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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4546, 31 July 1883, Page 2

Fbom our cablegrams it will be seen that the miserable man Carey, the informer in connexion with the Phoenix Park murders, has been shot dead by a fellow passenger, named O'Donnell, on board of the steamer Melrose, at Port Elizabeth, on a colonial voyage. Many rumors have been from time to tinje current as to tlie intended destination of the man, and from the commencement of the tritl at which he turned Queen's evidence against his accomplices it was freely circulated, and he himself was frequently informed, that he was a doomed man. - Recent investigations have, according to Home intelligence, proved that he was a bankrupt, and the only money possessed by him upon leaving England was probably the sum he received as a reward for giving up to justice the men who, led by him, committed the horrible crime for which they have justly paid a life penalty. Notwithstanding the vindication of the law which order and humanity demands, and the justice of the sentences carried out on the perpetrators of a brutal crime, all of which was brought about perhaps by the sole agency of James Carey, few will be found to do more in sorrow for the act' we- chronicle, than remain silent. Another telegram pub* listed by us states that four other informers in connection wit h the same outrage are reported to have landed at Perth, Western Australia..

. Ths season for shooting native game closes to-night. ,

Dh. Kiigoue and H. E. Xawlor, Eaqs., J.P's., presided at the Police Court to-day and fined A, Phillips 10s and costs or 48 hours'imprisonment for being drunk. On the application of the defendant's 'ion, an order prohibiting the hotel-keepers of the Borough and County supplying Phillips with liquor for the ensuing 12 months wag granted.

The Queen of Beauty pump started this afternoon at half-past two o'clock, and is now running eight strokes per minute. . The new turbine is working satisfactorily. The speed is slow, but it will be increased as soon as the bearings wear smooth: ■ ■ •.• :-.

The following teLgram was posted at the. Comer this morning relative to the Deep Level Cross mine :—" Solb3 specimens stopes footwall leader.—J. SIODABT."

Owinu to the condition of the roads between the Thames and Paeroa, complication occasionally arise regarding the carriage of mails. On Friday last the postmaster had to employ a special messenger to carry the mails from Thames, and after proceeding as far as Puriri be was met by the mailman coming from Paeroa. This would seem a mostj unsatisfactory state of things. It is to be hoped that the excuse given recently for the bad state of a street in the borough, viz.,' that" a promise was given to repair it in the; summer time, but, then, it didn't want it," will not be one of the County Council's reasons for not attending properly to this important road. • '

Some fallen trees and land slips on, the road between Te Aroha and Paeroa have rendered the road impassable, these obstructions should be removed without delay.

ON Sunday 60 men were sent out searching for Mr BuchoJz iv the vicinity of tbe Takaka river, Nelson, and yesterday 40 men have been searching. The horse was: tracked from the river, bat the body has not been found.

' Thk annual meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club last night voted £75 to the late handicapper* Mr Hattley, in recognition of 10 years'; services, and appointed J. O. Evifct, of Napier, in his stead. The vote is to be supplemented by dimajions from private friends.

SmtWylie, gum-digger, has been drowned at Eaih«u by falling out of a punt. He was a half-caste Indian »ative, of Calcutta, and had no friends in the colony. .

AX Auckland telegram states that Andrew M. Alien, aged 23, in the employ of Messrs Cousins and Atkins, at their coach-building factory, is supposed to have committed suicide. His hat was found- off the dock, containing a letter addressed to the care of M. W. AJlan, 8t; Kijda, Dunedip. He last night visited tlie Queen's Head Hotel,' and 'met a young lady with whom he took a walk," ret urning at 11., He presented her with a bracelet, as she would probably never see him? again. He did not appear' at his work yesterday. The police have dragged unsuccessfully for the body. ' - J

BeGabdino the Nelson gaol tragedy the jury again met yesterday,in order to consider their rider, and agreed to add the following to their...verdict.: —" 1. That the delay in removing Davidson to one of the gaols in the colony where prisoners sentenced to itn? prisonment for life are confined is much to be regretted. 2. They consider that a prisoner like Davidson, whose murderous and suicidul tendencies were known, should not under any circumstances have been employed in the gaol, and they would recommend for the future that the arm* be kept in a place of greater security than the so-called armoury at present in use. 3. They desire to express their admiration of the tact and bravery displayed by Mr Shallcrass under such trying circumstances. <

On Saturday night, at Nelson, a little girl named A very,> 2 years old, vras standing by the lire when a. kettle of boiling water upset Bnd scalded her severely. She succumbed to tbe injuries she received yester day.

The story about a piece of firewood being placed oU the Northern Railway line at the Dunedin city crossing, turns out to be a small affair; ib was a clothes prop, one ,end of which was on the adjacent fence and the © her end across one rail. i

At lha'Dunedin gaol inquiry yesterday nearly all the day was occupied ingoing over the prison punishment-book and noting the number of, cases in which extra sentences were given. It is intended to ask <ho Visiting Justices to explain, if they please. Many of the cases wore those, of short-sentenced prisoners, who, only a day or two before'they ought io have left gaol, were brought up, an.i gut in some cases double their original sentences, for such charges as idleness, &o.; or, a charge against a prisoner for au oli'enuo committed iv February, wiis shown to have been held, over till May, and iv several cases there was an interval of a month or bo.

Mb. Jacoesjek, of Christ church, states that the telegram from Mr Kelsey, re the Alford Forest diamonds, was in.the following words ; —"Cutting diamonds; small value." He aays he agreed with Kalsey to this effects First, that Eelsey should get two or three diamonds cut j second!/, he abould submit the question of diamonds or not diamonds to. certain Home authorities in Liverpool, London, and Ameterdam. He further say* that he and Kelsey differed as to the value of the diamonds, Kelsey rating the aggregate of what he took Htftue at £2000 yr M¥iOo, '.'-Rjwquiiug tbuithey

proved to be genuine, while Jacobsen reckoned them as diamonds to be worth between £80 and £120. Kelsey was to indicate in bia cable message who was right. Jacobien therefore reads' the message thus s—" lam g^ttipS 'toe. nfimber- of-diamonds agreed upon cut; the-stones are diamonds} their vaiae is the smaller value." With regard tb future cables, the directors of the Pioneer Company say that, they will be, in cypher, and addressed to the directors, and will be published. '-, ' . V

The first of^ four charges against ;W. N. Morton, for stealing gold from his neighbor's sluice-box, was commenced in the G-reymouth District Court yesterday morning. A good deals of public interest is felt in the case. Morton, before this, had been a well-known well-to-do miner. The jury went out to see the place, the Judge concurring, and all the.counsel engaged, as it ia almost impossible to understand the evidence without viewing the ground.

: The annual meeting, of the Auckland Law Society was held yesterday. The report slated that one complaint bad been received by the Council of misconduct on the part of of a member of the profession. The matter had been handed over to a solicitor in order to obtain the necessary evidence. If the evidence were obtained the Council would proceed against the practitioner in question. The Council had also received two complaints of unqualified persons having acted as solicitors: in both of .these cases the Council had ordered the parties to be prosecuted; and the cases were now in the hands of counsel. Two such persons bad been convicted in the Southern portion of the colony, and it had been there decided it was not necessary that the parties so acting should have received a reward forx their, services. There was good reason to believe that a large' practice of this kind was carried on in Auckland. Law reports were finally established, and if properly supported there was every likelikood of their becoming of great value and service to the profession. : r' < ; -■:

Mb Bryce has returned the following reply to an address of sympathy from the Kailwi Cavalry:—"l have received with great gratification the address of sympathy you have been' so good as' to send me. Whatever may happen to me in the future, it will always be a matter of satisfaction to me that I succeeded in acquiring your confidence under very trying: circumstances, and that t have retained it to the end. When a man -attains a prominent public position, such as I:now occupy, the temptation to some' minds to assail his private character is evidently irresistible. The writer of the history to which you refer appears, however, to regard this not as a temptation to be avoided, but as a duty to be performed. His object seems to be to prove that his countrymen, when they became New Zealand colonists, changed their nature and their principles, and became all that is wicked and base. To such a task un~ veracity and Blander- Was sufficiently congenial. I trust the days will come when the history of New Zealand will be truly written; without morbid sympathy or unworthy, prejudice ; when that time comes it will be seen that the natives of this country have been treated with a degree of justice and humanity never before displayed by the dominant race, in the history of colonisation. Gentlemen, I assure you—and you will at least accept the assurance—that, so far as lam aware, I have done nothing in any public capacity which my friends need be ashamed, to see recorded.'' ■ " "■. ' ■■■-••■ ;-.

Thb " Loch Ken " entering the harbor wai a circumstance ; ber grounding in the mud was provident. She couldn't sail overland so she stopped; and why" ? She saw, Charh'e McLiver's window in the distance^ and some of the officers and wilora wanted t© tske for » home voyage his tobacco, cigars, and'other: accessories to a pleasant trip.—[Abw.J „■■-./,■..