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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5252, 17 November 1885, Page 2

Tomobbow nominations for the office of Mayor of the Borough will be made. The returning officer will be at the Borough Council Chambers until noon, to receive nominations. This evening a meeting of the Parawai School committee is to be held at the school* room, for the purpos9 of considering the appointment of a head master. We would again remind our readers of the concert and dance to take place in the Academy of Musio this evening, in aid of the funds of the Catholic Boys' School/when we have no doubt there will be a crowded house, as the programme is a most attractive one. In the Police Court this morning, before H. 0. Lawlor andß. T. Douglns, Eeqi, J.'sP., Patrick Murphy, alias Kayanagh, was charged with stealing a swag, of the value oj £4/ 10s, the property of Henry Ibboteon, from the Wharf Hotel, on Friday evening last. Henry Ibbots. n deposed that on Friday last he left a swag at th. Wharf Hotel, and that aocuaed called ond asked for it, taking it away without his authority. When witness called for ifc next morning, he was told by the landlord j thatitbad been taken away by someone, and he could identify the man. Peter darken, who was wi(h accused and pro3ecutor on Friday night, stated that he went with another person to the Queen's Hotel, and had a drink thers, but did not hear prosecutor seod accused for his swag. They reaohed Ibbotson's hut about, 9 o'cbck, and while there prosc-cu tor mentioned that be had lost his swag, and did not know where it was, though he ex* pected it was in the Wharf Hotel. I botaan was drunk; accused told prosecutor that t'to swag wa« all right at the Wharf Hotel —Mr J. Seccombe, landlord of the Hotel, deposed that Ibho'aon called and left a Ewag at hia Hotel on Friday evening ; but later on accused called and said the little blacksmith had sent biaa down for the swag. Witness asked him to leave his name, but he took away the swag without doing so.—A barmaid employed in the Hotel gave similar evidence.—Detective Doolan gave evidence to the effect tliafc Ibbotbod reported to him the loss of the awag, and he subsequently arrested the accused, who after his arrest stated. Ibbotgon had sent him for the swag, and be had brought it and given it to the prosecutor, in the presence of P. darken.—Accused made a statement to the effect that he was with the two darkens on Friday night, when Ibbotson met them, and they went to Vaugban's Hotel and had a drink. While.there, Ibboteon said he had lost his swag, aud Murphy told him where it was, saying that he would get it for him. They afterwards took Ibbotson to his hut, and Clarken went home, while witness went to tbe Wbarf Hotel and got the swag, and on bis way to proseoutor's house, met Ibbotson in Albert street going f:r it, when he gave it to him and left him.—After hearing the evidenca I of Sergt. McGrath, the Bench said that as the e»idence was somewhat conflicting, they would give accused the benefit of the doubt, and he would therefore be discharged. Bbmembeu Amcric-n Co.'b Hop Bitters never does barm but good, to the smallest child, always aud ecmlinuall/. gee *ud re*d

ProFKsaoß Buck and Mr Montgomery a"rived hero to-diy from Auckland, for tho purpose of giving a course of lectures and practical inntruotion as to the testing of minerals. Those who attend bis lectures will be called on to do something more than to merely listen to a discourse. They will be called upon to grind up the stone to be tested, and will be instructed in the methods of per* torming an analysis, so that after Professor Black has left the district he will have left behind him practical information which will be of benefitto those who participate now in the lectures which will be given. From Thames prop?? all the mining centres will be visited, and a simi'ar class of information imparted. Mr Montgomery will mike approximate analyses by the blowpipe, and show the ready means which miners possess of making a very close estimate of the value of any gold or silverbearing stone in tho skilful use of the blowpipe. This for prospecting purposes will no doubt ba found to be the moat •vailab'e method of aseertaiwg the value T ofj stone of whose character there may be some uncer*;: tainty. The first lecture will be delivered in the Academy of Music to-morrow evening. The auction sale of Coombes and Co. stock will be continued at McGregor's auction mart to-morrow, when a final clearance must be effected. .: . Wh regret to have to record the death of Mrs James Smith, wife of the popular manager of the Waiotahi mine, which occurred, at her lata residence, Mackay street, at an early hour this morning. Messrs Joints and Davis, the refiner and smelter of the LaMonte furnace, arrived yesterday at the works, and everything i« now ready for comtnoncing to smelt except the quantity of stone required. The fires will be lighted very probably under the smelter by the end of the week. The commissioner under the Property Tax has wired .to the Town Clerk that (he following ara the respective valuations now standing for the districts, named. Thames Borough £194,221, Tbanies and Ohinemuri Counties combined £367,453, Piako potinty, £1,297,€82, Coromandel County £165;478. This information was sought for the guidance of the recently formed Charitable. Aid Board. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Woodstock licensed holding, Karangahake, held in Auckland, if; was resolved to form a company under the Mining Companies' Limited Liability Act, to be called the Woodstock Gold, Silver, and Smelting Company, with a capital stock of 36,000 shares of £L each, 10s paid up. The following gentlemen were elected directors, viz., Messrs R. X Davis, W. Gorrie, E Rogers, 0. 0. McMillan, James Liddle, John McCombie,-and Alfred Sheppard. The Bank of New Zealand was appointed bankers to the company, Mr D. G. MscDonneU legal manager, and Mr William Littlfjohn mine manager. A call of threepence per share was made to meet existing liabilities. A concrbt and dance in connection with the Athletic Demonstration to be held at Parawai on St. Andrew's Day will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on the evening of the 30th inst, and as several leading looal vocalUts have promised their assistance, the I affair promises to be a great success.