LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue XXV, 9 August 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The Hon. Mr Larnaoh has definitely decided to aeek election for the Lakes district. The letters signed" Gratia Publicus" and " Vishnu " will appear lc our Saturday's issue. Mr C. C. Rawiins, one of the candidates for the Tuapeka seat at the general election, will deliver an address in the sehoolhouse, Millers Flat, on Saturday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The following is the list of first prizes in poultry carried off by local exhibitors at the Dunedin Fanciers' show, held on Friday and Saturday last :— B. Hart, 13 ; A. Crooke, 3 ; N. O. Potts, 3; Crooke and Morris, 3; J. Egglestone, 2 ; J. T, Nichols, 2 ; A, Morris, 1.

) This epidemic of measles has reached Victoria, and is spreading lapidly throughout tho colony. Over 60,000 people have been attacked by it, but the disease is of a mild character. One hundred deaths have been reported so far. The gold returns of the following m>'irn;r companies are to hand :— Dunedin Dredging 00., 28oz llchvfc for five da-s' dredging; Island Block Extended Co., 39. z 15Jwt 9'r ; Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold Dredging Co., 4Ooz 14dwt for five .days fifteen hours' dredg- * DJ Mil n u land , Flat hedging Co., 17oz 12dwfc for 144 hours' wages-time. Mr J. C. Buckland, who at one time represented Waikouaiti in Parliament, has decided to come forward as a candidate for tho Taieri seat at the general election. Mr Buckland visited Waipori, which is now included in the Taieri electorate, on Monday la3t, and we understand he will take an early opportunity of addressing the electors in the different parts of the constituency. A reward of £5 is offered in another column for such information as will lead to the conviction of the person or persons who smashed up a Urge casting belonging to the Jutland Flat Gold Dredging Co. last Saturday. The action was a das'ardly one, and it is to be hoped the necessary assistance may bo given to the Company to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators to justice. The Lawrence footballers are subjected to still another disappointment, the Clutba players being nuable to come on Friday, 11th inst., as intimated. A team from Waitahnna will, however, visit Lawrence on Thursday afternoon and have a friendly set-to with the 2nd Fifteen o£ th^ local club. A. trip to ■Roxburgh is contemplated for the 17th inst. if a team can be got together on that date. At Monday's sitting of tbe Warden's Court, before Warden Hawkins, J. R. Perry's application for a prospecting dredging area at Waitahuna was granted for twelve month?. The application covers a mile of the Waita« huna River, six chains in width, commencing six chains above the bridge. — An application by Francis Bucharan for a water-race from Tuapeka River was granted. — Neave and liiordan's application for 4 licensed holding in Crookston district was adjourned till next Court-day.— This was all the business. The almost uninterrupted wet weather of the last week or more iv this district appears to have been pretty general over a large part of the colony. In the Auckland province, there have been some very heary slips on the railway line. In one instance a train found a section of he line hanging 2ft in tho air, with the sleepers on the side of the embankment dropping 25ft half an hour afterwards. Heavy slips have also taken place in Wellington, one fall leaving fully 1000 tons of earth on the road. Heavy floods are also reported in the Wairarapa district. There is a weak side even to the dealer who sells dairy cows. The auctioneer was anxious to get a good one, and the dealer declared he had just the cow. "If you wanted a cow for yourself, sor, this is joosht the wan I'd be afthor sellin' yon." The auctioneer did want a cow for himself, but was not satisfied as to the sincerity of the deal°r's protestations. " To tell you the truth," he said in a confidential tone, " I've promised to get a good cow for the convent-. 1 ' "Oh, then," said the dealer promptly, " don't teck thia baste, not on no account."— "Woomera" in the "Australasian." Competition" is the life of trade and the public reap the benefit. . W. Talboys, in opening in Lawrence, would solicit a call from those who want the best value for money, and as it is only by "being able to offer goods cheaper than cau be purchased elsewhere we accept the position and guarantee the best "alne to be obtained in town or counTy. Our position as a cash buyer from the best Borne manufacturers enables us to do this. To enable us to sell at such low prices, we must do so on the cash principle, and when the public can save front three to four shillings in the £ we <io not fear but that they will take advantage of it. Call early and inspect our stock and prices.— W. Talboys, London House (under Borough Council Chambers), Lawrence, and at Cromwell.— (Adot). The "Daily Times "does not suppose their is any truth in the rumour mentioned that the Government are prepared to sacrifice the national system of education to secure another lease of power. They are not auch fools. They could not take a shorter cut to defeat. The fact tbafc,they are giving Mr Pyke their support (adds our contemporary) is no proof of such an intention. Tho member for Dunstan (for by this title he will be known in the history of New Zealaud) is a Liberal like themselves, though of a somewhat oldfashioned type, and on that account deserves such favour as they can show him in his can* didature. But this is not a'l. They owe him reparation for not sending him to " another place." Mr W. S. Alien, ex-M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, who was returned for Te Aroha at the last general election, but was unseated on petition,recently addressed a political meeting at Auckland, and in the course of his remarks said :— " When the Yogel Government went out of office he was at Home. He knew at tnat time the London money market, and how the credit of the colony was shaken, and the doubts entertained of its ability to meet its financial troubles. When Sir Harry Atkinson took office, New Zealand stock stood at 96, and when he went out it was at 105. The colony was restored, its finances healthy, and its securities considered a good investment. When the history of New Zealand came to be written, and written impartially, whatever might be thought now, no name would shine out brighter than that of Sir Harry Atkinson. If 14,000 persons left the colony then through the state of things existing, it was not through his policy, but the fault of his predecessors." Mr R. C. Bruce, memher forTJangitikei, was banquetted at H .wera on Saturday evening, and was at the same time presented with a library comprising 250 standard works. Ifc was intended that some seventeen or eighteen members should attend from Wellington, but the interruption of the railway traffic, cansed by the late stormy weather, prevented them from putting in an appearance. Mr Bruce, it may be explained, is reported to have definitely decided on retiring from public life and devoting himself to his own business concerns. The loss will be a heavy one to the Opposition, of which he was one of the ablest and most distinguished members, and it may also be said, without in any degree incurring a charge of exaggeration, that his retirement is even a bigger loss to thecoun ry than to his party.. Unlike the typical politician, Mr Bruce considered the claims of the country before those of party.and there is no man in the House who has in a more marked and characteristic degree, the of arriving at clear and decided opinions and conclusions, nor no man that has the power of giving such fluent and vigorous expression to those views, and none who can stand by them so resolutely to the end. The retirement from public life of such a man is a national rather than a party loss. The result of the polling at the Auckland contest between Messrs Cad man and Reea places 'he former at the head of the poll by a majority of 751 votes. The numbers were— Cadman, 1,883; Rces, 1,132. Thi3 means that out of a total of 6,036 electors entitled to vote only 3,036 thought it worth their while going to the poll to record their votes. Mr I Cadman conld only induce about a third of the electors to concern themselves in the squabble which led to his candidature, the remaining 4,185 evidently believing that the Napier jury had given him all the satisfaction he was entitled to. It is also very clear that Mr Rees himself was not regarded by the electors as entirely free from reproach in connection with the trafficking in Native lands • but it is, at the same time, equally elf ar that the result of the election was influenced rather by the desire to carry out the designs of the Ministry and get rid of a troublesome follower than by a feeling that Mr Cadman's wrongs had not been fully avenged by a twenty shilling verdict, or that Mr Ree's fine bursts of passion rfE thd wrongs of the Natives and the rascalities of tho politicians were qnite as timely ai they ought to have been had the motives by which they were inspired been as pure or as disinterested as he would have tbe country belieye. It will now be interesting to watch what course the Premier will fojlow : whether he will again invest the ex-Minigter with the powers which he recently relinquished under such peculiar ciroum stances, or whether, should he offer to do so, Mr Oidman will think it consistent with his position to agree to tbe proposal.