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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4823, 24 June 1884, Page 2

OtTB weather prophet in Wellington telegraphed at half-past one o'clock this after* noon as follows:—" Watch barometer; bad weather approaching between, north-east and north and west. Glass further fall, and after 12 houra much raiD. —R. A> Edwin,"

Oub correspondent in Wellington telegraphs that the Southern members were to leave at two o'clock this afternoon.

Mb ¥. 3. Btjhgbss has been appointed Beturning Officer for the Electoral District of Coromandel; Mr H. Kenrick still retains the same office for the Thames.

We would again remind our readers of the Baptist Church anniversary soiree to-night.

A blight accident happened to a man named Henry Kelly while working in one of the rises of the Beuben Parr mine yesterday. A piece of itone fell, and inflicted a wound on his head. He is sufficiently recovered to resume his work to-night.

A BtrMOE was current about the town today that some pulse-feeling wag being indulged in with' a Tiew to ascertaining the chances of a candidate to run for the district in the independent interest at the forthcoming election, and it was hinted that should the\reeult prove encouraging, the address of such a candidate would be immediately issued. . Bbfobe Dr Kilgour, and H. C. Lawlor, Esq., J's.P., this morning, and fined three " drunks " fire shillings each and costs, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A cabdriver who was proscuted by the police for driving without lights at a quarter to one on Friday morning, explained that be had been kept out later tban he intended, and his lights bad burnt out only a few minutes before lie met the ' policeman. The Bench accepted this view of the cafe and dituußsed the ioformation.

, We desire to remind the members of ths Thames Football Club of tbe meeting to ake place at MoLiver's, Brown street, tonight. . „ ; qThb native* at Mata Creek, about a mile and a half beyond Tapu, have found the skeleton of a man in the bush. The Coroner has ordered it to be interred, and there is no j probability of an inqueßt being held.

Theee was a good attendance at the Mutual Improvement Aenociation last evening, when Mr J. Q-rigg delivered a very interesting paper on "Electricity and its application." The chair was taken by Mr J. Adams. The essayist accompanied 'his remarks on the subject with a number of experiments of an explanatory nature, and showed many of the wonderful uses electricity could be put to. Mr G-rigg was awarded unanimously the thanks of the meeting.

The state of the Thames District Hospital for the week ending the 22nd inst. is as follows :—Bemained, 12; admitted, 5; discharged, 0; no deaths; remaining (3 females, 14 males), 17. Some interesting particulars concerning prirate wealth io the colony ore contained in a pnper laid on the table of the House in connection with the property assessment, (says tho correspondent of an Auckland exchange). The total nutaber of payers of property tax for the year 1883-4 iB 25,060, agaiftt 22,087 for the year 1882-3. The taxable real and personal property in 1883-4 is £85,000,000, against £72,500,000 in the previous year. The total real property in 1880 was £93,000,000, and last year it totalled *£101,000,000. The property tax payable in 1883-4 was £270,190. Personal property in New Zealand 7 not in* eluded by owners in their statements produces a ralne of £11,338,356; agricultural implements, £547,040$ vessels, etoam or sailing, £11,600,000. Statement of mortgages :— Mortgages (foreign capital), £15,918,904; mortgages (colonial capital). £14,997,557.

Though only 50 applications have been re* ceived for the second trip to Fiji, the,, Union Company have decided not to disappoint'the applicant?, and will send the steamer. V.'

A BOY named William Ebbs, alias Mi\let",i 16 years old, was committed for stealing a watch and chain, and a cheque for £15 175.6 d, at Ohristohurch. ' ,

Dubing the passage of the schooner Three Cheers between Auckland and a sailor named Anderson was knocked over* board by the main boom; the weather being boisterous it was impossible to rescue him.

The Herald on Saturday published a telegram from its Dunedin correspondent to the effect that the business' of the Norwich Union Insurance Company ia Otago had been taken over by the National Company, and that it was slated to be the,, intention of the National to take over the whole of the New. Zealand business of the Norjrich .Union., The statement is contradict^ .by our Auck--land contemporary yesterday, and the local agent of the Norwich Union requests us to also contradict it, there being not the •lightest truth in the statement. Spttbiot/s coins are now afloat in Auckland. A fine specimen of a2s piece was palmed off on Mr Campbell, bookseller, Queen street, who has left it at our office for inspection. It would almost " deceive'the very elect" of the bank, it is so cleverly manufactured. A thin rim, evidently of the pure metal, has fallen off, and the deceit is exposed to full view. Perhaps there is an excuse if the follow who passed it was eager for literature, and if Mr Campbell bias only succeeded in selling him a treatise o« " Honesty," the loss to the bookseller may be the fellow's gain,,and that of society.—Star.

Some Chinamen at Cairns, Queensland, whilst fishing in the buy towards the mouth of the Barron River, recently captured in their nets a gigantic swordfiah, measuring 26ft. from point of sword to tail, and estimated to weigh nearly a ton.

The champion sculler of the world (says the; Melbourne Argus) has had a number of surprises since his arrival in Victoria. The last is the most surprising, and probably the most unexpected. \ Whilst taking a pull on the; Yarra, Hanlan's boat collided with the dead body oft ai man^ was slowly floating down stream, but fortunately no injury resulted. The body was drawn ashore by the champion oarsman and handed over to the, police, who conveyed it to the morgue, to await identification and inquest.

At Hokitika on Saturday afternoon a man named Louis Jean, emplojed by a contractor for .removing piles on the wharf, was the victim of an explosion of dynamite. He was re* moving dynamite into a hole, when it ex* ploded, shattering both his legs. He was re* moved to the hospital, where he died two hours after the accident. Cubkd OV Dbinki»&.—" A young friendof mine was cured of an insatiable thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated his system that he was unable to do any business. He was entirely cured by the use of Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, took away the appetite for liquor, made his nerves steady, and he has remained a sober and steady man for more than two years, and has no desire to return to his cups."—From a leading B. B. Official. Bead Skinny Meit.—" Wells' Health Benewer " restores health and vigor, cures Dyapup'ia, Impotence, Debility. Moses, Moss, and Co., Sydney. General Agents.