIiABK, New Prince Imperial."

Ths Queen of England G.M. Co. on Saturday discharged the remaining two men employed in the mine, bot we learn on good authority that during the week tenders will be called for extending the western drive on No. 1 reef, at No. 3 level, 50ft

We understand that Mr A. Colhoun tikes charge of the Tararu School on the Ist proximo. Hi£ successor to the Waibtahi School is not yet appointed.

Fob submission to. the meeting of members of various local bodies r« amalgamation, called for thii afternoon at 3.30 o'clook, the following resultion has been prepared by the delegates appointed to consider the question : —"That power be sought by the Borough and County Councils from Parliament for the creation of a new district, which shall include witbin its boundaries the Borough, together with the Hastings, Purawai, Waiotahi, Kauuernnga, Totara nnd Ohinemuri Ridings of the Thames County, ths new local body so constituted to have vested in it the possession and control of the preeenr. harbor and port, of Thames,, und also within the limit of the district oreated.

Thk following is the substance of tbe report of a subcommittee presented to the trustees of the local cemeteries this afternoon : " The areHS of the old *hor!lan<l, new Shortland, and Tararu cemeteries ara respectively 6a. 12r. 3p , lla. lr. 6p., and 8a 2r. 7p. The new Shortland cemetery has not yet been used for burial purposes, and is let .for £20 per annum. The expenditure over income will cjuie to £25 per year, which will hare to be provided by Ihe Borough and County Councils. The committee recommends that tbe Borough and County be asked for a grant of £25 each* to pay liabilities amounting to over £32, and leave a small balance in baud for working expenses.

At the Polics Court this morning, before N. Kenny aad L. J. Bagnall, Ksqs., J's.P, Thomas May, a young man aged 19, was charged, on the information of Frank Daykin, with committing an indecent assault on Mary Jane Daykin on Saturday. It appears that May went to the house, which is situated on Mount Pleasant, between 3 and 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, while both Mrs Day* kin ana* her ton were absent, tbe

former in Auckland, and the latter at; work He got in through a broken window, and went to Miss D&ykin's room, in whieq Several younger children were sleeping, and then attempted • the offence. Sergt.-Major Kiely said Detective Doolan had taken the ou« in hand, and had arrested the prisoner yesterday. He asked for a remand* till Wednesday to allow the police to get up their case. This was granted, and bail was also allowed, the accused's father in £100, and two sureties of £50 each.

Thebb was a very fair hoo.se at the Academy of Music on Saturday evening to witness the performance of Doran's Combination Company. A capital programme was gone through, consisting of songs by Mr R. Lore, acrobatic feats on the bar and rings b> members of the company, in which Mr Alder, the one-legged gymnast, was especially successful in securing the applause of the audience; balancing on a thin wire stretched across the stage, by. Mr Cusco; Japanese jugglery and balancing by Joe Ketohie, and laughable Begro farces. The whole entertainment passed off satisfactorily, the fun being well sustained throughout. The principal gifts were distributed as follows :— Bight-day clock, Mrs Wakeham, Albert street; large oil painting. Miss James; suite of furniture, Master C. Kevin ; and chest of drawers, Miss Tedder. The gifts this evening will comprise a suite of furniture, a large oil painting, and sixty other presents. Mr Doran proposes holding on Thursday evening an amateur singing bee, the best vocalist to receive a large oil painting. ■

The Waiorongomai, tramway but for the wet weather of the past few days, would have been completed to the top of Butler's Spur self-acting grade. This will be finished, it is expected, before next Saturday. All the difficult parts of the work will then bi over, and after this it is all fair sailing.

Ah assay has been made of the tailings from the last crushing of one ton of general dirt from the Welcome claim, Te Aroba, which was put through at the Albumin mill t and the result showed : Gold, lfidwta Bgrs ; silver, loz 9dwts 9grs per ton. It would appear from this that the total loss was little more than one and a half per cent, of gold. This proves the careful manasr in which the quartz was treated, and al«o that the Te Aroha gold can easily be saved.

Ax a banquet to Mr Thomas Russel last week, in responding to the toast of his own health, the Mayor of Auckland predicted that within the next two years fully 20,000 miners will be located at Te Aroha and Paeroa.

A MISTING of the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School convened on Saturday to discuss a letter from the Minister of Education, asking if they would concur in the introduction of a bill empowering them to grant free tuition to pupils from -the primary schools was, owing to an irregularity in convening it, adjourned till Wednesday next,

A HOBSE bolted with a vehicle belonging to Mr Peace, of Mount Eden, in Queen-street, Auckland, on Saturday, smashing verandahs and (doing daiUßge to the value of £30 to the premises of Mr Aley, jeweller, and Mr Blackburn, tailor.

- The Orpheus has arrived in Auckland from Norfolk Island. She reports that the whaling station at the island has had but Terrain different success.

seootiatiohs are proceeding between the Wellington Meat Export Company and the j[37pion Company to have the Waihi and some |bthe> small steamers fitted up with freezing "chambers to convey carcases from Blenheim, Napier, New Plymouth and Wanganui to Wellington for export purposes.

A Cbiminal information for libel, at the suit of Mr W. L. Bees, has been laid against Mr Kenneth Kerr, the editor of a Gisborne paper called Facts, and Charles Webb, the proprietor of the Standard and the printer of Facts, for an article in last Friday's issue of •Facts, relating to the Land Company's doings The case comes on on Monday morning.

Thb crushing for the Golden Grown Com* pany, Terawhiti, Wellington, commences on Thursday. The reef is opening out .splendidly.

"Brwbatlawof Nature is, it that moral coxcombry and dtminutiveness of stature invariably go together ? Did there ever yet live the physical: pigmy wno< was not the' intellectual braggart ? And though you do not fall under the category of dwarfs yOur pro* portions are still sufficiently limited to entitle you to a place among the vainest of men." These observations' were addressed to the Duke of Argyle, and not to any colonial politician. :

- Thk percentage of fatal accidents in the. Tasmania mines is by no means a light one, eight miners having been killed last year out of a total of 4,000 employed, or two to every 1,000 t while in Victoria it was only 1:89 per 1,000. In like manner tho non-fatal accidents also show too large a proportion, the 18 which happened being a percentage of 4*2 as against 3 47 in Victoria.

The Purnell Testimonial Fund now amounts to £7.347.