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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3469, 12 November 1879, Page 2

Dr Payne left for Anok'and hat evening ia consequence of a bereavement among his family connections, viz., the death of Mrs Preeos, his mother-in-law. We are informed that Dc Kilgour has kindly consented to takecharga. of the Hospital daring his absence, which may , be for two or three days, Dr Payne sent the following memorandum to the Press yesterday" Bdward Childerworth, butcher, living in Shellback, was foand early thia morning in Shellback Creek senseless; was brought to the Hospital, where I examined him: (eft arm broken; two ribs smashed, their pointed extremities having perforated the lung, causing considerable hemorrhage from month; was perfectly sense'ess, Those who brought him did not know who he was or any* thing about him, 12 noon.—Partially con* scious; does not know how he got to Tararo, or Low? he got into the Greek; last remembers being in Mary-street near 'Hospital.' The case seems likely to hate a fatal termination, and some surprise is expressed that the police on duty in the Tarata Road heard nothing of the man's groans, Oar contemporary states '"this is certainly one of the most suspicions cases of hocussins; and brutal treatment we have had occasion to chronicle for some time," From inanities we have made, 1 however, . we are enabled to state that the case is by no means 89 bad as stated, and that the circumstances in connection with his misfortune can be traced to an entirely different source. However, as the matter stands, we refrain from comment at present. • The Naval Brigade shootists, to. the number of about thirty, competed at the range on Saturday last for prizes, and terminated the aggregate for Mr Little's percolator, and not Dr Andrews', & erroneously stated by " Cymno " in yesterday's issue.. The conditions for win* ning the prize were that it became the property of the highest aggregate scorer in seven competitions,. and was won by Sab-Lieut.. Gordon. The following are the highest scorers —Sub-Lieut. Gordon 377, Seaman Armstrong 375, Lieut. Lawless 363/. P.O. A". Thomas 363. Seaman Parslow 361, P.O. Walker 353. The other prize competed for was the gift of' Mr Leydon to the District, and won by Seaman Parslow for his company. This fell to the lot of P.O. J. Thomas with a score of . 103, fol*' lowed by Lieut. Lawless, with 102. The other scorers were teaman Parslow 102, P.O. A, Thomas'9B, Lieut Gordon 97, P.O. Walker 93, and P.O. Mitchell 98. The ranges fired from for this prize were 200,400, and 500 yards; 5 shots at each range. At the Police Court yesterday, before 5.' Kenrick, Esq, R.M., Michael 'Conroy, junr,, was charged with being drank and disorderly in Browa-'s'.reet, on the previous evening. Mr Dodd appeared for defendant, and asked for an adjournment of the case until this morning,' on the ground that defendant had not had time to procure witnesses to defend his case, There being no objecion made by the police, the re* mand was granted. It is not customary with us to utter any opinion on cases that are snb juiice, but as we bare heard it mentioned that the ou'prit who really deserved arrest on Moudiy more than the lad Conroy was allowed to use provocative language and personal violence without being arrested, we are qoite prepared to bear that grounds will be Bhown for supposing that C>nroy has been made a victim through undue hastiness. , . The following is the state of the Thames Goldfield RoaoiU for the toek ending Bth Nov., 1879:—Remained, 17; admit ed, 3; discharged, 4; <iieH, 0 j remaining. 16 The diseases are as follows:— Zymotio, 4; constitutional, 2; local, 20; developmental, 0; violent; 17. Out-patient?, 26,

>n inquest was held yes'erday, at the Auckland Peel, at 11 o'clock, before Dr Pb'lson, Coroner, to irqiire into the eiici instances under which a giil, named Surah Quinn, gave birth to a ma'e child in a water-clo of, at s cwton, and the br.dy of which child wa # sul Stq »ent*y fou"d • the e. The i quiry was ultimately adjourned until next .Vc day. at the fame pltce, at 2 p.m.. and the jurymen weie bound over in their own ncoqniztnoes to appear on that date. Meanwhile I r Huxtible was instucM by the Coron r to make a postmortem exnmin -tion of the hody of the obild. This was duly done yesterday, but the leuilt will not be disclosed until the inqu»Bt on Monday —Btrald.

Te Wbitl, it. appears, haa in no way lost his inflaonce with his people. He has ' spun them another yarn," and they are fatisfied. it bis last meeting he said that the sMe of sffiifsatthp p'6'ent time re-emb'ei a stream of water, at which 'I oLu stood at one ei>le and the Government and native piisonerf at the other, and they were looking through it trying to see web other. But he (Te Wbiti) was hither op the stream piddling it with his feet, eo as to make it nfuddy, so that Tchu and the Government and the prisoners conH not see through it, With all thi* rigmarole he would endeavour, we presume, to insinuate that it is he who is mystifying the Government, and can alone 'clear up matters. We learn that the reports of great mortality at Parihaka have been considerably exaggerated, and that tbo deaths there have been nothing like what have been represented—several children have died, and an old man or two, but nothing more than usual. Te Whiti says it all will come out right in the long run, Motu, it appears, has been wanting the wives of the Maori prisoners to go to Punebu to live, but le Whiti has objected to their leaving Parihaka, saying that Motu cannot keep them, and only wants them at his place to get money from the Government for their keep,

The Government intend on an early date to deal with the question of establishing OrphanAges in the various citie3 of the Colony,

The Wellington correspondent of tho Timaru Herald says:—"When the Chairman of the Cbristchurch Kleotion Committee brought up his report unseating fir George Grey, and declaring Mr Bichardeson entitled to the seat, Mr Tole endeavoured to move a motion to upset the decision of the Committee. Mr Rielop supported him, but the Speaker ruled that nothing could be done to intercept the report of the Committee, which he declared to be final. In spite of some interruptions from Sir George Grey and others, he put the question that the report be entered on the journals. Sir George Grey demanded a division, and the same confusion followed, owing to Messrs Shrimski, Hislop, and Stewart, who Lad paired with absent Government supporters, wishing to brtak tbeir pairs cn the ground that this was not a Government question. The Premier called upon the members who had paired to leave the House, which thej did after some hesitation, fir George . Grey was aleo ordered to leave the House, and ■when the voices were again taken, an overwhelming majority pave their voice for entering the report in the ■ journals. The Opi oution first called for a division, but then withdrew, The Speaker then ordered tie Clerk of the Writs to come to the table to erase Sir George Grey's name from the writs and enter Mr BicbardsoD's instead. Mr Cooper came in and bowed tothe Speaker. Sir George Grey jumped up and tried to intercept the proceedings by a point of law, The Speak'r ruled him out of order, snd Mr Cooper altered the writ, Sir George Grey still trying to speak. Mr liichardson then came up and took the oath, and when lie went to the table to sign the roll of the House, Fir George Grey again rose and raised, a question of privilege. Be wis very excited, and talked great nonsense.' The Speaker ruled a'solutelv that the decision of the Committee was final, and that his fiction was merely executive. Mr Eichirdson then signed the rol 1 , and took his seat amid loud cheers The Speaker then proceeded to the business on Order Paper, arda violeut wrangle ensued about a memornndum BHii]'to e ift, stati> g the underBranding between the Government and Auckland indipenrienip, Mr entire'y exonerated both the Ministers and tie Auckland membra. The affur only did the Oppoßiiitn Harm."

The Tuapeka lirnt says: 'Be the proposed leductkn* in the falatien of County official?, it is currently rumoured that tbe Committeo have resolved to reommend the amalgamation of the offices of clerk and collector, retaining tbe present deik, xnd increasing bis salary by £fiO. By this tbe present collector will be dispensed with. The same rnmour has it that tbe engineer's salary is to be reduced by £50 She committee did not deal with the important natter of tbeir own and the chairman's salaries. Thi-re rxisis a .widespread feeling tbroughout tbe district that tMs should have formed the IcsdiDg business for consideration. The Council have leceived the,following telegram from the Colonial Treasurer:—'Twenty pei cent, land revenue to September 30lb, and first instalment of sub'idy on rates, will be remitted in a few days. Delay regretted.' the former amounts to about £1000, and the latter to £2173.'

The Wellington Chronicle tbusly itomancea about Mr* Hurst, M.H.E.. one of the Auckland turn-coats:—"When the Earl of Pembroke was in Auckland, some wags, knowing Burst's vanity, wiotehima note signed 'Pembroke,' requesting him to take the nobleman for a drive. At the appointed hour, Hurst had a carriage ready, and eat in gleeful expectation of being in comrany with a real lire lord, The Earl of Pembroke heard of the practical joke, and, taking compassion on poor Hurst, went for the drive, and did not inform him that he fod not rent the note. Next day Mr Hurst met the Earl in the street, and, rushing up, seized him by the hand, exclaiming, 'How do you do, my lord?' The Earl withdrew his hand disdainfully, remarking, 'Mr Hurst, I yesterday wwt for a drive i with you to save you from being the victim of a pratical joke, but that is the limit of our acquaintance."