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Bruce Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 793, 18 August 1876, Page 5

The last clearing up at the Bruce Quartz Company resulted in a yield of 102oz lodwt of gold.

The Maungatua Main District School was examined last week by Mr Taylor. The result of the examination wa3 very satisfactory.

The Milton Amateur Miustrels will give an entertainment at Lawrence on the Oth of September, in aid of the funds of the local Hospital.

In another column will be found a list of the subscriptions that have been received on behalf of Mrs Rutledge, widow of the late stationmaster at Clarksville.

The last meeting of the Balclutha Town Council was held in the new chambers at the Athenreum, which were found far more comfortable than the former place of meeting.

Constable Samuel Hughes has been appointed Inspector of Slaughter-houses and of Cattle intended for slaughter for the district of Balclutha. I We observe that the Kennedy family arc now in Canada. Mr David Kennedy, juu., continues to forward regular letters describing his rambles to tliG ' North British Advertiser.' Our Maungatua correspondent informs us that Messrs J. and T. Sim have purchased the fine shorthorn bull, "Richard the l*t," from Messis P. and D. Grant of Grauton. The bull will be sent to the Messrs Sims' new farm near Tapanui.

The members of the Tokomairiro Road Board have forsaken the den at the rear of St. George's Hall, in which they have been in the habit of holding their meetings for the last year or two. In future the meetings will be held in the Milton Municipal Council Chambers.

We are glad to hear that an attempt is being raade to form a Chess and Draught Club in this township. A meeting of gentlemen desirous of joining the Club will be held ot Mr Geo. Capstick's o3ice, on the evening of Tuesday next, at seven o'clock. We hope to see a large attendance,

Contracts have been let by the Waipori Road Board for the opening up of a new road from Berwick, Lake Waipori, across the swamp to the Henley railway station. The road will provs a great convenience to traveller?, and we hope to heas of its completion without any unnecessary delay.

Mr H. J. Sfeoot/e, who for some time past has had charge of the school at Queenstown, has removed to Invercargill. Mr Sproule has been employed in tho important work of education for over ten years in this Province, and has been the recipient of many flattering testimonials from the Committees of the schools he has had charge of,

Some amusement (writes our Arrow csrrespondent) has been caused here during the last month by tAie puling complaints of a certain swain, " who loved, nob wisely, but too well," and after going to great expense to show the real state of his feelings, awoke one morning to find his ladylove seated on tho Royal Mail— with a ticket ?o<Dunedin. Then tlie thought of human frailty, and of female frailty in particular, drew tears of bitter vexation down his manly cheeks. Jle was heard to say, " The boy Mickey spoilt it all." However, the lady has since become "Mw Boy Mickey."

A public vaccinator has been appointed for tbe dibtrict of Popotunoa. Vaccination will be performed at the local schoolhouse, at 10 a.m. on the first Saturday in each month.

Thb interment of the remains of George Hay, of Hilly Park, Port Molyneux, took place yesterday afternoon at Balclutha, The funeral was unusually large, and consisted of some 80 horsemen and a number of vehicles. Mr Andrew Mercer and a number of Dunedin and Balclutha friends were in attendance.

Mb Q-. S. Robebtson has secured the premises iv Balclutha wherein the Municipal Council used to meet, and has fitted them up as an oßice in connection with a general commission business which he has just Btarted there. If straightforwardness aud genial manner will be any attraction to business, Mr Robertson will Becurc his fair share of the Balclutha commission trade.

Refehbing to Mr James Macandrew's speech during the Separation debate, tho Wellington ' Argus ' says : — " Seriously speaking, however, the narrow, local, selfish, and parish view, which Mr Macandrew took of the whole subject, was a fearful example of the debasing and injurious influence of the system of government to which he is devoted. When a man like Mr Macandrew can confine his sympathies and limit his aspirations to a small portion of the country in which he lives, utterly regardless of the interests of the whole, and without a spark of national sentiment, it is evident that there must be some defect in the form of government which encourages, or renders possible, such a state of things."

Mr A. M'Laren, of Kiness Farm, was rather late with his ploughing this season, owing to the farm having come into his hands again rather unexpectedly. A number of settlers exhibited their good feeling towards him by determining to turn out and give him a day's ploughing. Yesterday no less than twenty-thrco ploughs, including seven double-furrow, were on the ground at an early hour in tbe morning, and over thirty acres oi land were turned over. Had not tbe day been a favorable one for wheat sowing a number of other settlers would have lent a hand.

Residents of Milton will regret to hear that Mv Capper, who for the last three 3-ears has been officer in charge of the telegraph department here, is to be removed to some station in the North Island. Ou Wednesday Mr Capper received instructions to report himself at the Wellington office without deiiy, and he will leave for the IS'orth to-morrow. During his long stay in Milton, Mr Capper has made a large number of friends, and has earned for himself ibe reputation of be;ng a courteous and efficient public servant. His successor, Mr Gourlay, who was until the lust few weeks stationed at Keatherston, in the province of Wellington, has already arrived.

Our Arrow correspondent writes : — "Our little town has, on the whole, got over the winter well, considering that our share ot the Public Works policy amounts to a couple of surface-men occasionally, aud that our miners are nearly at a standstill in the whole length of the season, and that cash circulation must therefore be reduced to a minimum. — Of our registered companies on the Arrow, two, the United aud Universal, are at a standstill,- whilst one, the Sons of Fortune, is going ahead, and giving fair promise of good news at an early date. — A hatter on a terrace above the Sons of Fortune had the good luck to find a six-and-a-half ounce nugget a short time ago, in company with some smaller ones. ' May his shadow never grow less.' — Our reefs have been frost and snow-locked, but one Company at Macetown ha 9 made a beginning already, and others will soon follow. — Snow fell here on Friday and Saturday last, but it is melting last, auU the sunny slopes are already bare."

A delegate from the Otngo Licensed Victuallers' Association has been travelling through the Province lately for the purpose of establishing branches of the Association in the various centres of population. Branches have been established at Port Chalmers, Mosgiel, Balclutha, Lawrence, Waikouaiti, Palmerston, Clyde, Cromwell, and Milton. In Milton six members have joined, and Mr Fred. .Bastings, of the White Horse Hotel, has been appointed secretary. In Balclutha the Association numbers sixteen members, and Mr Thos. Stanbrook, of the Crown Hotel, has been appointed secretary. At the present time there are over one hundred and fifty members of the Association in Otago, but many important districts have not yet been visited. In a few weeks all candidates for admission will have to submit to a ballot.

In tbe Legislative Council, on Wednesday, a reply was read from the Chairman of the Commissioner of Public Debts Sinking Funds in answer to a letter from tbe Speaker, that the accounts of the Commissioners were prepared and jmssed by the Board within the time required by law, but that owing to a heavy pressure of work on the Secretary to the Comnußsioners(who is also accountant to the Treasury), and jjorhaps also owing to tlie absence of the Chairman from his office through indisposition for some days, the copies of the reports and accounts to be laid before the two Houses of Parliament wsrc not prepared until Sumo days alter tbe time required by law. The Commissioners expressed their regret at the delay.

The Resident Magistrate's Court, Milton, was crowded on Tuesday last, when Mr Maitland was called upon to settle some disputes that had arisen between two aristocratic Fairfax families, the Casserlys and the Burkes. There were four actions altogether, the parties being Mr and Mrs Michael Casserly, and Mr and Mrs Thomas Burke. Although all hailing from sweet Erin, aud being neighbors iv this the laud of their adoption, the members of the two families have for some time past regarded each other with an}'thing but feelings of friendship. Ouly a few weeks ago Mrs Casserly, encouraged by her husband, sallied forth and " took it out " of Mrs Burke on the road, and the Burke family resented tho defeat of their female champion by making Use of taunting remarks whenever the}' happened to pass the mansion of tlie Casserlys. In that course of action the Burkes were ably assisted by a gentleman named Whehm. Tlie feud culminated some d'*ys ago, when Mr Burke so far forgot himself as to call Mrs Casserly "a Maori," also using an unpresentable adjective in connection with tbe words quoted. This was more than the blood of the Casserlys could stand, and they at once decided to " take the law" of their opponents. They caused two summonses to bo issued ngainst their enemies, and the Burkes likewise determined to appeal to the law. While the cases were being heard on Tuesday, great disorder prevailed in the Court. The Magistrate ultimately decided to dismiss all the cases.