A Happy New Year To all.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4983, 31 December 1884, Page 2

A Happy New Year To all.

With this issue we present our readers with a sheet almanac for 1885, which contains a considerable amount of useful information. The time of high water, sun rising and Belting, phases of the moon, eclipse?, San Francisco and direct service, mail time-table^ post and telegraph rates, and a list of the Borough and County Councillors are among the items, and the almanac should be found useful to all for re erence.

Ix is probable that to-morrow and Friday will be observed aB a holiday by the drapers and clothiers. The New Zealand Clothing Company's branch has notified it's intention of doing so in our advertising columns.

SeVEHAIi men have been employed on the line proposed to be followed by the railway from Kopu to Hikutaia in clearing and replacing pegs. We hope to ere long see the publication of advertisements calling for tsn« ders for the construction of the line.

OWIN& to the owners having decided to give their employoi a New Year's excursion in the p.s. Enterprise, an alteration has been made in the time table, and she will not take up her advertised trips on Friday and Saturday. The Annie Milbank will leave here on Friday evenitg, return from Auckland on Saturday night, and go back again on Sunday evening.

We have been favored with a number of the Thames Directory for 1885, issued from the office of the Thames Advertiser. We must congratulate our contemporary on the excellence of its fifth number, which ia far above the average of similar works. The Directory is replete with useful information of an encyclopsediac character, and contains several excellent Jnv'nerul, botanical, an-d agricultural items—in many cases illustrated an d it is no unworthy advice to give, n>t only to every householder in the district, but. to any person taking an interest in it, " Have a Thames Directory in jour house."

A CASE of conjugal infelinity wss'tho suVjpot of a complaint laid by Mrs Elizabeth Reddy against her bußband David Reddy and hem-d in the Police Court this morning. The complaint waa that on Tuesday last she swept her house, and was in the act of raising a window when he- husband held her by the back of (he neck and she screamed. Michael Oonroy said he saw defendant ill treathia wife and turn her out of doors. Defendant on being sworn stated that on his return home from a visit to Auckland he discovered that nearly all his furni hire and effects had teen removed. He did not take them, nor had he consented to unynne doing so. He had previously reiurned home to his dinner, and found nothing ready, kut had seen remains of a previous supper. On the day in question he taxed his wife wiih removing'his goods, when she struck at, and applied an opprobious epithet to, him ; he took her by the fhoulder and put her out of the house He had been compelled to advertise, warning tradesmen not, to give his wife credit, as although he gave her money to pay bills, he afterwards * found they remained unsettled. The Bench said thit if Reddy had assaulted his wife, there appeared to have been some provocation for what he had done. The application for an order binding defendant over to keep the peace was refused, and Mrs Reddy warned that she had no right to take her husband's good away.

W. J. MpKee, landlord-of the Coach find Horses Hotel, Shortland, was charged in the Police Court to»day with selling liquor on Christmas Day contrary to the provisions of the Licensing Act. Mrs MoKee appeared, and produced a medical certificate of her bus* band's inability to attend. , Mr Ken rick, R.M., who occupied the Bench, said that as defendant was not represented by counsel, thjj case wou'd be adjourned till the Bth January next.

At the Reefton County elections on Monday Brennan and Menteith were returned for Reefton Riding, the former with a majority of 46 votes, but 96 non-resident; miners' right holders, principally from Boatman's Riding, were allowed to vote, and it is probable that a petition will be lodged demanding a scrutiny of the votes and alienation of non-resident voters, in which case Menteith will have a majority of 30 or 40 votes. The election was most keenly contested, nearly 200 miners' rights having been token out on the polling day, and a number of women having been furnished with miners' rights, and voted thereon. Craig was returned for Murray Biding, and Irving for Crushington Riding.

A deputation from the Lawrenca Mining Institute has waited on the Otago University Council, with the view of having a School of Mines established at Lawrence. The body of the missing Auckland seamen, John Lazarus Petersen was found yesterday at Orakei by the Maoris

A Dunedin telegram reports that a waterspout broke on the Rock and Aillar mountains, Strath-Tajeri, on Sunday, but bejond flooding the plain> did no damage.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Turkish Bath Company, the year's profit was stated at £127. Nearly 4000 visitors attended during the year.

ChbiS'- CHTJECH boasts the largest church ; Dunedin the most, commodious ho'el ; Wellington the biggest wooden building; and Auckland tha largest printing office in the colony.

Thb New Find, Waiorongomai, has declared a dividend of is per share.

E. Tayiob (the rider of Topthorn), who was injured in Saturday's steep'eohase, is progressing favorably in the Hospital, and he is now in a fair way of a speedy recovery. .

"Theee are sciences as well as many arts of getting rich. Poisoning people of arge estates was one employed largely in tbe middle ages j adulteration of food of people of email eßtates 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 osily detect the fraud by comparing the same with ours; which is prapared and sold by ub 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.

Sobitst and blooming health in Hop Bitters, and no family caa afford to be without them. Read.