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Bruce Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 1201, 8 June 1880, Page 3

The English mail, via San Francisco, arrived at Milton by midnight train on Saturday, and was sorted for box delivery on Sunday forenoon. The Colonial Treasurer is expected to make his financial statement this evening. The Carandinis will positively appear at St. George's Hall, Milton, on Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and 22nd instant. The adjourned annual Licensing Court will sit this day, at noon, at the Council Chamber?, Milton. We remind our readers that the sale on Mr James Martin's farm takes place to-day, at one o'clock. Messrs Duthie, Moore & Co., are the auctioneers. The Secretary of the Tokomairiro Farmers' Club will receive offers of suitable paddocks for holding the annual ploughing match, up to this evening. The 'New Zealand Tablet' Company, at their recent annual meeting, have declared a dividend of ten per cent, on each share. This will doubtless be satisfactory to the shareholders. According to telegraphic intelligence, Mr J. A. Henderson, formerly auctioneer at Milton, has returned from England by the s.s. Orient, the arrival of which vessel at Melbourne is announced. We regret to see from the Parliamentary reports that the Bill for the regulation of Chinese immirgation is likely to be again shelved till next Session. To once more allow the Government to neglect this really urgently needed measure i3 more than the House of Representatives should allow to pass. The steam joinery and furniture works of Mr Bobert Greig's at Invercargill, formerly of Dunedin, were totally destroyed by lire on Saturday morning last. The building, which contained some valuable machinery, was one burning mass shortly after discovery of the fire, the wind being very high at the time. The estimated loss is about ,£IOOO. By referring to our commercial column, farmers will find the important as well as satisfactory intelligence, that oats, sent to England from Canterbury, have netted 2s per bushel, and the quality of the grain is highly approved of. This fact should cause an immediate rise in this cereal for exportation, and is a great inducement for holders to ship their oats on consignment, drawing an advance in the colony from their bankers or agents. It appears tbat the Customs duties for last month are greatly increased at most of the principal ports in the Colony, as compared to the corresponding mouth of last year. In Wellington, sor instance, they were £IG,OOO as against i' 12, 537 collected in May 1579. We do not think that this indicates a sudden revival in trade, but is simply owing to the fact that large quantities of tea and sugar have been cleared out of bond, in anticipation of the reimposition, of the former duty on those two articles. To what fearful extent larrikiuism can go even at Home will be seen from the following, which appeared in the ' Glasgow Herald,' of April 3rd : — "ln Dundee on Monday four boys were brought before the Police Court and remitted to the Sheriff, charged with having on Saturday night burned nine persons at the Greenmarket and High Street, by throwing vitriol on their faces and necks. The injuries are serious, and in some cases the disfigurement will be permanent. The boys had got a bottle of vitriol, and threw it about the crowds in mischievous amusement." It is to be hoped that these miscreants received most substantial punishment for their ciuelty. We learn tbat Mr F. Wayne, during his recent visit to England, came across some improved .American ploughs, of which he brought out two. One of them, named "Sulky," is a single-furrow plough, which will plough three acres a day with three horses, but on a pinch it can be worked with two. Its mould-board is so constructed that it will turn over a width of 18 inches of soil with ease, and Mr Wayne calls it the poor man's plough. The second, called the "Gang Plough," is a double-furrow one, will do from four to four and a-half acres per day with four horses, and is probably the only one of its kind in the Colony. We understand th at Mr Wayne will have 400 acres of wheat and 100 acres of oats under crop this year, and it is expected that all the grain will be shipped off the "coast by steamer. We congratulate Mr Wayne on his spirit of enterprise. A Meeting of the Tokomairiro High School Committee was held on Friday last, when the following members attended : Messrs J, 3?. Brown (Chairman), H. Clark, R. Murray, J. Inglis, W. J. Dyer, and J. Johnstone. The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed, accounts were passed bo the amount of £29 2s. The Secretary of the Education Board intimated that the sum of £25 hid been allocated for fencing and erecting gates at the new school. A circular from Mr J. L. Gillies was read, stating that the Hon. Secretary of the Benevolent Institution in Dunedin had solicited contributions from the schools in aid of the funds of that in3tntion. The letter was received, and on the motion of Mr Clark, seconded by Mr Murray, it was resolved, that the Rector be requested to make a special collection amongst the school children. The Rector, who was present, expressed his williugness to get up some school entertainments and lectures in aid of the funds. The Committee highly approved of the kind proposal, and appointed the following days for the entertainments : ISth June, , 16th July, and the 13th August. Messrs Brown, Dyer, and Inglis were appointed a sub-com-mittee to assist the Rector and teashers in the neecesary arrangements. The Works Com- j mittee were authorized to propound a scheme for laying out the school grounds and fencing

the Hector's garden. The School Committee, will met again On Saturday next the 12th inst. At the election last week, of three members for the Mount Stuart Road Board, Mr James Adam was re-eleoted for Adamthorpe, and Mr Jasper Clark for Lovellsbrook. Glenore sends a new member in Mr Robert Graig. We have to acknowledge roceipt, from the Government printer, of a number of oeffiial documents and Acts, amongst the latter " The Licensing Act, 1880," a compilation containing no less than 225 clauses. The unfortunate Maori Heriona, who was recently tolerably well baked in a Maori oven, by a fantic member of his tribe, for the purpose of driving the devil out of the poor old man. died at Napier on Friday last. The baker is awaiting trial at the Supreme Court for the assault. By the San Francisco mail we have received from the Publishers the ' Printers Register,' and the 'British and Colonial Printer and Stationer,' both for the month of April. The periodicals are, if anything, beyond their usual excellence, and are of great interest to the trade. Mb Edward Stewart announces a great clearing sale of drapery, clothing, woollen and other goods, at Manchester House, and immense reductions will be made to meet the times. The proprietor states that he ib in peril, and wants a. thousand pounds to help him out of it. Mr Stewart's advertisements appear in other portions of this paper. Another serious railway accident has occurred. A man named Thomas Guy was laying across the line at Windsor, on tho Ngapara line, where there is a road-crossing. The engine, being engaged in shunting, was going at a very moderate pace, but the unfortunate man was nearly cut in two. Deceased, who was 24 years of age, was an employee on the railway. ! How he came there is of course a mystery, I as he was killed instantaneously. A sehious accident is reported from Oamaru, as having occurred on Sunday evening, when Dr and Mrs Garland, together with several ladies and gentlemen, returned from a drive. The horses bolted and upset the carriage. The doctor received a slight concussion of the brain, but Mrs Garland and Mrs Lintott sustained serious injuries, particularly the first-named lady, whose death, we regret to say, was announced in last night's 'Star.' The other occupants of the vehicle escaped uninjured. To show how the London • Times ' are treated in St. Petersburg, a resident there says—" In the copies of the ' Times ' of Tuesday, February 3, distributed here, the ' Censor ' has treated them as follows : — 'The whole sheet containing pages 3 and 4is out. The last two columns of page 5 are cut out, and in column four of the same page all after ' Bulgaria ' has been blacked out. The two last columns of page nine are cut out. The blacking out is done so that I scraped from off the IS square inches so blacked enough of black lead mixed with grease to fill an egg spoon. You may imagine the state of the rest of the text which comes in contact with other parts of the paper, as well as of the hands of the readers.' " The adjourned inquest on the late Miss Catherine Finch took place ou Saturday before E. H. Carew, Esq., Coroner. The evidence of Dr Kobert Stuart Reid, Mrs Aitchison, Mrs Willis, and Mr James Finch was taken. The Coroner briefly addressed the Jury, dwelling principally on the fact that, according to Dr Reid's evidence, deceased was in a state of mania, in fact dying, when he first saw her. The Jury deliberated for about 20 minutes, and the foreman, Mr George Coombe, then delivered the following verdict: — "That Catherine Finch came to her death from want of proper attendance while in childbirth, but that no blame is attributable to any person." With reference to the child a verdict was returned "that the child was found dead." And thus ends one of the saddest cases which has I ever come before a Jury, and to chronicle which has been a painful duty to us. There can be no reasonable doubt in the minds of the great majority, that both mother and child might safely have been permitted to go to their grave upon a doctor's certificate. Rather a good story comes from Dnnedin. A few years ago, an artist who resided not a hundred miles from Milton, received an order from a well-known publican in Dunedin to paint his portrait. The painting was taken from a photograph which proved to be a very good likeness of the subject. It was sent to the publican when it was finished, but was returned with a polite note saying that the artist had surely mistaken him for someone else, as the painting had no resemblance to him. By-and-bye the artist came to reside in Dunedin, and by some means found out that the publican had in the meantime dyed his whiskers and hair. The artist offered to make the necessary alterations, but Boniface refused to have anything te do with it. Th'> artist swore he would have his revenge, and accordingly, next day exhibited the picture in his shop window, with the following inscription : — "The Artist's Revenge— As he appeared before he died (dyed)." The artist has had his revenge, for through that portrait his business has increased wonderfully. By referring to our advertising columns it will be seen that a meeting is called for tomorrow evening, at the Council Chambers, to consider the desirability of arranging for a series of entertainments during the winter, in order to provide a fund for benevolent purposes in Milton. Though our fellow townsmen have of late been rather frequently called upon to contribute to sundry charitable collections, cases of distress in our own midst have been almost totally lost sight of, though limited relief has been privately afforded in one or two cases. Taking the old maxim, that charity begins at home, for our guide, we consider it only just and reasonable that some effort should be made to succour J those who are, or may be, in want within our community. The proposal to hold a few entertainments in aid of this good cause is a good one, and as a shilling or sixpence paid at the i door is not missed so very much by many, the ! movement should be well patronized. It being j understood that ladies will take part in the deliberations, we trust that to-morrow evening will see a crowded meeting of both sexes. Messks Mollison, Duthie and Co. inform the inhabitants of Tokomairiro that they will

hold a very cheap sale, for 14 days only, offering immense bargains of all kinds of woollen goods, men's clothing, ladies' dressas and jackets, hosiery, &c, &c. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns. Messrs Duthie and Co's temporary premises are nearly opposite the old Brvce Herald offices, Union street.