News in Brief.

Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 12

News in Brief.

Nativo game have been phot in the Kawarau district for aome time past. A reward is offered for the conviction of the offenders. The Cromwell Hospital Committee have a credit balance of £336, the outstanding liabilities being small; During the past 'month four , patients were treated and discharged cured. ! A- Chinese detective ia to bo. employed at Waikaia to fossick up those of his countrymen who; have neglected to provide themselves with miners', rights. Four patients were admitted into the Clyde Hospital last month, three 'were discharged, and; five remained in the building on the Ist insti The Committee show a credit balance of £30ila6d.;' / ''•'.''' ■ / ' The Oamaru Mail says that complaints were made by several exhibitors at the late flower shoyr ,that their plants were picked,' 'and' 'in' sonte cases cuttings actually taken' off .'th&ri.' ■There ,was"no' music 'during tho ,, evening, in consequence of 'a dispute between' -the Committee and the bana.,. i „.-)„,,„ , . „ , A' memorial has been forwarded from .the Waimutuku Flat and Limestone iPlains district to the Minister for P,ublici Works, with the, signatures, appended of, ov,er,Bo grain pro^ ducers, praying for the erection p£ q, grain store at Fairfax., ' . , .;., 1 \. • , , \ A large fire occurred'on Thursday night at Mr J. ©ickisoh's farm, about sixmilesfroniTapanui. An^extensivo barn and,range of'Stablirig, chaff-, house, &o'. were< totally 'destroyed ; also a lot of ftgricultural machinery, tobla, &c. There was no insurance, 1 and 'the origin of the fire is a, mystery. John Dickisonj> jun.,' was 'much burned' alaout the face in. trying * to- save 'some tools. < . .'■'': ' ' - The Invercargill Tramway Company adheringitd their determination to run their cars on Sundays the cabdrivers as abody announced their intention of plying for hire on Sundays as ' on week-days. Hitherto fthey l have, never atcempted to ply for hire or eveni harness up unlesiby special order on' the Sunday. ' , An application was made at the first meeting - of ;the Queenstowri South Licensing' Commissioners if or a New Zealand wine ) license,, biit the" Committee decided 'not Ito grant thdiappli-' cat^onj they -being of opini6n<that like all other new,lioens,es, ; it' could i not be • granted until' the June meeting and after an election,.' 1 ' ' , •, r At'Oamar.u oh Thursday "a cab' 'driven by a! man named Hassell/came into'violeht'cbllision .with a horse attached tp^a fo.uivwheelerdriven by«a 'man rianied- 'Mortimer^ from ; Tiirtaru, one' of Hbhe shafts of Hass'ell's'cab being forced about 18|inches into the unfortunate 'animal's 1 loins, and the'shaft broken' in two place's". ' ■ The poor , beastj Jwas^im'mediate'ly rem'oved'to f a n&gh-' bojiriiig stable, where it shortly after expired. ' Thej Teviot , district has 1 contributed ' a'large' quaritity'of fruit to' 'the Dunediii 1 v marlcet this year.! ,]Vljr John Tamblyn^.of poal, Creek, Has' nad , several waggons .employed, during, the.' season \' in, ,■ deporting ,fruit ' t9 ' th 6' various' centres. Mr' Joseph Tam'blyn, Mb'ssifs Manuel,'. Bennets, and others have also sent away' a considerable quantity of fruit. '''■'■"' ' ;"[ (l - Q?h : e Mataura' Ensign says 'tHat'ejVery'week brings fresh' arrivals to the ' 'recently-surveyed' blocks at Otara. .Homesteads ara springing up rapidly,' and in many ' cases, ihe' land has been been broken tip. Another block is now being' surveyed, and will shortly be thrown open for sale. Judging from' the high encomiums passed on the quality of the land for agricultural purposes, there will doubtless be go6d competition for the land. ' ' After the schooner Orpheus, 'from the Thames, had passed Banks' Peninsula on the 9th inst. it was discovered' that the master (Wm. Doughty) had, fallen overboard. Tho mate brought the vessel up to tho wind,, and cruised about for several hours, but saw nothing of the master afterwards. He resided at Newton, near Auckland, and leaves a wife and four, children. He was 60 years of age. The Wyndham correspondent of the Southland Times says that sportsmen in that district have g»od cause to complain of the disastrous effects of the rabbit poison, as it has made an indiscriminate slaughter of the inno-, cents in the shape of- hares/swamp-hens, ducks, &c. As many as 120 hares., _weje picked up in the Woodlands district in one morning last season alone, and'where they were veryplentiful before the poison they can be easily counted now.' The Elibank Castle, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday, on her passage down stood into the entrances of Caswell, Breaksea, and Dusky Sounds, but saw no signs of life. The captain also states that on the 13th inst., 15 miles west of Stewart's Island, he passed the body of a female, floating face upwards ; it was of tall stature, and had dark hair ; the clothing was of' a dark brown colour. There was a rough sea and a thick fog on at the time, and there only being four-men on the boat, it was impossible to take the body on board. At a' meeting of the Mount Ida Depp Lead Association held last' week the financial position of , the Association was discussed. It was ; estimated that £2,00 would be eventually lpcally raiHod. Thjs with the County Council ! subsidy of ' £100,' and the Borough 'subsidy of < £50, would make a fund of £350. It was hold , that this amount would bo quito sufliciont tb make a commencement with,' and if a Govern- ' ment subsidy of £200 were ultimately obtained ' -r-and it was thought' there could bo no doubt ' of that, for the claim of the Association could , not bo ignored, and private members would, it 1 ' was believed, dumand that a prospoctiug voto < should bo passed — further operations could be ' carried on. j I The men who have developed the properties ] of electric lighting are those who have worked t at the perfecting of the.steam engine as a motor { for the dynamo-machino, who have improved 1 tho dynamo and magneto machines, so that the current ia more economically goner.itnd, ( who have experimented in every direction, J and added minor improvement after improve- , ment to the arc and incandescent lamps— these t arc the men who havo made electric lighting t 110 L only practicable, but tho light of the mi- c mediate future. \ it is said that when Gladstone takes his seat in tho Upper House of Parliament, the Queen t will confer on hun the title of Earl of Liver- g pool. r