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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4815, 14 June 1884, Page 2

Ihe public Bcboola are to be examined for standards next week. This year a posse of three Inspectors has been sent to conduct the examinations. Mr Goodwin will examine the Kuuaeranga G-irls' and Tararu Schools; Mr Peacock the Kauaeranga Bojb' and Creek Schools ; and Mr Fidier, M.A., the WaioKaraka and Parawai Schools. The examinations begin on Monday ia the Waio-Karaka, Knuuermga Girls, and Creek Schools. Thb Rangers competed at the Collarbone , range to-day for tbo Manning belt, last won Iby J. Thomas. The ranges were 200 and 300 yds., 10 shots ar each, and the scor&s of the morning rquarl woro : —G. Clark, 75 ; ;T. Gilpin, 70. Downie in t!}e afternoon made 75, but Clark's 300 yds score Eivesbim the belt. At the Oddfellows' HaU to-morrow evoning, Mr B. H. Taylor will lecture on "What the ancient philosophers taught concerning the immovtality of the soul," Thb Post Office at Quartz ille, Upper : Waiorongomai, has been closed; and it iB notified that registered letter envelopes pan be obtained at the Chief Post Office at a , very reasonable price. The perpetrator of the Ormondville tngedy, B. H. Edwards, was sentenced to, de tlb, at the conclusion of the trial of the can at the Napier Supreme Court Ihio week.

Those who take an interest in " the noble art of self defence," othorwiae known as boxing, should visit the Academy of Mueio this evening, when .Messrs E. Donovan and H. Eccles will give an exhibition of their skill in fisticuffs.

In tho E.M. Court this morning-, before H. Kenrick, Esq., nnd nt tho instance'of the Kegistrav of Electo.-n, the following names were struck off tho roll, they b"ins; no longer reeidenb in the district:—Rev. T. J. Adamson, George Reed, James Reid, Wm.'Bo«e, John Eowe, James Shaw, Alfred, C. SpaldiDg, Alfred Teasdale, George Tetley, George Waite, Samuel Wilson, Valentine Kenyon, Adolph Krttupe, Edward Bodgers, Bobt. 8. Scott, ■/) Han Vipond, Wm. Batchelor, Chae. Jones, and Alex. Eccles.

The Americans in Sydney have been greatly exercised over the fact that Mr Kahlo, the United States Consul, recently declared that he would not take part officially in any celebration of tho 4th of July, at which the Declaration of Independence was to be read. At a meoling of United Statea citizens held on 21st May a resolution was passed condemning Mr Kahlo's utterances. It was said by one of the speakers that Mr Kahlo had gi?en aB his reason for his words " that he thought Englishrcon had had enough of that sort of thing drubbed into them."

A MAN named Henry Collins, of Tairua, has been missing for some time, and no trace of him could bo found until Thursday last, when his body was found floating in the Tairua River by two men employed packing for Mr J. E. Banks. It was barely recognisable, through decomposition. Injubmati'/N has been received by the Hob. John Bryco that Mr Eusden has entered a plea of justification in the libel action taken' by the Native Minister. Thb North Creek Gold Mining Company, Canterbury, have arranged to drive a tunnel into the hill at North Creek, 800 feet below where they formerly began operations. Seventy-five pounds of stone from the new lode, showing gold in several, places, have been sent to Wellington for aseaying.

Jamss Pohibb, maßter of the ship Firth of Alta, wao charged at the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court yesterday by the Collector of Customs for allow ing bis ship to be so loaded at Newcastle as to submerge the centre of the Plimsoll mark. It appeared from the evidence that the mark on the port Bide was submerged about two inches. When loaded at Newcastle the vessel had a list of 4 inches to port; it was loaded ia partially fresh water, and was examined by the Marine Surveyor before leaving. Tho captain held a loading certificate for 1900 tons of coal, and expected to be 40 tons short, '.The case was dismissed without costs, on the ground that every precaution had been taken.

At an inquest, held in Auckland yesterday, on W. Pickett, a well known sharebroker, who shot himself at his lodgings in Wellesley street on Wednesday night, a verdict of " Temporary insanity " was returned. Deceased was pecuniarily embarrassed, and this is supposed to have been the cauae of the rash act. He held a large number of shares in his name which he had sold (but not transferred) to other persons, and a gentleman who was in Auckland yesterday informs us that one legal.manager's office was besieged all Say by persons who wished, too late, to get their transfers. The whaleßbip Alaska arrived at RubboH on Thursday, and Capt. Fisher reports that since leaving tbat port a year ago he has taken 384 barrels sperm oil, 750 barrels whale oil, and 60001bs of whalebone. He captured off French Rock/one of the largest sperm whales that has ever been taken, it making 16! tons of oil.

LAST Monday a hawker, whilst travelling along the road to Cardrona, near Lake Wanaka, lost his purae, containing over £80. It was fonnd by a Chinaman,- and faithfully returned to its owner the same day. The New Zealand Industrial Q-az tfce'a Nelson correspondent does not appear to hold a very high opinion of the local papers. This is what it says of them:—" Our two papers are a. disgrace to Nelson. They seldom notice our copper mines, or anything else except tea-parties, church meetings, Salvatijn Army meetings, and such like, suitable for imbeciles, old women, and children."

The Auckland Star of laat night says :— ." To fopter the cultivation of the orange in North Auckland Government have agreed to defray the cost of obtaining a report on orange culture in N"ew South Wales. Mr Alderton, of the Northern Advocate, who was the first to go in for orange cultivation in Whangarei (having laid dowa two acr^s three yeara ago), has made a special study of the subject, and is conversant with the matter in all its bearingo; and he has undertaken to go to Parramatta and make the desired report after full inquiry."' John Wesley was not only a good man, but he was a clever one, and to him we are indebted for the saying that " Cleanliness is next to.godliness j " and not only that, cleanliness is conducive to health ; but keeping the outside of the body clean is not alone sufficient. The inside of the body requires quite as, much, if not more, care than the outside. The influences of exposure, sudden changes of temperature, tend to cause an alteration in your system, and then comes the time to look after the inside of the body. A few doaes of that invaluable medicine known as Hitchens' Blood Restored, will effect a cure, and it is now sold by all chemißts and respectable storekeepers in New Zealand.