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Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2194, 9 November 1875, Page 2

To-day the anniversary of the birthday of the Prince. of Wales will be observed as ft holiday by the banking and Government establishments. Arrangements have been made for celebrating the holiday in various ways. The Parawai and Tararu Gardens are to bo opened, and at the former there will be a programme of sports, which is advertised elsewhere, carried out. A scratch cricket match _ will also be played there.'At Tararu visitors will have an opportunity of enjoying, strawberries and cream, dancing on the green, ' &c. The Naval Brigade will celebrate the event by a grand picnic, and arrangements have been made for carrying it out on a large scale should the weather grove favourable. l '"'' Oil (ZiVthat Mr Brissenden intends to seek a Beat in the Assembly at the coming election?. A man named James Boycroft" was arrested yesterday on warrant from ; Coromandel on a charge of .complicity with Jones in the robbery of amalgam froin the Tokatea ' battery. Jones was arrested ;• in Coromandel,- and brought before Major.- Aeddell • yesterday,,, and on the application of the polico the charge against him was adjourned for a week'. The facts of the case, or. , what has led to the arrest of those men, have not transpired, but the information has, we understand, been sworn by one of the men in tho employ of the company, not tho .police, ffc are assured that steady measures have been taken for tracing the theft to the guilty parties, and although we have no knowledge of the evidence; which is to be offered against the prisoners, wo are satisfied that tho step of arresting them has not been taken unadvisedly. A cab accident which endangered tho lives of five passengers and tho driver, and resulted in the death of a horse, occurred yesterday afternoon on the Tararu road, at the Tararu Bide of Shellback Creek, The cab in question was being driven by Mr Godkin, the owner, and was returning to Grahamßtown from'Tararu, When a littlo past" Messrs Climo and Bawder's reduction works a cart containing a load of firewood was met with, and at this the horses shied, striking across tho road and over the seawall, which here is five oi six'feet in height, The hind wheels of the trap hung for same seconds on the rails of the'tramway, and this afforded the passengers an opportunity of getting out, but the horses and trap went over,, and one of the horses was jammed beneath the cab. Ready help was afforded by the passengers and others, and the cab was soon righted, and tho horses harnessed, but after proceeding ashorb distance, it was seen that one of the horses was badly injured. He . tell opposite Mr Wells' butchery, and had to be taken 1 out of harness, It was found that he had no strength in his hind quarters, and it was evident that his spine was badly hurt. The owner wished to havo him killed at oncfc, but others persuaded him to give him a chance for life, and ho was left on the side of the road, where he died soon after. The horse was a very -valuable ono, being "one of a pair of fine spirited little animals which have been much admired ia Gtrahamstown. The handsome cedar gig, built some years ago by Mr Morgan. for. the crew who proposed sustaining the honors of the Thames Rowing Club at the Inter-proyincial match, • has been purchased by the North Shore Rowing' Club. It was never used at all at the Thames. Tho purpose for which- it'was built was never carried out, and the boat was purchased by Mr J. Cook. It has since had an uneventful existence, suspended from the'ceiling of Mr E. Binney's auetion mart until it was transported on board the ' Enterprise' on Saturday night, to be conveyed to.its new owners. This boat is, in the opinion of good judges, the best that has ever been built in the province, and should the North Shore Club be able to fit a crew to it it will prove a dangerous, rival in the new regatta. . ' ' A largely attended meeting was held at tho Exchange Room of the Governor Bowen Hotel last evening, for the purpose of receiving offers from those interested in having the race meeting held in • Tararu and those interested' in having it at Parawai. At the previous meeting committees were appointed to draw up and submit those offers; Mr James Stewart was called to the chair, and explained briefly the object* of the meeting. Mr Colson, who apologised for the absence of Mr Wardell, the secretary, explained what had been done at the last meeting, which was adjourned until last evening, to receive offers from the committees •representing Parawai and Tararu, The Chairman suggested that these offers should be submitted in writing. 5 Mr Craig, on behalf of Mr J. Wilson, putin a letter, and the Parawai. Committee, after consultation, put in an offer guaranteeing £102 towards the race fund. The letter put in by Mr Craig, on being opened, contained a guarantee of £05, signed by Messrs WilsonandVaughari, and further stated that Mr Graham would give the me of the Tararu Flat, and'the right to erect booths, grand stand, ic. Mr Craig argued that, the Tararu offer being a cash offer, not reserving the 10-booths, 4c, was the best. A long and rather warm discussion ensued, in the course .of which MrLight, one of the lessees of the Parawai Gardens, said that- they (the Parawai committee) would guarantee £70 and the booths, whereupon Mr Vaughan said that the Tararu committeo would guarantee £71 and_ the booths. After ,a . very lengthy discusbiod, Mr Stecdman proposed that as the offers were now equalised and put on the Bamo basis it would be for tho meeting to decide which offer to, accept, or else adjourn to allow the proprietors of the gardens' to submit new offers This was also discussed: at some . length, but resulted in the offers-being withdrawn, and Mr Yaughanproposed "That the offer of the Tararu committee, be accepted." MrMelhoso seconded this motion, but objection was raised to it, which resulted'in the motion not being put, and the meeting broke up without any definite conclusion being arrived at, Carp are breeding 'extensively in Lakes Taraweraand Rotorikakani, Whakaretua,

. A meeting of the Friendly Sooieties Demonstration Committee was held last evening at Mr Honiss's office. There was a large attendarice of the members. Some discussion took place .as to the action of the committee at its last meeting in deciding to hold the fete, at Parawai, and 1 motion. was made consider the former decision, which was lose by a.largo majority, thus settling .the(question.. Several arrangements of minor importance were made, and a sub-committee was appointed to arrange a programme of sports, &c. The committee wished to bring under the notice of the public the, question-', of providing prize?, and requested that any person who may have articles of ; value snitable for 'prizes that they wyuld forward the same to the committee. i As previously advertised, the Natal gunboat was launched from the yard of the builder, Mr Savage, about 2 o'clock yesterday, amidst a very heavy fall of rain, Notwithstanding the gather, there was a large crowd of people present, amongst them being a good number; of ladies. / The boat: was christened the 'Victoria,' by, Mrs Ehrenfried, amidst loud cheering. ' Three cheers were given for the ladies present, and for Mr Savage, the builder. After an appropriate speech by Captain Brassey, those present partook of champagne, and the success of the craft and other toasts were duly honoured. We understand this vessel will make her maiden trip to-day, being engaged, ■with the company's gig and another large boat, to carry the company and hon members' on a •picnic up the river, and we sincerely, trust the day will be fine for the occasion,'

Some people talk very much just now about the dullness of the, Thames, and business is certainly not very brisk, but we doubt whether at any time thera was ever more accumulated wealth in the place than, at present. Town property shows no great change, bat in rural land there-has been a steady rise in price for the past two years, and if good land could be procured in any quantity there would soon be a large farming population settled in the Thames Valley,. But. nearly , the whole country, as far as the eye can reach, is one vast wilderness, shut up from-European enterprise by the native owners, and rendered valueless to the colony. Strangers who have never seen the Thames can scarcely • believe that a road does not extend '' up country" a single mile beyond the boundary of the borough. Yet such is. the case, land in the hills at the back of Parawai, belonging to the Church Missionary Society, is now selling readily at from £8 to £10 per acre, whilstflat landof a much superior quality is lying idle a few miles further away in thousands of acres. There are scores of people now residing at the Thames who would be glad to obtain lan<) at a reasonable price—men who have sufficient capital to improve the land, but they cannot get it except in the smallest possible patches and at an exorbitant cost. Our gold goes away to other provinces and even other colonies for the purchase of farm and dairy produce, whereas it might be retained here and be made to sustain a large and prosperous farming population, if land could only he obtained. The Government will not, however, move a single step, and we have to remain satisfied with. barren mountains.

It will be seen elsewhere that a dividend of 7s 6d per share has been declared in the City of London Company, payable at the office of the company next Saturday. . , ;

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Miners' ■Accident Belief Fund was held at the Governor Bowen fiotel last evening. . Present: Captain Bicharda (in the chair), Messrs Comer, Dunlop, Caruie. Apologies were. received from Messrs Harris, Lowe, Donnelly, Crawford,'and. other members. The minutes of last meeting w«re confirmed. There was one case for . relief submitted, 'which was favourably enttrtained. The Secretary stated that the Secretary of the Dramatic Club had informed him tbat the Club would be happy to give a benefit in aid of the fund when tbe committee desired, and he promised to bring it before the meeting. It would be necessary ■ to do something, for the subscriptions were falling off. The Secretary was instructed to write to the Dramatic Club asking them to give a benefit, and fix the time to suit tHeir own convenience.

The s.s. 'Ladybird' arrived from the South on Saturday with the following passengers:— Mr and Mrs Oliver, Mr and Mrs Cooke and child, Mrs. I, Brown, Mrs C. 'Brown and child, Mrs McNamara, Mrs Grant and child, Misses Wilson and Dyson, Hon. Major: Atkinson, iHon, Wikatene, Messrs Buckland (M.H.R.),' F. Barker, C. Overton, Powell, Shannon, Hinu, lully, . J. G. Barker, Beale, F. Allan, T. Upton, Burghoff, Mendelsohn, Owen, Wilson, J. Munro, Hamer, McLean, Anderson,' Charlton, Collins, Gnbbin, Nevin, Staite, Dyson, Lindaner, Barkley, Hunter, and G. Baker, and sixteen in the steerage. •

The Ntio Zealand Times is very severe on Sir George Grey for bis speech in.Otago, and especially for his commendation of Mr Murray, member for Bruce.

The Auckland to contains the following: —"It is with great satisfaction we observe the : altered tone of Press and people at the Thames in relation to the political position. A strong feeling of antagonism to the old Provincialism ' impelled the people of that district to assemble and pronounce on the Abolition proposals of - the Government before the case, was fairly put, and certainly before the true intentions and ability to perform their promises on the part of . the Ministry had been disclosed. The' six and oightpence' of the Treasurer, and—perhaps, even more than this—the glaring and scandalous treatment of the goldfield district in the insulting form in which the representation was amended, have' seemingly opened the eyes of the Thames people to the true character, of the Government, and have restored them to their former love, and now the Advertiser tells us the people there, •have made up their minds to wait for the Opposition programme, and if it affords them a'fair chance of getting a fair share of power in a- local Government for the North Island, 1 and of securing tie goldfields revenue to the district, they will be. very likely to support the programme heartily.' Nor is this all, but:we Jearn that the people-of the Thames have got . up acquisition to Sir George' Grey, and. have determined to ljaye him as their representative in Parliament. We assert that both the one fact and ithe. other are honourable to the ' people of the Thames; and even if the Superintendent decline to leave a constituency which has hononrei him, and- continues to 'honour him, with unbounded confidence, the ' offer of a seat, from the Thames people cannot - '•but be gratifying to Sir. Georg« after the brave • fighting he has done in their behalf. But the Thames is unquestionably doing wisely in waiting to learn the Opposition programme officially, and the expectation implied by our contemporary that fairness would be dealt"out to - the disrtict by a local government for the North Is'and mill not be disappointed, Auckland at - least knows how. her interests are identical with y " those of the, goldfield; and the Thames people may rest assured that justice, and even liberality, are far more likely to be shown them by a Parliament identified only with the North.lsland interests than by one in which Northern concerns must be . wholly subordinate to Southern interests."

A gentleman who has just returned from the Waikato/ and whi paid a visit to the Piako B*ainp rub, the property of Messrs Bnssell, Taylor, Thos. Morrin, Murdoch, and others, epeaka yery highly of the enterprise shown by the purchasers in the extensive improvements, imildingSi i'C,, <fcc., which hare been steadily going on there during the last 18 months. The day our correspondent left 150 head of splendid bollocks arrived on Mr Thomas Morrin's portion of the run,' It is expected that in the courso of a few years the whole provincial market can be supplied with fat bullocks from there. The land seems to be well suited for grazing purposes, and when we recollect the extensive area of the run we can fairly endorse the conclusion of our correspondent. There are several other large buildings r )taken up in the surrounding portion of the district, and altogether this portion of the province is destined ere long to become not only important;.but prosperous. Several of the new arrivals, who proceeded to the Waikato a few weeks backhand who have gone to the Piako, have .'all found employment at draining, ditching, and fencing.—Auckland Star, . ; ' »•: '

- An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Tookey Gold Mining Company will be held at the Royal Hotel, Ballarat, on the 16th of December, for the purpore of empowering the directors to dispose of the property to anew company to be formed, . . •

It is a sign of the times—either of decreasing supply of pccket;money, or an increasing abundance of sense—that Good Templarism has so flourished in Hokitika that there are now 190 members of the Lodge,

The SeraMcorrespondent writing from San. Francisco says" Messrs J. N. Manning and J. P. Clark, formerly of your city, have associated themselves as stock-brokers, under the firm name of Manning and Clark, They hare very handsome offices in the Fafe Deposit Block, They are members of the Pacific Stock Board, and have already received quite an extensive clientelle, Mr Clark's long experience will be of great service .to the firm.' , Their many friends in New Zealand will be glad to hear of the success of this latest colonial enterprise."

■. We regret (says the Coromandd Mail) that much sickness still prevails in Coromandel, as it does in Auckland city and many other places in the colony. The Rev, Mr Bimn, in referring to the Bparce attendance at the Wesleyan Church last Sunday, on which occasion the collection was to be handed over to the Treasurer of the Hospital, spoke in feeling and indeed in eloquent, words as to the cause. It was that parents were absent in; consequence of having to minister to the wants of children lying on beds of sickness, and which maternal solicitude for their" offspring would not permit them to leave;

The 'Prince Rupert,'-ketch, was got off the reef to the N.W. of Motutapu on Sunday morning, after'nearly all the coal had been thrown out. Captain Clayton arranged for the 'Tikapnna' to tow the 'Prince Rupert' to Auckland, and she was brought into harbour at midnight.—Herald.

Snyder, in the last issue of the Goromndel Mail, is very hard on the Katikati settlers,, He says: "The Katikati settlers are, as we, with wonderful prescience, foretold, commencing to ask for more. They get their passage out from home at a quarter less almost nothing; they get sections of land given them, surveyed off free of charge; they had cottages ready erected for them upon their, arrival. They have received many things which old colonists would have been laughed at if they had asked for. Now it is the- special Katikati settlers ask., for a detachment of Armed Constabulary, to be stationed among them, They also demand a road toOhinemuri so as to open the Thames market for their produce. They ask for things from: the Government of the most extreme character, It would not surprise us to. hear they are next asking for black silk gowns'for their wives to go to church in; with a; supply of arrowroot and confectionary for their children, and a ton of Berlin wool that their daughters may iparsue their studies' in the making of ottoman and table covers,"

A correspondent writing from Wellington to a Wanganui contemporary says:— " Miss O'Neill, sister to the member of the House, and Mr J, White, received well deserved testimonials from the musical community here for their assistance in several performances."

Sir D. Mclean has said that he has no doubt that this summer he will.be able to complete the telegraph communication with New Plymouth. He works steadily and persistently, and with his " waiting game" gradually gaius all he wants, It will not be long before he is invited to Kawhia to meet tho Maori King and bring him to the Governor. Then his mission will be nearly fulfilled, and he may retire to enjoy his well earned respite from; work.— fjaimi Herald,

It is rumoured (says the Mount'lda Chronicle) that Mr H. Smythies will woo the Mount Ida constituency at the ensuing general elections. Mr Smythies is the barrister whose name was some years ago struck off the roll in the Supreme Court. ''

Says the Guardian:—" If the Good Templars could only give up their pet scheme of making men become sober, and confine themselves to trying to induce them to become so, we are persuaded. that in time they would be able utterly to subdue the foe against whom they are so manfully struggling. . We cannot l\elp thinking,'too, that the day is not far distant when they must be convinced of the folly of 'legislating' men into sobriety, and when they will exert the whole of their power in a direction in which it can be effectively employed. Much .suasion is their aim, if they did but know it, The more they learn to use this, the more efficient soldiers of Temperance they will become. .

A correspondent writing to the Grey Rivei' Arr/m on the Natal goldfield, says that a man named Livingstone, one of the pioneers of : Tryagain Terrace, actually took 82ozs of gold from his claim, and there were only .three shareholders to divide amongst.. The yield the week previous came to 40ozs, while the average weekly return was between 20:zs and 30ozs, These magnificent results had been obtained for some time, and there was six months' work still to be done in the claim before it was finished, while there was no . reason to suppose the returns would' diminish. There were 10 or 12 claims paying besides this on the creek, while one or two had been, and were, even better,

The Otago High School has always been un* fortunate in regard to its rectors; or rather, its rectors have been unfortunate in regard to it. Mr Simmons had troubles, and left; then there wa3 poor Mr Hawthorne, about whom everybody knows; and now, after a delay in getting a rector from Scotland, that gentleman has not for many months commenced his duties till he meets with the misfortune of getting his arm broken.—Tablet,

A friend of ours, says an exchange, who' suffered severe pains from neuralgia, hearing of a noted physician in Germany, who invariably cured the disease, crossed the ocean and visited Germany for treatment. He was permanently cured after a short sojourn, and the physician freely gave him the simple remedy, which was nothing but a poultice and tea made from our common field thistle, The leaves are macerated and used on the part affected as a poultice, while a small quantity of the leaves are boiled down to the proportion of a quart to a pint and a small'decoction drank before each meal. Our friend says he has never known-it to fail of' relief, while in almost every case it has affected a cure. . » The Government of India is considering a State scheme of life insurance. ■ • •