THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3128, 26 February 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1879.

That the business of all public bodies should be conducted in a dignified and erderly manner—in keeping both with importance of the subjects under discussion and the respect due to the interests represented—is most desirable. The first requirement—a proper respect to the ruling of the person occupying the position of chairman or presiding member ; and, next, that the decision of the majority, after fair discussion, should be accepted as the feeling of the whole. There never was a time upon the Thames when greater attention was required from the members of our local governing bodies in the discharge of their duties than at the present, when our prospects are not of the brightest. From the report of the proceedings in another column of the meeting of the Domestic Water Supply Committee held in the Borough Council Chambers last night, there seems to have been a want of some of the first requirements in the conduct of public business. It is not very creditable to this community that a feeling such as that shown at the meeting referred to should have been exhibited. The question of the future management of the water supply is one that calls for the most serious consideration, and one which the community have a right to expect should be properly at tended to by the persons in whose charge such a duty is placed. The Committee has already admitted that the past management has been faulty, and throwing the blame upon the constitution of the Corporation. The^ remedy proposed is that one of the local bodies should have the entire control, and such a course we have in the past advocated. It is to be hoped that the result of last night's meeting will have the effect of showing the absolute necessity there is for an immediate change of management.

Me Stewaei, District Engineer, accompanied by Mr Hewson, arrived last night by the Eotomahana. Mr Stewart; met Captain Souter this morning, and bonds were signed for the due fulfilment of the first contract for railway works. The second contract from Curtis' wharf to Shortland is ready for letting, and Mr Stewart expects instruction every day authorising him to call for tenders. The contract for the bridge over the Kaiiaeranga will be let before many weeks, so that it cannot be said the Government are wasting any time in pushing on the works.

Theee was a smash on the Grahamstown and Tararu tramway at noon to-day. The railway reclamation contractors are erecting a hopper under the tramway crossing the road from the Moanatairi tunnel for the purpose of filling trucks with the stuff to be used in the reclamation. At the time of the accident a long train of trucks drawn by two horses, and

going at a good speed, passed, and the' second truck of the train caught a piece of timber projecting from the hopper, bringing; down the unfinished structure on top of the truck with a loud crash. The upper portion of the truck was smashed, and the hopper considerably damaged. Fortunately no one was hurt, though two men were on the train at the time, and a carpenter was perched on the top of the hopper.

We have beeu requested by Mr 0. Ahier to state that there is no truth in the statement made in a local in this morn* ing's Advertiser referring to the probability of his being appointed to the office of Deputy Grand Master of the Thames District of the Orange Institution. He has never been offered the appointment; if he had, he would have refused to accept it; and again, that the office in question is held by Mr Robert Farrell.

We sincerely regret to learn that Mr F. W. Paul, agent of the Bank of New South Wales, has'been so seriously indisposed that he has been unable to attend to his business. Mr Robt. McFarland, of the Auckland branch, has come down to take temporary charge of the Bank. We are glad to learn, however, that Mr Paul is somewhat better to-day.

The Dunedin Cup, which may be called the " blue ribbon of the New Zealand turf," will be run for at Danedin tomorrow. Templeton, Chancellor, and Titania head the list of favorites. It is expected that a large field will come to the post.

Mbmbebs of, and persons interested in, the Thames Bowing Club are reminded of the meeting which will be held at the Governor Bo wen hotel to-morrow evening at 8 p.m.

Mdile. Alice Charbonnette, the distinguished pianiste, is at present performing at Dunedin with Mr Hoskins and Miss Oolville.

We are glad to notice that the sporting portion of the Ohinemuri community intend holding a race meeting and other sports at Paeroa on St. Patrick's Day, the 17th March. The full programme has not yet been published, but one of the events will be a handicap for £25, open to all-comers.

The last number of the Australian Sketcher contains a well executed woodcut depicting snagging operations in the Thames river, above Ohinemuri. The picture shows the effect of an explosion, of dynamite under water.

In Davy street at the Cochrane street corner are two obstructions, which, during the dark winter nights, are likely to cause a good many anathemas being poured out at the expense of tlie Borough authorities by belated Wayfarers. One of these obstructions is a small hut built right on the footpath, and the other is a post about five feet high erected on the place where the water table should run. There is no water table, however, the whole breadth of the road being a dead level, and consequently on a dark night there is as much chance of an unwary passenger colliding with this post as not. We would respectfully suggest that these obstructions be removed.

A southeen contemporary says:— "An enterprising tradesman iv Christchurch has commenced the manufacture of cricket bats in that city. The handles consist of forty pieces of cane, and are said to possess good flexibility, and they are sold at a price a little in advance of the imported article."—Bravo, Christchurch !

Rkferbing to the escape of Weiberg who stole the £5000 rrom the Avoca the Melbourne Argu» says:—"The blow that Weiberg gave the detective in the stomach took his breath away, he states, and the offender thereby got a few yards start. He pursued, but the boots he wore were an old pair, and nnspiked, and the grass being wet with dew, his feet were continually slipping. At one time he touched Weiberg's shoulder with his hand, but at that moment he fell, and the offender darted away with a spurt. The firearm he tried to use was a small Colt's breach-loading pistol, belonging to himself, and it missed fire through the trig-ger-spring being out of order. As to what has become of Weiberg, he is inclined to believe that he must have lost his way iv the bush, and perished of want." If all the Victorian police are appurtenanced like this detective we should think the Kelly gang are pretty safe.

Since poor Levy, the cornetist, left New Zealand, he appears to have been continually in hot water. An American paper says :—Gillmore's band, with Levy, the cornet player, gave a concert at Troy, New York, last month. The performance was delayed half-an-hour by a constable seizing Levy's cornet on an attachment for a debt contracted by the musician when he gave a concert here some two years ago. When the constable tried to serve the process at Troy House, Levy ran away, leaping into a sleigh containing Mme. De Murska, making frantic but ineffectual efforts to conceal the horn about his person. The constable, nothing daunted, followed, and landed on Mme. De Murska's lap. The sleigh was driven to the Music Hall, where Levy jumped out, and ran upstairs blowing and shouting to the members of the band, " Throw him down stairs! Kill him !" After the constable seized the cornet, Levy denied the ownership, but as Mr Gillmore agreed to pay the bill, the waiting audience was enabled to hear the dulcet tones of the much seized instrument. It is asserted that the cornet did not in fact belong to Levy, but was the property of the maker, whose lien upon it had never been discharged. Mme. De Murska is doing well.

Something New.—"We're got something new at our house," gleefully exclaimed an errand boy, one day lasfc'week, as he entered the shop where he was employed.—"What is it?" blandly inquired his master, thinking, perhaps, it was a baby, or something of the kind — " Oh, my sister's all broke out with the small-pox," was the delighted reply.— The firm have secured the services of a uew errand boy.

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