THE Thames Advertiser. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1875.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2089, 7 July 1875, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1875.

The steamer < Manaia' came from Auckland yesterday in place of the ' Ilaurakl,' which is laid up. Tho 1 Manaia' was' at first advertised to leave Auckland at ton o'clock, but was delayed till twelve, in order that the might bo' able to land her passengers at' tho Goods ,Wharf, The y Manaia,' which had . been expected to remain here till to-day, left again at once fjr Auckland, on account, wo suppose, of, having to take up the. Goromandel trad?. Wo shall thus have no steamer up .to Auckland today, and the only opportunity tho Thames people will have catching the mail will bo by tho 'Enterprise' at ten o'clock,to-night. The fact that no boat leaves for Auckland .to-day will put many people to inconvenience.'

People will bo rather surprised to find that Ministers have not waited for the Assembly to turn them out, but havo turned themselvca out, and havo as promptly turned themselves in again.' It is not tho Yogel Ministry any longer, but the Pollen Ministry, and wo should think that tho Premier is himself rather surprised to find himself in his present position, Tho reason of this transformation scene being enacted is'/ thtf legal doubts wero folt as to whether, the : Ministry could meot Parliament in tho absence of tho Premier, and. so the resignation and re-appointment wcro resorted to to put things straight. Ministers, however, still cling to tho prestige of Sir' Julius Yogcl's name, as they have gazetted him as Postmaster. General, and proclaim their iutontion of resigning for the purpose of again placing him at their head when he returns to New Zealand.

The Warden yesterday disposed of several applications for licenses nt-Taitua.' The license for the Livingstone claim, the Warden stated that he would grant subject to a slight alteration in the plan.; An objection to tho granting oftheßuona Ventura lease had been tendered by Mr J. W. Walker and others, but a day too late,: Mr Tyler applied to have the license issued in the name of Mr Jackson, and the Warden stated that he would do so if the authority of the other applioants wero produced. The'objections of Baird and Kelly to the Commonwealth (license were appointed to bo heard on the 14th inst.

Our Ohinemuri correspondent asks for some information about the leasing regulations, and wo are glad to be ablo to assure all who are interested in the subject that in a few days they will bo fully informed. The Act provides that steps can only bo taken by tho Governor on an address by the Provincial Council, and as the native agreement was not furnishod to tho Superintendent till long after the adjournment of the Council, that essential could not be complied with. On tho representation of tho Superintendent,,however, Ministers havo undertaken to make - it legal immediately to occupy land in tho Ohinemuri block under agricultural lease regulations, These regulations the Warden is now engaged in framing, and we understand they will be issued in a few days, Every exertion has been made to get them speedily out, so that a year may be saved by parties being enabled to occupy at onco.

There will be a performance to-morrow night at the Academy of 'Musio by tho Thames Cricketers' Dramatlo Club, in aid of the fundß of the Thames Hospital. The fine comedy, of "London Assurance" has been selected for tho occasion, and we are certain from the previous performances of tho company that they will do credit to themselves and afford satisfaction to the audience, The object of the benefit, should commend itself to all, and we hope to See a bumper house on the occasion, ; - The only business at the Polico Court yester*' day Was the punishment of one Patrick Martin for being drunk and incapable,. He was fined in the usual amount with the alternative of: 24 bourn' imprisonment .... The fine,new steamship 'Hawea,' belonging to the Union Steam Shipping Company, arrived on Monday morning in the Manukau. Captain Malcolm brought thoHawea' from Nolson, Captain Wheeler having landed there in consequence of his wife's illness, The'llawea' left Nelson at 7,30 p m, on Saturday, arrived at Taranaki on Sunday morning; left at 2 p.m.; and arrived in the Manukau at 10 a.m., having experienced a heavy sea on the way from Taranaki, PassengersMr and Mrs McLean, Mr and Mro Morion, Mr and Mrs Lloyd, Colonel Harrington, Captain Hankinson, Mr Hankinson, Messrs Woodward, Gaubchy, Collins, Bev L. B. Bacillio, and Captain Watt Kettle, A telegram from Wellington saysßobert Glover, husband of Jessie Baymond, actress, and an Auckland girl, was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment on Saturday morning, for stealing a pair of blankets and some children's underclothing. Ho is rather an idle and disselutovagabond, and addicted to petty larceny, as the sergeant of police showed that he bad served two short sentences in Otago for similar offences." In his charge to the Grand Jury, Mr Justice Gillies referred 'to the dec-cato of a class of crimes which .used to be very common, as follows;—"It must itriko yon when youseo the calendar, as it has struck me, as a poouliarity that a class of. offences which havo been exceedingly numerous for a long time past in this community seem to havo died out, and that on this occasion, which is the first for a considerable period, there is not a single charge of cither forgery, embezzlement, or obtaining money under falso pretcncea. Those crimes, which were' very frequent hitherto, have disappeared from the calendar on this occasion."

, Our attention has several times been called to, the fact that owing to tho use of unsuitable nets .there is a great destruction of email patiki, or flat fish, by the fishermen here, This is one of 'tho best patiki fishing'grounds in New Zealand, but it is likely to be ruined if tho present lyatom continue;. At a meeting of tho 1 Acclimatisation Society in Auckland on Monday, Mr Burtt called tho attention of tho meeting to tho fact of tho destruction of a largo number of small flat fish at tho Thames, through tho uso of nets having only one inch meshes In these flounders were caught much \ too small for use, and the fishermen suffered them to lie on the beach and dio, It wab very desirnblo to put a stop to this wanton destruction.—Mr Hurst spoke of seeing millions of small fish thus destroyed.—Mr Burtt thought tho' matter should bo brought before' the . Government.—No resolution on,tho subject was comoto." ; I < Tho Rer Mr Tomlinson Bays" To tbcßO interested in tho well-being of tho inhabitants ' of New Zealand, whether Kuropcan or Maori, there is no question of greater moment than that of temper,inco. 1 am no enemy to a man's, enjoyment of an honest glass, of beer; indeed, I think that if tlio settlors could obtain genuine beer-say like tlio lagor-bcor of'Qer« many or the home-brew of old fashioned places in;Hngland, it.would bo better, for them than the abundnnco of lea which many of thorn take. Hency-beor and sugar-btor even aro rerj rofreshing on a thirsty day ; and, inicod, there aro times when a glass of sound spirits is not to bo despised. Tho real evil, and 'I bcliovo tho cause of much drunkenness and of many,'deaths, is to bo fouud in the quality of tho liquors that are sold."

A miner, known as " Yankee Charlie," ro*ident in Charleston (Nolson), .has received intimation that ho can go homo to' Frisco and recivo £2,000. . i --~ . .

The following is the filato of tho Hospital for tho week ending July' 3:—Bemaincd, 22; admitted, 8 ) discharged, 1; died 0; remaining, 2G. The diseases aro as follows Aocomia, 1J fracture, 3; .rheumatism, 1; pleurisy, 1; bronchitis,i; f wounds' and Injuries, 5; albuminuria, 1; rcsical disease 11 heart disease, 1; cerebral disease, 1; femoral sinus, 1; pruritus, 1; bursitis, 1; ulcor of leg, 1; pneumonia, 1; phthisis, 1; omphyeems, 1; diarrhoea, 1; eclampsia, !; inflamed leg, 1, .Remaining—Males, 20; /etaalcs, Oj total, 26. Out-patients 35. J

The Otaga Quardian, referring to tho wife of Cyrus Haloy, whoso children woro brought up at tho Dunodin Police Court, chargcd vritU being nogloctcd children, saya:—" Tho poor woman evidently loved hor husband,.wit* .' hia faults-nay, .crimos; and scorns to I. / taken an early opportunity of coming back lo . New Zealand, In order to bo near Mm. Sine sho has been here, howover, she has bocn going' from bad to worse.' Sho has aoglccted her homo and her children, and tho cliinar was reached on Saturday, when tho lattor woro sent to tho Industrial School for a period of sixyearp, " Whether, sinco her'arrival, blio has been .allowed to goo her husband or not, wo cannot say; but the c'aso is a end ono throughout. The writer l<nows tho poor woman's his* to*y for many years past, and remembers lwr when she held a good, if, not a flrat-clas»,posi-tion in Auckland. Ho romcmbors distinctly tho occasion whon sho sang as a lady amateur in the presence of his Royal Highness tho Duko of Edinburgh in tho Choral Hall, which her husband afterwards burnt down, and for which he is now suffering. For a long tlmo aftor hiu conviction bo was known and spoken of as tho Auckland 4 flre-raiEor.'" Until the timo of his apprehension ho wis greatly. respootcd, and occupicd a position as ono of Auckland's leading citizens. His arrest and guilt threw, our Northern neighbours into a ' state of abiojnto amazement, and for months the extraordinary affair in which ho waß concernod formed' tho leading topic of conversation,. We sinceroly . trust that Bomething will be dono to arroat tho downward career of his unfortunate wife, who iB now at almost the, lowest , ebb in wretchedness, if not in vice, notwithstanding the respectablft position which sho formerly occupied. A timely hand strctcbod out might yet saro her ■ from tho lowest abyss, to which sho. bcciiis apparently doomed. Will not Bomo.of our benevolent ladies strctch out Imhil. pnil. save this poor woman trom a fate worso than death!"

The sharebrokcra in tbia province nro eomo> times said to boa very unprincipled set of tuoti, but wo think tliey compare very favourably in this rcspecb with tlie members of tho London Stock Exoliango:—Tho New Zealand Times gives the subjoined explanation of the instructious given to tho Ooroniitteo of Enquiry upon Foreign Loans appointed by tho Houeo of .Comjuons, to investigate the circutnatancoa connected with tho New Zsalaud loans: ''Wo can ex« plain," rays our Wellington contemporary, "thoorigin of this matter in a fow words: Tho World, a new woekly paper which has let light into much of the villainous darkness that overshadowed English financo, notioos that tho committco on foreign loans has shewn thai tho system under whioh certain foreign loans havo becn'negotiated in England, has been a micro mass of swindling by impeoanlous scamps, hnd that for muoh of this tho Stock Exchange is responsible, tho committco of lint body not allowing a settlement to loans except under circumstances by which, in many cascß, a direot nud unfair profit accrues to members, Thus it was that a settlement was refused to tho Jaet New Zealand loan, But tho Wwli speaks but plainly in this respeot, and says: 'Aud now a few words to tho august Ciramittjo of tho Stock- Exchange. If you really suppose that you will inspire confidence by refusing to Messrs itothscbild a settlement for a Now Zealand loan, you aro mistaken'; considering tho worthless

dross for which you have given settlements and quotations, it is a pieco of stupendous impudence on your parts to inflict n stigma oiilfjj one of the most rcspectablo of our oolonieß.--'' I The Australcaian cl June 5 has tho foiled ing ■ telegram'! Maldon, Wednesday,—For the last weok or two tho Central Company has been working somo very rich stone, antf from ocrtain indications the manager, suspoctpd that some of the men were stealing specimens, Last night awatoh was kept, and two of tho men worosrrcstei, on onoof whom was found a crib bag with specimens in it, This man had lately como from Sandhurst, His male, a young man long residont at MaWon, anl who had'always born agood clnractor, was also searched, but nothing-was found on him. However, this morning another crib bag was found on tho spot where ho was arrested.. Both men remain in custody, having been remanded till to-morrow,"

Koran example of barefaced audacity com* mend us (Wellington Post) to tho proposal put forward in tho leading article of tho New Zca> land Tim this morning, In plain words it is this: Let tho'Govcrnwent give up printing •Hansard,' and subsido the Times to print the reports prepared by reporters paid by tho cobny, Wo know that tho Govornmcnt does strango things, but it will probably scarcely venture on tho perpetration of a disgraceful job of. this kind, even to buy tho support of tho New Zealand Timet, Tho idea of getting a subsidy of this kind has long been a favourite -one with certain persons conncctod with tho Urns, but Parliament would certainly, .never sanction'Buch a thing, 'Hansard,' in Its present form, has many faults. It might be made much more useful than it is, but such a change as tho one proposed would bo woreo than even total abolition of tho system of offloial reporting, The Times ventures to quote tho precedent of .tho Argus being for somo years thus subsidised by tho Victorian Government to publish full reports, - There is no analogy in the two cases, Tho Argut was and is a high* class, respectable, honest journal, It also cc< joys a colonial circulation, . Wo profer* not to describo'tho character of our contemporary, but will rather confino our comparison to the question of circulation, Tho JVcio Zealand Times has not) a colonial circulation in any sense of tho expression, and its more provincial circulation iscven far below that of some of the country papers of tho province. The Times would, no doubt, like to force itself into increased circulation by the aid of a Government subsidy, and on' tho strength' of being a medium of official Parliamentary reports —

it at the B&mo time being saved the expense o( maintaining a reportlog staff of its own, Tliote Jb, however, little probability of its desires being icaliscdi