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Thames Star, Volume xv, Issue 4767, 19 April 1884, Page 2

The .New Zealand Sugar Company will commence operations in July or August The following large Teasels are alr&dy afloat with cargoes for Auckland :—Androkles, irom China', with about 600 tons ; Maubegan, from Java, with 1,500 tons ; Maroon, from Java with 700 tons ; and Thames, with 700 tone. It is expected that the-company will be able to turn out between 400 und 500 tons of refined sugar per month.

It is now stated definitely hero that.Mr McDonald, M.H.R. for the East Coast, will not resign his Beat, sb it was reported, but will retain it until the general election.

A test case to try the right of the Plumpton Park Co., CnrisSchurcb, being without a game license, to course hares -within their own grounds, was decided yesterday by the Resident Magistrate against the Acclimatisation Society. The Magistrate held that the hares were in confinement at Plumpton.

A CoNßWTtriiONAti Be form Association was formed in Dunedin last night, the main object being decentralisation. Messrs Stout and Bastings are the best known names on the committee.

The natives who are attending the Land Court, and the 1 Ohmemuri native people generally, have, ha<f-h lively time of it during the last few dajs;'".*iOn Saturday last a large contingent of the Njfhtirangi, from Tauranga arrived and had a hearty welcome; on Sunday the Rev. Wirenm. Turipona, of. Parawai, conducted Church* of HnglsndiierVices, which were largely attended ; flnd on Monday there were hakas and war/,dancea, 'whifch were repeated on Tuesdajr^lßn the departure of Ngatirangi.—Tribune. ;' .

LiBOXTBis responsible for the following expression of opinion:—"The Waipawa Mail has got into the wrong traok about tobacco growing in New Zealand. It considers the revenue will be a great loser by the proceedings of the New Zaaland Tobacco. Growing Company, and that this is a great misfortune. But our contemporary o erlooks one faot. We shall get New Zealand manufactured tobacco some two shillings a pound cheaper than the imported article, and this is the main thing to us. Collecting revenue from customs duties is a barbarous mode of procedure at the best, and is fast falling into contempt among modern statesmen. It was a means used for a long time to tax the people instead of the land. A tax in other words on trade and industry."

Mb M. Wbitehead, one of our oldest and 'best known bootmakers, invitee inspection, through the medium of this paper, of his recently opened up stock of boots, shoes, &0., suitable for all classes in the community during the coming winter. The stock includes some beautiful specimens of St. Crispin's art from the best English and German houses in addition to the ordinary colonial made article.

In the Chriatchurch Supreme Court yesterday Ann Royal was charged with murdering -her children, William Robert and Henry Royal, on March 13th. The charge'in connection with Wm. Robert Royal was taken first. No fresh evidence was adduced, and the Jury, by directions of the Judge, returned a verdict of manslaughter. She was ordered to be csnfined in Sunnyside goal till the pleasure of the Colonial Secretary is known.—ln the other case the Crown Prosej cutor will ask for leave from Wellington to enter a nolle prosequi —Chas. Parker, charged with bigamy, was acquitted. Bxhom has a quotation which states— " Bone and skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all or near it; But be it known to skin and bone That flesh and.blood can't bear it." And quite right too. When your blood gets thin and blotches break out then is not the time to cry out, " What is the matter ? " Slap at the enemy at once. Do not hesitate, for he who does bo deserves to. Buffer when day t after day he reads and heara about gases< that; have been given up as incurable simply be-i cause the patients did not take the right remedies to cure them. Kitchens' Blood RESTORER will put them to rights, and is procurable from all chemists and respectable storekeeper's in New Zealand.

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