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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5074, 20 April 1885, Page 2

I>ubik& a recent interview in Auckland between the Minister for Public "Works and tbe County Chairman and Cr Steednum, barbor mutters were brought forward, and the place for tbe diversion of the Thames Kive/i proposed bj certain theorists, were shown to Mr Richardson, who is no mean engineer* He leOdiued fiuoi uiiEnieut va the respeelire

merits of, Kopu und Rocky Point as the site for a harbor, but thought the proposal to bring tbe Thames in by an artificial channel along the Grahamstown water frontage'somewhat impracticable. He held out >eiy little hope of the Harbor Board securing endowments within their diitriot, but advised the body if, it failed to secure then, to apply for extended rating powers. No tangible benefit arose from the conversation.

. A ieiteb has been received on the Thames by a resident from Capr. Bayldon, our harbormaster—who is now in London —in which be expresses the belief that do difficulty would be experienced in placing a harbor loan of £25,000, as colonial securities are at present in favor in London. The communication also states that should the Thames-Te Aroha railway hang fire with the Government (as it i« doing) and Mr Ritso's syndicate not take the matter up, he has little doubt that the venture could be placed on the London market advaotageously.

Thebe was only a moderate audience at the Academy on Saturday night, when Pollard's troupe actod the comedy Sweethearts, in which Miaees Wallace,' Norman, and Wilcock'e appeared to advantage, the ballet from Madame Angotjwao reproduced and a m;,Kicu[ melange followed', in ~vrhich Misees Norman., (particularly), Wallace, Brooks, Stewart aid Donnelly took pert. The troupe left for Auckland this morning.

By fin adver&isexeut appearing.ia Jinothor column, it will be seen tbat Mr Robert Morgan, who has so long conducted the Wharf Hotel Billiard Room, has taken the management of the tables at the Governor Bowen Hotel, Brown street.

Sib Juiltrs VoctEii, on Saturday afternoon, received a cablegram from the Agent-General stating that tho, prospects of peace, are less gloomy.

The Coptic tows the ship Northumberland to Napier to take in a cargo of frozan meat.

Yestkbdat afternoon a waterman named Charles Strong fell over the Auckland wbarf and was drowned.

Tbe result of the Local Option polling for Lambton Ward, Wellington, wm in iavor of additional licenses, by 46 to 35. - _ i ; •

A SUPPLEMENTAEY Gazette issued on Saturday contains the new regulations under the Government Insurance Association Act, and also a number of new, tables.

Among th# passengers by the Coptiq from England was Mr Wm. McCandlish, who has arrived in connection with the proposed rail tray between Tauranga and the Hot Lake?.

The Fannie arrived in Auckland on Saturday, from V»vau, with a c?rgo of lOOjOOO

orangee.

An action claiming damages for alleged slander is to be heard in the Supreme Court, Wellington, this week. The plaintiff is Cbas. Wm. Cutten, solicitor, the defendant being David Climie, civil engineer, and it is alleged that the latter, slandered the former by stating to a friend in the street (hat plaintiff had improved his properly to the ext-nt of £180 or £190 at the expose of the Island Bay Park Company.

At the inquest held on the body of Clarke, a Queensland squatter, who died at the Star Hotel, Auckland, from narcotic poisoning, a verdict of death from misadventure by taking an overdose of chlorcdyne^was returned. ''_

The Newcastle Herald, of 11th April, has si;paragraph a« follows: "The American schooner Quickstep arrived here yesterday morning from Melbourae. Captain Jacobs reports that on the 6th, when 25 miles frvm the Capo of Good Hope he paesed a Russi n sloop-of-war steering W.9.W., coming from the eastward, but had no communication with her She had fore and aft canvas set, and was steaming."

Eifobk the Coptic sailed from London, George Townahend, a fraudulent bankrupt, was arrested. His wife and fami'y came out ia the regsel under an assumed name. By instructions . from the Wellingtoa police departrcent, on the strength of a cablegram from th-> Home-office, the police boarded the Coptic ia Au k'and and discovered the woman on board as a stecrago passenger, and euoceeded in getting her to di?g3rge £1100, made up of eleven £100 Bank of England notes.

The remains of the late Marchioness of Normandy were interred in the family fault at Lythe Churnh, near Whitby, Yorkshire, on the 31st nlfc. . The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. H. R. S. Pearson, vicar of Ljrthe, assisted by the vicar of Flyingda'es and the curate of Worsley. The church was crowded with residents in the neighborhood and by the tenantry of the Mulgrave estate. The mourners included the Marquis of NVmanby, his tons, Lords Henry and Hervey Phipps, his sons in* law, the Earl of Ellesmcre and Mr Vivan Hampton, Dr. E. M. Jumes, and Captain F. Le Fatourel. The Marquis returned to London on the -2nd ins!., and has since been ordered to Dorking, where he willspand some time with hi» daughter, Lady Laura Hampton. His health is far from satisfactory. He received autograph letters of condolence from the-Queen, the Princo of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the young Princess Albert Victor and George. His Lordship was touched at receiving a ojtble me^sige from the Premier of New Z -aland, expressing sympathy with him in his bereavement.

A.COHBKSPOND3KT writes that " a meteor fell yesterday at about 2 o'clock in an easterly direction, apparently behind the h U»; it was of a fiery cblong'phane and was followed by a silvery white vapour.''