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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6604, 8 May 1890, Page 2

I'; We understand that a syndicate has Deea formed to ereot a twenty stamper bittetyasKuiatuia at an early date. .cellenfc tbuige, for thoso who.knowW to Wectate their value.' There ae me

Mr Trembath. of the Thames Dairy, hi a business notico in this issue, ; ; ,. ? To all tea drinkers requiring a pood' tea combining flavour and pungenoy be suro and ask vonr grooere for Brown, Barrett, & .Go's celebrated packet te:is' Sold in retail packets by your storekeepers and not by Tawkers, Wholesale at BitowN, BAbkeit- & Co. lliot street.—[Advt ) At tho County Connoil last .evening Cr. Brodle, in' moving that the balanoe sheet be referred to Registrar. General took oocasiou to ; compliment Mr Hollis', the County Clerk upon the olever way in which.,the.aooounts,.wero. put,,,shoeing everything under its propor head. It was an exceedingly creditable'.piece of .work' mnst have tatten a great'deal ot'trouble and occupied.much.thna... .... „..._.,...„.. When tho horses bo'.ted with Bradley and Co's ooaoh at Puriri, the other day, Nat Ferguson the driver stuck to Ws tram with great pluck, aud it was only when tho coach got jambod between a telejraph post and tho fenco that ho Bprung to the ground to look after the horses, It occupied a team of horses two hours to release (he coach from the positioa in which it was fixed, , The fog signal at the famons Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the East Coast of Scotlind exploded on the night of April Cth 'Xho dorao Bhatted by the oxplosion aud the light extinguised for the'.first time Biuce the housei"wa's" biiilfih 1811. After the explosion a passing Bleamer had a narrow escape from being wrecked, owing to tho light, being out. . ;' U '■'..- '< It is time some attention was directed '° the necessity of forming a pack road fro 1 " ;thp.Tbames toKuoatunu, We are informed that a very excellent line c*n bo take 11 whioh would bring that field within easy reach of'this pity, iThe CountyCouuoil should interest themselves in the matter and sec what steps could be taken to construct arbkdv.j We need scarcely remind our readers that Mr,|Coad,, the weMuown temperance lecturer, will give: an address this eveuing in the Wesleyan Church, Pollen street. Mr' Coad .will, extend his mission for another six evenings, .under the' auspices of the Gospel Temperance Society, He will deliver addresses to-morrow and succeeding nights in the Academy of Music, which has been engaged for .the terra of his stay. Musical selections will be interspersed during each evening, :

l}The patience and peraerverenoe of Mr W. Mly. of Tapu, has apparently earned their reward, ilehaabecn working steadily for thejast three years or.morefollowing up the «ef in ff hat was formerly known as the Tapu Gold Mining Co.'s mine, of which he was the manager... He has driven seven or eight hundred feet'. He'showed us yesterday a parcel of rioh gold whioh he has taken from the reef, tho value of which is £3 5s per ot. The lead is soveral inohes thwk„and it is evident Mr Kelly has come on a valuable lead.' ' ,'■'"'

Mr ; Samnel Montgomery and a party' have afinereef'intheParu Creek, not a great distauoe from the old. Celt.olaim, Wo are informed it is about six' feet' ,'wide, and is regarded by the owners as worth an ounce to the lead.' At all events tKey.ihave faith enoughmit toereota crushing plant, and the party are,not : the class of people likely |orughinto..B.nph an expenditure without tatisfywg'themselves. thoroughly as to its probabilities, '.., ■ . M ,,,

:; Ia .the Oounty.Counoil lasfc.eming. the sum of £50 was voted,to Mr Alexander aitken, late engineer to,the Council, for f ervioes rendered : ih connection' with' the 30 inoh mains.'<It was stated he'had not hada holiday during;the fourteen years he wa's'in I the : employ^of .the Counoilr I A resolution , proposed by Qr Desble and seconded by Or. Walton that' the amount.' be' a month's | salary, found no other supporters. j In England the journalist's deßk leads to nothing except it be. premature old age and'occasionally the workhouse or the lunatic asylum/ In Portugal, as in most .Continental owntries, itmay.lead to anyUhing. Hhort ,of the :,throne, Tho new Portuguese Premier; Senhor Serpa Pimentel, was. till recently,editor of the Conservative Gazette of Portugal. He is'amauof expenenee, and' is said to be' sensible and well informed, It may be'hoped, therefore, that he will : Bncoead iri his rather diflioult' task of getting the subjects of King Carlos to .aooept the arrangement ; with Kngland, to,, which the;.Governmen't;has prudently consented.' " ' ■ "

Here is the latest story from the:" OHy of the Saints," An absent-minded and tenderhearted Mormon -elder: who in the father of 37 children, 'whilst'wallang. in the afreets, of .Utah the other day, came on a little.boy sobbing bitterly; After vainly trjmg/to comfort the j little fellow, hede« termined to take him to his house, and on arriving there with him, said to hie favourite wife,, who : ,waa then on duty,.," See here, Lydia, (Me. poor; little,ohap hasi got lost, I guesß.. Let us take him to 'our bosoms and matahimourow'nson,". "Make him.'our own • son 1 ' ■ exclaimed Lydia, aggressively. "Shuoks !• man, why, he is one of our sons already, That shews the unnatr'el sort of father yon are not to know our own little Robert Phiocas by sigtt," ' i. : .; Onr". natures are rioh' and varied ; and many' Bides must be brought out beforewe can attain our fullest development. "'A ,narrow v idea of success suffioes for uiost'of 'us.' 1 The' attainment' of political power, of literary fame, of wealth, of comforts, even of excellence in ono.diraotlon, is only a part M ft broader sucoess, that success whioh involves a continual exoroise of those powers in which we excol aud a cDntiuual awakeeingof those which have lain dormant I within, us.' Thi* .lis' the > £oal best worth staving for, though too often wo see only the close lying objeots end do not rjealiEp the breadth of the outlook from higher ground, But, if we still struggle, however blindly,' we shall, litlla'by little, attoip more nearly the larger thoughts and broader deoires' ■ which, m'akins; (Jour individual sucoess in life, tend also to make the grand BUo3ea3:of the world.'. 7/ V:UV.\[\;[ .'..-.'t

•' A'Oaeoof horrible cruelty,''perpettated-by a steP s mothei\has just been brought befor the, law comti at Bonn, A woman named DebuOk..married, in js3, , widower with four children, whom she hai ever since illtreated in a shook'ing manner. A few days ago she acoused her. eldest step daughter, a delioatejirl of 16, of: stealing eggs, pushed her dowj into a cellar, where she undressed her, beat her with a broomstick, and kicked her till the glrlwas s'reaming with blood, Tii poor ohild at lint succeeded in escaping up tho stairs, but was again oaught by her Biotvmother and. pushed down the steps biok into the oellir, where, after a very short time she died of ; the injuries she had Kbeivsd,' The dootors, who were oalled in by, a neighbor, said they had never seon suoh a frichtfnl example of ill-treatment, and the Judge who heard the oase characterised tho ; woman's oonduot as perfectly deviliahi. Frau Debfwk'ihad acquired the reputation of being an extraordinary pious and religions person, The populace of Bonn was so exoited with horror at her cnuduot tba" a shower of stone's wis launohed at the prison vania which was conveyed to the court, and shouts of'applause nere ra'sel when the senteuoe passed on h<r—fifteen years'' hard labor--beoame known,