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Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 222, 19 January 1883, Page 2

A dairy company has been successfully floatsd at Oamarn. Mr Rolleston, Minister for Lands, will visit Wyndham on Saturday evening. It will be seen from an advertisement that to day is to be a " great day " at the Gore sohool. The annual installation of officers in oonnection with the local lodge of Odd Fellows, will take place this evening. The following tenders have been received by the Public Works Department for the stationmaster's house at Pukerau: — Accepted: W. Ehodes, Clinton, L 363, Declined : D. M'Lachlan, Clinton, L 35 4; J. Wilson, Dunedin, L 446. - The Tuturau Koad Board eleotiona are, under the provisions of the Road Board's Aot of last session, to tie held in open meeting. We understand that Mr Bowtell, of Lums den, will shortly commence the erection ofbrick businesß premises on the vacant space adjoining Messrs Thomson and Beattie's Gore establishment. After oareful inquiries as to the probable yield of grain during the ensuing season the 'Courier' estimates that North Glenkenich will yield 150,000 bushels of grain— nearly i all of whioh is oats. From Crookation. 20.000 bushels wheat, and 45,000 bushels oats are expected. Harvesting will commence in about a fortnight. A cricket match between the G.C.C. and Mataura C.C. will be played at Mataura, to» •Borrow (Saturday). The respective teams .vill consist of the following players s-^-Gore: Mefsrs A. Martin, .P. Mullaly, W. Douglas, W. Henderson, R. Hosking, I. S. Siowon, J. W. King, O, Elliott, J. 6. Scoullar,"fo. bun and , MoCullooh. , Mataura: MessrslPark, Dewar, FeJJ, Taritonj, Niohol, Ladfcok, Oarriok, Oopland^Diokflon.Fißher aWihaw. W»o)c?Jg jps to'bj pitqh.Bd tf noo.B, v i; >

Our new Cr,overnor, Sir William Jervois, is expected to arriye at Wellington to-day. The Presbyterian Synod is now sitting in Dunedin, The Bar J, Ohieholin, of Milton, is Moderator. Mr J. B. Mitchell was, at the request of settlors in the district, appointed ranger for the Pomahaka Hundred at the last meeting of the Otago Laud Board. The member for Dunstan informs the Tapanui Courier that in all probability tenders for the permanent way of the Swift Creek railway will be oalled in a few days. Captain Mackenzie, M.H.R., met with a Blight accident yesterday week. When driving a buggy at Tapanui one of the hind wheels oame off. throwing the Captain out over the splash board, and slightly injuring one of his legs. At the Peninsula nomination, the proceedings at which were pretty lively, the follow* ing waß the show of hand* »~Dr Moran, 27 ; Donnelly, 20 ; Larnaoh, 18 ; Wells, 3. The polling takes place next Monday. School Committees are to be elected for the various districts of Southland on Monday . evening. We hope the meetings will be well attended, as the matter is of great importance and should not be lefc as is often the case to half a dozen residents. Mr J. A. Mitchell, who finds that his auctioneering business iv Inveroargill will take up the whole of his time, has left Longbush after a residence there of fourteen years. It is not surprising to learn that at a banquet on Tuesday evening h« waa made the reoipient of an elegant silver service. Mr Carpenter, who for some time past has conducted the business of tbe looal branch of tbe Bank of Australasia, has received order* to proceed to Dunedin and will be relieved by Mr Svme, of Wanganui. Though we are sure all who know Mr Carpenter will be sorry to lose him, we trust his removal means that promotion to which his many good qualities jusily entitle him. J; • Calograms from Constantinople leport that a band of Circassians have made an attempt on the life of the Sultan. The guard of police, however, prevented the entrance of the would-be assassins and frustrated the attempt. It is stated that the Circassians fought desperately and that several lives were lost. Ihe exooseive heat experienced at Gore on Wednesday seems to have been pretty general. At Timaru the thermometer registered 160 degrees in the sun, and several cases of sunstroke were reported, one being fatal. In Alexandra South' in Central Otago the heat was 146 degrees in the eun at half-past 11, this being the highest temperature ever experienced there, The weather was remarkably warm in Dunedin. The weather' in Canterbury is magnificent for the harvest, whioh is now general throughout Ashburton County. Numbers of men are arriving daily and demandmg high wage*, which the farmers are compelled to give them. The rates are— For ordinary harvesters, £3 10s and found ; for machine-drivers, £4 and found. There will, notwithstanding, be a great soaroity of labor as the oops are heavy, and there will be an enormous yield. The Invercargill wool sales fell through on the advertised day owing to a dispute between sellers and buyers, the latter declining to purchase under condition that they Bhould pay wjjne^eigbth of a nenny per lb. for delivery. ' Neiillay^h^ passed off successfully. The attendance, was good and competition keen, prices in nearly •.every caie seaohing the reserve or over. Prince Jerome Bonaparte has oausea a great strasation in Paris by the issue of a manifesto olaiming the right to the title of the Emperor of France. This action has been deemed by the Government to call for immediate repressive measures. The Prince was at once arrested and placed in gaol, and the government have succeeded in carrying a motion for the expulsion of the Bonaparfcist family from France. ' / A correspondent asserts that the Gore railway station is built, on a raadline, and asks ub "whether we don't consider this an injustice to property owners and others on the cross street in compelling them to take a round-about course to get aoceaa to their properties?" It oertainly does seem strange that the Railway Department should have blocked up the road in this fashion when other land was available for station buildings and loop-lines, and if the matter is as stated by our correspondent .representations should be made to the Government. On Wednesday Messrs W. Morris, D. Lamb and J. Milne (the deputation appointed by the settlers at the meeting on Tuesday night, to interview the Otago School Commissioners with referenoe to the withdrawal from settlement ot 10,000 acres on the Otama Range) accompanied by Messrs F. S. Canning and J. W. King (Mataitba Ensign) rode over the block in question to ascertain for themselves the nature and capabilities of the land. The deputation made a most oareful survey and all agreed that nowhere in the district could better land be found for agricultural purposes. The Ohristohnroh 'Preaa' states that while Captain Tairohild was at Waipapa Point in the Government steamer Stella during his recent trip round the Middle Island, he took advantage of a calm day to visit the wreok of the steamer Tararna. He found that the hull had been broken to the level of low water, but that the cylinders of the engines projected about 3ft. They were in a nearly upright position, and there wag no difficulty in standing on them. Beyond this the scene presented noshing worthy of note. A Wednesday's meeting of the Obago Land Board, the following looal business was transacted :— Connell and Moodie, for John Cregan applied to purchase section 13, blook 1. Otama Referred to Rangei Hughan for a report,— Thomas Hunter's application for valuation for improvements (£3O) oh section 1, blook VII, being subdivision of section 20, block X, Chattel district, was declined. — Applications for capitalization in the following oase3 were agreed to : — John Forbes, section 9, blook 111, Otama ; W. S. Logan, section 18, ■ block .111, Otama; D. MAuley, section 16, block XII., Ohatton. It having transpired that the next meet* ing of the Otago School Commissioners will not take place until about a week before the day of the sale of the lease of Bun 193 a Otama, it haß been decided to ask the Commissioners to hold a special meeting to receive the deputation appointed t»t Tuesday night's meeting or that a quorum may receive them. In the meantime all who wish to Bign ; the petition; may do go at Mr Morris's hotel, Ohattoa. Aa nearly every man in the district should desire to promote settlement and use his influence in the interests thereof we expect to see the petition 'very largely j signed. [Since the above was in t&geMr F. S. Canning haß shown us a telegram from Mr Maitland Intimating that^'he School Commissioners prill probably^weet next week,}

It is rumored that some difficulty may £ff experienced in filling the vaoancies on the Gordon Town Board created by. the resignations of Messra SmailK Young, and Brown. One or 'two residents in the have been asked to come forward, but their answers to their interlocutors have always been n«g»* tive ones. „ : Crops in the Ohatton, Waikaka and Ofcama districts are looking exceedingly well j indeed, it is doubtful if there wore ever before such promising crop prospects in these districts. Almost without exception the different crops are in a very healthy condition* and with fine weather harvesting will be general in about a month 'and give extraordinary yields. In the Otam.-v Valley and on the Plain the oats are looking better than any we have seen in any part of the distriot. After the publio meeting at Chatton on Tuesday night, Mr Morris drew attention to the fact that no reserves had been made in the Chatton township for purposes of recreation or, in fact, any other porpose, and pro* posed that the Government should be petitioned and that Messrs Lamb, J. Milne acd the mover be a committee to represent the matter in the proper quarter and request the Government to set aside at least ten acres for recreation purposes in the township of Chatton, This was agreed to and we trust the efforts of the committee will be successful. Interesting to the residents of Gore and to not a few in other parts of the distiiot will prove the fact thab the T >wn Board's annual revenue in future will not amount to a less < sum than »he very respectable total of £837. Publicans' license-, including one which will no doubt shortly be applied for by the purohaser of the reserve opposite the railway station, will contribute £230 ; reserves, £282; auctioneers' Hocuses, £100 ; aud other fees £25. To these sums may fairly be added|a shilling rate, which will come aooner or later, and with the increase in the value of property, this will probably yield £200, miking with the other items the total given above. The Board have done well with their lesser income in tbe past, and we don't, euppose that with more funds they will be less oareful in their division. It may be mentioned that there are still some twenty municipal reserves unlet, and it may be reasonably supposed that these when disposed of will bring in a rental of £50. Again there are to be official changes at the G re railway station, and, whilst we are unfortunate in losing an officer who during his stay among us has earned golden opinions ou all Bides for his attention and courtesy to the travelling public, |Mt Harris is to be relieved by one in whom residents will be glad to recognise an old friend. Mr Donne, who has several times' acted as relieving officer at Gore, will sucoeed Mr Harriß, and, we understand, his appointment as stationmaster is a permanent one. Mr Harris will leave this diutriot with the best wishes of all with whom he has been : brought in contact. We have just heard a story concerning a sohool teacher on the eastern bank of the Mataura which reminds us very forcibly of the experience of a country dominie, who found it rather difficult to make his pupils observe the diffetenoe .in reading between a comma and a full point, and adopted a plan of his own, which he flattered himself would make them proficients in the art of punctuation : thus, in reading, when they oame to a comma, they were say to tick, and read on ; to' a colon or semioolon, tick, tick ; and when a fall point, tick, tick, tick. Now it so happened that the worthy dominie received notice that the parish minister was to pay a visit of examination to his school, and as he was desirous that the pupils should show to the beat advantage, he gave them an extra drill tb.6 day before the examination. "Now," said he, addressing his pupils. " when you read before the minister you mnwt think then?fta you go*aloci^', for thS sake of elocution^"- ;So f Far so gaoiil. Next: day came,, and with it the minister. . ushered, ; into the schoolroom by the dominie; whfy with amilea and! bows, hoped, that the ' training of the scholars would meet his ap- ' proVal. Now it so happened that the first boy oalled up by the minister had been absent tbe preceding day, and in the hurry the master had forgot to give him his instructions how to act. The minister asked the boy to read a chapter in the old Testament L whioh he pointed out. The boy complied, and in his best accent began to read — "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying tick, speak unto the children ot Israel saying tick', . tick, and'thua shalt thou say unto them tick, , tick, tick." This unfortunate sally, in his own style, acted like a showerbath on the ' poor dominie, whilst the minister apd his 1 friends almost died of laughter.