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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1913, 23 June 1869, Page 2

The Salmon Ova.—Mr Dawbin has written the Provincial Government that all hope of hatching any of the salmon ova is past, and that most if not all of them have perished.

The s.s. Wellington arrived at Port Chalmers this morning from the north. Her mails and passengers were brought to town by the first trip of the Golden Age. City Council. —The City Council met at 3 o’c’ock this afternoon. Reports were read from the Reserves Committee, the Dunedin Volunteer Fire Brigade Committee, and £the Pub'icJ Works Committee. The business was not important, but the report came too late for insertion in this evening’s number.

Correction. —We have to correct an error which appeared in our yesternight’s issue. In the advertisement of Messrs R. Hudson and Co., we announced that they were “ the only biscuit manufacturers in Otago.” This was a printer’s error; the copy supplied reading thus, ‘ ‘the only wholesale biscuit manufacturers, 4c.” The addition of this one word, which in justice to Messrs R. Hudson and Co, we this day make, wid entirely take away what must have appeared so offensive to other biscuit bakers in Dunedin.

Road Trustees Election. —The annual meeting of the District Road Board of Mornington will take place at the School-

house at Mornington, to-morrow evening, at 7.30, for the purpose of electing a Board of Road Trustees for the ensuing year ; and as this favored suburban district is malting rapid progress in population and improvements, great interest is now being felt therein ; and a full meeting of the ratepayers will be expected to take place. Fatal Accident. — We are favored by the Tuapeka Press with a supplement containing a full account of the inquest on Mr Frederick Marriott, a notice of whose death appeared in the Evening Star of Saturday. The Press states that Mr riott arrived on horseback from the Teviot (where he hod been engaged in a professional capacity to assist at the opening of the Odd Fellows’ Lodge on Wednesday) on Friday evening, in company with two or three our townsmen who had visited the Teviot for the same purpose, During the ride down the deceased appears to have been in good health and spirits. He stayed in Lawrence for some hours before proceeding to Wetherstones, where he resided; and he was last seen at the Masonic Hotel about half past 10 o’clock, when he left to go home, being at the time considerably the worse for liquor. He never reached his home, being found on Saturday morning, about half-past 7 o’clock, a short distance beyond the old Recorder office, quite dead. He was lying on his face, with his head in a small pool of water, and it is conjectured that having become stupefied, he had rolled over the bank at the foot of which he lay, and been unable to rise. Perhaps the most singular 1 parti of this sad affair is* tbat the pool m which deceased was drowned hadonly 9 inches of water in the deepest part, and it he had made the slightest struggle, he must have rolled to either the one side or the other of it. Information was at once given to the police by the man who found the body, and Constables Titchener and Leslie conveyed it to the Masonic Hotel, where an inquest was held the same afternoon. Mr Marriott was a musician of acknowledged ability, and his loss will be severely felt in the district. He leaves a wife and two children to lament his sad fate. He was buried in the Lawrence cemetery to-day ) Monday), and was followed to the grave by a large number of our residents. The Brass Band of which deceased was formerly a member, turned out to show their respect for their late comrade, as did a'so the Loyal Tuapeka Pioneer Lodge, to which he belonged. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon. There being no proof of any violence having been used, the jury after a few minutes deliberation, returned a verdict “That the deceased Frederick Henry Marriott, came to his death by drowning.”

Accident, —A serious accident occurred on the afternoon of the 17th instant, at Mr Robertson’s new house, by which his eldest son had his left leg broken above the ankle. He was assisting to raise a stone of about 15 cwt., which suddenly slipped and fell on the unfortunate young man’s leg. He was speedily attended by L)r Hayne of Hampden, who luckily happened to be in the district at the time.—Otepopo correspondent, Oamauu Times. Something New.—ln the House of Representatives, yesterday, Mr W. H. Harrison was to ask the Hon. the Colonial Secretary—lf the Government have received any information, direct or indirect, from any agent of the Government of the United States of America, regarding the probability of an offer being made on behalf of that Government, for the acquisition of the Islands of New Zealand under certain conditions, one of which is the subjugation of the Maoris by an American army ? There can be little doubt as to the nature of the reply.

Mementoes of the Duke’s Visit. —Amongst the gifts given by the Duke of Edinburgh before he left the Colony, were the following: —To Colonel Elliot, commanding the 18fch 11. 1., a signet, with a crown on the top; Captain Montgomery, of H.M.S. Blanche, a diamond pin; Miss Jones, of Dunedin, who kindly gave up her house for the Prince’s accommodation, a gold locket, mounted with pearls. Mr J. Christie, of the Melbouene Detective Force, who, at His Royal Highness’s request, accompanied him on his tour, and who is returning to Victoria per Phcebe, has received a handsome gold and pearl pin, a gold watch and chain, and a gold mounted cane, together whh several other presents. Mr Christie seems to have stood well with all the officers of the Galatea, most of them having given him some token of their esteem and regard.

Hampden. —Writing under date tire 18th inst., the Hampden correspondent of the Oamaru Times reports as follows :—The bridge over the Big JKuri River leading to the Cemetery is now complete; is a wellbuilt, substantial structure, and will be a great convenience. There are three parties of diggers at work on the beach, but the tides have for the past two or two or three weeks been very high, winch circumstance has considerably retarded their operations, notwithstanding which, however, the men appear satisfied, and expect to make good wa.'cs.—A fire took place here on Monday, the'l4th inst. Mr William Murcott, having had occasion to go outside his house about 11 o’clock on the night mentioned, discovered that his stacks were on fire. An alarm was immediately given, and a number of people turned out, and everyone did his best to stop the progress of the flames. On arriving at the stacks, it was found that a stack of grass hay was on fire at the windward corner, and as the wind was consequently blowing the fire inwards, it was deemed wiser to let this one go, in order to save other two stacks, one of which was only three feet distant from the one on fire. Fortunately the effort was successful, although therewould have been no possibility of saving either had it not been that the wind was blowing the flames away from them. Had the wind been in the opposite direction, all three stacks must have been burned, and probably also an adjoining cow-shed. Indeed it is hard to say what would be the extent of the damage, as the flakes of fire must have been can ied to the stables, which nearly join the buildings of the hotel. As the outside of the stack was wet, no doubt is entertained that the fire was the work of an incendiary, for the discovery of whom Mr Murcott has offered a reward of LlO. Great credit is due to Constable O’Neil, the police officer stationed here, and to many others, for the untiring way in which they labored until the fire was subdued.

Mining News. Another striking proof of our immense resources and undeveloped treasures is furnished by the fact that a small party of miners working in the Arrow River, near the old Dunstan crossing place, came on a “patch” of nearly 13ozs of

gold, for two days’ work, and as they quaintly say, “thewhole river is coming down to them,” —meaning thereby, that if nobody interferes with them they have any extent of ground, and it is to be wished they may find it to average such splendid returns throughout. Such a case as this must prove to the most doubtful miner that the Arrow district is not yet clone, but will prove, for determined men, to be the cream of the Goldfields districts of Otago. Even at Bracken’s Gully there are some 40 to 50 miners actively at work, and many are obtaining L 8 per week, while no man there need regret his chance. —At the Cardrona, mining matters are progressing favorably. The Brigand Co. have at length succeeded, after great perseverance, in erecting their machinery, and for the first time the limpid waters dashed over their wheel in the presence of a congratulating crowd on Saturday evening. O’Farrell and party have opened up a new claim on the old Township Flat, and got a prospect which induced them to erect machinery. They had a great body of water to contend with, but have at last happily succeeded in getting their wheel in motion. The old claims are still very remunerative. — The gold yield from the Queenstown district is likely to remain steady, though, in the upper regions, the weather is not favorable for mining operations,— Wakatip Mail. New Zealand Affairs. —ln an article on the above subject, a London journal says : —The state of affairs in New Zealand can scarcely be considered as a simple question between white settlers on the one part and aboriginal savages on the other. These two parties are not necessarily antagonistic. There is a large party amongst the white settlers in the North Island who desire to live ou terms of amity with the natives, and large numbers of the natives who are now hostile would not have become so had they not been encouraged by the dissensions between the several political parties representing the General Assembly. It was an evil day for the North Island when the fortunes of Auckland and Wellington became linked with those of Canterbury. The South Island is comparatively free from natives, and apparently cares little to provide efficient means of protection for the North Island against the attacks of the Maoris. To the preponderating influence of the Southern politicians must be attributed tbe vacillating and penurious policy which has resulted in encouraging the Maoris to attack the white settlers of the North Island ; and we are not at all surprised to find by our latest advices from Auckland, that a petition is being extensively signed in that city, praying her Majesty to suspend the Constitution of New Zealand, on the ground that the settlers of Auckland have no confidence in the capacity or intention of any New Zealand Government as at present constituted to adopt vigorous means of defence. It is a very striking fact that the colonists of the North Island, in their petition, not only prefer for their own sakes the government of the island as a Crown colony, in preference to its being under the apathetic rule of the centralised Government at Wellington ; but they specifically express their opinion that, not only would peace and security be promptly restored and the malcontents punished, but that the Maoris themselves would hail such a change with delight.

The usual monthly meeting of the Shamrock Lodge, 448, J.C., is announced for this evening, af the Masonic AaU, at half-past seven.

The usual weekly meeting of the Dunedin Private Quadrille Club is announced to be postponed to Thursday next, Ist July.