The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1885.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5283, 23 December 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1885.

Witi to-morrow's iwue of the Sta* we purpose issuing our Christmas Supplement, whioh will contain, in addition to the usual instalment of oat serial, carefully seleoted columns of Stories, Fashions, e»d Cookery suitable for the Christmas Season. Thi water-jackets in the Lalfonte furnace were replaced to>«lay, And everything is in readiness for a fresh start, which will fee made •i soon as the ironstone required for luxingis procured. THiteaehers and children of the Taram School give an entertainment this evening, for which a very ohoice programme baa been ■•leeted, and judging from the way in which the tickets have gone off, there should be a good attendaocp. At the conclusion of the programme whioh includes some recitations, and other attractive feature, tlip entertain* #Vf?t *j)l wJnd up ▼itb a d«nc^

A BPEOIAII meeting of the Borough Council was hold to-day for tho purpoce of electing three members of the Board of Governors of the Thames High School in place of Mecsra McGowsn, J. H. Smith, and John Wilson, retiring Gorernors. The following gentlemen wore nominated, viz., Messrs McG-owan, J. H. Bmith, Dr Kilgour, and F. 0. Dean, and the voting resulted in the election of the first three, viz., Dr Kilgour, Messrs McGowan ar.d J. IT. Smith to be Governors of the school for the ensuing year.

At a meeting of the directors of the Moanatairi Exte ded G.M.Co., held in Auckland to-day, 11 call of 2d per share on tho capital of the Company was made.

IN the Police Court this morning, Patrick Hennessy was fined £3, or in default of payment ordered to be imprisoned for 14 days, for supplying Patrick Kelly, a prohibited person, with liquor. Tho circumstances of the case, a> detailed by the police, were that the defendant had procured some brer at the Empire Hotel and given it to Kelly, who while in Ihe act of partsking of it was surprised by a constable. In inflicting the punishment recorded, the Resident Magistrate severely animadverted on the act committed by Hennessy, and stated th&t while he did not wish to inflict the maximum fine, he would order a substantial penalty to be paid.

Yestbbday afternoon, during the meeting of the High School for the distribution of prizes, the Major, at the request of the Governors of the School, presented Mr Owen, the music teacher, with a certificate testifying toj! bis great musical abilities and success as a teacher during the six years ho had been connected with the High School. Mr Owen in response said be would value this testimonial above anything that he possessed. Miss Daisy Smith, at a later stage of the proceedings, presented Mr Owen, on behalf of her schoolmates, with a set of quartz studs and solitaires, which he acknowledged in a very graceful manner.

Mb Xpneick leaves on Monday next to meet Mr Wilkinson, Native Agent, at Alexander, re the arrangement of prospecting parties for the King country ; there is to be a large meeting of natives on the 2nd of January nt Oturougs, abcut 18 miles from Alexandra, in connection with the subject, asd Mr Wilkinson has asked Mr Kemiok lo ba present at it.

There will be a scratch shooting match at the Collarbone range on Christmas Bay, commencing at 9 a.m. The firing will be at 200, 300, 400, and 500 yards range j 5 shots at eaoh range.

A SKBTICB of f org, entitled " Simon Jssper," will be rendered in the Academy of Music on Christmas evening, in aid of the We?leyan end Primitive Methodist Sunday Schools, The performance will commence at 7,30 o'clock.

Thf.ee was only a brief' Bitting of the Bfßident Magistrate's Court to-d»y, when judgments were recorded for the plaintiffs in the following cases :—Martin v. Whitaker, claim £5 6s 7d, for goods supplied, costs £1 8s ; McCaul v. Reardon, claim £4 18s 51, for goods, costs 63 ', McCaul v. McKeo, claim £2 Is, for goeds, costs lls ; J. Clark v. Reardon, claim £16 6s lid, costs £1 Is. The case of Bead v. Thorpe wo* ao'journed till the Bth January.

We would again remind our readers of the toiree, entertainment, and dance to be held in the Academy cf Music this evening in connection with the joint i^iniversary of the Court Pride of Parntll and Court Pride of the North Lodges of the Ancient Order of Foresters. Tea will bo on the tables at h»lf«poBt six o'clock, t.ftf r which an entertaining programme of songs, &c, will be gone through, the whole cone'lining with a dance. We understand that a large number of tickets have been eo!d, so that there is every pronaiee of a bumper house.

Amoe& tbe changes contemplated in the teaching staffs of our public schools are the removal of Mr Chri.-tie, at present engaged in the Bev!nporfr Sehcol,to the Woio-Ktiraka, vice Mr Sobofield, and the appointment o Mr Newton, at, jirese t a scholar in tbe Train ining College in Auckland, to the Waiotala Creek School.vice Miss Hamilton, resigned.

Nowadays we hear occasionally of a bicycle ride, but we have not until yesterday heard of a Sulky drive in this part of Ne v Zealand ut all events. Mr Forbes, who represents one of the leading wholesale honecs in Auckland, has just accomplished a Sulky drive alt the way from Auckland through <o Waikato and Te Aroba, a distance of two hundred and thirty two miles in seven days, and says it is a far easier and more comfortable mode of travelling tban on horseback, the roads in the Fiako and Thames Counties bei g particularly favorable to Sulkyiets. At first nppf arance one would imagine that you saw a horse coming toward you wilh a man sitting on a pair of wheels. Tbe seat whi-h is perch?d up between the wbrels is only just large enough for one man to cit on, and tbe whole machine, which is of course American, is light, though substantially constructed.

Jf is extremely satisfactory to note the large increase that is tukicg place in the yields from, tbe mines in tbe goldfield« of this Colony. For instance, the jield from the Thames gold* field during the month of November was 10,2050z9., which is the largett yield for eight years past. During October the mines in the Inangahua and Lyell districts (Nelson) yielded largely, and when the returns for November are to hand they will, judging from the weekly reports from the mines ? f«r exceed those for October. From tbe Owen dwtriot (Nelson) comes tbe intelligence that one company i« working on a reef five feet thick, and showing gsld pptjmatrd to yield threo ounces per ton of" stonp ybjle another Company has exposed a reef about twenty feet tbipk, showing good gold. Again, on tbe West Cpa3t vaijwo^ roue, arfef ha? just been discovered, some "atong of which ha* been tested at the Government Or oltfgical pspartmtnt in Wellington, and yielded at the rale of 16ozs lldwt-s 12.gw per ton. Altogether there are signs of a jreat revival of the gold mining jadyatpy jn th« Col ny.

A CBIC&E'E rr.aJfih v"g-s p!&jp4 "ft Puocdjn yesterday betwe n the (31)«i-"t J^o'loßS ((-iK>: terburj), and Oaviabrook oluijs, the fqr«Kr winning by 21 runs In one inftiaga. TMe Carisbrook Club scored 78 in the first inpings, while the Christ college made 99 in the fir*fc fanii^gg, $pd there was not time to play off the wpqjjq.

Queensland having been gazetted as an infected port in consequence of the outbreak of cholera, the barquentino Coquette, which arrived at Duoe-in yesterday, has been quarantined, Jbhoujjh she had left Queensland prior to the breaking oni of t]:p abaters.

QOTBENJtBST have informed the Benevolent Society of Wellington 'that the State will not furnish any money for the support of the institution for December 1.

Iv oi*r }iat of entries for the sports to be held on |Ir Manning's grounds on Boxing Day, the name of Tbos MpEnteer was inadrertently admitted for the Madden Baoe.

Torestora perre and brain wast*, nothing equals Hop Bitters. Believe this and taka none but American Co.'s. See.

An editor epigrammatically defines the position of the great mass of the population when he sayi: "lima capitalist at heart, but a workiogntD from oecenity-"