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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4805, 3 June 1884, Page 2

Sosie business v/as transacted at tlip Corner to«day, although no list was issued tbis afternoon. Cambria's were in demand at Is 6d, New Finds changed handt* at Advanced rates on yesterday's quotations, and Diamond Q-ullies were sold at 2s 3d.

A hbekkg of jtha Thames Football Olub Committee was held Japt vighp. The name of Murray waß added in lieu of Ogle, resigned. A sub-committee of three was appointed to .see fcbat the name of every adult member of tfaa clujj j7&B enrolled as an elector, with a yiow (0. SCtsng j[n crjneerfi wHh other clabs in farthering She »ftc[jjie^tfon of a central resreation ground for fche Thames through the moinber for tho district. A mutch, will /?e played on Saturday n?xfc »gainet a uulke team.

The polliug for JJoppugh Auditors closed iaafc ©Fenirig after we ve,epp t(f press, and resulted in the electiou of the rfitjrjuj^ Messrs GeHion and Smith. '

Thb state of the District;. Hospital for the ireek ending June . Ist is as followB:—E - niained, 13 5 admitted (1 male, 1 feixale), 2; discharged, £$ reaping (1 fenmle,lo males), 11-

A sow of Mr Schofield bad an unpleasantly cold bath last evening. While attempting to kick a rat which was running along the end of Curtis' wharf, be overbalanced himself, and suddenly discovered that he was in the water. Fortunately it was not desp, and he got out without difficulty. '

Winter is ebn?ing upon us earlier than usual this year, and tlia cold, especially during the last two or tln'oe days, has been much more severe than that usually experienced at thin time of the year. The frost 'yesterday was very severe, the ground in the outdistricts appearing as if covered by a fall of snow, but laßt night the cold was even more intense, and the Sbortland mill pond was covered with a thin calto of ico, a circumstance which only occurred onca during the whole of last winter.

Wiixiam MtiiißiT Dou&iiAS, single, ag^d 30, committed suicide at Helensrille ofl Sunday night by taking strychnine. He had been drinking of late, and Mr Isaac McLeod had dispensed with his services on Thursday last. He leaves a will, giving his property to his Bister and Miss Emily Harness of Auckland. His life was insured for £200 in the Australian Mutual Provident Society.

At the annual meeting of the Waimea Plains Railway Co. held yesterday afternoon at Dunedin, Mr W. M. J. Larnach expressed his intention to assist in having the District Railway Act repealed, as it had proved a failure. ,

At the Westporfc R.M, Court yesterday, Hugh Jones, lafce manager of the Great Republican Gold Mining Company, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, Nelson, for the embezzlement of £4 lls 6d, and divers other sums, the proparty of <he company. There are three other.charges yet to be heard, and the total deficiency amounts to a considerable sum.

The reports for the past year's operations of the Moanatairi G.M. Co. show that the operations have been succe?sful, and the directors, after paying all charges, including Auckland office expenses and interest on overdraft, have been enabled to carry nearly £700 to the credit of the profit; and loss account. The amount obtained by the company from the gold won was £4302 13a 7d, and the actual mine expenses were £2864 14s Id. The mine manager's report shows that a total of 1234 tone quartz had been crushed, for the yield of 16270z5, gold. Seventy-five per cent of this came from the workings on the No. 9 reef, and there is still sufficient of the block left to last for a considerable time. The smallneßS of the leaders worked accounts for the small quantity of quartz treated. The average number of miners employed was 21. and the average number of tributers. 36.5. These latter had treated 903 tons of quartz, for the yield of 2086^-ozs. gold, the percent" age accruing to the company being £944 12s 7d. The battery is in good working order.

The result of the Civil Service April examination is to hand by the latest Gazette, and wo notice that the three candidates from the Thames (all pupils of the High School) have passed creditably. The subjects were English, arithmetic, history, and geography, and the number of marks obtainable, 600 for each. In all 80 candidates were examined; 44 of whom paßaed, H. J. Carter, of Auokland, heading the list with 1857 marks; Miss E. M. Adams, of Thames, taking .-fifth, place with 1671; J. W. Bennick 24th place, with 1298; and H. C. Bagnall 27th, with 1237, markß, respectively. , , „.

A naeeow escape from drowning ocourred on the Goods Wharf (his afternoon. It appears that a boy about 10 years old, named Keuben Ivess, fell over the edge of the wharf, and after rising to the surface was sinking, when Constable Christie appeared upon tho scene and plunged into th? briny, rescuing the boy from a water 7 grave. Mr John McDonald was miking efforts to save the boy, but being a non-awimmer, did not tackle the sea. Great praiße is'due to Constable Christie for his plucky action in caving human life. .

Oue contemporary is ia error this morning in asserting that the manager of the Darwin G-.M, Co- had notified the men in his employ of his, intention to deduct one shilling per week from their wages to assist in the payment of the company's contribution towards the expenses of the Big Pump. The manager informs us that he has not done so, but has merely laid before the* men the directors' letter, containing a recommendation that the men ■ had better so contribute (if the other companies notified, also did so) rather than let the pump stop/- So far as we can learn, the other companies have taken no steps at all to try and force their employes to pay the shilling a week, both managers and men coneidering ifc unfair, and the contribution from the Darwin is either to, be made voluntarily or "else not at all. The paragraph in-this morning's issue of the Advertiser girea the impression that Mr O'Sullirun is attempting to arbitrarily tax the men to th.B. extent named, whereas he states such is not tho oase.

It was pointed out by Judge Smith, during the Bitting of tho Bankruptcy Court to«day, that; the Auckland District of the District Court will be subdivided on.ihe 14th bf the : present month. Tho Thames will,come into the jurisdiction of " The Waikato and Thames District Court," leaving '"The Auckland District Court " in care of what raay be roughly desoribed as all north of a line from this end* of the Gulf to the Waikat?. The judges for the respective districts are not yet appointed, so we are not aware if His Honor Mr H; Gh Seth Smith will aib here again. Considerable doubt exists as to how proceedings nowcommenced are to be continued.

The Herald's " Own" telegraphing from Wellington last night Bays:—" Another measure of much importance in several ways that the Government will get through if pospible will be a Parcels Post Bill, largely based on the English model. Mr Oliver, the PostmasterrQeneral, on whom the duty of leading the Council will devolve, will introduce this measure in the Upper House,

Between seven and nine o'clock yesterday morning Auckland was veiled by one of the most dense fogs that has been witnessed for some considerable time. : The ferry steamer Victoria took so long going from Auckland to North Shore at an early hour that she missed one trip, and on returning across the harbor the excursion lasted fchree-guarters of an hour. After leaving North Shore the skipper made the beßt course he could judge by compass, but this was no use, and after visiting Freeman's Bay with considerable difficulty Queen street wharf eventually reaohed. ' The Takapuna also got cs'cvuy. She left the Auck? land wharf, •' steering by oornpass " it ia said, but very Bhortly was brought up rather suddenly. ' She narrowly escaped running into the Harbor Board dredge, anchored to the eastward of the wharf, and ran under the bows of tbe.barque Alastor. The Alastor'e boat was almost cut in two pieces, and the Takuppna's railing on the poop deck was a good d'oal damage'et. She got olaar and com* plotod the trip without further accidcii'fc.' ' The Thames steamer Kotomahnna also attempted to get away during the fog, and brought up on the North Shore besch, near the dock, where she remained for throe-quarters of an hour. The Manapouri, coming in from Southern noVu/had jio anchor fo? o^ep »jn hour at North Head.—Sip.' '

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