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Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 650, 17 November 1874, Page 5

The Commanding Oder's parade of tin iruce Rifles tuked place oil VVt» lneaday nijjhi, aliens irmishnig practice wi.l be gone through mi the Station reserve.

To facilitate the locil trade, pottery works, and other trades, where basketvvare is a rnoßt uselu) md economical addition as ati assistant to the .nouns of carriage, we would refer the public to .Vlr Sullivan's advertisement in another column.

Our Travelling Reporter saw at the foundry of Eraser, Wiaharfc, and Buchanan, Dunedin, a very ieat and ad i.irably constructed machine to •ongup, groove, mould, and pltne at one opera tion. It it constructed for Laidlaw and Ram <ay, Long Bu h, Invercurgill.

Wa were much pleased to see an old friend in i new character last week. On Friday morniM;/, Mr James Pot's, a we 1-known resident of tinlistrict, passed through Milton ir his own bran row dray, with a handsome spanking horao to natch.

j Wb learn that nn action at law bet-ween two gentlemen connected with current literature, is likely to come before the Dunedin C'ourtJ shortly. The action concerns the rise and progress of a certain newspaper, one gentleman suing another fur damages tluough loss of a chare, which he i alleges was promised him in sucb paper. I Lees and Moobk, of Oamaru, have a race from ! the mouth of the tunnel to the back of the postoffice, enabling them to work their water power luring floods, the new cut having taken the main body of water pa9t the drillshed. This eff. cts an immense saving for them, and with the railway, combines to give them one of the valuable properties in Oamaru. Fbasgr, Wishart, axd BrjCH&K&y, foundry men. of Great King-street, Dunetiiu, are engaged in very heavy ca-ting just now, hiving received :vn order from the Waitaki Bridge works for four cylinders, ninety feet long, three feet in diatncten and of one and a half inch metal, and weighing two and a half tons. They are to replace some which have been damaged or swept away in a late flood. Captaiv Tatchell, of the May Queen, recently ii-rived in Port Chalmers, reports that on Sept. L 2 he made a trial of Douglass boat-lowering ipparatus with the ship's life-boat, when the nip was under sail, and everything was- done with the greatest ease and cafety, and the boat ,va,i lowered, took a turn round the ship, ani was hauled upajain in eight nrnutes. We noiice that the entertainment on Friday •tight next, at the Waihola George school, in aid •>f ihe school fund, will consist of a number of soi gs nnd readings and a luughuble fnrce. Several ■>f the members of the Milton Amateur Dramatic and Minstrel Club will contribute items to the programme, anl a veiy pleasunt evening nisiy be tixpected. Not of least interest is the announcement that a dance will conclude the entertainment. A.T this season of the year, when it seems to be j the fashion to seek for the prot!ie6L sp.>ta in the loc«lify, we can atron *ly recom.nend out* reader* | to pay a visit to our neighbor, Mr F. Twiss, in the North Branch district road. The scenery around cannot fail to be ad. aired, whilst the garden and orchards, with their excellent stock of every species of fruit trcs, and capacious strawberry beds, are alone well worth seeing. The Milton railway station is exhibiting healthy signs of progress. The sidings and other narks of completion are well forward ; the approaches are being rapidly formed, and an engine shed, 69ft by 20ffc, will shorlly be put up, the contractor for it having already commnnced operations. Query, though, when will all this be of practical use ? when will passage train < begin ro run? As some loreign tongue has it, " Quien *abe !" We have heard several complaints from resi- ' dents in the neighborhood of the condition of the railway crossing on the district road near Waihola Gorge school-house. The approaches to the crossing are not properly formed, and the consequence is that a vehicle in going over the rails has to make a jump f of some height, most discomposirg to horse and driver, and danserous to springs and ironwork. The sooner this state of things is altered the better.

The new cut for the Oamaru Creek is finished, also the concrete basin, which now forms quite a pleasing feature in the aspect of Oaraaru. Looking from Thames sireet north of the bridge, one can see all the way up the dam to Severn- street. At its lower end there is a water fa'l of twelve feet. The whole presents the appearance of an artificial like, and when bordered with trees, which the wl»e and tasteful Municipality will suggest to th •• Q-eneral Government to h-ive done, the water will form a most beautiful addition to this pretty aud flourishing town.

Visitors to the Botanical Gardens, Dunedin while admi'ing the varied shades of color and habit of the trees, shruba and flowers growing in them, are much disappointed af; not being able to learn from the labels more than their botanical names. We would suggest to the directors, the propriety of having the characteristics, country of which they are natives, and soils placed beneath the names of the plants, instead of the unreadable and unintelligible information which now exists. Such is the custom in the Kew and other gardens oi England, thus affording addi* tioatl instruction w»d plwiwe.

A NUMBER of trout from the Acclimatisation Society's ponds were taken through Milton jester my. They are intended for distribution in LovellV 'reek, the Puerua Hirer, and other streams.

In tho nursery of Carter and Wesi", Gre»l Cinq street, Dunedin, are to b* seen a quanl U} f those splendid dahlias, which attracted so uuch public admiration last year.

Wohk is to be commenced at the Clinton end »fthe Mafcaura to Clutha railway line this week. iO or 30 men are now on the ground ready to nako a start. Prom 200 to 300 men are expected o be at work on this contract during the summer

The Dunedin papers assert that Mr Richarc Oliver has resigned his seat in the Provincial Jou-icil, as member for Dunedin. They hay. announced the same several times previously without foundation. On this occasion they are. we believe, accidentally correct.

Vert great dissatisfaction ha 3 justly arisen in Invercargill at tlie suicidal policy of the Government in doubling the rotes of freight on the Blufl md Winton Eailwny line ; and in consequence, tue first steamer for a long while past delivered iivight at tlie Invercargill jetfy last week, and in future tlie coasting steamer* able to make Invercirgill wharf will cut out the railway traffic to a large extent Ma George H. Maitland, of the Maitland Bros', family, of Hillend and Inch Clutha, who ately returned from the Fijis, has joined the auctioneering firm of Messrs Gh F. Martin and Co., Invercargill, und in future the business wil be carried on under the dtsignation of -liartin, Mait'and, and Co. We wish our old friend every success in his new commercial venture, commenced under such favorable circumstances, and with bo good prospectß in store.

We notice by a Dunedin contemporary that the ordinary week'.y iueet.ng of the directors of tinlocal Caledonian Society was held on Friday evening. Mr Keith Karaeay presided. The programme of gameß at the annual gathering in January wus submitted by the Sports Commit toe and unanimously adopted. The superintendent of the games and other officers, as well as the judges, were appointed. The sum of £330 wat> voted to be competed for, being an iucreaso of £90 on the value of the last year's prizes. When the programme w issue.l, we shall be able to givr further particulars concerning what is likely to be the moifc attractire of those yet issued by the Society.

Smith's Combination Troupe will appear in St. George's Hall, Milton, to-morrow and Thursday nights. We can assure our readers that in witnessing the performances of the members ol the troupe they will get value for their money. The t.oupe payed for a season of many weeks in Dunedin, and other large New Zealand and Australian towns, and everywhere drew crowded houses. Thi3 is no wonder, for their performances are something quite out of the common, more especially those of Airec, whose balancing feats on the trapeze may, without any great flight of fancy be fairly termed the poetry of motion.

We notice by a Dune !in contemporary that Mr A. 11. Shury, who has been long and favorably known as an officer of the Uuion Bank at Dui-.edin, ha 3 received the charge of the Asiiburton (Canterbury) Agency of that Bank. On Saturday afternoon a number of customers and his fellow-officers of the Uui in Bank, and a few personal friends, met at Wain's and presented him with an address and a purse of sovereigns, on the occasion of his departure from Dunedin. The presentation was made " as a slight recognition of his uniform courtesy and obliging manner as an officer of the Union Bank during the past fourteen years." Mr Shu y returned his hearty thanks for the testimonial, and success to him in his new sphere was then drunk. Mr Shury is connected by marriage with Mr W. Chapman, of Milton.

Mr Robert Mubrat, of ClarWille, writes to say ihat we reported Mr J. L. Gillies, when ad<lre»sing his constituent!", incorrectly. The portion of our report, of which Mr Murray complains is that giving a question by Mr Duncan and an answer by Mr Gillies. Mr Murray understood Mr Duncan to ask Mr Sillies if he hud baen the architect of Noah's ark, and Mr Gillii-s to answer that one of his forefathers undoubtedly wu,-, and that he was nware Mr Dun.-an was one ol i hose men who thought because they lived once in the some street with a good carpenter they themselves were good carpenters too. Considering the maguitude of the interests at stike, we are happy in°inserting Mr Murray's report. We may state, however, that our report was perfectly correct., and that wo do not think the public trouble much on the matter.

Wjs regret having to record a fatal accident which or-curred at Knitangivta on Friday night last. The s.s. Wallifai was moored in the nrer close to the lower punt, and within a very fi-w IVet of ihe bink. Her engineer, who had been spending the evening ashore, was returning lo her at about a quarter to 12 (/clock at ni^ht, in company with the steward. Whilst crossing (higangvay from tho shore to the steamer, h; 1 emmbled and fell into the water, clufehi^sr the i steward, in his fall, and dragging him in also. The steamer was not inoie than sft from the shorp, and tho steward pot. out on the river bank without much difficulty, bufc could find no trace of his companion. Search was ma'e the next dny, and after dragging frr some time, the boHy ol 'poor Morton wm found under the stern of the Wallabi, about 15 feet from the place he had fallen in. Motion was a youn>2 man of not more than 30, and leaves a wife and, we believe, three children to mourn •is loss. He insured his life in the Crorernment Department about a month ago fur £400, and had paid but one premium when the accident, by which lie was deprived of life, happened.