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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5192, 7 September 1885, Page 2

The manager of' the Cambria G-.M. Co. telegraphed this morning as follows:—" 901bs specimens from winze, No. 3 level; gold showing.—F. W. Moobb." FfiOM a discussion which has taken place in the House re moving Wardens of goldfields, we are informed that our member is reported to have said that the recommendations made were chiefly on account of complaints, from tho Thames local bodies regarding the actions of our Warden. It would be a matter of surprise to a very large number of Thau es people were Ihey to learn that there is to much dissatisfaction existent here with regard to their Warden, for we believe that we are expressing the general opinion when we say that no better or abler man, op one who has acted in a more earccst, straightforward manner than Mr Kenrick, could easily be procured for the position; in fact, most Thames peple are perfectly satisfied he should remain amongst them. From Ihe telegram sent, it would appear that the local bodies are the movers in the matter. We have no recollection of the matter being brought up at any meeting of any of those bodies, and can* not therefore see how complaints could be sen t from I hem in an official manner. A small section of the community may be anxious to have Mr Kenriok moved, but what a few private individuals may do should sot be allowed to go forth as having been officially done by the Local Bodies or one of them. If any member of a Council hns complaints to make let him get the sanction of the whole body before allowing it to be even insinuated that the thing has been dove officially. We trust our member has not been made a oatipaw of by anyone. We are requested to slate that an error has occurred in the time table of the p.s. Enter* prise, and it is corrected in our issue of this evening. The vigour of youth given to the aged and I infirm by using Hop Bitters made by Ameri* '$W Co. Try it, Bead '

A bobatoh match was played on Saturday afernoon on the Waio-Karaka FL.t, between sides seledied by Kenrick and Irwin respectively, resulting iv a victory for the side captained by fcbe latter by six points to nothing. A papbb on " Vegetarianism ". .will be read this evening by Mrs 8. J. Neill at the meetiDg of the Mutnal Improvement Association. At the Police Court this morning, before H. Kenrick, Esq., R.M., a man named Henry Barstow was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday afternoon, and was fined 20s and costs, or 12 hour*' impruooinent. A first offender was fined 5s or imprisonment till the rising of the Court. The usual church parade of the Naval Artillery took place yesterday. The roll shewed the attendance to be fifty men, and the officers, Capt. Wildman, Lieots. Potts and AUono, and hon-surgeon Payne. ' A Caledonian Society has been formed in Auckland, and Judge Gillies has become { patron. Two meetings of shareholders in Karangahake mines have been held in Auckland with the following results:-—lmperial Licensed Holding, decided to form a company with a nominal capital of £12,000 in 24,000 shares of 10s each, nothing paid up ; 6000 shares to be reserved by the company. Directors: P. Oomukey, H. T. Gorrie, A. Kidd, C. C. McMillan, and R. Spratt; legal manager, D. G. McDonnell.—Argentine Licensed Holding : Decided to form a company with the nominal capital at £13,200 in 26,400 shares of 10s each, nothing paid up, 7200 ebares to be reserved for the company's benefit. Directors : P. Comiskey, C. C. McMillan, T. Simons, B. Spratt, and W. 8. Wilson ; solicitor, S. Jackson, jun.; legal manager, D. G. McDonnell; auditor, T. L. White.

Wb are pleated to learn that Mt Daniel Redwood, who was brought to the Thames on Saturday suffering from injuries reaeivel at Karangahake, is progressing favorably at his brother's residence.

The adjourned quarterly meetings of the Thames South, Central, and Hastings Licensing Committees were held to-day in the Court House. Present—Messrs Wildman (Chairman), A. Butler, E. McDonnell, and W. D, Beid, members of each Committee. In the Central district, the license of the Provincial Hotel was transferred from T. A. Prevost to J. C. Williams, and the Lady Bowen license from E. J. Angore to C. Gallagher. The business in the South Ward was the transfer of the licenses of the Globe Hotel, Rolleston street, from H. Amy to P. J. Delahunty, and of the Warwick Arms from C. Butterworth to T. E. Shaw. In the Hastings district a transfer was granted of the Kopu Station Hotel from J. C. Williams to 0. W. C. Smith. The only other business was dealing with an adjourned bearing of an application for the renewal of the license for the Royal Oak Hotel, Tapu, the license of which had been granted conditionally till to day. At the last sitting of the Committee, the icensee (Mr R. M. Hawkes) was warned that unless the house was repaired to the satisfaction of the police, the Jrenewiq would not be granted and to-day the police reported that the premises had been inspected when it was found that the necessary repairs bad not been effected; the windows had been repaired, but certain painting and paperhanging and the erection of a stable were requisite before the house could be considered suitable for a license. Mr Hawkes stated that he had purchased a quantity of timber, paint, and other materials with which to carry out tho repairs required, and had let a contract for some of them, whioh would be finished about the end of September; tho painting would be commenced when the weather became favor* able. The Bench decided to grant the license on the condition—to be strictly adhered to— that a favorable report bo made at next Licensing meeting, that the accommodation supplied was satisfactory (o the police. S rgt. Murphy ask id the Bench to make an order against; the applicant for the coats of the inspection entailed by the decision of the Bench, bu*"j it wai hold that the Commissioners had go power to do so.

At to-days meeting of the Licensing Committees, the Police reported that an inspection of the rarious hotels within the Borough showed that all orders made regarding fire escapes had been carried?out. A iabge number of persons; including several mine managers, assembled on the beach near the Big Pump mullook tip this morning to witness, the exhibition by Mr W. T. Firth of ihe " Electric Exploder," or " Igniting Dynamo," The machine weighs about 201b3, and is in a compact box. It is very simple, and can be worked by anyone without Ihe slightest danger. The experiments proved very satisfactory, and clearly demonstrated the usefulness of Ibe machine as an exploder. The modus ojperandi may be described as follows:—The charge of dynamite is placed in the hole, and the ordinary detonator, in which a couple of wires are inserted, is sup> plied, and the detonator stopped up. The two wires are then attached to two others which are connected with t'ae battery, ctre of course being taken] to keep the wirea separate. Alljthat is then necessary to dia* charge the shot is to press down the handle of the machine, when the explosion is instantaneous. The detonators arc equally as cheap ns the ordinary dynamite caps, and aro sealed so as to be impervious to water. The wires can bo placed along the bottom or sides of a drive as desired, the only thing to be ob erred being that they do not come in contact with the iron rails. One of the principal features in connection with the machine is that the fact of the wire being placed under water has not the least, injurious effect, as the charge can still be exploded ; while any number of holes can be discharged at once. In the experiments this rooming, two charges of the ordinary dynamite were placed in two huge pieces of iion, and Ihe wires of the machine attached some thirty or forty yards away, with the result that the explosion followed directly the handle of the machine was pushed downwards, and the iron broken into fragments. A trial was also made with a log of firewood, with ihe same satisfactory resulr. The experiments clearly shoved that a bole* charged wif.h d/namite could be exploded fro-l" auy distance without danger. Tha price of the machine U aim st nominal, and we have no doubt will commend itself ta mine managers and others by its usefulaess. A trial is to be made this afternoon at the Cam briaand Caledonian Low L;vel Oo.'s mines.

A sitting of. the Police, Court was held at 3 o'clock this aferncon, when L. Lewis was oharged, on the infoimation of the police, with unlawfully dißcbarg'og firearms in the Borough.—Wm. Bend d< posed that he was going home about 7.30 last evening, when he met defendant, who was riding a horse on the footpath. Re had hia umbrella up, as it was raining at tho time, and the horse shied at him, when he heard the report of a pistol. —Cousfcab'.o Stapleton said hfi heard the report of a pietol, and saw defendant leading a horse. Defendant said he had fired the revolyar in order to attract the attention of the police.—Defendant stated the was coming in from Te Aroha, and met Bead on the road and asked him if he could direct him to an hotel, as he did not know the streets very well. Bead commenced poking his umbrella at the horse, and he consequently fired the revolver in the air, its he considered that the best way in which to attract the attention of the police, but he was not aware that be was committing a breach of the law in doing so.— His Worship inflicted a fine of 10s and costs.

At the Presbyterian Church last evening the Eev. S. J. Neill delivered the third of a series of lectures »n the subject of "Prophets and prophecy." The rev. lecturer commenced by giving a brief resuore of the different points he had considered in his former lectures, and proceeded to enquire as to the earliest reference to prophets in Holy Scripture* quoting Abimelech's drtatr, in which Abra* ham is referred to as a prophet—one of the earliest references to the school or guild of prophets. After tracing carefully through the long line of prophets mentioned in Scrip* turo, the rev. gentleman referred to prophets of the present d»y, some of whom, he said, had encumbered students of the Bible by prophecying that which was never fulfilled, making special reference to Dr Cumming. Speaking of the false prophets of the Bible, he maintained that they were thoe who taught what wis hurtful to a nation. The lecturer cleary explained that the prophets of the past had been the political leaders of the people, und that the religion and the politics of the Jewish nation bad always been closely allied. Speaking of music in connection with re'igious ceremonies, he proved that it was not originally used by the priesthood, but was introduced by the prophets. The lecture, which was listened to with the gretest inter* esfc, gave evidences of great research, both Biblical and otherwiee, quotations b'ing given from such men as Jeremy Tailor, Dr Arnold, and Professor Robinson Smith, proving that the lecturer had thoroughly mastered his subject.

Ah application was made to H. Kenrick, E«q., R.M., in the Police Court this morning by Mr Miller—who appeared tor the com* plainant in the case Mann v. Denby beard on Saturday laet, when the latter was fined £3 and costs 'or assaulting a boy and son of Mrs Mann—that half the fine be paid to the mother of the boy, hb in consequence of the injuries received he was unable to follow his usual employment. As Mrs Mann' was de* fendent upon her eons for support, be thought he was quite justified ia making the application His worship concurred with this view, and accordingly made an order that half the fine be paid to complainant's mother.

The Te Aroha News states that prospecting for silver is still being steadily pursued on both sides of the bill, and several new claims have been pegged off within the past few dajs. The ground until recently held by the Battery Company, and known as the^Alphabet claims, has been attracting a good deal of attention ; also Moa No 1 and 2 ground.

At the next sitting of the Te Aroha Warden's Court, which is to be held on Tueaiay, 15th instant, some niniig cases of more than usual interest are set down fer hearing. la ore case the plaintiff desires to be put in possession of the ground lately marked out and believed to be valuable for its silver ore, known as ths Silrer King, Waiorongomai, on the plea that (be present holder marked out the same in an illegal manner with respeot to the pegging eto. Mr J. A. Miller ha?, we understand, been ratained for the defence. Some fire tons of ore from this claim has just been broken out, and bugged with the intention of sending it to Melbourne to be smelted, in order to practically test the value of the quartz; but now that litigation has been etirted with regard to the possession of the olaim, it will probably be kept back pending the result of the action. —News.

At the Collarbone range on Saturday after* noon, the quarterly competition for the District Belt took place, the ranges being 200, 800, and 500 yards, 7 shots each. The following are the scores :—Gunner P. Weir, T.N.A., 76; Gunner R. Herivel, T.N.A., 72; Vol. A. Thomas, T.R.R., 64; Vol. W. Clim-, T.R.R., 64; Oapt. Lucas, T.R.R., 63; Vol. Hawk, T.R.R., 63 ; Bandmaster Moyle, T.N.A., 63 ; Gunner A. Thorbum, T.N.A., 60; Vol. Downie, T.R.R., 53 ; Vol. J. Cloutt, T.R.R., 57; Vol. W. Paterson, T.R.R., 47. The usual monthly meeting of the High School Board of Governors was held this afternoon, the members present were : L. J. Bagnall (in the chair), A. Brodie, J.H Smith, J. Marshall, J. McGowan, and John Wilson. Treasury vouchers for £25 were read.—A transfer of Bection No. 6 of the Te Aroha reserve from W. Wilgon to A. W. Edwards was granted—The report of the Visiting Committee was read and adopted—The Visiting Committee were instructed to make enquiries into the practicability of lessons in cookery being given at the School; also to communi* cate with the Secretary of Secondary Education respecting the income derived thereupon. — The Secretary was instructed to communicate with the Chairman of the Auckland Uni versity on the subject of lectures being delivered here by the Professors of that body* on Geology and Gold Mining matters; also to collect forthwith all outstanding school fees, taking legal steps to that end if requisite. Messrs Brodie and Bagnall were appointed a Visiting Committee. Accounts amounting to £88 3s 5d were paused for payment and the meeting adjourned. In the caseof Smith, Inspeoior of Industrial Schools, v. Pearson, heard in the Auckland Resident Magistrate's Court, Mr Satb Smith, EM., in giring bis decision on Saturdiy, ; decided that the Warkworth Justices had no power to bear and dismiss the ease, as only an R.M. had jurisdiction to hear suoh cases as thit of default for maintenance of children in the school*. Sveakisq at Birmingham at the annual conference of the National Secular Society, Mr Bradlaugh said :—" In New Zealand, Robert Stout and John Billance, men holding the views I bold, speak os openly as I sp^ak, hold office, one as Prime Minister, the other as Cabinet Minister—(Loud cheers). In New Zealand there is perfect equality for all before the law without mockery of oath to make shame or taunt of. There aa Affirmation Bill has giren to everyone the fullest right, without question. New Zealand gite3 m promise of what w» shall win ; win with your help, if you will gire it; win despite your hindering, if you will hinder; win in any case, for we will have it."