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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 8087, 1 April 1895, Page 2

I Intending sportsmen bad better boar in mind that tho open season for native ! game, tliafc is, ducks, pigeons, etc., does not commence until the 12th of April. Previous operations may lead to a fine of £20. Our good friend, Mr 0. E. Jones, | seems to have caught on in tho upper • country. Thus speaks tho Ohlnemuri Qaxdto" As a iaconicur Mr Jones is simply perfect. 110 has a piquant address, h musical manner of speech, aud a marvellous power of mimicry, He wants to make believe that ho is seventy, but we don't mind believing that be is upwards of sevon. He brought with him the flavour of beloved Bohemia, and he lakes away tho best wishes wo can put our hands on." Tho body of John Cheek, the victim of tho recent accident at tho ICanaerangn, was found at about 130 o'clock on Saturday afternoon in a part of tho ri er known as IJorsoshoo Rend, and was removed to the Rob Roy Hotel at the direction of constnblo Bern. An inquest was held about 0.30 o'clock in tho afternoon, before 0. Haselden, ICsq., Coroner, arid a jury of six, a verdict of " accidental death " bcin? returnod. Tho following rider was added; "That tho stafco of tho crossings on tho Kauaeranga ri?er should bp brought updor tho notice of tho Government with i> view of having small fool-biidges put across in places.' 1 Mr W. S. Evans, Piano and Organ tuner, visits Thames again to»day (Monday). Orders may bo laft with Mr Gribble, Pollen St, or with Mr Burra,] Gt'ttharastorrn.—[AdvtJ I

At about 9 o'olock on Saturday evening a man named Henry Oranoy was arrested and. placed in tho lock-up for assaulting Henry Kemp. Oranoy was released on bail yesterday and will appear before the Police Court this morning. The barque Wenona baa just discharged 50 tons of ballast at Kopu, which can bo had for road ropaxns. She is taking in about half a million feet of timber for Melbourne. The want of a lamp, is very badly felt at this wharf. A vessol lately on a dark nuht went a considerable distance np the river before finding out she had passed the wharf. Mr Walters says that owing to the unfavourable weather oil Friday and Saturday evenings many were provented from taking advantago of his wind-up sale of oddments and remnants. To savo disappointment ho has decided to continue the salo on Monday and Tuesday, which will positively be the Instchance of securing so/no of tho b-'sfcbbarr r ains ever ollered here. " J.P." writes as follows;-Your excellent leader though brief is well timed, and I think good would bo done if you ] printed the enclosed extract from the Criminal Code published last jear: '• T«o years' imprisonment with hard labour if the object stol.en be any vegetable product growing iu atiy'gai'dcn or greenhouse, though tho value thereof does not oxceed one shllintr, if the ofl'ender haß been previously comicted once on indictment, or twice summarily, of stealing anything growing out of the earth, under any slatuoatany time in force."