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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2032, 28 March 1881, Page 2

Resident Magistrate's Court, Timaru. —At this Court on Saturday, tho only business transacted wns tho fining of an inebriate five shillings. Bonouou Council. —Tho Borough Council will hold their ordinary fortnightly meeting this evening iu tho Council Chambers, for Iho dispatch of business. Assessment Court. —Objections to tho valuation list for tho Borough of Timaru will he heard to-day at the Borough Council Ohambors ut clcvon o'clock. The New Finn Brigade. —Thoso who aro anxious to become members of tho new Fire Brigado are reminded that this is the last day upon which applications arc to be sent in. Tub Steam Dhedoe. —Tho Priestman steam dredge reoontly imported by tho Harbor Board has now boon fitted up by tho contractors for tho work, Mosars Jones and Peters, and a trial will probably take place on Thursday next. An Intoxicated Horseman. —About ton o'clock on Saturday ninht an equestrian mado himself vory objectionable iu Iho vicinity of tho Clarendon Hotel. Ho was evidently in an advanced etuto of intoxication, for ho deliberately rode up aud down tho footpath opposite' tho hotel, until two constables arrostcd him. Ho will bo brought boforo th«t Resident Magistrate this morning.

The Small Bihd Nuisance. — A public meeting of farmers to consider tlio advisability of taking steps to abate the small bird pest will be held nt the Crown Hotel Assembly Rooms, Temulta, on Wednesday, at 7.30 p.m. ASHBURTON INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. — It will be scon on reference to another column that it has been decided to keep the aborc Exhibition open until the 30:h inst. The Railway Department will also continue to issue double tickets at single fare, which will be available to the same date. The Cells. — The police cells were fully occupied last evening, there being confined in them threo inebriates, a disturber of the peace, n suspected character, and a woman who was found lying in the street, and who upon being arrested, behaved iu a most disorderly manner and strenuously resisted the police. Correction.— ln the sub-leader iu Saturday's issue an error crept in which entirely destroyed the sense of a sentence. The sentence ran : " Of course it may be said that if laws pasaed by Parliament are found to be full of flaws « • * they cannot always bo amended or repealed." It should have read, can always, &c. Delivery op Grain. — The import of grain by rail at the Timaru railway stition on Saturday, was rather higher than usual, which caused tho receiving stores to appear parti cularly activo, no fewer than 4297 sacks having been received at the station. In addition during the day numbers of drays and wagons arrived in town fully loaded. Land Salk3. — At the usual sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held nt Christchurch on Thursday, March 21th, sales were made as follows :— Ashley, Ola 3r 23p j Selwyn, 5Sa Or 20p i Akaroa, 48a ; Ashburton, 103a 3r 37p ) Geraldine, 28a 2r 13p ; village settlements, deferred payments, la ; total acorage sold, 331a 2r 13p j total value, £6G9 3s 3d. Refunds on account of former purchases were made in tho sura of £30 J Is 3d. Resident Magistkates Coukt, Waimate. — At this Court on Saturday, before R, Beetham, Esq., K.M., J. Burke was fined 10i or 48 hours' imprisonment for being druni and disorderly on tho 25th inst. A McGilvray, for a similar offence, was discharged, Iho police giving him a good character. A charge of lunacy ngaiust f resident of Waiiuate was reported on, and the case adjourned to the 28lh inst. A Suspicious Act. — A boy was given int< custody yesterday afternoon on a charge o: having been illegally on the premises of Mi Evans, merchant. It appears that he to seen loitering about for some time at the rea: of the store in the Main North Road and a SI: Crawford, who was near the spot at tho time watched tho youngster's further movements and was repaid for his trouble by seeing hin disappear through a window into the store The boy will require to give an cxplanatioi of his strange conduct to Mr Beetham, R.M. this morning. Cricket. — Tho two juvenile Clubs, viz. Marlton C.C. v. Cambridge and Oxfori (combined) C. Clubs met on Saturday last and played a match in a paddock off Eliza beth street. The captain of the M.O.U winning the tos?, put his opponents in, am soon got them out for 31, which score wa headed by the Marlton boys by 15. In thei next effort the combined team totted up 36 which left the other side 22 to get to win which they did with the loss of only twi wickets. Although most of the pla_\ ers wer small, yet considerable merit was displayed b; most of them. A return match is to b' played next Saturday. Pleasant Point Races.— The settling u] in connection with these races took place a the Point Hotel on Fridav night. PresentMessrs South (Chairman)," C. Wright, J. H Smith, W. Welsh, J. Glen, and H. W. Gazi (Hon. Secretary). The following amount were paid over : — Mr McDonald, £28 10s Mr Lukey, £23 15a ; Mr P. Stock, £17 13s Mr J. H. Lunn, £17 5s ; Mr Gibson, £9 10s Mr C. Bourne, £3 10s j Mr Dooley, £3 3s Several small accounts were passed for pay ment, nnd » cordial vote of thanks to tin Secretary terminated the meeting. PedeSTKIANIB>i. — O'Connor, tho well known pedestrian of this town, has dis tinguished himself in Victoria. Ho ha: walked a dead heat in a seven mile match fo: £25 aside and the Championship of Victoria against Cann, of Geelong, tho present holdei of the Champion belt of that colony. Theri are many in New Zealand who will not bi surprised at O'Connor's success, for in hi: feats in Christchurch and Wellington Ik showed splendid powers of endurance foi 6cven miles, and travelled at a rattling pace his style of walking being very fair. In hi: encounter with C'nnn all did not go smoothl; for O'Connor has lodged a protest against hi: rival for unfair walking. The time- was 5; mins. 20 sees. Rkpohted Discovert op a Gold bearivc Quartz ISeefnear Waimate. — The Wai mail Times of Saturday says : — Wo are glad to be able to announce that there appear: every probability of tho opening up at at early dato of an important gold-mining in dustry within a short distance of Waimate It appears that Mr M'Goverin, of M essr Hardy and M'Goverin, was in tho early par of this week on a visit to Pudding Hill, oi tlio Waihaorutita estate, and while in thai neighborhood discovered a gold-bearing reef apparently of considerable richness. Hi brought two specimens to town, which wi saw yesterday in the possession of Mcssri Cameron Bros., merchants, Queen street Tho pieces of stono are each of about the side of road metal, of blueish grey color, veincc with white quartz. A portion of tho casing on one face of ona of tho specimens is rioli with gold, and specks of tho precious metal are also to be found in tho body of the stone itself ; the other specimen also shows specks of gold, but of smaller size. Both specimen; were shown to Mr Beetham, who, from hii many years' experience as a golduoldi warden, should be au- excellent judge, and who pronounces tho stone to bo of the mosl promising character, stating that a ton ol stuff such as tho specimens 6hown would yield from soven to eight ounces of gold. The precise locality of the find ha« for obvious reasons not been divulged, but wo should advise the finder to take the necessary step; at onco to obtain the grant of a prospector's clnim. 'J his can be dono cither through the Minister of Mines or by application to the Waste Lands Bonrd. Possibly, too, it may not bo too lato to apply for tho grant of a sum out of tho £2000 voted last session foi prospecting for gold, tho present appropriations not expiring until Iho 31st inst. Should further investigation result in its being ascertained that similar stono to the specimens referred to exists in quantity, it is impossible to over-estimate tho importance of the matter as affecting the futuro of this town and district Assessment Court, Waimate.— R. Bee'tham, Esq., Judge of Assessment Gourt, held nn Assessment Court for the County of Waimate in tho Courthouso on Saturday, the 2Gth inat. Mr Hillary, County Engineer ;Mr Tennant, County Clerk ; and Mr Clement, solicitor on behalf of the County Council, wore iu attendance. There were no objections from tho Paroora and Otaio ridings. One objection for each of tho ridings of Hakateramen and Makikihi wore struck out, ns the objector did not appear when called. Mr Pitman's namo was erased from the Mnkikihi roll ns tho holder of 2200 acres. Thero wcro soven objections filed for tho Deep Creek riding, of which Mr L. Prico had liis valuation reduced from £750 to £6.32 16s, and Mr If. W. Williams' name on tho rntc roll was nltcrc.l lo "Owner." 'Iho other five objections wcro struck out, thero being no appearance. There were five objections filed for the Waiho riding, which were disposed of as follows : — T. Howlcy, 577 acres, altered to 500, valuation, £86 10s, to £75 iu tho rate book ; Mr Clement, 1035 acres, altered to £9G5, valuation reduced from £103 to £96; J. E. Parker's valuation reduced from £2265 10s to £2260 j l>. Price, valuation reduced from £171 103 to £151 10s ; LoCren, namo altered to " Owner." An Aged CouFle^Tlio death of an aged couplo is thus alluded to by tho Tavanaki News :— There died recently in tho Turakina Valley, within eleven weets of each other, an aged conplo who had been united in wedlock for the long period of scventy-soven years. Tho man camo to tho colony at tho ago of sixty, and after forty-two years of active colonial lifo suecumbod to death at the ago of 102. Eleven weeks afterwards his aged portnor died in harness at her household washing at tho age of ninoty-six. Tho old lady had rinsed her clothes, had carried them to a fonco, and hung thorn out to dry, and thou quietly sank down by tho side of the fence and yielded up her life.

SCABLET FEVEE AND FUNERALS. — 111 COnse- I quence of the prevalence of scarlet ferci" in Truro Union, the medical officer of health for the district, Mr G-. H. Wliitley, lias recommended the sanitary authority to impress on the Bnr'al Hoard and the ministers of the various religious bodies the inadvisability of taking the body of anyone who lias died from an infectious disease into any church or chapel, as such a proceeding in his opinion would be most unwise. An All "Would Post-office. — The simplest post-office in the world is in Mage-lan straits, and has been established there for somo years past. It consists of a small cask, which is chained to the rock of the extreme cape in the straits, opposite Tierra del Fuego. Each passing shir) sends a boat to open the cask and take letters out and place others in it. 'Jho post office is self-acting therefore; it is under the protection of the navies of all nations, and up to the present there is not one case to report in which any abuse of the privileges it affords has taken place.' A Novel Resolution — lhe following extraordinary resolution was passed by t!ie sottlcrs in the Waipu (Auckland) dislr'ct lately : — " 1 hat any collector of the said dog tax visiting Waipu be considered socially on a level of degradation with tho common informer, and bo treated as a voluntary outcast, from all possible association with any rcspecti able member of society." Mr Ilannaford, the collector, lias protested against being insulted . in this manner, and requested protection from tho Government. i Preserving Potatoes.— The San Frani cisco Commercial Herald says during the past year or two au important industry has sprung ■ up in that State in the way of preserving ' potatoes for a foreign market. A machine has • been invented for pressing and preserving i potatoes in such a manner that they may be . dried and kept for a number of years in any i climate. No oxidisation or fermentation takes place in tiie process ; they retain, to a great • extent, their natural taste and original fresh- ■ ness. Shippings made to England during the i past year have attracted attention, and Hie i demand for Culifornian preserved potatoes in • that country exceeds the supply. The first • shipment to Liverpool brought the sum of I lOOdols per ton over all cipense of shipment, i Last year about 20 tons were shipped from I San Francisco, which brought 45 shillings per hundred weight, or at the rate of 3dols per 5 eack for green potatoes, f A PnoriTADLE " Stau." — Mr Abbey, the r manager of Boo'.h's Theatre, has communis cated to an interviewer full particulars of the r " results of the Bernhardt season " in New r York. From his point of view they have been i highly satisfactory. Mdlle. Bernhardt pluyod . twenty-four lrghts, and the receipts amounted i to iv total of £20,000. The highest takings 1 on any one night was £1127 on her i first appearance in America, the lowest , £580, whon " The Sphinx " was performed for the first time. 'Mr Abbey , says he piid the company double what i they get in France, but even at that price the h profits are large. " Bernhardt always makes - money even when she do s the worst busi- '• ness." In Boston the "advance sale" of :1 tickets realised over £SOOO. and the takings 3 for the fortnight's engagement there are exr pected to be higher per week than in New ', York, where 25,000 persons witnessed her I, performances. Clearly, although it may be o dangerous, as Mr Abbey pointed out, it is e exceedingly profitable to be " the most adverr tised woman in the world." e Poisonous Wools. — Medical men have long known (says the Home News) of a p mysterious disorder called the woolsorters' t disease, but only of late years have they been - able to trace it to its cau*e. It attacks those . employed in sorting wools, and the symptoms 0 are identical with those of anthrax. 'Jho s work of the woolsorter was commonly con--1 sidered extremely healthy, it increased the ; appetite, and men throve on it. But this was i only so long as they we're engaged with home . or colonial wools. The mischief did not begin - to show itself until certain materials were ; introduced from Persia and Asia Minor. These wools, composed of alpaca, camel's hair, - mohair, and goat's hair, were all dirty and ■ dangerous, and more or less associated with the s woolsorters' disease. Butthere was a worse kind r still. This was the mohair imported through , Constantinople from the district about Lake r Van in Asia Minor. The mohair was ob--0 taincd from fleeces belonging to the Kurds, a e nomadic people not noted for their probity, 3 who were given to watering their wools and ; rubbing them in sand and dirt in order to p increase their weight. The consequence was , that the fleeces had a putrid smell, and cons taincd many materials inimical to life. These (' need not be described, but the effect upon the s workmen at Constantinople even was marked, 1 and the result was a painful eruption with constitutional depression. The same effects i were observed in those who sorted wool in s this country, and occasional fatal results I ensued. No wonder that tho workmen havo s dreaded handling these noxious stuffs, and l eagerly select colonial grown wool. MEMORANDA. , Sir Durol, architect, invites tenders for the erection I of residence In brick at St. Androws, particulars of t which will be found in our advertising columns. 1 Tenders arc invited by Mr F. J. Wilson, architect, h for alterations and additions to Phoenix Brewcrv. . Particulars will be found in an advertisement.