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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3237, 6 February 1879, Page 2

i We understand that should Cr. Brassey's 1 seat in the Borough Council be declared vacant, Mr John Osborne intends to contest the vacancy, An election is to be held in Auckland on the ! 7th March to fill vacancies in the Education 1 Board caused by the resignation of Colonel Haultain, Mr D. M. Luokie, and Mr Q. M, O'Korke, M.H.R. The following gentlemen are candidates for the office: James MoOosh Clark, Francis Richard Claude, Theodore Minet Haultain, Frederick Larkins, James Marshall Lennox, and Thomas Peacock. The neatest almanac of the season is that issued by the local agent of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Mr Thos. Veale, It contains a calendar, and also a movable desk calendar, which can be regulated to v fhowtheday and date most conspicuously, It is excellently got up in colours, from the printing office of Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, London,

«• ■- - The HydeV Burlesque Company are to appear for a few nights in Gtrahamstown, opening on Saturday. The theatre-goers of the Thames will be glad to renew their acquaint, ance with Johnny, who has amused them iu his old school sryle in the palmy days of the goldfield. _ We regret to learn that one of the old iden. tities of the Thames, who recently left for Wellington, has not succeeded to his satisfaction, and from the wording of a telegram in another column' it is infprral that some worse calamity has followed. We are told that Jones, a bookseller in Courtney Place, late from the Thames, has disappeared mysteriously. The Jones referred to is Mr J. ?. Jones, for many years proprietor of the school in Mackay-street, and well-known and respected by a large circle of friends here. We sincerely trust the telegraphist has made some blunder, ond that Mr Jones will yet be found behind his counter in Courtney Place, where he has only recently commenced business. Mrs Jones proceeded from the Thames to join her husband a few weeks ago, leaving a married daughter here; "Fair Play "cornea to the defence of our member, Mr Rowe, from an attack in a contemporary, and wishes to make our columns the medium of abuse of such contemporary, This we ohjjct to, and would recommend "Fair yJHay" to send it direct. In justice to our PSjsnber we give the part referring to him ;— ~ "What has he done to dererve this? Is it . because he does uot condescend to do what the proprietor of that print wishes him to, that he should be blackguarded ? I am no champion of our M, H.E., but I say this, give him justice, With all his faults (and he has many) I think he has tried his best for us as a community This I do say, and no one can gainsay it, Mr Rowe has tried and done his best to forward the interests of this place in his position in the House and privately. Therefore, I consider it wrong and contemptible to devote an article in his denunciation totally uncalled for." .

The 'Charlwood,' barque, arrived at Port Chalmers on Monday from Newport, with 1,300 tons of railway material, She left on November 6th, and completed the voyage in 86days. The' James A, Borland,' American barque, from New York, with 1,150 tons of cargo: two-fifths for Lyttelton.

An accident, terminating fatally, happened at Sooth Dunedin on Friday evening, MrNeill Keid, formerly the captain of a coasting vessel, 'was in a paddock about nine o'clock mustering some cows, when a horse kick him. He lay nsensible till four o'clock next morning, and then managed to crawl home. Dr Brown was in attendance. The sufferer lingered till eleven o'clock next morning, when he died,

The following blocks of land in thio province have been passed through the Native Lands Court, and memorials of ownership issued :— Tokatarakiki, containing 164 acres; Mokau •No 2,451 acres; Omanau No 1, 2,633 acres ; Te Totara, 5 acres 2 roods 30 perches; Oropa No 2, 36 acres 36 perches; Tokakapura, 635 acres; Otutaorau, 460 acres; Akitone No 1, 1 acre 28 perches; Patumutuma, 1,409 acres,

Mr M. Hegarty, of Sydney, yesterday purchased two pieces of land situated upon the Mount Eoskill P.oad—one of do acres at £37 10s per acre, the other of nine acres at £30 per acre. The land was leased by Mr Hegarty, immediately after the purchase, for a term of five years.— EcraU.

_ A special reporter of the Bay of Plenty limes isatTaupo, and hss twice interviewed Bewi, He distinctly refuses to answer any questsons, and says the people will know soon enough what he has come for. The insult he offered to . Major Scannell has created a great sensation amongst the Maoris. Eewi has spoken to say he persists in the claims wired through the Press Ageney.

> A requisition is in course of signature, in ; ■ Dunedin, and is about to be presented to the ! Mayor, asking him to take the necessary steps .to give a suitable reception to the Marquis of ; Noimanby, when on his way through Dunedin,

A young, man named Daniel Hulstone was killed at Palmerston on Saturday by a kick from his horse.

■ The Hokitika Star says :—" We learn from good authority that the Union Bank of Australia'has been served with a writ of summons in the Pupreme Court, by Messrs F. A. Learmonth & Co. claiming £20,000 as damages for a breach of the arrangement existing between the bank and those gentlemen."

We (Eo'dfl) learn that Mr J. S. Macfarlane, as trustee in the estate of the late Captain Reid. of Poverty Bay, has given instructions to his solicitors to commence proceedings against MrW. L, Bees, M.H.R., for alleged slander, and damage sustained by the heirs to the estate through certain statements made by Mr Rees at Poverty Bay, and through his advice to natives there. The damages aTe laid at £10,000. The' : whole question will now, in all probability, be fully ventilated in the Supreme Court.

A Wellington paper states that Dr, Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, and formerly Bishop of Auckland, will be the successor of Cardinal Cullen.

The 'Zealandia, 1 E.M. s.s. took the followkg passengers from Auckland. Saloon: Capt. F, Franck. For San Francisco: Mr and Mrs Owen Jones, Mr and Mrs John Home, Mr and Mrs Gorlitz (nee Miss Sherwin), Dr Cbarletdn Fox, Messrs Suridge, J, H. and Gf. F. Postlethwaite, Walter Cook, Steerage: Mrs Mary Martin:and four ohildren, Messrs E. Lowder, Neil Campbell, James Green, D, Gourlay, James Webber, J. M, Thomson, Lische.

Two newly-elected School Committees in Dunedin have been applied to, and have given permission for the school buildings under their control to be used one hour a week for Bible reading classes,

The father of the licensee of Scott's Family Hotel, Christchurch, sliot himself on Tuesday, Mr Scott had returned home to his tea before he committed the rash act. He commenced to scold before the tea, and seemed out of temper, but he afterwards rooevered his equanimity. After tea he returned to his bedroom, and discharged the contents of two chambers of a revolver into his head, He died instantly.

The 'Wanaka' sailed from Wellington on Saturday for Napier and Auckland. Passengers: Messrs Guy, Smith, Finch, Courtenay, Butt, Mr and Miss Belt, Mrs Blick, and Mr and Mrs Day.

We learn that the New Zealand Agricultural Company, which has just been formed in London, with its large capital, has not originated through any commercial disaster, but is an enterprise for "purchasing, improving, manag. ing, and dealing with pastoral and other pro. perties in the colony, and creating settlements thereon," The company is one which it was generally understood was to be floated by Mr Larnach when he left for England more than a year ago, but it was then scarcely thought that it would assume the large dimensions that it now appears to have done. Several large landowners in Otago and Southland have apparently agreed to "throw in "their properties together withtherunsownedbyMrlarnach,andtbusfloat a gigantic land company, with its head quarters in London. The properties to be taken over are, we believe, certain freehold and leasehold estates, as f0110w5:—167,769 acres of freehold, partly under cultivation and improved; 141,675 acres leasehold, subject to wry low rentals, The stock comprises 167,500 sheep, 112 head of cattle, and 85 horses. For these properties and stock the owners have agreed to accept the sum ■« f1.070,000, which is equal to about *S 7s 6d per acre for the freehold, with the leaseholds and improvements thrown in, One of the objects of the new company is, we learn, gradually to breakup some of the estates into farms ranging from 200 to 1000 acres each in extent, and to vigorously cultivate theaericultural portions of the estate which may be letained on behalf of the shareholders The scheme has evidently been carefully considered by the.vendors, bnt whether English capitalists will readily Jie ld to the solicitation to send another million of money to New Zealand upon the terms and conditions set foith in the prospeotusjremains to be seen,— EeraM,

The s.B. ' Rotorua' left Auckland on Tuesday for Sydney. Passengers :—Mr and Mrs Glover and family (5), Mr and Mrs Ford, Rav and Mrs Compton, Mr and Mrs Cohen, Ur and Mrs Edge, Mr and Mrs Cossell, Mrs Barnes, Mrs Bevan, Mrs Benhamo, Misses liullivant, Carey, Saundcr, Bennett, and Mary Rrowu, RevT. Bennett and Father Dakin, Messrs Wright, Martin, Jacobson, Andercon, Crecde, Brown, Haberfc, DeGatne, Williams, Webb, Connor, Henderson, Jos. Ching, Grundy, Doherfy, Bowie, McLaughlin, F. O. Mortyne, Hayes, Benhamo, Duvalli (2), Hewlinss, Calles, Lloyd, J. Macfarlane, and J. A, MoI aren,

, Lara, Laertes, Danebury, and Longlaods are the only four backed at present for the Wellington Cup race in Wellington to day. The latest betting is-Lon glands 100 to 25; Laertes, 100 to 25; Mufti and Lara, 100 to 25; Diver, 100 to 8; Rata, 100 to 6; Sailor, 100 to 5; Lady Grey, 100 to 5.

The following general entries for the Dunerlin races were made on Saturday night:—Hurdle Race: Loyalty, Laertes, Shillelagh, Larrikin. TeWhetu, Danebury, Agent, Eversley, Dalesman, Kildare. Novel Race: Exile, Jack the Flat, Larrikin, Moose, Numa, Rosemary, Swede, Dumtroon, Tommy, Steeplechase: Loyalty, Te Whetu, Agent, Kversley, Dalesman, Kildare. Footscray Handicap: Chancellor, York, Vampire, Fishhook, Natator, Venus Transit, Templeton, Titania, Sinking Fund, Pata, Maroro, Lara, Baiardo. Dundee, Fallacy, Sanpbire Laertes, Sir James, King Phillip, Cloth of Gold, Dead Heat, Nemo, Foul Play, Oberon, Atlantic, Flying Handicap: Chancellor, York, Vampire, Fishhook, Natator, Venus Transit, Undine, Templeton,' Maritana, Sinking Fund, Maro, Blue Peter, Boadicea, Sapphire, Laertes, Benjiroo, Foul Play, Deone, Oberon, and Atlantic,

The sale of the Wellington reclamed land by Mr Duncan began yesterday. A corner allotment fronting Lambton Quay fetched £63 per foot, the highest, to £40 the lowest, averaging £47 for the first block. The four lots adjoining Mills' foundry were bought by Mr Wright (supposed to be for Mills), at an average of £53 per foot; four other lots adjoining averaged £61 per foot. The corner lot, Featherstone aud Whitmore streets, fetched £154 per foot, but a short frontage with a good depth. The rest is now averaging about £45 per foot;

The London Times in a paragraph drawing attention to the projeoted holding of an International Inhibition at Sydney, 1379, takes the opportunity to give 'particulars of the population of New South Wales, and a concise statement of its resources—pastoral, agricultural, mineral, and industrial. A survey is then taken of the population and resources of the Australian colonies as a whole, It is pointed out that she now contains a population greater than that of the United States when they first acquired their independence, whilst the trade the Australian colonies is twenty-fold or thirty fold greater than that of the American colonies at the time of the revolution. The Tirim farther reminds its readers that New South Wales is the eleventh State in the world for revenue, and that Australia is fifth on the list of purchasers of English manufactures/

_ The Leeds Mercury thinks the departure of six hundred Mormon converts, for Utah is a somewhat rude awakening Irom the belieflhat the_ education of the people is a sure safeguard against religious delusion. Of these six hundred men and women two hundred have been converted by the Mormon agents in England, fifty in Wales, and forty in Scotland. The other moiety were converted in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.. The attempt to convert the Irish failed, and the southern parts of Burope do not appear to have afforded successful fields of labour for the elders who have been sent to the .Old World'to'propagate the great religious, imposture of the New. The hard-headed inhabitants, of the north of Europe alone seem amenable to the persuasive tongues of the elders, and; we have.to confess with something like humiliation'that Leeds'has'• contributed some twenty converts to the baud which sailed in the 'Wyoming! on Saturday, i -