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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3040, 12 November 1878, Page 2

Mb D. Fallon's agent here has sue* ceeded in engaging orer 50 men for the Waikato Bailway works, who will probably leare by steamer to-morrow morning. The day for recei?ing nominations for the Mayoralty is fixed by the Beturning Officer for the 19th instant —the day for election being the 27th day of November. We are requsted to call attention to the auction sale of a residential building on the beach, Grahamstown, by Messrs Gadgeon and Co., to-morrow at 11 o'clock.

At the dinner given by the Volunteers to the Hons. J. Kheehan and Whitmore at JQuncdin on Saturday, Mr Sheehan stated that Major Gordon, formerly in command of the Auckland Volunteers, had been appointed Inspector of Volunteers tor the Colony. The dead body of a newly-born male child was found yesterday morning at the North Shore by a man named Hugh Jones, as he was going to his work. The body was sewn up in a kit and then inclosed in a bag, which was floating in the tide at high water. Mb O. M. Cbeagh notifies in our advertising columni that, owing to a family bereavement, he is compelled to retire from the contest for Ohinemuri. This reduces the number who go actually to the poll to six, although Mr Creagh's name will be retained on the voting paper, his name not having been withdrawn in time. To-xobbow the banks will be closed, the 13th being a legally proclaimed bank holiday in the Provincial District of Auckland. The steamer Aroha will leave for Ohinemnri to-morrow at 9.30 o'clock, conveying electors to Paeroa to record their votes. She will return the same evening. Fbom enquiries made at the Hospital this afternoon we learn that the man Wilson, who was run over by the Naval gun yesterday, so far as is yet known is not so badly injured as was at first supposed. The wheel passed transversely across his back—from his lower ribs to his shoulder. One of his ribs is fractured, and he complains of considerable pain in Mb chest. His spine is uninjured, and the intestines are able to perform their functions. " Standpipb " writes stating ; that Andrew Hart, a candidate for the representation of Waiotahi Biding in the County Council, is a resident of Kauaeranga, and warns the ratepayers of Waiotahi that by voting for him they will be throwing their rotes away, as he has no chance of being returned, and if he had, Waiotahi electors would be helping Kauaeranga to a third representative at the expense «f their own riding. No doubt there is some truth in " Standpipe's " arguments, but if he wishes his letter to appear in extenso it mast be paid for as an advertisement. In the Government Gazette of October 31st, just to hand, the following officers are gazetted to the Thames Scottish Battalion :— Captain William Fraser (New Zealand Militia) to be honorary Colonel; Major Thomas Leitch Murray (New Zea* land Volunteers) to be Major; Edward Benjamin Cameron, to be sub lieutenant; Captain Samuel Charles Schofield (New Zealand Militia) to be Adjutant; William Carpenter to be Quartermaster; honorary Assistant Surgeon, James Kilgour, M.D., to be Surgeon; Francis O'Flaherty, M.D., to be honorary Assistant Surgeon; Reverend Samuel James Neill to be Chaplain. Pate of commission in each case, the first of October, 1878. Phelps, Samuel, actor and manager, whose death ia aunounced by calogram today, born at Devenport in 1806, was apprenticed to a printer ; but the bent of his mind lay in another direction, and he made his first appearance on the stage at York, in 1828. His first attempt before a London audience was in the character of Shylock, at the Haymarket Theatre, under the management of Mr Webster, and the performance was favorably received; nor was his next essay in the arduous part of Hamlet lets successful. When Mr Macready undertook the management of Corent Garden Theatre, in 1837, Mr Phelps was engaged as one of the leading performers, and at the public entertainment given to Mr Macready on his retirement from the stage in 1851, he pointed to Mr Phelps as the most promising, if not the most accomSlished, bhakesperian performer of the ay. In 1844 he became manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and in go doing one of his chief objects was to restore the popularity of the legitimate drama, then at a very low ebb; and in this experiment he was completely successful. He was engaged by Mr Fechter at the Lyceum, and afterwards at Drury Lane Theatre, where he has appeared regularly for several seasons. His leading characteristics as an actor, both in tragedy and comedy, are, a scrupulous adherence to the meaning of the author, and a fine elocution, combined with a careful regard to the archaeological requirements of the mise en scene. He edited an edition of Shakespeare, published in 1853.