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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4542, 26 July 1883, Page 2

Ik another column will be found a lengthy prospectus of the' New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company. The slip on the water-race mentioned in last night's issue turned but to be more serious than was at first supposed. In the morning only a small portion of ground gare way, but it continued to slip during the day, no doubt being assisted by the heavy rain, and up to yesterday afternoon fully an acre of land had come down. Men are now engaged clearing this away, but it will take two or three days more to get the race free again. All the batteries, and also the Queen of Beauty pump,' are stopped. The slip is on Gentle vAsnie mountain, behind Mr W. Murdoch's residence. • The water will not be turned on nntil Monday at the earliest. A TEItOBAM from Kaiapoi states that thesmart centre-board ketch Recamia takes her departure from there tomorrow for this port direct, with a full cargo of potatoes for Messrs M. Browne and Co. , Tfll sharebrokers held a meeting at 8 o'clock this afternoon/but business bad been so dull during the day that no list was issued. _ Thb newly»appointed engineer to fch o Harbor Board - dredge, Mr H. Harris,' was working the machinery for a short time this' afternoon, so as to get accustomed te it. A fair, start at dredging '. will' be made £0° morrowtnorning, weather permitting: - SavaßAi small slips occurred y«eterday on the road from the Hape Creek to Otunui, and the County Engineer this morning tent two men out to clear them away.

Thebe was no sitting of the Police: Oourt this morning. • THE missing fishing amaok Ada, with Harris and Munro on bpar3, turned up all right this morning. When tho gale blew ao heavily on Tuesday nighfc they ran over to the Miranda. Thb meeting of residents on Block 27, poatponed from la nt riiglit, will be held to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Ksuaeranga Boys' school. - Mb Hoimwood, -agent for Meagra JDixon and Co., of" ginger ale fame, is at present in the town, andl advertises that all accounts owing to the firm's estate must he paid riot later than to morrow. - . ;- A VAN named John Jenkins was captured yesterday, in Auckland on board the Wellington on a . warrant issued in 1879 for larceny as a bailee of property of John McDermott, of Master ton. The half-yearly meeting of the :Oolobial Bank was held in Dunedin yeßterday. Mr ! E. B. Cargill, tbe Chairman of Directors, I presided , and moved the adoption of the report, which recommended a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent.—The motion was seconded by Mr Hallenstein,and carried.—Mr Edmohd Smith expressed the opinion that a more thorough and searching audit was required, and that shareholders might as well trust to the integrity of the officers as continue the present system.—No motion, however, was made on the subject. Sxraar Taiwhakga was yesterday ordered to pay 6s per week for his two children by the Auokland Bench. He is endeavoring! to get them into an Industrial school. In the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday in Banco, before Mr Justice Gillies, Messrs Stone Bros. v. Major .Atkinson, Commissioner of Customs was called. Mr Tyler (who appeared for defendant) moved that the action (which arises out of the seizure and confiscation of the barque Gazelle) should be dismissed for want of prosecution. There was no appearance on,the part of the plaintiffs, which his Honor considered was rather extraordinary, iuasmuoh as they had filed an affidavit that morning, thus affording ground for the assumption that they intended to oppose. The application of '-Mr Tyler showed that tho action was commenced in November, 1882, while two months had elapsed since the last step was taken. His Honor ordered -that unless plaintiffs should t proceed farther within the next fourteen days the action, should be dismissed, the cobls of the action to be defendant's costs in any event.

Thb " Loch Ken " entering the harbor was a circumstance; her grounding in the mud was provident. She couldn't sail overland so she stopped; and why? She saw Charlie McLiver's window in the distance, and some of the officers and sailors wanted to take for a home voyage bis tobacco, cigars, and other accessories to a pleasant trip.—[Aj/tt.] \