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Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2055, 27 May 1875, Page 2

With to-day's issue of this paper we publish • the list of objections to voters, There are nearly 800 names, and we have been requested by theRegistration Officer, Major Keddell, to etato that if any person to whom he has objected can show that the objection is not a good one, it will be withdrawn prior to the hearing of the objections by Mr Lawlor. ■ It ij the duty of the Registration Officer annually to purge tho roll, but it is quite impossible for one individual to do so effectually, as he cannot knomA every voter out of a roll comprising more 3,000 individuals.

The occurrences of the last few' days must have conviuced all of the necessity of so'mo improvement in the steamer accommodation on the Auckland line. Yesterday was the second Euccessivc day on which w'o have had neither passengers, nor letters, nor jiap'era from Auckland, and those who have managed to get away from the Thames to Auckland have had to endure haidships, and undergo risks, which ought not to attach to the well-sheltered passage between this and Auckland,.- We suppose th°t anything like public agitation will be quite useless on this matter, but we should think that when a large proportion of the Thames community have been made to feel the iricoavenience, that there will be some chance of combination to get a new. boat, We observe that the 'Hauraki' is advertised to leave Auckland at 2 o'clock 'this afternoon, and (irahamstown at 8 o'clock. ,

A lodge meeting of the Star' of the Thames. Lodge of Good Templars, open to the public, will be held this evening at the Karaka School. Songs, recitations, &c., will be given,

We observe that Mr Boche, one of the members for Waikato, has carried a resolution in the Council to the effect that it is against the interests of the province that certain individuals should'be allowed to purchase nativo lands while others were prevented. Mr Murray, M.H.E., recently addressed the.Council on.the same subject, We have got so accustomed to this kind of thing that we never think of remonstrating against it, but when, a strange?, like- Mr Murray, comes amongst us, he is struck by the gross unfairness of what is done. The Government has practically in its hands all the native land in the island; it can permit its friends to* purchase and prevent its foes. The evil would be great if none but Ministers exercised such a power, but it would seem that a host of inferior officers carry on the same practice. The committee of the Council now Bitting on the subject of na'.iyo lands may do some good by directing 'attention to this and kindred abuses, and in getting the Assembly to take the matter up. ' ■ ' • ,

The weather continued stormy during the

forenoon yesterday, but moderated in the' afternoon, and in the evening it was clear and calm, with a light southerly breeze, promising a day or two of fine weather., In Auckland there was a thunderstorm yesterday forenoon,":

A correspondent telegraphs, from Auckland that it is expected that Mr Carpenter will be appointed Goldfields Secretary.. As concentration and economy, seemed the order of the day in the Provincial Executive, we had given np the prospect of seeing a Qoldfielda Secretary. Under the Gold Mining Districts Act, there i 3 almost nothing in the way of ordinary goldfields business left under the care of the' Provincial Government, and therefore for that business a Goldfields Secretary is not required. Then the Government have ■ not a single sixpence to spend on public the next six months,'so that the Goldfields Secretary cannot find much to do in seeing that the money vited is judiciously expended. Perhaps the fact is, that Mr Carpenter is to be a member of the Government "without portfolio, I '.and also without salary, occupying the same, position as Mr Disnan: and'to would seem to be confirmed by the fact that, so far as we -knowj no salary has been voted for a Goldfields Secretary. We do not wish to say anything harsh respecting Mr Carpenter, who'has been, and may yet be," of service to the Thames, but we are afraid that, if the report prove to be truo, the general comment will be that he has gained office by acting just as the Superintendent chose to direct him, and against the opinions he professed when elected,

It .will be seen that' the deputation to the Superintendent re the grant' to the Pumping Association have had an interview with his Honor on the subject, who said that it would give him great pleasure to . Carry out the arrangement if the Council-would vote the money. So far as we can learn, 'the prospect is, that the Council will vot'o that the mpney should be paid to the Association, bnt there will be a debate and probably a division on the subject. All tbis.comes of not making a proper busi-ness-like arrangement at the beginning. ~

Tie bod v of Andrew Petersen was recovered yesterday.' Mr Reed,'who recoiled'having Been the body on the previous evening, was accompanied yesterday morning by Mr Banks, Constable Scott, and .others. They found the body, as described, near the second crossing, about a mile and.a-half below the crossing at which the accident. occurred a fortnight ago. It was entangled in a snag, ,which had to be prized up in order to liberate it. It was then taken ashore on the south bank of the river, and aa the, flood was so high that the ford was unsafe, it was covered o?er in the fern; and allowed. to ; remain. Singularly enough, not* withstanding the leugfch of time < the body has been in the water, and the distance which it has drifted, there is no disfigurement except one small cut about an inch in length.. The body will be brought to Shortland this morning, and an inquest will bo held.

The Balkmt Miner, has commenced the publication of a series of articles on the School:of . Mines there. In the museum, it states that there is a glass case which contains fac-simtto gilt models of fourteen celebrated nuggets, Mm eluding the " Welcome," found in 1358, on Bakery Hill, Ballarat, at a depth of 180 feet, and {weighing 2,1950z; the "Jfrec'ious," found in Catlo's paddock, Berlin, in 1871, at a depth, of 12 feet, and weighing 1,621ez; the "Vis-. 'count Canterbury," also-.found in Berlin, in 1870, : at a depth of 15 feet, and weighing 1105oz' the "Yiscountesa" Berlin, found at " a'depthof G feet 6inehis, and weighing 8340z; the "Kum-Tow," found at Berlin, and weighing 71Soz; the "Schlemm " found at Punolly, and weighing 5380z,.0f which COoz is quartz; the "Beauty,'' found at Bendigo, . and weighing 3370z 6dwt, .The mbtlels are executed so artistically that ..they, would quite deceive the uninitiated. . '

The Smyttesdale correspondent ' of the Bdhrat CoiiJ'i'er .'writea: —There are several. Chinamen inthia locality who have .been for v some years -earning a precarious living by washing up old patches of mullock, tailings, &c., but this source of subsistence, has 'been diminishing, and several of the poor creatures are to be seen wandering about with a dish and shovel, and on their countenances the unmistakable traces of hunger are too plainly written. Most of them are too decrepit'to perform any hard work, and, being wholly unacquainted •. with the English language are unable to find light kinds of employment from--Europeans. Thcv live, for the most part, in old dilapidated bark huts amongst the deserted .workings, aim exhibit a callousness both,as regards themselves and the rest of the world, that would lead to the belief that they had become so-murcd to misery ios to be" unaware of their destitution. It is to be regretted that the wealthy Chinese . do hot provide some jlermauent means of assistance for these.fOor waifs.of their country.'