INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 222, 18 September 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

! Wellington, Friday night. | Dr Lemon has received the following cable piessage from Adelaide, dated 16th:— "Men on board Sorata knooked off pumping for few hours in order to get out some cargo, but the water rose instantly, and they had to put the pumps to work again," ! ■ Saturday. ! At a meeting of the Reform Association la9t night it was thought desirable to hold a public meeting with the view' of receiving feuggestibns to prevent the large exodus of people from Wellington. ; The Friendly Societies intend holding a great fete on the Prince of Wales Birthday. . At the District Cour6 this afternoon judgment was given in the case of the Bank of ifew Zealand v. Howith, a solicitor at Dunedin. The action was to recover £15)9, for which the defendant became surety in the estate of Caase 1 and M'Credie. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs. The Walratipu which leaves for Sydney this afternoon takes 63 saloon and 160 steerage passengers. Auckland, Friday night. The contest for the possession of J. B. Robinson's stock (Auckland Clothing Company) has ended. Cuthbertson and Bell stated that they did not intend to protract the Btruggle. The Kegistrar of tho Supreme Court sustained possession by arrangement, Cuthbertson recording a protest. The police are making raids on the milkmen, some of whom have been fined for adding 16 p'cr cent of water. A further charge of smuggling gold dust was laid against the German Jacob Seenf t, and he was fined 20s and costs. In a cartridge case, at his hotel, the detective found 200 sovereigns, put of which the £100 fine and costs were paid. \ Saturday. Edward Hart, better known as a leading member of the Hart's Operatic Company, was charged at the Police Court this morning with a violent assault upon a young man named Russell, by knocking bim down with a bottle full of spirits. The evidence showed that be bad on the previous night been engaged in beating his wife, and she ran out qf the room and fell into the arms of Mr Haygarth. An altercation ensued between the landlord of the hotel and Fat, when, the latter showing fight, the plaintiff carae forward to protect Boniface, and received a violent blow with a bottle of sherry which Hart had. Hart wa* under the influence of liquor. He denied beating his Wife, but said he was administering cbastisment to his daughter. He said that Haygarth insulted his wife, and Russell was drunk and insolent. The Magistrate sentenced Hart to a month's imprisonment. Palmkbston North, Saturday. Henderson, the man elected by the townspeople to accompany Moss, the prospector for gold, to Fifzherbert, returned Mast night. He reports that the reef as said to be discovered by Moss is a hoax. Henderson, however, picked up in a gully large lumps of rich quartz with gold plainly discernible all through. The result of the trial disclosed that although there was no definite reef discovered, there is no doubt that Jthere is cold in the vicinity. Several parties have left town to try Iheir luck in prospecting. Henderson says the whole features of the country warrant the assertion that there is gold all through the ranges. CnßiSTCHmtcn,TSaturclay. On Wednesday a farmer named Johnston while ploughing at Upper Riccarton was so injured while trying to stop his plough horses which had bolted, that he died yesterday morning. , Francis Roberts, an infant, has died under mysterious circumstances. The mother, formerly a lunatic, was the only witness of the death. At a meeting last night it was resolved to establish a Hunt Club at Christchurcfa. . Preliminary steps were taken at a meeting last night for the purpose of endeavoring to elucidate the question as to the identification of the lost tribes of Israel. Donedin, Saturday. ', There are nine prisoners for .trial afc the Supreme Court. ; Information has just reached town that the brewery ia North East Valley baa been burned down. It was insured in the Northern for £iooo.

• Cincinnati lovers don't say, "My sweet little rosebud," or "My own darling sugarplum," but it's " You sweet little ham."— Chicago Truth. ' Haydon^ a London detective of some forty years' standing, has just died. He was concerned ill all the modern causes cclebres, such as the Bidwell forgeries on the Bank of England and the gold-bar robhexy;, and his pbrtrait figures in Firth's famous Kailway Station. „ , w 'Mr IFrahk Buckland, writing s in Land and Water on the structural beauties of the eel, siys :— The eel has, strange to say, a ; heart : art his tail. When the eel becomes faint and exhausted he will .begin to play up thejheart iri his tail, the pulsatiozn of which con tie plainly .seen.

Mr J. Gk'S. Grant, of .Dunedin celebrity, thus complains through .the correspondence columns of the Star :— lt is just twenty-five years-; today since I landed in Dunedin. I slept, the first night in a wooden shanty called the Royal Hotel, standing on the site whereon they are now erecting the new Bank of New Zealand. Had I looked after self in place of fightin g other people's battles, I should to-day have been possessor of the fairest half of Dunedin and nearly all her suburbs. I came to Dunedin under an agreement, and the Government does actually owe me £25,000. What I have written and printed would engage the lifetime of an ordinary man to transcribe. However, Dunedin is not likely to see another man of my stamp, nor perhaps any other city. As Byron said, "I have not loved the world, nor the world riie'." After all my labors and sacrifices I am far poorer now than when I set foot on these shores. Comment at'present is out of place. If " the lines have not fallen to me in pleasant places," let me not araaign the good providence of God ; for assuredly "the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord." The Norfolk Island correspondent of the Auckland Star writes:— The memorial chapel to Bishop Patteson is finished ; the last portion of the work, the wheel-window in the gable end, having been put into its place a few weeks ago. It is a cumbrous affair, in the perpendicular style," being nine feet in diameter, the mullions 8£ by 4£, the lesser ones 5 by 2\ ; the rim, in eight pieces of the larger dimensions, forming a circle in inside and outside to fill an eight. square hole with shilcds mortised in. Altogether it is a most handsome and complicated piece of workmanship, and is the work of the mission carpenter, Mr W. Kendall, who deserves great credit for his mechanical skill. The lights, 28 in number, are filled with beautiful stained, glass, the design being alternate red arid white roses with green leaves intertwinci. The organ,*in appearance an unique little instrument, by Willis -of London, has also been put up in its chamber in the chapel. It is stated to be the gift of Miss Yonge, authqr of the ' Heir of Redcliffe,' costing at the makers nearly £400. With the exception of the seats the chapel is now ready for the ceremony that is to be performed at the end of next November. An incident of an unusual character has occurred at Ashburton. The Templar Hall of that township has been used as a Courthouse for some time past, the company which owns'it having let it for that purpose. The company furnished the Department of Justice, with their, bill for rent, but it was returned," with a note accompanying it stating that there was an inaccuracy in the computation. The secretary and some members of the company spent an evening in trying to find out the error, but they could not, and they furnished the account afresh. It was again returned, and the same operation was repeated till the account had made the journey to Wellington and back five times ; and still the dignified upholder of redtapeism would not condescend to point out where the error existed. The company gave the matter up as hopeless, and placed a bailiff in possession of the Courthouse. The bailiff has been in possession for the last few days j and unless- the rent be paid next Thursday every thing belonging to the Court will be sold by auction. ' A correspondent of the Marlborough Times Writing from. Wakamarina, says:— "A large party of persons interested in Oliver and Cos. hydraulic sluicing elaichj visited the on Monday last. Among the ntiuiber was Mr Government Engineer, who expressed himself greatly surprised at the ex cellent prospects obtainable, and at once took a large interest in the claim. Almost every dish tried contained good samples of gold. It is intended to raise the necessary funds to complete the work required privately, and Mr Mc.Glasham has consented to take the working management. The amount of money required to complete the Work is compara tively small. It is generally believed here that the old palmy days of the Wakamarina are about to revive again. One great drawback to progrees is the present bad state of the road, which is a standing disgrace to the authorities. If a good road waa made from vyilson's Hotel at Canvastown. on to Deep Greek, it would induce hundreds of .men to come and settle down on. these diggings, and sluicing would be all the go, but now it is enough to break any man'B heart to contemplate a journey down to or from Havelock, I A Wellington evening paper, in taking a mdrning contemporary to task for giving vent to certain remarks, has the following : — ."Our morning contemporary is of opinion that ' the financial depression from which the country is suffering and will suffer s^ill more, ia felt more acutely by capitalists than anyone else.' What absurd rubbiah! Are those people capitalists who, for lack of employment, are living ou the funds of the Benevolent Institution? Or . those who, deluded by lying emigration agents, broke up comfortable homes ia the old world to find themselves earning actually less than they received in the laud of their birth, and playing a great deal more for everything except the bare necessaries' of life which stand b'etweeu them and starvation? It is upon people such as these that a period of depression presses heavily, and not upon the capitalist, whose worst fate is that he has to put up with ten instead of twenty per cent for his money, or who perhaps finds it necessary to drink claret instead of champagne, and to spend a hundred pounds a year less upon his wife and children than in former times." ! The Jiangiora Standard says that starlings are fast increasing in the Northern district of Canterbury. They pipe their whistle at early morn this flue weather, and it will be a pity if they do not multiply f aster^ than . sparrows, as they are very useful as inaeet djestroyers. \ Climatic influence on female beauty (says the Star) is singularly marked in New Zealand. In Auckland the pale, slender, delicate type predominates, and the stamp of beauty gets more robust as we journey southward, until in Otago the sonsie, ruddy, two-hundred ppund lassie has it all her own way. The Clutha County Council failed in a recent endeavor to obtained some advice gratis. Through the member for the district the Attorney-General was asked whether the postal cards used by some of the Counties are a legal and sufficient service in tbe collection of rates, in these Counties. " Consult your legal adviser," was Mr Whitaker'a reply. : The weather in Sydney and the sui rounding districts is of a most summer-like appearaface. The grass is drying up fast, and feed and water are very scarce. A drought is feared. : " Jupiter," says an American contemporary " this month rises about half past one id the morning." It may be presumed that oh nights when he goes to see his girl he gets no sleep at all. !In a case heard in the Invercargill R. M. Court it transpired that in the course of a few months not less than £15 was run up in a butcher's ledger for meat Bupplied solely to feed a few greyhounds. In addition to this feed, the gentleman who had the dogs deposed that one cost several pounds for milk supplied to it, and something more for medical comforts. An English paper says:— The most ret ajarkable bill for election expenses which i has yet appeared is that of Mr C. W. Wynn, the defeated candidate for Montgomeryshire. His expenses were no less than £13,554; more than double those of his opponent. Each vote he polled cost him the enormous sum of £6 15s. On Thursday last (says the Marlborough Times) there was, for that place, a great gathering of babies at Havelock; They came from all directions for the purpose of being vaccinated. About 40 went through the operation. The Buffalo Courier announces : " A Niagara Falls hackman overtaken by justibe." If the hackman wasn't driving faßt.er tlian'they usually do when paid by the hour, justiceneean't get out'of breath overtaking him.. : ' • • „..._.. A curious incident, showing the veneration of the ChineßeJor-lhek_dead,..ofiCurrfid-in. Sydney the other, day.. A Chinaman passenger from Melbourne by the st&amer Rodondo, was out of tbe gate with a-carpet bag in his hand.:* #he,active ,Customß7offlcial naturally expected Contraband, but to his astonishment the bag contained the bonos of the ,Chinainan'B father, together with a certain certificate of " resurrection," .showing that the bones, had,been: exhumed from tbe Castle.., Wairie Cemetery.' " Jbnn'was ien route fo* the land of bis nativity.

A husband telephoned to bis wife— "What have you for 'breakfaßt, and bow is, the\ baby?" The answer earner-^ Buckwheat cakes and measles." "<'--•' A Sydneyjfirm report having sold Punjaub station, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland ;44G square miles, unstocked, to Messrs Travers and Gibson for £2000. The London letter of the Canterbury Times contains the following:— The latest feat in athletics has been the high jump of Mr P. Davin. This took place at Carrick in Suir, and the stewards vouched for the authenticity in Belt's Life. Six feet two and three-quarter tnckes -was tbe height of the jump, and Ihe level of tbe ground was properly tested with a Biprit level. A man in Cairo was present at the funeral of a neighbour of whom no good could honestly be said. But everybody wbb crying and saying something, and this man,' not wishing to appear singular, but being incapable of lying eulogy, remarked that it was " a nice quiet corpse.'* At a banquet recently given to him, Herbert Gladstone told a story of a new Eton boy; who, being unaccustomed to the ways of the place, took his prayer-book to chapel on the Saturday, and was kicked down the stairs for a Baint, whereupon on the. following day, profiting as he thought by experience, he left his prayer-book at home, and was kicked down the staira for an atheist. The company made very merrry over his story, but they would have enjoyed the joke a great deal more had they known that the juvennile hero of tbe story they had listened to was the speaker's father— the Premier of Engtand.. • Mr Charles Matthews' will. was proved some time back at £20,000. Everything was left to bis wife. Matthews came into a permanent income in a curious way. . He was on a voyage to India in ,1875, and a fellow passenger was so impressed with the charms of his conversation that just before the steamer arrived ,at Calcutta, he said : "Mr Matthews/you are the most delightful companion I have ever had. I am rich and have no reason to lire with my relatives. Permit me to settle £600 a year upon you, to be continued to Mrs Matthews if she should survive you." Matthews accepted. When the pretty daughter of Mrs Brady, of the Restdown Hoid, was going to be married, amongst other preliminary arrangements waa the drawing-up of the matrimonial intimation. Mrs B. looked over the an-, nouncetnents in a file of the Argus and at last discovered a precedent which quite accorded with her views. It ended with, "No cards ;" and as Mrs Brady explained, " They might dance, eat, and drink as much as they liked, but she wasn't going to have the harmony of the evening ' disturbed by gambling." A clergyman has forwarded to the Archbishop of York a protest in which he says:— " Having read an announcement in the newspapers that your Grace proposes to consecrate I)r John Charles Ryle a Bishop on St. Baiml a's Cay, I venture to draw your attention to St Paul's express statement that a Bishop *must;be the husband of one wife' (Ist Tim. in. 2), on which I would respectfully remark that, if : this apostolic law does not mean absolutely one and one only, and not one after the other, it has no meaning at all, for it would then imply that a person not a Bishop might have two or more wivea at the same time. Now, as Dr Ryle has married four wives in succession, it appears to myself and fco : many others that your Grace, as guardian of the truth in the Province of York, might with no Impropriety interpose your high authority and desiat from consecrating that clergyman because of this undoubted bar. Amongst the many stories current of the b»'ll (says a Sydney contemporary), one is told of a well-known employee of a Sydney theatre who made himself remarkable by aping (as he thought) the distinguished airs of the kingly personage whom he paid the compliment of representing. At supper Mr was particularly noticeable, callifig in a loud tone every few minutes, " Waitaw, I want this," " Waitaw, bring me so and so" "Waitaw " finally lost his temper and gruffly cried, "Can't you wait. a minute? Why a fellow would think you were a gentleman instead of a supernumerary at the theatre." It' was observed after this candid speech, that the distinguished gue9t became less obtrusive, and made use of a convenient opportunity for returning to the ball-room. With reference to the new revised schedule under the Property Assessment Amendment" Act the Post says :— The chief difference in the new form is that instead of only the net taxable value of the property having to be stated, the gross value hag to be given separately of freehold, leasehold, and personal property, and also the amount of all debts (mortgages being incTuded, but stated sepa-. ratcly) for which exemption is claimed, and which— together with the £500 fixed exemption—being deducted from the gross value, leaves the net taxable value of property on which the tax of a penny in the £ will be. levied. The new .forms are remarkably clear and easy of comprehension ; several explanai ory side-notes, moreover being appended, so as to leave no possibility of any misconception. The time for returning the forms is extended to the 25th October.