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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1912, 18 February 1875, Page 2

A Gt-Azettb notification contains the appointment of Bobert Skeen as Collector of rates for the Waiotahi Highway District, vice Mr William John McKee resigned. We are requested to state that in consequence of the absence of the Resident Magistrate in Auckland the business of the Civil Side in his Court, arranged for - to-morrow, will he postponed for sewn days. It rtay be interesting to know what is the etrength of'the female rote in a municipal election, says the New Zealand Times. We find that in Te Aro Ward the ladies muster more strongly th%n in the others, there being sixty-four female electors there having eightysix votes. In Lansbton Ward there are sixteen, with thirty-two votes; and in Thorn do« forty-two, with sixty rotes. Total—l 22 female voters, possessing 178 votes. Attached to our parcel from Ohinemuri this morning was a small oblong appendage, covered with paper —carefully. The unusual appearance at once attracted our attention,' the shape not being such' as is adopted by newspaper people for transmitting correspondence. Moreorer the package itself was attached to a pretty bulky correspondence (vide our special's Ohinemuri to day), and the first thing that suggested itself; was that we had a veritable specimen sent to us. And so it proved. We had in our possession a " specimen" from (Ohinemuri. It was not black sand, or pipe clay; it was not alluvial drift, nor cement ;*br slate, nor, in fact, a specimengeological at all, but a mammal-ornithological specimen—a common bat, which was caught at Ohinemuri last night. The specimen may ba seen at Mr Maddens, Brown street. As the first veritable specimen from Ohinemuri no doubt some interest will attach to the creature, which, it is understood, will be kept for the first Obimemuri museum. „ We are in receipt of Provincial Government Gazette of date 15th instant, and also Gazette Extraordinary of date 16th. The latter is in mourning', and contains the announcement of the demise of His Honor the Superintendent, John Williamson, Esq.; an intimation that the funeral will take pbce on Saturday next, at 4 o'clock, and a farther intimation that the Provincial Government Offices will be closed until the remains of His Honor shall have been interred. Bishop Colenso, who is at present in England on an errand of humanity on behalf of an African Chief, was lately announced to preach on a certain Sunday ia the pity church of Oxford ; but on the previous Saturday it was made known to him that he would be inhibited from preaching by the Bishop of Oxford, and on the Sunday the inhibition was affixed to the church doors. When the ordinary clergyman of the church ascended the pulpit, he announced that he was about to read Dr Colenso's sermon, and he did actuary read the discourse which the Bishop of Natal was not himself allowed to deliver. On the same day Bishop Colecso preached in the chapel of Balliol College, wbich, it is understood, is not under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of the Diocese. The chapel was crowded to excess, large numbers being compelled to go away disappointed. The Corporation of the city of Oxford have placed any of the c'.ty buildings at the disposal of the Bishop of Natal, and Dean Stanley lias offered him the use of the venerable pulpit ©f| West minster Abbey. •

v A register of vendors oi' poisons for the Province of Auckland for the year 1875 i» published. The list is incorrect co fat as the Thames is concerned, sereral of the registered names belonging to persons who have either left the district or abandoned the business of vending poisons. If the Hst is intended to be of any use, some attempt ought to be made to give it correctly.

The Arrow Observer reports an extraordinary case which lately cam* before the Magistrate's Court at Arrowtown. An information was laid by Mr Stratford, the Resident Magistrate of the district, who is also a Coroner, against Dr James Douglas, medical practitioner, of Frankton, for that he disobeyed a Coroner's summons to attend an inquest Held at Cardrona, cm November 17, 1874, there to give evidence touching the cause of .death of one Mary Torrie, said summons having been served on defendant personally. De'endant pleaded — 1. Vot guilty; 2. That defendant; was physically unfit to attend the summons; 3. That defen. dant had not received the inmmona in time to atterid to it, even if in a fit state; and 4. That defendant had under his care patients whoso state would have prevented him from obeying. Mr Stratford, in giving his evidence alleged that he had brought the action agaiast Dr Douglas "in accordance with instructions from the Minister of Justice," After hearing the Coroner's evidence, the Magistrates on the bench (Messrs Innes and Paterson) intimated that they did not consider it necessaiy to call any witnesses fo.r the defence, as they thought Dr Douglas had acted wisely in not attending the inquest under the circumstances stated The case was dismissed witk costs, £5 5s 6(1 a certificate of dismissal to issue to Dr Douglas in terms of the 23rd section of the Justice of the Eeace Act, 1866. Mr Stratford asked if the Bench ordered Mm to pay then costs ? The Bjßhch replied that Mr Stratford was to pay the amount.