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Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3571, 25 March 1880, Page 2

The p.s. 'Te Aroha,' which was to have left S-i for Oliinemuri yesterday afternoon, was detained for inspection by Mr Nancarrow, and.did not get away until this morning's tide, about 3 a,m. She will take up her usual time from Oliinemuri to-day, Mr Nancarrow, C.E., arrived yesterday per Botomahana to inspect the local steamers, and re-issue certificates for the same, after inspection and adjustment of steam regulations. There's nothing like telling a lie and sticking to it seems to be the maxim of our comtem* porary. .Referring to the Whau and onr strictures on the previous day's notice, our contemporary says 'the statement cannot be contradicted,' although no attempt is made to apologise for the con? duct of a reporter who tells us that "he was not favourably impressed with the prospects of the ■ bottom," when he was not near it. We are also told by our contemporary that " duty calls upon them to state facts as they found them." We can only cay, then, that our contemporary is constantly guilty of the sin of omission, and notably so in the instance in question. Breaking down will take place in the mine to-day, and we would advise our contemporary to send up a special commis« sioner able to detect gold and no mistake, be« cause it will be there, notwithstanding the opinion expressed in Saturday's Star, We may also state that crushing the general stone will commence ou Monday, and the month's yield (really only three'weeks' from tho com* mencement of operations in the mine) will he known on Wednesday. It is expected to b$ 1200 ounces,

A meeting of citizens convened by his Worship the Mayor met at the Pacific Hotel last night, to make arrangements for the entertainment of Waikato visitors on Tuesday. The Mayor, in opening the meeting, stated that the officers of the Volunteer force had come forward in a public spirited manner, and made arrangements for the due entertainment of the guests on Easter Monday, and it now devolved en the citizens to provide for their amusement on the following day, Tuesday, It was propose I and carried that a ball be given in the Academy of Music on that night, and a committee was formed to carry out the same, It is not improbable that a musical entertaiument will precede the ball, that non-dancers may have their fair share of amusement.

The third annual Sunday-school convocation, in connection with the Sunday School Union, will be held to-morrow (Good Friday) in the Presbyterian Church, commencing at 10 a.m. In the evening a soiree in connection with the some will be held in the new schoo'-room of the Shortland Wesleyan Church, when addresses on school work will be delivered by various speakers. The only business at the Police Court yesterday was the punishment of a bushman for drunkenness. Mr Kcnrick occupied the Bench, The fortnightly sitting cf the Resident Magistrate's Court will take place to day inst-ad of to-morrow, Good Friday being a Government holiday. There are only four or live cases set down for hearing. A feature in Monday's field-day will be the sword exercise and pursuing practice of the Waikato Cavalry. Lieutenant Johnsm of the Harai'ton troop, has been on the review ground, and chosen a convenient course for the erection of dummy 'heads,' which will be severed whilst the horsemen are at the 'full career of the pursuit. This drill in military parlance is termed 'heads and posts practice,' wooden dummies being fixed to represent both mounted and dismounted foeinen. Under Instructor Carley, many troopers of the regiment have acquired considerable skill at this difficult feat of horsemanship. Lieut, Johnston, the advance agent of the Waikato Cavalry, yesterday arranged with Mr John Connell to provide fodder and stabbling for all the Cavalry horses. Stables will be erected for their special convenience on the reclaimed ground, Grahamstown. Billets for the men have been provided as follows The Hamilton Troopers—so men: SO Symington's Hotel, and 30 Allaway's; Te Airamutu Troopers—so men! 20 Quint's, 20 Vaughan's, 10 Williams' Hotels; Cambridge Troopers— (JO men: 20 Constant's, 10 Mcllhone's 25 McKee's Hotels. The accident sustained a few days ago by the Hon the Native Minister, and briefly recorded in our telegraphic columns, was a rather peculiar one. Mr Bryce was standing on the platform of a railway carriage when he Buddenly felt one of the sinews of the leg "giye way," causing him considerable pain and loss of power in the limb, He at once received suit, able medical attention, and made his' way with all practicable speed to his home near Wanganui, where he is now recruiting his Strength,

Considerable excitement was caused in Albert street at noon yesterday by a pair of horses bolting with a carriage, The vehicle and animals were the property of Mr William Baker, and were being driven along Pollen-street to Grahamstown when the reins broke, and the hones, feeling themselves free, dashed along the streets at a furious rate. The driver, a young man named Patterson, never lost his presence of mind, but clambered on to tho back of one of the bolters, and caught hold of the headgear of the runaways, by means of which he succeeded in pulling them up at the cab stand near the Pacific Hotel. At one time the spectators feared an accident would take place, as the animals were drawing the carriage in all directions, but the coolness of the driver prevented any catastrophe. The only other occupant of the vehicle was a young man connected with the Bank of New Zealand. The schooner Saxon, from the Tliames, which got ashore on North Spit at Kaiapoi on Saturday, floated during the night, but by unaccountable means got on the South shore opposite the signal station, where she now lies part of her cargo of timber was landed. The representatives of the South British and New Zealand offices were down to decide what steps should be taken. The vessel is much strained, and is making a quantity ot wa'er. She is, however, well insured, and is out of the reach of the sea, except at the top of high waler, when an easterly roll comes right in upon her over the bar, The cargo of timber is insured in the New Zealand Insurance Company for £170. The schooner is insured for £750 in the South British, and is valued at £1350, She was built at Auckland.

Mr George Fenwick, managing director of the Olago Daily Times and Witness (Jo, has been committed for trial for sporting libel on Mr 6. G. Stead. The Wellingl on tramway has been sold to E, V?, Mills, ironmonger, for £19,250. We understand that a very large number of ladies, tome 40 or 50 we Iwve heard, will take the opportunity of leaving Onubu by the steamer Mem Sahib, at 1 o'clock on Friday nejt for Grahamstown, to be present at the review on Easter Monday. The steamer will be made as comfortable as possible for their accommodation. Omabu can be comfortably reached on Friday morning, either by catriapc or on horseback, from both Hamilton and Cambridge and quite a bevy of the fair from the latter place intend to grace the review with their presence. None probably will be more glad to learn this than our Waikato Volunteers themselves.—Waihto limes An address to Mr'Sheehan, is being extensively signed at Hawkes Bay, and subscriptions are being raised towards a testimonial to be presented to him in recognition of bis many public Hervices. B. M. Williams, Esq,, R.M., of the Bay of Islands, retires on his pension after the end of the present month; Marsh Brown's income is reduced from £140 to £40 per annum, and Mr James Tautari (Native Assessor) is to receive £20, instead of £40, as formerly. Speaking of the Eoyal Commission on Locil Industries, the Post says:—Popular rumour classes the respective opinions of the individual Commissioners as follows Messrs Bain and Wakefield, freetraders; Messrs Burns and Tinnie, in favour of a moidfied form o! protection for certain industries; Mr Murray holding a middle course,

Messrs Grant and Foster, the Lincolnshire ; farmers' delegates, returned from Waiwera yesterday, and left for Waikato to-day to make a further examination of the Te Aroha block. They leave for England by the outgoing San Francisco steamer, but will not make any leporfc on the colony until they get home, when they intend to report at length on the advantages offered by different parts of New Zealand to intending settlers,—Auckland Star, We are informed that the attempt to raise the s.B. Taupo will be made within the next few days. It seems that whilst the diver was at work he discovered that one of the rudder chains was firmly fixed between the rocks. As these chains are of considerable strength this vrould effectually anchor the vessel in her present position, and possibly this may account for the failnre of the previous attempts, Now that this chain has been severed we may hope to see the vessel safely removed—B.P. Timet. The credit system is the subject of a leading article iu the Daily 'limes, in which that paper says:—'We have it upon the cautious and reliable authority of one who speaks from experience, that, omitting altogether the larger retail grocers, drapers, Ice., in Dunedin who mix the wholesale in many cases with their retail business—the smaller retailers, a very host, lying thickly along Princes and George streets, and streets contiguous and suburban, have on their books about an average of from £1000 to £1500 each, and that the aggregate of book debts cannot be much, if at all, under a sum ranging from £200,000 to £300,000, s»y a quarter of a million sterling, apart entirely from current bills of exchange under discouut by the banks,',

We hear from Taupo, says the Daily Megraph, that Tongariro is in a state of volcanic eruption, emitting vast volumes of smoko and showing a lurid glare at night. No good view has been obtained of ths mountain since Tuesday last from Tapuaeharuru, offing to the cloudy weather. It is now nearly eleven years since Tongariro was in a state of extreme eruption.

Among the various contrivance which go under the nams of punts adorning the rivers of this part of the colony, none, we imagine, cm present a more grotesque aspect than that over the Waihou river at To Kawana, near Omahu. Those at Te Rore and Whatawhata are bad enough, but the arrangement at Te Kawana puts "them completely in the shade, The Wsihou has the reputation of being the longest unbridged river in New Zealand, and we question much whether in the matter of a punt it is not just as badly off, The contrivance doing duty at the present is a flat bottom barse about twenty feet long by eight feet broad, worked by means of a wire rope to which it i* attached by a short piece of line which enables it to praent i>a side to the current There are no railings along the sidej and so unstable does it appear to be that a restive horsa would have no difficulty in upsetting it. It is fortunate that th j river at this point is very shallow, or we veiy much question whether anybody would be found with sufficient courage to venture upon the punt at all. Now iliat the districts of the Waitoaand Piako arebfeomiug of importance it is h'gh time that some better method of transport was adopted to conn*ct Waitoawith tbo Thames. ft main ro id between two such importaut districts ought not to be left with such an obstacle. We apprehend that the cost of a traffic bridge at thij point would bs very little, but if the Thames County Council, in whose district the ferry is, cannot see its way to erect this, it ought at once to provide a punt which could be worked with safety, and which sbouM be more worthy the appellation.—TfaiMo limes. >

The Haukt's Bay Herald is responsible for the following, which is hoped will serve as a warning to those penurious persons who cannot spare a few coppers weekly to purchase a paper: —"A certain man got mad at the editor and stopped his pape\ The next week he sold a'l his corn at four cents below the market price; then his property was sold for taxes because he didn't read the sheriff's sales; he lost 10 dollars betting on Mollie McCarthy tea days after Ten Brocck had won the race; he was arrested and fined 8 dollars for going hunting on Sunday, simply because he didn't know it was Sunday, and he paid 300 dollars for a lot of forged rotes that had been advertised two weeks and tt'e public cautioned not to negotiate them, He then paid a big Irishman with a foot like a Dcrrick to kick him all the way to the newspaper office, where he paid four years' subscription in advance, and made the editor sign an arrangfment to knock him down and rob him if he ever ordered his paper stopped again."

It appears we are ia error in stating in Tuesday's issue that Mr John Brown was the inventor of the tailings elevating machine he has been experimenting with on the Kuranui beach for some time past. The invention is an American one, and Mr Brown's object in trying it was to see whether it would act with the Blue Spur and Gabriel's gully tailings deposit, which he is convinced it will.

tJdolpho Wolfe, the artful gin advertiser (says a writer in the Press) states that one bottle out of every hundred contains an order on the agents for £1 under the protection wrapper. Until recently this statement has been received with some caution, but a distinguished Potonian victualler actually found the order, presented it, and got the money. Since then all the bonifaces have ttken to tearing off the Wolfe labels themselves, and I hope soon to record another find. Jfivery pound is of assistance these'times, even to a bonifacc. A writer in the Dunedin Star of Thursday evening gives a lamentable account of the affairs of this city. He says' In pissing down George-street and Princes street to-day between ten o'clock and eleven o'clock I was astonished at seeing the crowds of men at the corner Of every street. I turned back, and between Stafford-street and Moray Place 107 men all seemingly idle. I then made it my business to enquire of some of them what trades they were, and was surprised to find blacksmiths, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, masons and almost every trade that could be mentioned, All were out of employment, and all said they were willing to do anything, while most of them were willing to take almost any . wages they could get.'

The ex-Premier (says the ' Loafer in the Street') has on more than one occasion had reason to utter the oft repeated wish, ' Save me from my friends,' but what will the old man say as he reads his remarks as reported by a leading Auckland paper. George was speaking as a founder of a college to a very high toued audience, and this is what the wretched printer makes the old man say, 'Letus-ifleH for a moment what a celestial gift this life is if rightly ufeed. Life, if we «ill it, is a beneficent immorality.' Poor George, Ido honestly believe, meant immortality, and, for sever-d reisons, I do thing its real rough on him that he should have been si misconstrued He. has the right of reply, however, and what a sweet boon that is to Sir George Grey. 'i

If we want to put a stop to Sunday trading, we must do it on a general footing; picking out here and there an individual ca'ling for the exorcise of our talents in petty legislation will do more harm than good, and we sball cut but sorry figures, even as laughing stocks, in the eyes of our neighbours. In the present dearth of political opportunities we commend this subject to the grave notice cf the present Ministry. Such a measure as ' Hall's Stale Fruit Bill,' or Rolleston's 'Sunday-drinking and Buggy-driving Act,' would undoubtedly meet all due ■ attention and the promoters would earn the thanks of a grateful country. In the dim future the picture of the Hon J. Hall, in bronze, with a basket of dried apples pendant, or Mr Kolleston, with his pleasant beardless smile, on an old li7ery stable horse, in stone, with brass tablets to match, should surely be sufficient to induce carefullegislation on this important matter.

The " Loafer in the Street" saysA correspondent writes to one of the leading English journals in reference to >'ew Zealand. She asks "What sort of climate it is, and what clothing would be suitable for a young lady going out in January?" If this should catch the eye of the lady inquirer she can reckon that the climate is perhaps best described as unreliable, and in regard to clothiug, she would eventually give more satisfaction to herself if she brought two wardrobes-one adapted for the North Pole and the other for Aden on the Red Sei. She will have frequent opportunities of wearing both en the same day with perfect comfort. She can bring any independent hair she may possess with- her. They wear it here just the same as in England—stockioga too. Referring to the Ballarat Juvenile Exhibition the Post saysA rather unexpected award is made to Miss C. C, Macfarlane, of Jackson's Buy, in the shape of a first-class certificate for a crochet quilt. The singularity is not that the young lady iu question should be preeminent in the crochet art, but that she should be a resident in a place that is supposed to be the terra incognita of this colony, where barbarism only is supposed to prevail. Truly there must be hope for the Jaskson'a Bay settlement yet. The Wellington Evening Post of 6th inst,, in its leading article, shows the net increase of . our population since the 30th of June last, and up to the 31st January, 1880, to have amounted to 14,180 souls by way of immigration. Not very short of one half its number, namely 6491, have arrived in Dunedin alone, in excess of departures. The article in question points out the urgent necessity of taking into consideration the means by which the great excess iu the supply of labor may be met, to enable the colony to tide over the coming winter. It is to be hoped that the emergency will be successfully grappled with before it is too late. Josh Billings' Philosophy.—Mothers and grandmothers, when you want your friends to use McGowan's 3s Tea, 'just skirmish ahead un that.line yourself.' One pound of his example is worth a cartload of precepti,