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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1935, 17 March 1875, Page 2

Theee was no .business of any iincl at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

The Tasmanian gold mines are looking up. The Launceeton papers chronicle a yield of 5390z. of gold fiom 235 tons of quartz at the New Native Youth Company's mine.

The Volunteer Representatives Reception and Entertainment Committee, after paying all demands upon them for liabilities in curred in entertaining the Volunteer Representatives at a ball and supper, had a balance in. hand amounting to £26 14s 9d; which has been handed to Sergeant A. H. Clery, wh©, it will ba remembered, was shot ia the shoulder while acting as marker at; the Parawai Rifle Rmge in January 1 sfc. Sergb. Clery his, we ere glad to learn, obtained the appointment of Staff-Sergeant on the District Veluuteer Staff. The disposition of the surplus funds has given satisfaction.

Titb Takapu'm left Curtis' Wharf this mrrning afc 11 o'clock, with a large crowd of. excursionists, bound for Obiuemuri. 'The day broke with splendid promise of fine weather, and the trip should be very enjoyable, as the Takapuna is a commodious boat, and the scenery up the river alone is a beautiful panorama. • The following'sums wero collected at the office of the Evening Star in aid of the Wilson Relief Fund at Coromandel:—A. J. Allow, 2s 6dj C. Ahier, 2s 6A; W. Wood, 2s 5 A Friend, Is 6d; G. C. Cooper, Is 6d ; R. A . Heald, Is 61; J. Pear a, 2a 6:1; — Robinson, 2s ; P. Mullics, Is 6dj Hop craft, McCullough & Co., IDs. Total, £L 7* 6d ; recaipfc of which has been acknowledged, by J. B. Rockliffe, secretary to the fund. The funfivl of the late Robert Fox, who died on Monday right from injuries received in< the Queen of Beauty mine, took place this afternoon from his lafe residence, Parawai. There was a large attendance, including members of the Hibernian Society, of which deceased was a member. . The dictionary definition of a bonnet, as " a covering for the head," has for some time practically resohed itself into " an ornament for the head." How obsolete the ftrmer signification has become let the fallowing testify. A well-dressed la^y, in waging costume (which means the addition of a parasol and gloves to indoor dress), walked down Bourke street on Tuesday forenoon, without a bonnet. Those who passed, stared, smiled at her unconsciousness of the defect in li3r toilet, and passed, on. .Looking askance of, her own reflection in a plate-glass window —a -piece of coquetry not indulged in by ladies only— she discovered that ehe had come out boanetlees. As a matter of protection, ifc made not the slighteet difference. She hadn't.forgotten her hair.

Fob breach of the Borough Bye-law yesterday, in allowing his horee to be on-a footpath, Dr Payne was fined 2a 6J. The magistrates had no discretion in the matter; the charge being admitted, a fine bad to be imposed. But Dr Payne is in a dilemma. He says he is in the habit of making forty to forty-five visits in the day, and if ho cannot be allowed to tie his horse up in some spot near to the place he is visiting, the number of his visits will be considerably curtailed,

alid it is more than probable that some parents most requiring attention and least able to pay for it will bo negated, la cases of tins kind we think the police should exercise some discretion and not render the Byelaws obnoxious by enforcing them where the enforceu ent entai's hardship or amounts to persecution. There is a Bye law maHng it finable to a'loir goats to wander in the street*, yet we see flocks of goat 8 dailj in the main streets, ''robbing storekeepers of potatoes, maize and other produce exposed for »flo at iheir doors, Thoie goats are an intolerable nuisance, yet, although they carry on these depredations under the very eyes of the police, tbejvare left unmolested—in many cases, possibly, because they cannot be caught. The police are not blamed for not- carrying out the Byelaws against owners of goats ; neither would they be if in cases like that of Dr Payne they allowed the Bye-law to remain iuoperatire.

The John Bull cays that a rural dean in the diocese of Rochester Touches for the substantial accuracy of the following statement:— "Ah old Mr Attwood died reefntly near Cheelmnt. He was about 80 years old, and a bachelor j rich, but living very quietly. He is discovered to have been the giver of all the anonymous £1,000 cheques. His books show that lie gave away £350,000 in this way ; £45,000 within the lest year. He has left more th*an a million sterling, and no will Mr Attwood is eaid to have been connected wiili the Birmingham Attwoods, and to have mada hia money, principally by glass. A thousand-pound note was lying about the room, as if it had b"en waste p jper.

Gents' Clothes and every description of Dyeing and Cleaning done on the shortest possible notice, at the Tnames Dyeing Establishment, corner of Rolleston and Richmond streets.—Advt