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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4714, 15 February 1884, Page 2

A CBICKET match will be played on the Weio-Karaka Flat to-morrow afternooi between elevens of the married and single members of the Thames Cricket Club. The following will represent the single men:— Buohan, Coney, Grubb, GeHion, Martin, Muir, Pearce, Howe, Steward, G. Newman, and Tregonning; emergencies, W. Patersoh and Douglas. The names of the married team are: Aitken, Clark (Capt.), Griffiths, Airoy, Harrison, Maddern, Dobbs, Christie, Smith, Hindman, and Egginton; emergencies, Fletcher and Athol.

The manager of the New Manukau G.M. Co. telegraphed this morning aa follows :— "Broke down portion of reef stripped yesterday ; obtained 50lba picked stone and specimens.—T. A. Doniop." This had a further enlivening effect on the market, shares rising to4s7d.

The cutter which has been on the stocks vll Mr Stone's yard, Shortland, to the order of MrM. Casey, being nearly finished as fay- m 'hei hull was concerned, she was yesterday slid out on t3 the railway line, ready fc: launching. It was intended in put her into the water last night, but she could not be got ready in time, and the operation was deferred till this morning's tide. Some difficulty occurred just at high water in getting the vessel over the railway embankment, which caused a delay, during which time the tide fell, and in consequence, when the vessel at last glided gracefully down the ways, her keel plunged in the mud and she stuck f fast. She may float off with to-night's tide, but it is probable she will not get away till next springs, in which case eho will be rigged and fitted up as she lies. Her dimensions are—Length of keel, 40ft; beam, 14ft;, and depth of hold, about 6ft; she has not been officially measured yet, but is 33 tons, builders' measurement. She is planked with kauri, over pohutukawa frame, and is copperbottomed, and though not likely to be a very' fast boat, she should prove very suitable for the coastal and firewood trade. Mr Stone has received an order for a ketch, of which he will shortly lay the keel.

OwiNQ- to being detained in tho Waikato district by an unexpected number of patients, Br Sinclair, the renowned dental Burgeon, will be unable to arrive at the Thames until to-mor-row morning. After that he may be consulted at the Pacifio Hotel. The Auckland Star, in referring to the doctor's visit, eaya :—" The last week has witnessed the advent in our midst of Dr. L. Sinclair, a surgical dentist, who comes from Australia with high testimonials of ability. He has commenced practice in Firth's Buildings, Queen street, where he may be consulted during his stay. The doctor's operating room is replete with an immense assortment of instruments for use in extracting and replacing teeth, and chief amongst these is a small atmospheric treadle machine employed in stopping teeth, holes being drilled andtaeth sawn with wonderful accuracy and rapidity. Dr. Sinclair, who is accompanied by two first-class mechanical assistants, undertakes the cure of hair lips, cleft palates, and diseases of the mouth, guarantees to extract teeth and replace them with artificial at seven hours' notice, and offor.B a specialty in an acoustic palate of his own invention, which has .special advantages. Painless extraction of teeth is amongst the doctor's recommendations, and one of our reporters, who was troubled with an excited molar, underwent the operation with the object of putting the guarantee to the teat. The tjoth, a very large one, was extractod without the eid of laughing gas or chloroform, and by means of a process employed by Dr. Sinclair, there was scarcely any perceptible pain, while the whole operation scarcely occupied three seconds."

His Wobbhip the Mayor, and Councillors Bawden, Kilgour, and MoGowan were the only Borough representatives who put in an appearance at last night's Council meeting, co that there was no meeting owing to the want of a quorum. The meeting was consequently adjourned. Tbe Works Committee reported to the effect that the raising of the footpath of Beach road be not undertaken until the property-owners removed theic fences to their boundary lines; that the Kuranui culvert be either raised three feefc and the roadway graded, accordingly, or be again cleared of debris; tbat authority had been given for tbe cleaning and alteration of the water table in Willoughby-street, and drains near St. George's Hall; that two men had been employed for a month in cleaning out drains in various parts of the Borough and in top-dressing asphalt footpaths. Several other neceseary works were prevented by the necessity of keeping men employed at Boeky Point. This last work was not far beyond the means of the Boroueb, and one for which it, was considered Government aid should be obtained. Meb Timmiwgs, better known as " Mother Goaty," died at one. o'clock this morning. She was admitted into the Hospital some lime ago suffering from a broken thigh, and since then has never rallied. The second bore of the Southern Cross Oil Company, near Gisborne, is down over 4500 feet, no pipes being necessary, as the strata is good. Thirty feet per day is sunk. A largo supply of pipes arrived by the mail steamer for the first bore. Sevebaii letters were missed yesterday from the mail bag received at Christchurch from Lyttelton. Yesterday Detective O'Connor arrested a boy named Win. Bose, employed in Cuff and Graham's office at Lyttelton, for stealing them. The Board of Governors of Canterbury College have decided to close the Public Library on Sunday. The motivoa of the ehango are economical ones. At the Dunedin Police Court yesterday, the adjourned charges against Mr Jas. McDonald, M.H.8., of neglecting to comply with the Property Tax Act in sending in a return of his properly, was heard, the defendant being convicted and fined £25 and costs, j Ho will alflo be assessed and charged treble the amount of the tax he has sought to evade paying, in addition to the tax for which bo would! have been otherwise liable. The prosecutionlof those persons who were engaged in illegal trout fishing in Lake Wakatipu broke down on a technical point. There was some hard swearing indulged in, and the Magistraee (Major Kendall) deoided to give tho defendants the benefit of the doubt. The Oamaru Mail thus affectionately refers to Mr Milner Stephen:—^'Milnar Stephen, he tbat professes to be- specially endowed with magnetic or some other healing power, be* stowed,in.response to prayerful appeals for some means of doing good to his follow men— and enriching himself, we may parenthetically remark,—is again in the colony, having been a passenger from Sydney to Wellington by tho Wakatipu. We are thankful that his reception here some ten months ago was at once so warm and so cool, to indulge in a parados, and that Oatnaru is not likely to be troubled by the arrant old humbug."

A BATTiESNAKB'a Bits.—The quick venom of tbe rattlesnake has not killed so many people as the more insidious but deadly poisons found in tbe air of foul rooms. The aeration of the blood by the lungs becomes impossible sometimes, aad the failing health, growing weakness, and lobs of appetite are the harbingers of approaching death. For such cases Hop Bittera are the potent and all-powerful remedy to drive all fevers out of the sjstem, purifying the blood, and gmng a .aew and happy lease of life. Notice.