Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1885.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1179, 12 September 1885, Page 2

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1885.

MEASURES, NOT MEN.

f oral anb (ieiral intelligence., . The Jewish New Year 5646 commenced on Wednesday, and lasted till yesterday. Sections 1, 2, 3 aud 9, block xil, Benger district, are withdrawn from the deferred-payment system, and gazetted for agricultural lease. The Queenstown paper Btateß that about a dozen Victorians arrived at the Criffel diggiogs , at the beginning of the week, and that every week more may be expected to follow. George Augustus Sala arrived in Auckland on Tuesday. It is his intention to give one lecture only in each of the chief cities of the Colony, as he must return in time to be present at the Melbourne Cup. The ordinary meeting of the Lawrence District High School Committee, which should have been held on Wednesday evening, was, ! owing to the absence of the Secretary, adjourned until the 16th instant. Mb R. Neill, teacher, Blue Spur, has, we understand, been granted leave of absence for a few weeks, owing to ill-health. He intends taking a trip to Melbourne, and we hope he will return fully recruited from his holiday. For the first time during the session, the meeting of the Parliamentary Union lapsed on Wednesday eveuing for want of a quorum. The boisterous state of the weather, as well as lack of interest, had something to do with the meagre attendance. Next Wednesday brings the session to a close. ImteIiUGENCI having been received at Pork Chalmers on Tuesday that one of the prisoners working at the Heads had been crushed by a stone falling upon him, Dr De Latour rode off to the man's assistance, and when riding along Deborah Bay road his horse threw him and fractured his collar-bone. Messrs E. Flhtchbb and Co., electricians. Dunedin, have constructed an electric arc lampi which for steadiness excels all other lamps of that particular kind. The lamp is a Colonial invention, and so simple that it can be manufactured in the Colony at half the cost of the imported article. The inventor is a self-taught electrician. At the sale of Crown lands in Dunedin on Thursday, the following local sales were made : —Section 29, block vill., Benger, to Moore Graham at L 3 15s ; section 18, block 11., Waitahuna West, to John MAuley at L 2; sections 6 and 7. block 1., Heriot township, to R. Findlay at L 7 10 ( each ; and suburban sections 2 and 3, block XXIV., Roxburgh, at L 3 per acre. Two samples of the trout which New Zealand waters can produce were shown by Professor Parker at the meeting of the Otago Institute on Tuesday. The fish were taken in Lake Wakatipu and weighed when caught— the female trout 201bs and the male 151 b?. Professor Parker has had them stuffed, with a view of sending them to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. In matters educational the Canadians are exceedingly practical, and an Auckland teacher, who is an ex-Canadian, astonished his Board the other day by atking for permission to observe Ssptember 2nd as an " arbor day "—that is, to enable the children attending school to plant trees in the school grounds. The practice is quite a common one in Canada, and one worth imitating here.

Charlie Fook, a Chinese storekeeper at Glenore, was charged at the Milton R.M. Court on Tuesday, before W. H. Re veil, Esq., with sly grog-selling. Mr D. R. Hunter appeared on behalf of the police. Accused was also charged with having a quantity of liquor on his premises. He was fined LlO with costs (LI 8s) on the first charge, and 20i with costs (LI 8a) on the second. It is always gratifying to learn that our Colonial students are able to distinguish themselves in the Home universities. At the last Edinburgh University examinations Mr W. J. Cattan, of Dunedin, came out first in his class for chemistry, botany, and zoology; Mr L. Barnett, of Wellington, third j and Mr Burns, of Dunedin, fifth. _ When the number of students in the class is taken into account the results are particularly good. Mb J. C. Brown has been instrumental in having a tram of money placed upon the Estimates for the Waitahuna bridge. He has also had the promise of £500 towards the completion of the Lawrence drainage scheme, and is working hard to get the amount increased to £1000. Mr Brown deserves credit for the way in which he attends I to the wants of his con* stituents when at Wellington, and no doubt they will appreciate this. The annual meeting of the Tuapeka County Jockey Club was held in the Town Hall last evening, a large number of members being in attendance. Mr Fraer was elected President, and Mr H. Craig Vice-President for the ensu. ing year. Twenty ■ seven stewards were appointed, and the annual races fixed for Thursday and Friday, 21it »nd 22nd January, 1886, The auuual report aad balance-sheet were received and adopted. The latter showed the total receipts to be L 570 6s Id, and the oxpendituro L3BO 6s Id, leaving a balance to the credit of the Club of Ll9O. Some cases of importance to sheep-dealers were heard recently at the Rangiora Resident Magistrate's Court, when fines were inflicted in three cases for having infected sheep in the saleyards. In one case the sheep had been purchased at Addington a few days before, and, showing signs of having been dipped, they were purchased in good faith as being clean. It was suggested that possibly no inspector had been present at Addington on the day of the sale. Under the circumstances the Magistrate inflicted the lowest possible penalty, and pro mised, if written to, to do hid best to hare the fine remitted. Thk Otago Education Board may congratulate itself on having a Chairman who understands the first principles of economy, and who by personally hawking about plans and specifications for new buildings (in this district at any rate) among the different carpenters and builders is thus able to save considerable expense in advertising. Owing to this economical forethought of the Chairman, jt is only necessary to insert »n advertisement once in the local paper, and if the individual members of the Board would act in a similar manner in their respective districts, advertising expenses might be still further reduced. We are in receipt of No. 2 of the " Otago High School Magazine," edited by boys, of the school, and published by Mr J. Hqrsburgh. of Dunedin, To« " Magazine," which is published monthly, is a very creditable production, and in more ways than one should serve a useful purpose. In the way of cultivating facility in composition the " Magazine "should be invaluable, besides affording pleasant readirtg to boys of the High School, both past and present. In addition to containing a lot of general news there is a number of readable contributed articles, and no doubt the "Magazine* 1 will supply a long-felt want and find the support which the effort deserves.

The Wanakft correspondent of the "Daily Times" strongly advises miners to exercise caution in regard to the Cciffel diggings. He says :— Be advised, men, and wait a few weeks yet, Snow fell heavily more than once during the past week, and there is fully a foot of it lying about the main diggings now. The cold is fearful. There is no firewood. No store ib finished yet, and no provisions that I have heard of are on the top. Husband your resources, and you will then have funds to prospect the country. Wait till fine weather sets in, and provisions are on the field, and everything needful at hand, then vrhen you make yoyr raid on priffel you can riddle her as you have riddled' many a field in days of yore, and may every true digger go in and win. Should anything of a startling nature occur at any time I shall wire you. None but men possessed of patience, endurance, energy, and stamina need come here.

Mr C. Nicholas, photographer, from Milton, announces that he will open a' studio in Rosa Place (opposite the Railway Hotel) for a few weeks. ■■, , THK Melbourne " Leader " devotes an article to eulogising' the New Zealand" educational system as described in the EducatioVStatement of Mr Stout, ■ ' £ ' The -JVLeader" advises" the Victorian Minister of AgriculMirs' to copy the action of the New Zealand Government in the way of encouraging sugar manufacture from beetroot and sorgham. It is now believed that Germany will abandon all designs on the Caroline Islands, if the Spanish Government can fully prove their authority over them. In consequence of the paoific" feeling in Germany over the affair, the excitement is subsiding in Madrid. ..«.WB,ha,v,e receive,d a letter frqm,MrJ. Pearson, stating that the phbsphorised grain (the subject of the action at the R.M. Court on Monday) was laid down by his son before either of the parties returned from the Court, and that as soon as this was known the notice was posted up. We have been informed that a new patriotic song, entitled the " Highland Brigade," written by one of our occasional contributors, a local poetess, will be published shortly. The music has been composed by Mr J. J. Woods,' and we believe both song and music are of- more than ordinary merit. Mr Matthew Bdenett, the temperance lecturer, closed his Otago mission at Herbert, near Oamaru, on Tuesday night. Mr Burnett arrived at Invercargill from Australia in March last, and in his tour through Otago since was instrumental in inducing about eight thousand persons to sign the pledge. Mb Revell, R.M., having agreed to enrol the new company of volunteers, a meeting is called for that purpose in the Town Hall on Monday evening. As it is desirable to have as many as possible enrolled in order to make a good start, those intending to join the Company are requested to make a point of being in attendance. Test parcels of quartz are being sent to Auckland from all parts of the Thames to ascertain whether they contain gold or silver in payable quantities. If the La Monte process proves as successful as its inventor claims it to be, all the old tailings on the Thames will be profitably washed over again, and numerous reefs which were abandoned will yield good returns. At the Wellington R.M. Court on Tuesday. J. Walden was charged with being implicated in the Hutt tarring case. Sydney Muir, the victim of the outrage, stated that he recognised the voice of Walden as one of his assaulters. The cabman, who, It is alleged, drove the men to the Hutt, left for Sydney about a week after the affair. The case was adjourned for a week, for the production of a witness from Hawera. The Rev W. Slade, of Port Chalmers, will conduct services in the Wesleyan Church tomorrow — morning at Blue Spur; afternoon, at Wetherstones ; and evening, at Lawrence. Mr Slade will also- give an address on Missions at Lawrence on Monday night, and at the Blue Spur on Tuesday night. As the rev. gentleman spent several years with the King Maoris, no doubt he will have much to tell which will be of interest.

Considering the growing importance of the Colonies, and the influence which they are destined to wield at no very distant date in the councils of the Empire, an act performed at Sydney the other day could with advantage be copied by other places. A mats meeting was held, at which resolutions approving the action of the " Pall Mall Gazette" in its recent disclosures were carried, and a cablegram to that effect sent to the journal. At the meeting of the Land Board on Wednesday, an application made by Mr Connell on behalf of John Pater son, of Tapanui, for the right to construct a water-race through block xin, Glenkenich, was granted. — In consequence of an application by the Tuapeka County Council, it was resolved to recommend the Government to reserve two acres of land adjoining section 15, block xil, Benger, as a site for a cemetery. A telegraphic despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Victoria, dated August 16th, has been made public. In the message Colonel Stanley announces that if the Colonies jointly guarantee the payment of £15,000 annually, the Imperial Government is willing to proclaim the Queen's sovereignty over New Guineo., and to give a suitable ship, valued at £18,000, in order to carry on the Government of the country. News from Port Darwin states that Mr M. O'Connor, with Mr Dunstan, has returned from the silver mine, and reports that the assays are highly satisfactory. There are six different lodes, 150 ft by 18ft wide, by 80ft high. There are about 400 tons above ground. Mr O'Connor leaves there at once to again investigate the claim.— The escort brought 390 ounces of gold from up country at the new rush discovered by the Chinese at Mount Shoobridge. Fifty-six tons of quartz at the Union, ctuahed last week, produced 4950z. Rear- Admiral Scott read a very interesting paper on Colonial defences to a good audience in the Dunedin Garrison Hall on Wednesday evening. The lecturer showed a most thorough ! grasp of his subject, and the paper is brimful of useful information. He deprecated the exten- ! sive works undertaken for the defence of the Colony, expressing the opinion that we should depend mainly upon torpedoes for harbor defence, and that the volunteers should constitute the defence force. As the paper is of mora than passing interest, we will consider it more fully at a future time. The captain and crew of the wrecked barque I Edwin Basnet arrived in CoUiogwood on Tuesday. The captain states that b« left Wellington on the 20th alt. and that all went well until the morning of the 31st, when he found his vessel at daybreak drifting in shore broadside on, with no wind to take her out. The ship was surrounded with breakers, so he had the yards squared and ran ashore on a sandy beach near West Wanganui Inlet. The place where the vessel struck was the only spot in the vicinity where it was posiible to save the lives of those on board. The captain and crew managed to get ashore in two boats, one of which was smashed on the beach, and the ship rapidly broke up with the heavy sea, nothing being saved. She was insured for £1500, and was valued at £2000. An impounding caae of some interest came before the Resident Magistrate's Court at Gore lon Monday. Young, the local poundkeeper, was charged with illegally impounding two cows, and with demanding 4s poundage feei, being in excess of that authorised by the Impounding Act, thereby incurring a, penalty of £50. The evidence showed that Stockwell (plaintiff) was driving a couple of cows home at Mataura and left them on an unoccupied section near their destination, the section being Government land. Young saw the cows there,' and impounded them. For illegally impounding, Young was fined £3 and costs (19a) ; and for overcharging, £1 and cost! (£3 18s.) The Magistrate commented rather severely upon the action of the pouodkeeper, stating that it raised the uncomfortable suspicion that over-charges might have been going on for a long time among a class of people not disposed to question them. -A.T yesterday's meeting o£ the Tu*peka County Council the Clerk submitted a state ment showing the progress, &c,, of Countyworks for the month of August, from which the following particulars are gleaned .-—The coat of new works (surfacing) for the past month amounted to £213 9s ; and the cost of working and maintaining the County punts was £40 125. The works in progress are as follow: — Road Bulfin's to Tuapeka Mouth, road through Livingston's land (Waitahuna), road Waitahuna to Waipori, bridge at Heriot township and approaches thereto, road Beaumont to, Millers Flat, road to Ferguson's farm (Waitahuna), and bridge and approaches at Hopkin s crossing. "No progress" was written against the follow ing works :— Road to Maekay Bros. (Crookston), road Millers Flat to Roxburgh, road through Clarks Flat, road Lawrence to Waipori via Bungtown, road from to Swift Creek bridge, road Havelock to Dalhousie, and road Crookburn toJßlack Pinch (Waitahuna West). The only work completed during the month was the contract for the erection of the piers and abutments of the Beaumont bridge, the total expenditure on which amounted to £6,049 10a. The expenditure (£16,2 19j) on day-labor and cartage for the past month in the various Ridings was as follows }~ W>aitahuna {\ surface-, man), £14 j Clarks (1), £10 $s ; Browns (2), £22 12s ; Waipori (2). £20 16 i; Gabriels (2), £2} 2s ; Beaumont (1), £13 8s; Teviot Biding (2), £21 7a 6d ; James and Tapanui Ridings (3), £39 5a 6d. j

Very successful observations were obtained of the Bolar eclipse on Wednesday at the various places in the region of totality, the weather being favorable. The /eclipse was nicely seen in this district, although it was only partial. As there are no great scientific questions to be solved by observing the eclipse, the taking of observations aud photographs has been left to Colonial astronomers. "Mabshal" Booth, the Salvationist, has been interviewed by an Auckland reporter, whom he informed that it had come within his knowledge that brothel-keepers in the chief cities of the Colony decoyed young girls. He compared Colonial cities favorably with large Home cities, but considered that New Zealand, in, proportion to -its population, was nearly as bad as Australia. Owing to the agitation set on foot by Mr Booth, the Ministers' Association of Auckland have decided to establish a Social Purity Association. Mrß Aldis (wife of Professor Aldis) has written- to the 'Association urging the police to take action against a nertmin fashionable place of resort in the city. The special attention of miners and those interested in mining is called to the meeting to be held at the Blue Spur on Monday evening. The object of the meeting is to consider the practicability of securing some kind of improved crushing machinery to work the cement with ; and the advisability of asking Government assistance in that direction. As no Government assistance worth speaking of has ever been given in this district, the mining community can ask help with a clear conscience; and it needs no gift of prophecy to foretell that hundreds of men mighc be employed at work upon the cement deposits of the district, if only some cr«ihing machinery mote effective than the ordinary battery can be devised. The matter is an all important one, and therefore it is desirable that a fully representative meeting be held to take it into most serious consideration.

A CASE which came before the Auckland Police Court the other day revealed a terrible state of degradation in that fair city; and similar cases might easily be brought to light nearer home. Mary Ann Fowler, fifteen years of age, was charged with ragranny. Prisoner, who appeared in a very dirty state, said she lived with her parents. Detective Hugheß deposed that the girl was leading an abandoned life. She was in the habit of going about witk a band of larrikins playing the tambourine, and smoking opium with a number of Chiuamen, with whom she associated. She was in a deplorable state. Sergeant E. Smith, of the Education Department, deposed that the girl was formerly in St. Mary's School. He had visited the cabin in a lane off Upper Queenstreet—it could not be called a house. He found the father, mother, and the girl, with a dirty rough-coated dog, rolled up in rags on the floor. There were only two rooms in the miserable dwelling, 12ft x 14ft each. He had never, in all his experience either here or in London, witnessed such a scene of physical degradation.

Thb ".Berliner Post" reoords a surgical operation that has excited much interest in medical circles; Professor Von Bergmann, the Royal Clinical Sur»eon afc the Liegelstarao Hospital, at Berlin, had under treatment a little boy suffering from cariei of the bone of the right arm, near the shoulder. All the diseased part, it had been decided, was to be operated upon for its removal. At Ihe moment when the operation was about to commence, a little girl was brought to the hospital, whose leg required immediate amputation. Dr Von Bergmann took from the knee of the little girl a part of the bone to replace the piece taken from the arm of the boy. The operation succeeded admirobly. After some days of assiduous care, the little patient was able to make use of his restored arm, and has since left tho hospital entirely cured.

Witdington people are grovrling afc the slow rate of sp«ed at which tho train to Masterton travels. Many sarcastic aud ironical stories are told in Wellington regarding tht train in question. One of these, which how ever looks suspiciously like an old friend in a new guise, is told by " Asmodeus " in the •'New Zetland Times" as follows :— A gentleman and his son — a wnll-grorrn lad — | took tickets — well, I'll say at Master ton, but I won't iwear to the place. The lad, being under age, was booked at half-ratet, and all went well till the train neared its destination. Then the guard went round on a ticketcollecting expedition. "Tickets, sir, please," was the smart demand. ''Yei," said tho gentleman delivaring promptly. "Urn," ejaculated the guerd, "The boy to me, sir, teems over age; do you think, sir, he ought to travel on half-fares ? Really must trouble you, sir, for the balance." '' Well," replied the gontleman dryly, " he doss look old. I will, however, take my oath he was under age vrhen he ltft Masterton, but I wouldn't vouch for it now." Tho guard stared, twif ged, grinned, and paised on. A mines, signing himself, John Chalk in the Cromwell "Argus," referring to the Criffel diggings, says :— lt is of no use for men to come hore without funds, and it is of no use for men to come here who are not thoroughly inured to the privations aud hardships of a digger's life. More gold will be struck on Criffel 1 have not the slighesfc doubt, but it will b» found by the veteran pioneers of this and the adjacent colonies, and not by the puny weaklings that beat a hurried retreat at the first cold blast, aud proclaim the field a duffer without even blunting a pick. I accosted a man the other day as followif — '• Well, what do you think of Criffel j there is no more gold struck." He replied : "I am sinking in deep ground and should I fail I am going higher up, and will answer the question in three months." Those are the sort of men to prove Criffel. A party of Arrowites, bona fides all, I have heard, are oamped at the foot of M'Dougall's track, opposite Mount Roy, waiting till the weather clears or something turns up. Do quartz reefs exist on Criffel ? Undoubtedly yes, would be my answer, for one may know little of reefing, but when a sample of gold is shown him rough and rugged, and bearing no appeatance of being worn by either water or travel, but just as it dropped from the reef which cannot be far from where it was unearthed, believing his eyesight he oau come to no other conclusion.