LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 19 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Talismans showed some variations, sales being made at 45s 6d to 47s and 455, and there are buyers at the latter figure. Wadhis were placed at £8 13s 6d. Tairuas again firmed, sales being made at 4s lid and ss. Waitangis saw business at 3s ad and 3s 4d. Golden, Belt (paid) were done at Is sd. Waiotahb were easier, sales being made at 13s 6d and 12s 9d, and there are buyers 12s 6d. Waitekauris were sold at lid, Thames 7£d, Old Kapaaigas 4^d.

Ten pounds picked stone from No. 5 stope on the main. Waiotahi lode above No. © leveL

The Cambridge 5000 Club has died a natural death after a year's existence.

The time of the departure of the Taniwha from Paeroa on Saturday, advertised at 1.30 pun. has been altered to midnight.

It is stated that it -will not be long 1 before operations are commenced in the fThames-Hauraki section of the May Queen property.

The friends of Detecitve de Norville will he pleased to learn that he is making n satisfactory recovery ftom hi* decent illness.

Ainiougst the increases in civil servants' salaries! we note that the salary of the jClerk of the Court. at> Tliames (Mr J. Jordan) has been iucreased from £280 to .£290. .

Miss. MdLean, tho newly-appointed Inspector of Hospital, paid a surprise visit'to the lowi! Hospital and Old Mien's Home "yesterday. Mies Mfer Lean was conducted by Mr Banks, the secretary to the Board.

The* New Zealand footballers oJay Australia /combined NS. Wales Ind Queensland teams) to-morrow.' Our iisual "Extras" wfu be publisiied at half ': ••<•>-and at the conclusion of play as soon as theoables arrive.

We notice Jn the list of teachers' promotipns (the 'follpwingl names : — Mr Franois Murphy, Cl • Mr Samuel H< Ferguson, Dl; Miss Maudl Benneap, -Miss Benrietibai Cormack, D 3; and Miss ML E. Monstadt^ D 3.

Suburbs 11. to Vsw County 11. on Saturday will bb picked from the fol-lowino',:--Dufty, T Delamore , dime, ;Smiith, Thomas, Henderson, Ihinlop, Hansen, Bjish, Cleave, Newdick, Latham,. Kapuna, Graham Williams, Woodhame, Noble, Birnie, and Gordon.

Satisfactory trials have been made' by the Government entomologist to demonstrate the value of kerosene as a cure for the fruit fly. :■ The 'Borough Council last night decided to put down, a wooden crossing in Albert street, from Olendon's to Inglis' comer. It was stated that a large number of people passed each: day and some such connection was urgently needed. At Cr Lowe's su^westion the Borough Council decided to look into the' matter of the drainage of the Kauae-1 rangtai School buildings into the water-table while the necessary filling' in of the school grounds was taking place. ' . ■ ! In connection. " Vth the nonvde-, plume "Ouida," who has been men-' tioned i,n our cables of late, ib is perhaps not generally known that ,as a' child the authoress pronounced her own name "Louise" as "Ouida," and' in after life she determined to adopt 1 it in, writing. , ' I

. An epidemic of measles is at presernt working its way through Waihi ,and it threatens to close Jhe Waihi East End school: -•> a<*»unt of the decreased attendance. Over fifty absentees were reported yesterday and the Education and Health Department are 'to be communicated with.

iO!ur. Goromandel correspondent write*:—"John Jones, a settler at Cabbage Bay, was taken to the Ooro- j mandel Hospital with his right hand' badly, shattered' by a gun accident Jones had laid the weapon against a tree while he was working at bush clearing, and! had absent-mindedly plaioed his hand upon it, with the' resuMi that it went off. ■■• Mt C. HI Trussell, who recently left Waihi to take i change of the Ipswich (Queensland City Vice-Regal Baud, 1 has airrived at his destination. He was met at the ; railway, station by meniberß of the Band Association, the Ipswich Band, and leading citizens,' and was accorded a hearty welcome.' Mr Trussell has 'been engaged as conductor for a term of two years: This is not the first time that 1 New .Zealand football representatives: have suffered defeat at 'the hands of New iSouith .Wiajes. Thrioe before' have our dolors 'Been lowered. Im 1893; they lost one match by 25 to 3> in 1894, at Christfchurch, they lost by 8 to 6, in 1897 they lost by 22 to 8, and in 1905 New South Wales managed 1 to draw with the "All Blacks" prior to their departure for England.

At last night's meeting 1 of the Thames Borough Council it was decided to hold, a special meeting to consider the by-laws re building and other matters pertaining thereto. Tlie matter was broached by Cr Lowe, who said it was time that some restrie-j tions should be rilaoed on building, in the Borough, and some restrictions framed in, connection therewith. The Mayor said it was time some action was taken in, the matter. We understand that the Thames, Rugby Unioni will endeavour to ar-j range matches on August 3rd and! 10th so that the Union may put the strongest team info the field before' the Awck'and rep. team—in which) some Thames players will probably be included—goes on tour. It is therefore probable that the return matches against Auckland and Goldfields respectively will be arranged for the first two Saturdays in August so that local football promises to be lively from this time out. I

Our Waihi correspondent! writes: -r~ "A young; lad from the training; ship Atniokoura is at present taking his holiday leave in Waihi. He is the son of Mr George Marshall, of BulJtowiiu Sj>eaking| of Jiis life on the naval training; vessel young; Marshall says that he thoroughly enjoys the' work, and speaks highly of the sys- 1 ternatiici round of duties. Wearing 1 the' neat uniform of .'the man-o'-war he' gives one the imjM-ession of a 1 gound system of discipline and physical tfor the yoaiith of the Domin-' ion," ' I At the re-uniom. of the New Zealand amd Australian teams, Hunter, the! New 1 Zealand captain, declared that every New Zealander .would admit that the better team; had won. Mr Wylie, the manager, admittied that the New Zealaiiders were fairly and squarely ibeaten att their own game.. I He had never; seen such a.n exhibition of ba-eik play by New Zealand or interprovineial teams. The New Zealand backs were at sixes and sevens, the forwards did not last as lon£ as those of New South Wailes, and the baciks did not* support; themi. I

Our Waihi- correspondent, writes : — "A very pretty wedding took place between Mr John Steven, Toms, of Waihi, and Miss Edith Wallace, second daughter of Mii Isaac Wallace, of Bulltown. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. IV W. Newbold. The bride was guven away by her' (faither, andi lockedl eharining 'in aj dress of .grey voile, trimmied with 1 whit© satin and overall lace. Tho bridesmaids; Misses Hilda and Nellie Wallace, sisters of the bride, wore pret*y dresses of cream.'voile. At the wedding breakfast the 'toasts were proposed by the Ifev. T. W. Newbold and Mr Wlalter Toms, brother of the bridegroom, who" married the bride's eldest sister. ' '' , A very successful entertainment was held im ■ the Baptist Sunday School last! night mainly through the instrumentality of a class of girls. The buildingl was packed and an enjoyable programme was submitted,' the following contributing mu«ical items: Mrs Ford, Misses H«ape, James, I. Gordon, I. Whitehouse, D. Hudson and S. Jenkin, andi Mr Jenkin^ An action song, "Golden Boat", and chorus Gatherers" were' plea«ingily while special items 1 were the'dialogues, "Tea and Scandal'" and "The ' Domineering- Wife," j the principals " being; Miss Esther •Miilnes, Ernest Moorman, Misses L ' Gordah andi B. Reitmani. The youthful promoters are fo be' complimented on their successful efforts to augment the funds of the school.

At Narrabri (N.S.W.);. a man was fined £,10 6s 8d for assaulting the schoolmaster, who had severely caned the defendant's boy. Twenty five offices for the transaction of Savings Bank business were opened in the Colony durinie 1906----1907. * Sixty two_ desertions from warships in \New Zealand waters, were reported to the police during last yeav. In tie same period forty eight boys absconded from industrial 'schools. The chimney of <a gold-smelting furnace at Vnllejo Junction., California, wae cleaned recently, and the soot was chemically treaited in the gold-dust room. 'It toontained dust worth £1400. > Seventeen articles with, finger-prints' on thlemi were .sent in to the Police Department for examination la«t year. In six cases the prints were identified! as those of previously wnvieted persona. The hearing in the LauiifJeßton Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Clark, of the claim for £2000 dan>| ages by the next of kin of William 1 Cairns agninst the Tasmanian Gold' Company was concluded on June 17. Cairns died from the effects of an accident in the mine last year, and at the previous trial a verdict was given for £500. The company ob tainedi a new trial on the ground that; certain evidence was wrongly admit-' ted. After /a hearing which lasted six' days the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for £1000. ' The Otaki Sanatorium, the latest weapon to wage war against consumption^ is now in active operation, says the Wellingiton Poet. It was opened! only on June 17, but there are already fourteen patients in, in-! eluding four women. There is accom^{ unodationi for thirty, and as soon as>! the genial days of summer draw near, it is expected that there willbe more applicanlts than can be aoI eepted. There art no advanced' 'cases', , in the sanatorium. Only those in the" early stages of the disease are ad-1 mitited, the aim being to cure. Patients from within the Wellington Hospital districti, if qualified for admission, are taken in for just what ; they can, afford' to nay. Some pay nothing, while others contribute up to as mulch as 30s a week.