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Thames Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 4058, 31 October 1881, Page 2

Owners of cnnino pete aliould take wahi. ing from tho proceedings it the Police Court on Saturday, when tho firet prosecutions; under tho "Dog Registration Act, 1880," were heard. This Act camo into force on July Ist, 1881, and is particularly stringent ! as to tho liiodo of identification of tlio owners -; of animals, any parson "who alloyn a dog to' roraaiu upon his promises for fourteen crajs 'i rondering himself-liable, for tho rtpsw' 1 tion. ' t ■ I; Heathery, leathery, rough, tough Tweeds' for romping boys, and working men, «t CloonanV . . . On view at the Show magni- r iicicnt display of New and Choico Soring 1 Goods at Cioosan's. •

Sermons in oonneotion with tho anniversary of St. James's Presbyterian Churoh were preached, morning and evening, yesterday, by thoHov, 8. J.Neill. It had been announced that the' Rev. Mr Runoiman would ocoupy tho pulpit, but illness prevented. In, the morning Mr Neill took for his text 2nd. Timothy, iv., 7i 8. In the evening tho rev. gentleman proaohed from Hebrews, 13th ch,, 6th versa, before a large congregation.' A meeting of the electors of tho Hastings Riding,'convened by tho 'retiring .Councillor, Mr W. L.Thorburn, was held in the . Bohool-house, Tapii, on Saturday evening. Mr Charles Manuel was voted to tho ohiair, and introduced the candidate, who gave an interesting; account of his stewardship. A number of -questions were asked and satisfactorily,'answered, and a voto.of thanks and confidence, proposed by Captain Nowby andseoondodby Mr Steadman, was carried with great acolamation. Tho following tenders (Svere'received'by Thames County Counoit for oontraot No 1 I&rakii road on Saturday.:-Al'.Gough, 1 £64 ■ 10» (accepted); W. Riley, £76 j Smith and Co,, £G9lsff : ; Snsor and Farroll, £79 6s; J, Gribble and party, £09 19a; : J lMngftrid : pjirty,£B4; J.Mallotfc,£6Blss. 1 A is indignant that the ' Thames people should bo asked to accept the . .nominco, of. fir Geo; Grey, instead of being allowed to choose their own man, now that '. the'ex*Preimor;has thought proper to withdraw! from the representation ,o£ tho disWet himself. .Our correspondent enoloses ' from 1 a Northern contemporary • the following. 1 ] 'as;'. an illustration." of the kind., of /interference.,whioh is springing up, and whioh has[ been already shown at the ThamesAt ; the last contested Franklin election, • the • Grey party " shadowed" Mr . Hobbs (the local candidate for tho Bay of Islands constituency), wherever hcj~went, The great Pro-consul was lying and ikfam* iag in one quarter,'whileParnell scavenger . Moss, was '! hounding down" in another locality. The object was te keep Mr Hobbs out' of. the Houso, and it was gained—at least for the time being.—Now we learn that Lundon, accompanied by Moss, M.H.R. for Parnell, is at the present time in Hokianga. No other conclusion can ts arrived at, than that Mos3 is at his old game again. Should Mr Moss,;pir any' Mother' non-elector." dare to stand, ui) arid address:an'audienoe in any fart'^.of .eleotorate with a view of . unmitigated interference in afTain they \ havo ho claim to call their own, wo trust ■,the people will resent the insult in overy •possible way. To be greeted with a shower •' cf rotten eggs would bo a far too lenient ■ reward, ana; a duoking in one of our ' ; numerous swamps is morti applicable to any . oheof Grey's toadies, who get their breadfind butter by the bare skin of their teeth, Interfering here, and wo say tho man encouraging another worthless Parasite .to' . bound down tho ohoson of the majoriiy, deserves no . hearing whatever I Let tho electors stand no outeide bounce. Again have we reason to be proud ofjthe Volunteers of our district. In answer'to . ■ the call of the Defonoe Minister 150 well- • trained men mustered at tho Naval Hall ou * Saturday morning to proceed on aotiro ser--Vice .to the West Coast. It speaks well'for -thti military spirit of the Thames district - / .that at when the depression in min- * ,■ :'ing interests had passed away, so many gal- . , lant' spirits responded to tho call for duty; ■ The physique of the active service contingent 1 which paraded before Major Murray on BaturdayVwas unquestionably good. Our . gallant tars, nearly 70 strong, under Captain ( -E, T, Wildman, looked the beau ideal of a , Naval Brigade. Tho Thames Scottish all ; well knit, • sturdy mon, looked. what they really are—splendid fellowß, thoirj brilliant ■, •' nniformsetting'themofftothe bestadvan- : ; {age.' , They had wisely discarded their full ( dm helmetafpr their more convenient un-' < . dress Scottis - Glengarries.. Thoir. officers , were Captain Peter Johnstone, Captain and ! Adjutant S, O. Schofield and Lieutenant A, , W, Burns; they paraded 61 Btrong, A de- f tswhmentof the Hauraki , Engineers, under , \ lientenant D'. ■E. , O'SulJivaii; twenty- j \ • eight • paraded in plain olothes bnt . fully.'equipped for field sorvioe. Captain j . \ Wildman. formally reported all present and Major Murray mado a keen inspection of the force; then taking up a convenient posi- . tion in the NaVal Hall he urged them to 1 1 maintain the prcstigo of the district in . the manner they lhad hitherto done, i In answer to a query he said he was only i eorry, ho was 'not able to accompany the i (.. expedition, but should they by tho turn of i : affairs be long detained in tho field he i I would ■ assurerly 'be among them, Tho ut- i ■( inost'enthusiasm: prevailed, al- : ' though the gentler sex failed not to use ' their handkerchiefs occasionally in wiping i ; the tears, whioh, in spite of thoir 1 • pride, would find vent. More than once the i lads were bid to hurry up, and leave the ; fond oreatures who olung to them for the ! final adieu. The _ men who havo left for ; active service in Taranakl are by no ' means our surplus population, We are aware of many instances in wHfoh they have thrown up lucratiyo appointment to main« tain the credit of the district. Andßhould more men be required wo feel confident that they will ho forthcoming. Some volunteers who. would perforce have gone, are in 1 Government employ and cannot well be 1 epared,. leave being refused, then} until affairs firove more serious than is at present I anticipated. •. J The'B,B, Arawata left Wellington on Fri- , , day j for Auckland, via East Coast ports. 1 Passengers:-Mrs:Kennedy, Mr and: Mrs Bhannon, Eov. Mr Williams, Messrs MoHhone, Brissenden,Harris, MoAlpine, Storey, j Williams,.and Grant. Arrived : Pleionand , Piako, ships, from London. j , Messrs Grant and Foster's settlers, located , ' at Te Aroho, are well pleased with the land 1 and their prospects. All aro engaged in , building and clearing, Mr Craig has purchased 60 head.o|cattle. ,! Fifty mombers of - this settlement ?ore now on the way from c England. ; s There was some spirited spooulation at 1 tho Chrißtchurch Tattersall's on Saturday on 3 the Victorian Derby run at Flemington on ] Friday. Several hundreds wore booked in ' ; favour of Somnus at 5 to 2 and 15 to 1. 1 •Darebin had plenty of frionds. Tho sup- 1 port aocorded to these two colts, however, j did not weaken Somerset's position, the St. Alban's representative finding- numorous backers at 6 to 4. A private telegram receivedgave the following as Jbo latest bet- / ting:—6 to; 4 againstiSomerset; 7to 2 J against Somnus and Darebin. The Crown Solicitor in Auckland informed i we Resident Magistrate on Saturday that 1 he was not'prepared to proceed with' tho 1 wade oases that day, as he had riot rocoi ved c , an answer from the authorities, but possibly c on Monday,iho would be. in. a position to ' gtate whetner or not any future lotion f would bo taken m tho matter, ' j By the will of an unelo (Sir Arthur Wm. 1 Jleming), who died at his residence, Mont- 1 real, in 1878, Mr.'Michaol j, Fleming, who' 1 has been well known as a bootmaker in ' Dunedin for many years, has become eutitlod J to a fortune of £30,000, arid also to a large ( amount of property in South Africa. Wo ' Understand that Mr. Flcmhjg is making the ( neceasarv arrangements for proceeding to ' Honireal-to claim the monoy and property. ' -'Daily Tim, , J BoVomt/' Diseases, -Tlis *lavmIng increase of death from cholcra and dlarrlioca, ' • ifeoald be a w»rnlng to ereryone to subauo st onct < •ojr tending towardj disease. ! tray's Pilli ihotild novr be In crory household, to ! «ctl/fall impure states of tho blood, to remedy : weskneis, ana to overcome Impnlre general health. Nothing can be simpler than the instructions tor , ttking this correoliTo medicine, nothing more tflicient than lis cleansing poircrs, nothing mora h#rmie4J than tta ifegetftlilalngrcdisuts. Iloltoway'a Is tho best physio dnriug the summer sesson. when decaying' fraiU and uuwholes me Tegetables »ro , - frequently deranging the bowels, and dally exposing thousands, through their negligence in permitting 1 disordered action, to the dangers of diarrhoea, ' djMnterj, and cholera . : . 1

. Tho new Gaming and Lotteries Acli comes i intoforoe to-morrow (Tuesday), j At tho Police Court on Saturday, Timothy l Donovan was oharged with keeping a dog , over the age of six months for fourteen days . without rogisterting.—Defendant did not J appear, but tho Registrar of Dogs, Mr. , Mason, decided to procecd with tho case. , He said ho had seon two dogs, (a bitoh and slut) on defendant's premises about six Tveeks ago, and Donovan admitted the 1 ownership of the animals which had not 1 been registered before or sinoe. Ho did not 1 press for a heavy penalty, this being the first case under tho new aot.-Tho Court inflioted a nominal fine of Is. and costs.— Antonio Saraoh was similarly charged, and denied the ownership of the dog in question. —Mr Mason said tho dog had been continuously .on defendant's premises for six weeks, though it was not on tho ohain.— Defendant said the dog was not his property, but had been left on his premises by a' former lodger in his house. Ho did not know whether it had bson registered or not. —Tho.Court held that defendant was liable under tho Act for not registering tho dog, but pffered to dismiss tho oaso if defendant would.rindertako to register the animal ond pay the costs of the Court.—Dofondant agreed to comply, and was allowed to go. There seems some prospects (remarks d homo paper) of eleotrioity taking tho placo of steam as a motive powor in launohes, yaohts, and e von small boats. The other day M. Fanre might have been scon disporting himself with;two companions in a small boat on the Seine'between tho Pont Royal andjtho Pont des Arts'for nearly two hours, without any visible sign of effort. The boat, which was 17ft. lopg and 4ft. wide, was urged through the 1 water by means of tho eleotrio ourrent. This was supplied by a battery of twelvo Wollastou cells, wnioh weighed about half a hundredweight, and tho! current was passed through a small electromotor no heavier than olbs. Tho powor thus produced amounted to rather morje than'tho force of an able-bodied rower, andjft was utilised in turning a' littlo sorew attached to the stern of the boat in a nicho out out of the rudder. Tho speed attained wais ! about four feet per second, or eighty yards per minute, end tho smoothness of tho motion was very pleasing. There was neither jar nor noise, a condition whioh admirably fits the cicatrical boat, npt only fo'rj pleasure, 'but for sporting purposes, whether angling or wild fowl shooting. Another advantage is that ; the electric apparatus can bo readily applied to any existing, craft with littlo alteration of tho boat.' The experiments are about to be repeated on tho Bois do Bonlogno lake, and if the first success is borne out, wo may. ore long hope to see the novelty adopted oh tho Thames. The Wellington correspondent of tho Otago Daily mm has reason to bolievo that " tho revenue returns for tho year just expired will bo found of the most satisfactory andj encouraging nature, and that the receipts will prove to have exceeded tho estimates, in. nearly overy item of revenue. Customs dues have cpmo in vory well, and when tho full returns aro in I bolievo thoy will show,the receipts from that source to have been.Bomo' £40,000 above tho estimate. Stamps, too, will probably bo found above tho estimate, although the first half-year is always tli'e .worst of tho two, a's banks and similar bodies compound for their stomp duties in January, and these therefore como in <i lump in the Maroh quarter. Land revonuo is also, r understand, in oxoess of the estimate. On tho othorhand, so far as I can judge, railways will be somewhat : short of the estimate, as also probably will tho beer, duty,' owing; to tho summer halfyear being naturally more favourable to beer consumption than tho winter. Howover, on thq wholo it is likely that tho'revenue will prove to have been well above | anticipation, and tho expenditure, below i what was estimated. The latter will bo the i oaso especially on railways, which con- . scquently may be expeoted to show a not t profit quite equal to calculations. The financial position of the'colony, in short, appears to bo very sound and satisfactory . and'progressive." : Tho following appeared in the Melbourne , Advocate The diggers of Temora are about ! the finest speeimon of Irish to be found in Australia.' 'As a rule diggers are nioro independent than persona following otlior 1 callings, and tho. people of. Temora aro no ! exception to the rule, Whilst they are ■ ardont_ nationalists, they aro also dovoted 1 Catholics, as tho erectton of a handsome i church testifies, The munificent donation of £100 subscribed at tho first meeting of the Temora _ Land Leagno testifies to tho | nationality, The ladles of Temora aro not r behind tho sterner sex in thoir devotion to ; tlie national cause. To their credit bo it said they have formed tho first Ladies Land • League in Australia, and havo already £20 1 ready to transmit to Miss Anna Parnoll. The parish priest, Father Slattery, is n true " soggarth aroon," and is believed in by his flock. The priest is worthy of thopeoploand ( tho people of thoir pastor, Some time ags an Austrian ohemist is said to have dovised a new soporific, tho action of whioh is so rapid and powerful that a fow 1 drops of.it sprinkled on tho head, and faco • will effectually stupefy a, man in a few seoonds and rondor him perfectly defenceless. He gavo it tho name of Sandier or ] " tamer," and offered tho seoret of its pre- ! paration for sale to the Austrian Govern- 1 merit. But the Government not only re* 1 fused to purchase it, but has ordered the < police authorities to formally notify, tho. inventor to discontinue his oxporiments, and to abstain utterly from using in any way j his invention, or communioating it to others < under the pain of being criminally dealt with. . ■ ;

■ The Sydney Bulletin has tho following: —"A lady from N.Z. well connected, and of proud carriage, and who has an oxccssivc contempt for Diocipolloi, ianow on a visit to Sydnoy. She brought with her a young Fijian girl of about oleven or twolvo years, who, in tho lady's walks through town was ontrusted with tho duty of marching behind lior mistress in a pago-liko maimer. Howover, tho shoji. windows had a great attraction for the girl, who, wlion hor mistress lookod round, was sometimes missing. Tho lady had thus often to hnnt for hor attendant, whioh detracted greatly from tho dignity of the promenado.' Not many days ago the lady started en graiul tame, and whon near the Supreme Court was most_ terribly iu&iiltod by a country yokel coming up to her, wanting to shake hands, and enquiring as to' the welfare of ' the old man.' Indignantly Bho denied all acquaintance with the stranger, who at last discoYercd his mistake, and apologised thus: ' Beg pardon, missis, but an old mato of mine from the Shoalhaven, an American coloured gontleman, had for a wife a white woman very like yourself—though she mayn't havo been so good looking.* ■ In faot, I recolleot now she hadn't such a foino sot of tooth. I haven't seen'urn for fivo yoars como next August, bnt I knew thoy had a little, halfcasto girl about tho age of this ono hore (who is, bo it observed, was as blaok aa tho aoe of spades), and so I thought I'd speak to you. No offenco, missis, I hope?' And then that Fijian girl got a box on the car for keeping too oloeo to hor 'mis3is.' The darkoy now walks abroad by horsolf." Three gontloraon boro tho namos of More, Strange, and Wright. Paid tho last, " Thcro is but ono raacal in this company, and that ■a Strange." "Yes," answered Strange, , !? J 8 0119 More." "Ay," said More, "that's Wright." Doctor, to a nervous pationt:'" What I Yon are afraid of being buried before lifo is extinct. Nonsense! You take wliat I prescribe, and drivo such foolish notions out o? your hoad. . Such a thing novcr happens with my patients.