North Otago Times. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 1880

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2653, 11 December 1880, Page 2

North Otago Times. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 1880

Th i settling on the Oamaru Spring Meting will take place at the Empire Hotel at eleven o'olook this morning. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday George Gleeson was charged with fraudulently issuing a base sovereign, and, at the request of the polioa, was remanded until MoDday. As a recognition of his services as a politician, and at an aoknowie lgment of the respect entertained for him by his followsettlers, a " shilling" tenti nonial will be presented to Sir F. D. Bell at the Town Hall, Palmerston, to-day. The Palmerston Times 'tates that the subscriptions, none more than a shilling, have been raided amongst the inhabitant* of the district. So far as can be ascertained from a number of sources the shares in the Caswell Sound Marble, Portland Cement, and Mining Company, Limited, are being taken up in a satisfactory manner by the public. Tho company is one of the right sort as its purpose is to establirth a 1 >cal industry whioh would largely employ capital and labor. Attention is directed to the abridged prospectus whioh appears in our advertisement columns. The share list oloses on the 15th init. The Horticultural Soolety's Show w«s continued yesterday, and was attended by a large number of visitors. Mr ffeywood made several very oroili table additions to the flowers and plants on exhibition. A stand of out flowers was part cularly well worthy of notice, the collection comprising many varieties of verbenas, penstemons, fuchsias, Jfco. The attendance <>f the publit at the ■how ha* been very sa'iftfnctory to the committee, and if the exhibition was, on the i whole, not up to thwio of provioui ytart,

this must be attributed to the dry weather, and not to any want of attention in oult.vati»n on the part of exhib'tora. Tho name* of tho judges woro omitted in yesterday* issue. They wt)re-:Me«sra Kuowles and Harney (Timaru), Bavistook (Windsor), Dow ing «nd Bioko. 1 - 11 (Oamaru). A matoh will bo played this afternoon on the old orioket ground between members of the Kxonlsior Orioket Club over and under twenty-one years of age. With respeot to a letter signed "A Benefactor," whioh appeared in our correspondence column yesterday, complaining <l a dead hone being thrown into the Kakauui River, the polioe have ascertained the names of tho persona who dcp"sito<i it there. 'I hoy state that they were not aware of transgressing the law, and havo since buried the horse. Unlike the promoters of the Otago Contral railway, tho promoters of the proposed railway line to the West Coast from Christ* church are determined to bear all the ex <en*es in connection with the preliminary survey ; nnd aloo, if the scheme prove feasible, form a company for its construction. This is much fairer than running the oolony into debt for the purpose of making a tourist's railway. A telegram in another column gives the result of the preliminary survey ; and it is much nrnre favorablo (-yen at their own expense) than it would be possible under any oironmstan 'Os to make the record of a like survey of the Otago Contral. With the view, doubtless, of encouraging industrious habit* in the young, the people of VUrton, in the North Island, have eatab. Hshed ajivenile Hor ioultural Show. The first exhibition was held on the 4th instant It was very successful. Tho youngsters h'>d not given all their attention to fanciful floriculture, a large proportion of the exhibit* showing that a m»j >rity of the exhibitors worn sensibly devoted to pactioil gardening. Other parts of the colony might imitate Marton with decided advantage to the yonng. The Franoisco time-table for 1881 shows that the outward mails leave San Frinoisco for Auckland two days earlier, and the dates of arrival at New Zealand havo been correspondingly altered. The Adelaide Licensed Victuallers' Gazette is exultant at the faot that Hanlan has beaten Triokett. It says that "sensible people havo for some time past been tired of the perpetual desire in Australia to set up and grovel before athletic demigods." The New York Herald in a leader recently said : " Protection may be successful for a few years, but it oannot hold against free trade." A.'am, it says— " Has protection advanced tho wa«<is of the working olasxes, o" improve 1 our m»nufaoturps ? An imprei-'ion is training ground here that free tralo in America means the revival of a healthier state of business in many parts of the world. 11 Madame Rachel, the female beauHfler, whose prosecution excited so much intcrost a few years ago, has died in prison. On Wednesday week, says a reoent nu.nber of the M »rk L»no Express, there were oxported in the Nelson, from Glasgow, some Scotch p»llid bulls for tho Hon. Mathew Holmes, of Otago, Now Zoalanl. The«e arrivals are said to bo mendel for orosning shorthorn onvi in that colony. By i ho s»m") vossil, eight Lincoln rams, and two Chovioc runs, and five Cheviot ewes, have been sent to Now Zealand for the Now Z i ilan I and Austral*' an Lwd Company. The estate of William Birks Rhodes, the Hounslow miser, who died a couple of ye%rs ago, has just been wound up, and has realised a sum of no loss than £78.000 Unlike a very large number of misers, the Hounslow miner seems to have had a very distinot and what may bo called a very noble purpose in his economies, for if he deuia-1 himself to such an extent that his whole housoholi oflfeots only fe'ehed L 5 17*. i r was not from mere desire of gold, but for the ' purpose of benefiting others. He h>s be4iieatbed tho whole «>f his fortune in equal parts to the Lifeboat Institut on and the (loyal Hospital in Gray's Inn road Such an act as this removes his name from the category of ordinary misers, and places it almost with those who " love their fellowmea." Many a rescued life on l»nd and s*a •nay be d>i« indireotly to tho good deed of the Hounalow miser. In referring? to the recent trial of the bar. venters at the Melbourne National Association Show the Ag-> siys : " The crop was a thick one of green oats, badly laid in several ol ices and the ground was rou{h, while the win liness of tin we ither added considerably to the difficulties of doing jpod work. As th« reaping and binding machines are intended to harvest ripe i?rain, working them upon green oats is a ve r y sovore and soaroely a fair test Tho W«lter Wood machine, whioh was awarded the first prize, did excellent work from tho o mimonoemont, finishing in one hour and fifty-eight minutes, although it had been delayed chrousjh an accid nb to another machine. The cutting wis clean, and the bin ling socur*, while the sheaves were w*U separated from oaih >>ther, and delivered gently in even rowa. Tho second prize wa's awarded to theOsborne machine, which was tried first with a string binder, but owing to the gearing getting out of or ler, did the whole of tho work with wire. la this oase th» outting and binding were well done, ant the time oeoupied was one hour and thirtyeight minutes. M'Curmiok's wire binder, whioh ob ained tho third prize, made very good wo-k, although some delays oocurred, whioh extended tho time oeoupied in competing to two hours thirty-three minutes. The cutting was done well, ana the binding, separating, and delivering of the sheaves, were managed in a very satisfactory manner. It is probable that this machine would have obtains 1 second priz) if the d«tay« had not extended the time to » greater length.