MR J.B. MACEWAN

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9739, 29 May 1897, Page 7

MR J.B. MACEWAN

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OUR LITERARY COLUMN. Next Monday we shall publish an article, by the Very Rev. the Dean o( Dunedin, entitled "Carlsbad out of Season." A CANCEROUS BEAST. William R. West, a Taranaki settler, has been fined £2, with coste £3 JQa 9d, for put. ting a o&QQeroos beast in a ealeyard, after being warned by the local i!U«ok Inspector to isolate it. NELSON TOWN HALL. A poll is to be taken at Nelson on a proposal to borrow £2500 to build a town hall. The present Corporation buildiag is described aa a "stable." UNEMPLOYEITpRINTERS. Replying to a deputation of unemployed printers at Wellington yesterday, the Hon. W. Hall-Jonea promised to find room for three or four extra men in the printing office, and also to find suitable employment tor the remainder. A NEEDED* WORK. The Waihi Miner says that unless the concrete wall at Tauranga is continued as far as the sulphur works, " the bones of the soldiers who fell at Gate Pa will soon bo floating about the harbour." ANOTHER COMMISSION WANTED. Ex-Judge Fenton, of Auckland, protests against several steps taken by the AgricuL tural Department, and suggests that a Commission of Enquiry should be set up to enquire into the competency of some of the officials. A SUCCESSFUL NEW ZEALANDER. Mr James HutLon, formerly of the Cuinborlaud and Globe m ines, Reefton, ban been appointed Inspector of Mines for Western Australia. There were forty applicants for the position, which is said to be worth £500 a year, ' A VALUAELE~DISCOVERY, The Press Association reports from Auckland that a mineral vein which intersected several of the ileopoat levels in the Kapanga mine hae proved to be native arsenic of a very superior quality. Several samples were sent Home, and word has been received that it is valued at £500 pec ton. The vein ia small, but compaot, and runs regularly through toe various levels. This may be considered a valuable find. Arsenic is plentiful in most of the minea at Coromandel. DEBTS FOR NECESSARIES. Mr Justice Williams thinks that the bankruptcy law should be amended in the direction of preventing an order of discharge releasing a bankrupt from debta incurred for absolute necessaries of life, such as food and clothing. This remark was made on the case of a single man, earning £3 a week, whose only opponent was a tailor to whom he owed a few pounds for a suit of clothes. Bankrupt filed to get rid of a debt of £114 89 9d to which amount) had grown a loan of £17 from a money lender, towards the repayment of which, and interest, he had paid over £60. ■ SALMON BREEDING. The annual report of the Otago Acclimatisation Society chows that of the 10,000 salmon fry from the Moaterton hatchery all but 2000 died. At the time the consignment were put into the boxes at the Otago I hatchery the temperature of the water was very low, «od the fry were somewhat weak alter a long sea voyage. The Otago Society have now three ponds for esalmon breeding, and expect to torn out try and yearlings in considerable quantities year alter year. A £1000 PRIZE. Some half a dozen railway hands o>4 Frankton Junction, Auckland, drew the third hone in Tatteraall's sweep upon the Birthday Handicap ran at Sydney an May 24th. The prise ia £1000. "CANTERBURY" MUTTON, *♦ Agasias " writes to the London Tkntt in connection with the markingof meat:—"The following aeoentfy occurred ia a friend's family. The lady, having ordered ia come New Zeaiand, mutton for the upper «o4 servants , tables, inquired qf the 900k what the latter thought of it. She was told that they thought it abominable and uneatable. Next day she ordered in come more of the same lot, but labellee, as it was,' Canterbury mutton.' The cheerful reply this tiroe was that it had been voted delicioua— * &»■ different from that foreign meat we had yesterday. . Board school geography had taught them that Canterbury was in Kent*" j SUGAR BHKtInDUSTRY. Mr W. A. Graham, of Auckland, has ze* eeived a lette* from Captain Harvey' in uonneotion witk the sugar beet industry. , He cays he has, had important and e»tiflf*Ptory letters from Europe .confirming the interpretation of the cablegrams that as soon m the bonus is passed the Company will W& He asks Mr Graham to obtain confirmation in writing from the President of the Farmers' Clop and the manager of the Bank pf New Zealand af the farmers' guarantee re planting tho best areas, This was rendered necessary as Mr Joseph Gaqo had retired from the Farmers' Club and Mr Douglas from the Sugar Beet syndicate. He' asks Mr Graham to disabuse the public of Waikato of several rumours which have lately been launched as to the s reliability of the syndicate, and to point out that the Company is an exceedingly wealthy one, with the fullest intention of carrying out the business thoroughly, providing that the great stumbling block of the bonus is satiafaotorUy arranged. THE LATE DR, GARBETT. In tho London Times received on Monday is an obituary notice, of the death of Dr. Garrefct, organist and lecturer in music to ' the University of Cambridge. Dr. Garrett was chiefly famous for some very fine .*' services " which he composed, although he entered other fields of composition with considerable succese. Of some thirty "services " in use in the daily services in Christchurch Cathedral, three of the most popular are by Garrett, known to freqoentepa of the Cathedral as Garrett in F, Garrett in D, and Garrett in B flat. To-morrow the whole of the musics song in the Cathedral, with the exception of the evening anthem, will be by Garrett.. The whole of the music in the moraing—Te Denm, Benedicts, anthem, and communion service—will be in E flat, the finest of hie compositions. In the evening the service in F will be song. ASCENT OF~ACONCAGUA. An account is published of the ascent, fry Mr Stuart Vines, the geologist, on February 13th, of Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes, which Mr Fitsgerald failed to Accomplish about a month previously. Mr Stuart Vines reached the top after a journey of nine hours, storting from the camp ftfc eight o'akxk in the morning and arriving at the Bummit at five in the afternoon. explaining the difficulties which he had to overcome, Mr Vines states that every four or five metres he was compelled to stoop down on all fours aod wait for two or three minutes, to recover his breath. This was the only mode of ascent possible in the high altitudes. The summit was found to be entirely flat, having aa afea of sixty square metres. The view was one of the moist beautiful natural eights m the world, and one that makes the climber forget the fatigues of the ascent, The Pacific ocean from that immense - height resembled in the words o£ the explorers,. • vast unruffled pond. In the afternoon, when the sun shone in the west, the ocean appeared tike a large track of fire or an immense conflagration. The sight waa something maguiiicent 'and sublime, without a rival in the world. The ejouds parted onlywcasipnaUy, howevwi and a wrfc M