The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1885.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5118, 12 June 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1885.

Thb proceeding* of the Thames, or any other County Council, when'in committee,are not open to the Press as a rule; but this regulation baring been ignored by the local Council, we are enabled to supply some information as to the business done ot a meeting of that body held yeterday afternoon. The supply of witter power to the Kuranui Hill nnd Buli's battery was agreed to upon Hie follow" ing terms: —A contract let for putting down service pipes; the company concerned, and Mr Bull, respectively, to find the first outlay, and one-balf of tbe cost to be remitted by the Council in its water rate charges. Tbe necessary work to ba done under the supervision of the County Engineer, and the pipes, after being laid, to be the property of the Council. It was decided that an advertisement anent the High LeTel Water Bace, which had been drawn out, should be approved. The follow* ing arrangement regarding water supply to batteries was decided upon: These using water from 6 a.m. to 6 p,m., £4 per sluicehead each week ; those from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., £8 per sluice-head per week ; and those con* tinually running—not affected by tbe. County bye-law on the subject,—£3 10s per el nicehead. It was decided that the sum of £305, available under the Boads and Bridges Construction Act for Hastings district, should be need in widening the main road in the district. The next meeting of the Council will be called upon to approve of or reject these proposals..

■ We are desired by the auctioneer to call special attention to the sale of drapery and clothing at the Academy of Music to-morrow. The goods are a portion of the salvage from the late fire at Messrs Owen and Graham's, Auckland, and as the damage sustained was chiefly by water, a capital opportunity is offered housekeepers of obtaining goods of real value at their'ovn prices.

We are requested by Mr Allom, the Clerk to the Licensing Committees, to warn applicants for Licenses whose applications were granted on Monday last, that their certificates will bear date on that day, the Bth June, and that such certificates will be Toid, if the turns respectively required to be paid for the licenses thereby authorized be not paid to the Town Clerk, or the County Treasurer, aa the case may be, on or before Monday the 22nd. In cases were applications were granted* subject to fire escapes being provided, it will be necessary to satisfy t the Clerk that this condition has been satisfactorily complied with, before inch certificates can be issued.

Tki following team from the Miners' Club will play a football rvatoh with the Hauraki (Native) Club on the Waio-Kanka Flat tomorrow :—Thomas (Captain), Dufty, Kenrick, Inglis, Brownlee, Tetley, Scott, Allen, Weir, dark, Gordon, Hands, Thomas, Dennerly, McLean; Dare, Benniok, Herivel, WiUou, Hodge. Kick off at three o'clock.

Til local volunteer* were inspected last •vening by Colonel Lyon at the Naval Hall. The mutter— '■* fair one—was as follows:— N»val«: 1 captain, 2 lieutenant*, 3 petty ofioers, 1 bugler, and 37 gunners | Bangers: 1 captain, 2 'ieutenants, 6 non-commissioned officers, and 31 private*. The inspecting offio-r expressed satisfaction at the parade Duricg the ereuing the Naval band played »mr*l Ml«ci)on».

Th» 1W& Clerk has received n oiroulsr from Dr yon Haaet, of Chrietchurcb, asking the cooperation of the local Industrial Exhibition Committee towards the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, to be held in London next year. ". -A OAIX of Is has been made on the contributing shares in the Thames Golden 1 Crown G M. Co., payable on July Bth. Thk sarvice of song, " Era," will be given in the Grahamstown Weseleyan Church this erening by the choir, in aid of the Bchool renovation fund. Mr B. D. Stewart has consented to give the readings. A shipment of 60 tons hematite ore, from near Callarbone creek, has been obtained to b> sent to Auckland for paint manufacturing purposes. When the Minister of Mines (Mr Larnaoh) was here, he promised to place £300 on the estimates in aid of deep level prospecting, if j the County Council would provide £150 in the I same direction. A committee of'the Council has decided to recommend that body to grant the sum to be paid out of gold duty.

Thb County Council has decided to make the following applications for subsidies .under the Bonds and Bridges .Construction Act :— Road from Thames Borough to Ohinemuri, £1000; and from Hikutaia land to Whauga* mata, £900. Under the tote for goldfielda roads and tracks the following requisitions are to be made: Metalling Hape Creek road, £250 j Karaka Creek, £250 j Te P«pa Gully, £250; Collarbone road, £250; Otunui road, £150} road to bridge site, Karangahake, £360, and for Karangahake tramway, £800 £600 will also be applied for for the Cemetery road.

In the Police Court this morning, before H. Kenriok, Esq., Mr Thorp was fined Is and costs (ss), for neglecting to registrar the birth of his child. The case of Tercoe v. Smith was ako again called on, but as the amount of arrear.B,-;had beea paid:: into Court, His Worship ordered that the money should in future be paid into the Court at Auckland, and granted costs, ss. : „.'..."

The Saltation Army, hare just concluded the purchase of a property m Sydenham, Christchurch suburb, consisting of a fiveroomed house with about half-an-acre attached. It is intended to use the' housei as quarters for the captain, and to erf ct alongside it a large hall. The total cost of the land and the conet ruction of the hall will be about £1100... A telegram h»8 been received' that Marshall Booth, who has supreme control of the organi* cation of the southern hemisphere, has left Melbourne for New Zealand, tiaHobart.- He will probably stay a week in -the latter city, and may be expected here about the end of the present month. On his arrival,, a start will be made with tbe erection of the central barracks, opposite the Supreme Court, OhrLtchurcb, which are expected to coat £200.

At a Dunedin Harbour Board meeting yeßterday it was decided to take no steps at present towardi making the dock at Port Chalmers until they saw where the rerenue wus to come from. A notice of motion was then giren that the Government be requested to take orer the trust from the Board, and select another body for the construction of the dock.

Ala property Bale yesterday, MrC; 0. Clarke sold the freehold of a corner section, with 165 feet frontage on Colombo street, Christchurcb, with a row of wooden shops thereon, for £3750. A similar Bcction, with 100 and 120 leet frontage, gold for £2900. !A; Btbre in Manchester street sold for £1000; a block of Mi acres, with d welling- house, at Opawa, about two miles from Christcburcb, fetched, £2000.

Ah Auckland telegram states that at the annual meeting of the Mercantile Association, a flourishing balance-sheet was presented.

The test cose between the Waimea Plains Railway Co., Otsgo, and a: ratepayer, for the recovery of rate?, was before the Supreme Court on appeal, and was argued at great length, judgment being reserved.

The Salutation Hotel, Dunedin, was destroyed by fire this evening. It is not known how the fire originated, the landlord being tbe only one in,the house.. In attempting to save the cash box, which was upstairs, he was severely burned about the hands and face. The insurances are:—Building, £509 in the South British* £300 in the Equitable j stock and furniture,. £700} billiard table, £130; piano (saved), £20, in the South British. ,

Mb HISCOCK, who made a gallant attempt to save.the life of the unfortunate boy Trebilcock when the latter was drowned atSumner, Canterbury, has received a letter from the Secretary of the Koyal Humane Society, stating -that the Society's certificate has been awarded to him. ' » •:

The Court ©rEnquiry re the Herald and Gairloch collision, held in Auckland, suspended the certificate of Capt. Savory, of the Herald, for three months, and ordered him to pay the cost of all the witnesses subpoenaed at his request. The other certificates will be returned. Capt. McArthur, of the Gairloch, and, his crew were acquitted of blame.