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Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2668, 18 November 1871, Page 2

The Congress of Internationals, which had sat in London", adjourned on the 24th of September, after making arrangements for a movement in Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Intelligence was received by the mail lately arrived, says a Dunedin paper, that Professor Black, was to leave Glasgow for Otago by the ship Christian M'Ausland, on the 27th September. He may therefore be expected to arrive in five or six weeks.

Mr Stafford stated in the House of Representatives the other day, that for twenty years past he has grown his own sheepwash tobacco, and has found it superior to the general run of the imported article used for that purpose.

We understand, says the Daily Times, that Otago will, after all, be represented in the Intercolonial Rowing Match at Christchurch, the Rowing Club lately formed in connection with the Yacht Club having determined to send a crew to compete.. _

The Globe .says the result of the experiment with Chinese labour in America possesses double interest now, in view of the Newcastle strike and other struggles between labour and capital. We should uot at all be surprised in these days of excessive competition, rapid locomotion, aud Suez Canals, if before long we saw John Chinaman and party hard at work over here.

A cyclone recently devastated Illinois. The effects of this etorm on a prairie were singularly striking. It made a pathway for itself of three pulee in length, and from

twenty to eighty feet wide. In that pathway not a spear of grass, not a stalk of com or wheat, not n shrub or particle of vccetnhl» was left alive, while the ground in 2 places was ploughed up to the depth of'«;V inches. '*

The Independent oi the 14th says:—Q n(> * two lamentable deaths we have to cWnioi to-day, is that of Mr Huc;h Sinclair o f tl Wainniomata. A telegram was received by the police on Saturday announcing that th deceased gentleman was found dead on th<» road to his residence evidently having been killed by a fall from his horse. Manv'of th old settlers in the town, with whom Mr Sin° clair had had dealings and conversations only a few hours before, received the intel ligenoe with feelings of deep regret.

In the Legislative Council, this says the Post of the 16th, the Wnnganui Settlers Compensation Bill, which waa passed yesterday in the Lower House was not proceeded with. By this course' tha Council abstained from expressing anr opinion on it. The Speaker announced that 103 Bills had been introduced durino- the sessiou. Of these 75 had passed "both Houses, 21 had lapsed, aud 7 were then pending; 67 of these had already be»n assented to. Besides these four private Bills bad been introduced.

The Oamani Times says:—Wo learn that an accident occurred on Friday between the Kakanui River and the Islnnd' Stream. Several men were returning in a dray from the show to Mr Craig's farm Punchbowl, and when between the maiu river and the Island Stream, the horse bolted, and in crossing a gutter capsized the dray. One had his ribs broken, auother his arm broken, and another was severely wounded in his side. The latter was conveyed to the Kaikanui Hotel, and attended to by Dr Hayes. We regret, however, to state that he died at five o'clock yesterday morning.

The Cromwell Argus says:—We arc informed, on good authority, that some half, dozen salmon, or perhaps brown trout were seen in the River Clutha near the Cromwell Bridge, on Sunday last. Our informant is confident in his assertion, which is corroborated by two or three persons. The members of the Otago Acclimatisation Society will, doubtless, be much gratified to receive this intelligence ; and we sincerely hope that this proof that their efforts in the work of stocking our rivers with the " king of fish " are likely to be successful will incite them to renewed efforts in the great work of acclimatisation.

At the monthly meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, held on the 6th inst., the Southern Cross reports that Mr Earle stated that he expected a shipment of salmon ova would be made from England to the society about the end of this month or the beginning of December. At first there would be but one box sent, which was to bo followed by two or three others. The ova would be sent on to Liverpool, to either the office of the Inman or Cunard Company, and would be stored in the icehouse there until a ship was ready to sail for New York. The ova would then cross the continent of America at the coldest season of the year, and on their arrival at San Francisco, would bo placed in an icehouse, waiting an opportunity to be forwarded here by the mail steamers, on board which the ova would be kept in the iceroom. He had made arrangements with Messrs Collie, Stewart, and Co. to take care of the box of ova on its arrival in San Francisco, and he had no doubt but they would do so, and that there was a reasonable hope that, in a short time, there would be plenty of salmon in the New Zealand rivers.

The Daily Times says, a fatal accident happened on the evening of the 7th inst., near the Moa Flat Station, whereby a bullock driver named John Smart lost hie life. It appears the deceased left the Teviot with his team about 5 o'clock in the evening, and was heard passing the Station near 9 o'clock. In the morning he was ■ found a short distance away crawling on hia hande and knees, and complaining of great pain across the chest, but gave no information of the nature of his injury. The waggon was observed to be broken to pieces, and the bullocks scattered about with the yokes broken. Mr Kitching, the manager of the station, procured the attendance of Dr Miller, from the Teviot, who found the deceased, had been run over by the waggon, aud was suffering from serious internal injuries sustained thereby. The deceased was removed on Friday to the Teviot, where he expired shortly after his arrival. The unfortunate man was very much advanced in yeare, being supposed to be about eighty years old. He was well known in the early days of the settlement of Melbourne, and asserted that he and the late Mr J. P, Fawkner were" the first white men who landed on the site of that now flourishing city. . " .-.

Our renders, especially on the goldficlds says the Daily Times, have doubtless not forgotten Mr Ho A Mci, the "Piotieer Chinaman," whose statements reg&rdiflg'the (then) coming influx of this Province have been so fully verified ilr Ho A Mci, it will be remembered,' considered that he was entitled to gome remuneration from the Provincial GovernmentLift'consi* deration of his services in. inducing (Mnew immigration to Otago, and it wm t&is thought that caused him to emerge fn&» Wβ previous modest obscurity. We "• have. received another letter from him, joggiog'the memory of the authorities, for the Pioneer has evidently been left in ignorance ffii to the light in which his " services " are viewed by many here. The following is his commuDi* catiou :—" Registrar-General's Office, Hong Kong, 14th September, 1871.—Totbecditorpf the Otago Daily Times. Sir—SonK) mouths ago I liave written a letter addressing to your office, with a request that the *»nje be inserted in your valuable columns if J° a think it advisable, which, I have sine?learnt was ia print, for which I feel greatly obliged. But as I have not as yet heard » word about the result of such inaertiW * wish therefore that perhaps you witilcindly drop mc a line or two, as to whether your Government has taken any steps at all in the question as to rewarding mc. 1 firmly believe that though your Government may not have taken any interest in the letter* yet some trader people may have. At any rate I wish to learn something from yon,;ill? 0 have no objection in so obiiging— -I tenia' o, yours very truly. Ho A Mci, with mafty compliments."

According to the Mark Lane Imprest, a revolution in the practice bf millingisfaimi' nent. Oarr, of Bristol, has brougfil«6ilt » machine for grinding corn, without the intervention of stones of any kind, excepting for the purpose of reducing the inferior products of the grain which are left incomplete by the machine. The machine occupies the space of only 12ft by 3ft, while it is said it will reduce with perfect ease from tweuty to twenty-five quarters, or from 160 to 200 bushels per hour, thus doing the work of more than thirty pairs of stones, reduced to twenty-five by requiring five pairs to grind the semolina, or. middlings, and bran if }& quired. The flour handles very soft, which in other flour would indicate a wiot °* strength, and consequently a less prodfl#ioa of bread per sack. It is ever, that tbi3 flour will produce more bread than the common flour, and that it fetches several shillings per sack more *ka n that made by other millstones. M!

The Times thus comments on theio^ off of the powerful ship of war the Agin?° urt from the rock on which she grounded, sfc the entrance to Gibraltar Harbour:—" The n° b ' e exertions by which the ship was eventualv saved are a more pleasing theme. As *& excuse for the accident, it is said that a current was running which carried the Agm* court upon the rock,-without any one bern? aware of the danger ; bat in spite of aU currents the Hercules—an ironclad, scarcely less balky than the Agincourt—kept fcl 086 , the Pearl Kock for three days, and ultfoateiy succeeded in towing off the Btranded.w*?Jj The Hercules ia a ship of 5234 tons, horse power commanded by Lord G"^/ , and to the skill and courage he eto***J? keeping by and. earing th.<s Agiacoßlfc* **♦'

by every witness. When dQ d what iadgment and coolness are for their management on edge ueeessary o Blightes t false rf * nt inrfJbTfatal. At any moment rtSthTee days and nights ■'i : might have shared _tbe A-incourt. 'At first it was fß f ntedtooSoffthevesselbymamforce &U T? tood A chain cable was teied, but swamped the boats that were lts %l in nassine it from one ship to the fifandSfwas an end of that eyetotfeWV rhpn tr : a i was made of an 18in. cable which had been laid out Sen the Two ships; but no sooner * 7k» Hercules begun to move than UwSnti ro P ? 3K«d a thread mkking the slightest impression on w » Then it was resolved to ? hteSS iTmuclaTpossible, and from the S£ rfoS parties of men from all the SSfwith further assistance from the shore, Staged on this work. 'Guns six StSlve-and-a-half tons were seen hangKSnsomeof the yards and huge iron SeTand carriages from others. Parties £2* «ik shovellingthe coal out through •Sfports into the lighters; running the Wholes out through the hawse pipesa nd iSing the anchors down from their places. SSt on the Tuesday, at high tide, a ship •rieting 9,000 to™ ke P fc in the same Spot ln a Sng current, close to another monster of S> tons, while huge chains, whose every link weighs more than half a hundredweight, rTjaaLed from one to the other.' How the «orkwas done, how the Agincourt the ■mnmmt she got off came into collision wjth the Hercules, how both ships were for some SJe in danger, the Agincourt being without thesid of her engines and the cables having foaled the screw of the Hercules—these things have been already described, and "Dw a record of skilful and courageous unsurpassed in the annals o£ the British Navy." . " .