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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4792, 19 May 1884, Page 2

Thbbe will be a very interesting paper read at the Mutual Improvement.Society's meeting to-night by Dr Kilgour. " The subject of it is " Wealth, and its influence on Society." In such hands the essay should be ably dealt wifcb.

Thb Seoretary of the Thameß Railway Company has received from Mr Kiteo the following communication re railway matters, and the agreement published in another column thereanent:—''l hare entrusted to the caro of the Chairman cf the Thameß County a draft agreement which I received from my father in London respeoting the Thames Valley Railway. If the concessions in land can be.obtained, my father and hiß friends are quite.willing to find the capital and make the line.' Please band the agreement io the Chairman ' (Colonel Frager). -1 intended to have given it to him last Tuesday, but was prevented from, doing so. Please let me know if there is any chance of our obtain* ing this contract with the Government."

The trial of the Elephant Ore Crusher,; with wire gauze gratings, having quite 2000 holes to the square inch; on Saturday after* noon; was very successful, everything working smoothly, and a ton of quartz being passed through in slightly over two hours. Further experiments will probably not take place.for a fortnight, as the Moanatairi company is now using the motor power to drive their battery.

, OWING to the visit of the Premier to the Thames, and so as to allow his programme of travel to be adhered to, the owners of the s.s. Rotomahana have altered their time table. Instead of as previously advertised, the Bteamer will leave Tararu on Wednesday morning. A 'bus will leave Curtis' wharf at 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning to catch the steamer.

A HKETiKd of the Committee of the Thameß Football Club will be held at C. McLiver's to-night, at 8 o'clock, to make final arrangements for the cup. match to be played against Te Aroba at Parawai on Saturday next.

ggTHE accident at Waioron go ouai on Friday evening last, mentioned in our last issue, has resulted fatally, the lad Killian dying from the injuries he received by his fall at the battery.

A special meeting was held to-day of County and Borough representatives relative to the visit of the Premier to the Thames, and arrangements made for the reception of the Premier. It was decided that the membera of both bodies should meet Major Atkinson on arrival, and thai deputations should wait upon him between the hours of four and six o'clock p.m. A public meeting will be held in the evening in the Academy of Music. Part of the programme includes the inspection of the principal mines, and other items of interest.

Satt/bdat's Auckland Star saya that Messrs Brodie and L. J. Bsgnall, on behalf of * the Thames County Council, interviewed the Premier to-day in connection with the claim for miners rights fees in the early days of the goldfleld. The Premier said the matter was in Mr BollestonV department, and he would communicate with the Minister of Lands to see whether permission to try the case in Court, asked for by the deputation ehould be granted. The deputation ascertained that Msjor Atkinson had made np his mind not to visit the Thamels but on representing to him that the people expected him, in accordance with a former promise, he agreed to delay his departure for the South till Wedues» day, and will address a public meeting at the Thames on Tuesday night. N

The County Council will receive tenders up to Wednesday at noon for shingling and painting the Council offices, Mary street.

Mb R. R. McGBEGOB announces that he will to-morrow sell by auction the stock of ironmoGgery, &0., at Mr L. W.Parsons' shop, Pollen street. This is a good chance for those who wish to secure cheap and good pots, panß, &c., to invest their money.

Mb G. Thobnb, junr., late of the Government Insurance Department, has taken action against the Government, claiming £5000 damages, for alleged breach of contract. Mr Edward Shaw has been retained for the plaintiff; Messrs Buckley, Stafford, Fitzherbert, acd R. Stout for the defence.

A "eottng woman named Stratford, who was missing from Belmont, near Wellington, was found in the bush. She was in a perfeot state of nudity, and' covered with mud. * The girl had been previously for two years an inmate of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum.

A chfqtte for £92 13s was presented on Saturday to the wife of Sergt. O'Grrady, late of Thames, as a mark of sympathy with him in his losses by the late fire in his house at Qreymouth, where he is now stationed.

Mb J. C. Wasok intends standing for Ashburton, vacant by the resignation of Mr 'E.'Gr.Wright. He addressed the electors at Chert soy on Saturday night, and is in favour of local railway boards and against land nationalisation and perpetual leases. He received a vote of thanks.

An inquest was held in Auckland on Saturday on the body of James Mantle, formerly a clerk of works there, who was found dead in bed in a houie of which he was the sole occupant. After hearing evidence the jury returned a verdict that deceased died from the effects of. a burn received accidentally a fortnight; ago, and that his death was accelerated through neglect to call in medical aid. He was 70 years of age, partially paralysed, and was formerly of the West Coast.

A case of poisoning has occurred at Urral, near Rakaia, Canterbury. A party of seven left Tiverton on Thursday on a shooting excursion, and before starting ware supplied with a bottle of whiskey by Mr Mant. On reaching Urral they stopped to have a drink,' and immediately after were all seized with convulsions. One of the party drove off,to Ashburton for the doctor, and in the meantime three settlers administered emetics <o £he others. When Dr. Boss arrived from 'Ashburton one of the men, Thomas Fahey 4 was dead, but the others were Boon out of danger. At an inquest on F»hey, Mant, by the advice of hiß lawyer, refused to give evidence, but another witness showed that he had acknowledged having mixed strychnine with vinegar in a jug some time ago, and had thiown the contents of the jug away but had not washed it. When putting whisky in a bottle he used the same jug. Medical evidence was to the effect that if the vinegar was weak it would not dissolve the crystals of strychnine, but strong spirits would at onoo dissolve them. The jury returneJ an open verdict.

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