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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4579, 7 September 1883, Page 2

In the Police Court this morning Hugh Smith was charged with being an idle and I disorderly person, and having no lawful means of sapporfc. Evidence was given to the effect that Smith had been prowling in the neighborhood of Parawai, and sleeping promiscuously about the Borough. He had recently attempted to take Mb child from the Orphanage, where it was placed by the authorities, and as the RM. justly remarked it appaared that disinclination to work was the chief reason of his expressed inability to obtain employment. Mr Miller, grocer, aaid that the man was likely to obtain employment on Monday in connection with one of the mines, and the ! Court adjourned the case for a fortnight, telling Smith that if he did not do something for a living in the meantime he would probably be sent to gaol. Tee usual meeting of the Borough Council waß held last night. Present—His Worship the Mayor, and Crs Carpenter, Mennie, McG-owan, Qsborne, Veale, and Wilson. The inward and outward correspondence was read; nothing of an important nature appeared in it. Accounts to the amount of £336 18s 9d were pasßed for payment. Attention was called by Cr Wilson to the state of the Eocky Point road ; by Cr Carpenter to the necessity of taking action under the by* laws against the owners of stray cattle, and the fact of itinerant pedlars travelling in the Borough without paying the customary fee, and the Council rose. We learn that the Collector of Customs has received instructions to hold some enquiry into the recent accident in the harbor, through which Henry Harris, the dredge engineer, 'lost his life. The enquiry will take place about the middle of next week,] provided the body is not found in the meantime, in which case the usual Coroner's inquest will be held. The following telegrams were posted at the Corner to-day from the Hew Prince Imperial mine:—"Three cwt specimens ninth stope, No. 1 section west, No, 5 level. Not completed breaking down.— Gh 8. CirAEK."—" Two hundredweight specimens ninth stope, 701 bs eighth stope. Good show left in back and face of ninth atope. —Gh S. Ciabk." A boatJs went out. this morning in search of the young maa Harris, who was drowned on Saturday last. They will search the banks of the rivers, but will not be able to get back till six or seven this evening on account of the tide. The Fancy Dress Ball in connection with the St. George's. Quadrille Assembly came off in the Rolteston street aohool-room last night, add was in every respect a marked success. Over 70 ladies and gentlemen were present, and in -their .gay and picturesque dresses presented a most pleasing coup d'aeil. The room had been decorated very tastefully, and the committee took every pains to render the affair successful. The refreshment department was entrusted to Mr Forgie, and gave every satisfaction. Dancing commenced at 9 o'clock, and was continued with spirit until i about 4i o'clock this morning, the music be/ng supplied by the band of Mr Smith. j Kate Febnandez, aged 6, the daughter of J Andrew Fernandez, of the Brifcomarfc Hotel, Auckland, was accidentally killed this evening. She went up a ladder through a manhole in the upper story to the roof, and while feeding a pigeon there fell through the skylight, head first, down into the open.court below, a depth of over 30 feet, expiring immediately. Jambs Waeds, an old colonist, well known as a breeder of Clydesdales, died on Wednesday morning at Kaipoi, Canterbury, from an attack of apoplexy. He had been arranging for a trip to Sydney. After returning by train to Kaiapoi he left the station for bis home apparently in perfect health. About 10 o'clock he was found lying insensible on the road, his trap being near at hand, and a good deal knocked about. He never recovered consciousness. A\ Meeting of the shareholders of the New Zealand Native Lands Settlement Company haß been held, but the business was not disclosed. S. JaG&EB has signified his acceptance of the Auckland City Council's offer of £3800 for the Army and Navy Hotel Bite. The Eev. Lindsay Mackie, pastor of the Preßbyterian First Church in Dunedin, died last night, aged 39. He leaves a wife and three children. A iot of Dunedin loafers were loud in their clamours for employment, but although the works for the unemployed at Mullocky G-ully have been open for a fortnight, only" 37 men have so far sought engagement there; none of thoße who took a prominent part in the agitation held recently have availed themselves of the opportunity. The charge of child . murder against Josephine Green, at Hawera commenced yesterday. Detective^ Benjamin, Constables Manning, of Bull's, Motley, of Woodviile, and Macnaulty, of Foxfcon, gave evidence. They deposed that they had made exhaustive enquiries, but had been unable to discdver Williams, the reputed father o|f the missing child. Motley, who is the post officer of Woodnlle, said no letter had been received there for Williams for twelve months past, except one a month ago, and that had .not been called for. The tender of Kineaid, McQueen and Co. a Dunedin foundry firm, has been accepted for tho ironwork in connection with the new Dunedin railway bridge. The amount is not disclosed yet. There were fifteen tenders, and tbe Public Works Department consider them highly satisfactory as showing that the work can be turned out in the colony at about the same price as similar work would cost at Hornet

A,GKHiD prospecting company .of 125 shares at £1 each, to be called the Moa Creek Co., Ms been formed at Rangiora, Canterbury, to testa reef reoently discovered by two men named McPherson and Kerell. A few specimens from the reef had, it was stated at the meeting, been tested with a satisfactory mult. , v Mb ©bates, a Victorian politician whose nationality is a matter of supreme indifference, is anxious to knBW -why the Agent-General Bhould have selected for the local forces Imperial officers of Irish birth. JEglea, in the Außfcralasian colonies, thuß gently "lets him down"—-I don't Buppose thab the inquisitiveness of the vulpine Mr Graves will greatly disturb Mr Murray Smith, who is not an Irishman; nor that Irish olScera in the Queen's service will feel seriously depressed about the matter. But if an answer be really requisite, it might be pL-adecl that the motives which influenced the Agent-General were the same as those which impelled the British Government Jto entrust the supreme command in the Egyptian campaign to a soldier whose Irish birth was not regarded as a grave objection.