Tuapeka Times AND GLODRIELDS REPOREER AND ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1893. " MEASURES, NOT MEN." LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1977, 4 March 1893, Page 2

Tuapeka Times AND GLODRIELDS REPOREER AND ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1893. " MEASURES, NOT MEN." LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The latest advices state that tho London wool market continues firm. Il is said that in 179 parishes in Scotland not a drop of intoxicating liquor is made or sold. The Millers Creek Dredging Co. obtained 14oz 3dwt 6^r of gold as the result of last week's dredging. The tradespeople at Clyde are said to have taken over £130 on the occasion of tbe first local horticultural show, held on the 17th ultimo. The drought in Central Queensland is having a disastrous effect. There is no sign of rain. Up to the present 15,000 sheep have perished. The sum of £370 7s was paid to tLe Government in connection with the State tax on the totalisator proceeds at the recent Dunedin race-meeting. The monthly meeting of the Tuapeka Farmers' Union will be held in the schoolhouse, Tuapeka West, on Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. It is hinted that Sir George Dibbs, the New South Wales Premier, in order to get a stronger hold of the Labour Party, would not be averse to the liberation of the Broken Hill strike prisoners. Mr and Mbs S. P. Ckaig, who were residents of Lawrence for many ye.irs, having a few weeks ago disposed cf the Railway Hotel, are at present in Auckland, where they purpose making a six-months' stay. It is estimated that 400 miners are out of employment in Bendigo. Many of them offer to take work at £2 per week, which is much under the standaid rates. The Miners' Association has now about 2,500 members. Dr Lambroso, the Italian savant, having declared that "it is almost impossible to find a perfectly sincere woman, "a leading woman's club has solemnly resolved that "it is as natural tor the average man to lie as to eat." This correspondence must now cease. A Christchurch lad appears to be putting up a record this season in tho matter of collecting small birds' eggs and heads, as since the beginning of the present year his tally already amounts to 1900. Last season a lad noraed Bingan, following the same lucrative occupation, averaged 22s Gi per week for tbe space of 13 weeks. A letter has been received by Mr Henry Hart, on behalf of the Liberal Party in Law rence, from tbe Hon. W. P. Reeves, Minister of Education, stating that ho will bavo much pleasure in delivering a political address in i Lawrence early in May. Mr Reeves mentions | in his letter that he will be in Dunedin at the end of April, whero he is also to speak, after which he will come on to Lawrence. The Congregational Union, at their meet" ing held in Christchurch last week, unani" mously adopted thn following resolution "That the members of the Congregation Union of New Zealand enter their emphatit protest against any attempt to interfere with the present system of education by the introduction of denominational teaching into the State schools." The latest advices state that in the Sydney grain market milling wheat brings 3s 6d ; chick, 2i lid to 3i. Oits : Fair and medium, 2s 8d ; good bright, 2s 9J. In the Melbourne grain market there is a fair demand for wheat at 3i lid. Oats : Algerian, Is7d ; Danish, Is 8d ; medium stout, h 10 1. In tbe Adelaide grain market wheat is dull at 8i Id j oats, 3a 4d. There were seven patients in the Tuapeka Hospital last eveniug— six male and one female One patient was admitted into the Institution durin? the week and one also dia charged.— The wardsman acknowledges, on behalf of the patients, the receipt of a case of grapes from Mr P. Broad, of Roxburgh, and a very acceptable parcel of linen from Mrs Howard Jackson. Mr V. PYKE spent a few days in Lawrence during the week, and occupied himself during his stay in feeling the electoral pulse and generally preparing the way for the coming contest for the Tuapeka electorate. He is as frisky and as full of life as ever, and it is clear that politics are still the breath of his nostrils. V.P. looks onward with confidence to the coming fight-, in which, he asserts, be will be found fronting all foes and neither giving nor asking quarter. It is stated that Dr Meyer, of JJerljn, has discovered a process by means of which aluminium can be produced at twopenco per pound. In 1828 the price was £1000 per ID. The price to-day is 4s per pound. Here we have vast possibilities opened to us. Them is said to be ten times more aluminium in the world than there is iron, lead, zinc, oopper,nickcl, gold, and silver combined. It is stronger than iron, and more malleable than copper, as hard as silver and one-fourth tbe weight, 68 white as polished steel, and is unaffected by the atmosphere. Harvesting operations, whiph, as usual, were on a largo scale, bave just been ponphided at Greenfield, and it is expected that stacking will be finished this week, The crops have been very light this season ; in fact, Mr Smith informs us that they are the lightest ever yet grown on the estate. There were altogether 300 acres in wheat, 500 acres in oats, 400 acres in ryegrass, and 1600 acres in turnips. The turnip crop, which received artificial manure, was sown in broad-cast drills, and is looking fairly promising. Some eighty men arc engaged on the station at present. QyR Raes Junction correspondent writes as follows f-rrThe panvasser on behalf of the Kelso rabbit) factor? yas in pur district on Saturday night hat, and m told me he had succeeded far better than ne expected,' The settlers, he added, are all most anxious that the factory should be re-opened, and wiij regret very much if it does not show better results, financially speaking, this year thin it did last. — The farmers are just now busy with their orops, which are nearly all cut, some being already in the stack. The crops this year are not quits ag bs&vy as we could wish ; but they are, I think, somewhat earlier than usual. —There are » good many bic?«te rjders going up and down this way at present, all driving ahead at a rattling pace And all seemingly tvjofipg the e jwpjjp,

J Thk Ilavelock school children and teachers bavo subscribed £2 2s to the Queensland It'liifFund. RUN 199rr, Tevint, containing ?,07S acres, small-crazing run, has been taken up by Murdoch Macdonald, at an annual rental of 6 J per acre. The Dunedin "Globe" is responsible for tho staternont that. Mr Scobie Mackenzie intends to coutc.it the Tuapeka seat at the general election. "Tub Thrifty Farmer and Fireside Magazine," published in tbe Uditol States, says that if geologists be comet, New Zealand ia a fragment of a continent which sank benoath the waters as Lhe new world rose. It is a relic of a bygone agp. Thk following candidates from the Lawrrnco District Hi^h School have gnined partial passes at the recent teachers' examinations:—Class D : Annie Smith uud Catherine Traycs. Class E : Louisa Cameron, Margaret Cassidy and Catherine White. The " Taranaki News " states that the men who have been brought to that district by the Labor Bureau are asking very high rates of w agos for work. Some of them have refuse! a shilling an hour for bush-felling, and demand as much as 103 a day, and this by mere novices at road work or bush-felling. They do not get it. Ilf discussing the gorse nuisance at the Curtcrton Borough Council, it was stated that hundreds of pounds had been expended by road boards and others in the experiment of destroying gorse by the use of arsenic. Ifc had apparently beeu completely killed, and after a lapse of a year or two the buried se id sprang up, and gave proof of the goisc being inextirpable. At the meeting of the Benevolent Trustees in Dunedin on Wednesday, t,he Secietary reported that during the month of February 308 cases had been relieved. These comprised 141 men, 301 women, and SIG children, and the cost amounted to ill 33s 6 1. During the month of February of last yenr there were relieved 374 cases— comprising 132 men, 323 women, and 916 childien— at a cost of £121 14j 6d. The Upper Waipori Gold Dredging Co. recently sent a paicel of gold, weighing 4b'oz 17Jwts 6gn>, to the B-ink of New Zealand to be assayed The bank advanced ±3 17s per oz on the gold, and, after smelting, there was a prott of £2 7a coining to the Company. The Company have been selling their gold at t3 17s heretofore ; but iv the interests of the shareholders wo presume they will in future have it smelted. A FARMER living near Amberley recently lost one of his eyes through an accident, which necessitated a lengthy stay in tho Christchurch Hospital. Meanwhile his crop of 100 acres of grain was ripening and fit for harvest, with no one to look after it. His neighbours met and considered the state of things, and have proved friends in need by co-operuting and cutting, stooki )g, and stacking the crop at their own cost, some finding labour and others refreshments. The: absurd action of the railway authorities at Waitabuua in banking their dully receipts at Milton, and charging exchinge on all cheques received as payment for railage, to both of which we recently called attention, having been brought under the notice of Mr Grant, traffic superintendent, he explained that the Audit Department required that all takings sbon!d be banked at least once a day ; but he saw no reason why the money could not be bmked in Lawrence, and promised to have the matter locked into. TWO rabbit inspectors, equipped with guns and ferrets, are reported to have given the rabbit-infested Government reserve noir Ormaglado station, Millers Flat, a lively shaking up yesterday. Wo are not aware whether this is the outcome of a new departure on the part of tbeßibbit Department, but, if not, the hint might be taken ; for in no other way could the leisure of the inspectors be more profitably employed, much more so, perhaps, than in systematically rounding up and harassing the farmers, who, wo have no doubt, will cordially favour the suggestion. TUB retiring President <f the Wesleyan Methodist annual conference, now sitting in Dunedin, paid the following graceful tribute in his address to the late Sir Harry Atkinson :—": — " It will not be deemed ont of place to refer sympathetically to the sudden death of one who rendered such eminent service to this colony, whose private character and public administration were above suspicion ; who has left behind him an example for integrity worthy of imitation by all legislators, and whose memory will long be cherished by every school of political opinion, and every shade of religious thought — Sir Harry Atkinson." In Tasmania experiments have been made in substances that will prevent Lhe breediugof thecodlin moth, and it haa been found thjt the following serves that purpose very eff- ctively :— Gib each of lime and sulphur in sufficient water to boil down to 4gal in dissolving, the solution to be increased in the proportion of l<jt to 40q<s o£ water; though some have it twice that strength, without injuring either fruit or foliage, but the weaker solution has been found quite efficacious. A little flour may be added to increase the stickiness. It is advisable to spray twice at an interval of a f( rlnight. One day a gentleman, buying a barrel of old whisky, called in the two best judges of the beverage in the State of Kentucky — Senators Blackburn and Beek — to give "an opinion. " Well," said Mr Beck, after tasting the liquor and smacking his lips, " well, sir, this is most exoellent stuff, sir ; but, ahem ! it has a slight taste of iron, sir." Mr Blackburn rolled up his eyes after a sip and remarked, " I quite agree with Mr Beck as to the quality of the goods ; but, ah j let me see ; I really believe 1 detect a leathery taste." And when tha barrel was emptied in ita bottom was found— a carpet tack with a leather ring under its head. In a leMor received from Mr James Cowan, of Murchison, Nelson, formerly of the Beaumont, and for many years ono cf the owners of the Hope of Dunkeld dredge, he states that a new company has lately been formed and the Makitakita dredge has been fitted much stronger than before. Some- of the gear put in, he considers, the heaviest used in connection with the equipment of any gold dredge in New Zealand. The buckets are driven with a rope battery, which, he thinks, a decided improvement. They are at present idle, having broken a ladder shaft, but he expects to have it put to rights in the course of a few days. They are doing fairly well, but are very much troubled with their bucket lips getting torn off and broken owing to the wash being so rough and hard, for which, up to the I present, there does nob appoar to be any ) remedy, A meeting of the Havoloolc Cemetery Trustees was held in Ike local scboolhonse on Monday evening, when Alessra Livingston (chair), M'Kenzie, Cowen, and Patrick (Secretary) were prespnt. Mr L. A. Line wrote asking permission to erect a cement border and iron railing round section 26, block VI. — Permission granted. Mr F. Trayes also asked permission to erect a marble tombstone on section 7, block IX. ; and Mr R. M'Ara to erect an iron railing round sections 19 and 20, block IX.— Both applications were granted. Mr M'Kenzio reported that the iron gate late!/ purchased for the cemetery had been erected, and the po3ts firmly Q?ed in cemept at the base. An account for' 13 for material and labour in connection with the gates was passed for payment, subject to the approval of the Works Committee.— This was all the business. The annual conference of delegates from the N«*w Zealand Methodist Churches was commenced in Dnnedin on Wednesday evening. The Rev. W. Keall, who was stationed in this district about twenty-four years ago, was elected President of the Conference for the epsuing year. Tbe "Evening Star" thus refers fco Mr Keall ; The Rev. William Keall, fhe whom the Wesleyan Conference have chosen to fill tbe nohovabie offic^of prudent, pame to New Zealand from Lincolnshire in IBCTf and was accepted as a minister in Obristchurdh. His first station was Tuapeka, in 1869, his circuit including a wide range of country embracing Maucgatua, Nokomai, and Switzers. He was next transferred to Springston, and then in turn held appointments at Nelson, Port Chalmers, Ashburton, Leeston, Sydenham, Thames, and Palmerston North, being at present in charge of tbe lustnamed circuit,

The "Tdi-.Ti Advocate" reports that Mr R. Cotton, of Waiporr, his purchased Pennine, a five-year-old ehes'.nnt gelding by Cheviot. Ho is a good-looking, npst-tnding horse, and is likely to turn out well. He has been located in Mr T. Cotton's stable, "nd may possibly take part at the next Taicri meeting.

Tar. "Missing Words Competition," a recent sensation in E.igla'ud, have been declared by the courts of jiutico to bo merely gambling enterprises, and have been dealt with accordingly. To such an extent had this form of gambling proceeded, that "Pearson's Weekly "received every week "one shilling coupons," which aggregated per annum the enormous sum of £1,000,000 sterling. A staff of 500 women were engaged in opening the letters.

We take fie fo^owtng from the "Clutba Leader":— Tho result of the voting for tho Education Board election will undoubtedly result in Ihe return of Messrs Jis. Green, T. Mackcnsie, M.H.R., and Dr Stenhouso in the order name!, with Dr Hislop about 30 rotes behind DrStenhuuse, and Messrs D. Stewart and R. C'liisholm following in that order Mr Green will top the poll by about 30 votes, and there will be close on the same nurnl>er between Mr Mackenzie and Dr Stctibouse. Green, Mackenzie, mid Stcnbousc, as a trio, stond hghest in the voting, while sibou 1 ; 40 committees voted for the " progressive " candidates Green, Stenhou«>, and Stewart. So far as we have been aMe to gather, only two committees throughout the Cluthu distiivit did not record a vote in favour of Mr Mackenzie. The number of votes polled in tbe (Jlutha distiict by Mr Stewart was six.

We publish in another column an appeal from the Dunedin Committee of the Queenslaud Relief Fund to the reople o f this district-, soliciting donations of all kinds of produce as well as cattle, poultry, etc., everything, in fact, that can be converted into money, and sent on to minister to the wants of tho sufferers. Tlnre is no need on our part to say anj thing in support of the Committee's appeal, as there is already abundant cvideaca that tho people of this district will not be found wanting in the duty that 111 3 calamity imposes on them. Although we have made repeated ii.quiries, wo have not been able to ascertain tbc amount collected by the local committee up to date for the fund. There in, hiwever, between I*so and £60 on one of tbe lists ; but as there are two or three others in circulation, it is safe to say the sum total will rua into double the amount lust muntioned.

The members of the Waitahuna Farmers' Club at their last meeting voted a sum of £5 out of their funds for tha relief of the ucfortunate sufferers by the Queensland fljods— an action creditable as it is generoii", and one we hope to sec imitated not only in this district but outside of it by similar organisations. It was also decided that the district should be canvassed on behalf of the relief fund, a task voluntarily undertaken by tho secretary, Mr Moggath, who may be relied upon to go icto the work with all his accustomed energy. All present unanimously agreeJ to the cotme adopted, and several of the members spok<> in sympathetic terms of the condition of the people whose sufferings so strongly appeil to the charity of colonists. We have Hi tie doubt but the people in tho Waitahuna district will make a genercus response to the appeal that is being made to their charity, and that the sum total contributed in the Tuapeka district will be worthy of the best traditions of the people.

The discovery of the Hessian fly in New Zealand has been promptly follow© i by decisive action on the part of the representative agricultural bodies in both New S)iith Wales and Victoria. In the Legislative Assembly in Syduey (he Government have been questioned on the subject, and the expediency suggested of prohibiting tbe importation of New Zealand produce. In Melbourne the Minister of Agriculture was waitod on by a deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society calling his attention to the danger likely to arise from allowing produce from this colony into Victoria. The Australian Governments are now consulting on the subject with a view to combined actiou. This should show New Z-uiL nd farmers the far-reaching character of the question involved in the presence of tlio Hessian fly. It has at once, as we sen, leapcl from a position of local into that of national and even international importance; and should farmers delay about deciding on the course they should follow, there is very little doubt but the Government will not be long before it appears on the scene through its accredited •jgents, armed with compulsory powers for the eradication of the new scourge.

The sort of thing that public men are sometimes liable to was instanced in Wellington an afternoon pr two ago, when a man of about forty years of age forced himself into the Premier's residence, as he wanted to ob. tain a pass to Lyttelton, where, be said, be was going to work. As there was no messengers available on the premises, Mrs Ballanco not knowing how to dispose of the man, who had made himself quite at home, sei)t him to the residence of a Government officer. The man went there, and without more ado, marcheJ into that gentleman's tlnwing-room to the blank dismay of the official's wife, seated himself comfortably, knocked ont the ashes in his pipe on tbe carper, and had a qtiiei smoke while the male members of the house were being hunted up. Oa the arrival of the official himself be sent the man on to an officer of the Labour Bureau, and when be got to the residence of the latter, without a word of explanation, he matched straight for the drawing-room, where he- made himself comfortable, to the alarm of an invalid kdr. Finally he was persuaded to go away from there, and has not been heard sf siuoe,— "Post." The vaoanoy in the Governofchip of New South Wales has again brought\o the front the question whether the Government of a colony should hive a vote in such appointments. The "Pall Mali Gazette" surest* that the names of three equally suitable men should be submitted to the colonial Govern* monfc, and that the preference shown by the Government should determine the appointment. We are convinced that it would be a most UDwise and impolitic procedure for colonial Governments to ask to name the Governor they would prefer to have. In the majority of instances their choice would be a purely party matter. They would select the man whom they believed to be of tbe right colour. And a Governor thus appointed would naturally he looked upon as the mere nominee of the Ministry in power at the time of his appointment. He would bo placed in a false and embarrassing position. The Opposition would regard him as a political partisan. But if it is once conceded that ' colonial Cabinets have a right to select their Governors, then we do not see how the rights of the people to elejfc their Governors can be refused. The system hitherto followed haa on the whole acted satisfactorily, and no sufficient reason has been shown why it should be altered.

There is further proof that the Queensland storms are Australasian rather than local in their origin and range of devastation. Having finished with Queensland, tbc storm, or portion of it, seems to have struck New South Wales some hoavy blows, afterwards making its appearance, though no doubt in a somewhat spent and less outrageous form, in our own colony. Last week we recorded the damagedoneinthe&ucklandandfijarlboroii<»'h districts, and since then the atorm fiend appears to have been disporting himself in hia own peculiar fashion in other parts. Tbe Canterbury plains were swept by a fearful storm ; telegraph poles were thrown down, ami such was the force of the wind on Tuesday tnafc the express train was delayed fully an hour. At Invercargill on Wednesday morning early, a terrific thunderstorm broke over the town, accompanied by peals cf thunder like the report of an enormous cancoi. A contractor's shop in the centre of the town was wrecked, the iron roof being lifted bodily eff and dropped baok in its place, as all the nails were drawfa tfboitt tiyo inches. In Laurence garlv on Wednesday morning and datfrigth.e'greaisj part of the day we had occasional showers and an exceedingly aold wind j and on Thursday morning the Blue Af onnhiitis and surrounding height* were covered with a light mantling of snow. Snch weather, should it continue, will seriously hamper tbe movements of the farmers just now, if it docs not even considerably interfere with their harvest prospects and c*l< Citations,