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Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4669, 24 February 1894, Page 2

Special sermons will be preached at St. James's Presbyterian Church to-morrow by the Rev. S. J. Neill.

The County Engineer (Mr McLaren) invites tenders, receivable up till 7 p.m. ou the 7th March, for the delivery of 600 cubic yards of stone from the Omahu quarry, between Purirt and Hikutaia, and also 200 cubic yards of broken metal on the Waiotahi Creek road.

The Wellington Supreme Court has awarded Sister Mary Joseph Aubert £210 damages against O. ' Ketnpthorne, of Kemptborne, Prosser, and Co., with co9ts according to scale. Keropthorne's counter claim was dismissed.

The Hon. R. J. Seddon telegraphs, in answer to a requisition asking him to come to Hamilton to meet native chiefs from the King Country, Piako, etc., to discuss native affairs, that, he will be at Te Kuiti about the 7th or Bth of March, and will afterwards lour the Waikato.

Mb Chas. Rhodes, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Paeroa, left here yesterday en route for Coolgardie. He goes to represent the Bank, and will be absent about three months. Mr Rhodes is thoroughly equipped as a representative of anew rush, <?8 aside from his knowledge as a banker, he is an expert assayer and smelter. We wish him bon voyage and a safe return to his household here. Mr Fenton, from the Thames branch, will act as locum tenens until the return of Mr Rhodes.—Tribune.

The following are the amounts collected on behalf of Mr J. Bice, who met with an accident in the May Queen mine some months ago, as the result of which he lost the sight of both eyes :—Messrs Clark (Moanatairi mine) £4 10s, Smith (Waiotahi) £2 Os 6d, Vivian (Pride of Karaka) 2s 6d, Coutts (Hazelbank) £3 9s 6d, Duolop (Alburnia) £2 9s, Dunlop (Victoria) £1 Is, Baker (Cambria) £4 ss, Hansen (Kurunui) 14d 6cf, Moyle (Lone Hand) lOg, Kidd {Fame and Fortune) 17s 6d, Radford (Orlando) £1 Is, McLean (Norfolk) £1 2s 6d, Thorburn (Dixon's) £2 6s, Eabe (Magnolia) ss, Hicks (May Queen) £12 6s 6d, Phillips (Big Pamp) £1, Wajte (Calliope; £1 Bs, McDonald (North Star) £1 Is 6d, Burch (St. Hippo) £1 Is, Williams and Bowler £18 Is, Kneebone £1 19s, Hicks £10 12s, Moyle and Guy £12 12s 66, O'Keefe £1 Is, Gilmour (Waihi) £13 10s 6d, Goldsworthy (Try Fluke) £7 lgs 6d, H. (xoldsworthy (Great Mercury) £0 2s, Richards (Kuaotunu) 7s 6d, Blair (Red Mercury) £1, Capt. Argall (Coromandel) £6 2s 6d, Fleming (Karangahake) 10s, Thomas (Owharoa) £2 ss, Corbett (Hikutaia), £3 11s 6J, Ehdean (Auckland) £2 19s, Coombes £3 7s 6d t McDonald Scott £5, Spierce £11 4s, Hope (Waitekauri) £2, Shepherd (Kurangahake) £1, Phillips (Paeroa) ,£ 1 ; total, £152 8s 6d, The Committee have appointed Messrs VV. Burch. and W. H. Paltridge as trustees, in whose names the money has been placed in the Post Office Savings Bank, and they will pay Mr Bice £10 each quarter until the whole is exhausted.

The Naval Band excursion to Tapu on the sth March promises to be a great success, and as the tickets are meeting with a ready sale it is expected that the steamer will be crowded. The p.s. Patiki will leave Goods wharf at the convenient hour of 8 a.m., and upon arrival at Tapu a great variety of sports will be held, including races for boys and girls, quoit match, dancing competition, &c. Tea will be provided for excursionists.

Me W. PITKETHiiET, of Brown streeto has a new advertisement in this issue, in which he states that he is now offering special value in various lines.

The Oddfellows' excursion to Motutapu to-day wasjan immense succes?,t he steamers Waiotahi, Rototnahaua, and Ohinemuri being crowded from the Thames, and it is estimated that fnliy 1200 persons were on board. The steamers did not get away until about 8.30 o'clock, but the weather being all that could be desired they should have a pleasant trip. It is estimated that the total number at Motutapu to-day will be 5500.