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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8594, 25 November 1896, Page 2

Tho Pacroa Rowi'ig Club has been formed with ft membership of 45. Whalelmts are to be used. At the Polko Court yesterday Wm. Fisher pleaded guilty to a (ihargo of drunkenness (iiitl was fined Ss and cost* 2s, in default, % hours. Wc would direct the attention of our readers to the replace advertisement of Mr Kobt. Wood, of the Caledonian House, which appears elsewhere, Messrs»}. B. West and Co, sell at their Parawai yards to-d.;y sheep, lambs, cows, etc., and thoy Imvc for prmuo s,sle several dairy cows newly calved. In consequence of Constable SUpleton'e time being taken up at the Native Laud Court Constable Hyde has been sent from Auckland to do duty at the Thames. The Mayoral election takes place todayOwing to the proximity of the genera', election it seems to have lost the greater part of its interest, yet to select the lies t man should I>e the paramount duty of the ratepayers. The man James. Holmes, not having paid the lino inflicted on him for drunkenness mid resisting the police, will be escorted to Auckland by Constable Henry this morning, and will serve a term in Mount Eden gaol as an alternative.

A telegram from New Plymouth states that Mr W. Bass, station-master at New Plymouth for eleven years, yesterday was tho recipient of a purse of sovereigns from a number of business people. Mr liass left for Onchunga, whether he has been transferred, last night.

The Rotomahana was a considerable timo landing her passengers last evening, tho principal reason for tho delay being that a schooner lmd to some extent encroached on her {berth and 'so hampered tie steamer's operations. After all tho passengers had to lipid over the sailing vessel.

A week or two ago the Waihi Goldniining Company called for tenders for the removal d! five boilers each weighing nine tons from Pacroa to Waihi. Only one tender, however, was received," the price being £120 each, and that was declined, the Company deciding to take the boilers up with a traction engine.

Miss Jane Boxall, for some timo past first assistant at the Parawai School, has been appointed to tho charge of the Waiheko Island school. Miss F. L. Hall, fonnerly of Thames and iiotv stationed at Kawakawa, has been appointed to the vacancy, and, pending her arrival, Mjss A. M. Bcale. of Auckland, will temporarily liijdiflako Mjss Boxall's late duties,

• Another of Ohinomnri'B oldest identities i was, on Monday, interred in the Pukerimu Cemetery, at Pitoroti—Mr Matthew Kin--1 sella, of Waitekanri. When Waitekaurl ' was only u nemo, the deceased took up i sonic agricultural sections near the Diamond Creek, married, and settled down. Mr Kinpella was always a hard working man, and, of lata years, since Waihi expanded, ho has carried on business ao a butcher at that place. Ho leaves a wife and family j Mrs Kiusella is sister-in-law of Mr William Ifoliis, and a daughter of Mr Compston, of tiie Wiiitekaiui Valley. Thomas Onindy appeared at the Police Court yestwkv, before H. ICyre Kenny, J-'sij,, S.M., charged with disobeying a maintenance order for the support of his •wife, f li'j order was issued some months ago for .CI a Wfick, but Orundy had fallen into tirwtrs \vitl) hi? payments, Sir Harper

appeared for Mrs firiiiitly, and palled th Clerk of the Court to prove tlial tl:n <irde lirnl been issued, that part payments lia< been made, and that defendant was now ii ariCfirs, Defendant said something t» tin ollVct that he did ?pt intend to pay, an In was prepared to glw* Ins wife <t Inline. Ilii i\ r owliip told defendant that if the ordei was not obeyed there would lie no optior hilt to sflivcl him to «a«l. M« (His Worship' did not wish to send to traol a man who was earning good wages, and Ik? would .ad journ die easo till 2 o'clock to allow defendant to consider the matter.—When the oaso was called on nt i o'clock, defendant stitcd that I his wife was not in need of money, but wished to in ike him pay out of spile.—His Worship said (hat if tin's was the ciso defondant's bent course would be to get the order rescinded or varied, As lon# as tho order stood, it had to be obeyed. An order for the costs of t.h« proceedings would havo to be made, but he would not insist cn defendant paying the whole amount now, and fl reasonable tfm.o M ould bo allowed for payment.-Defendant: " I Mill pay tho whole lot now, sir,"—A total sum of £17 Is (inchiding one guinea costs) was at oneo paid into Court by defendant., and tho caso. was withdrawn, Pianofortes carefully tuned for 7° fid, periodical visits at reduced rates, J. Gfitoo,: Thames Music Warehouse, Pollen afreet.— FAnvr.l

Mr -Tab McAndkett of and formerly Mayor of Thames, is oa a sbori ris't hero at present,

The Rev. F. W. Isitt, in a letter to the Lyttelton Times, makes fierce attacks on Ministers, and the clergy of the Anglican Church. He says:—"Tou say that Mr Seddon lias mads most strenuous efforts to lessen t'ie consumption of alcohol by the. Maoris. I may say that he has professed to do so, but tlirt Ins practice does not accord with his profession. I will prove to you that at Galatea, on the borders of tlic Urewera, and in an unlicensed district, he asked for whisky the moment he arrived. As to tho King Country itself, I did not know when I went that Mr Seddon had ever l; visited it I was watching with interest a , korcro between Rev. Gittos, the Maori i missionary, Wnhaiiui, and other chief*, when Mr Gittos turned to nie, and said :

' Wahanui declares that when Mr Seddon ami Mr Carroll came to Otorohanga in 189 V, Mr Feddon produced whisky, and asked them all to take it, urging them not to drink too much.' Fare Whananga, Patupatu Kepa, Ha mi Kingi, their wives, and oJier natives, broke into the converse lion in English, all confirming .Wahanui's . words,, and declaring that after Mt Seddon provided them with whisky the. natives regarded the law prohibiting its 1 sale as a dead letter. Is that • {.roof enough ? . . My soul has been stirred to a boundless indignation by th-i stern facts 'hat canlo to my knowledge concerning the guilty complicity with this great evil of Cabinet Ministers, and the apathetic inactivity of the police. Greatest of all to ray mind, however, is the sinful heartlessness of the Church of England, as represented in the Auckland Synod. With death at their very door, a noble raco sold to ruin by selfislillquor merchants, scones of drink-created debauchery that leavo scarcely a girl in the district who has not been robbed of her innocence, or a woman who has not sunk to unspeakable degradation., that Church utters no word of censure of the evil doers, but appears instead as the apologist for the trade that creates the evils."