THE Marlborough Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1887.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2054, 8 January 1887, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1887.

O.m ak.v R»ujj B 'Akd —The ordinary monthly mect-iiii.' of the Omakv Road Hoard is fixed for this morning. Government Printing Office. —'The tender of Carmichael and Sons, Christchurch, at £12,352, has been accepted for the new brick Governments Printing Office, Well no;ton. Rai Vallev Seciions. —The matter of nsse si rut the upset prices for sections in 'he Rai Valley under (he Perpetual Leasing System, to which we referred sum a tune ago. wa3 ag dn or iered to stand over at the last meeting of the Land B -ard. Marlborough Cup- Nominations olo=e on Wednesday next (12th) for the Marlb irough Cup, Flying Stakes, and IJaridicip. Awatere Road Board. —At the ordinary moot-lily meeting of the Awatere Road Board, the following t -riders were received for a wire dam iu the Awatere River Bed:— F. Beamsley £2S, B.uton and Son £35. The tender of F. Beam ley was accepted. A Blenheim Lunatic.—The Po t of Wednesday says:—A lunatic nam'd I Edmonds was brought from Blenheim by the s.B. Rotorua this morning, under commitment (o the Mount View Asylum. New Steamer Signals— Captain Allman, of the Union Company’s s-s. Penguin. has invented a most valuable arrang-mient of signals for j); even-don of collision at sei. It is most simple in its working, and can be easily mastered in two minutes. “Obstacle” Berrv Again. The Evening Post says : —We sincerely hope that the principal effect of the reduction in press cable rates between this colony and Australia will not be to flood us wi'h the doings of Sir Graham Ber ry. Bog Tax.—The Wairau Road Board have fixed their dog tix at the mini of Is Gd for dogs working stock or engaged in the destruction of rabbits; all other dogs ss. A Broken Arm, —Dr Fisher, travelling medical officer for tha Colonial Mnt u ß Life Office, was thrown from his horse which he was just mounting, at Riley’s Stables ou Ttiu sday nielit. His Lfcarm was broken above the elbow. XVL, Wakamarina. -At tile j last meeting of the Land Board it a as re- 1 i solved that tenders for leasing section 2 1 : of the above block be opened at next j j meeting of the Board, Feb 7. j

K.M. Court.—At the R.M. C mrt yes- j ;erday morning, Mr Allen, R.M., granted j l protection order to Mrs Rose Oliver 1 igainst her husband, Stephen Oliver. Mr Rogers appeared for the applicant vrho was given the custody of the children, the husbaud to pay 7s costs and 4s a week towards the maintenance of the children. An Interesting Souvenir. This week’s Canterbury tYe’t-kly Press sh uhl be very acceptable to sporting men, for, i in addition to the ordi mry racing news, I it contains a capitally esc uted pic lire of Major George’s horse Nebon, who has made himself such a Gvorite in New Zealand. Copies of the paper may be obtained at Car 1 and Kabone’s The Rkcidivistes. —“Our reeiiliyites will convert New Caledonia into a little Australia, minus the slave trade and Br tisli hyprocisy,” courteously remarks the Republique Francaise. Australian Republic.—A. G. Taylor author of constitutional H story says an Australian republic is the proper thing the that the eooner it comes the better. The Rise in Wool. —Wool’s tonkin ; better! GI labor.mgh’s sal- at Melbourne showed a decided improvement ! Good demand for the continent ! Ah, tba''s the style! What with the lnri winter ami the war preparations in Europe, there ought to be a great split t in prices soon ! France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia and Turkey must hav * two or three millions of men out j is 1 now, and they all want gr*atco’ts and blankets and horsecloths ! Yes. whilst it lasts, a war or even a war scare’s bouu I t.o give the wool trade a shove ahead, but it would be bet'er for all hands ia the long run if these millions of men were I occupied iu peaceful and productive pursuits ! In tr->de, dear bov, as iu most, other tilings, we have to take the world as we find it! Ah yes 1 The lion lies down with the lamb, but the lamb is inside the lion ! Very s id! Kaikoura Preserving Works.— At the 1 st meeting of the Land B aird, a letter was read from Mr Collins on the subject of granting Mr C. F. Man permission to occupy a small piece of land b-;tw on the sea and Fyffe Qmy, Riikoura. for the purpose of preserving meat and fish. Resolved, Than the matter he referred to the Minister of Lands, with a recommendation to grant the necessary permission on somewhat similar terms to those on which it is understood permission was granted to Mr John Smith to occupy a portion of Bulwer J ownship, Pelo- us Sound (Nelson), the Board liavi .g no power under section 320 of the Land Act, to grant the desired permission. Splendid Crops. —ln previous issues we have in a general way referred to the splendid crops to be met with in every pa- 1 of the dis'rict. Where all are so good i! is hardly necessary to select any for special mention. After an inspection of a crop of wheat at Mr Bishell’s farm however, we cannot refrain from saying that it is one of the very best wheat crops we ever saw, and is is gratifying to be able to say that we are not a'otie in our opiu'on. Many gentlemen who were at the reap t and binder contest yesterday men of practical knowledge and experion .'C —were enthu-iastio in their admiration of the 100 acres of mixed wheat o tl Mr Bishell’s farm. Some os incited that i: would go seventy bushels to the acre, but Mr Bishell himself thinks about sixty bushels to the acre is a fairer estimate When it is rem-mbere 1 th*t the average wheat yield for the Colony last year was '24 and a fraction bushels to the acre and that the average for Marlborough was 21 and a fraction, it will tie seen that Mr Bidioh’s crop is a very fine one. It is not, however, an excep ionully heavy crop for Marlborough this year and we exporr after threshing to hear of very heavy yie tls throughout the district. As showing the inexhaustible nature of our soil it may be mentioned th it. Mr Matthews of Spring Creek has a sp'endid crop of wheat, some sav as heavy ns Mr Bishe l’s, grown on a piece of l ied which has produced twentyfour crops in 26 or 27 years. The land, it wi 1 he seen, has only had very short rest’, and it has not seen a hand full of manure. Altogether, the crops in ilie district, thanks io the splendid s 11-011, are exceedingly fin and we hope 'o hear ilia' our fanners meet with an except i >n i:)y irood harvest and the highest prices. Wairau Road Board, At the 1 monthly meeting of the Board thine w r • present Moss s Ward (Chairman),G ul'er md Watts. A letter was received from the Premier's cffiie, calling attention to the fact that, the am mot duo by the Board '£ll2 12s SI) towards Ills cos; of the new hoipital was not yet paid, and requesting I a 1 emittance at one-, as oth rivise the Government "ill he under the ncce.-s *y of slopping the payment of sub tidies hr. coming due to the Biard. Consideration of the subject was deferred. The Secretary reported that he hid let the contract for 18S7, for dog . collars, to John Dempsey at 5s per dozm. An extension . o'time was given to Messrs Meighm and McComvay on contract No. 36. Mr G. Brenchley was allowed two months’ extension on contract No 34. £0 of Mr J. 1 D. Rogersou’s penalty was remitted. The dog tax for the year was fixed at Is 6d andSs. The iuspeit >r was instructed to remove all large stones from the W .l i an Valley Roid betwe-n R*nw ck and Birch Hill, at a cost not exceeding LlO. The fo lowing accounts were passed for payment Printing and advertising LI, D. Broughan LG His, Insp ctor LO 13a 1 1, Barton and Sous L7O, depos’t LlO, H. G. Bell L-2 IGI R Paul iGs, W. Tape L 35 13--, and L 3 (deposit), S. Watson Lilt, Collector Ll 7 5i lid, Omaha Roid Board L 4 14s sd.Rog r.sou L 5. Tin Bard then adjourned. Land Board. — At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Marlborough land Board there were present the Chief Commissioner and Messrs Seymour, Lambert, Dodson and Paul. A let'er was read from the Crown Lands D-pirtnnnt intimating that the Board could i-'sae ’icenses for the removal of stone e*c. from section 28, Omaka, and that the Town Clerk had been iifarme l to that effect. Resolved '0 defer action in the matter until n -xt meeting. An applira-tir-n was received from Henry Godsiff for a license over 20 acres atGrant’s Bay, for the purpose of starting a mill thereon. Resolved, That the Board is willing to grant a license over the lan 1 referred to asa site for a tainery, term to be three yews, rent £1 a year, on condition tint the applicant lias a survey made at. hii I expense Keso'ved, That- the pastor.d ; lease of Yellaton Run, standing in tin* , name of Esther Russ, lias been forfeited j by non payment of the increased rent. I notice of doubling the rent having been duly given. Tin unset price and cost’ of survey of three sections, Gore district, was I fixed, subject to the Governor’s approval j Resolved that a license over a reserve be- I tween 1 he roid fronting Section 32 and J the Wairau Bar—ll2 acres—be granted ‘ to Messrs Redwood Bros, on the same condiii >n* as (hove contained in Mr Paul’s lieens-. which relate to tin destruction of 1 rabbits without rent. Re«o ve I that, subject to the approval of the Governor, 1 aucli portion of the late Raydale Run’ No 2, ns is not included in the above r;- ; .-erve, ha offered at auction as a run at J the up’et annua rental of L2, with a sp=*. 1 cial o* I*l lition tint tie public shall at all f times nan* free ingress and egresss toauv , ‘ Pa' t of 1 he land not x if.hsth• ding the - lie nse ; the term to he live years. t

Borough Accounts. —We arerequeßte 1 1 ( to state tin; cheques for a 1 accou -n | passed at list night’s meeting of the Council may be obtained upon application a; the Town Clerk's office this morning—by their riglitful owners, of oars . Fxperkntia Docrt —Untler th' new Volunteer Regu'ations it is provided that the capitation of every corps shall he paid into the funds of such corps through the Offiosr Commanding the Di-trict o I di r e/t from the Treasury to the Bank a widen the cipitation account is kept, | Thk Imperial Institute- —Objections 1 arc growing in London against the col* oni 1 Bazaar to bo erected in South Ken. sington. It has been known since the days of Albert the Oood (and Uncommonly- Knowing) that South Kensington is nothing more than a speculation of the I Royal family and their friends who by successive exhibitions have sent up the j loea value of land enormously. L'-'t Us Prey.— The Welsh Church of Kncl tnd parsons are waging a hitter war •i mins'. the farm -rs for arrears of tithes. By I ist accounts they were busy dtsfraiuiivg via the eff-cts of ih ! poor ag' ieu'tu rius. This is a new w »y of spreading the g seel. Fancy St. Paul the incumbent of a pjrNli, with a bumbailiff a his hud*, selling off the goods and chat els of his beloved brethren ! A Totai.tsator Scandal —A i Aueklan 1 telegram of the 4th says:—Abo.it £.ll 000 was nut through the to’alisa or in the three days’ races at the S immer Me ting. There is great dissatisfaction us to the working of the torn isator on r iie la-t race yesterday. Tin dividen 1 paid was 31s, and it is alleged that it should iiavc been ti3s. Detective Walker has reported the mat er to Inspcc'or Thomson. This apparently alight error reoreseni ril a profit of £73 18- to the machine. Compl lints are mill also *s to the issue of wrong numbers. Challenging Jurymen.—At the Wellington Supreme Court the other day His Honor Mr Justice Richmon 1 said he shouhl 'iko to express his strong conviction, derived not merely from iminedia e exneriouce, but from experience extending ovr-r some time in that district, that it would be imperatively necessary for the Legislature to put some restriction upon prisoners’ clial'cngcs, or rather on counso acting on belnlf of them, for it was rather in the cases of prisoners who were defended than of those who were undefended that the challenges were so numerous. It was his opinion, derived from considerable experience—and lie p irticularly wished it nut to bo supposed that, ho was making observations persona Iv applicable to any gentleman at the bar—it was bis opinion, lie asswted, that tlui power of challenge was abused —very much abused —and it would be necessary for the Legis'ature t> consider the matter. AlakamaGardens —An announcement in another co'umn intimites that Mr Leans, proprietor of that now favorite icsort die Alabama Gardens, lias taken a partner into the business, in the person of Mr Ramsey. The latter comes to \f ir!b Tmgh with a first class reputation from E iL'lmd where he was gardener at Foxbro’ Hall, Suffolk. Extensive improvements are contemplated by the new proprietary at the Aldwina Gtrdens, and a considerable arei of new land is to be broken up immediately for the extension ■ ft he G miens. By next seison the public may expect to find fount tins playing, vineries, a Zoological collection (which of course will include monk ys) three or f mrUwii to mis courts Ac M the Alabama G miens Tile pnprieto.s arc expending large Ruins of money in providing * ii 'a'diy means of recreation for the town, people and we hope to see their energy and enterp ise re v.arded as they deserve. The Mount Rennie Out sate — “Puff” in the Evening Pr.s< evidently think* with us in the in ,tter of the execution of the Mount, Rennie convicts. Th following i-on the lines of our article yesterhiy: They’re going to hang six of the Mount Rennie convicts ! That will be a salutary warning to the larrikin ruffians ! it seems not ! Five men have just been arrested at Tamworth f >r a similar crime! That’s ugly ! It looks as if they don’t care for punishment, or else are like beasts, and can’t reason ! The lower orders in New South Wales are a reckless, ignorant, brutal lot ! They’ve been pampered and bowed down to too rmueli from political motives ! A strong Government resolutely administering the laws would soon bring them to their senses ! I don't know so much about that ! It’ll take them another century to work out the old lag blood ! The upper class arc greatly to blame too, liecause instead of living in the colony, and setting a ood example and leading the people right, they go away and enjoy themselves and spend their money in England and on the Continent. Reaper and Binder Contest. —T tore was a fuirly good ;itUn hmee ye Heyday alter. lo n at the reaper ami binder eon-•e-t at, tlr Bishe l’s farm, New Remviek Heal. Six indiims entered for the trial, 3 Hornsby, 1 Deo ring 1 McCormick, and 1 Howard, but uft-v viewing the crop t ,e owners of the Dseringand McOirmiuk though", the work 100 he.avj for their machines anil decided not to compete. Trie crop of oits to he operated on was an exceedingly heavy one and should average about 60 to 70 bushels to the aor-. Jn many parts the crop was so thick as to be lying on the ground and it ringed from four to six feet in height. Ivir Bishell had the grounl all ready for the cmnpetiti >n, the field being cut out in b'oeks of two acres each for the machines and as the practical men viewed it they remarked that ic should be an excellent test —thal “ a machine that wou' I go (!) rough tlr t would go through anything.” Messrs J. Bealson, A. Gifford, G. Grah nil, C. Jordan and W. Murray were the j idges and at about hnlf-p at two starie i the three machines that faced the music. They were : Two Honsbys, owned respectively by Messrs Higgins and Bishell, and one Howard, owned by Mr Coleman. The judges in their decisions were guided by the general work done by the machines, anli after the trial was finished they went over the ground and examined every sheaf. They found that the Howard had only missed five sheaves, whi’st the two Hornsby’s had missed 12 and 33 respectively. The Howard was declared to have won (he contest on tbe ground of i s neatness of cut, tying capabilities, butting, &o. Tlie Hornsby owned by Mr Higgins is. no doubt, a good machine, and did its work very nicely, while the one owned by Mr Bishe I and driven by his son (who is an exceedingly -mart boy for his years) was not to be despised, notwithstanding that it has worked over two seasons. The refreshments were provided by Messrs F. 11. : Pickering and Co., agon’s for the Howard ■ machines. Af er the contest vas over the j l judges viewed the different machines and were struck with the simplicity of the Howard's patent rotary action knotter, th i patent raising and 1 awering apparatus and the toughness of the castings, Mr I3ishell earned the thanks of competitors and spectators by doing everything in his power to make the trial a thorough suc-eo-s.. Milking Ewes.—The following paragraph appeared in a recent issue of the i * London Standard, a paper which affects a j ,] very pariicu ar interest in tbe colonies, [ tod most especially New Zealand : ■ ( ‘There is said to be a strong feeling in \ New Zealand in favor of milking ewes thr c :hi purpose of making cheese, in imitation v

of Die French Roquefor,. Tins might possibly answer where a mau keeps a few aheap on a small far o, h < ami his family doing all the wor , but the sehein i would be utterly impracticable oil a large scale in n country where labor is ms high in price as it is in New Zealand. Tile time spent in milking « l.irgi number of iwm would be enormous, and the maoip iLti m and ripening of Roquefort a e p .bom as we 1 as lUlie.ne ope atiuns quits u isu ted to the rough-an l-r-adc habits of c d miM farmers.” I is rather i remark ibe characteristic of New Ze d mil that, its inhabitants have sc rcely aiv s mug feeling ’’ himut anything. Th .y take it coolly whatever hippene It i< mns ng, iher--fore, to find them accuse I hy a - le-uii ,g Rig ish paper of eaten lining so alisuid an fill ition us a st nog f. cling in favor of milking ewes f r In purpose of unking che.se. Why, ir i- as m ich a* hey can be got to do to milk e w , let aloue ewes. All the s'tm ■, there is a grain of sense in the remaiks of the rituidud. Nooutn'ry in the world is be ter -bie to produce the choicest descriptions of i bees i t.hanßfw Z * ilan 1 ; An lif we oolv lnd a mountain population like 'hi French, S visa an l Italians, who would go' a goo i living and ; save money upon lan I which is now enti ely negle 'te 1, we might do wonders in that way. The 'inie is still far distant, however, for village iudu tri-s of that kind to be e-tablished hem. We moan m I groan about the hard t.iin -s ; but in truth, we nr ■ too d sgustingly rich ti be bothered with such trifles. German Invasion or Queensland : The Evening Presi says :—“ We observe Lite C logne GP ine; Bismarck's [ favourite ore ai, proposes an invasion of i Q leeiislan i hy Germans m masse, with a view to the estahlidimeut of a German ‘•Kingdom” in Australia, to eonuteniet 'be effect of the co’.oni d • Monroe doctrine’ : of the exclusive riiht of the British to the Pacific. We think there nrgit be some inc mv Miienee in the eunb isljonut of a German Kingdom, in the poli ioil 1 sense, in a British colony ; aid if the propisal of the Cologne Gazette is adopti od, that detail had better be nullified. But otherwise, we should siv, a German invasion of Queensland would be highlv 1 desirable. Queensland wauls population ! badly, and Germans make mist excellent i col mists. There need not be the rlightest f eir cf their proving troubles line to their ' British neighbours. Tnere are at this • moment in the United Stares about one fourth as many Germans as there are in the German Empire. There are actually two millions of born Girin ms tli-re, and i German immigration is going on at tbe rate of aboil-. 200 dOO souls a year. By the end »f tile century there will be a Ger. • min ‘ Kingdom” in America bigger than any in Europe. But the Germans in America are no I rouble. In twogmeratious they are no; distinguishable from Americans, And so it viill be in these Colonics. Lotus welcome on; invaders. But let us make sure that they have , all been v mount: I b fire they come ashore.” The I’res i sneaks s-msibl/. There a-e alealy hundreis of Gorin mi , settlers in Qucenslan 1. When in Que-ms* lanl we met many abnit the Dirling Downs an 1 Toowoomb », enga erl in agriculture and wine linking. And capital set !ers they are, and cipital wtue they uive the traveller. : Xmas and New Year. —We remind the public of Mar borough that we have a go id simply of Mi n’s and Bovs’ Clothing , for the holiday season from the New Zea land and Gael mg hietori s ; also China ■ silk Dust Goats. Black Alpaca Coats, Lawn Tennis Suits, and Hats to match, 1 Cricketing Trousers aul Shirts. Tailoring ordo's cx n cu*od at the shortest notice We hold a sp'-n lid range of Wellington, Mo-’gio', Gimaru and Bannockburn Tweed- 1 , An inspection solicited. ri.MALE & Hay, London House —(ldvt). ‘•Rough on Itch.”— “Rough on Itch, cur s skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, iotter. sal'.rhetim, frosted feet, ehdbliim. ifell, ivy poison, barber’s itch. MEMORANDA Omaka Rni l U iarl —lO ISO n m Thu ilng tux in the AVuiriiii ltoa-l District is a - revised ,f. McKenzie ati'l Co insert u business notiic Messrs I! wurs mil Bnrioyiinu have several minis iif money to lend . oj H.a.C.D.S.—Yearly meetiii;;.