LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 32

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The subscriptions to the fund for erecting a suitable building for the reception of Dr Hocken's gift to the city and for providing for the future adequate maintenance of the books, pictures, and other valuable things of which the collection is comprised, continue to come in, and there is among our citizens a very general feeling of gratitude to Dr Hocken for the public spirit he has displayed. There are evidences, too, that it is not only the peopte of Dune din who are realising that they are going to benefit by the retention in this city of so extensive and valuable a library as that possessed by Dr Hocken, for among contributions that have been made to the fund are several from country residents. The list of subscriptions we publish this week sti|l further widens the field from which contributions are drawn, for, accompanied by words of good-will, there are donations from the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) and Mr W. B. Scandreit (Mayor of Invercargill), both of whom heartily commend the effort 'that is being made by Dunedin people to prove their high appreciation of the generous nature of Dr Hocken's gift. An informal inspection was on Friday made lay three members of th e Land Purchase Board of certain properties in the Taieri district. The question as to the advisability of the Government's acquiring these properties, or, correctly speaking, estate, has not yet been formally considered by the board, 60 that it is as yet doubtful if anything may come of the inspection. More, however, will probably be heard on the subject shortly. A lengthy meeting of the Otago and Southland Gold Mining Industrial Union of Employers was held on Thursday in the office of the secretary (Mr W. Scott), when 6everal matters of importance were discussed. It was decided to obtain legal advice on the question as to whether the dredgemen's dispute was a dispute under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It was reported to the meeting that gold is still being purchased by unregistered buyers, and it was decided to approach the Minister of Mines on the matter in order to have the act strictly enforced. The mining exhibit to be made in connection with the forthcoming International Exhibition at Ohristchuroh also received some attention. It was decided to establish a. Southland executive of the Otago and Southland Gold Mining Industrial Union of Employers, and the following were appointed to act as the same: — Messrs R. F. Wallis, S. B. Paterson, and T. H. Ibbofcson (Gore), and R. T. Stewart (Waikaia), with power to add an additional name, making five in all. The question of the proposed imposing by the Southland County Council of a duty of 2s per ounce, on all gold won in Southland for the upkeep of roads was referred to the newlyformed Southland executive for the opinion of those most interested before taking further action. A Dunedin gentleman some short time ago received the offer of the purchase of some 20 shares in a newly-floated diamond mining concern with its scene of operations in South. Africa. The price at which the shares were offered was £50 each, and without a great deal of trouble they were placed among various acquaintances fli Dunedin at that figure. The most recent information From South Africa ie to the effect that the market price in that country of the shares held by these few fortunatea is now £250 each. The present additions to the Dunedin Technical School, comprising in all 11 rooms, and giving accommodation almost double that afforded by the old building, should be completed in all detail within a fortnight's time. Four of the rooms — namely, those used for teaching of shorthand, dressmaking, plumbing, and woodworking — have boen taken possession of, and the others are now in course of completion. The latest style of ventilation ' in adopted throughout the new portion of the school, while all drains in connection with the building have been overhauled, and the sanitary arrangements are now. in the best of order. In the contest for members of the Education Board Mr W. Nicolson polled 250, which placed him fourth on the list for the Northern Ward — 14 behind the la6t successful candidate, but nearly 100 ahead of Mr Marthall Some 30 caers of fruit, forming a trial shipment from San Franoisco, per the s.s. Wimmera,, and consigned locally, were on Friday condemned by the health authorities as being unfit for human consumption. A ca'.e has come under the notice of Dr Ogston, district health officer, where it is stated that a. midwife is suffering from some form of skin disea'-e on one of hf-r hands. Acting under "The Midwife Act. 1904," the district health oflicor ha-> required her to discontinue practicing until «uch time as she lias obtained a certificate from a medical man to the effect that her disease does not in\olve danger to her patient*. This is believed to be the first c-ase of the kind in the colony in which such a course has had to be taken. Mdlle. Dolores, the eminent hinger, who was a pa sponger by the Sierra from San Francisco on her way to Sydney, interviewed at Auckland, was asked by a Herald representative, " What did you see of the young Xcw Zealand girl as a vocalist in London?' "Very little, my friend," i=he replied. "I was not much in London, but I know that Australian girls, and girls

from New Zealand, too, are tumbling over . one another in the race for fame."- "And ! will they ever reach the goal?" "Ah, no; { only a very few can hope to do that. I would advise no girl, unless she is an absolute genius, to risk a visit to Europe. I do not, of course, refer to girls who have money of their own, but to the girl who , by her art alone seeks to win her way ! into the front rank of artists. There are ■ so many in the race — not only Australian j and New Zealand girls, but girls from other ' I parts of the British Empire, girls from I America, and French, German, Russian, j and Italian girls, as well as English girls — who are all striving hard, and undergoing many trials, too, to attain renown and success. But, mon ami, a colonial girl is i lost, absolutely lost, in the great world of London, unless she possesses these three essentials to success — ability, money, and influential friends." On Friday afternoon the Rev. Colin C. Harrison spoke to a large gathering of girls at the Phoenix factory, and was listened to with the closest attention. The call of Ifr M 'William, a gentleman afflicted with blindness, to the Bar at Sydney (says tli© Sydney Morning Herald) will bring to recollection the circumstance that Mr Pennefather, who was one of the barons of the Irish Court of Exchequer from 1821 till 1859, was for the last 15 year* of his i judicial career wholly bereft of sight. He, however, was able to discharge his judicial duties with efficiency, and on one occasion only was the depreciation of 6ight a matter | of obvious embarrassment to him on the bench. He was trying a case in which a man was charged with writing a threatening letter, and on a comparison of the writing of the threatening letter with the writing of a document admittedly in the prisoner's handwriting, the prisoner, who ' was defending himself, requested that his lordship would examine both the documents and form his own conclusion. Dr F. C. Batchelor has received a clieque for £10 from Mr John Reid, Elderslie, Oamaru, towards the Maternity Hospital Fund. j Mr J. Ellis Barker describes, in the » Nineteenth Century anil After, the gradual processes of '" The Absorption of Holland by Germany,"' laying stress principally upon the 'economic pressure which Germany is applying to Holland with the object of eventually securing control of the mouths of the Rhine. One of the strongest economic weapons in the German arsenal is the Dortmund-Ems Canal, which was opened in 1901 to connect the greatest coal j and iron centre w irli Emden, a little German coast town, which almost touches the ' German Dutch frontier line. Already a ' branch canal is projected to connect the i Dortmund-Ems waterway with the Rhine 35 miles away. And when that is completed, <he German through traffic, which j now goes up and down the Rhine to and from Rotterdam and Amsterdam, will all be diverted- to Emeden — unless the Dutch ' buy a continuance of German patronage by entering the German fold. Holland is ' to be starved into surrender. A sum of £1,000.000 is to be spent on the enlargement of the port of Emden, so as to make it a serious competitor for the vast trade which at present goes to Rotterdam and • Antwerp. i The following subscriptions to the Public Art Gallery Building Fund are acknowledged by the treasurer:— Mrs Ewen (second subscription), £25 ; (iolf Ball Committee, £15 6s; Marshall's Proprietary (Ltd.), £1 Is; Mr G. B. Dall, £1 Is. \ The Dunedin Coursing Club is to he congratulated on the excellent training of the hares used at the eoureing meeting on Friday, as only seven kills were recorded out of 43 courses run. During the forthcoming session of Parliament a bill is to be introduced authorising the Otago Dock Trust to construct abattoirs adjacent to Port Chalmers. At the present time local supplies are obtained from tho abattoirs at Burnside, and should the Dock Trunt decide to equip an establishment for slaughtering cattle near Port Chalmers the local butchers and those in } neighbouring boroughs would possibly find it a great, convenience. As Home vessels call at the. Port at short intervals, tho trust would ha\e facilities for shipping all the frozen produce available. The proposal is only in its initial stage (at present, and beyond drafting the authorisation bill nothing definite has been decided upon. Should Parliament sanction the proposal, tho Dock Trust will be enabled to decide upon a future course of action. Meanwhile the proposed extension of the Dock Trust's activities in this direction, and its probable effect on the development of trade, is causing a good deal of interest at , Port Chalmers. ■*" -^ A. remarkable discovery of a frog sealed in a block of bluestone was made at Auckland by workmen who had occasion to shape a.n irregular piece of metal. One blow of the hammer split off a long slab, and liberated a frog, which sprang from a small cav'ty. from which it, could not possibly. ha\c been released without outside inter- | fer^nce, but in which it had evidently been | supplied with air and light. Its colour was • normal, and the eyes apparently efficient. ( ! The fiog was handed over to the museum. It is presumed that the frog reached tbecavity in the stone as spawn, and grew too big to leave by way of honeycomb holes. The Mines Department expects to be advised shortly that the three diamond drill* which it lias ordered from a Home firm have been placed on shipboard. The largest drill will be able to bore to a depth of 2500 ft, and the others will drill bores of 1750 ft and 1500 ft. The intention of the ' department is to allow the drills to be

used by responsible parties in any part of the colony for the purpose of testing mineral belts, and regulatio in that"connection are about to be drawn up. -A reasonable charge will be made for the use of fcbe machines. The drill imported by the Government some years ago is at present at the State coal mine, near Greymouth. All the drills will be driven by steam. „ I When the Kaitangata Company's coal mine was temporarily closed down at th« beginning of last week it was decided to transfer the employees, about 80 in all, to the company's Castle Hill mine, and so start a third shift there, and at the same time find employment for the men who would otherwise be idle. Some 32 of these (all truckers) refused, however, to accept work on a third or midnight shift in the Castle Hill mine unless at the usual extra rates. The company, regarding the circumstances as exceptional, refused to comply Miners' Union was called on Tuesday, 7th inst., when the matter was dificussed with ing, when the matter was discussed with the company, but nothing eventuated therefrom, the truckers still refusing to proceed to work at the wage offered by the company. A further meeting was held on Friday night last, when the company again fully discussed the position with tho union, and eventually decided to accede to the truckers' request. Everything being now amicably settled, three shifts will be at work in the Castle Hill mine as from to-day, and tKis will mean an increase izi the output to about 360 tons per day. With this at its command the Kaitangata Company is quite satisfied that it will be abte to fully meet with all Dunedin demand?, and also those of several country towns. In any case, it has been determined to meet al! -Dunedin requirements. Much is fometimes eaid about bad roads in the back-blocks. In the counties adjacent to Duncdiu there are roads, not many miles away, where the state of affair: is about as bad as is to be found in the remoter parts. Mr Thomas Mackenzie. ; who at intervals during the past few weeks | has been personally inspecting tome of these "highways," told the Mount Car'gill residents on Friday last that he had that clay been over some of their roads, and that whilst some had bottoms most had not. One of the most imperative reforms required in our colony was reasonable attention to the roading to settlers' homes. Few who dwell in comfort in our cities have the slightest idea of what our bush settler has to endure. To give some idea of what they have to do, Mr Mackenzie says otfe settler, who partly makes his living by driving firewood, has for years had to make* eight trips to take out one cord of firewood to the main road. What does service for a road is a Sort of cross between a drain, a wash-out, and a sludge channel. Thirty-six patients- were admitted to the Hospital last week and 25 discharged. Three deaths occurred (Charlotte Perry. John Porter, and Frank Croxford). The number of patients remaining in the institution was 121, which is eight more than ai the expiration of the previous week. The Waikouaiti licensing mandamus case, which was to have come before the Supreme Court on Friday, has been postponed until after the criminal sittings, commencing on Monday next. Another case occupied theattention of the court on Friday, so that Out red v. the 1.1 censing Committee was crowded out. An attempt was made to have it brought on on Saturday morning, but as it would have been impossible to finish it after the Chambers business in time to allow his Honor to leave for Christchurch by the afternoon express, counsel for the parties (Mr Calvert for the applicant, Mr A. S. Adams for the respondent) agreed to a postponement. An echo of the " child-slavery " cmitrotersy comes from Mr J. A. Ki'Hella's annual report (says the Wellington Post). " A large number of those engaged in tho production of milk find it difficult at present to secure a sufficient supply of reasonably cheap labour," he writes. " The fartalso of our not carrying on dairying operations to any extent during the -vinter months makes it. more difficult for the average dairy farmer to depend on securing at the beginning of each new milking season a supply of experienced milking hands, even at a very high wage. Tn consequence of this, many of our dairy farmers with large herds arc almost compelled 1 at times to work their children harder than, should be the case. I am also of til's opinion that in many ea«es> more \vo>-k is demanded of the childien than the farmer himself care* to see them doing. While this latter may be true, .the percentage cf children in New Zealand who are overworked ib, in my opinion, from personal experience amongst a. very largo number 06 farms in the various dairying districts, very small." The Drainage Board reports that during last week rain fell on three days, as follows:— sth, .OlOin; 6th, .085 in; 7th, ,025in;i total, .I2oin. The total rainfall for 1906 to date has been 13.655 in. While New Zealanders are discussing the. question of opening up a trade with Japaa a beginning has been made in opening up trade with New Zealand from Japan. A cargo of Japanese products, including manufactured manures and fancy goods* was brought to Auckland by the steam** Gibraltar, which arrived at that port a feiv days ago. The venture (says the Star) it being carried out by the Sydney firm of. A. H. Hasell, who chartered the vessel foij the voyage. There is a likelihood of more boats being sent down from Japan to thia. colony in the future. So far the firm hastf been engaging one boat in the year, buia

'ft is probable,^o6*l that two shipments will b> inadei The s6ifeT*lt*r has 4500 tons of superphosphates for various New Zealand -ports, in addition to sundry lines. A recent Lancet prints the Nobel lecture on the present state of tbe fight against consumption delivered by Professor Robert Koch at Stockholm. That eminent man stated that a real knowledge of tuberculosis dates back no further than 20 years. At that time it was not known that tbe disease was due to a bacillus, and, with fatal consequences to all around, it was supposed not to be infectious. Being a bacteria disease, of course it is infectious, but, fortunately, it happens that the channels of infection are limited, and only knowledge and care are needed to avoid the danger. So far as fighting the disease is concerned, Professor Koch insists that the only infection one need trouble about is that from other human, beings. Moreover, the disease is not dangerous to others in all its stages. The. main lines of defence are, therefore, stated to be— (l) a compulsory notification of tbe disease which will enable the health authorities to determine the danger of the special case; (2) tbe isolation of cases in the dangerously infective stages; {3) treat/ znent ia sanatoria of eases not beyond cure (Professor Koch does not speak very hopefully of the past results obtained by sanatoria, but attributes the poorness of results to the term of treatment being too $hort or too long delayed) ; <4) the instruction and supervision in their homes of poor ©onsumptiTes by means of dispensaries. It is to the crowded poor that tbe scourge is most * terrible and the risk greatest, but even here simple precautions and the removal of the most dangerous oases will reduce mortality enormously. Sir Lewis Dibdin (Dean of the- Arches), ipeaking at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference at Lambeth Palace on tbe funds of the Church as administered by tbe Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Qbeen Anne's Bounty, said tbe most valuable properties were the mining estates formerly belonging to the diocese of Durham and the metropolitan and suburban estates formerly belonging to the Bishop of London and the Deans of St. Paul and Westminster. Tho income obtained from this property amounted to £2,172,456. The policy wa3 to make each living worth £300 with a house, and much had been done to secure that object, but much remained to be done. The Hons. J. A. Millar and R. M'Nab arrived by the first express from the north on Monday evening. Thej were met by Messm Arnold, Barclay, and Sidet, M.H.R.'s and a number of friends, who gathered to J personally congratulate the bon. gentlemen on their reoent elevation to Cabinet . honours. The Hon. R. M'Nab, Minister for j Lands and Agriculture, accompanied by Mr O. Mewhinney (private secretary) came through from Wellington and Christchurch | by the first express on Monday, and went on j by tbe evening south express to Gore. , All along the route. Mr Millar and Mr j M'Nab were the recipients of hearty congratulations on their attainment of Cabinet rank. Nor was this congratulation confined to supporters of the Government policy. In fact, not only on their journey loutb, but ever since the Ward Ministry was formed, the member for Dunedin Central and the member for Mataura have been the recipients of hearty felicitations from their political opponents. Consequent on the greasy state of the rails as the result of a heavy fog, the engine of the first express to Christchurch on Monday morning had to make two trips up the Purakanui rise. A delay of about 40 minutes was occasioned thereby. A horse attached to a four-wheeled trap on Monday morning took fright, and bolted from the rear of the Railway Station, where it was left standing. Before going very far the runaway came into contact with •& post of the railway gate, just before entering Lower Rattray Btreet. The result iras the overturning of the trap and the breaking of a wheel and the swingletree. Fhe horse freed itself, and again made off, but was secured before it had gone very far. " Sailors have many superstitions, sharks j»ktg responsible for quite a number. With the passing of the old sailing craft md the advance of education, many of the old sea myths have passed into oblhion, while others still cling persistently to the minds of " those who go down to tbe sea in ships." Whilst the schooner Medora iras coming down the coast from Lyttelton last Thursday those on board noticed a large shark swimming around the vessel, fend more than once reference was ma do to the old superstition that '" a shark can went trouble ahead." After following for B4 hours, one of the crew was kuocked or fell overboard, clad in hca\y boots and oilskins. He was seen by his comrades f<~-r « couple of minutes, and theu disappeared i for ever. The survivors, who had previ- , ously scouted the old superstition, now declare that *' it looks a» if there wa> something in it " A small store kept by John Munio of Kelfo, was on Saturday evening raidid by | Constables Cowan and Edwards, who seized a ease ot -nhiokj, a tiemijolin containing some port wine, a demijohn containing some beer, and a bottle containing, beer." Rather a smart and exciting chase. took .place between a young man, evidently belonging to the premises, and Constable Edwards. The former, during the course of tbe search, was seen to emerge from a etable at the rear of the premises, carrying a package under his arm. As he was , handicapped by this weight, the constable j succeeded in running him down. The package proved to be the case of whisky

referred to. Shortly before tihe young man was seen coining out tA the stable a Udy, who appeared to be interested in the premises, showed a good deal of anxiety to induce the const-able, who was watching at the rear, to proceed to search the upper storey of th-e premises, but the officer, refusing to listen to ihe voice of the charmer, held his ground, with satisfactory results. A prosecution for sly grog-selling will in all probability follow.

The Hon. Sir J. G. Ward having Intimated that he purposes retaining tho Ministerial residence in Tinakori road, which he haa occupied for a number of years-, it is more than probable that the other Tinakori Toad residence, formerly occupied by the Hon. Mr Mills, will be taken by the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones, whilst the Molesworth street house, which was the Right Hon. Mr Seddon's home, will be jointly occupied by the Hon. Mr Fowlda and the Hon. Mr M'Nab. This disposes of the three Ministerial residences at the seat of Government.

Mr J. R. Scott, secretary of the "National Dairy Association (South Island), speaking to a Wellington Post reporter on JFriday morning, endorsed a remark made at the Chamber of Commerce recently about the deterioration of dairy herd?. He said a million sterling a year was being lost to the country. Tho trouble was mainly due to a long course of breeding from impure stock and the bad feeding of young stock. The farmers, said Mr Scott, could not afford to allow this state of affairs to continue, and it was duo to the country that the gross production should be raised to the highest standard.

A cable message was received from London on Thursday (says the New Zealand Herald) stating that Sir Braybrooke Featherstone, Bart., who formerly resided at Remuera (Auckland), had expired suddenly on Tuesday, at the residence of his sister, Mrs Tolhousen, in London. The deceased was a very old resident of Auckland, and was known as Sir Griffin before he proceeded Home to claim the baronetcy. He and his wife and family had resided at Remuera for some years. About two years ago Sir Braybrooke Featherelotie proceeded to England to further his claim. Litigation ensued, but it is believed the dispute had been almost settled when tho deceased expired suddenly. »t the comparatively early age of 54- years. None of deceased's family proceeded Homo with him, his widow and six children (three sona and three daughters) having remained at their residence at Remuera. The eldest eon is Mr Guy Griffin, well known in, Auckland. He will succeed to the title if the claim bas been sustained. *

A letter received by a lady in Wellington last week from England was addressed : "Miss , Potatoe street (for Murphy street), Windy City, God's Own Country/ The London Post Office officials had written across the face of the letter, " Try New Zealand.''

Mrs Chevalier, widow of a deceased member of the Royal Academy, who visited New Zealand in the late sixties has offered to the Government of New Zealand as a free gift, conditional only upon their prop-or hous-ing, a collection of paintings by her late husband. The lowest estimate of the value of the works of art is £600. Cabinet lias decided to accept the gift with thanks, and to make proper prbvi&ion for the display and preservation of the paintings. The New Zealand Times thinks that this presentation to the country ought to act as an incentive to the people of Wellington to push on as vigorously as possible the project for the >jstabiishrnent of an art gallery which might accommodate this generous gift. Tlie Government ha 3 on the Estimates a sum of £1000 towards this object.

The New Zealand Times states that it is understood that when things are properly under way the members of the Cabinet will adopt the system followed in many of the Australian States of having fixed hours for different classes of Ministerial work, and declining as far as possible to I ran -act business out of tho.se hours. Speaking on this subject, Sir Joseph Ward said ha hoped tefore long to be able to devise a system whereby all tho requirements of his own duties and of the public could be systematically attended to so far as hours are concerned. Ho spoke very hopefully of b*Mng able to avoid unduly taxing the strength of both his colleagues and liimsplf. Questioned on the same subject, the Hon. J. A. Millar said lie had been toid ho could not do it, but he was going to try very hard to carry out a system as regards the hours which he would devote to particular work.

The deportation of kanaka* from Queensland is tho subject of an article in the Fiji Times, in which it is pointed out, incidentally, that the term '"kanaka," a> u=<h! in Aii'-Iraha. wgnifi-»s a native of uny of the many Western Pacific island*. J:i Fiji the kanaka would be described as a Polynesian. The Times fears that a great wronfj in.iv bo inflicted on tho kanakas in sending th^in back to sa\agedom, and suggest? that they <-hould be- taken to Fiji, -»h-er<~ th'-r would ail firui employment. "To compel these people to return to the lands of their birth would be regarded with extreme displeasure in Fiji, and no one at all intimate with them would lend cooperation to enforce any unrighteous mandate of the kind. A block of land could ea-dy be secured in Fiji to settle the-*? Queensland outcasts upon, where they could et«Mitually spend the rest of their live*."'

Tho Fcilding Star repoits that the DU triet Official Assignee visited the town la«t week in connection with the case of E.

Taylor, who was adjudicated a bankrupt on tlie creditors' petition, but of whose whereabouts a number of inquiriug friends are quite innocent. From what can be learned the commencement of the fraud was when Taylor approached Mr Benge with a yarn that ho had been left a legacy, and with such a slight foundation to base credit upen he was given goods valued at £598 10s. including a billiard table. An agreement was entered into and signed by both parties, and Taylor took possession of the assets. Not content with that, "Benjamin «nd Co.'s traveller wa3 induced to give Taylor another £90 worth of goods, and things kerned to tbe outsider to be going so well that no one was surprised at the bankrupt giving a champagne supper, at a cost of £25, to his friends, which was aUo unpaid for. Being of a generous turn of mind, Taylor also tcok two of his friends to a local tailor, and had them provided with suits of clothes to measure, which he also forgot to pay for. Sundry incidents made Benjamin and Co. suspicious, and a warrant was issued a-gain-^t. Taylor for obtaining good* upder fa!?e prrtn.ee?. but the police could not locale li'.s wj.ercai-ouls in the colony, ai.d so the bankruptcy piooeedings were instituted.

The Auckland Star states that one of the finders in what tho Klondyke newspapers declare to be one of the richest strikes e\er made in the mining history of the world — the cive recentU mentioned as having been made at Holoke Creek, ju>t north of Norne — is a native of Okaihau, Bay of Islands. Mr Nixon, the lucky one, has been a rover nx>st of his life, his last visit to New Zealand having been made about j-ix years ago, when he took a "mn over " to see his people. The winter cleanup on the Deiihort, Hard, and Nixon claim, as it is called, aggregated about a millicn dollar^, and when the bedrock was first struck one portion of it is said to have boon nearly lin thick with pure virgin gold.

DAILY TIMES FUND. Amount previously acknowledged £1923 6 0 &.n Old Settler .." 100 0 0 Otago Rugby Football Union .. 10 10 0 Brisco* and ' Co. (Ltd.) 10 10 0 John Reid, Elderalie. 10 10 0 Sir J. G. Ward, K.C.U.G 10 10 0 Mr Justice Chapman 10 10 0 SV. B. Scandrett (Mayor of Invercarrill) 5 5 0 Scouuar and Chiebolm 5 6 0 Mrs Robert Chapni*n 5 5 0 Dr Evans 3 3 0 William Couston 5 5 0 Hopkins and Son 5 5 0 ST.Z. Express Company 5 5 0 P.S. 3 3 0 Mrs John Stephenson 3 0 0 Mrs Win. Martin 3 3 0 William Patrick .. .. .. .. 3 3 0 Henry North 3 3 0 IV. A. Moore 3 3 0 Hageitt. Brent, «>nd Williams .. 2 2 0 P. Steel 2-2 0 Rev. Wrn. Ronaldson 2 2 0 John Aikmau 2 2 0 in Old Identity 110 Edward Trythal'l 110 V Mornington Resident 110 r. R. S 110 Rev. C. S. Bowclen 110 Daxton Printing Company .... 110 rohn Ryley 11 0 P. Miller 110 Mrs James Loudon 110 K. Stuart Ramsay 110 Rev. A. Cameron .., 110 rohn Blair 2 0 0 Short-stated, John Mitchell .. .. 010 0 Total .. -* ii £2159 13 0