The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4949, 19 November 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1884.

Mb McDonaid, judge at the Flower Show being held to-day in the Academy of Music, threw out a hint this afternoon which exhibitors would do well to make a note of in future, viz., to exhibit with the cut flowers a few leaves from the plant. This greatly improves the appearance, forming a pretty background, against which the varied tints of the bloßSom are shown more strikingly.

Thb members of the Thames Parliamentary Union are reminded of the final meeting of their Association to be held this evening at the usual hour and place.

A ciaim of 20 mens' ground, lying to the eastward of the Moanatairi Extended, and through which it is estimated the Cambria reef will strike, was pegged out a week ago, and named the Wolseley. Promoters shares are now being sold, and it is probable a company will be floated shortly to work the ground. Another piece of ground was pegged off yestarday to the touthward of the one mention d, and tbe holders will also try and float a company to work it.

Contributions towards the presentation about to be made to Mr Q-eo. Fraser in commemoration of hia plucky effort in raising and successfully floating the s.s. Triumph will be received at this office up to Friday next. Doubtless rnanj of bis Thames admirers will wish to show their regard for the enterprise shown by their late fellow-townsman.

The number of patients in the District Hospital is now very small, which is fortunate, as the inconvenience caused by the erection of thfl additional ward (with which rapid progress is being made) is not so much felt as would o berwiae be the case. For the week ending the 16th inst. only ona patient was admitted, one wa3 also discharged, and there being no deaths, ten (one female and nine males) patients remain.

PhiHilPs' mail coach will in future leave Paeroa on Mondays, Wednesiays, and Fridays at 12 30 instead of 2.20 p.m. This coach is now running in conjunction wi h the Te Aroha and Taur^nga coaches, and passengers, by taking advantage of this, can be convejed through to either place in one daj from tbe Thames.

Oh Sunday a swordfißh 10 feet 6 inches in length ran ashore on the beach at the Sug^r Works, Northcote. The prize was soon claimed and utilised by some of the residents. A wideawake speculator wanted to bring the carcase over to Auckland for exhibition, but his offer was declined with thanks.

At the Weatherstone's Diggings, Tuapeka County, yesterday, a man named Taylor was crushed to c!eith by a fall of earth from an embankment which jammed him against a dray. He was single, and a twenty-years' resident of the district.

At the Australian Wealeyan Conference on Monday, it was Btated that the Special Help Fund had called forth a h»arfcy response from all the colonies, over £5000 having been raised.

The case of Dawson v the Queen, which was commenced in the Court of Appeal on Friday, was concluded yesterday afternoon in Wellington. The appeal was against the decision of Mr Justice Williams in granting a new tri 1. The appellant was the owner of a sawmill which was burnt down in Inveroargill in March last, and an actioa was brought by him against the Queen for the value of the prop°rty destroyed, as it was alleged that a spark from a railway engine had set fire to the mill, the jury returning a verdict for £1650. A new tri«l was subsequently granted by Ju'l^e Williamson the ground that Dawson had nut proved Miat the railway officials had been guilty of any legligence, and it was againsr. this order that Dawson now appealed. Their Honors sustained the appeal, holding that a ntm Irhl was n.t iv<jui id,

A B XIN9- matdhjat. Wellington between P;ittengall and Perry, two local men, for £50 n-side, resulted in the latter being knocked out of time in three rounds after eevere punishment.

At Auckland yesterday, William Johnson, alias Jerome, was committed for trial for forging and uttering money-order toldgranas, the charges against Bees being dismissed. JohnsoQ will be sent back to Wanganui in custody to await the sessions of the Supreme Court there on other charges in which appeal has been made to the Court of Appeal.

Mchsibub Gustavb Beck, Belgian ConsulGeneral for Australasia, wa3 a passenger by train yesterday from Dunedin to Christchurch, where he will interview the Governor. He then goes to Wellington. His special object in visiiing New Zealand is to meet M. de Harven, who arrived by the San Francisco boat in order to establish a Belgian settlement in the colony.

The release of the Tichborne claimant ;s (says a Wellington telegram) accountable for the publication now of some fresh evidence rolating to that celebrated trial. Three or four years ago the Defence Department removed to lovercargM from Mouut Cook Barracks (Wellington) a number of shot and cartridge cases, some of which bore the name of the ship Osprey, and dates varying from 1844 to 1856. Kef en'ly the department has been removing a number of other ammunition cases lrom some other old stores in the barracks, and in the process the men have come across several additional cases, marked ' Transport Osprey," dated variously 1844, 1846, 1854, and 1856, and bearing the names of destination " For Melbourne," " For Hobartown," " For Sydney." Thf se facta prove that between 1844 and 1856 a ship named Osprey did trade to Australia, and it will be remembered that during the progress of the Tichborne trial the claimant stated that on the loss of the Bella he was picked up off the South American roast by a vessel called Osprey, bound for MelbDurne. Inquiries resulted in the discovery that there was no record of any ship of that name having visited Port Phillip, the only Oaprey known there being a schooner which had plied between Melbourne and Geelong.

"THEKEare sciences as well as many arts of getting rich. Poisoning people of large estates was one employed largely in the middle ages; adulteration of food of people of small estates is one employed largely now."—Buskin. What people dare not do in their owh city, they perpetrate in Auckland. Adulterated pepper is now continually sent by a Southern firm as fit for your consumption. Any one can eißily detect the fraud by comparing the same with ours ; which is prapared and sold by us genuine only. Brown, Barrett, and Co. also guarantee that their genuine Mocha and Ceylon coffees can be relied upon; and that their various brands, Excelsior, Standard, Lion, Anchor, and Crown, consist of pure coffee, mixed with pure chicory in such proportions as we have found from experience to be generally appreciated.—Brown, Barrett, and Co., Elliottstreet, Auckland.

"EoTJftH ON Cobns."—Ask for Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions.— Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Agents, Auckland. ,

Pabents, do not use rile drugs or nostrums in your families, but use pure Hop Bitters. See and. read