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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4882, 2 September 1884, Page 2

Tbue to Copt. Edwin's prophecy of yesterday, we had Tery rough weather during the night, and to-day. A further warning, despatched at noon today, says . —" Watch barometer; bad weather approaching between north and west and south-weat. G-laas further fall, and every indication of gale of unusual severity soon, with heavy rainfall."

The Hospital authorities received a tele* gram from Sir Q-ould of Te Aroha, this afternoon, stating that a Maori who had sustained a fracture of bis ankle, would arrive by the Waitoa this afternoon.

The Queen of Beauty pumps hare been at a standstill since yesterday afternoon, while the turbine lately in use was being taken out and replaced by another which has been on hand, and come other repairs were being mttdo, but th> manager expects to be rrady to start again this erenitig.

The ttate of the District Hospital for the week ending Aupust 31st wr»s as follows:— Remained, 18; admitted, 2; disohargedy 5; no deaths; remaining (4 fomalea, 17 males), 21.

A sals of mining property was held in the Warden's Court at noon to-day, H. Kenrick, Etq., Warden, presiding. The Perseverance Holding of 32 men's ground, situated at Karangahake, was fir6t offered. There were four applicants ftv this section, which is situated in a good position, bat only two of

Mk m contested the sale, and they were out-bid by Mr H. M. Shepherd, to whom the holding was knocked down st £43. The Shortland Holding (near the Part), and Ibe Albion Holding (Karangahake) were declared to hare reverted to the gold field, and the Southern Cross (Karangahake) was awarded toE. Ryan the only applicant present, at the up«et price of £1 U.

The police who went out to Waitawheta to try and capture the thieves concerned in the robbery of kauri gum from a whore there last week, returned to Paeroa last nighW without having found any trace of the burg-

. In the Police Court this morning, before H. Kenrick, Esq., IBM., a " first offender,'' arrested in Albert street, who had been in custody since yesterday morning, wa« fined 5s or in default in-prisonmenttill the rising of the Cdurt. Win. Morton, was also charged with being drunk in Grey street yesterday, and as it was his third offence within the past nine months, he whs flnei 10s, or in*defuult 24 boors' imprisonment, the Bench likewise warning him that if arrested within the ensuing 12 months, he would bo punished as an habitual drunkard.

T^bEr of the nominations put into the Returning Officer's hands to-day, had to undergo the ordeal of being submitted to the scrutiny of the Bo tough's legal adviser, owing to a protest being lodg'd against them on the score of informality. The matter is at present under consideration by Mr J. A. Miller.

O& Thursday a resident at Wedtckauri, named James Graydon, sustained a paralytic stroke, and the steamer which left Paerbi this afternoon birtrgs him down to the Thames, whence he will bo conveyed to the Hospital.

Owing to tho bevy gale blawing, the Kotom:.hana had great difficulty in getting alongside the wharf this afternoon, and in consequence the sitting of the Diatrict Court will not be held till 10 a.m. to-morrow.

At the meeting of the Mutual Improvement Association last evening, an able revuw of Henry George's ".Progress and Poverty" was read by Mr D. O'Donoghue. The evils at present existing were specially dealt with, the essayist promising to deal with the remedies on a future occasion. Considerable discus* sion vv s indu'ged ir>, the Ciiticisir.B on the paper being generally favorable.

Southern " rats" are still being warmly treated by tbeir constituents. A requisition is bejng got up in the Koslyn district to aek Mr Boas to r-sigD, and a Dunedin telegram of yesterday says s—" The trial of Mr V. Pjfce, by effigy, "for treason, at Tapanui, was not so puccessful as was antiuipatr d, because whfn the Court had assembled it was discovered that the pri&oner had escaped—that is, some wag had stolen the effigy, and it could not be found. However, a new ino'ge was set up and sentenced to be hanged and burned. Mr Pyke had wired that it was impossible persons at a distance coul 1 understand the situation ; that newspaper reports were unreliable, and that letters for publication were on the waj."

We would remind those of our readers who are musically inclined of the meeting of the members of, and those interested in, the Choral Society, of the meeting in the K-uiae-ranga Boys' School at 7.30 this evening.

At the last n-.eeting of the Piako County Council, according to the Waikato,Gazette, 11 J. C. Firth v( ported having telegraphed to the members for the district and to a number of North lelard members, requesting them to oppo-e the proposed abolition of the duty on gold. The Council derived a revenue <f £1000 a jcir from this sou cc, and during the past two rnonihg the Counci 'a gold revenue had been £161. The Council endorsed tbe actim of Cr Firth." . Ibo Council evidently means to look after " No. 1," and would rather see £1000 a jear wrung from the miners and placed ia their coff rs, than the Pice of gold ruised and tbe prosperity of the Te Aroha Goldfield thereby enhanced.

An announcement in another column draws attention to the new spring and summer goods being opened' up ut Mr T. Short's establishment, GrHbametown, and which will be sold at low prices to ensure a quick return.

The briguntine Irene cleared at the Auckland Customs yesterday for New YorV, for which port slie b»e a full c:.rgo of kauri gnm, comprising 4,260 cases, valued at £22,324

The Wellington correspondent of the West Coosfc Times concludes a letter with this paragraph:— '' En passant and in strict confidence I desire to inform jour readers that amongst the members of the House, there are three recognised .' mashers '—the member for Timaru, the member for Inangahua, and lastly, the member for the .Buller, the latter only christened this day."

At the h lf-yearly meeting of the Mercury Bay Timber Company, held io Auckland yeeterday afternoon, the Recounts showed the •mount standing to the credit of the profit and loss accuunt as £13,335 ]2a Bd. An interim dividend of five per cent., absorbing £1875, was deoWed, £11,460 19s 6d being ouried forward.

Two fatal accidents^occurred at Christchurch yesterday. A little cirl, four years old, the daughter of Bobert J, Harrison, was scalded to death by falling into a buoket of scalding water while her mother's back was turned. An elderly man, supposed to be named Thomson, fall in a fit; in Hereford street. TTe was taken" to the hospital, bub died almost immedi'ttely after.—A Dunedin telegram reports that Mrs Jsme* (garden, wife of a storekeeper at Clinton, in the Clutha County, died dnringan apopletic fit, which seized her while she was attending a meeting of the Salvation Army in the local hall. She leaves 14 children, the youngest of whom is an infant.

Vs is row believed that if the congregation of the Scots Church, Melbourne, can succeeed in getting their bill for the detachment of that charge, with all the property appertaining to it, from the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, paß3ed through- the Parliament of thut colony, they intend to call the Be?. Mr Strong, of heretical notoriety, to minister to them. Mr Strong, who hart to resign in consequence of a prosecution raised against him for heresy by the Presbytery of Melbourne, lies been residing in the west of Scotland during'tbe pnst eiV.bt, months. Tho bill is en* countering a ctrong opposition in the "Victoriftn Parliime.t, owing to the extraordinary peculiarity of it.

Some idea of the magnitude of the Sugar Refining Work*, Nortbeote, wbi.-h have just bsen completed by the New Zealand Sugar Company, may be gained from the fact that it takes about a day lo inspect. the various departments and visit the. miervoirs. Tho company commence reining operati nB this week, aud the work gres on night and day by repeated shifts of men. Thousands of tons of raw sugar are already in store, 6000 tons are coming from Java, and 2000 tons from Fiji, so that the Sugar Works will be a scene of busy industry, giving employment to a large body of men. The new industry of sugar refining has just been established in Auckland, and we have no doubt, judging from the business-like manner in which tho initiatory sto^s of the enterprise have been carried out by the New Zealand Sugar Company, that that in«titu»ion has a highly prosperous career before it.—Herald.

Johh Brown was fined £5, or 14 days'

imprisonment, in Adckland yesterday, for running a game of " sweat-em" on the Epsom racecourse; the gambling stock-in-trade was alco confiscated.

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