The Thames Star. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899

Thames Star, Volume xxx, Issue 9450, 28 September 1899, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899

A London cable states that for the period January to Juno 1899 the number of *accina'ions in Grea* Britain was 28 per cent greater than for the corresponding period in 1898. Anti-vacoi» itiors are said to be astounded at these figures At the Police Court toiday before Messrs GUlespie and Findlay, Si P., William Comer was charged with diunkenuoss ani fined 5s and costs "s, or in default 4-5 hours' imprisonment.—William Corner, junr., applied for a prohibition order to be granted against his father. The latter objected to the application being granted, but after hearing the evidence of the applicant the Bench issued the order, to be applicable in the Borough and County of Thames, and to have a currency of twelve months. — Chat les Doidge was fined 1 s and costs 2s for allowing his hor^e to wander at large. The Court then ro3e.

Another large consignment of floor cloths and linoleums juet .0 hand ex s. s Indramayo at Alfred Court's, corner of Mary sheet Advt

■ Ifc is notified in the Government Gazatte that t'"e rorm attached to Tanner's Hal, at Waihi, is to be a place wherein sitting 3 of the Magistrate's Court will beheld. It is satisfactory to learn, remarks t' c Opitiki HeraH, that the presmt Opotiki ' County Council at the expiry of its term ' of office, will leave the ratepayers free of debt. ! Millinery, flowers, feathers, ribbons, laces, choffons, corsets, hos'ery, umbrellas, and sunshades, splendid assortment at the Beehive, corner of Mary and Pollen streets -Aivt As a result of the dredging boom in the South, the fee for a seat on the Dunedin ! Stock Exchange has been raised from JBIOO to £250, Last week nine new members were admitted.

On Wednesday next a grand evening party will be tendered in St. George's Hall to the ladies. An energetic committee ban the matter in hand, and intend to leave no atone unturned in orler to make the hfi%ir itn unqualified success. Tie Committee consists of Messrs Bird, Burns, Dads, Adamson. McDerraott, Jimea, and Rollerson, and the secretarial duties are in the hands of Mr J.

T. Dwyer, The music will ba supplied by Messrs William* and Booth, and tbe catering by that well known caterer, Mr W. Scott The price of admission h fixed at gents 2i, and ladies by invitation, and lovers of the light fantastic may look forward to a good evening's enjoyment, as the fl .or will ba in capital order. We understand that several vaccination cisfes are set dowu for hearing at the Police Court on Thursday next One of the highest authorities, in Duuedin, on gold dredging, has expressed the opinion that for one mile of auriferous country in Otago, there are ten miles in Westland.

In pursuance of regulations under " The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886," notice is given in the Gazetti that for the Senior Examination of January, 1901, the penod of literature will be from 1800 to 1850, and the special bocks will be Carlyle's ' Sartor Resartus' and Milton's' Samson Agoniates '

We have to thank Mr Nichol, the local agent, for a copy of the current ies- c of tne New Zealand Graph ;c The illustrations are both numerous and clearly printed, and the number is quite v to the usual high st mdard both from a literary and artistic point of view-

Cheap Lamps for the winter under cost price at Hansen's, Also several Bicycles cheap.—Advt.

Mr H. C Gillespie, agent of the Colorial Mutual Life Assurance Society, his an advertisement in this issue, to which we dr *v/ attention. The Insurance News makes tie following complimentary reference to the society: —" No greater success in its own sphere can bo found than the Colonial Mutual. It has grown and spread with nvirvellous rapidity, uctil now it has become o. c of the largest ani most iaflncntial unJertakings of its class. We regard the i Colonial Mutual as having done a good and useful work by its liberalising tendencies, and by its freedom from mean and p?tty i t chnionlities."

We are favored by Mr W. Coad, with a copy of the current issue of the Auckland Weekly News. The supplement is devoted to illustrating the eff ct of the Old ?ge Pensions Act'in this colony, also to vslims teering and other subjects of equal iiitsrest

Mr Godfrey Doveton has received a letter from Mr Clarence Malmstrom which conl--tains the sad intelligence of the death of Mr Charles MalnMtrom, formerly manager of the Moanataiari battery, at Nogale-, Mexico.. It appe-r tha' a month after Mr Malmstrom's arrival i■ om Borne 1 he secured a good position in Sunora, near San Francisco. He had been pursxiing the duties pertaining to his new position for abou'-a month, when the malaria he contracted in Borneo returned with full force. He started for home, and managed to reach Nogales on the border of the United States and Mexico, wh n he be:ame worse and died on the 21st August. His family were not informed ot hi« illness until the day after his death. Mr Malmstrom was very popu ar during his residence here and his many frienda will.regret to hear of his decea c.

A Press Association message from Wei* ling ton state* that at a Government caneu 8 held to-day »* proposal to send a New Zealand contingent to the Transvaal was generally approved.

It is not generally known that the willow trees oti the Ohiuemuri and Thames liivers — also the Waihou are from scions brought iv 1839 from the tomb of Napoleon at Irngwood, St- Helen i, by the captain of a ve-:sel who stopped there on his pass ge to Maoriland. Tr c late Mr J. C. Firth spent a very large sum in willow planting on this river some 25 years ago, and to him is due the kudos of obtaining, so far as he could, the conservation of our noble and beautiful river by the holding up of the banks by this uaoful and beautiful tree —Gazette

" Sticking together in all sorts o* weather"—The friendship between man and man which emb.'es them to stic'a together in all sorts if weather is a friendship worth having. In time of prosperity some of us can hardly distinguish a f rienH of this kind from one of the other sort. But let the storm clouds ga her, and we soon know who the true friend is. And when the clouds of sickness gather aboul us we turn naturally and instinctively to Holloway's Pills and Ointmeut. They are the only friends whose friendship is worth, a rap at such times. We know it aad w turn to them, cjnfident in the knowledge that th-y will restore us to health.