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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2046, 26 July 1875, Page 2

Theee was to have been a public meeting afc Oliinemuri on Saturday to consider the question of.: agricultural leares, but, we are informed, there was nomeeting, a sufficient number of persons interested not answering .to the invitation. The Taranaki News is "&lad to sec the growing feeling in English speaking communities that where a r' woman has suffered a serious injury from a man that the law does not or cannot redress, that she may take the law into her own hands." Several instances are then given m which women have taken the law into their own hands and afterwards been acquitted by juries; but, strange to say, in each case tne grievances under which the injured females labored were such as could have been redressed by the law. We learn that Mr F. C. Dean has intimated his intention of giving two handsome prizes for competition by the children attending the Waiotahi Creek School at the next Christmas examination. The first prize will be £s's worth of books to the best student history; the second, books of the value of £1 10s to the best in geography. The latter prize will be confined to pupils in the junior division of the school. Considerable emulation will probably be induced by the announcement of these tyro valuable prizes. The Eev. V. Lush gave notice yesterday morning that the collection to be made on Sunday morning next will be devoted to the support of what is known as the Home Mission Fund. We find by the report ending June 30, 1875, that nine clergymen have been maintained either wholly or in part out of this fund, and that in addition three and twenty places have been visited ;by clergymen whose expenses the Home Mission Fund defrayed. Unfortunately, though the demand for clergymen becomes greater as the country is opened ap, the fund shows a falling off of £4718s 8d from the amount subscribed in the previous year, and the standing committee will be totally unable to increase their sphere of work, even if they are. not obliged in some instances to curtail r it, their' appeals for aid are more liberally responded ■ to. It is also a matter of local as well as general interest tb us, as the services of one clergymanarerequired exclusivelyfor the Tairua and Ohinemnri districts, whose expenses for the greater part must come out of this fund. We ; hope the appeal made on Sunday next -will be cordially responded to. ■■■ .-■..'■■; ' „ .■;.;■■ ■■ : The following occurs in a letter from the Dunedin correspondent of the New Zealand Times:—" We hav3 , had a Church of England bazaar for the last few. days, on a very novel principle. It is in aid of the organ fund of the new church of St. Matthew. A large number of really" nice-looking girls stand behind the ■various stalls, all dressed alike,: and with, a distinguishing ":'.' mob cap," of a very pretty pattern; but the feature of the bazaar is, that no one is importuned to buy this article or that. Tou can buy anything you like, or leave it alone. The result has been a large audience nightly, and when the bazaar. closed, over £700 had been received in four nights. This should be an example to all church people desirous pf holding bazaars throughout the colonies."

Theee were two cases heard in the Magistrate's Court on Friday, in which judgment was reserved till today to give time to the parties to prepare for appeals. This movning by arrangement come to between the learned counsel for the parties to the different suits, arid with the consent of the Eesident Magistrate, judgments were again deferred, but His Worship said he would give his decisions" in the cases on Wednesday, 28th instant. i