THAMES NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9153, 7 September 1888, Page 5

THAMES NEWS.

[FROM OCR own correspondent.] Thames, Thursday. Messrs R. Comer, B. Wolff, and T. Brown, were to-day nominated as candidates to represent the North Ward in the Borough Council. The election will take place on the 13th instant. From private letters received here to-day from Broken Hill, the sad intelligence is announced of the death of two well-known Thames miners who recently left here with Mr. John Heighway's party, namely, John Tregonning and Joseph B. Smith. The former leaves a wife and five children residing here at the Thames, but the latter was a single man. Another old Thamesite, named Peter Smith, and brother to the deceased Joseph Smith, is reported as beinc dangerously ill with typhoid fever, the same disease as carried off the others. At the Police Court this afternoon,' John j Gibson, alias Knox, pleaded guilty to the j larceny of a silver breastpin and a magnify- ! ing-glass, the property of Charles Butler, | steward of the s.s. Rotomahana, on the Ist | inst., and was sentenced to six months' imj prisonment, with hard labour, in Mounb Eden Gaol. The same prisoner was yester- | day sentenced at the Paeroa Police Court to a similar term of imprisonment for the j larceny of three shirts and two pairs of | trousers, from the shop of F. W. Law, | draper, Pollen-street, on the Ist inst. ; and I a mate of his, named John James Moore, [ for complicity in the larceny, two months, i After stealing the goods they decamped fot ! Paeroa, where they were arrested by Con- ; stable Bern, and brought clown to the j Thames last evening. Both prisoners were [ forwarded to Auckland, per Enterprise, s this evening. /: ; M