Brevities.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5823, 28 September 1887, Page 2

Brevities.

Now that tbe elections are over, attention is being directed to other matters 1 80 it seems ! Members of the Thames Drainage Board are still doing their level* best to raise the wherewithal to contef t the Big Pump motive power from steam to water! Minister of Mines promises. £2000 towards the Big Pump when £2000 worth of material hare been contracted for ! ■: Well, that's not so bad ! The work is a "moat; desirable one, and should be carried bat ! It's a very heavy drain on some of our companies to pay their drainage con-tributions-nowadays, but they would be greatly reduced were the motive power water ! Tell us something we don't know ! Bobby Stout has refused to accept any seat, notwithstanding the offer of' his friends ! But a public meeting is to be held to ask him to re-consider his determination! Don't think Stout will do so now ! He's not that kind of man ! Sincerely hope be will, though ! I's a great pity he should be out of the Hoot*! It mightn't be for long! Shouldn't be at all astonished to see another general: dee-, tion before twelve months pass over our beads 1 Can't for the life of me see how a party can be formed sufficiently strong tor carry on the business for long! It's just possible that Yogel will be the: new Premier, with Atkinson as Colonial Treasurer ! Musi be a coalition of some kind, and that seems to be the most likely! Well, Parliament opens on the 6th October, and the progress of events will be watched with interest! \ ~\. t * 'Y«#! with almost, at mnejh interest4l *tho larrikins watched the handrail being erected to-day at the Karaka Bridge! - Ah! That should have been done some time ago, if enly to put a stop to the hoodlums congregating there and ifltmlting Udies who hare to pass here of it e?en» spikes ought to remoTC the n\\, ■$9$ tf • Urrikin attempts to squat on tby jrajl, 4m damage he will receive will quite, JR^aal a week's imprisonment 1 > ; ' I,Pky so»»tbingcould «ot also be done. •JMbe Mary street oornet! Saw ft-wimber 1 of larrikins jeering at a young, girl last night as she was passing op Mary street! The police are on the war-path, and if they persist in their conduct, they will be compelled to pay a visit to the tt.M.! -Would like to see an example made of Spare them! They've had their own war long,- enough, and it's time young girls were protected from them!