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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4961, 3 December 1884, Page 2

Tnia morning some little commotion was caused in Brown street by the windows of the shop of W. Green, hatter, being broken by one of the gentler sex, who appeared to have "an eye with fine frenzy rolling." It appears that Mrs Green and her liege lord have not b>en on terms likely to lead to mutual admiration during the past week—since she accepted the Resident Magistrate's advice and returned to her home—and this morning the lady took a firm resolve and an axe, and broke 26 panes of glass in the back windows of her spouse's premises, and then proceeded to the front and knocked in four large panes of the shop window. A constable was p.ssitig, and the fair glass demolisher was removed to sa'e quarters. Upon being brought before the Bench this afternoon, Constable O'Brien and W. Green deposed to the damage done, and the offender was ordered to be detained for two days in Shortland gaol, and to pay £3 damages and 2s costs.

Musses W. Fraaer (Chairman), Bagnall, Murdoch, McGowan, and Bead attended the Harbor Boird meeting yesterday. There was not much business to transact. It was decided to ask Government for the Komata North Block as an endowment to the Board. A lea^e of a foreshore allotment was granted to Mr 8. Bawden for a term otj£l2 per anDum t subject to the statutory consent of His Excellency the Governor being obtained. The Government j^ave tbe Board notice of its intention to resume possession of the site upon which the Custom-house stands. The Harbormaster's report, as published by us yesterday, was received. MrG. W. Bull sen in his resignation a3 a member of the Board' and it was accepted, and the passing of accounts concluded tbe business.

The following are the individual scores in the match afc Wairoa on Monday last:— Thames Eifle Rangers : Gentry, 82; Lucas, 81; Downie, 78 ; Beardon, 75 ; Newdick, 73 j Mitchell, 73 5 G. Clarke, 71; Mclnnis, 69; Gibbs, 69; Hawk, 68; Cl:mo, 66; Vine, 59; toful, 864. Wairoa Rifles: Moore, 84; K Creighton, 81; WaUh, 74 ; Coutts, 74; J. Oreighton, 72 ; Lieut. Creighton, 71 ; Wright, 69 ; Wailacs, 65 ; J. W. Wallace, 63 ; McCaul, 60 . Crawford, 58; McOormick, 55 j total, 830.' After the match a dinner was held in the Wairoa Public Hall, followed by an enjoyable concert and danre. It ia probable the Wairoans will shortly fire a return match at the Thames. At a meeting of New North Devon shareholders last evening in Mr G. Karcourt's office, it was decided to form a company with a capital of £15,000 in £1 shares, that being at the rate of 509 scrip per full share in the licensed holding. The following gentlemen we e appointed to the management:—Direc» tors, Messrs J. McGowan, J. ,Neal, J. F. Heighway, J. Wilson, and J. Meddios; auditor, Mr G. Huckett; legal manager, Mr G. Harcourt; while Mr Gh Snelgar retains charge of the workings. Tie company ia in a good financial position, and it is intended to push on work rigorously.

The Athletic Sports Demonstration Committee met last evening, and handed to the respective owners the pr zes won at Parawai on Monday. The protest lodged in connection with the 150 yards event in the Demoastration Handicap wag received by the Committee, and, after being considered, disallowed. The amounts won were as follows i—P. Herbert, £10; J. Steedman, £7; N. Veale, £4; AThomas, W. Dunn, und P. McGregor, £3 each } J. McGregor, H. Henderson, and W. Hall, £2 each; Arae and Waka, £110s each ; D. Henderson, F. Hall, H. Steedman, and A. McNeil, £1 each ; and Buchan and Johnston, 10s each. Tga team picked by the Grahamstown Fire Brigade to represent them at the United Fire Brigades Demonstration in Dunedin in January are bard at work practising, and wil] probably enter for most oi the events on the programme, which has just come to band, and includes boee, engine, hose and ladder, hydrant, one man engine, and curriole engine practice, alarm and rush, 200 yards flat racOj and tug of war; while u special prize will be given to the chief of the brigade which wins the largest numbpr of points in the first six events, The prizes are substantial, the trophies for first prize in events one, two, and three being respectively of the full value of £50, £25, and £25, with second prizes of £10, £6, and $5 5s respectively. We have no doubt the Thames team will acquit them? selves with credit, and bring back a fair share of the rewards offered.

Ottu contemporary anticipated a little too much this morning in stating that the brigan. £ine LapwiDg soiled past Shortland laßt evening and out jnto the open firth. As a matter of fact the Lapwing came down to Opani Point last evening, where she anchored for the night, aisd made sail agajm this morning, but brough,t up on a banji after gainpg about a .co,upi^ of mjles. She will probably get out of ,t,he firt,h jviUU Jbtys eyening's tide. Mr S^opo>'s absence f rom Wellington, wilj ejt.end over some greeks. Sir J. wil^ leave fop t})§ Wa^ra. got Sprjpgß }n g, fpifcciglifc.

It will be a surprise to many of our readers on reiding the mining news in another column, to find that tho Cambria return, anent whi^h there has been so much hopeful speculation for the past month, is only 2720zs gold, or about half what the "knowing ones" expected. This yield is certainly a good payable one, but anyone who has perused the mine manager's reports, and been able to judge of the quality of the specimens for themselves, would e.rtainly be justified in expecting a much larger yield, and we have no hesitation ia saying that tbe majority will blame the departure takeu relative to the treatment of the specimens for a portion, at any rate, of the deficiency in the gold yield. The process adopted was considered by Mr Coutts to be unsatisfactory, and the poorness of the return°amply bears out this assertion. By the manager's reports the general dirt must have yielded at the average rate of an ounce per load, which would leave only 1500z3 to be accredited to the sOolbs of specimens—a much smaller amount than competent judges computed them to be worth.

The Te Aroha Mining and Frospocting Association was duly formed last Saturday. Messrs Gibbons, Hanora, Crump, Dobson, Roberts, Hornibrook. and Frazer were constituted a committee, and Mr J. A. S. Wilson was appointed manager, with instructions to commence operations forthwith. The number of subscribers is limited to fiufcy, and forty shares are already taken up. TENDEm are called for painting and paperhanging a house in Queea street. The New Zealand Company is likely to have some formidable opposition in the meit freezing trade. Circulars are row being distributed in Wuirarapa district to the effect that the Dunedin Freezing Company has received an offer of 9 fa«fc sf.eimer for six consecutive trips, carrying 35,000 sheep each voyaga at a freight which would mean to the shipper Id & 6-Bth per lb and 5 cor cent, primage per sheep as compared with the freight of 2d per lb, and 10 per cent, primage hitherto paid on a 721b sheep. Both the New Zealand Shipping and Sbaw-Saville companies have now reduced their rales to ljd per IV MESBB3 Earle and Noon have started brickmaking at Tauranga ; they have just turned out one batch of 13,000, and will have another of 25.G30 out before Chriß^roas.

In view of the fact that two whaleboats will be entered by the Thames Club fit the Auckland Regatta, the following particulars as to the dimensions agreed to will be of interest: —Length vot to exceed thirty-five feet; beam not to be less than four ftet, measurement to be taken at midship section from outside to outside of planking, no projection of any kind to be allowed, the rowlocks to go through the gunwale, which shall be inside of planking ; depth not to be less than nineteen inches at midship section, from top of keel to gunwale ; sheer not to be less than eight inches ; thickness of plank not to be less than five-sixteenths of an inch ; planking to be of kauri; timbers to be three-quarter inch by half-inch, to be placed not more than eight inches from centre to centre ; lining nine inches wide, each side of kelson, five-sixteenths of an inch thick, and to reach from fore thwart to after stretcher; no bate wings allowed ; seats fixed; to be rowed with fire oars, and steered «i'h one oar. A movement is on foot for dredging the Narrows in Tauranga harbor, and we understand that several liberal donations have been made for that desirable and praiseworthy object. VTe heartily concur in the movement, and wish every success to thoje who have initiated the same.—B. of P. Times.

When opening the Napier Supreme Court on Monday Judge Gillies remarked, on the lengthy nature of the calendar, which included cases ranging from attempt to murder to petty larceny, and in discharging Daniel Flannagan, for attempted suicide, he drew attention to the absurdity of magistrates committing for an attempted offence which, if completed, could not be punished. At the Wellington Divorce Court yesterday, the case Grey v. Grey, was heard in rimera. The marriage took place at Wellington in December, 1881. At the time, the petitioner was 26, and the respondent (James Gratten Grey) was 34, and respondent waß then, and had besn since, unable to consummate the marriage. The last allegation was denied by the respondent, and eventually the case was adjourned to enable bis evidence to be taken on Commission iu Melbourne. The case Monckton y. Monckton was adjourned for agreement. In the case, Morris v. Morris, a rule nisi wa9 granted.

It is stated (says a Wellington message) that Government has recantly issued fresh instructions to the variaus immigration agents as to the terms upon which nominations for immigrants will be received. Government will fulfil all existing obligations, but no further nominations of single women will be entertained for the present. In cases where a husband is in the <olony whose wife and family are at home, the latter may be nominated on payment of the undermentioned sums:—For wife: paßSDge, £7 10s; outfit, £!.. For the passage of each child, £4 103 ; outfit of each, 10s.

Genbbal Shebidan, the celebrated American orator and soldier, has been lecturing successfully in Australia on •' The American War, American Presidents, and American wit and humor, and will aho lecture in this colony. The new Cunard liner TTmbria, which waa to carry the November mails far New Zealand across the Atlantic, can steam 25 nautical miles an hour easily. It seems that lost heirs are fairly numerous game in New Zealand. Here's another one brought to light. Says the Nelson Mail of last week date, Mr Ferrers of this town, received the news by the San Francisco mail of the death of his cou«in, Mr Marmion Ferrers, of Baddesley Hall, Warwickshire. The deceased gentleman had a brother in Australia, but it is believed that he is dead, in which case the Nelson settler will become the heir to the estates which are worth £30C9 a year. The family is one of the most ancient in Britain, dating back from the Norman conquest, and descending through 3 earldoms and 100 baronies. The Church G-az^tte for December contains an account of the recent successful mission to the King Country. The narrative is taken from the journal of Archdeacon Clarke, who with two Maori ministers of the Anglican Ohuroh, recently vieitel Whatiwhatihoe, and there, together with a Maori Wesleyan minister, held a meeting respecting the return of the Haubaus to Christianity. The outcome cf the conference geams to have been an ac-ept:nce of" Kongo Pai"—the Gospel—us the future religion. The observance of the Christian Sunday is, for the'present, deferred, but is promised in time.

The arrangements for carrying out a direct steam service with Great Britian have now been satisfactorily settled, and the first steamer will 'eive Great Britian and New Zealand respectively on the 20feh inst. Tne postal difficulty which existed with the EEon:e authorities, respecting the dispatch of letters, has been adjusted. It should be good news that in the course of next year the cost of pross messages by tho centre cable to Australia and N.Z. will almost certainly be reduced to a quarter of the present rates. The question is to be disussed at the International Telegraph Conference, arid I am cor fidently assured that the concession will at last be gra tnd over the entire route. The Eastern Company has conceded quarter rates for press messages in niain language, but till receLtly the Indian, the South Australian aud the Kastern Companies held out agunst the reduction. The last has now openly given in, and the others are expected to follow suit at tha Conference, which will be attended by Sir F. D. Bell, Sir Saul Samuel, and Mr Murray Smith.—Star correspondent. A TELEGBAM from Christchurch says :—A brutal outrage on a woman was committed shortly after 12 o'clock on Monday night by thrpj young mep. Two of them in turn held her hands over her mouth while she was crimjnaljy assaulted,; The assault took place in a paddook near the railway station. Thp woman's screams were heard by a constable, who arrested one of the men, named Austin Tyrrell. Two others, named John Arthur Cotton and Wm. Peacock, have since been arrested, and are supposed to hare been Tyrrell's companions. IT will be satisfactory to those who have taken so much trouble in trying to introduce trou.t into our streams to learn that Mr J. Marshall yesterday caw one quite 15 incbeg long in the Matatoke stream. 'As the fish are less than a year old, thia abundantly proves the sujtableneji of local streams ipr thejr &i!piißißtij!atjoijj ' :■

"THBKsare sciences as well as many arts of getting rich. Poinoning people of arge 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 own city, they perpetrate in Auckland. Adulterated pepper is now continually sent by a Southern firm as fit for your consumption. Any one can eisily detect the fraud by comparing the same with ours ; which is prapared and sold by us genuine only. BrowD, 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., Elliott* street, Auckland. Fob sinking spells, fits, dizziness, palpitation, and low spirits, rely on Hop Bitters. Notice.