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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2025, 1 July 1875, Page 2

On 'Change to-day there was a run on Puketui scrip, it haying been reported that gold had been found on the* ground of the Fuketui Company. There was .little or nothing doing in Tairuas, but other descriptions of slock were fairly in demand, although there was less show of business than there was yesterday. The Manuka tailings and pyrites: were offered at public auction to-day by Mr Craig, but neither were sold. It is probable that they will be sold privately, We have received Provincial Government Gazettes of dates June 29 and 30. The first contains a proclamation reserving o piece of .land at „Onehunga as a place for a public garden and for public recreation; a public notification altering the boundaries of several highway districts, and other notices. Wednesday's Gazette contains appointments in the Warden's Office, Grabamstown, notices under the Highways Act, and list of persons to whom auctioneers' licenses have been granted. The following appointments under The Goldmining Districts Act appear in yesterday's Gazette :-—^John ,: McKenzie, Esq., to be Mining [Registrar and Chief Clerk to the Warden at Grahamstown; Frederick James Burgess, Esq., to be •Clerk of the Warden's Court and. Clerk to the' Warden and Registrar at Grahamstown ; Thomas Aubrey Bell, Esq., to be Clerk in the Warden's Department at Grahamstown. It may be charitable- to remind the owners of dogs that the police havo of late became morbidly curious regarding the whole canine race. Two victims of misplaced confidence appeared in the E .M; Court this morning charged with being the owners of uneollared dogs, and were mulcted in 5s and costs each." One. of the miners in the City of London •met; with an- accident on, .the, night shift' yesterday) by which his head was injured. Ife was taken to the hospital at .one o'clock this morning, and received surgical assistance. , The Da-Lias Company drew a fair ; house UasV night,; when the; drama « of; "llosedale" was successfully performed. The unfavorable weather at present prevailing is, ■ however, a. drawback which the company must feel to some extent, as many persons are prejudiced, against wet weather to such an'extent as to resist any attractions in the shape of amusement rather than have it. "Hunted Down '"\ will be produced to-night.

Dr Fox, who was recently appointed Surgeon to the Thames Hospital, assumed the duties of his office this morning at a very early hour, namely one | o'clock, having been called to attend a i miner who sustained injuries by an accident ia the City of London mine. Dr Fox could not have entered upon his duties much earlier, for we presume had the accident occurred, an hour earlier the retiring surgeon would have been called. The third and last of the series of Mr Severn's lectures on; ."-■Light" will be given at the Academy of Music this evening.. In yesterday's paper we enumerated some _of the experimental wonders which are to be exhibited by the aid of the electric 'light and microscope. At previous lectures Mr Severn has used the lime light in illustrating his subject and in showing the discoveries of the spectrum. To-night the powerful 50-cell electric battery will be used, when a brilliant light. will be brought to bear upon the different experiments, and the extent of the discovery comprised in the spectrum analysis will be amply displayed. We hope the night will be fine, and that there will be a large audience to encourage the lecturer in a work which lias post him much pains to achieve, as well as expsnso in procuring the most perfect apparatus.

It will be seen that the Supreme Court Judge' has granted leave to appeal to defendants in the case Smith, v. Thomas and oihers (shareholders in the Queen of' Beauty mine). '* The argument on demurrer in this case.took place on Friday last, when the demurrer was allowed and leave reserved to appeal or amenl the pica. Leave has now been granted. A few days ago it. was currently reported thai; a verdict for the amount claimed (£16,000 damages) had been given, but this impression arose out of a misapprehension of the meaning of the decision given in allowing the demurrer. As stated by our telegram today there are several law points to be settled before the facts of the case come (o an issue by ■regular trial, gnd there is erery probability that the suit will be a tedious and expensive one.

Auctioneers' Licenses have been granted for the year ending 14th April, 1576, to tho following r—Thomas Wayth Gudgeon, Grahamstown; Frederick A. Pullcine, Grahamstown; James Craig, Grahanistown ; Edwin Binney, Grahanistown; George, Stewart O'Halloran, Thames ; John Leydon, Shortland.

JEgies, the funny writer in the Australasian, recalls the following memory of the past. In that good old time—say about 1845—when there were but four or five grocers in Melbourne, the price of locallycured bacon ranged about 7d per Ib. to the producer. With a view to their own benefit, the grocers—who.were the onl^. Buyers—entered into a solemn compact, duly ratified, that they wouldn't pay the farmers more than sd. Shortly after (his arrangement, a farmer from the IVleryi Creek, with half-a-dczeh flitches on his cart, called at a'grocer's shop and offered his bacon for sale. He was bid sd, which he refused, saying he would try some one else. A couple of hours later he was driving home with a cart void of bacon.and full of stores, when he was accosted by the grocer with whom he had first tried to deal. "Soyou have sold your bacon?" "Oh, yes. .1 sold it easily enough at 7d." "May I ask to whom you sold;it." "Certainly, it's no secret. I sold it to —-r, of Liikle Boiirke street." This was one of the confederates. The nest time; the man who had lost tho business met him who had accomplished it he taxed him with his perfidy. "Look here"," said the undisturbed —-—-; "if you only knew the weights I bought that bacon by, and the weights I sold him the groceries' by—by my conscience, I don't believe it stands-me in 4|d!"

A mysterious occurrence, which happened in Grave street, Castlemaine, is reported by the Mount Alexander Mail: *—" In the morning a respectable-looking man was taken out of a, waterhole into which ho had fallen, at the rear of an old building beyond the Railway Hotel. He i was brought to'Mr Aitken's mill, where he got dried, and recovered from his immersion. When able to stir about he went to the hole where he had the mishap in search, he said, of a handkerchief or some other trifle of property he had lost.* Again he fell into it, ibut did not, as qw the first occasion, call out for assistance. In the afternoon he was found standing lip in the water, which is about 4ffc. deep, quite; dead. The hole was only about 35ft. deep altogether, and from it not containing enough water to drowa a man, unless intent on committing suicide, the mystery surrounding this man's death becomes all the greater." vApbopos of; tributes; iEgles tells this story "On 'Change" in the Australasian : —In one of the less fashionable mining districts, a wealthy landowner had let on tribute t6 a party of Irishmen a tract of auriferous ground. The tributers were getting tolerably good, returns, but they thought that the twelfth of the pross yield, which they were paying Mr S— —, was too heavy an impost, as the expenses were large. So they went in a body and pleaded their case. " Well," said the: landowner, " what will satisfy you ? What do you offer?" "Surely then — a tenth ought to be enough from poor men like us." "Very well," .said the landowner, " I agree." A new agreement was signed (some of them were marksmen). It was only at Iho next washing-up, when they had to hand over a larger proportion of gold than under the old arrangement, that they discovered their mistake. Th cy want a fresh bargain, but Mr S says "he can't understand such fickleness, and won't change again:"