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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4918, 14 October 1884, Page 2

Rude Boreas played some fknta-.tio trices to-daj. Hat hunts wero not numerous, but one or two occurred, and the pent up locks of the gentler sex underwent some ruffling; It is lucky that the old-fashioned chignon ia out of dote, or some fearful enclosures might have been made at every corner. The allawry cess of ladioa' dresses generally bore witness that their walks abroad were not too comfortable, but showed bozo industrious they were to venture out. Oar Wellington weather profit telegraphed this afternoon : — " Watch barometer; bad weather approaching between north and weat and south-west* Glass further rise, and weather very cold."

At the last meeting of the Auckland Board of Education a letter was re.»d from tha Waiotahi School Committee recommending the Board to merely remove Mr O'Donoghue from that school. It was agreed to prjvide a new teacher for the Waiotahi School, and to defer for a week the consideration of a letter on the subject from Mr O'Donoghue.

The sheathing of the p.s. Patiki by Messrs Price Bros. emploje3 has now been completed, and she is to bo launched next week. In th.c meantime the finishing touches will be made, and the engines overhauled.

The state of the District Hospital for t'-ie week ending the 12th mat., was as follows: — Remained, 17 j admitted, 1; discharged, 6; no,deaths; remaining (all males), 12.

In the Auckland District Court yesterday, in the case Mariner Q-.M.Oq. v. P. K. Donnelly, a. claim for £33 17s unpaid calls, His Worship, Mr H. Gh Beth Smith, gava a decision which effects all unpaid mining calls made since September 8, 1883. Shortly stated, it was, that forfeiture of chares does not necessarily preclude collection of the unpaid calla connected therewith. He held that the Act provides a double remedy for the recovery of those arrears, viz., (1) to sue for the calls, or (2) to sell the shares, and afterwards, if necessary, sue for the balance* Judgment was therefore giveu for the plaintiff, with costs, £4 16s-

A Thames lady (Mrs Lush) baa secured the first prize and a bronze medal for Christmas cards to be shown at the New Zealand Art Students Exhibition, wbich opens in Auckland this week.

An action for £500 damages for encroachment, laid by the proprietors of the Ivanhoe against the Sir Walter Scott (Karangahake) wili bo heard in the Warden's Court here on Friday.

Tiik cricketing material necessary for the opening of the Miners' Club's season has been obtained by C. McLiyer, and should, from its quality, enable the miners to give a good account of themselves during the ensuing season.

In the Houae, Dr JN"o\vmaa has given notice to &ik tha Q-overnmeafc if they will take steps to preaerve Tongarivo, Euapehu, and the surrounding country as a public park ? The district in question contains some of the most striking features to be found in the Wonderland of New Zealand, and will be opened up to tourists by the central route. '

Two boya, named J<jb. Fowler and Arthur Hands, inmates of the Kohitnaratnara Training School, wore yesterday evening suffering from poisoning through eating fcufcu berries, and Mr Hogan, the master, had to go into Auokland late last night to obtain medical asEistance.

HlB Worship the Mayor of Auckland, at tbe invitation of the Fire Brigade, presented medals and clasps, to which members of the Brigade are entitled for long service, last night. There were tea presentations in all. Mr Superintendents Hughes, who had the longest service (21 years), was presented with a medal representing fiyo years' Bervice and eight clasps or bars, each representing two yenra' service. A medal and one clasp each was presented to Senior Foreman ITarley, Junior Foreman Clark, Brancbnim Heap?, Firamon Fulljames, Firoman Wdte, Fireman Stanley ; and medals to Fireman Gteorge Finley and Thomas Solomon.

The performance given last night by the Wihuolfc compeny was deserving of a far larger audience than patronised it, and doubtless the meagre attendance was owing to the inclemency of the weather. The programme presented wa3 certainly the best this combination has given the Thames people, and should their slay permit of its reproduction, we strong'y recommend lovers of a good drama to witness the representation of "Ratribu. bulion, or the Golden Plough." The plot h a Bimple, yet a very mystifying one, and is very ingeniously worked out, and it is not saying too much to aver that every character in tha piece is played with a life-like fidelity rs creditable to the cjmpaoy as it would bo —wore ho to see it—gratifying to the author. The action of the pJar rest? mainly on the assassination of Sir Francis Claude, and although the murder ia done on the stage in the presence of the audience, it is only in the last ssene that tfee culprit ia discovered; in the iuterval between its com« mittal and the elucidation of the mystery attached to it, no less than three persons are successively wrongly suspected of being the perpetrator of the crime The events of the dwoi4 are ingeniously iuttfrworeu, ami kad to

a very well conceived climax. The charastera bava all a fair share of work to psafortn, and notwithstanding the paucity of attendance, each impersonator last night honestly fulfilled his and her part.. The heaviest portion of the work of interpreting the auth-Vs conception fell to the lot of Miss Lawrence, as Mrs Eoyal, and wo must congratulate (hat lady on her thorough-Biisceja in carrying it oufr. To Miss Johns was entrusted the part of M> Koyal, and that lady conscientiously fulfilled the requirements of ifc. Mi 33 Wyatt played Helen Claude nicely. As the candidate, Sir Francis Claude, Mr Balfe added another to hia hat cf successes since his arrival here, and Mr Eede, who impersonated the Key. Martin PreatoD, deserves praise for his faithful rendering of t!ie part of the village eohooi master. Mr Simmjods, as the dt teetive Middloton, is to be congratulated on Ins representation; we v/era Hgrseably surprised to see this gonJeman handle a somewhat arduous part"so well. The Jerry Drake of Mr Wilkinson was certainly a good performance, albeit at times, soojewhat demonstrative and <' foot light y," and may ba ranked aa one of his best performances. la the last j scene where the erstwhile pay and jovial criminal waa unmasked, Mr Wilkinson was particularly good. Mr Herman essayed the character of Dr Jordan, and played better than I he has done einco ha visited the Thames, and as the natural honest lover ■ of.. May, | Torn Cirroll, Mr Marter was successful. Taken altogether the play was a decided success : it, is well written, was well Btaged, and capitally acte *. Wo again express tho hope that if circumstances will permit, Mr Willmott will give Thames pectpla another opportuaity cf witnessing it.

There wa<j a good attendance at the mooting of the Mutual Improveinont Association lait eveniag, when Ivlir Tregonning read a paper on " Edmund Bu.-ke." Aa interesting discussion ensued on it. The following officers were elected for tha ensuing half-year:—Mr L. J. Bagnall, President (co-elected) ; Rev. S. J. X>Teill and Mr Adams, Vice-Presidents; Mr F. J. Burgess, Secretary ; Mr BranfiU, Treasurer ; Mfsrs Grigg and Smith, Auditors; and ~Qt Kilgour, aad Messrs Woifi and Airey, Ooinniittee.

Wjb understand thifca monamont in commemoration of those who foil while fighting with the natives during the outbreak in 1868 13 likely to bs erecled ia the centre of the Octagon at Manaia. It" appears that a quantity of loote waß taken during, the outbreak, which, being converted iuto money, waa placed in Captains Hompton's handß—wher-3 it has remained ever sine*. As the Government-, will not receive it, and no one can claim it, Captain Hempton hr.s decided to expend the amount in tho erection in a monument on which will be recorded tho naroea of all who fell daring that unhappy time.—Taranaki Herald,

At a full meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, tho following resolation, moved by Mr Graves AioMn, and seconded by Mr J. C. Eirth, was carried : —:" That this Chamber whilst believing that the western route proposed for the North Island Main Trunk Bailway would ba the best for the commercial interests of Auckland and most immediately remunerative to the colony, it is resolved, notwithstanding, to recommend our representatives not to obstruct the central route as adopted by a Committee of the House, but to en leavour to obtain a pledge for the construction of a hrauch to open up the districts to lha westward of the main line. That our memberß bo requested to press forward without any delay the complete survey and the work of the construction of tho line decided upon." Tho reasons which influenced the committee in recommending the central route were—That it is easy to connect with Waitara from the central line by a branch when required ; that it open 3up more good land and less broken country ; that there are easier grades, these being one ia seventy, while, a3 a rule, Stialford is one in forty ; that it opens up a totara timber country j that it is shorter to Wellington by 34< mileß ; that from Morton to Stratford there are very Bleep gradients and very sharp curves; that the line is not eimply for the presont, but for all time; that maintenance on the Stratford lino would be much heavier, wlii'e it i 8 not a totara, but only a black birch country.

ChaS. Hat-Ii has been drowned at Whangaroa, -while rafting timber. At. Kyeburn, in Maniatoto County, Oiago, a boy two years olci, named Elliott Q-eorgo, was found dead in a duck pond a foot deep.

John SxBiTPOBD, an old settler, died in Wellington on Sunday, at tho age of 79. He arrived here in a ship from Cuba in 1839, and was the first bona fide sottler who stepped ashore in Port Nicholson.

Says the Waikato Times of Saturday:— "There are at tho present time no leas than six life insurance agents busily engaged ' taking lives 'in the Cambridge diafcrio^. The resources of this district, from a life insurance point of viow, roust be well nigh inexhaustible, considering that it has baen undergoing 0n.6 unbroken canvass for the past two yeara." Pome of th se " assurance " agents must, we think, be as modest as the proverbial Yankee, wluo, whilo on hi 3 round?, came across a mula hitched to a fence, and approaching rathot? near the latter's heela they suddenly came in contaot with his chetk, but, strange to say, without inflating any damage to the cheek, though the animaj was bo much injured about tho hoof as to bs disinclined to repeat the experiment.

What is known as a "right" while accompanied by a calf marie it 3 appearance in Russell last week. Several boats went in chase. The monster was struck ones, but oventual'y escaped from its pursuers. A day or two after the same whale was disoovored by a number of Whnn?aroanutivos who secured it, and have ainca bson engaged putting the blubber in barrels for shistnent.

A fashionably drasaed young man, Arthur Collinge, recently from Sydney, was brought up at the Auckland Polica Court yesterday on 'four charges of larceny of cirpet-bags, porbnrnnteiux, r.nd clothing, valued at£loo, from the Hobson Eotel. The robberies were effected between September 26th and October 10th, and wero' tho properties .of several gentleman lodging at Mr Milne's hotel. The cs=o -will come on for hearing on the 21st ins*". Fotje divers who were in the employmont Oif the New Plymouth Hirbor Board have thrown up their appointments in order to go and wofk at the Lastingham wreck, at Jacksou's Head. From the Bourd they received 9s a day and 3s an hour extra whiie at work. They are now to roceivo £1 day and ten per cent, of the profits for their labors at the Lastiughanu. The following is from Truth, San Francisco :— Warning! Landowners look out! There are breakers ahead. This is the new law governing ths price of land in both city and country. Tuo price of laud is determined by the sale of Kenry George's " Progress and Povery," falling as ifc rieos, and rising as it falls. It is now paat its first hundredth edil*on, and it is going faster than ever. In ten years from now. town lots will not be worth more than the (axes. Private property in laud is doomed.

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