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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4964, 6 December 1884, Page 2

The quarterly meetings of tbe Licensing Benches for the various districts in the Thames Borough and County, which should hare been held to-day, all lapsed. There was no business to transact, except in one of them, viz , Thames North, and even in this there was. no quorum, and tie meeting was adjourned till Saturday next at noon. The only business is the granting of two transfers to Messrs L. Kalman and J. Watt respectively, and as they were not present, the Clerk was requested to warn toem that if they did not attend on Saturday next, their applications would be struck out.

Thb quarterly competition fjr the District Belt (last won by Bandsman Gill, of the Navals) took place at the Collarbone range to. day. The ranges were'2oo, 3CJ, and 500 yards, 7 shots at each, and the equally weather will account for the scores cot being so high as usual. Nine men fired in the morning, the five principal scorers being—Lucas, T.R.R., 73 ; Weir, N.A., 70; Reardon, T.R.R., 68 ; Floyd, N.A., 67 ; end Mitchell^T.R.R., 65.

His Worship the Mayor hca appointed Tuesday next, at two o'clock p.m., cc the time to receive a large and influential deputation which has expressed a desire to wait on him in relation to railway matters. *

Special services in connection with the Shortland Wesleyan Sunday School anniversary will be held to-morrow, the fiev. R. Laishley preaching in tho morning, and the Rev. H. Bull officiating in the afternoon and evening.

Tesdebs are invited in another column for twelve months' carting for the Rocky Point G.M. Co.

Thb post office at Hikutaia has been transferred to Mr Pagan's store, and mails are now despatched f/om here on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 8.30 a.m. and 5 p m., return mails arriving on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays afe 4 p.m., and on Tuesdays, Thuradays, and Saturdays at 6 p.m.

At the Pollen street, Lecture Hall to-morrow evening Elder L. Wilcox, from Auoklanri, will lecture on, " The Scriptural basis of Sa'vation compared with the gospel of Freethought."

Menses D. R. Gellion and Co. offered at auction this morning 546 shares in the New Eureka GM. Co., and a large parcel in tbe Oriental G.M. Co., Otunui. Tbe first named shares caused considerable competition, and were eventually disposed of in three lots, 440 shares bringing Is 5d each, and the balance Is 6d. The Oriental shares only elicited a single bid of £L, for which they were die* posed of.

The advertisement of the registration of the Devon G.M. Co. appears in another column.

An attractive programme for a Sports meeting to be held at Tararu on New Year's Day appears in our advertising columns, and a meeting of those desirous of assisting in carrying! it out will be held at the Royal Hotel, T*raru, at 8 o'clock this evening.

Mb Robert stone, shipbuilder, of Shortland, has received an order for a smell schooner, to register about 20 tons, for Messrs McArthur and C<?. This vessel is intended for use at the Friendly Islands, and will be commenced very shortly, as the ketch now on the stocks is rapidly approaching completion.

The bankruptcy proceedings in the estate of George Clarke, carrying on business here as a jeweller, have now been transf< rred to Auckland, where tbe bulk of debts are owing. Clarke's liabilities are stated at £222 2s, and the a«sets at £173 10s.

Oue spirited contemporary, the Hauraki Tribune, publishes the following in its local columns of yeit.erday:—" Public meeting tomorrow nigh, Public Hall. Paeroa, to checkmate the Thames Harbor Board fraud at the Eomata."

It will be remembered t^at some two years ago three residents in Porirua (Wellington) district were arrested on a charge of illicit die tillation of whisky, for which they were convicted and heavily Sued. They were liberated on bail, the sureties in each case becoming guarantee for the amount of the fines. Since then the cisc wag brought before the Appeal Court, with the view of having the conviction quashed but the decision of the lower Oourfc was upheld. The amounts had never been poii. Yesterday th« sheriff of the Supreme Court vieiled the district, and arreßted all the principals, along with sureties, and lodged them i 1 gaol. where they will remain until the finos are paid. The principals, with the amounts for which they are indeb'ed are : G-eorge Taylor (£267 7a 6J), Wm. Thompson (£127 4s 2d), and Thomas Morgan (€133 5b 2d)-

Mb Gibbß, the "lightning shearer," appears to have been eclipsed by Mr W. Manktelow, whose record at Matamata is about the beat we have seen. In twelve days the total number of shesp sheared was 1484., and in one day of 9 hours the tally was 150 sheep. The following are the figures for the twelve days % -89,135, 111, 181, 121, 128, 119, 120, 127, 90,130,150.— W. Times.

A Tb Aeoha telegram says:—The man Walter Adair was about 36 years of a^e, and was lately out of employment. He leaveß a wife and three young children totally unprovided for. His wife is quite helplesß, be;ng partially paralysed. The greatest sympathy is felt for fche bereaved famjly.

"Bowjh ok Oqbns.»—Asfc for Wells' lt Bough on Corns," Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Oorn», warts, bunions,— Kemptborne, Proeeer and Co., Agents, Anokland.

According- to our " big brother " in Auckland,*" The Hokianga goldfie'd has proved a 'duffer,' and the prospectors are back in Auckland."

The people of Taieri, near Dunedin, appear to be either a very excitable or a veiy quarrelsome lot, judging by the following from a contemporary :-~A disagreeable feature of the day's proceedings at the Taieri races was the quarrelling and fighting which took place at intervals during the day and was continued long after the sport proper was all over. A section of the assembled crowd seemed to bo possessed with the demon of combativeness, and there were more biack eyes than full pockets at the end of the day.

It Is stated that a monster meeting of Maoris will beheld at Aramoho, in the vicini y of Wanganui, about t^o months hen^e ; over 2000 natives are expected to be present, and among them will be Titokowaru

The correct allocation of the Government prize money for Thames is a^ follows: — Rangers and Navals (divided) £10 12s 8i ; Naval Artillery (ordnance) £5 6s 4d ; total, £15 19s.

What is probably a relic of the famous Maori battle near Totara Point many years ago was found on the south bank of the Kauaeranga river, near the railway bridge, on Thursday afternoon, when the fall of some earth from the bank r veiled a skull and some other bones of a human being. Several skulls snd other osseous remuins have during the past few years been found in various places on the flat, especially near Shortland wharf, proving that the carnage in t c locality of what is now the pretty suburb of Parawai must have been very heavy in the times of Maori warfare, long before the advent of the European gold-hunters.

A Wellington telegram says:—"The contract for the canveyan. c of mails by direct steamer is for the period of five years; the contract time for the voyage is 42 days on the trip home, and 45 days outward. The contract with the Union Steamship Company for the distribution of mails is nob yet signed, but is expected to be in the course of a day or two. The difficulty in the despatch of letters ajternately by the £Jan Fraricifbo and direct s^jamefoi having been adjusted does not relieve letters '?ia Brindisi from tha additional charge sanctioned by last Parliament." On the same subject the following cablegram has been received from the Agent-General:— "London, December 3rd.- -A post office notice has been issued announcing an alternate fortnightly mail by direct steamers. No further matter will be sent via Brindisi unless super* scribed."

John Tatlob, green-grocer, formerly a farmer at Kaiapoi and Taranaki, in which latter district he lost heavily, attempted suicide on Thursday night in Auckland by taking laudanum, owing to depression of spirits. He is now recovering.

Mb Sioman, the mathematical master at the Auckland Grammar School, has been ap« pointed principal of the Auckland Girls' High School.

Dbtectits Twohey ia busy at Maungaturoto in getting up the evidence in the charges againsfi Abram Ridings, which will be heard on Tuesday next afc Puhi. M* Theo. Cooper, of Auckland, is engagrd for the defence. Defendant failed in getting bail, and consequently has been lodged in Mount Eden. Several persons were earnest in soliciting Christian friends, but each appeal was met by a significant shake of the head, end an emphatic " No." It was evident that his former cony panions had " all forßook him and retired."

At the Tatiranga Native Land Court on Thursday the long-contested title to Motuihi Island was decided in favor of the claimants favorable to the lessee, Mr Douglas.

A DEPUTATION, which included Messrs Mitchelson and Buckland, M.H.R.'s, waited upon the Hon. E Tole, Minister of Justice, in Auckland yesterday, urging the inclusion of Kawhia in the d'stricfc over which the sale of drink was prohibited. The Minister said he had an impression that Kawhia was included, but would telegraph to the Native Minister for information.

At the annual meeting of the shareholders of tt:eCoromandel Steamboat Company, A. J. Cad man, M.H.TJ., in the chair, the balance sheet sbowed that in spite of the bad times, the company had pla.-ed £227 to the reserve fund, which now stood at £467, and the directors were ablo to recommend that a dividend of 2s per share be paid. Since the formation of the company they had paid off £1600 of borrowed money and interest, and with the 2s now rrcoir-mended, wiU have paid 15s per share in dividends.

The tide this morning, backed up by the north-west, gale, was a very high one; but, thanks to the intake and the management of the flood-gates by Mr C. Curtis, the watery element was prevented from flooding the town.

The Herald understands that 7000 acres of the Eichmond Block, in the Valley of the Upper Thames, between Morrinsville and Oxford, has been sold for £21,000. It has been purchased by Mr Glass'ord, a Vbtorian squatter. About 2CO acres bad been surface sown, but the remainder is wholly unimproved Jand. The soil in the whole district is of excellent quality.

W. T. A. Tubbeli, William Peacock, and John A. Cotton, three men who had been arrested on suspicion of having outraged a woman in Christchurch on Monday last, under circumstances of extraordinary brutality, were yesterday committed for trial, charged with a criminal assault.

In the Wanganui R.M. Court yesterday, the civil action, Timi)B v. Spurdle, was heafd. The claim waa for the recovery of £100 penalty on two alleged breaches of the Municipal Corporations Act. The defendant, a councillor, had done some work at the ho> pital under instructions from the Borough Council, and subsequent!/ sit and voted as a councillor. The magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff, with costs of Court.

"There are sciences as well as many arts of gdtting rich. Poisoning 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."—Ruskm. What people dare not do in their own city, they perpetrate in Auckland. Adulterated pepper is now continually sent by a Southern fl>m as fit for your consumption. Any one can c sily detect the fraud by c >mparing the Bame with ours ; which is prapared and. sold by ua genuine only. Brown, Barrett, and Co. also guamntee 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 frptn e^perjonee to be generally appre? oiated.—Brown, Barrett, and Co,, Elliottstreet, Auokland.