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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4644, 22 November 1883, Page 2

We would remind members of the Choral Society of the practice to-night, and members of the Committee of the meeting at 7o'clock.

The inhabitants of Tapu had better get a Resident Magistrate all to themselves. An information has been laid by M. McMahon, Tapu, against Wm. Good, junior, for shooting and maiming cattle, the property of the informant. This promising district deserves some recognition at the bands of the Government, sb ifi materially help 3to pay the cost of carrying out the law. We hare almost weekly instances of this.

A WEEKiiT mail service has been established between Awahou and Ohinemutu. Mails are received and despatohed every Saturday.

In our report of the Flowej Show yesterday the names of the winners of the second prizes for cut roses and geraniums were unavoidably omitted, the numbers having disappeared from the exhibits. Both prizes ware taken by Mrs Kilgour.

Notwithstanding the dry weather we have experienced during the last two days, not even a " drunk " put in an appearance at the Police Court this morning. There was no sitting.

Mb Gobdox, Inspector in the Mining Department, arrived at the Thames to-day in connection with the business of his department in relation to this district.

At the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Home Mission, held yesterday in Auckland, the Chairman (Rev. A. Reid) seid that the Mission embraced in its operation the Maori Mission, the Scandinavian Mission, and assistance rendered to feeble and struggling circuits, ths support of missionaries, properly so called, who were located in the sparsely peopled districts. They also afforded a help towards the training of young ministers. In furtherance of thiß work they collected and spent about, £2500 per annum. Last year the sum they expended was £2630 8s SM. The income had been £2587, leaving a balance deficit of £43 8s 9d to be carried to the the present year. Addresses were delivered by the Revs.T. Gh Hammond (Hokianga) H. Bull, W. Slade (Raglan), and Hauraki Paora and Wi Warena Pewa.

The following exberpt re Waiorongomai mining are culled from contemporaries •'—The Waitoki Company, having received orders to stop crushing, were to clean up last evening. —The Premier Company have had 15 head of stampers going 6ince six o'clock yesterday mornings having been awarded the five which were until now used by the Waitoki.— Arrangements were completed on Monday for the erection of a second battery.—A branch line of three chains is to be con* ttructed to connect the Vulcan mine with the Premier hopper. When finished a trial parcel of 100 tons will be crushed at the battery. —The returns of amalgam from yesterday's crushing are as follows: —New Find, 1550z5; Premier, 83ozs lOdwta; Colonist, 67ozs lOdwts ; Werahiko. 65ozs lOdwts.

As Mr Weaver, manager of the South Pacific Oil Company, was leaving Giborne yesterday his horse bolted, threw him, and broke his leg. Mb Bbtcb has, for some reason, resolved to break bis visit to the Kingite natives. . He has gone back to Auckland. The directors of the Queen of Beauty mine,. Makara, have decided upon taking a ton of stuff from the claim, and having it tested at a berdan fitted up at one of the Wellington foundries. ; At the sale jf steamers in Auckland yesterday by Messrs A. & E. Isaacs, by order of the liquidator of the Kaipara SteamshiD Co., the City of Cork realised £1000, the Lily £450, and tha Kina, Minnie Casey, and Durham, together with the Government mail subsidy, trade plant*, equipments, offices, and coal | sheds at Helenaviile, £60C0. ' The 24 hours' walking contest, at Wellington, between Edwards and Scott has been postponed until Friday aud Saturday next week. The bore at the Pacifio Oil Company's spring, near Gisborne, is now down about 380 feet. The local board have telegraphed the directors of the Southern Cross Company, Christchurch, asking them to spare one of their borers, so as to push on operations. EilißK McLblien, wife of Daniel McLellan, publican, at Helensville, wan brought to Auckland yesterday, charged with attempted Buicide. A conger e>-l, fire feet long and eighteen inches in' circumference, was caught in Raglan harbor lately by a native. . A youeg man named Farnie, who broke his leg lately near Wanganui, mounted his horse and rode ten miles to a doctor to hare it set. The Bombay Gazette, of September 19th, has th<* following :—Mr J. J. Pollard, junior, conductor of the Pollard Lilliputian Com* pany (who visited the Thames some time ago), aged 27, has committed suicide, by shooting himself with a revolver while going up to bis bed about twelve o'clock on the night of the 18 th. Another telegram stated that the occurrence was accidental. .

The following well deserved tribute was paid by a Church of England congregation to Iha Rev. O, Strong, a Presbyterian Minister in Victoria, who was expelled by his synod on account of his liberality of thought:—" To the Rev. Charles Strong. Reverend and Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned members of the Church of England, desire to express our rogret at your approaching departure from the colony. We have noted with pleasure jour constant willingaesß to co-operate in any joint action between the Presbyterian and Anglican Churches, and we are convinced that 1 your efforts in this direction have contributed to promote the cause of Christian unity. Oc cupying a high position in the sister Church of Scotland, your public conduct has evinced a large spirit of comprehensiveness. We feel sure that the widening of terms of subscription such as you have advocated will produce a beneficial effect upon Christian thought and life. We have also remarked with admiration your endeavors to benefit the localitywith which you have been connected in Melbourne, and especially do we recognise your endeavors to promote the wellbeing of working men. We beg you to accept this expression of our good wishes for a pleasant voyage home, and for your success and happiness in whatever sphere of duty you may hereafter engage."

FlilKS AND BtTGtS, Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gopher*, jackrabbits, cleared out by. " Rough on Rats.— Motes Mobs & Co., Sydney, General Agent*.

The Hon. E. MitcheUoa, Minister for Public W,orlis, proceeds to Wellington to-day by the Takapuna. Large numbers of people risited fcne Takapuna on her arriral at the Manukau.

Me Buckley (of the firm of Buckley, Stafford, and Fitzherbert, solicitor*, Welling ton) is about to proceed to Sydney in the interests of Mr J. M 1 arnach, M.H.R. The plaintiff was formerly manager of the Colonial Bank in Wellington.' The action, which is for defamation of character, has been pending for a long time, but will be heard at the December sittings of the Supreme Court, New South Wales.

The demand for the great American remedy, Hop Bitters, in this part of the world has be^ come so great that the Hop Bitters Co., whose headquarters are at Bocheßter, New York, U.S.A., hare been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It will be in charge of Mr M. H. Van Bergh, a gentleman of several years' experience with thia Company, and the trade may be assured of receiring goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The H.8.C0. have establishments at London, Paris, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland, and Toronto, and their bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world. ;