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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1079, 17 January 1879, Page 4

The Sale of the coaching plant of Mr R. B. Williams, advertised to take place on Monday nex f , has been postponed till Friday the 3lst instant. E. H. Carew, Feq., has been appointed Judge of the Assessment Courts for the West Hawkesbury, Palmerston, Milton, and Balclutha Muni cipalities. The Canterbury cricketers were victorious in their match with the Es.it Melbourne Eleven, whom they beat by 10 wickets. The "resignation of Mr John Sharp, as a memmber of the House, of Representatives for the electoral district of Nelson City, ia notified in the last publication of the New Zealand ' Gazette. The appointment of Colin M'Kenzie Gordon, Esq., to ba Sheriff, for the District of Otago, ii gazetted. A meeting of the Milton Borough Council was held on Wednesday evening, a-; which certain routine business was transacted, and the resignation of Cr. Stanbrook was received and accepted, the Town Clerk being instructed to give the necessary notice to the lieturuing Officer. In a suplement to a New Zealand Gazette issued on Friday last, a number of pages ar

devoted to a classified scale of fares and charges for the conveyance of passengers, and for the carnage and delivery of goods and* parcels on the New Zealand Railways, which has beeu fixed in lieu of that at present in force. Thk temporary protection works on the bank of the Clutha river are almost completed, only a few men being now kept on for the purpose of adding additional aorub, as that which is already in settles towards the bottom. The permanent work will be started at one*. Mr Marchbanks is at present engaged testing the cement for that par pose. Thk Brace Rifles met at the drill shed on Wednesday evening. There were present two Officers and 30 rank and file. Subsequent to drill and a march out, the company held a meeting, tit which two new members were <lected, and Dr Fergusson's Prize was presented to the winner, Private M'Latchie. First Class firing will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, at half-past 5 o'clock. T.ast bight the Rev Mr Inglis delivered his lecture on " Burns," to a crowded audience in St George's Hall, Miltou. The lecturer gave a very glowing and graphic description of the poet and his works, which he interspersed with read ings, illustrations, stories, translations of Scotch phrases, Ac, forming altogether an intellectual treat «f the most amusing and instructive description. Of Mr Inglis's talents as a reader of Burn's poems, or his inimitable knaok of relating Scotch stories, too much praise cannot be expressed. His reading of the " C >tters Saturday Night" is undoubtedly a splendid achievement, while the conclusion of hi* lecture was one of the grandest sermons we have heard anywhere, reminding one of the wonderful eloquence of Dr Guthrie, when thousands sat entranced before him and listened with rapt wonder to his noble and magnificent oratory. Mr Inglis lectnres in Balclutba to-night, where we have do doubt, as in Milton, he will have a large and enthusiastic audience. Thb Conference of Delegates from the Bruce County, Ciutha County, and Balclutha Borough Council took place yesterday in the Atheneaum Hall. The conference had beeu called for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken towards the re-erection of the Bridge and how funds were to be raised for the purpose. His Worship the M*yor presided, aDd there were present— Messrs Clark, Mayne, and Petrie of the Bruce County Council ; Messrs Jowitt, Brydon, and Dallas, from the Clutha County Council, and Messrs Hogg, Dunne, and Watiod, on behalf of the Borough Council. A report was read from Mr H'gginaon who estimated the cost of re-construction at £9908 . The representatives of the Bruce County Council did not fxictly know how they really stood. They did not know whether they had any right to expend their money on such a matter. After some discussion it was agreed tha ; . a letter should be sent to the Colonial Secretary asking the opinion of the Attorney General on the point. We learn from our special correspondent that a public meeting of s> me importance was held in the towDship of Gleuledi, on Mouday, 13tb inst., to consider the advisibility of drawing the notice of the chool Board to ihe fact of thisimDortantand risiDg district still being without means of educating the children of the community. The presence of Mr Henry Clark, a well -known member of the School Board, at this meeting, was hailed with satisfaction, on account of his interest in the cause of education. Oq the same occasion, it was decided to advertise for tenders for a threshing mill to be in the district at the very commencement of the season, so as to enabe the settlers to cart their grain to market while the roads are still in fairly good condition. Sundry other subjects were discussed, bearing upon the welfare of the place, and a unanimous determination to finish the requirements of this rising district, is shown by iJI present ; and there .an be little doubt that the energy and enterprise of the inhabitants will secure a brilliant future for this prettily situated township. A ha.wke'B Bay publican, named W. H. Qollop, sued Superintendent Atcheson, of the Wellington police, in the Supreme Court on Tuesday for £2000 damages, for having published the following telegram :— " Wellington April 16Dh, 1878.— Inspector Scully.— Re Gollop's application for license. A robbery was committed at the Pier Hotel here about two years ago by three men ; one was convicted at the Supreme Court. Gollop, I believe was implicated in the robbery, and I told him so. I have bo reason to changej my opinion. Subsequently he kept a hotel in Nelson. I refer you to the police there respecting a transaction which occurred between himself and a bank official. Gollop is not suited to hold a house. I have told him that 1 would oppose the application. — F. Atchesoh." The sending ef the telegram was, after some evidence and long argument, admitted, but the Chief Justice granted a nonsuit, on the ground that, no express malice having been proved, the communication must be considered a ptivileged one. In reference to the importation of cattle, the following regulations under the Deseased Cattle Act, came into operation on the lat January : — "1. No master of any ship or vessel, or other person whomsoever, shall, in any river, port, or harbour in New Zealand or elsewhere in New Zealand water*, transfer or attempt to transfer, cause or permit to be translerred, assist in transferring or in attempting to transfer, any imported cattle from any one ship or vessel to any other ship or vessel, without the written authority of the Cattle Inspector of the district, defined uuder the said Act, at er near to which •ach ships or vessels, or either of them, may be. The term ' imported cattle ' bhall have the meaning given thereto in the sail Act a? amended by the Amendment Act hereinbefore recited. 2. If any such master of a ship, or other person whomsoever, shall so transfer any cuch cattle from one ship or vessel to another without the written authority of a Cattle Inspector as aforesaid, he shall be liable for each offence to pay a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, to be recovered in the manner provided by the said Act : Provided that any Resident Magistrate, or any two or more Juticss of ths Peace, before whom any such penalty is sought to be recovered, may order a part only of such penalty to be paid, if he or they shall think fit. "What's in a name" is asked by one ef Sh&kebPeare'* characters. We do not profess to

have any profound ideas on this subject ourselves, never having made it a special study ; but a little incident occurred the other day, at the Balchitta Railway Station, which may throw some light upon it. The train was en the point of starting f>r Dunedin. A member of our staff proceeded to the smoking carriage, —it was a small compartment, — nearly full of Government officials, foremost among whom sat, at the window, a person whose appearance reflected credit upon his butcher and his baker, pur representative, it may be observed, was. attired in a costume more remarkable for ease and comfort than anything else — in fact he was not on this occasion arrayed in what the Yankees call bis "store clothes." On his asking for ad mis ion, politely, he was informed, with that grace of manner and refined expression of thought peculiar to the Civil Service of the Colony : "We are full np." Now, our representative being really fond <f a smoke, requested the guird to introduce him to a vacant seat-he saw three ; but just as that worthy functionary was about to say or do something, an elderly gentleman, with a complexion like manuka scru \ and an eye like a boiled sebnapper, said : "Oh, they're full up there, you kuow guard ; that's Mr Blair !" and, as he said this, he pointed to the gentleman whos9 creditable appearance (to his provedor) we have before mentioned. Guard collapsed. Our representative, we are afraid, jsaid "d Mr Blair !" at which Manuka-sciub looked properly horrified. ' But this shows, how different persons may entertain widely di fferent ideas on the value of a name. For instance Manuki-scrub (we don't know the gentleman's real name, or would give it) pronounced "Blair," as if he was half afraid it would explode like a gun and, produce some un-looked-for effect ; whilst the reporter, no doubt, could see nothing in it but the name of a decent looking fellow in the smoking carriage, who would have appeared to much greater advantage had he been less presumptuous and more polite, aud had it not been for the presence of his friend Manuka scrub who, from Ihe important part he took in the little scene, ought t > be well suited for the office c.f Town crier, torwhich we should be most happy to recommend him. Thb Hon. J. W. Clark, M.L.C., is the largest landed proprietor in Victoria, bting registered as the potsessor of 164,352 aures of land, worth fc475,727. The land tax on thk property amouuts to £6000 per annum. The Presbyterian Church of the Southern Sfcat s expresses its disapproval of Mr Moody and other unordained ministers by adopting a report strongly condemning lay preaching as against the word of God. Gisbojrne, settlers (says the 'Post') have j curious notions about the ballot. At the recent ' municipal election there, one man rode twenty miles to the polling booth, and then carefully struck eut the names of all the candidates on his voting paper, saying emphatically that "there wasn't one < f 'tm worth a (strong ?d-----j ctive)." Of course it never struck tb at voter that if he had rem ined at home the result would have been just bem the same. The devotees of tobacco may hear with s mie alarm, and the vttt of society with some hope, that the public authorities are evading the long- endured liberty of smokers. At C'jblentz and Saarlouis, and at Treves, it is slated that the police have forbidden lads under 16 to smoke in the streets, imposing a fine, or imprisonment in d> fault of payment, on the tffenders. As almost every German smokes from his boyhood, and non-smokers are the excep'ion, tbis is a strong measure. This being the complimentary season, the editor of the ' Manawatu Times ' lets his Foxton contemporary down gently, as will be seen from the delic.ite way in which the following paragraph is put :— " We wonder how many persons in Foxton would keep a certain sycophantic tool there, were they so luoky as to get a chance of parting with him. Echo answers aone. On the contrary, there are not a few who curse the day snch a mischief making meddler, emptyheaded twaddler, Rid flatulent receptacle of bathos and braggadocio confounded them with his presence. SINCK the abolition of slavery in the United States, there has sprung up in the mind of the black population an intense desire to return to the land of their origin. For some time the sentimeat seemed likely to fade away, without leading to any material result ; but, recently, it has gathered new force, and undergone great development in consequence of it3 direction having been taken in hand by the most intelligent and earnest of the negroes. '* Exodus Associations" are springing up in every considerable centre of population, and several ships have already sailed for Liberia heavily freighted with returning Africans. The associations have exteusive ramifications amongst the 5,000 000 of free negroes in the different parts of the Union and at the present moment 200,000 individuals are prepared to leave the Cotton States fjt the laad <f their ancestors. Another new " Harvester " has been added to the list of those already in the colony. Grain growers can hardly have any reason to complain as to the number to choose from. Referring to the latest addition, Saturday's Christchurch 'Press' siya :— "Mr Edward Keec*, Colombo street, has on view a new reaper and binder, which he bai recently imported, but unfortunately it arrived too late to be entered for competition at the forthcoming reaper and binder contest on the 16th instan\ The machine in question, which was completed and put together two days ago, is called the "Elward Harvester," and is manufactured by the St. Pail Harvester C 'tnpany, Minnesota, U.S. The advantages specially cla : med for this impliment are simp : icity and efficiency, an absence of unnecessaiy or complex gear, which thereby lessens the probability of its getting out of order. Tae tension of wire is different to the other harvesters in the field, and the mode of throwing in and out of gear, which requi-es one simple movement by the driver, is more direct. An experimental working of the im plement done by hand was very satisfactory, the binding being done in the most e ff ective manner, and the sheaf landed on the butt. A MOST tragic occurrence happened in the East-end of Glasgow recently, which resulted in a young woman being shot. A carpet weaver, named James Martin, returned home the worse for liquor, and quarrelled with his wife. He resented her efforts to get into bed, and fceiriug her, almost choked her. He then barricaded

the door, and the woman, fearing she was to be a^ain attacked , tried to jump ouc of the .window, which was only a few feet from the ground Her husband dragged her back, and then sei.z d her young child, and with the assistance of some persons outside she escaped- Martin then became furious, and threatened to shoot someone. He is a sergeant in a Volunteer regiment, and loading his rifle, he deliberately fired among the crowd. The. ball took effect on a young woman,, Catherine Durnan, 17 years of age and she died instantly Martin fired a second shot, bat fortunately no one was struck. A rush was then made to the house, aod Mirtin, after some resistance, was apprehended and safely lodged in prison. On searching the house 24 rounds of ball cartridge ware found,