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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4667, 19 December 1883, Page 2

This afternoon's weather forecast, telegraphed at 2.8 p.m., was as follows:—" Watch barometer; bad weather approachiug between east and north.and north-weet. Glass further fall, with very heavy rain within ten hours, aad every indication very high tides during next 36 hoars." _

Apteb the meeting of the Borough Council to-day, the Town Clerk announced that a special meeting of that body would be held on Monday next for the purpose of electing representatives of the Council on the Board of Higli School Governors.

The administrators of justice had no chance of exercising their functions to-day, there being not a case to adjudicate upon.

On Sunday last three men, named John Black, Pardington, and Foreman, were bathing at the Tairua wharf, and after being in the water some time, Black, on swimming to the wharf, was observed to catch hold of one of the Btriogers and try bo speak. Pardington went to his assistance, and, with the aid of Fjreman and a man named Foley, who was on the wharf, brought Black out, and fou ;d that he was dead. The three men say that his head wao never under water. The deceased was 20 years of age, and a native of Glasgow. Ho has no relatives in the colony, and was working for the Union Sash aui Door Company, in which employ he had been for about eight months. It has been surmised that death was caused by heart disease. An inquest will be held.

Thk postal arrangements for the holidays are, Christmas Day, closed ; Boxing Day, the office will be open from 91© 10 a.m, The office will bo open on the nights of the 24th and 31»t instant, Jfor the delivery of town letters over the counter. On Boxing Day a morning delivery of letters by the carriers will be made. . Sunday hours will be obseried in the private letter box lobby and on Christmas and New Year's Day, and on the 26th the usual hours will be recognised. In the Telegraph office the arrangeiuents are that the office shall be open from .9 to 10 a.m., and from 7 to 8 p.m., on the 25th and 26th, and Ist January., V

The Hons. Mr Rolleeton and Mr Mitchel son returned to Wellington from the South yesterday;: Mr Eolleston will leave towards the end of w th« weeit tb liieet Mr Bryce «fc JCawhia."' .' '. . '. '■ "r ~- "' ' '

A IETTEB has been received from the Colonial Secretary's Department by the Town Clerk, acknowledging the receipt of a memorial asking for an enquiry with regard to the Parawai annexation petition. The reply is— ''lam directed to inform you that the objections to the petition in the memorial are, as the Government are advised, not such as can be legally considered, and therefore with the exception .of the small piece: to which no objection has been taken, the Parawai JRoad District cannot be added i;o the Borough of Thameß."

Mb W. H. Tereker Bindonihead master of Newton East School, Auckland, was yesterday appointed Inspector of Schools for the Wanganui Educational District. There were 33 applications sent in to the Education Board from New Zealand and the Australian colonies, amongst the candidates being English, Dublin, and Colonial University men. The salary is £500, including travelling expenses.

Amokg the pasßengers by the mail steamer was Mr. W. P. Moat, ex-Chairman of the Auckland Board of Education.

James Glen, a son of a fishmonger at Christchurcb, was thrown from a cart, and died from the effects yesterday afternoon.

The Chriatchurch Caledonian Games prizes were presented yesterday afternoon, and consisted of handsome and valuable cups and medals. M. Speight received the prize for the five-mile Walking Handicap, A. Scrimshaw for the 100 and 400 yards, Langdown for the Bicycle races, Robert Munvo for the 2 mile race, and Davie Campbell as champion piper.

Habby Thomson, the jockey, has had his collarbone broken and his head injured at Christchurch; the bone is set and he is doing well.

The Auckland Star says:—Major Cantley, 8.8., the officer selected by the Home authorities at the request of the Colonial Government to plan and supervise colonial defences, arrived here by the mail steamer last evening. Mr Joseph Banks, managing director of the Freezing Company, was also a passenger by the earae steamer.

A telephone station has been opened at Mangapai.

Some of the Triumph's cargo was sent from Auckland by the Southern Cross yesterday.

Upwaeds of £10,100, Property Tax, was paid yesterday.

Thb unemployed at Chriatchurch were offered by Government work at 4s 6d per day, but only 15 accepted the terms.

Vabiotjs telegrams concerning the earthquake felt yesterday in the South show it was noticed throughout the interior of Otago, where it was very severe, but there is no news of its having been noticed north of Dunedin.

The last number of the " Korimako," a Maori paper, contains a eong to the tune of the well known " Tired." The first verse runs:

Aha ! ka taunutia ko', A-ra, a-ra, a-ra; Mo tan na whakamatapo, Xi Piro-wai-kaka. Ka rere noa te whakahe, Xi tau tv hiahia; E toro nei tou ringa, re! Xi VVaina rao ko Pia. A vbbt beautiful geological Bpecimen of fossil palm has been presented to the Auckland Institute, The stony leaves are so distinctly, impressed upon the carboniferous mass that the Beams of their leaves are distinguishable. In some cases the articulations are almost perfect, This specimen was found in a coal mine near Wesfcporfc on the West Coast. A ScoedinG Woman.—The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure ot scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practised by a kind of social barbarity nona the less reprehensible. Women scold only when they are iil. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted and acerbity of word and thought will give place {to amiability and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Bead.