MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4971, 30 July 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A I'ltoiier is on foot to solect a team of 1 ■> Now Zoaland maikamen to pioceed to \ lcborni and contest tho Victonan l!ille Association's pri/es at tho meeting whi< h is to take place in Mclbouino tow aid-, tlio closo of this year. Coaches now run daily fiom Xapier to Tauranga. On the occasion of tho amval of the first coacli a grand commemoiatioii dinner was given at the Masonic Hotel, Tain ,ui L'a. In tho Pnii'tib-'ud (lovornniPHt 0<u<H< published 01^ the :$(Hh Juno the statements of sixteen difTeieut goldmining companies an 1 given. Many of tho companies aie well kuowu, aud have been in activo operation foi several years. The aggregate nominal capital of these 16 companies is £483,800, hut the actual paid-up capitaJ is £303,171 1 Si. .~>d. This sum put out at ten pci cent, intciest would give a yearly return of ovor C:!0,0l)i>. Of tin so si\tecn companies niue ha\o not declared dividends. Iho aggregate amount of dividends paid by the whole of those companies is £4S, 144 14<i. 2J. Of this sum no les < than 113,025 was contributed by the Tokatca. As tho Tokatea Las a declared paid-up capital of £80,000, tho amount of dividends ilieady paid is not a very high iatc of intoicst for the money for the whole penod tho company has been in operation. Thcie h one company mentioned which is stated to bo in operation although it has no paid-irp capital. Mr. R. J. Crcighton, who has for 1 I yean timorously employed his abilities and eCpcn once in connection with the Auckland Pies-, lias lpsicfncd his position as Editoi of the X' m Zmlninl Herald, and gone to Dunedin on an engagement to edit tho f!icn<fi't)>, a new papei to be stai ted in that city, ai.d w Uli which tho Minntmj aud Erin'my 8l<i, aic to bo amalgamated. Mi. IOvery Maclean, tho well-known ngucultun.sfc of this province, has been called to the L( gislative Council. Upon application on Friday, July 11, of Mr. .lames Russell, his Honor the Chief Justice admitted Mr. Richard Laishley as a member of tho bar to practise as a ban ister and also ag a solicitor, in tho Supremo Courts of New Zealand. An Arawa, named Aporo, is employed in tho Survey Office at Tauranga, and he is said to be an accomplished draughtsman. It is repoited that large quantities of matches arc being bought up in the Waikato district by tho natives, and that the heads of matches are frequently used as sub stitutos for percussion caps. The petition in favour of Fisher, recently sentenced to death for being accessory to the muidt r of Mr. Garrity, at the Bay of Islan Is, has found favour with the Governor, and Fisher's sentence had been commuted to ten ycais' penal servitude. A littlo boy named John Burnett, aged ii' no years, and residing with his parents in West Ouecn-^treet, died suddenly on Tuesday, Inly _'_> lie had been sickly from tnetimo ot his l)ii th, and early on Tuesday inoinin<* he became very ill. Dr. Daw3on was linmiriiatrly sent for, but before his arrival the child was do.vl An inquest was held and the |iny immediately leturned a verdict in aceoi dance with the medical evidence On Tuesday, July 15, tho Waiuku Ploughing match was held under the auspices of the Waiuku Agricultural Association in a paddock belonging to E. Constable, E=q Tho nidges made tho following awards . — Wheel ploughs : lat prize, C.'J, J. lfed"o; 2nd, 12, (J. II. Selby; 3id, €1, F Foster Swing ploughs : 1st pri/o, l.i, Alexander McLaren ; 2nd, £2, T. Ryan ; 3rd, £1, C. T. Barnball. By the s.s. ' Pho be,' which airivcd in the Manukau on July 20, fiom Sydney, intelligence reached Auckland of tho death of the Rev. I) Jones, who had been the incumbent of St. Matthew's Parish Church for the last 17 years. The re\. gentleman had for some tune past been sulToiing fiom enlargement of tho heart, and his medical attendant advised him to go to Sydney, hoping that change of air and scene would aflord him somo relief Accoidin^ly about four months ago he went to Sydney, but the sea voyage utteily prostiated him. Fiom the time of landing in Sydney ho gradually got worse, until at length dropsy f,ct in, and he died on the 7th mst. He was buried on July 9th, m the llaslem CieeK Cemetery, Sydney, and the Dean of •Sydney read the funeral ser\ice. About five \c,ih a"0 the deceased gentleman went to England, and dining his absence the Rev. \). N. J>ico ollioiiitod in Ins place His loss will be severely ft It l>y all with whom he had to do, and all his friends now join in sympathising with his widow. 'Jhetnnei.il sermon was preached on Sunday, July 27, by tho Right Rev. Bishop Cowie, btfoio a eiowded congregation. The (!(urlt< contains a proclamation stating that tho following bonuses will be paid for coloni.il industries :— £5,(100 for 1,000 tons of pig iron of marketable quality. Xo bonus will bo paid for less than 100 tons. Notice of intention to claim bonus must bo lodged before tho end of the yeai, and tho bonus must be claimed before the end of Juno, 1875. In cases wheie there aro two claimants the first producer is entitled to seven-tenths. €2,000 will be paid foi tho production of 250 tons of sugar manufactured in the colony from beet-rout. The same dates for notice and claims as for lion. Tho fish bonus is 4s. per cwt. for fish, dry or pickled, exported from the colony. 'J ho claimant will have to produce his account sales, and tho exporter must enter into a bond not to re land the fish The bonus will bo payable on exportation between August, 1872, and November, 1870. Notico is given in a Xn" Zealand (>'<t <tle that it is the intention of tho New Zealand Titanic Rtccl Company, Wellington, and Mr. Magnus Manson, of Motupipi, to darn the bonus ofFered by thoOoveinnient for the manufacture of steel ; and Mr. I'M ward MoGlashan, of Dunodin, and Mr. Joseph Mack.iy, of Tokomaiuro, havo intend a similar claim for tho bonus ofloiid foi the manufacture of paper.