Events of the Month.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4844, 19 July 1884, Page 4

Events of the Month.

We have had an exceptional amount of rain this month, and are threatened by the Government * officer who sends ub weather forecasts, with more. - ■•" The County Coupeil in a Canterbury c agricultural district has resolved to pay a reward for the destruction of sparrows, chaffinches, green*linnets and skylarks. ' It has been ascertained in the Southern ' goldfields that low grade quartz can be 1 made to pay. A claim in Otago has made 4dwts 18grs tcHhe ton pay all expenses*, i < Tbre.wpolcly output of cigars from the factory vary recently started in Auckland „by the Hew Zealand Tobacco-Company "exceedsv 25,000. * An Australian paper ' states that tobacco grown in New Zealand shows a wonderfully fine leaf, and that "'somo tobacco farmers are so pleased with results achieved that they have trebled the quantity of land devoted to tobacco cultivation. j The feeling towards colonial federation oh the bus's proposed at the late Confereuee held in Sydney does not appear to beAt all enthusiastically supported-in this colony. A Deputy; Returning Officer, named Downes, acting in the East Coast (Gis* borne) ,d'strict was recently lost while ' crossing a" river in the course of attending to tiis duties in connection with an election, and the Government agreed to vote £100 i.to his family. ' ' A shipment of New Zealand hops was jv made,to .England by the,,last trip of-the Doric. * , Last'month the bankruptcy of W7 and O.'Turnbxill, a large and well known firm ''of'merchants,'was chronicled, and this month a Wellington merchant, W. W. Taylor, has failed for £90,000. - ! His Excellency Sir Wm Jervois is at * present on a visit to Victoria in connection ■with the defences of that colony, and will probably not return to this colony before the end of the present month. The establishment of a reformatory for * fallen women has been resolved upon by the Auckland ladies. Hanlan, the Canadian sculler, is about to row in a match with Hearn/the champion "of New Zealand. - ' A Tanranga newspaper states that Goveanment. has just closed a transaction by which 20,000 acres of native land were obtained for the sum of £5000, and another block—the price of which was not stated —of 7000 acres had been secured. Both paroels were in the Bay of Plenty district. „.Thesfl Doric toot £62,000 -worth fof gold in bars on her last trip from the shipped .by tbo Bank of New , Zealand. Several fully developed fish, hatched > and reared from the trout ova received here last year by Messrs Allom, Staed- — man, and Smith, have been, liberated in ■one of the local streams. , A system of Hamburg drawings seems to be gaining favor in the colony. A fourth, drawing within a very short time by one firm—to the amount 1 pf £3006~i5/ advertised. Te Kooti, the notorious Maori chief, of whom so much has been written not only' in connection with tho massneres lie was i identified will! in troublous time?, but owing to a reconciliation with whom the present Native- Minister haa been so much abused, has paid our town a visit, and has been welcomed by the Nga.fi maru tribe oi natives residing near us. The; Orange Society in Auckland has declared in favor of nominated immigration in the proportion of one half English and the other half at the rate of three ficotch to four Irish/ Two accidental deaths occurred during the month-. On the 9th inst. a lad named ,Charle»Jiobinson was crushed to death on "a railway contract about two .miles out of this town, while engaged in'driving- a horse - employed to draw trucks of ballast out of a tunnel in connection with the line. The Jad was jammed between a truck and the -*. \ side of a cutting, and death was instan- ~* luneous. On the 11th an old repidenfc on ' ihe Thames named Thomas Quaelly, while engaged.™ connection with a tribute in the Moanatairi.Co.'s mine, was buried by , o a fall of earth, and when extricated .was found to be dead. ,- .' : who, while apparently temporarily insane, murdered bis wife,and children at Ormondville nearly three, month* ago, wee executed on lue loth inst.