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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2113, 12 October 1875, Page 2

Beadeks will be pleased to learn that Mr and Mrs G. L. Hall have been making their mark in Ireland. The Dublin Press teem with favourable notices of their success in a range of characters familiarised to old Thames theatre goers in the palmy days of the American. In comedy and burlesque these clever artistes have been equally successful, and have succeeded in winning the hearts of their Irish audiences. A Pbovincial Govebnment Gazette was published on Saturday, but its contents are not of local interest. Thiß is the way the editor of Te Wananga stands on his dignity over a letter which miscarried: —We have received a letter from Ngawiki Hauriki, of Te Aute, notifying the death of Atareta Tetapu, dated the 19th of September. It was sent, although directed to our office, to Wairoa, which it reached on the 19th instant, and re sent to us on thu 27th, with the following notice, written in red ink on the envelope :—" This letter was opened by a Maori at Wairoa." The letter had no right to be sent to Wairoa, but we should much like to know the name of the Native at Wairoa who is sufficiently interested in our business to open our letters. Did we possess the knowledge of the culprit's name, we would publish it as a punishment for his impertinent curiosity. The Otago Guardian has the following with reference to the late Customs fraud, from which it would appear that not only were the particulars suppressed by the press but by the Press Agent:—We last evening received the following telegram from our own correspondent at Wellington :■ — "An ugly rumour comes from Auckland. It is said that one of the largest wholesale houses there was fined the other clay £20 for passing false entries to evade the ad valorem duty, and all four newspapers suppressed the report of the case. We give the above exactly as we have received it. The matter 13 one of the highest importance, and demands instant inquiry at the hands of the General Manager of the Press Association; for if our informant be correct, and the rumour should turn out to be well founded, the public can to continue to have little faith in the Association. Strangely enough on Monday night we received information from our own correspondent in Auckland, that a merchant in that city had been fined £100 and costs for a breach of the Customs Act. Yet this was not thought of sufficient importance by the Press Agency to forward to any of the daily journals in Dunedin. We trust that the head of the Association will make it his business to inquire into the matter. With regard to the Press of Auckland, we have nothing to do with it; but wo must protest, in the cause of journalism, against such an important fact as that of a merchant being fined £100 for breach of the Customs Act not being forwarded to us by the-Press Agency. The Poverty Bay Herald of Oct. Ist : relates the following account of a struggle , between a constable and a powerful young Maori in the endeavor of the former to arrest the latter:—Constable Walsh had a very awkward tussle with a powerful young Maori prisoner named TeHen, on Wednesday night last, near Waereuga-a-hika. The native, against whom a charge of larceny had been made, refuaed to surrender quietly to the arresting constable, and resisted with a fiendish violence, somewhat resembling cannibalism— the prisoner having literally gnawed away the flesh of the forefinger of Walsh's left baud, tearing away the thumb nail of the right with his teeth, be;-ides severely cutting the constable's nose and presenting him with a black-eye. Walsh, however, showed that to say " die" was not in his nature, and in a most plucky manner stuck to the prisoner and eventually managed to throw him across his horse, and take him to the camp at Ormond. Prisoner was conveyed to town yesterday and brought before the

Eesidont Magistrate, when he was remanded until Saturday on two charges, viz., larceny, and assaulting the arresting constable. It is a matter for regret that Constable Walsh, who has more than once proved that he is a " good man in a row," should have suffered so severely from tho effects of cowardly handling. Pjuofessoe Bkuce will, by request, give another of his favorite phrenological and mesmci'ic seances at the Theatre Royal this evening, at which he requests the attendance of ladies especially. The Journal of the Society of Arts says:—A very ingenious application of eloctrc-melallurgy has "recently been brought before the notice of the Society of Arts. It consists in the application of a coat of silver, .by. ya.ea.ns .x>£, electro-, deposition, on natural leaves and flowers. By this means very delicate ornaments are produced, since the precise form and texture of the natural leaf are preserved under the thin silver film. The special process by which these results^ are attained is the invention of Mr Dontbn. Am inquest was held on Monday afternoon at the Chandos Hotel, Ormond, Poverty Bay, before Dr Nesbitt, Coroner, on the body of Dr Smith. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was found helplessly intoxicated, -leaningagainst a fence in the township about 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon,-September 25th, and was carried over to the redoubt. On Sunday he complained of being a little sore, but said " that he would be all riiiht again on Monday." JJe was walking about at 5 p:m. in the evening, and at 8.30 p.m., on being asked how he was, replied that " he was quite comfortable and warm." At 9.30 pm. he was found quite dead. The jury found that deceased died through the continued and excessive use of ardent spirits and exposure. Mr E. Russell Mobeis has perfected a most beautiful invention termed. the " Measuring Instrument." In the form and appearance of a watch, and costing 10s 6d, in a case, this ingenious instrument supersedes the ordinary measuring tape, the use of which requires two persons and extends to only 66 feet. This patent registers to 100 feet. By advancing a projecting steel wheel along the surface" to be measured the lai'ge hand of the dial indicates the inches and fraction of an inoh, the smaller hand the feet and the third hand the tens of feet. This little invention, manufactured at the Morris Patent Engineering Works, Beriflingham, must gradually supersede the clumsy measuring tape. The perfecting of the instrument has occupied years.