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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1686, 29 May 1874, Page 2

Ik the Resident Magistrate'• Court; this morning, oiril side, there -were only two cases for hearing, which were adjourned by consent till the sth June—next Friday.

Captain Ttjeneb has requested the Bay of Plenty Times to state that the surplus money £2 18s 3d, after paying; all the expenses of the banquet given to Captain IVaser by the military settlers of Tauranga, has been handed over to Mrs Farrell, widow of EobertJTarrell, late Sergeant Ist Waikatos.

i Some of our readers will recognise a very pointed reference to a very slangy speech in the following epigram by the Opotiki correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times :—

" Teach not a parent's mother to extract, Th' embryo juices of an egg by suction ; That good old lady can the feat enact, Quite irrespective 6f your kind instruction."

We observe that one of the vermilioncolored lamps which were wont to adorn the " Greatest Wonder of the World," has been put .to a baser use. It has been ut'lised by our local ■government,'and is performing the charitable office of guide fco belated pedestrians, that they may not, in their peregrinatieHs, suffer nny temporary inconvenience from the performance of compulsory gymnastic feats over a mound of mullock. It is said that a man of a speculative, but very confiding nature, con* etnplates purchasing this mound of earth on account of the ostentatious announcement on the lamp.

The Goromandel correspondent of the Advertiser telegraphs the following :—" It is stated hero that Messrs. Hesketh and Eichmond have been instructed to demand from the proprietors of the Thames Star the author of a telegram from Ooromandel which appeered in last "Thursday Yissiie of that publication, otherwise an action for libel will follow 3 damages being laid at £500.-—lt is also rumored that Captain Hargraves will proceed for libel against the Coromandel News for articles which appeared in the last three issues."

Thb Hong Kong Times notices that cremationlhas recently been put into practice, in the■* following terms :—As the first local occurrence of the sort within our knowledge, we may note that the body of Sikh constable Nasaka Singh, who committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, underwent the process, of cremation last evening. A correspondent informs us that the ceremony took place at the Happy Valley, just beyond the Eastern Gap, and next to the Boman Catholic Cemetery. The body was placed on tho top of some bundles of firewood, and more bundles were heaped on it, saturated with oil, tar, &c The whole heap waa set fire to, and a volume of smoke, visible at some distance, signalled Ihe fact that the remains had been consumed.

The following anecdote is told jof a late judge. The itory relates to a former crier of the court, who is celebrated for his forensic abilities. It to happened that during a term of tho County Court there were to-be three days' races, which the presiding judge was tery anxious to attend. He accordingly on the forenoon of the day previous, when the hour of adjournment arrivod directed our friend to adjourn the Court. The crier turned to the judge and asked to what time he would adjourn. The judge whispered to adjourn till after the raeas, supposing the crier would take the hint and fix the data beyond that on which (he races would terminate, but instead, he announced it in this way: " H«ar ye! Hear ye ! This court will stand adjourned so that the judge can attond the races 1" The effect on the judge can be imagined when we state that he tbrsw :a book at tke crier, hitting him a »tingiug blow on the back of the neck. Thereafter lie we s very definite in fixing the time to which tho crier should adjourn.—Canterbuty Tim«s. ■■■;*■■