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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 6362, 10 July 1889, Page 2

A ieoture on the novel and mining intelligence will be found on our fourth page» Tho cable repairing Bteamar Sherard Osborne has arrived at Nelson from Sydnoy, Upon enquiry yesterday we were sorry to find that Sergeant Murphy i« still ously ill. Mr G. Huckeifc ha 3 been elected member of the Waio-Karaka School Committeegvice Mr W. Smith resigned. Meißrs Fleming and Co, will hold their usual sole of cattle and sheep to-day at the Parawai Yardß at 2 o'oloob. A cablegram from London states that the Olan-na-Gael, decreed-the removal of Oronin because he refused to murder Lecaron. Cronin's partner has handed over the books of the Clan-na-Gaelto the London Police,

The following telegram was posted at the corner yesterday from the manager of the Saxonßanked 85ozs retorted gold from 120 loads general quartz.

A rumor was in circulation in Wellington that there was a case of leprosy in the city. Notwithstanding careful searoh the police were unable to find the sufferer.

The annual installation of W.M, and offioers of the Lodge of Light, 1.0:, will take place thisev#ning at the Masonic Hall, Queen street. Visiting brethem are invited,

Mr R. R. McGregor will sell to»day atijll o'clock, at the residence of Mr JSareourt, Pollen street, household furniture and effects,

The total quantity of land under cultiva* 'Hon in New Zealand in February of this year, exclusive of land under grasses, was 1,248,109 acres as against 1,193,427 aores, in the preceding yew.

ilßeafness and noises in the head cured in allits various forms by an easy sure and reliable method. Send for pamphlet (free) to Aural Clinic, 261, Collins»streefc, Mel« bourne,—[Advt],

Donald Macdon&ld, mate of the ship Henry James, has been presented with a medal by Lloyd's sommittoe in acknowledgement of his extraordinary exertions to rescue the crew and passengers of the ship from a desert island in the South Pacific, on whioh they were landed after the wreck of the veasel on an unmarked coral reef, When it was found that there was no water on the island, and no prospect of relief, the captain califld for volunteers to man a boat and try to reach Samoa, some 1300 miles distant, Macdonald and ■ four seamen volunteered, and rcHo '!. e , whence assistance was sent. Macdonald, when he set out on the voyage to hamoa, felt the extreme difficulty of the task ; it waii Hie fact that three of the passengers-two little girls and their mother—wore in a very precarious condition that induced h.m to undertake the hazardous enterprise. The privations of the voyage were fearful: One man had actually sucked his own blood ; others had eaten their boo sand the telescope cover. A writer,in f air Play, oommenting on the affair says: - Onrßoajd of Trade bestowed silver medals on the officers and men of the Maripo.a, whose dnbee : mere y consisted in meeting the boat fiom the island and transfecing the pawengera to tbeir own Bteamer in fine weather ; outt y y declined to take any notice whatever of »ne gallant conduct of the mate, Macdonald 'and his men. I am this; my old friends in Whitehall Gardens have a confirmed instinct for crass blundering:,"—Timaru Herald.