Events of the Month.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4556, 11 August 1883, Page 4

Events of the Month.

— Mr Thomas Russell was banquetted in Auckland previous to his departure for England. — The crushing of stone from Terawhiti, Wellington, is expected to yield sozs per ton. — A man named Wain and his wife have been sentenced in Dunedin to seven years' penal servitude for manslaughter, through[havingcaused the death of the:.r child by starvation and neglect. — The New Prince Imperial Mine, Thames, turned out 15cwtspecimens in two days. — Local Government is getting slightly mixed up in the Colony. Too much of it. — The Blue Ribbon Army is progressing. Nearly 400 members at the Thames.

— The Thames Harbor Board are working a Priesttnan's dredge, which is capable of clearing out the harbor at the rate of sixty tons per hour. — The great unpaid of Justice are going about with tears in their eyes. There is not a sitting of the Police Court—as a rule—oftener than once a week, and then only to deal with a drunk.

— Owing to Government carelessness a steamer arrived from Fiji, an infected port, without any sanitary precautions being taken. The passengers landed, and were scattered, bat, luckily, no evil resnlt followed. -*- At a recent Crown Land sale in Auckland a small quantity of the public acres were disposed of for £6000. — The Sal ration Army nuisance ia dying ont. There,. is little enthusiasm among, the noble warriors, except where tbey see something to be got by their effusive Godliness — A child has been nearly bitten to death by a monkey in Auckland. — The Hon. Robert Oliver has dropped the idea of the Agent-Generalship, and now. wants the proposed portfolio of Minister of Eailwayg. — The present Minister of Public Works, the Hon. W. W. Johnston, will probably be the next Agent-General of the Colony. — A stir was made to economise in the matter of Civil Service expenditure, at the commencement of the session, but the Service proved too strong* and the matter consequently dropped. The question of land tenure is likely to occupy the public mind ere long, and its settlement will be no easy matter. , ; On the night of the 24th July a fierce gale commenced to rage, and it continued with almost unabated vigor for nearly 48 hours. The stream running into the Borough was much swollen, and about 4000 kauri logs were floated down by it from the bush.

—At Te Aroha, in the adjoining County, several houses were blown down dy the gale. — A man named Priestly, who, with the victim's wife, was accused of the murder of a man named Hamilton last January, attempted to lecture on gaol discipline and his own innocence, but a plentiful supply of ancient eggs, propelled by an enraged crowd put the notion out of his head. — Mrs Langtry is expected in the colony. • ' — The Maories in the district are at« taining high efficiency in playing football under the Rugby Union rules. t —It is not uncommon in our district to read of pigs over SOOlbs in weight being turned into pork. — Thesb. Haihouhas taken2Bobodies. of deceased Chinamen from Otago to the Flowery Land, and each is supposed to have cost £7 for shipping. — Sydney Taiwhanga, who was one of the Maori delegates toEngland, last year, hat placed two of his children in an liv

dustrial School, and the hotelkeepers of Auckland are prohibted by law from supplying his wife with liquor. Sydney is still agitating. It is an easy life. — The natives in the Northern portion of this Island are not yet quite reconciled to the Government Burveys ; they obstructed another party on the Ist inst. — The Colonial Treasurer has not yet given up all hope of his Compulsory Insurance scheme.

— The Government appear anxious to secure a regular service between England and the colony, and are desirous that a monopoly should be placed in the hands of tbe New Zealand Shipping Co., but it is likely that their designs will be frustrated. — The important reforms sought to be worked in our prisons by Capt. Hume, the imported Inspector, don't " go down " in some quarters. Several necessary changes sought to be introduced have raised a storm of objections, but the ad- : visablenessof the proposed alterations has I forced itself on the authorities, and the present objections and obstructions will have no salutary effect. —\Two boys, aged respectively 12 and 14, escaped from a Southern. Industrial School, stole two horses, rode into the country, and on their way picked up saddles, stray ducks, and other portable property, selling it as they went along. They were eventually captured and sent back to the Home. — The emigrants by the ship Oxford, which arrived in Wellington with typhoid fever on board, have not yet been liberated from quarantine. The patients are, how* ever, progressing favorably. — Mr J. Richardson, the oldest printer in the colony, died recently in Auckland. He arrived in the colony on one of the first newspapers in 1841. — The Auckland Regatta Committee are offering a prize of £200 for an Intercolonial yacht race. — An extensive dock is about to be constructed in the Auckland harbor. — It is expected that a sum of nearly £2000 will be offered in prize money, at the next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association.