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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2157, 2 December 1875, Page 2

The Cromwell Argus has the following, which shows the value of a quartz reef in the Bendigo District:—A few weeks ago the larger portion of Mr Thomas Logan's share in the famous Cromwell Company's reef at Bendigo changed hands. The whole claim was then valued at £48,000, subdivided into 1G shares of £3000 each, of which Messrs Logan, Goodyer, and Baird, of Cromwell, held fire shares each, and Messrs Black and Thomson' (Dunedin) one share. Mr Logan (says ' a contemporary) subdivided his interest -—•„ amounting to £15,000 —into 20 shares of £750 each, of which number he still retains six shares, and has disposed of the following, viz, five shares to Mr James M'Kay, contractor; four to Mr G. Dodson, of Dunedin and Port Chalmers; two to Mr N. J. B. M'Gregor, Silver (Stream; two to Messrs Black and Thomson, and one to Mr Low, boot merchant, both of Dunedin.

The Dunedin Star,says that in some parts of the province the Government have been giving to Volunteers who have served the requisite number of years the sum of £15 each, i» lieu of the grant of thirty acres of land originally promised.

Mv B. L. Fargeon, the well-known novelist, is at work on a new and original drama for the Olympic. The piece is based upon a popular subject, and will be written particularly with a view to the powers of Mr Neville and his excellent company. —Home News.

Among the eccentric things which appear in the Lycll Argus is the following in the shape of an advertisement: — "Wanted, by a middle-aged man, a Sober and Industrious Woman for a Wife (no nonsense). One that can nurse a baby (if required) preferred. Money or color no object."

This is. what the Bruce Herald has to say of Mr Macandrew and his manifesto : —Mr Macandrew is intensely Provincial in all his ideas, and appears to be utterly incapable of taking a broad Colonial view of the question before him. If there were a James Macandrew in every one of the nine Provinces, and each had his own way, New Zealand, instead of being a prosperous Colony, would inevitably become a land whose people would be divided against themselves, cursed with petty jealousies, and growing up in nar-row-mindedness and selfishness. This would be the result if the Provincial system were carried out to the full extent desired by some of its most ardent supporters ; and there is another matter to which we must refer, though without the slightest desire to speak unkindly of our Superintendent. While the. necessity for doing away with Provincial institutions is patent to all unprejudiced mfen, the time has also arrived when it is absolutely necessary that the direction of New Zealand affairs should be in the hands of men who can see ahead—men who are not afraid to follow examples set us by other and more prosperous Colonies, and who will not cling with a sentimental affection to a thing that has been proved to be not only useless, but an impediment to our advancement. If we are to educate the people of New Zealand to govern themselves wisely, we shall never attain this end by selecting as bur leaders men who will allow their narrow prejudices to be a barrier to our progress as a 1 Colony, and who can see nothing but danger in anything that, to them, wears the aspect of novelty. •

A change in fortune to a gentleman pretty well known at the Thames and Corornandel is thus reported by the Bendigo Advertiser lately:—One of the earliest residents of Sandhurst, Mr H. Saloshin, has just returned here after a lengthened absence in New Zealand. In 1853, together with Mr Moritz Colin, Mr Joseph Wallock, and Mr L. Wolfe, he erected the Criterion Hotel in Marketsquare. He left Sandhurst in 1859 for Deniliquin, where he acted as agent for Cobb and' Co., and established himself as general commission agent and auctioneer. In 18b'O-(51 he laid out about £600 in town allotments in Deniliquin and Hay. For a considerable period these allotments did not rise in value, and he left for JNew Zealand in 1869, without attempting to realise upon them ; but so greatly has land increased in price of late in those localities that Mr Saloshin now finds his property to be worth from £10,000 to £12,000.

An Otago contemporary says :—" It is expected that the postal card system will be brought into use in New Zealand, thanks to Mr [Reynolds, on the first of the new year. The card it is said will be a very neat, handy piece of white or colored pasteboard—bearing an impressed stamp, and requiring only to be filled in with the message on one side, and the address on the other, and will be issued at the cost of the stamp —one penny. The small space at the disposal of the writer will do away with the unnecessary form which attends letter-writing, and the communications will be simply in the shape of business memoranda. The cards will be of such size and substance as to be easily carried in the pocket, and .a traveller or person walking along the street can scribble down any note or message he wishes to send, and drop it into the nearest post-office receiving box. The messages of the card-postage will be telegrams in brevity, while, as regards cheapness and convenience, they will surpass anything which the public has yet known.