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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4866, 14 August 1884, Page 2

Onk of the winding ropes in the Big Pump shaft broke this afternoon. Only the empty cage was attached to it, and fortunateJy it was near the 640ft. level at the time, so no damage was done. The rope has only been in use about two years, the cause of its having rotted being the,steam in the shaft. The manager observed som* time ago that it was unsafe, and it haß not beim used for winding lately in consequence. The f.iulty parlion will be cut ouL, anclChc rope spliced together agijo.' •

rJns solemn and dry discu^iona which usuilly characterise the m etinjt of_the Hos- : pital Committee were Bomewhat enlivened at yesterday's meeting.Tn selecting the members ef the House CjmnnUee, the Secretory, on coming to a suggested name, said, " He has served two-months," "No, I haven't," broke in the member mentioned, " Yes, you hare,'' pursued the Secretary, and one or two began to look dubious at the man who they believed to be honest and straightforward "Grive him another month," put in another committeeman, and the Oommittes give him the sentenco. , r '

A SHOUT ac ident befel a man named John Ash',, employed at No. 6 level of the New Prince Imperial th'a morning.- While picking down some shaky ground in the western loading etope, a large piece fell unexpectedly. Ash spj-ang taone side, but his right foot was caught, and some of the small bones injured. Ho was iakea to the Hospital.

Is the Police Court this morning, before H. Kenrick, Esq., R.Btt., a young woman named Mary Col ins, who ifc was stated was a 'rec<nt armul in tbo colony by Uib Doric, WBB ohirgedby the police with being drunk and disorderly. The offender stated that if let off this her first before the Court-she would leave the district. A fine of 20s and costs, or in default two days' iiuprisonmeut, was recorded against Mary. A young man named Charles Peterson,' who wbb brought up on a similar charge, and had been mixed up with the last offender when the latter was arrested, was treated in a similar manner. In the Gbvornirient G-nzetto of Aug. 7 Mr W. T. ifir'tb, of Auckland, applies for a patent for saving " float gold," to', bo known as " H. P. Fifth's Float-gold Saver."

Mb G. Y. Stewaht writes to Taurangi'by I lie Brintiisi mail ; hat Mr Candish, contractor for the Thiu'jnga-Rofcorua railway, will arrive by the next San Francisco mail.

Ykstebday afternoon the Government received a te'egram from Napier staling that Mowait> who is suffering from small-pox, is much worsen The patient is in a weak state and is also"delirious; doubts are entertained of his recovery.

Mb Thomas Bbackten, who leaves Dunedin on Friday to settle in Wellington, wbb presented yesterday with a purse of 180 sovu., subscribed by the citizens of Duncdin. There were 60 or 70 gentlemen present; the Mayor was in the chair, and the present i(ion was made by Mr G. O Fen wick, mimgiug director of the Otago Dai'y Times. Mr Amies, on be half of the engine-drivers and firemen of the railway, presented M> Bracken with a handsomely framed a<?dreßP, and with a set of diamond canirige and brooch for Mrs Bracken. The F.0.0 D., in which Mr Eraeken held the office of D.D.G.M., subscribed amongst themselves a souvenir in the shape of a'diamond locket, end merged the balance of their subscriptions into tho memorial fund.

One morning last work a fine full grown deer was teen on tho JVlatai run Tauranga. Where this stag came from is a matter of conjecture, bub some years ago a number of derr were let loose at Matamata by Mr J C Firth and it is .more tban probable that this is one of the herd.

Th.c vexed question of the Rolorua leases came before Justice Gillie?, who gave- his decision in Banco in Auckland jesterdny, upon appeal,, which virtually amounts to a reversal of the verdict delivered in (ho District Court, some lime ago, by Mr Soth Smith in the teet case of Tole v. Cozens. In fact, His Honor actually delivered a judgment reversing the previous decision, which was given in tho previous decision, which was given i i defendant's favour; hut upon Bfr Heeketh pointing out that it had only been intended toelicit his opinion upon two vital points, he consented to postpone his formal judgment for n fortnight. Ho upholds the validity of the deed of. lease, saying that however bad a bargain vtlae; lessees may have inn tie, they are now" obliged to abide by it. - In delivering judgment, ho referred to '< an impossible agreement of Mr Fenton's'j" and then went on. to say " that such slipshod mtive legislation, characteristic as it' was" of the greater parfc:of our native land legislation, provided ample food for litigation, and many puzzles for the Suprem* Court to solve." ;

. Somk interesling statistics ore giveii by ifr H; A.'Gordon, Inspecting Engineer, on the amount of money expended on various gold* fields' in Otago. ":Two kludge channels at Bannbckburn, "Vincent County, have been allotted £1350 j and the Cardrona Prospecting Association, Lake County, has been granted £200. The Lawrence drainage channel receivesl £2000; and the Tuapeka ProEpfcting Association was granted £300. In the Maniototo County £2000 has been expended, or is hypothecated for various works, including a grant to the-Deep Lead Prospecting-VAssociation,' NaselJy. Of the whole £92,752 contributed or: still due on works in progress, £29,261 lls is for water races ; £21j437 lls 2d roads; on goldfields ; £32,052 12s 4d, subsidies to connty councils ; £6750; subsidies'for prospecting; arid £3250, subsidies to sludge and drainage channels.

.The adjourned extraordinary, meeting, of the Alburnia &.M^00.," wtiich was AO have been held yi storday afternoon in Auokland to consider resolutions for its re-formalion, lapsed for want of ft quorum. • ; ~

; .Mas Beanmt, wife of Mr George Beaney, of<Matakaha district (says at correspondent of ihe HeruJdj met with a terrible accident on the Bth in* t. While attending to her ' oneehold- duties ; at, the fireside, Mrs Beaney (during an epileptic fit) fell in the fire. When found she was unconscious, and had,- in ,the paroxysm? of convulsions and sgony, struggled from the fire and smothered the "burning clothes. .From the Bhbulfler to the liand was not merely, scorched! but literally roastodw She was removed to the hospital on the 10th instant. Four'years previously M^s Beaney sustained injuries of oven a more terrible nature by burning (alsa occasioned by a .fit), that will mate, recovery more difficult now.

AxrausTß /V"oT,T,3BiCHT,.a:bankrupt, was exraoiined in Auckland. His debts were set, down at £886 19i 7d, and his assets at £12.- It would«pp6ar that, arriving in the colony four tfrid a half years ago, he Bet to work to secure the £1000 bonus offered •''offered by the Governmentfor New Zealand grown and inanufaetured tobacco. He failed once before, and ia at present an uncerlificated bankrupt, and his only proposition, is, that "when his salary as manager of the New Zealand Tobacco Growing and Manufacturing Oonipiny is increased to £400 a year bo wi'l set half of it apart to pay bis creditor*.

The Poverty Bay Herald of last Friday says:—At Waerenga a-hika, hat night, a number of natives met to discuss matters eflVciing the Maori population, which they considered their lutely-elocted member (Wi Pero) should bring befora Parliament. A kind of programme was agreed upon, the principal discussion having reference to the clauses of the Rating Act at applied to land owne^ by Maoris. Wi Pere, who w«a pre* Bent, was a strong advocate for the appoint* men* of' committees, who should have the enl^e- management of the lands claimed by pach hapu It was resolved that several blocks of land in this district, the titles of which had bson ascertained, would henceforlh be managed by a committee.

THElatest Gazette to hand, dated August 7th, tbo following blocks of land in Ohincmuri are declared to be waste lands of the Crown, " to be sold and dealt with accord ing to the provisions of the laws regulating to the sale and disposal of waste lands of the Crown in force in the land district of Auckland " ;—Ohinemuri No. 1, 2770 acres; No. 2,. 3641 acres; Nc. 3. 3912 acres ; No. 4, 6605 acres ; Nos. 5 and ox, 2000 acres ; N,o. 7, 952 acres; No. 8, 7626 acres; Nos. 9 "and 9a, 500 acres ; No. 10, 358 acres; No. 11, 213 acres; No. 12, 200 acres; No. 13, 160 acres; Nos. 14 and- 14a, 50 acres; Nos. 15 and 15a, 10 acres; No. 16, 195 acres ; No. 17, 31, 377 acres ; Nos. 18 and 18a, 3218 acre!*; No. 19, 9L acres; Owharoa No. 2, 1820 acres; and No. 3, 220 acres. The Waihou Wept No. 2 block, 279 acres is also declared to be waste land of the Crown. The following reserves, having been set apdrt for native use and occupation, are excepted and reserved : — Ohinemuri No. 1 Block, Ngatitaharua fieserve. 434 acres ; No. 4,-TTriwlia Reserve, 793 acres; No. 5, wahi tapu, at Kahotaia, 5 acres; No. 8, Ngatitangata Keserve, 632 acres ; Nos. 4, 8, and 17. JSgatikohi He3erve, 1,170 acres ; Nos "5 and 17, Ngatitaniatera .Reserve, 3,430 acres; No. 17, wahi tapu atKauwliarnnjii. 10 acres; wahi tapu at Rauotewlieu, 2 acres; wahi tapu at Whakaputeea, 2 acres;. and wahi tapu at Te Pahi, 10 acres; No. 18, wahi tapu at Ngatirukira, 147 acres; and Owharoa No. 2 Block, wahi tapu at Kotangitangi, 1 aero : total, 6,636 acres. Dbujskrn Stupf.—How many children and women are slowly but Purely dying, or rather being kiilei, by excessive doctoring, or the daily use of some drug or drunken stuff called medicine, (hat no one knows what it, is made of, wbo can easily bo cured and saved by Hop Bitters, which is so pure, simple, and harmless that the most frail woman, weakest invalid, or lawUeet child can trust in it, See J

: ? The .NewvZ-alff'd; Frozen Meat Company have declared an,. 8, per pent, dividend. : ' . v

;; REFEBBIKff to the- death of Signor Susini, well known in all the coloniee, the London correspondent; of the Australasian writes":—' :•'. Signor Susini, who was recently killed in-a street accident in Lqndon.Jbas-ieft bis widow and infant children totally destitute. Madame Carlottn Patti and Maaatiie lima di Murska liaye Kindly consented to sing at a C on'cert'tp be,giT.en in aid of the bereayed family/ Suaini was a well known and popular artist at Her Majesty's Theatre, and also at Coyent-garden. The Times states that he belonged to the vielle garde of Italian opera, haying sung with'MarioiQ-risi; Lablache,Sndotherfamous artistes of the patt." •; .; • ......

r That Husband of Mike ib three times the man h* was betore he bpgan nsing "Wells' Health Eenower." Drugoi ß ts. Moses, Moss, & Co., Sydney, General AgeDts.