NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10351, 27 April 1911, Page 2

NEWSY PARS.

—f — To-day's forecast-: Moderate to .strong northerly winds veering to strung' to a galo westerlies ; expect unsettled! and cloudy weather probaibly with misty rain; glass fall, but will risie shortly : tides moderate, sea moderate! swell. In the election for one member to represent the Thames County en the Harbour Board Mi' K. Law 1 (Kauatranga Valley) defeated Mr J. M. McLaren by 211 votes to 110, a majority of 101. The members of the BSsley team left for ESngland by the Ruapehu today. At tliei farewell gathering 1 lield prior to the departure speeches, were madb iby the Hon. G. Fovklsi, General Godley, and Cblonsl Collins.—(Wellington telegram.) Municipal tleiitions yesterday. .Dr. La.praik headed thei local poll, with Ml 1 W. J. McCormidk second. Both are- new councillors!, and they art to be congratulated on tlie high estimation in which they are held 1 by burg'essos, aa evidenced by yesterday's poll. An Auckland telegram states that a: child four yetirsJ of ag-e, a daughter of Mrs Faulbio'iirh, was having tea when the sleeve of hex" dress caught fir'ci at a lightedl dandle. The flames werti quickly extinguished, but the child w<as badly biurned and death ensued from shock. An inquest touching 1 the death of Pare Barbaric!), the infant daughter of Toney Barbaricih, an Austrian, who died! suddenly at Waitawheta, was Keldi at Waikino. The evidence shewed that deceased was a twin, that the cause of death was prematurity. A vlenlict to this effect was returned. Annougj the items of expenditure authorised by Cabinet at its meeting on Mcmdlay was the sum of £32,000 for ■ railway rolling: stock. There are thirty engines in course of construction now approaching completion, and tho amount authorised included a portion of the material for twenty moi'e, whieih aire to be at once put in hand 1. J3y arrangemeint with., and with v tho usual 'cordial co-operation of Mr 0. R. ißloberts, we w'ero aible to- havo ■tlie results of tho IWoaiigh and Harbour Board elections thrown on the screen at tho Oddfellows' Hall Imst night within a. few minutes of tho dcclaination of the results by the returning otfficters. "Wie arc indebted' to Mr Roberts for his assistance in thei matter 1. We hav'o rctaeived from Mi" J. Grigir some particulars of the eclipse of the sun due on Saturday morning. O'win.'jl to pressure on our space We cannot get it into this evening's issue, but it will appear to-mo'iToiw morning:. A!s na eclipse 1 of equal inter-eat ha's k-.-.-n visible at Thames foi 4 the past 21 year's Mr Grigg desires to call the attention of our young: people to the subject witli the oibjeteit of sug'ge.siiivg their r>bsarVation of it. In connection with the discovery of a man's, dead body in the. Thames river, and which has not yet been identified, We have been requested to mention that the body is that of a man aboub sft Sin in height, stoutly built, apparently fair "complexion, olemi shaven, and 1 slightly 'bald. He was dressed in a full suit of grey material, and hud a return part of a tidket to Waihi issued oai the Uth inst. He had boots with ruSbbeir heels aucli was about ,15 to 40 years of age. Prior to tho picture entertainment in aid of the Boy Scouts given by Mi0. Roberts at the OUdMlows' Hall a precession was farmed ait the corner of Pollen and Cloclhrainc streets and iniirdicd to the hall. The Battalion Wand, under Lieut. CUai'k, headed 1 the pro::iesision;, those taking 1 part ibcinu' tha Thames Senior 1 Cadets (under Lieut. Watts, who ciomnia.nded the parade. Boy Scouts (under District ■Commander Ncwton'i and Waiokaraka School Cadets (under Capt, Fergusscn). Thoro was a goiod muster of all companies. An Auekljind man who was a passenger hy the train which so narrowly escaped dast.ruciiun 'by oollision witii the l-unaiway train, states thtit public opinion everpvliere is; ' strong^ly in favour of tho Govenmunt recognising Mr ("Oaudo's splendid! perfenuanee in a most liaudjonie uiannor, as no doubi' ha showed marvellous presence of mind and prompt sictiiMi. "'From wluit I van hear." s:iid the Auckland iroiitl'-ma.n. it is not ini|ir«sba vt'le h-i may -li-j ;rrant<vl a free-pass on the ra'lways for the" rest of his life. Il would have been :<. frig-ht.ful di.aastfi int fur Mr Claude's liigiily mcritor i' us pwm.pt.itiul.\" Just, opened al W. S. Wvlie's : big range of colonial all wool blan kets. rugs, flunncls. etc.. at excey iioTially luv; pric.t-s.—Adyt.