COUNTY WORKS.

Northern Advocate, 20 October 1888, Page 2

COUNTY WORKS.

"We arc glad to learn that the County Engineer has completed the laying off of , works on the Main North Eoad, and that i a messenger has been sent over to Ngu- j nguru, to ask the Chairman's permission to hold the Council meeting on Friday, j November 2nd, to accept tenders. This i will enable contractors to push on works i early in the season, and catch all the j fine weather.

Visitors staying at Pierces Settler's Hotel, Whangarei. for week euaing, October 19th :— Messrs O'Hara, Moorej Cosgrave, Eerr, Howitson, Mr and Mrs Coultcn, Messrs McNanghton McL«od, W. Bessell. Brannigan, G. Gooke Todd, Thomson, Taylor, The young man, Ludlow, who shot himself in the chest, near Helensvilie, last Wednesday, was admitted to the hospital and the bullet extracted, but the shock proved too £reat for the system and he died from the effects on Friday morning. At the inquest held on the body, a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity " was returned. In reply to telegrams, both Mr Hobbs and Mr Moat have received the following reply from the Minister of Lands. "Elliott's dismissal is a matter which I regret being unable to re-consider, also Bayley's appointment, both cases having been determined on after careful consideration." . The decision has given the greatest dissatisfaction to the sheep farmers everywhere. Property owners will observe that their returns must be in before the 30th of November, and that if forms have not been left them, they can procure one from any money order post office, which it is imperitive they should do, as the duty of procuring such forms is cast on the public. All persons, whether free from tax by exemption clause or not, must forward returns. On Saturday, at the R.M. Court, the case of Worsnip v. Tidswell, was again called, and dismissed without prejudice, each party to pay their own costs. This decision, of course, leaves the case open to a fresh action. On Monday evening Mr Poole delivered his interesting and instructive lecture on bees. The attendance was not so good as the importance of the snbject claimed. It is one too little understood, and we should have been glad to record more public interest in it. Mr A. Laybourn calls the - attention of settlers . to his stock of tested seeds, free from weeds. All farmers know the great value of both these principles, and if Mr Laybourn can guarantee them, he will confer a vast boon on the agiicultuaiml community. On Wednesday evening the Eev. C. H. Garland delivered an interesting lecture on "Life in London,^ln the Public Hall. Mr Garland is a pleasing speaker, arid he depicted the dark shades of -London Life with life-like accuracy and great fore'e. The London police were pourtrayed as**Shbdels of integrity, discipline, and appearance, while the railway porter was depicted as an Impudent drone, and the street arab was exhibited in his mixed and almost incongruous character of ignorance and wit, crime and virtue. The lecture is full of interest, suggestive of thought, and we advise our readers to hear it if repeated. There is one matter, however, with reference to London, too often left out of sight by persons of a philanthropic mind lecturing on London, and that is although there is so vast an amount of crime, poverty, and degradation in London, and although it is held up as an example as being more wicked than any other city, this is not so comparatively. Numbers for numbers London is more healthy, more moral, more intellectual, more religious, and less revoltingly criminal than aiiy co-temporary city, or than any city the world has ever known. Her poverty and crime are great, because she is vastly greater than all other cities. In all things — in times past and present— she is the world's greatest wonder. Mr Garland preachc 3 in the Wesleyan Chapel on Sunday, and lectures here again on this day (Friday), and at Maungataperb on (Saturday. The 9th of November falling on a Friday, the s.s. Wellington will not leave Auckland until Saturday the 10th prox. at 7 p.m. The Town Board call for tenders for laying drain pipes in Lower Cameron-street. Mr Buckland advertises his first wool sale for the 21st November. In the bankruptcy sitting, at Dunedin, on Monday, Justice Wiiliams remarked in the case of Job Cotton, racehorse trainer, that the bankrupt bad carried on a gambling business. He did not think the Act was intended to relieve men who got into difficulties by gambling, and though his discharge was recommended by the creditors, he declined to make an order. In his lecture on Wednesday, Mr Garland gave many examples of the London Street Arab's sharpness, which of course is proverbial. Although wo are as yet free from the Arab class, we yet find that the colonial boy is not much behind the London Arab in this particular. For example, a few years ago we were at the receiving desk at the Auckland Post Office, when a lad of about 10 or 12 ran up to it with a parcel, saying to the clerk, " "Weifih this for us?" The clerk straightened himself, saying, "I don't stand here to weigh parcels for little boys." "Don't you," said the little fellow, at the same time handing himself on to the desk reaching over to the scales, weighing the parcel and calculating the cost. Jumping down, he said, deliberately, " give mo three shillings and sixpence worth of penny stamps." These were handed to him, and he squat on the floor quietly putting the stamps on tbe parcel, one by one, with sufficient space between them to render it necessary to stamp them out singly. Admiring his work,* he handed the parcel to the clerk, saying, " There, stamp out that lot for your cheek! " The Staffordshire coal owners have conceded the demands of the men. A terrible tragedy is reported from Yorkshire, where a youny man kicked his mother to death and then dismembered the body. He afterwards collected the remains, saturated them with some combustible substance and burned them. A domestic servant was threatened with similar treatment, was subsepuently released under pledge of secrecy. In the London market the price of gum is reported as unchanged. Tho Supreme Court at Utah bas decreed the dissolution of the Mormon Church,;the property of which will be estreated. The Mormons will appeal against the decision. From (Sydney we learn that on Monday, tho Engb'sh, and Australian Chartered Bank was stuck- up by a man named Devere, who presented a revolver at the teller, and compelled him to throw up his hands. The manager came to the tellers's assistance, however, and the robber fled, but was speedily eraptured. No money was taken. The /Suez Canal Scheme is just approaching its final cricis, which will involve wide-spread ruin. There was a very good attendance at the afternoon session at the Rink on Thursday, over 40 being present. The experiment of a free afternoon for ladies being quite successful. The Grand Masqueiade Carnival which will terminate the Rink season in Whangarei, -will be held about the 16th of November, and great efforts will ba made to ensure its triumphal success. Particulars will be duly announced in a future issue. Lord Roseberry, in a speech at Leeds, exprassed the opinion that the colonies ought to be allowed a much larger voice in foreign affairs, even if it entailed a sacrifice on the part of England. The colonial should supersede the foreign policy. Australia, he said, must be paramount in the Foreign Office as regards the Pacific question although, it wculd diminish insular freedom. Lord Knutsford, speaking at Ipswich, said it was both the duty and the desire of the Government, if possible, to ascertain and sympathise with the rights of the colonies, and to meet them, bo long as they were consistent with Imperial interests. This all goes to show the increasing influence of the colonies, and that they are no longer considered a drag on the Empire. The best and cheapest House for crockery and glassware of every description is Boylan, Tanfield, & Co.'s. 174, Queen-street and Lome Street. No visitor to Auckland should fail to look over their magnificent stock which is generally acknowledged to be the largest and most varied in the colonies. We understand that price lists can be obtained on application. I*l7 Garlick & CranwelPs is the best house in Auckland to buy your furniture, carpets and floorcloth from. They keep a very large assortment of iron bedsteads and all kinds of bed-room furniture, and bedding to suit all classes. Dining and drawing room furniture and every requisite for a house. They are noted for their good packing, furniture generally reaching tho buyer as good as when purchased. Five per cent, allowed on cash being remitted with order. Bed linen, curtains. and all kinds of house furnishings in stock at low prices. Book catalogues sent on application .-to Garlick & Cranwell, Queen-street, Auckland. The output at the Kamo Coal Mine last week was 863 tons. We learn by cable that important changes ire imminent in the London Board of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr Lankworthy has retired from his position as managing director m a pension. Ho still retains the position of managing director of the New Zealand Loan md Mercantile Agency Company. /Surely the people are pension mad, here is a man who for years has held a very questionable dual lppointment, and on retiring from one only secures a pension. What will shaerholders say to this.

The Katikati will be off the river tradefrom lirst to 12th of next month, for the purpose of receiving her no.w boilorers. Settlers on the river will do well to remember this. It is expected that the new capital of the Bank of New Zealand will be subscribed nearly threefold. A correspondent asks the following very pertinent qnestions : — " Why are railway employees being transposed and shifted long distances, at great CO st to the country, in its present state?" "Why was an engine dciver, who was giving satisfaction in Whangarei sent to Westport, and one sent from Otago here, incurring tne cost of removal of two families ? There may be excuses, but scarcely reasons." Mr H. N. Haynes, who is removed from the railway department here to Westport, left on Friday lor his new duties. There were a number of his friends at the station to bid Mm farewell. Mr Haynes -is a Past Master of th& Lodge. Star of the North, No. 1647 E.C., of j Masons, and has been long a member of the i volunteer band. On leaving his fellow bandsmen made him a present of a handsome gold' watch pendant. ; Now that the warm dry weather is set in, it is important that all nuisances, cess pits and closets are looked after, and we hope our Inspector of Nuisances will be active. Some of the localities about us, especially in the i vicinity of the Public Hall, already give unmistakable evidence of brewing mischief, and the danger of an outbreak of fever. A few years ago, a lady who came from Dunedin to Auckland, was in a shop in the southern city, and was urged by the proprietor to purchase a swing machine, as that useful article could not possibly be purchased in Auckland, it being only a. fishing village. This spirit of criminal detraction seems not to be confined to Dunedin. On the arrival of the Fiona for coals in our harbour, one of our local butchers, Mr Brooker, boarded her, and Solicited an ordei, with the following result. Mr Brooker says, " I found the captain was very much riled by being told in Auckland that he could get nothing in Whangarei, and he actually bought sheep in Auckland, and paid 3/6 a-head over the price quoted by myself. He however gave me an order for a few more, as' well as for beef, which has given entire satisfaction, and promised to •wire to me to prepare for the next trip." Whangarei largely supplies Auckland with mutton, and yet a captain visiting the harbour is told that he cannot provision here. When will Auckland men cease to revile the North ?