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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 6920, 29 June 1891, Page 2

Three candidates have now been nominated for the Te Aroha seat, viz. : Mr W. Fraser, Sir Walter Buller, and Dr. Chas. Broome.

At the Police Court to-day, befor E. McDonnell, Esq., J.P., Barnaby Nicholson was charged with drunkenness. He pleaded guilty, and was let off with a caution. A. Agnew was also charged with allowing a horse to wander at large in the streets and was cautioned. This was all the business.

Mr Chas. Bailey, of Auckland, is building to the order of the Hauraki Steamship Co. a very shapely looking vessel for the direct trade between Auckland and Paeroa. Her dimensions are—length 85 feet on keel, and beam 16 feet, while her draught when under steam will be 5. feet. Messrs Price Bros, are making the engines, the dimensions being, high pressure cylinder .10 deg., low pressure 19 deg., and boiler 8 x 7, to carry a pressure of lOOlbs perisquareanch.,

Our special correspondent at Wellington telegraphs:—" A deputaton from the New Zealand Alliance waited on the Premier is. Wellington on Saturday afternoon to confer with him on the Licensing Bill at present before the House. Mr E. Glover, who was spokesman, said it was the unanimous desire of the temperance, organisations and the Christian Churches in iiew Zealand that steps should be taken to decrease the liquor traffic in tb,e colony. He alluded to the remarks made by Inspector Thompson at the last meeting of the Wellington Licensing Committee with, reference to the attitude of Justices of the Peace when cases for infringement of the Licensing Act were brought before them, and expressed a hope that the Minister of Justice would make enquiries into the matter. The Alliance was in favor of closing hotels on election days, and he suggested .that the proposed Bill should be amended to read " supply" as well as " sale" o f liaaor. He agreed with Mr Fisher's Bill to present the sale of liquor to children under 12 years, and also spoke strongly in favor of Mr Joyce's Bjll providing for the prohibition of the liquor traffic by the ballot box. The Alliance hoped the government would support the Bills' referred to, r—Jn replying to the deputation Mr Ballance said ha .agreed that there was a great crisis in the tempesaace pause. The Government had not yet considered the Lipsnsjng Bills at all, and he was not therefore prepaid to say whether they had any united opinion or ##£. However, he could give an fopinion on the principle of the measures. He was in favor oj prohibition, ey.en ;f it Jook j the,whole of the consolidated r^yenu/e frojp this source tomorrow, provided it w#o tfrp W.sh.pf thp people. He did not think that hotels should be closed on election days, as with the public houses open the elections of Me years wem becoming more and more temperate. He was not in favor of taking away from the brewers the right to own property in the shape of hotels. Where persons hai invested money in property, he held thai thpy should be considered, and he was l th,er.efor,e fayqrable to granting compensation where licenses syerp taken away for no offence, Ho compensation ! should be given, however, for licenses issued in future. With regard to the local option vote, he would give the people _ complete power exeepfc &s regards compensation, as he believed the tempere,a.ce party in refusing compensation were taking a strong means to j obtain their end."

Tag following petition, with 720 signatures attached, wag to-day forwarded to the Hon. A. J. Cadman by the Thames branch of the AntiVaccination Sociefcy fop presentation to the House of Representatives :—" To phe Honor* able the Speaker and the members of the House of Representatives in Parliament as* sembled, —The petition of the undersigned persons of Thames^ in the Provincial District of Auckland, humbly shiswefch : £l) That your petitioners feel aggrieved at the compulsory clauses of the Vaccination Act, and are of opinion that it is inexpedient and unjust to £sforpe vaccination under penalties upon those who regard jt as inadvisable or dangerous. (2) That your petitioners can prove, from medical evidence and the Bngliplj Registrar's returns fcfcat vaccination is not a preventive of smallpost, bub is a great source of communicating otbfer .disease^ into the systems of healthy chilflren. - (8) We therefore pray your Honorable House to pass an amendment to the- Act, go that no parent, having once paid a fine for not haying his or her child vaccinated, shall again come uador the compulsory clause of the Act. (4) That we humbly pray you will see fit to repeal the oomppdiory clauses of the Vaccination Act, and bo leave jt optional with parents. Tour petitioners therefore pray that your Honorable House will take the foregoing statement into yoar favorably consideration and grant your yetitionere the relief they seek »t your band*."

The half-yearly nominations of officers for the Thames Miners' Union close on Saturday next.

Ora Turua/ cor respondent writes :—" Sir Walter Buller addressed the electors in the schoolroom last Wednesday eyening, touching on all the burning questions of the hour in similar terms to his previous speeches. In answer to questions, he declared himself in favor of women's franchise, and the Eight flours' Bill, and against a State Bank* As a ■naturalist, he utterly abominated stoats and weasels, which, he believed, would leave the rabbits for the lambs and babies in their cradles, as had been the case in the old country. Mr L. J. Bagnall occupied the Chair. There was a very good attendance, and a vote of thanks and confidence was passed by acclamation.—The earthquake shock alarmed some of usnot a little: houses rocked, lamps swung, •locks stopped, water was spilt over the banks of drains and out of tanks, and several people suffered from headache and nausea for hours afterwards. I have felt a much more serious shake in the South Island, but never so strong a one in the North as this was.—Last Friday evening a concert was given in the school in aid of the organ fund, at which soveral friends from the Thames rendered valuable hel p. The programme included two glees, " Happy Peasants," and "Where art thou, beam of light ?" by the Turna Glee Union ; two songs by Miss Nellie Walker, " He thinks I do not love him," and " Fairies," the latter encored; song (with chorus), <c Children's Voices," Miss Whitehouse; Bong, " Pepita" (encored), Mrs Jerram; song, Mr W. H. Bagnall, "The Friar of Orders Grey;" song, "The maid of the mill," Miss Cpney, and for an encore "Out on the rocks.'?'Mr I/,J. Bagnall Bang " Anchored,'': and repeated the last verse in response to a vociferous encore. Miss Eva and Mr R. W. Bagnall gave the pretty duet, "I would that my love;" Miss Eva Bagnall, "Old Madrid," and Mr R. W. Bagnall, " After sundown." Mr Newell Phillips contributed two humorous readings, " The little vulgar boy," and " A single hair," which caused hearty laughter and applause. . Mr Dodd played an opening piece very nicely, and the accompaniments were played by Mesdames Dodd, R. W., W. H., and Miss Eva Bagnall and Miss Alice Walker. There was a crowded house, and a large attendance at the dance which followed. The room was very tastefully decorated with lags, kindly lent by the captains of the Adelaide and Seabird. In consequence of the concert and Sir W. Buller's speech occurring in the same week the Mutual Improvement Association did not hold its usual weekly meeting,"