Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED. EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1886.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2009, 13 November 1886, Page 2

Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED. EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1886.

The Waimea Plains Railway.—The Waimea Plains railway wi 1 be taken over by the Government on the loth insf.

Sir John Hall. —The'Preßs’ makes an authoritative statement that Sir John Hall intends to contest one of tlie Christchurch serfs at th; general elections.

Omaka Road Board. —The statutory meeting of the Omaha Road Board is fixed for this morning at 10-30 a m. Wesleyan District Meeting.—The Rev J. Crump leaves for Nehou oi Thursday to attend the annual district meeting, commencing there on Monday.

Rest for Billiard Platers. —Messrs Burroughs and Watt, the celebrated biliard table manufacturers, have patented a new description of •* res',” which serves the double purpose of spider and rest, and accommodates it3elf to any angle of the cushion.

The Legislative Council.— We hear on very good authority that it is not intended to make any fresh appointments io the Legislative Council before the general elections. New School of Roguery.— The editor of the; Hastings Star says that, having served four days on a jury, he was so full of law that it is hard for him to keep from cheating everybody.

The Timber Trade.— The leading Australian timber exporters are New Z aland and Western Australia, who last year exported L 152,000 and LIOi.OOO respectively, New South Wales coming next with LIOO,OOO. Colonial Archbishops.— The Anglican Synod at Sydney carriei by a majority of all orders a motion that, in the opinion of the Synod, it is desirable that the title of archbishop be assigned to the Primates of Australia and Tasmania. This motion was submitted by the Bishop of Tasmania, and generally concurred io. School Teaching in Victoria,— The Minister of Education of Victoria states that education in the colony is passing almost entirely into th.G hands of women, in & year or two, at least four-fiftlis of the teachers iD the State Schools will be women.

Probate Granted. —At Nelson on Wednesday Mr Roger Kingdon moved in Chambers that letters of administration be granted to Bridget Wilson, the widow of Daniel Wilson, of |the Upper Pelorus Valley. Granted as prayed. The Weather.— Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday morning: “Expect yery heavy gale soon between north and west and spu|;h-west. GDss fall and much rain.” Blasphemous Snobbkrjt— An English paper fancies it has found the “climax of blasphemous snobbery ” “At Washington, the occupants of the pews behind the President are stated to have refmed the first communion cup that was offered to them on a recent Sunday, as they desired to wait for the one out of which Mrs Cleveland had partaken of the Sacx*ament.” Totalisator Dispute —A totalisator dispute has arisen at Napier in connection with the dividend on Forester for the Guineis. The owner of a ticket that had been torn up but wap put together again demanded payment of >be L? 0, which was refused by the persons who worked tho machine. As the Jockey Club decline to iuferLrc, the holder of the ticket intends to take legal proceedings.

To-day’s Cricket Match.— Following age the names of the respective teams which are tc? battle to-day in the Blenheim Club’s match Migried v, Single : —Married—Messrs Newth, Cross, Storey, Gallop, Watson, Jones, Chittenden, Byford, Robinson, J. Sullivan, Andrews, Lovel, Warner and Carkeek. Single—Rayner, Draper, T. Storey, M'lCioley, Bush, Pepper, Wright, Sullivan, Ryder, Brown and Adams. The wa/tch y/j!j be pfaypd in Riley's paddock, and play y/ill commence at 2 o’clock. Local Industry.— Messrs Earll and M'Konzie are turning out quite a large quantity of orders at their Sash and Door Factory just now, a? indeed, they should to do at all times, for local industiies of all kinds ang. in a U places are, all circumstances being ne»rly equal, certainly de•erving of thorough support. Tire proprietors have imported costly machinery to supply local requirements and we are glad to see this support being extended to .them by the public of Marlborough. We were, the other day, attracted by an exhibition of mouldings their works, all turned out in the most workmanlike manner, and of more than 50 different patterns. Upon enquiry we were informed that mouldings in every shape and pattern can be manufactured at the Factory, and as cheap, or cheaper, than ihey.pap be ip?poj.ted from Wellin 4 ton or elsewhere. The trade wjll, e fire sur.e, agree that the work can be as well dope bore, and will, no dopbt, find it ads rantageous tc give their orders to the local Factory.

Breaking Up. — A Melbourne paper says:—The Salvation Army is exhibiting preliminary symptoms of agenoral breakup of its constitution. Not only in England is the subscription supply running short and mutiny becoming fashionable, but even in Australia, tjie‘ happy hunting ground of cranks, the gilt seetps to bo wearing off the Army gingerbread. Colonel Barker is starting a “Colony Thanksgiving and Debt Extinction Fund’’ in Victoria. This sounds ominous. It is the first muttering of the storm. Ere long we shall be hearing of the bailiffs being put into a barracks during knee-drill, and of uiisecured’hailehrjah cregitore getting twopence in thepound. 1 -' ! ■- ’

Street Watering. —The compl tion of the gasworks purchase has now removed the difficul'ies in the way of proriding immediately for a street-watering plant, the yelping of' our contemporary, the other day, notwithstanding. The re»ult ha’ proved the absurdity of the outcry, and arrangements have been completed or utilising 'he gas engine (part o* the gas works planl) as suggested by Cr C ark. The necessary piping etc. will be laid to-day, for conveying the wa'er to (},(. of the gas works premises, where the water-carts ml bo*“ in «upp!ies, rind i!)? ™’hole plant will probably be in ier by k£or.day at noon. This w.-|| be gratifying rfewk to our business prople who e losses' by the dust storms must be as large, comparitively speaking, a? in other co oi ial towns where the dust is such a plague. i

Frozen for a Century, —A gruesome tale comes from the Swiss Alps. A party of guides were searching for some lost excursionists and found a corpse in a crevasse. It was that of a man dressed in the flapped waistcoast, knee breeches, buckled shoes, &c., of the last century, and of the coins which s' ill remained in his pockets uooe bore a later date than 1765. The body was frozen hard, and at it lay in a cavern deep down in the icy pit it had suffered no injury. Even the eyes preserved their life-like expression, though they had been staring out for 100 years from that lonely cave as if looking for the relief which was so long in coming,

Imperial Federation.— Sir Richard Temple in his ■’Ssay condemns Imperial Federation ns visiooarv and impracticable and shows how entirely ignorant its supporters are of the difficult and complicated questions of which they scribble and spont so fluently. ‘‘But,” he says, “ the sympathy between nations of the same blood, language, history, laws, literature, associations and traditions does, indeed, constitute a bond which will prove to he a chain cable fir the Imperial ship. Such a tie is stronger than anything which constitutions can create, or Legislatures cm enact,or compacts cm secure.’. These a r e the sentiments of thousands of colonists.

Missing Man.— anxiety is felt in the Pelorus in consequence of the unaccounUbl) disappearance of Mr George Witney, manager of Mr Crichton’s run at Port Lig«r, who left Havelock in an open beat on Thursday week and ha* not since beon heard of. On Thursday morning last a search party left Mr Smith’s fish curing works in one of the large boil 8 engage 1 thre to seirch the bays in the I’elorus Sound, it being Burmised that Witney had put into one of them for shelter. The party arrived at Have ock late on Thursday night, but reported that they had seen nothing of the missing man or the boat. They were to make another search yesterday in the neighborhood of (Jrail Bay.

The Cardinal on Grammar.—Cardinal M inning, speaking the other day at Old Hall College, pronounced himself an enemy of grammar. As for English,” he says, “I have very great animosity agabtst grammarian*. Gramm <r does not come in the order of nature. We speak it because wo h ive learned it from our earliest consciousness. Grammarians are those who come after and abuse us for our use of the mother tongue. I know no subject more abstract and metaphysicial than grammar. It treats of persons, of actions, passion in all the relation of time and of circumstances, and of all eon ditions under which tluught can be conceived and language cau be spoken. That is not a science for beginners. It is a torture inteudod to torment us.”

Purchase of the Gaswoks. r Prichard through his legal agents haM e are informed, accepted the offer of the Borough Council for ttie pur : . chase of the Blenheim gasworks, under certain stipulated conditions, at the price of L 12.000. We think we may fairly congratulate the burgesses upon the acquisition of this property, though we are aware that many hold the opinion that the price to be paid is far too high. On that point, however, we are not prepared to venture an opinion ourselves, it being clearly a question for experts to decide. The Council, probab’y, acted rather ha-tily in deciding upon the p ice and fixing itjat L 12,000, but having sofixel. it and h wing giYen publicity to their decision’ it seems to qs thq,t they could £ot,t with any advantage, have named a lower price as their final offer. We trust the bargain is a good one and that, as soon as the Council can get things into fair working order, a reduction iu the price of gas charged to consumers will be practicable. The thanks of the burges3es are due to Mr Dodson, M.H.R. and to His Worship the Mayor, Mr Henderson, for the part they have taken iu securing this property for the Borough. Mr Dodson rendered yeoman service by defeating the Wairau Gas Bill during the late session of Parliament whilst Mr Henderson has rendered qo less valuable services in connection with fhe ipattpr. The Dilke Scandal, —A cablegram in the Melbourne papers states that a.o’her sensational episode lias been added to the Dilke scandal. Sir Charles Dilke- has published a defence extending over seven columns of reading matter. In the defence Sir Charles review* the whole of the evidence that was brought against him, and critically examine* Mrs Crawford’s statements. He then contrasts the circumstantial evidence given for the prosecution with the positive testimony given on his behalf. Sir Charles sums up by declaring that the verdict wa* founded on fabricated evidence, and he still boldly declares that he is not guilty.

Postmaster forwards us the'fpllowjug list of tender* accepted fop maij contents in this district, most of which, however, we have already published : —Blenheim and Kaikoura, weekly, J. W. Allen, LI 39. Blenheim as required, Post Office, wharf, and vessel* in harbor, G. W. Riley, L4O ; Blenheim, Kaituna, and Havelock, twice weekly, Cjbirk an 1 Pickering, LIOO. Havelock and Deep'Crtek, twice weekly, Thomas Brown, 1/24. Kaikoura, as required, Post Office, wharf, and vessels in harbor, Henry Hanle ke, L 9 17« 6d. Picton, Tore* and Grove, weekly, Horace Norgrove, L 52, Pictoo, Watamonga and Port Underwood, fortnightly, John Jacob Davis, L2O. It will bd'eeen ; thk,t no mention is made o£ the Blenheim to Nelson service, via the Rai Val'ey.

The Scab at Hopfield. —So far as can be learned at present the stations next to the Hopfield, owned by Mr ActonAd’amg, op which BCt,b was discovered, are those of ’St. fames’ owned by Mr McArthur, and Woodbank, ‘ the property of Mr Atkinson. Mr Foster, Inspector of ha* taken step* to have a muster of the whole of the Hopfield flock, inclusive of those sheep in the 1000 acre paddock, wherein the disease broke out. The Government have been communicated with privately to have the Hopfield flock exterminated in the same way as the Clarence runs were deals with, the owners of which were compensated for tije sheep kiped at the rate of 2s fid per head, and the *kin. It is satisfactory to be able to state that the sheepowners are determined not to allow the spread of the diaease and that every reasonable acton is being taken by the authorities to deal wi h the matter. Mr Acton-Adams is but recently the purchaser of the run

Fish Curing in the ttLOßpg.—Our old friend Mr ‘'Tinker” Smith is making good headway at his fish curing establishment in the Pelorus Sound. Although it is only about three months since he a'arted operations at Bulwertown he has got everything ready for prosecuting the business in which'he is engaged add will start fishing on Monday next. There are six building* on the spot and a packing room is now in course of erection, In addition to the cleaning and smoking buildings, w 'rkshop e c., there is a larg» building to b * used for s'ceping and liviog ucCoouuofVjgn fgr thys? employeu ,'t t-e works and visitors Thousand* of tin* for pajking the fish are ready for occupation and no doubt Mr Smrb will »oon have a good number of them filled and r. »dy for export.ran common .with his many friends here we heartily w's'aMr omith success in his enterprise.

Agricultural Statistics. —Thi* year j the estimated production of wheat in : N-w Zealand was 4,242,285 bushe s : last year it was 6.866,777 bushels—a drcrease this vear of 2,264,492 bush Is. There were 12,360,449 bushels grown last year, and this year 5,603.702 a decrease of 3 756,747 bushels. The decrease in barley this year was 309,090 bushels ; and in potatoes, although there was an increase of 3475 acres, the yield was 9751 tons short of the previous year It will be seen that compared with 1885 there his been a great lading off in (he above products. Can't Hit Straight.— Sir William F. Drummond Jervois, K.0.M.G., is a co'onel of the Royal Engineers, and yet cannot drive a spike. In the account of the Aemonstration at the finishing of the Manawatu Railway w* ate told that “a spike was then handed to the Governor, and he commenced to drive it. Tiie first three strokes missed the spike ; the fourth and fifch|were successful, hut after one or two other shots the Governor handed the hammer to Mr Higginson, the engineer of the company, who completed the task.”

The Wool Sales. —The London correspondent ofphe Christchurch Press says —ln commercial matters, as concerning New Zealand, the great feature of course is the continued rise in wool. Above a 1 other Australian colonies yours may in. deed be said to have reaped the full advantage from the average risj of 2d in the last sales Owing to its late arrival iu this country, New Zealand wool has gained the entire benefit of the upw.ir 1 movemenL A very large sum will be placed to the credit of the colo iy at a juncture when the money wis decidedly wanted. Moreover, the improvement may be expected to maintain itself during the remainder of the year, for stocks in hand are low.* With regard to the sale of frozen mutton, I noted yesterday, when in the city, that River Plate mutton wa9 advertised at 51, to be delivered free of charge anywhere within fifty miles of London. The P ate sheep though small, are, I am told, excellent in quality.

An Eye On The Elders. —“ Atticus,’ in the Melbourne Leader, writes:—lt may be natural that up country shires and borough councils shou'd wish to scud deputations to Melbourne about the first weok in November —that the captains of mcn-of-war on the Australian station should discover the necessity of having their ships overhauled at Willamstowu about the same time—and that business men all over the country should take tho opportunity of running down to make purchases, when there is the greatest difficulty in getting comfortable accommodation—but why do the Presbyterian General Assembly fix on Cup day for commencing their proceedings ? I put this question to a popular minis'er who has charge of s squating district, and there was a twinkle in his eye as he replied. “No one suspects us of a hankering after the enjoyments of the race course, but we have elders who own horses and know horsey men. Prevention is better than cure. Wo sit on Cup day so that wa can ke°p our eye on our elders! Arrival of the Tainui.— Captain Lambert’s new launch, the Tainui, arrived in the Qpiwa and anchored off the Gasworks yes’erday morning at about 9 o’clock yesterday moruiug Captain Lambert left Nelson on Sunday morning at 1 o’clock and at 5 o'clock had reached the Croixelles, where he dropped anchor in consequence of a heavy sea, with a gale from the N.W. Remained at the Croixelles till Thursday morning, living two days on mussels and pipis, when a start was nude at 7.30 for the Wairau. Took the French Pass at 9 a,in ; arrived at Port Ligar at noon, and 'dropp d anchor opposite Mr “ Tinker ” S nith’s fish caring establishment, at Bqhvertown, where he was most hospitably entertlined. Left at 7.30 p.m., arrived at Port Gore at 3 o’clock on Friday morning ; left at 6 a,in. and arrived in the river as above. Tile little B'eamer, notwithstanding the rough weather exreri enced daring the voyage, behaved admirably and did not ship a drop of water. She steams ten knots and is an open launch fitted with high pressure engines of 10 h.p., which dn be worked up to 20 h.p. She is covered aft as a protection from the srqqke smuts, &0., and is fitted with cushioned seats. ' The' Tainui can easily accommodate 25 passengers and altogether appears to be a most comfortable aud handy little boat. The first trip will be made to-morrow, when a party will proceed in the Tainui to The Ferry ia the Wairau Fiver.

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Spring & Spxjjee Novelties. —Wo have received oiir' Spring and Summer Goods, ex Ruapehu from London. All the latest fashions for the season in Millinery, Mantles, Feathers, flowers, Straws, Dresses, Prints, Galateas, &o, tye have rjso made special arrangements for' Tailoring J ! ’ all'' orders executed on the shortest possible ’notice friom the celebrated New Zealand Tweeds. Suit from 50s, Trousers from 16s, Boy 3 and Youths at proportionate prices. An early inspection solicited.— Shale &. Hat