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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4687, 15 January 1884, Page 2

The followiDg telegrams were posted at the Corner to-day:—" 501bs specimens from stopes, footwall leader.—J, Stodabt, Legal manager, Deep Level Cross." —" sOlbs specimens 4th stope (gold showing in stope) No. 2 reef, No. 3 level.—F. Stokb, Dart."— " lsOlba specimens stope No. 2, section west, and 121bs from winze below No. 5 level.— G. S. Ciabk, Now Prince Imperial mine."

The Queen's Variety Troupe have tendered a " benefit" to Mrß H. Sullivan, who recently lost her husband, and the widow has accepted the offer. The performance will probably take place about the middle of February. ' i

The Harbourmaster received the following weather telegram at noon to-day :—" Heavy gale between north and west and south-west ; further fall glass, but rising within 10 hours, with colder weather.—-R. A. Edwin."

A youth named B. Farley, a recent arrival by the Doric, was working on Trainor and Punch's Kauaeranga contract this afternooa, when a boulder fell above him, Jand nearly severed his left arm from above the elbow. The sufferer arrived at the Hospital about three o'clock, and was attended to by Dr Payne.

The brig Eawn, 216 tons register, Oapt. Duncan was taken up the river to Bagnall's mill this morning ,by the Harbormaster, who brought her from Auckland. She left the latter port last night at six o'clock, passed the Spit at twelve, and reached the mill at six this morning. She is to load for Bockhampton, Queensland, with Kahikatea.

The population maintains its reputation for orderliness. There was no sitting of the Police Court this morning.

The amount lying in the Savings Batik to the credit of 2,100 depositors in the district at the end of the year 1883 was over £44,000. £1660 was added to deposits during the 12 months for interest.

The steamer Victory will leave Wellington for London, via Rio Janiero, on Thursday next, 17th iostant, at noon. She is expeoted to make the run in 50 days.

Me V. Savage, boatbuilder, of Shortland, has just laid the keel of a large open pleasure boat to the order of the well known chief Hone Nahe. Her length is 31 feet, and her beam will be 9 feet. She ia to be built with a double skin of diagonal planking, and is to fitted up in the beet stylo. It is expected that she will be finished in about two months. The cost is mentioned as over the century. .

We learn on enquiry to-day that the lad Webb, admitted to the Hospital from Te last week suffering from injuries inflicted by a disc harrow, is progressing favorably.

The number of patients remaining at the Hospital at the beginning of the past week was 18 ; since then 10 have been admitted and 7 discharged, there remaining this morning 15 males and 6 females, total 21.

The Auckland Acclimatisation Society received four crates of Californian quail by tko mail steamer which arrived on Sunday. Their distribution is referred to in our telegraphic columns.

A SAD case of drowning occurred near Cranston, about 16 miles from Cambridge on Saturday laßt. Three ladies among whom was Mrs Sharp, Cambridge, went to bathe in Pokaiwhenua Creek near its junction with the Waikato river, the latter lady taking two children with her. One of the children, a little girl of about four years, having been stripped, was called upon by the mother, who was in the water, to come in and be bathed. The child went at the wrong place unobserved, and was carried away by the current. The mother attempted to rescue her, but the child never again appeared on the surface.

The Primitive Methodist Conference at Dunedin has made the following settlement of Btations for the ensuing year:—New Plymouth, J. Jury and T. Long ; Wellington, A. J. Smith, P. N. Hunter, and W. J. Dean j Auckland, W. S. Potter and J. Boothroyd.. j Invercargill, D. Dutton and Mr Laycock; Timaru, Joseph Sharp ; Thames, C. E. Barley ; Greendale, W. Jones ; Ashburton, J. Nixon; Christ church, J. Ward ; Dunedin, C. C. Ward and J. Dumbell; Manawatu, I. Clover; Oamaru, T. Saddler. G-eraldine and Waimate, vacant.

Heixaby's slaughter-house, at Point Chevalier, Auckland, has been burnt down. Forty sheep were burnt to death. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £300. The Epsom House Seminary, occupied by General Stoddard, was also burnt down on Saturday at midnight. It was insured for £200 in the South British, and £300 in the National. The furniture, which had £700 upon it in the South British, was partly saved. The origin of the fire is unknown.

This annual meeting of the Ofcago branch of the Bible Society was held laßt night. The report shows that the affairs were in an unsatisfactory state. The Governor was in the chair, and in his address stated the Society, during its' 20 years of existence, had been instrumental in distributing over 30,000 copies of the Scriptures, The Bey. W. Donaldson was elected as President,

The coal miners who lately struak at Kawakawa have agreed to resume work on the terms offered by the manager. An amicable settlement has thus been arrived «t, which is a matter for congratulation to all concerned.

I/awie Stewaet, a fisherman of Akaroa, is jnfeaing, and is supposed to have been drowned bf jbbe upsetting of bis boat in crossing tbe Akaroa harbor on Saturday.

You ciw be.Happy if yoa vrifl plop al joup doetorting youreelf and families with expensive doctors or cure-alls that do only harm, and use Nature's simple remedies for all your ailments, yoa will be well and happy and save great expense. The greatest remedy for 1.1: je, I lie oreat, wise, and good will tell you, ie i£op Bitten, Sp? }

On Friday application was made to the Colonial Secretary for free railway passes for the crew of the Sarah W. Hunt from Dunedin to Lyttelton. No reply being received, several kindly-disposed gentlemen took their, case in hand, and obtained for them free passages on one of the Union Company's boats, and also provided them wiih pocket money. Yesterday the following telegram was received from Wellington:—" I am instructed to state, in reply to your telegram to the Hon. Mr Dick, that the Minister regrets he cannot authorise further expense in respect of the seamen of the Sarah W Hunt, who, being American citizens, should apply to the United States Consul."

W. G-been, of Brown street, is still selling his stock of Straw and Fein Hats, at, and below Auckland prices, and solicits an early inspection of the same. He has the whole' marked in plain figures, so that those who buy may do bo with their eyes open.—[ADVT.]

BenefACTOBS.—" When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the discovery that by combining some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would cure euch a wide^ range of diseases that most other remedies could be dispensed with, many were skeptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by all aa benefactors." Bead.