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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4807, 5 June 1884, Page 2

The members of the Licensing Comniitteea of lhames North, Thames Central, Thames South, Waiotahi, Kauaeranga, Parawai, and Hastings district are notified of the annual meetings on Saturday nest.

The Harbor Board are about to place railings down each side of th« Goods Wharf. Thbhe was no sitting of tho Police Court thin morning.

The manager of th fl Dart G.M.00. offers several blocks of ground on tribute.

The County Council ehewhore calls for tenders for formation nnd metalling of a portion of tho JJauaerttuga Valley iof»d.

The funeral of Mrs Clark, mother of Mr G. S. Clark; mannger of the New Prince Imperial mine, took place this afternoon, and was largely attended. The brokers closed their offices in order to attend.

The Bank of New Zealand shipped for Auckland this afternoon, per s s. Rotomahana seven boxes, containing 60260z9 14dwts of melted gold, the amount banked during the past two months.

'■' Hiktjtaia district appears to be in a prosperous condition just now, chiefly owing to the _ timber industry. Mr J. B. Banks is having new premises builfc, and Mr Blair is also engaging a la»-ge number of hands in various worts. At yesterday's meeting of the County Council ifc was stated that 420 men were now at work in the neighborhood of Hikutnia, and we presume this number will be still further increased when Mr Blair fairly starts exporting timber.

The sum of £2600 (out of £3000 required to re-build St. John's Church, Wellington) has already been subscribed.

At the inqueßt on Chas. Wiltus, who was killed by falling down the hatchway of the Manapouri in Auckland yesterday, a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned, with a rider that greater care should be exercised in shipping bullocks, and hatches should 'be closed. ,

An exchange says that the Government object to Sir Julius Vogel entering Purlh. ment.

The Argus London coiresponf?ent Bays the All England team meets the Australians next month. It will consist of the Hon. A. Lytteltcn, Messrs Grace, C. T. Studd, A. G. Steele, Lncss, W. W. Read, Ulyett, Shrewsbury, Barlow,'Barnf s, and Peate;

The Obrisfchurch South-east Licensing Court haß refused an application for a new house in Colombo street South, and made the following conditions in respect to Loughnan'a Hotel, Hifjh street: New building to be begun within six months, and completed within twelve, in accordance with plans already approved. Yesterday the Auckland City East Court sat, and the Bench, acting in accordance with the precedent established in City North and South, laid down the general rulo of 10 o'clock closing, besides restricting each hotel to a single bar. In the case of the Nottingham Castle, the license was absolutely refused, and several other cases were deferred for further consideration.

Taiaboa, M.H.R., was accorded a vole of confidence by the natives at Kaiapoi Pah on Monday, and Mr Scddon, M.H.8., addressed his constituents at Kumara on Tuesday evenin, and received a unanimous vote of confidence.

A besident writes to the Auckland Star as follows : —To the Editor : Sir, —Do stop filling your paper with rubbish about thai; cheeky boy Laißhley ; we all know him and of what he is capable.—l am, &0., Samuei COOMBES.

The Wellington Times, which always gives the Ministerial "straight tip," Bays the return of Mr Bees would constitute him the greatest political bore and nuisance in Australasia.

At the Bitting in b*nco of the Suprome Court in Wellington yesterday, before Justice Richmond, an argument was heard in the case of Faber v. Begins. Mr E. Shaw was for the appellant, who is a publican The appellant was convicted by two Justices of allowing liquor to be consumed on Sunday by persons not being bona fide travellers or lodgers. The question was, whether, in order to' make a conviction, it should not.be proved that defendant was a licensee vithin a district proclaimed to be a licensing district by Government. This point was not raised till after the conviction, and Mr Shaw now submitted that as a Gazette had not been put in showing that the district bad been duly proclaimed, the matter must be construed strictly against the Crown in a penal case ; His Honor, however, dismissed the appeal with costs.

The Waikato Q-azette of yesterday says: —It is expected that tho Hanoilton-Morrim« ville section of this railway will be completed by the end of the present week, but of course it will not be open for traffic for awhile. Through the courtesy of the contractors, however, tho people of Morrinsville are getting their coals trucked up the line for them already, which has been the means of reducing that very necessary commodity in the township to 20s per ion.

The Rev. H. Bull delivered a lecture on "Spiritualism," in the Shortland Wesleyan Church last night, to a fair attendance. He reviewed tho four theories on the subject, viz., that all the phenomena were due to trickery, that the facts were.real, but that they were due to Satanic agency, that the facts were real and were caused by disembodied spirits who had left this world, and that the manifestations were tbe result of mundane causes exclusively. The lecturer dwelt particularly upon this latter theory, and favored the opinion of many notable men to the effect , that "Spiritualism" was really a development of animal magnetism or mesmerism, concluding by stating that its tendency on the human system, both morally and physically, was baneful, aud that it had never revealed a naw truth, invention, or principle to the world.

The authorities inform us that the b.s. Victory will leave Wellington for Plymouth, via Rio de Janiero, on Saturday next, and the voyage ia expected to occupy 55 days.

Thk Tidy Hi.trsEWi]?.G.—-The careful, tidy housewife, when giving her house its spring cleaning, should bear ia mind that the dear inmates are more precious than houses, their systems need cleansing, by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels, and' she should know that there ia nothing that wi'l'do it so surely as Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all medicines. Look for

That Husbahd of Mine is three times the man he vus betore he began using " Wel.'s' Health Eonewer." Druggists. Moses, Moss, & Co., Sydney, General Agents.