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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1080, 21 January 1879, Page 5

The annual meeting of the congregation < £ ! St. John's Church. Milton, will take place this evening. The sale of M- Wayne's Akatore estate, advert «ed for th< 8 ho? February, has been post poned till Sa'uiday, Bth March. 'The members of the M Iton Dramatic <^lul» cast tor " Trial ty Ju y " are -t-quested t .» be in attendance for rehearsal at ihe Hall this evening at; -8 o'clock sbarp. .. ,\ PRIVATE Caider was top scorer on Saturday mornng last, iv competiti m for M- Henry Cak's pr*;, with the score of 52 including 6 points handicap, Lieut. Soott. next with 48. Mr Blair has lelegraphtd to the chairman of the S'U hland C >unty Council :— " The survey <f the E Knoa'e Toi-toia railway has been ordered, and a contract for the first section will be out by the end < f Febrnary." Many readers of the Bruce Herald will be irit« rented to learn that Dr Rogers, who wa-< once a resident in the Tokomairiro District, i* on his wpy to Fort Ch 'liners from Knland a* surgeon of the ship W llingtnn, which may be expected to arrive eaily in March. A GENTLEMAN signing himself "Miltooian,' has written us, making certain enquiries regard ing the railway time-table. He ask? U3 to * in form pur readers." For reply to whic* 1 , we may say that we M ii formed rur reade/s" on this subject last week. ''Mlfconian" had better Tborrow the paper. „.., _^ At the usual monthly meeting of the Mount Stuart Road Board, the business tiantactedwas of a purely routine ~ character, exceptive; the | receipt of a letter from Mr G.- M'Leod, tflf .ring ': half-a chain of grout d running throngh his land as a highway, on certain conditions,: to be considered by the Board. Several accounts were passed for payment. . . We have been rf puested by one of the valuators appointed to c >lleot the Government property tax, to remind settlers that roach delay and inconvenience t) both valuators and property owners, may be avoided by the latter having all necessary iuformation as to value of propertyf acreage, lengths of fencing, 4c, reaiy for filling up the returns when the officials call. It ha* been suggested that when the Christchurch Bowling Club come to Dunedin for the purpose of playing a return match with their Southern brethren, the Milton Club "should challenge them to play a game in Dunedin. We d m't for a moment question the pluck of our local players, and think it quite pos^ble they would be able to hold their own, should they' .engage in a contest with a team from the City of the PI ios. V Messrs M'Landress, HepKurn, and Co. dis posed on Saturday of the W^ihola Park township. One hundred and forty-five quarter-acre BecVnna were sold at prices ranging from £5 to £10 54. One hundred and twenty-seven and three-qnatr r acres of eubarbaa land adjoining the township were sold in lots of from 2£ acres to 21 acres, aid brought from £3. t0 £4 lO.i p«r acre. The t tal amount realised by the sale was £l.3l7. ■';:.' ; '.v i i : : r Z--'-,^i The Milt?n Bowling Club have,; with apery aisteuce which » to be commended, a^ain : challenged, the Dunedin B wllng Club to play a : match on the green at Milton. Tber* is very little doubt as to how .the game, will eventuate, but it is to be trusted that Milton will not be beaten without a hard tns-l j , and the members cbesan to j'lsy should go in fir good steady p\» jtice. ; Tae following are the names <f the members., pf the ■M.8.Q.-wbp i »re to play in the next match :— Vfesorsi ;T. Brown yj. -Grant-, F. B wtings, and W. Taylor, (ikip), Gf. Capsttck, J. S. M'latosh, F. Xwiss, and W; Malcolm

ATAKAtr^lp»per, has the fallowing : -A well km >w ii resident: of New Plymouth, .whilst. en route t>\ WangAnui a short time Ago, ma ; e the ; customary stoppage at Opunaki, and enfid ingly left IU hi-lmet at the door of a house there. On returning be fcu^d that his chapeaa bad disappeared. A prompt search wwb made for the missing article, wheu somewhat to his di-«-fjust, he saw a native >p >rti>ig a helmet su»picionsily 1 ka tLe one lost.. put out at iba *' cheek of his aboriginal f riend.'Vthe pakeha at once snatched the hat off the w«arer,s head ; and a rather excited discussion ensued. Titokowarn, on hearing ang r y expressions, .came to see the causes of the koriro. ihe pakeba infomed him that his hat had been taken,and to show that he wa^ the rightful owner ot the potahi he had taken from the Maori's hca^, he i looked for. his. sjgn^turo, which he had written inside the lining, when his chagrin can be imagined ■ to fiai no signature there. Therefore, instead of the Maori having stolen the property of ( the pakeha, the pakeha had taken the property of the Maori. Titokowaru, to soothe the wounded feelings of h'S fellow countryman, ordered the pakeha to stand a gall <n of beer at> utu, .so that the New Plvmouthitf, who is a teetotaller, had to "thout," as well as lose a hat. It is a'nming to listen to the explanation of defendants in tbe cattle strayiu^ oases, as to bow the (ffiiidioganimils managed to getadrif Toe favourire defence is that the cow or goat, a* the case may be, had not been out »f ken for more than fire aiinutes. while others accept the inevitable, and plead guilty with a becomio g air of resignation. One defendent recently said the slip paml wai down and so let the cow out. The RM. remarked that it wa* the duty of the defemiaut to see that the panel was kept up. "• Lor bless you, . your Honor, that cow of mine can take down a panel likeany Christian," rep ied the owner. As eleven shillings and sixpence was the price of that cow's cleverness on this occasion, it would be as -well {not to encourage such feats. ( ;■ . At low tide at Monterey, California, a part of the wreck of a vessel, f >rmerly the Natalia, can be seen, though, says the ' Globe,' very few who see io are aware that she is the ship in which Napoleon Bonaparte esjapad from Elba sixty-three years ago. The old vessel, now. r lowly, going to pieces in the Pacific, brought to California, in 1834, from Mexico, the CJooy. of Hi jas, whose numbers, intended to settle in what was then S >noma county. Not liking ■Sonoma, they returned to Monterey, and gradually dwiudled into iud.sinciw,, being typified by the ship that had transported them thither. Savb the " Loafer "in the Cnristcburcb ' Press ': —ln the: recent exciting contest for the Christiihureh Mayoralty, a few a alous canvassers went through to Lyttelton to beat up recruits. In the course of their travels, they bakd.up old Sticky, a well-known • Portoniau V'olitijan. They flaug a series of well chosen -and polite remarks at .the old man, and concluded by expressing a hope th«t he would not f*il to c me through and record a vote fur the CarUtihurch Mavoratty. ''Oh, yes, gentle men," replied old Sticky, "I'll come and vote for the morality of Curittohurch, and give yonr ; man a conscientious vote too." Mil Oliver, M.H.R., has been re-appointed, "litid the H>n. W. H. Reynolds nominated as oue of the Board it Governors of the Daaedin High So iools. | Mr Oomnii'ssiorer C >nyers has telegraphed to |>he Mtyor of luvercvrgill, with respect to the railway opeaing : "First trait will leave C iristchut eh on 2lst at 8 40 am., and Danedin ou the 22d at 10.15 a.n-., arriving at Invercar-, cargillat 4.15 p.m. Nj ladies going." Fully 500 invitations for the trip have been issued. The members of the demonstration committee and the heads of the principal publio bodies ab Invercargill will meet the visitors at Clinton, proceeding there by special train en Wednesday morning. The banquet in the evening promises to be a big affair. Russian newspapers rebate some romantic attachments which have sprung up between Turkish prisoners -'f war and Russian ladies of various ages in the towns where the former bave been detained, lea ing in some cases to somswhat sensatioual and rather inconvenient scenes upun the departure of the Turks. At Charkoff a Russian girl, dressel up as a Turk, took her place among the returning Moslems, she was detected en numbering the persons conveyed in the car. At Poltava a young lady of position and education insisted upon accompanying a Turkish officer with whom she earnestly desired to be married. At the same place the departure of one railway train carrying liberated prisoners led to a regular scene, necessitating the interference of the police and calling for orders whicd have since been given to prevent similar occurrences in future. A crowd of ladies, young and oil, some only schoolgirls, assembled on tbe platform and took leave of the departing Turks in the most pathetic and demonstrative of .ways. All embraced, all kissed, some burst into tears, others fainted away. All this was done in public. The schoolgirls taking part in the diajjliy have since been expelled from the school. ' ' ; "To edit a newspaper," says Rev. Mr Talmage. "requires that one should be a statesman, a essayist, a geographer, in fact, an encyclopedia. Yes, and when you have done so with distinguished success for the: better part of a lifetime, the statesman, essayist, geographer, ana encyclopasiia of a rival sheet will sithimaelf at his desk with a heavenly smile and an ' even pulse, and; tranquilly aver tbafc ;yon are,*, brass- bound and double-rivited centennial idiot, i and a roaring, rib-nosed jobndonkey of the frindy wild !" VA . r " At the Southwark Police Courti on October 17, a young woman named Catherine Carter 26, wa« charged with being drunk and disorderly. A constable said that between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon; he found the prisoner in the street singing and calling out, 1* Where's my husband. He s a j')!ly good fellow," and other words, col-: ■- lecting, at .the same, time, a nutnber of roughs and theives. ; Perceiving that she was drunk he requested hereto go home, and as ehe :; refused , and becance nol^ he was compelled toarrest her. The Magistrate to the prisoner "You seem to be a respectable young woman ; what have you tosay in aoswertotheoharge?" Prisoner: lam

very sorry and am ashama \ of myself. , I do not recollect much- about it," Toe r -'Magistrate : -.-•• Where have yon been to get so much drink ?" Prisoner (blushing a little) ;" We'l sir, to -tell yon the truth, I wa« muri«d ye*t*)r?ay ; and after we had something tn drir.k, and I lost my hoVoaofl." The Magistrate. "How i* it he did not come and i>atl you out, instead of a'lowing you t? rarniia in the stauoo«hou c on your weddiug night t Bat ha not been near you?' Prisoner: "1 lout my hunband somewhere. I thiuk be mast hare got more intoxicated than myself, and most liksly U locked tipßomewnere e ia*." (Lan nter ) The Magistrate : "I am afraid he has not much respect for ; you. However,- as you have been locked up on your wedding night, you may go." CoJOPt AINTB of the scarcity of fchearers come from several parts of the country. The ' Oamaru Mail' states that" shearers are to scarce this season that the station-managers up to the Waitaki are in great struts. They are not to be got f<»r love or mon-y, because they are not in the district. The hordes that make their way here peiodically to pick up the crumbs from the tables of the wool-grower h ive not favoured v* this year with a visit. This is to be regretted f; f»r, bad as the mtjwity of thatn were, they were by far preferable tb .nothing We think that it is not difficult to account for the .scarcity of shearers in this district this year. A fewyears ago the price per 100 was 20* ; it was reduced to l7a 61, and now it has suffered a further reduction to 16)81 It would appear that the shearers that have been in the hibit of visiting t;iis district daring the: shwinu are n^t appreciative of the reduction, and their absence wo'tld indicate that thy cia'fiud something th:tt ' 'rays' them bettr than shearing at 1(5 81 per 100 The want of shearers is a serious drawback to the district, and to m.*Dy other districts in the col my ; bat it ought never, to have occurred. It is another evilenc* of the defectiveness of imraiijrat : on arrangements of this colony. We may hope far ber.ter thinks n>w that aii ol'l colo.iit, wh > U welLinf timed in colonial matter', has been appointed to niake an emigration tour, through Canada and the United Kingdom i » the interests of ths colony.