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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4907, 1 October 1884, Page 2

Capt.^Edwis telegraphed this afternonn: —•" Watch barometer 5 bad w.eather approach* ing after 12 hours fro.n now, between north and east and south-east, and heavy rain. Glass will fall again soon. Tides very low after high water this afternoon." The election for a representative Lr fche Middle Ward in the Borough Council takes i place to-morrow, and considerable interest is being taken in it. The friends of all threo candidates are most energetically endeavoring to push their interests, and a very close contest fjr first position may be anticipated. The meeting of the Loyal Waikato L?dge held laafc night to consider Dr Payne's resignation as medical officer to the lodge, resolved to ask him to withdraw it. The members of the Choral Society met last night, and handed over its property to the newly formed musical Association, which takes the Society's responsibilities. The musical body replacing the Society assumes the form of a proprietary company, and the number of members required having been obtained, its operations will at once be begun " The Messiah" will probably be pat in active rehoarsal for tho first concert to be giYen. With tho returning fine weather, Mr R. Stone is making belter progress with the ketch on the stocks in his yard at Sbortland. The planking of the hull is now finished, and a few days will see the men engaged putting on the deck. Her bottom has yet, however, to be caulked and coppered, while the bulwarks, and other fittings, have also to be made.

It is hardly needful for us to remind our readers that the concert and dance in connection with [the anniversary of the Rifle Hangers takes place this evening. The programme will be found elsewhere, and an enjoyable evening Bhould be spent. While Messrs Kobinson and Gordon's men were yesterday engaged trucking out ballast, from the quarry, Totara poiat, a piece of timber supporting one of the passes gate way, and a considerable fall of earth took place, completely blocking the drive. Ono young man had a narrow escape of being buried by the debris, and another youth, with a horse, ■were shut in the inner end of the drive, but were released after a couple of hours work. The Willmott Company repeated " The Woman of the People " to a fair house in the Academy of Music last night. For this evening a complete change of programme is announced, when the serio-comic drama cf " Hand and Glove," with the laughable farce of " Irish Justice" as on after-piece, will be produced, and should attract a* good attendance. Its our Parliamentary Gossip to-day, several items of local interest will be found, while amongst them it will be noticed that the G-oldfields Committee has recommended tbat the Warden hold an enquiry re the Blcok 27 petiti n, Manx of our readers will read with regret of tha death, in Welington, of Mr W. B. S. Hickson, a former resident of this district. Mr Hickson was in business here as a member of the firm of Ledger and Hickson, Albert street, many years ago. He died at the comparatively early age of 37, and leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. ■ - * The New Zsaland Sugar Company, carrying on operations at Northcofce, Auckland, can now turn out 4CO tons weekly. Mb E. Mobbison, who acted as the correspondent of the Age in New Guinea, where he was speared by the ratives, has undergone an operation in Edinburgh. It was found necessary to make an incision three inches long, and the same in depth, in his groin, and a * piece of spear, three inches long, and as thick as a man's finger, was extracted, after it had been embedded for months.

A VEBY largß crowd assembled in Dunedin last evening to welcome tho BToh. B. Stout. The Mayor read an address expressing tho pride of the citizens in Mr Stout's success in politics, and holding him up as an example for the youth of tbe colony to imitate. Mr Stout only said a few words in reply, excusing himself on the ground of physical inability, and stating that ho would not care to go through the same physical strain again, and at the same time be subjected to the vile abuse be had received from various newspapers. A brass band placed him out of the railway station.

We learn (says tbe Waipawa Muil) that Mr Thompson, formerly a priyate tutor at Kmkoura, Marlboro ugh, and more recenHylit Kaikora, in this province, has been appointed tutor to the King of Siam, at a salary of £1000 a year.

The composition of the present Government (sayß an exchange) illustrates the religiour equality and toleration existing in the politics of the country. Tbe Hon. Mr Stout is the President and the Hon. Mr Ballance is the Vice-President of the New Zealand Freetbought Association, Sir Julius Vogel is a Jew, the Hon. J. A. Tole and the Hon. P. Buckley are Roman Catholics, the Son. E. Richardson ia a member of the Church of England, and the Hon. W. Reynolds is a Presbyterian.

Pavid ALEXiEDEU Evans, or Hopkins! (which is said to bo bis real name), who att tempted suicide by cutting his throat a, Bumard's boarding house, Wyndham streetf Auckland, disd last night; at the hospital 0 his injuries.

Mb James Stefhensok, fche originator of the eight hours' movement in colonial ti ade?, having recently become incapacitated from work, was presented by his fellow-workmen in Tictoria with a cheque for £603, subscribed entirely by themselves.

Theeh are numerous and anxious inquiries being made on the part of the Coast natives (says the Bay of Plenty Times), what is to become of them during the immediate future. Thar last, year's crops are exhausted, and they have fo ug9 up their seed potatoes for food. The newt) from "Whangainafca hns given them encouragement, and thoae nativt-s w!-o are ia town are going on to the gumfields, while a few have gone back to their respective sot tic ments to bring ou tho remainder of their people without-delay.

Thb Woodville Examiner report that a cow J belonging to Mr Groves, of that district, after being doctored for three weeks es a con- ] sumptive patient, died 5 and that a "post mortem " revealed the prosenco of a lizard 9 inches long in the animal's throat. Thb- Te Aroha leaves for Paeroa at one o'clock to-morrow afternoon, instead of three o'clock, as previously advertised. Thb capsizing of the ecow Norah off Waikawau on Friday was owing to a plug coming out of the bottom of Iho vessel and her filling with water bo'ore the crew were aware of it. The crew of five clung to the bottom of the scow for five hours, till rescued by the barge Progreop, when they were taken to Whangapoua.

At the meeting of the Auckland Institute on Monday night, a paper was road from Mr J. Adaiss, heid master of tho Thames High School, on the botany ol the Te Aroha mountain. The writer says the vegetation of the lower part of the mountain closely re?embloß that of the ranges near the Thames, but about 700 feet from the summit a change takes place, and several southern plants appear, Dearly all of which are absent from the Thames proper. la the plains near the Thames Eiver several swamp plants, not identical with those near the mouth of the river, wera collected. On the dividing range between Katikati and Waiorongo tuaij a few plants not seen on To Aroha itself were found. Attention was drawn to the fact that several of the rarer plants of the Thames ranges did not exiat in the Te Aroha district., and tbo writer considered that their southern limit was probably in tho vicinity of Whangamata, a little to the south of Tairua. The paper concluded with a full list of the plants observed on the mountain.

BEWA3E of pickages of injurious stuff purporting to make genuine Hop Bitters ; also preparations and fluids said to contain all the properties of Hop Bitters. They spring up on account of the great popularity of the genuine, which is only put up in large square-panel amb9r«colored bottles, with the nameß " Dr Souie," and " Hop Bilters" blown in the glass, and 13 the beat family medicine ever made. Read.