The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4662, 13 December 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1883.

By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that a very necessary work, viz , the widening and metalling of the road between the mines and the battery at Otunui, is about to be proceeded with.

Db Gbabham, Government Inspector of Hospital?, visited the Thames institution yesterday, and was wejl pleased with both the main building and the female hospital, a few alterations being recommended to the latter. The plans prepared by Mr B. W. Hollis for a new Hospital wore also inspected, and Dr Grabham approved of them on the whole, saying he would recommend* their acceptance by Government, subject to a few alterations.

T. L. Mubray, Esq., J. P., presided al (be Police Court this morning, and fined. an inebriate 5s and costs, or 24 hourß imprisonment. The fine was paid.

ijDAMANT and Wild Boy were ecralched for nil engagements in the Auckland Summer Meeting yesterday afternoon.

The Harbormaster received the following forecast of the weather at noon to-day:— " Watch barometer ; bad weather approaching between east and north and north-west; glass further fall, and within ten hours heavy fall of rain and every indication farther very high tide.—R. A. Bdwik."

As the p. 3. Enterprise was passing into the sand spit channel last night on her way to the Thames from Auckland, she came upon the p.s. Anne Millbank in a disabled condition, a portion of her machinery (it is rumoured the cover of one of the cylinders) having broken. Captain Morrison wished Captain Miller to tow him into port, bnt the latter could not do so, though as soon aa be arrived here he despatched a telegram to the owners in Auckland explaining the position of the Anne Milbank, and a steamer was no doubt despatched to her assistant this morning. She had a la<-ge number of passengers on board.

The bazaar in aid of the Catholic Boys' School was" opened last evening, and proved very successful. The stalls are most attractive, and, notwithstanding the rapid eale of the 'goods displayed, it would appear that several days are required to disencumber the stalls of their heavy contents. Last night about £30 was taksn, and still no diminution appeared in the show of good things in the hall. The Artillery Band performed during tbe evening.

Thk brigantine Prosperity, 125 tons, Capt. Cotton, cleared at the Customs yesterday for Rockhampton, Queensland, with 110,000 feet sawn kauri and kahikatea, chiefly the latter, shipped by Mr J, Bead at his lower mill, Kopu. She will probably comedown the river and sail for her destination to-morrow.

The monthly meeting of the Hospital Committr c was held yesterday. There were present the Eovs. S. J. Neill (President), H. Bull, P. O'Beilly, and Messrs Bedford, McG-owan. Wildman, Hall, Mennie, Ranshaw, Veale, and Stone. The usual repoi-ts of the House Committee and Surgeon were received and adopted. The financialreport shewed receipts £955 3s 6d,^nd expenditure £5 4 s 6d less. Assets —Cash balance, £5 4i 6d.—Liabilities—Bank N.Z, £938 7s 6d; salaiies, £72 '8a 8d ; monthly accounts, £57 14s— £1068 10s 2d. —Messrs McGowen, Mennie, and O'Keilly presented a «wiitten protest against " the proposal of the tenure of office by the surgeon as determined upen at the September meeting upon the ground that the proposal is contrary to the rule or rules then in existence, and under which the committee were working, and such proposal is ultra-vires." Owing to the absence of Dr Kilgour, the notice of motion given by him re the appointment of a'restdent surgeon was allowed to sta d over. The following tenders, viz.: Groceries, Mears ; meat, Batetnan ; bread, Rollercon and Son ; milk, Trembath ; wr hing, Mrs O'Brien ; funerals, Twenty man ; coal, M. Casey, were accepted for six months, and Messrs Hal], Kilgour, Marshall, and Mennie were appointjd a House Committee for the ensuing month.

THEEnterpriseG-oldminingCompany, Terawhiti, has decided to wind up.

It has been decided, by the casting rote of the Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, not to use Fort Chalmers stone for the Calliope dock. The engineer opposed the use of this stone on the giound that its qualities had not been sufficiently determined by use and experience.

Thb farmers on the West Coaat are complaining of the boisterous weather experienced and say if it continues much longer it will i be useless to cut a large portion of their crops.

The amount of Property Tax collected up to yesterday was £100,000.

Ye tebday, at the Oddfellows' Hali, Chriatoburch, which., was crowded, a public meeting of the unemployed was held, presided over by the Mayor, and addressed by Messrs Montgomery, Holmes, Wynn-Wil-liams, Wcston, and reveal working . men. Nearly 209 unemployed were pr sent. It was stated that the number of unemployed in Cbrigtchurch, and suburbs, was between. 500 and 700. The fo'lowing resolutions were unanimously carried:—"That there are at present in Ohristcburch and its neighborhood a large number of abk-bodied working men, who are and have been for a long time unable to get employment; (2) That we, working men of Canterbury, consider it the bounden duty of Government to stop free and assisted immigration, also to take the money voted for immigration and immediately make work for the many; (3) That the Mayor of Christoburch and the members of the House of Representatives present at this meeting/with the delegates chosen by the working men, wait upon the Minister of Public Works to urge upon him the necessity of procuring work for the unemployed in Christohurch and its neighborhood ; (4) That all those who sre out of employment attend the City Council Chambers to subscribe their names to a document stating the number of their family, their occupation, and the the lime they have been out of employment."

Ik reply to the Chamber of Commerce, Christchurch, re the missing crew of the Sarah W. Hunt, the Government states that the Stella cannot be spared, as it would seriously delay work in connection with the lighthouse at Waipapa Point., which is to be re .dy by the Ist of January. They are of opinion that if the crew reached either the Ca r.pbell or Auckland Islands they would suffer no privations, at a supply of provisions and clothing is stored on ench. If the crew did not reach either of these islands a search would be perfectly useless, as there is no land to where they might be blown, and the hope of finding them alive would be small indeed. It is thought that if the men are on the island the captain of the Sirah Hunt should re-man his vessel, and go himself in search of the missing seamen. Mr Rolleetwn is, however, awaiting a full report from Christ? church, and it is probable that on the return of fchejßcboonerKekeno from Auckland Island, she may be ordered to made a strict sc.iroh. It is a'leged that the men were sealing { this is quite illegal, as the present time i* a close season.