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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 2

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iSatourdfayi'sl Rio(a:cs 'Ratfe. iSome Interesting Details. Fiii'e Brigade Competition. Last iSaturday'e OricfketHow the Cup Matches StandThe 'English Crioketei-s, Latest Cables andl Telegrams. Unemployed! ;in New South Wailes:

Aiuicikland sends -away fortoig-htly 200 tons of butter-

The Government grant towards the Teohmiaai iStahool now being 1 erected in Timairu: amounts to £1149 6s.

Hi si Elxciellemcy the Governor &ays he has done angling' in Norway and elsewhere, ibut awards. • the pahni to Lalke Rot'omat

•Bishop Neligan will administer t*he rites of ooinfiiTiiiaition to 58 candidates at St. George's CJiiuircih -next Sunday afternoon-

, We learn tihiat the approach of tihe festive season is 1 to be marked by quite a round of weddings, several, well known, identities contemplating matrimonial bliss. *

The Rotorua bakers, having met. in solenini 'conclave,, denuded that in future the faimiliair request, "to change a, stale loaf for a fresh one" would not be compliedl with.

AI feature in 'Bownecitiani witli the new 1 dining ©aria 'on t«ha AaKfklaindBotorua railway is thait of halving! a menu for each day placed in a neat frame in ©a'cih -oairriage of the Rotorua express- This is ai decided boon to passengers.

Considerable interest was miainife«ted in the competition last Saturdlay for the district belt. The competition, wlhiidi is confined 1 to members of the looail volunteer 'Companies, wasl fired ait the new range at Totara., and resulted in the No. 1 TUiaine® Rifles still retaining possession of the handsome belt. Private Oaiusleyi (No. 1 Thames 1 Rifles) was the winner with 83 .points, Color-Sergeant Spraiggon, of the same icompany., wiasi i&eioondi witli 76 points, Private P. Brown (Haiiiraki Rifles) was third with 75 point®, and Private Rowe was fourth with 7's,lhis score at the longer range not being co good) as> -tlh.-a.fc of Browtno. The winner, who is one of our most consistent shots, was 1 warmly congratulated om hiM win.

Hhs next conference of isdiool inspectors of the colony will be held in Wellington, beginning on, the 3rd February next.

To-day'is return from the Waihi mine brings the_ total value of the bullion won fnoun tliis famous mine to £3,121,473. The last month's retorn was 19,318 tons crashed) for » return of bullion vjalued a* £49,749.

Mil* BulcikerJdige, of Kiia. Own fame, who is reported toi ha : ve passed the Clfoatthiami I&landlsi >aj week ago, is a?ideaKtiy at »&&„ m regards the d:irav> ti.om of Wellington, where he was sup*posed to consult, the authorities*-

Our Coromandel ciortrespond&nt writes: Al very old OoToimia.ndel resident, 7n> the person of Mr John Knox, dieldl soniewbait suddenly from* heart disease. He followed mining pursuits for many years, and was well known and 1 highly osteemied.

Aoejptanciesj for the forthioomlingi race meeting! of the Thames Jockey Club close with, the secretary,' Mir WH. Pattsi, to-night at 8 o'clock- There is suire to be a goodly list off aaaepttor» and there is every indication,l that the dub! will have a record meeting. The Royal Hotel, Raglan, had a. narrow escape Enoim destruction by fire A: candle had! been left buirming om « pill-owl which oaiught fire, with tihe rebuilt tihiait part of the hoot 1 and! bed were found in the flames. The outbreak was discovered early, and the pyogresis of the fire checked.

'Mr E- L. Halakins, who ia being transferred 1 frami the Addingtan riailway work-shops to the Thames (says the Oiristcibirrcih Press), wasi .presented w'itihi a' tea and coffee service by his fellow workmen, and w cigar case ■by the appreniticieo.

Play was 'Started at the Pa>rni\vai tennis coiuirta on Saturday afteomwn, the ground® being in goodi order. The Paraiwai ipllayars mustSarefd in goodly numbers and displayed an emthiu^!6Sra that augurs well for the oooning season. Afternoon tea wtas dispenisdd and a. pdeaisant afternoon apemt.

C!hea,p railway faares are noitifieit' for the holidays, and will be isswed fnom, Friday, Deciemiber 1 18th, xtntil Saturdaiy, Jamtu'airy 2'mdlr-and: will be await able for rekurn mp to the ,19th Yebruairy. The excursion rate will be twopence per mile firstr-olass and one penny ipar mile second-class, mileaige being ooointedi one way onlly. During the iholidays a BipeoiaJ express: train will learra Aiuciklaaid for TJiames! Amd Ro<ti6rua at 9 a.m.; and ai sipeoial train will leave Rotorua for Auckland and Thaimea.branch at 10.5 aim

Or eat interest wa'si taken in the cycling road race 'on Staturday from Thames to -Piiiiriri and back, amd at the start and finislh there was a! large attendance of .speotatorsi, ■who loudly Jc|heie:r|ed| fbhei wlinneir (PurrSel) ast hoi pedalled home! in thet good tnane of 59 minutes. The race "Waisi a complete success and reflected credit on the Thamies AitMetict and! Cycling) Chub, umder whose auspices tlxe cratest was arrainiged. Details will be foundi on our back pages 1-

Speaking at New 1 Plymouth Bishop (Neligam isaid the 1 need of clergy for wonki in the batik blocks had been, considered by him- They would hum to be single man,, m they would; have to, as it ware, live in tiheTisaddle, and like ai ■campaigner would hare to live on the country they passed through. He bad mentioned that they would have to .get men, froani Home to fill the positions, but he was told that :"t was a c*se of "New Zealand for tihe New Zealamders-." In. such a om&e faa eaid! "New Zealand-fat 1 the Nlew Zear landei-8 be blowed." They womild have to get ;m©n to staorj the work at once. When they ooul^ show the colonial itihaib hlisi serlviijeisi wer© req'Ulirled he wals sure none Would be readier to answer tlw loali tham the colonial.

With, their usual enterprise the Read-Gillespie Company ha.ye pirepared quite a round of auction sales for the Christmas season. Ota 22nd Diecemibeu' aim important sale of land! ab iHifcutaiai will be held, at wfHii'eh splendid land, the property, of Mil* H. Alley, senr., will be submitted to the publici. On the same dlaj at Hikutaiai, ODi behalf of Northern owners, Mr Braid! will auction a splendid lot of useful' upstanding hawks, consisting of well paced hacks, medium draughts, and' light harness and spring oairb horses. On the following dlay. ab Thames, he will hold another important sale, at Mir Rickit's stables, when on behalf of variousi owners upwards of 50 houses will be disposed 01?, 13 light sulkies, spring carts, single and 1 double buggies, and"v!arioiis sets of harness (single and double)There is sure to be a large aibtenidainrtß at eairih) sale.

Government its* tujjpoiriting from England a mixed afssortaaent of gaime, including, pigeons, lapwings and phesir santa, which, will be liberated im the districts in the colony most suited to their acclimatisation. The birds will arrive in Wellington the first week, in January next

A Wellington and Marlborough CKMUipainy, witib a. capital of £10,000, hals beea formed for the manufacture of cement ait works vi low' maiilea out of BLanheiai. Tlh© niadhinwy for tfoie wwik w:ais puiiialiasetcll in, AuiaUand. It was thought ,tba.ti it would! be necessary to import the machinery from Germany or Aimierioai, but as the Auckland prices were -nmi'cih, lower than. was expeoted, the plant was purchased! tthare. The work will be commenced in two or three months. iManufaotuir© of cement i& expected, to 1 grow into a great indiuistry in tie colony. Several companies have been formed! <and' others are in coiuirse of formationl.

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