Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1873. LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 784, 19 November 1873, Page 2

Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1873. LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(FROM oub own correspondent.) Dunedin, this day, 2.42 p.m. Messrs White Bros, have entered another action against M'Kellar for loss since the commencement of last action. The damages are laid at £20,000. Portraits of the Queen and Prince Albert have been hung in Council Hall. They were presented by the Cargills, and are valued at £2OO. There are still three cases of diptheria on Quarantine Island—two being very bad. The next colonial prize firing is to be held at Napier four miles from town, in January, at Poverty Bay. The Star publishes some small bore shooting by Hoskins and Walker of the Thames, before their departure for the intercolonial match at Melbourne. At 500 yards, Hoskins made 40 and Walker 38 out of a possible 40 ; at GOO yards, Hoskins made 38 and Walker 39 out of a possible 40; and at 700 yards, Hoskins made 46 and Walker 45 out of a possible 48. The two men's aggregates were 246 out of a possible 256. Vogel leaves Christchurch at end of week for the South overland. The Governor does not leave till end of the month. The Canterbury railway returns for the year show an excess over expenditure of £20,000. Nosworthy's sale of racing stock took place to-day. The principal sales were Lurline, to Bed wood, of Nelson, for 750 guineas; Calumny, to Reay, of Canterbury, for £550; Defamer, to Water, of Canterbury, for £llO ; Hatred to Reay, for £3OO ; Malice, to 11. N. Campbell, of Canterbury, for £220. The total sum realised was £3OOO. The Auckland Herald has received a letter from its Alexandra correspondent, who crossed the Auketi, and had a long conversation with Te Kooti, who says he is anxious for peace, and has often applied to Government to send him home to England to be tried there, as he does not think he will get a fair trial here, the people being too much incensed against him. He denies being guilty of murders, which he says were perpetrated by his followers, against his will. Te Kooti is mentally as acute as ever, but is physically gone through drink. All the Hau llaus are mad for rum, and will make any sacrifice for it. Te Kooti offered to send his revolver to M'Lean, as a sign of peace. The result, as vet, of the Intel-provincial Cricket Match is—Canterbury, first innings, 72; Auckland, 90. 4.10 p.m. The final returns for the Auckland Superintendency give Williamson a majority of 461. Stumbles, the contractor, who was injured by a fall of earth at Mussel Bay, is dead. The Tararua is just telegraphed. London. Coleridge, the Attorney General, succeeds Boville. Numerous railway accidents —some serious —have occurred on several lines. The friendly chiefs are supporting Wolsely againsf the Ashantees. Tue National Assembly met at Versailles. The President's message declares increased authority for durability of Government is essentia! for the safety of the country Buffet has been elected President. , In the Assembly, eight of a Committee of fifteen opposed an extension of M'Mahon's powers. This caused a great sensation, and on the 11th November, the Broglie Ministry resigned. M'Mahon refused to accept their resignation. A great victory in Navarre has been gained over the Republican troops. Further telegrams say the result was indecisive. Melbourne. New South Wales won the Intercolonial Rifle Match, beating Victoria by 65 points, and New Zealand by 103. The highest scorers on the side of New Zealand were— Small and Christie, 85 each ; for Victoria,

Whalley, 89, and Hannay, 88 ; for Sydney, Freeman, 91, and Lamb, 90. The shooting was generally indifferent. The total scores were—Sidney, 1586) Victoria, 1521; New Zealand, 1483. ■« Don Jnan won the Melbourne Cup in quickest time on record, and by five lengths. The Arrow was fourth and Lothair fifth.* Fifty thousand persons were on the course on Cup day. The bookmakers won largely. Joe Thomson, the bookmaker, bought the Don for £2OOO. Thomson himself won £12,000.

The outgoing English mail is notified to close at the Post-Office here on Friday evening, at nine o'clock. t We arc glad to hear that John Hassett, who was so seriously injured last week in his claim, is getting along as progressively as can be expected. Mr Macdonald, engineer of tl\e " Antrim," is also rapidly recovering from his painful accident. A meeting of the Library Committee, called for Monday evening, lapsed through nonattendance of sufficient members to form a quorum. Under the hand of the President of the Queenstown Cricket Club, a meeting of members is called for Saturday evening, at Cash's Victoria Hotel. The season is now pretty well advanced, and it is therefore to be hoped there will be a good attendance so that no time may be lost in commencing play. The great case of White Bros. v. M'Kellar has at length come to an end, the judgment being in favor of plaintiffs to the extent of nearly £9,000. Particulars of the trial will be found in our supplementary sheet. The brass baud must look to its laurels, as it is likely to find a formidable opponent in the juvenile fife and drum musicians. 'lie youngsters are fast improving, and often enliven the town with their performances. It is a pity they have no experienced instructor, as their efforts show they are apt to learn, and would soon form an acquisition to the town. The last New Zealand Gazette contains a proclamation under the hand of the Governor, postponing the meeting of Parliament till 10th February, 1874. A special meeting of the Hospital Committee was held on Saturday to consider applications received for the situations of matron and wardsman, in place of Mr and Mrs Thomson. A number of applications were read anc discussed, and it was ultimately decided to engage a couple recommended by Mr G. F. Reid, cf Dunedin, They are expected to arrive before the end of the month. On Saturday morning we received and posted the following telegram from our correspondent: —" The Phoebe has arrived at Auckland from Sydney. The following is result of Melbourne Races: Melbourne Cup, Don Juan, I; Dagworth, 2; Hor.itio, 3. Derby— Lapidist, 1; Mountaineer, 2 ; Maid of Avenel, 3. Don Juan also won the Royal Stakes and the Essendon Park Stakes—beating Horatio, Pagw-irtii, and Fitzyattendon in each." Don J nan is a black horse, aged 4 years, and carried for the Cup Gst. 121b. He is owned by Mr W. Johnstone. At Invercargill, the dearth of laborers is very much felt at present, and those who arrive seem to be eagerly sought for. Last week the Government forwarded to that district some forty of the immigrants recently arrived by the Lady Jocelyn, and speaking of them the local Hews says:—Yesterday the barracks was thrown open to employers, and within an hour or so all who wished for immediate employment obtained it at high rates of wages. The married couples, with families, and two single men, remained in the barracks last night, but not for want of offers of employment. All the men could have found work at once, but seeing they could command a job at any time they were in no haste, the married ones preferring to take a day or so to look out for houses for their families before commencing work themselves. The Immigration Officer informs us that if a hundred and fifty more had come all could easily have made engagements, and he had on his books now applications for a large number of work people of all classes—carpenters, bricklayers, ploughmen, shepherds, laborers, domest e servants, &c. At Christchurch, one James Nancarr-w sued the Bank of New Zealand for damagt s for having, while there were funds in their hands belonging to him, dishonored his cheques. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £75, or £25 in addition to the sum before paid into Court by the defendants Mr YV. Flint is the successful tenderer for the mail service between Winton and Kingston; and Mr Job Coulam has obtained the service from Athol to Nokomai. The mail between Athol and Nokomai has been let for a bi-weekly instead of a weekly service. Mr T. K. Wuldon, Chief Commissioner of Police, is now making his periodical tour ot inspection. He is expected to arrive here on Friday. We understand that his Honor Judge Gray will not arrive in Queenstown till .Monday evening. The District C ourt h ill be holdeu on Tuesday, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. The members of the Jockey Club intend losing no time in giving publicity to the Programme of the Annual Races to be held on the loth and 16th January next. It is particularly requested that holders of subscription lists will foward the amount of their collections on or before the 24th instant to the secretary or treasurer. From a return of the quantity of gold exported from the several Provinces ot this Colony f<»r the half-year ended 30th September, J873, published in the New Zealand Gazette, we learn that Otago exported 23,5450z5, valued at £94,180, as against 29,90 lozs, of the value of £119,850 for the corresponding six months of the previous year —showing a decrease of over 5000ozs. The quantities sent out of the other gold-producing Provinces for the last half-year were —Auckland, 34,271 ozs; VVestland, 26,075 ozs; Nelson, 24,5470zs ; Otago coming last on the list, with the exception of Marlborough, which exported 108ozs. The total quantity of the precious metal exported from New Zealand from Ist April, 1857, to 30th September, 1873, was 71,110,8550z5, representing a money value of £27,629,330. Of this, Otago contributed 3,166,8800z5, valued at £12,398,980. Amongst the items of news contained in a late Wellington Independent is an account of the death of a well-known dog named " Bully." It is stated that this " sweet beast" knew all the older members of Parliament, but was puzzled with the new ones of last session, and that he was a constant attendant at Parliament House during the session. Hie cause of death was poison—whether accideutly taken or uot seems to be a mystery. The dog was well known throughout this district. It belonged to Mr llaughton, and used to follow that gentleman when he was stumping the constituency. The weather during the past ten days has been all that could be desired by the gardeners and farmers throughout the district, and is bringing the vegetation on very rapidly. A mild warm season prevails, willi sufficient rainfall to keep the earth moist and the air cool. We hear that the crops are everywhere looking beautifully healthy.

The Surgeon of the Dunstan Hospital, Dr Stirling, has resigned his appointment. His reason is that the Committee did not see its way clear to allow a salary of £4OO a-year—to which was to be added, we presume, a free house, rations, and out-door practice. Who would'nt be a doctor on the goldfields. The manager of the Wanaka Station advertises in the Clyde paper for Chinamen to shepherd and muster on his run. Mr Campbell " explains" the reason of his wanting Chinese by saying lie believes there are plenty of Europeans if they would set in to work ; but they seem to be trying their strength to raise the wages. As a representative of his class, the Wanaka station manager is true. He says further : —" As far as lam concern'd, I intend to take things very easy. Any sheep I don't shear this year will come in with double fleeces next; and, as carriage is likely to be high this season, I think I shall be gainer." Pity the poor sheep! It is an error to suppose because a fee is charged for letter registration that the post-office authorities are responsible for the contents of these should they be lost, destroyed or miscarry. The safety of a registered letter lies in this. It can always be traced from the sender to the last hand it passed into, for the simple reason that a receipt is given and taken for every registered letter as it passes on from one postal centre to another, until it is finally delivered to its address, when a receipt is taken from the receiver bef >re it is delivered up. Intelligence has been received at Hokitika from the Haast rush to the effect that several of the parties who had been prospecting in the main creek have been rewarded for their perseverance by their ground proving payable, a Ith ugh not extraordinarily rich. The best claim is said to be that of Jamieson and party, four in number, who, it is said, are making 6ozs per week, that is per man. A list of the thirty-six acts that passed the Assembly are announced for sale in the Gazette. We do not see the Queenstown Reserves Act among the number. The new firebell for Hokitika, f>r which £SO has been subscribed, will probably be the finest in the Colony. It will weigh thirteen cwt., and will be composed entirely of steel. The Australasian Sketcher, to hand per last mail, contains a number of very interesting illustrations, among which we observe a sketch of the Wairau Lake, New Zealand, from the pencil of Mr John Gully. Several of the largest shearing sheds in the Province of Hawke's Bay have been wholly taken up by Maoris this season, the price being from 20s to 22s Gd per 100. The Tuapeka Times thus tru'y writes of our respected district judge:—Kvery person knows the great legal knowledge as well as the sensitive standard of justice possessed by his Honor Judge Gray, whose early restoration to perfect health will convey a feeling of unfeigned delight from the utmost limit of New Zealand civilisation to the extreme outposts of population in the Australias. But the absorbing character of everyday business may have prevented many people from noticing the beautiful, because strictly appropriate, figures of speech used by his Honor, parenthetically, in the course of a trial. By a felicitous, rhetorical image, lie frequently condenses a perfect world of beautiful and yet highly logical thought. Men like his lL nor are exceptional men, ihe mere memory of whom is better than the actual presence of inferior people. A correspondent of a West Coast paper says "never possibly was a rush more urgently needed than at present, our mining population are dropping away by ones and twos. Every week I can notice the departure of a mining acquaintance. Men possessed of strength, energy, and money. And one man of this stamp is more actual value in the country than ten of the new chums that are bung impor'.ed by the shipload to supply our want of labor." We understand that Mr Adair has received the appointment of draughtsman in the Survey Office of this district. In the Sydney Morning Herald of a l ite date we lind the following paragraph headed "A New Enterprise" :—" A large and apparently inexhaustible deposit of rich black earth has been discovered by Mr J. (i. fpiller, on the coast, about forty miles from Launceston, Tasmania, which we are informed has been pronounced by scientific men in Melbourne to be invaluable in the manufacture of black paint, and to be equal, if not superior to the test description of that article now in use, as well as profitably applicable to other purposes. Mr P. H. M'Ardell. a gentleman long and extensively connected with the mining interests in Victoria and New Zealand, has lately arrived in Tasmania for the purpose of examining and reporting on the extent of the deposit, on behalf of several Melbourne capitalists, he himself being largely interested, the result of which is that he has applied to the Government for the purchase of the block of la'id o i which the deposit is situated, and on his return to Melbourne, a company to be called the Tasniauian Color C mpany will be formed." The Mr M'Ardell referred to is one of the firm of that nauie in this town, and we have been kindly allowed to copy the report furnished by a gentlemen in Melbourne, of high experience, who writes: — "51 and 5:3 Eastern Arcade, September 10th, 1873. Sir, —In accordance with your request, I have the pleasure to report that I have subjected the " Tasmanian Earth" that you left in my hands to the most severe tests, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is adapted for painting and other purposes, and the result is that it exceeds my most sanguine expectation. I have no hesitation in stating that it can be manufactured into a marketable article that will ultimately supersede most of the black paints that are at present sent into the Kuropean or Colonial markets, for the several reasons herein stated :—l. It is of greater dens ty than most other blacks, and will amalgamate with oil, turpentine, size, varnish, or water. 2. It dries evenly and firmly with each and all of the abovcnanicd articles, and, when dry, it resists the action of salt water and other tests that are calculated to destroy other blac'cs at present in use; and further, what is of great importance to the consumer, it can be supp'icd at a cheaper rate than the better cltss of black paint. For ship painting, it will prove invaluable, as I have every reason to believe it will effectually resist the action of salt water. For the ordinary uses of house painting, coach painting, &c., there is no doubt in my mind that it is superior to any black in use. It can also be applied to the several uses of blacking hides in currying, manufacturing printers' ink, and making shoe blacking, &e. —I am, Ac., John C. St. Qukntin. To P. H. M'Ardell, Esq." We understand that some of the manufactured article has already arrived in this district. The Mammoth Star Troupe performed for three nights (Friday, Saturday, and Monday) in the Town Hall, and were pretty fairly patronised. Considering the higli talent displayed by tin se artistes, it is surprising that they did not receive greater encouragement. Two p asons may have conduced to this —want of sufficient and timely publicity, and following so closely on Clifton's entertainmeut. To the younger portion of the community, Ferrari's trained monkeys were the centre of attraction. The company left on Tuesday morning for Invercargill.