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Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3562, 13 March 1880, Page 3

The appointment of A, J. Allom, Esq., as registrar under the " Registration of Electors Act," is published in the Gazette of*Marck £— l'he application to register the New Whan G.M. Company appears in the Qazdit of the same date.

From the offer of a reward of £5 advertised in another column it will be gathered that a most wanton, mischievous, and dastardly act has heen committed in the town, and we trus': the perpetrator will be brought to justice. It appears that the musical instruments belonging to the band of the Rifle Hangers have been wilfully destroyed; The discovery was made last Monday evening, but as a clue was presumed to be in possession of the officers the outrage was not at once made public-

The directors of the Moanataiari Goldmining Company have purchased the property known as the Big Pump from Mr B. Comer, and have commenced pumping operations under the name of the Moanataiari Pumping Association, and the several companies interested will be called upon for contributions, under assessment, from the Ist insti The cost of pumping is estimated at £300 per month, and if the companies interested pay up their several monthly contributions regularly, there will- be no difficulty in keeping the pumps going constantly. The company's manager will, we understand, oall upon the companies concerned during the present week, in order to obtain their approval to the assessment list made out by the directors of the company:—Caledonian Company, £30 per month; Cure, £15; Crown Princess, £10; Don Pedro, £210s; Golden Calf, £25; Golden Crown, £10; Inverness, £5; Kuranui Hill United, M 0; Moanataiari, £60; Manukau, £5; Prince Imperial, £10; Bed Queen, £10; Tookey, £10; Waiotahi, £25; Queen of Beauty, ilO. If the above assessments are not agreed upon, application will be made to the Warden, under the Mining Districts Act, 1573, to enforce the rate levied.—N.Z. Herald.

The cricket match Married v. Single will he played to-morrow afternoon at Parawai. The players will be the same as. advertised for last Saturday. A practice is necessary before the team goes to Coromandel.

Tenders for the repair of the Tararu sea wall are,'called for, They must be in by Monday, at 4 o'clock,

To-day, at noon, is the time fixed for receiving tenders for the new Girls' High School building, &c., in Mary-street. They must be dent to the chairman of the Board of (governors, at the Borough Council oflice3,

The tenders required for tributes in the Alburnia should be sent in by noon to-day.

The anniversary sermons of the Grahamstown Wesleyan Church will be preached to-morrow, by the Bev Shirley Baker, mis ionary from the Friendly Islands, The soiree is to be held on Tuesday next, and promises to be very attractive.

. A meeting of the officers of the various Volunteer companies in this district is to be held this evening, at Mr Lawless's, to arrange for the reception of the Carbine Champion, Mr Thoma?, and of the other Thames representatives at the late competition at Nelson. A ball is proposed ia connection with the reception,

The report of the Charitable Aid Committee of the Thames Borough Council, presented on Thursday in reference to the proposed bridge leading to the Orphanage, stated that "The Committee have examined the plans for a bridge over the Kauaerans»a Creek leading from the County road to the Orphanage, pre. pared by the Foreman of Works and Mr It. N, Smith, respectively. Uoth are for wire sua? pension bridges/ In addition to the wire rope kindly given for the purpose by the County Council, tho cost would be from £65 to £100, according to'the plan selected and the point of the stream chosen at which the bridge shall cross. The Committee have not yet determined the most suitable spot for this purpose. •

Mr J. Brown has been engaged for the last day or two experimenting on the shore in front of the Kuranui battery with a machine, which is worked by water power, to find out the best practical method of elevating tailings and similar material. So far the experiments have been very successful. A detailed account of the machine and its workings will appear iu our columns when the desired end has been reached, The gale on Thursday night made sad havoc with the shore embankments on the Tararu road, For a distance of abont fifty yards, _ commencing at the Tararu School, portions of iki'the embankment were entirely swept away. The woodwork is in many places smashed in, and the uprights, either lying on the beach or hanging very loosely from the logs of wood on which the tram lines are laid, The cars employed in moving stone from the Tararu quarry for the reclamation works cannot proceed with the work, owing to the damage done to the lines, which in a few places are sunk some feet, below She level of the road, and completely undermined, It will take some days before the embankment can be properly repaired and the line put in working order. The s.s. Zealandia took the following passengers for Sydney:—Dr P. S. Jones, Judge Wilscn, Messrs A. Bennett, B. L, Jones, J, Cunningham, James Cunningham,,J. Thompson, James Ogilvie, W. E. Moore, W, J. McDowell, and B. J, Keene.

lhe Siß. Arawata took the following pas. songera for the South For (iisborne—Mr Eewberry- For Napier—Messrs J. T. Norman, J. Nayhua. ■ For Wellington—Messrs J. Ml, A, Neilson, B. Robertson. For Lyttelton—Mrs ami Miss Mary Wilkinson, Messrs Wilkinson (2), A, Charles, A. Martin, For MelbourneMessrs Barry O'Neill, H. 'i'emplcman, 11. Kourke, For Dunedin—Mrs Cramp, Misses Boskruge (2), Miss Gillies, Messrs Iloskruge, and Joaty. -Tosh Billings' Philosophy,--Mothers and grandmothers, when you want your friends to use Mi:Go\v,\.n'.s lis Tka, 'just skirmish ahead on that line yourself.' Una pound of his cxwupta is worth a cartlead o£ nvc« cepU,

The Giccllt announces the dismissal of Majoi Kemp for "disobedience of orders and turbulent conduct."

Ilis Excellency the Governor wishes to contradict the statement that be is the owner of. or has auy interest in, horses at present mulling on tho turf. The only thoroughbred possessed by his Kxcellency is the colt by Thunderbolt, out of Lyra, recently purchased from Mr R, H. I). Fergusson, of Gorton, near Cambridge. Tlio John Bull and Loch Dee arc announced to sail for Auckland on the 3rd prox Neither of them will carry passengers, but the latter has on board a very line Marine steam engine, for one of the Auckland and North Shore Ferry Company's boats,

The New 'Zealand Gazelle, issued on the 4th instant, contains a proclamation by the Governor, constituting a series of districts in this province as districts uudcr the Marriage Act Amendment Act, ISSB. The districts constituted are the Hamilton, Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Tauranga, Thames, lltglau, and Wairoa districts,

The settlers of Waitoa have had a meeting and adopted a petition to the Minister for Public Works, urging that tenders be called for the continuation of the-railway line to the Thames or Waihou river.

Information of a reliable nature (says the Wanganui Ilcrdcl) has been received in town to the effect that surveys of native blocks up the river will not be permitted, Quits 30 out of every 36 native owners are opposed to the continuance of the surveys, and will resist even io the use of arms. In connection with the turning off of Mr liarkley the natives had two days' korero, aud finally decided to stop all surveys for the future. The result of the korero has been communicated to Mr Barklty by "Hakarw, Of course, if surveys are not allowed to proceed native land purchases cannot be completed, aud so the Government of tlie day will at once assume the position of repudiating the bargains of their predecessors.

Dr Skae has been gazetted Inspector of Hospitals and Charitable Institutions for the Colony of New Zealand.

k correspondent having asked the Ilawks Bay Herald whether the borough of Sapier could sport a coat of taring, that journal replief, " We are not aware of any, but it is about'time we had one. We suggest as appropriate the figure of a judge in wig and gown, seated under a canopy ' In bankruptcy' on a scroll underneath The judge might be blindfolded, with a pair of scales in his hand, with ' liabilities' on the lower scale and 'assets' (very shadowy,) on the one kicking the beam."

The statements made by Mr Burke, Mr Storey and others at the last meeting of the Cambridge Farmers Club if they prove anything, prove conclusively that the Government has been guilty oE the greatest supineness in regard to the outbreak of Pleuro. In allowing the report that the disease had broken out in this district, to pass unheeded so far as the taking of any practical measures are concerned, is an act •of the grossest injustice to the settlers, whose anxiety upon so' serious a subject it was surely the duty of those in authority to allay. With the appointment.of the Cattle Board, we may look for a better state of things, our only hope being that the wretched policy of procrastinion pursued by the Government, has not permitted the evil effects of the disease to spread,-—IF®. Icato Sims.

"/E?les" tells the following story:—'You have bee D,' said his Worship to the gentleman in the dock, ' guilty of • a very perious offence, for which you must be imprisoned without option of fine.' Then, turning to his t fellow justice, he said in a stage whisper, quite within the hearing of the prisoner, ' I think a fortnight in the lock-up will meet the case. What do you say? 1 His worthy brother Magistrate coincided, but the constable in charge of the station pointed out that circumstances, which need not be mentioned, rendered a prolonged incarceration in the look-up impossible. 'Well,' again whispers his Worship, ' it's hardly worth while sending hiui a hundred miles to gaol for only a fortnight—serious expense to Government, you know—let's give him a month.' And they did!

The Southland News learns that several samples of alabaster have been fouud recently in the limestone quarries above Winton. Mr Pirie, ebeinist, Winton, who has h;ul a lump pounded into powder, pronounces it a very clean good sample, very similar to • the piece sent from the same locality to the Paris Exhibition which was valued at about £80 per ton, As yet the mineral has been fouud only in isolated pieces. Alabaster is known scientifically as a form of sulphate of lime, and also of carbonate of lime.

The awakened interest in Celtic literature is remarkable and promising. Last year the Universily of Edinburgh established a Celtic chair, and we learn that the University of Paris will follow snit in 1880.

THE THAMES VALLEY RAILWAY, At a meeting of Waitoa settlers, last Saturday, under the presidency of Mr Gould, a memorial to the Minister of Works was carried, The following is an extract from it:—"Sir,—The memorial of the undersigned settlers in the Waitoa, Piako and Thames Valiey, respectfully showeth.—That whereas there is an unexpended balauco of £75,000 of a Parliamentary vote for the Waikato-Thames Railway, of which only £10,000 is required for the first scction of 14 miles from Hamilton noiv contracted for, That the section will be of little or no value or aavantngo until the line is extended to the Thames. That the formation and construction of the next section to the Waihou or Thames river, passing, as it does, through a level plain, can be rapidly made, and probably and most economical in the colony. That as soon as this section, and that already contracted for are completed, this line would immediately come into profitable occupation, and would open up and render more valuable for settlement a large extent of Grown Jands in the magnificent valley of the Thames. That the opening of this line would remove the reasonable complaint of the settlers in this part of the colony, that while their land and property are taxed to make good losses on railways constructed elsewhere, they do not participate in the advantages of railway communication, That it would thereby do justice'not only to them, but would be advantageous to the colonists of New Zealand generally, by promoting settlement, and thus by increasing the tax-payers would to some extent relieve the burden of taxation to all. That it would render the services of the Thames Volunteers immediately and promptly available for the suppression of native disturbances, and thereby save much of the cost of Constabulary defence forces, and tend greatly to assure the maintenance of peace in the colony,

POLICE CO U RT.~Yestekday, (J'.oforc JIAKKY KIiSRICK. Ksi)., Neglecting to tiupjoM a L'aiuly.— John j/ifzgibbons was charged, at the instance of Mr J» B, Mason, Believing Officer, with neglecting to support his wire and family. Tho Kelicviin>, Officer stated that Airs Fitzgibbona had applied to him for relief on the 28th Dec. la-it, and ho had giren her temporary relief. Defendant was out of employment llu-Gui-h his own intemperate habils. wu; again ap. plied for relief on the 2nd of March, a-id Tviia at the present time rciseivinij relief from the Borough. )iis Worship naked if the defendant's vrife wa;, in Coiirt to substantiate the cridence oi ihe* j'elievinc ; Officer, In reply Air Mason stated that she was not, but if liss Worship would remand the ease until to-morrow he would bring her to Court. ]iem&u<iei\ accord'