THE) Statue* Favour to nont; fear of noa«; juitioe to rUL FRIDAY, APBIL 13,1894.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7794, 13 April 1894, Page 2

THE) Statue* Favour to nont; fear of noa«; juitioe to rUL FRIDAY, APBIL 13,1894.

We are informed that it is probable there will be a change in the management of the St. Hippo G.M. Co. shortly

We refer contractors to the new advertisement appearing in another column ove.i the signature of Mr J. M. McLaren, County Bugincer.

Tenders, addressed to Mr Phillips or D. G. MacDonncl, will be received up to Bth of May for the supply of coal and cartage of same for the Drainage Hoard.

Two racehorses, the Virgin and St. Mary, belonging to Mr N. Dickey, of Paeroa, were yesterday shipped to Auckland, to take part in the Avondalc meeting. ,

Cnpt. Edwin says that bard gales from the northward may be expected in most parts of the country between noon ou the IGth inst. and midnight on the 18th inst.

News from Sydney states that there has been a considerable exodus from the original diggiugs at Wyalong to the new rush, where the reef can be> traced for some distance on the surface, and specimens show splendid gold.

At the Duncdin Police Court yesterday Alfred John Larking of Carajill road, was fined £40 and costs for adulterating meal with starch. William Grigg was similarly fined for adulterating pepper with starch.

A cablegram from Sydney yesterday states that a sensational occurrence took place at the North Botany Town Hall on Wednesday night. During the progress of a limelight cntertaihmtnt a jar of methylated spirits exploded, soverely burning three women in the audience, aud a pauic was narrowly averted. During the excitement a woman threw her baby from the balcony into tho body of the hall, but tho child escaped-without injury. The explosion fire.l i>,irt of Hie ball, but the fldna.es wore quickly extinguished. The women who were burnt were conveyed to the hospital.

His Worship the Mayor ' Mr Radford) who was chairman of tho recent public meeting held in tho Salvation Army Harracks to "protest against the ruling of the Returning Officer in not counting informal votes to make up tho half-roll vote," yesterday received the followiug telegram from the Premier:" Your tolegram of sth inst. received. It is scarcely necessary fojr mo to point out to you that a Returning Officer is a statutory officer, and that the Government cannot interfere. There is the machinery available for testing the legality of the decision of the officer in question. On reference to the Regulations of Elections Act you will find the necessary machinery proyidoil to meet the case. For your information I may add that right through the elections the* Government have been appealed to interfere by contending I parties, and their reply was in each case tho same as I now give to you,—R, J. Seddox."

Mr E. Honiss, local agent for the Auckland " Star," is possessed of n tricycle, and in delivering his papers in Davy, Kukwood, Amy, and part of Queen, Biilic, and Mackay streets, it is. it appears, necessary for him to ride on tlio footpaths in the streets mentioned. The Town Clerk, however, has stopped this practice, it being contrary to the provisions of the by-law, and at the meeting of the Council last night Mr Honiss wrote regarding the matter. He pointed out that ho had used the tricycle daily for the past two years, ami had never inconvenienced or harmed any person or thing, nor was thcro tho slightest probability of his doing so, auy more than if walking. Ho did not travel at a speed much above tho ordinary walk. His machine was always under tho most perfect control and in tho streets mentioned the traffic was so email that often no person could be seen from one end to the other. He therefore applied for a permit to ride upon his tricycle upon the footpaths of such back streets as those mentioned, where thcro was reasonable excuse for so doing. After a considerablo amount of discussion it was decided that the request could not bo acceded to.

Mr W. S. McCormick, contractor for the Kauaeranga Valley road extension, interviewed us yesterday withreferencoto a paragraph which appeared fa our yesterday's issue. Mr McCormick informed us that the amount charged in tho tucker hill for drain pipes was erroneously included in it, and that when his men pointed out the item to him, ho told them to strike it out, and thus they were not asked to pay for them at all. Mr McCorraick also informed us that when he received the account, ho put it in his pocket, and did not look at it at all, and that ho did not know tho tile pipes had been included until the fact was pointed out by ono of his men. We regret that rumour should have been so unkind to a contractor of Sir W. S. HcOormick's well-known reputation, and wo shall in future bo exceedingly chary of giving credenco to any information wo may receive in regard to • him. Whoovcr originated the story which has got abroad has been the means of casting an unwarrantable imputation on his character, and wo regret that we were made the medium of its wider circulation.