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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2116, 15 October 1875, Page 2

Play in the cricket match, First Eleven v. Next Twenty.-two, will^ commence to-morrow, at Parawai, at 2 o'clock sharp. All players are requested to be on the ground and ready to begin at that hour. f. The Thames people have very good ground of complaint against" somebody— whether the postmaster at Auckland, the railway people or the owners of the steamboats we cannot say. V esterday morning two southern steamers arrived —both at or before 8 o'clock, we believe. Some of the passengers by these steamers came through to the Thames by the Hauraki yesterday, but riot a letter or paper of the Southern mails, and as. there is no steamer from Auckland to-day we have to wait until to-morrow morning for a mail that should have.- ; been delivered. last night. The Southern boat leaves the Manukau to-morrow, and besides being kfept fortyeight .hours without the mail we are deprived of the opportunity of answering I letters. .We lose a week, in fact, through the neglect or stupidity of some one in Auckland/ ; : • : The London correspondent of the Auckland Star relates the following sad account of a survivor of the Orpheus wreck:— One of the survivors of the Orpheus affair has just been the; subject of a lunacy enquiry. Except that the unfortunate officer saw a good deal of New Zealand fighting arid was probably known to many of you, I don't know that the.fact possesses any interest. Mr Charles George Brooke Hunt is the name of the poor fellow. His father is a county gentleman in Gloucestershire. Lieutenant Hunt 8.N., entered ,the Navy in 1859, and in 18(51 was appointed to the Australian station. There he served on board the Orphoiis until her loss on the Manukau Bar in 1863. ; He was picked up by some natives in a boat between 9 and 10 o'clock afc night of the fatal day, having thus been some seven hours in the water, and a good deal knocked about- by the floating wreck. ( It is supposed that he never recovered the injuries he received, and that his brain was affected. He next, served on board the old Curacoa on the Australian station and was again Wicked in one of. her boats with some :of the officers and men, he, rescuing one of them himself with great pluck. He was one of the Naval Brigade in the New Zealand war and returned in the Curacoa to England in 1867 i Ever since then- he has been getting more and more strange in his conduct, and latterly he went in for fearful extravagance, rushing about the country in special trains with no particular objects, and buying thousands of pounds worth of jewelry. He fancied he was enormously wealthy, although really he had less than £1000 a year, including his wife's fortune. He was married to a Miss Price of Tibberton. The end of it was that the jury found him to be a i luuatio. • '