LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 146, 24 November 1870, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Our repoit of the case Le3lie v. Ryau will appeat iv our. next issue.

Mi3S Florv arDos.\L9's revenge will have its satisfaction in our next issje.

Mr. Burtox h« taken a few beautiful views of Lnwreuoe, which he is now exhibiting in his photographic saloon, Ross Place.

■ We be? to draw the atteution of our readers to Mr. . Hay's , sale of horses, dray, aud sewing machine uC his sale room Boss Placa, ou Saturday. ; \ A REPORT is current, apparently originating ia Cromwell, that the Chinese miners are (thoroughly aware of the kind attentions proposed towards them by Mr." T. L. Shepherd, M.P.C., and intend to show their .appreciation in a. s very- practical manner. Some of our Breakers !,mU probably tecollect tile case of a Votorious moborator in Victoria^* who was carjried off to the Chinese Camp, and received a souncLbastiuadoiug with bamboos. AYe hope «no such fate awaite pur vortby representative.

Through an inadvertence on the part of our

reporter in the case of Police v. M'Leod, M'Pherson, and CocKery, the latter name was by error printed Cocker. We heg to apologise for this mistake.

The last of the Wetherotoncs Readings for this season will take 2>luce this evening. A good progiannne has been got up, and we huve no di.ubt there will be a laige attendance. These readings have been the most successful that we have known.

A Wltheistokis Coi respondent informs us t hut one of the- local hotel keepers is about to commence the cultivation of rhubarb in Bungtiitvu for the convenience of his nuuieious customers iv these pio&peious diggings.

THE attention of miners is diiected to the fact that the new mining regulations ltquiie that tbe boundary of claims shall be muiked with pegs and trer.ches. Thiough non-com-pliance with these regulations moie than one paity have recently lost valuable ground.

It will be -observed fiom advertisement that Messix. Searie aud Davison will commence on Monday next running a coach to and from the h- ad ol Gabriels Gully uvery Monday and Friday. This conveyance will be a great beneSt lo tiie lesiilents i»f the lime Spur, aud we trust it will be taken advantage of, and prove lemuiterative to the propriciois.

A COMMITTKK meeting of the Church of E.igl.uid, Lawieuce, was held ou Monday evening List to consider the tenders for tbe erection of tiie chuicli in Lawrence. There weie live tenders lodged, and Mr. iMoiison s being the lowest, v.z., i'6ul 15s. 6v1.. was accede. l. The building, we are iuionued, is to be commenced at once, and completed within ten weeks.

In the Warden's Court yesterday tho application of the lilue Spur miueis for the creation of Gabriels Gully into a main tail lace was heard. There were various objections, but when they weie made awaie chat existing rights vveie to be l espeettd, they were satisfied, .u id the application was gianted umler certain conditions which will appear in our next issue.

A miner named John Cook, known as Piofessor (Jook, while at work yesterday in V V als lies Gully, Gabriels, met with a serious acident fiom a fall of earth by which he re-c.-ived severe bruises ou the body, and lacerations of the face. He was immediately careful y louioved to the hospital by a few willing mineis. On being examined l>y Dr. Stewart, it was touml that although suffering f. om soveie uoii.usiourf, the pool follow n.ul no bones urokeu.

Mb, Kobi.uts' Royal Geoige Hotel, Rosa Place, Luwreuce, was opened on the 11th inst. by a supper and ball. About seventy gent emen sat down to a most excellent supper. Mr. ri. Bastings occupied the chair, and after tlie usual loyal toasts were proposed, "'Success to cl c Uojal George and its proprietor" was dfi k with all tlie honours. D.mcing w\.s kept up ;o :i late hour iv the morning, and eve y one piesent entered into it with much spirit.

On Saturday last a man named William Timuiins, of Tapanui, was skylarking with iiuorher party, f-11 in I \vi\ his leg broken near the ancle. Dr. M'Lauchlan wai in immediate attendance, and set the fractal ed limbA few minutes after tho occurrence the peison with whom Timmins was larking generously gave him Ho towards the expenses and loss of time to which he wauld be put through the accident. Timmins was brought to the Tuapeka Hospital the other day, and ia progressing favourably.

In the "Evening Star" of the 19th insfc., Air. Alervyn replies to a repot t which appeared in our columns of hi* ad Ireas at the Teviot, and part nf which was copied by the " Star." He characterises the whole Hiticle as a tissue of falsehoods, and asserts that it was not wiitten ' y a resident of the district. A considerable poitinu of Mr. Mervyn's letter is to the same effect as the one from that gentleman's pe r i which appea's in our issue of to-day. The letter in the " St.ir " says:--*' At the conclusion of my address, Mr. Tamblyn (who is not a cotal abstainer) moved a vote of thanks to me for meeting them, and also of confide ice, hoping I would come forward as a eandidsit.e for the Waikaia district (U'est Roxburgh) this reing duly seconded by Mr. Glass, a Mr. Beighton, who. as far as I can judge, was the cily dissentient in the loom got up and complained about the Clutha being made the boundary line of the Dunstan and Waikaia districts, and also of the imperfect postal conmmnicaHoiis. introducing at the same time private conversations which he alleged he had with diffeient persons, and as this is an old trick of his, I declined to take cognizince of anything that was stated in private."

We have received a communication, from a Havelook correspondent, too lengthy to appear in this week's issue ; but we extract a paragraph from it bearing upon a reported assault hy a. person nameil Daniel ,Ryan, a Waitaliuna resident, which appeared in ou£ local columns last week :— *' In your paper of last week I observe a report of an assault committed by one Daniel Ryan, and as I admire fairplay, and love justice, I would like you to record this much, that however the assault commenced I cannot tell, but this much I do know, and it pleases me to record it, that the .Ryan referred to is a man generally respected in this district, where he has resided for five years. He is a neighbour of mine, and of excellent character ; by no means quanelsome ; of a quiet disposition, aud not given to drink. I do not write from any pertonal motive, but on account of tbe unanimous sympathy already shown for him by those who huve observ d his past ponduct and actions. There is one thing, he is no ' crawler,' and it is not overy man can stand to be called ' h liar.' " The report which appeared in our last issue was received by us from what ought to have beeii a reliable source, but as we "admire fairplay and love justice," like our correspondent, we gladly give hi* remarks a place in our columns.

Several gentlemen have suggested to vb that a performance of the Dramatic Club for i he benefit of the Hospital, would be well received at the Blue Spur. If the other engagements of the club do not interfere with such an arrangement, we have no doubt they will gladly repeat their entertainment there.

The " Daily Time 3 " gives the following into esting account of tlie first experiment of the working of Mr. Gillies' mad steamer in Dune* din :--"'J'he fitting together of the load steamer, imported by Mr. J. L. Gillies, was completed on the Kattiny-stieet jetty at 4 o'clock O'i Saturday afternoon. Th? fire was lit at five minutes past 4, and at a quarter to 5 the indicator showed a pressure of lolbs. to the square inch, of 30H)8. within the next 15 minutes, and • ihsequently of 120Uts. The steamer was driven from thp Eattray-street jetty on to the leciaimed latul, where it was sunounded lya laige crowd. It was driven lack ward and forward, and turned almost as if on a pivot. It was then diiven off the reclaimed land, along the jetty, and when in P>ond-stie.et, it went at fie i ate of about 6 miles an hour, leaving the admiring crowd behind. Having been driven along Bond-stree 1 ', it was taken across the vacant sections into Princes-street. Here it was stopped in a nimldy hole on the ed,je of the footpath, but c.une out of it with the gieatest euie when again started. Several stoppages tonk place during the triil, but they were principally caused by the caution of those in charge, not c of them having had experience in its working Though handled with the gieatest; caution, it gave evident proof of being able to run at a bij;h tate of speed. The engine it of 12-horse power, ami is guaranteed to draw 17£ tons up a gradient of lin 12. Its dead weight, with the coal bunkers and the uater tanks full, is about 10 tons. The cost in Edinburgh was £8-"0, which i* exchish'e of the cost of the duplicates provided of the parts liable to breakage, aud of the freight.