The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4653, 3 December 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1883.

DUEING the latter part of last week, a proposal was mooted in Auckland by one of our local mine managers to float a strong tribute company to prospect the ground below the 400 ft level in the Moanatairi, Caledonian, Euranui Hill, and other claims, and to more particularly see whether t ha rich shots of gold worked in the two first named companies descend, or whether the Moanatairi main slide has the effect of causing deposits of gold alongside it in the lower, as in the upper levels. The proposal, was readily taken ap, and iwo are informed that several of the companies have already given their consent to the scheme, while the others are said to be willing to do so, and the company should be successfully floated very shortly. The proposal is to form a company of 103,00!) 5s shares, none of which will be allotted to the promoters. la the event of affairs progressing satisfactorily, work would be pushed on from the 643 ft level of the Big Pump shaft. The scheme is a good one, as it will test the low levels of the field, and will also assist to settle the question of the continuance of drainage operations. Mb P. Trainor, who is carrying out the contracts under the County Council on the roads between Paeroa and Mackaytown, and Hikutaia and Paeroa, to«day sent twenty men up to proceed with the work. There is every ■probability of the roads being in excellent order for travelling over, during the coming Summer. Thb cricket match on the Waio-Karaka Flat on Saturday, Alma v.. 2nd Eleven Thames Cricket Club, resulted in an easy victory for the latter by an innings and 70 runs. The Almas only made 39 in both innings, while the Thames scored 109 in the first innings, the highest contributions being Rowe 25, Maddern and Newton 16 eaob, and Aitken 14. The bowling of Rowe, Muir, and Edmunds for the winners, and that of Morgan, Kitching, and Gill for the Almas, was good. A htmk girl, aged about 11 or 12 years^ bad a narrow escape from drowning at Miss Haselden's pionic to the Puke on Saturday. Soon after the party landed she fell into a deep ditch full of water, and had become unconscious before being dragged out. She was carried to Mr Austin's farmhouse, and i wiih careful treatment coon came round.

A man named Louis Feterseo, a Swede, . was, admitted to the Hospital late on Saturday afternoon Buffering from a compound fracture of tke right arm below the elbow. It appears that Petersen, who was employed in the Hauraki mine, Karangahake, was on Friday afternoon, about ose o'clock, working | in a drive, when a large piece of stone fell from the roof, jambing his arm against the floor, and terribly mutilating it. He was taken to Paeroa, but being Loo late to come down by the steamer, a telegram was despatched to Te Arbha for a doctor. No reply was^received, so Petersen cane on to the Thames in tho Despatch on Saturday afternoon. Dr. Payne has not been able to set the broken bones yet, owing to the inflammation. A young man named W. Greeni ville, while trucking in one of the mines on the Thames last week, jambed his left arm, breaking the small bono beiow the elbow. He waa attended to by Dr. Payne at the Hospital, and is now well on the way to reovery. A iiiitQ-s tangi over the body of a departed i chief is being held at present by the Maoris around Kirikiri, and in consequence nearly all [ work by natives is suspended. The usual feasting is going on, and last week several bullocks were roasted whole to supply the appetites of the " mourners," while the quantity of potatoes, pork, and othor eatables consumed would astonish anyone not accustomed j to such sights. | The amalgam returns at the Waiorongomai battery continue to ahow up well, and the total promises to be a good one. The Premier is crushing with 15 head, but is using silver in the boxes, which decreases the daily amount of table amalgam, though it will show well at the cleaning up. The "returns of amalgam for the week ending Friday after* noon ara as follows:—New Find, 788£0z3 j Premier, 4490z3; Colonist, 4Llozs ; Werahiko, 2970z5; grand total to that date (23 days' crushing), 78770z5. The cleaning up for the first month takes place this week. Mb A. Phillies' 'bus will start running to Hikutaia and Paeroa on Wednesday next. Mr and Mrs Phelps, the American evangelists who have recently been preachiug in the Auckland district, intend to visit the Thames shortly. The Queen of Beauty mine manager ia in another column invitee tenders for driving 50 feet at No. 10 level. The monthly meeting of the High School Board of Governors was held at the Borough Chambers this morning, the following gentlemen being present:—J. Osborne (in the Chair), J. Marshall, J. Wilson, and W. J. Speight. Treasury vouchers for £167, goldfields' revenue for October were read, as also was another communication from the same department on the subject of goldfields' revenue, to the effect that in future fuller information would be supplied the Board. Mr W. Joy, lessee of one of the sestions, wrote offering to give the necessary land for chapels on his section. It was decided, however that there were plenty of vaoant sections in the township which could be taken up by parties desirous of erecting chapels. Mr N. Baskett suggested the laying off of a new road, and the closing up of one at present laid off on the reserve. It was decided to let the matter stand over, until some of the Governors had personally inspected the proposed alterations, —Mr P. J. Jansen desired permission to sell his section in a similar manner to that in which section 13 had been sold, but the permission to do po was not granted. Some other business of a routine character was also transacted, after which the meeting adjouvaed.

Speciai/ services in connection with the anniversary of the Shortland Wesleyan Sunday School were held yesterday, all these services being largely attended. In the mom* ing the Eev. Wm. dlade preached, heing assisted by Mr Sail. He took for his text Psalm 62—part of the 12th verse, "For Thou reudereat to every one according to his wort," and earnestly exhorted his hearers to so act through life that the example set by them would have a good effect on the children. In the afternoon addresses wore given by the Beys. Slade and Bull, and in the evening the former gentleman gave an earnest address. The usual soires will be held to-morrow night. Some weeks ago Mr Thomas Rawdon, the foreman of works to the Thames Borough, arrived here suffering from the effects of a paralytic stroke and also from bronchitis and asthma, the two latter ailments dating back from the flood—not Noah's of blessed memory —but the great flood at the Thames in 1881. When he reached Te Aroha he was more dead than alive being unable to move hand or foob. He tried the effect at a course of bathing at the hot springs, with wonderful results. He ie now able to walk alone, has made flesh, and the bronchitis and asthma have com* pletely left him. Mr Rawdon walks about the township, sounding the praises of our " pools of Siloam," and promises to send up all the blind, halt, and lame, of his acquaintance.—Te Aroha News. " Dbtjnk and disorderly," in Abraham Btreet, on Saturday, was the charge preferred against Jane French in the Police Court this morning. The police,—with a look which plainly said, "My nretty, Jane, ah, never lo~k bo shy!"-—detailed the occurrence, and stated how slie "had met" a constable "in the evening," and " the bloom was on the rye" (whisky) or other liquor. Jane first simpered, and then wept, whle she begged hard to be let off and she would never appear again. She " own?d up " to the charge, aod in consideration of having been locked since Saturday, she was fined 5s or imprisonment until the Court roee. This was the only business. T. L. Murray, Esq., occupied the Bench. •■"■■" CoMPTJiaoEY vaccination," said Sir Thomas Chambers cix years ago in the House of Commons, "is beyond all comparison the strongest form of parental government that was ever introduced into this country. It over-rides\ and trampleß down parental authority in relation to children. It takes them out of the care of tbe father and mother, who are ordained by Providence to exercise their parental care, and it insists on disease being infused into the blood of every child in order to prevent the contingency of its catching i another diseasb. That might be justifiable, but it could ODly be justifiable, not upon medical theories, not upou the observance of innumerable precautions, and the presence of favorable circumstanoes, but upon a truth undeniable, universal in its opera) ion, certainly free from peril, and an absJute prevenj tive. The most ardent pro-vaccina'ors will admit ■ that in our present system of medical coercion none of these reasonable qualifications are in existence. On 1 the contrary, every inquiry or medical conference or newspaper discussion shows that medical men are in the most hopeless state of confusion as to all the Jennerian system that vaccination is the fruitful cause of fatalities and disaster wherever it has been introduced, and so far from resulting in the prevention of small-pox it has, in the opinion of eminent authorities, amongst whom may be noted Dr George Gregory, for fifty years director of the London Smahpox Hospital—tended to perpetuate it, by planting thp humfcj blood wjth the blood of variolua contagion^-(Com* uiuniettted)t

Sis William I? ox visits England as ioon as his labors as West Coast Commissioner are concluded. The Te Aroha News says:—A director of the New Find, residing here, is willing to bet any number of new hats that the final cleaning up from that mine will show a gross average of over three ounces per ton. The gold from the boxes and tailings, together with the gold from the interim retorting, will make thia up. The Governor on Saturday opened the Old English Fancy Fair t Wellington in aid of St. Peter's Church. The officers of the Government Insurance Department have,. through the Commissioner, presented an addres3 and service of plate to Mr Lyall, late Secretary to the Department, on his leaving the service. The Auckland Herald states that the father of " Jo " —otherwise Willie Buller— arrived from the Thames. It is his intention, we learn, to get the child admitted to the Industrial School, ag owing to his wandering proclivities it is feared that he may meet | with aome accident one day or other. I The Court of Appeal has decided against I the Welliogton Corporation's claims against the contractor's sureties for the Te Aro Reclamation, and against the contractor's Iruetee in bankruptcy. The decision is that th« notices to the former were insufficient, and in the latter there was no case to answer. The 24 hours' walking match at Wellington, between Edwards and Scott, finiehed on Saturday night; Edwards won by one lap (80 yards). The distances walked were : Edwards, 110 miles 16 laps ; Scott, 110 miles 15 laps. The 48 hours' match will commence on Thursday night. Weils' "Eottgh on Cobns."—Ask for Welle' " Rough on Corns." Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts bunions.—Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents.