Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10,1895.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4194, 10 April 1895, Page 2

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10,1895.

" KEASPRES, NOT MEN." LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS The registered unemployed of New South Wales number 13,500. Thb " Star " bears that the state of Bishop Moran's health is again causing great anxiety. The population of London is said to be 5,948,300, and increasing at the rate of 105,000 a-year. - ' All drinks hjive been lowered to 9d at Cool' gardie, and there is some talk of them being reduced to6d. This colony's export of wool for 1894 was the largest on record— l44l million lbs . valued at £4,800,000. ' The British Government derive £2,220,000 from the land tax, £4,440,000 from the house tax, and £9,000,000 from the income tax. During March 1919 persons arrived and 2370 departed from the colony. For the quarter ended March the arrivals exceeded the departures by 426. It is estimated that the Victorian wheat yield for the past harvest is 8& bushels to the acre. The total yield is 11,227,000 bushels, of wbich 3,357,000 bushels are available for export. Huddart, Parker and Co. carry passengers from Wellington for 10s saloon to Lyttelton, 20s to Dunedin, and freights to Sydney 5s per ton. At these rates the company must ooin money ! The South Australian Government have decided to aiake a clean sweep of the militia, and to make other retrenchments in the military service. The estimated saving will be £10,000 per annum. The commandant has accepted a reduction in his salary. It is understood that Mr George Hutchison, the Midland Railway Company's leading counsel, will receive £800 as a retaining fee, with refreshers to follow, no doubt. It is anticipated that the case will extend over at least three or four months ; it may even occupy nine months. Speaking to his constituents at Apiti an evening or two ago, Mr Pirani, member for Paitnerston North, said he looked npon the Tariff Commission as an inexcusable waste of money, although he could not but recognise that a number of anomalies exist in the tariff requiring alteration. We would call the attention of our readers to the announcement in another column of the grand show of the latest novelties in all departments just opened at W. Talboya's establishment. There you will find what will please the eye and suit the pocket. You cannot do better than call and inspect.— (Advt.) At a sitting of justices for the revision of the jury-list for the Tuapeka district, held in the courthouse, Lawrence, on Saturday last, nine names were removed from the list, chiefly on the ground that the parties were over sixty years of age. The list as amended contains 622 names. The justices in attendance were Messrs J. Thompson and T. Pilling. In connection with the recent fatal buggy accident at Raes Junction, a correspondent writes recommending an appliance for checking runaway horses. The remedy proposed may be a very good one, and in order, therefore, that it may receive tbe trial it deserves, our correspondent should take advantage of the publicity afforded by our advertising columns. Replying to a deputation who waited on him at Arrowtown with regard to entry on private property for mining purposes, the Son. Mr Cadman said great care would bave to be taken to guard the interests of those who had made a settled home for life, on freehold lands, especially where the surface of the ground was applied for to be worked by miners. At a recent sale in Southland (says the " Southland Times ") a buyer offered 5d each for a mob of lambs. The auctioneer made the bid even money (6d) for convenience, but the bidder would not have it so. At another sale 800 sheep were sold at an average Is 6sd each, and 500 have been parted with as low as Is per head. Oats (not damaged) have been bought for lOd per bushel within the last few days. The progress made by the dairying industry in Taranaki is well shown by the agricultural statistics, from which it appears that, as compared with the previous year, the increase in horned cattle in the Taranaki County was 4007 ; Clifden County, 1149 ; and Stratford County no less than 12,442. The total number of holdings in the three counties is 2151— an increase of 80 for the year, of an area of 376,405 acres. A CASE of importance to traders in bank shares was heard by Mr Carew at Dunedin last week. The principal question in the case was whether the defendant was liable to indemnify the plaintiff in respect to a call made by the Bank of New Zealand after a transfer of shares had been executed. The defendant denied liability on account of the directors of the bank having refused to register tbe transfer. The Magistrate's decision was that there could be no transfer of bank shares unless the directors' approval was obtained. Judgment was given for the defendant with costs. ' Mr Edmonds, manager of the Jutland Flat Dredging Co., has, we are glad to «ay, recovered from his severe attack of typhoid fever contracted in Western Australia, and has left the Dunedin Hospital, where he has been a patient for sometime. Mr Edmonds reached Lawrence on Monday evening and left for Waipori yesterday. The change in his appearance speaks of the suffering he has undergone and of the touch-and-go struggle he must bave had for his life. All Mr Edmond's friends will be glad to know that he has won in the struggle, and will join with us in wishing him a speedy restoration to bis former health and strength. A FAREWELL soiree to the Rev. Mr Thomas will be held in the Volunteer Hall this (Wednesday) evening. This tribute to Mr Thomas, it may be mentioned, is not at all confined to the members of his own congregation. It is promoted by all classes in the community, and is intended as an expression of tbe esteem in which tbe rev. gentleman is held by the people among whom he has lived and worked during the past three years. Some interesting addresses will ba delivered during the evening by clergymen and others, and a welcome will also be extended to the Rev. Mr Jory, who succeeds Mr Thomas in tbe Wesleyan pastorate in Lawrence. When at Arrowtown, the Minister of Mines was asked if the Government were prepared (o assist individuals or parties of prospectors. In reply, Mr Cadraan said most certainly, the Government would subsidise prospectors in that district as they had done elsewhere. The erst step to be taken would be to form a prospectors' association, when say, if £20 was collected, tbe Government would give £ for £ subsidy, when the money would have to be expended under the Government rules and regulations, the chief of which was that no man was to receive a higher wage than 7s 6d, and if a tunnel was to be driven, a limit of price per foot could be fixed by the Government. By making an arrangement with the prospectors for one-half wages and one-half future profits, a good deal of valuable work could be done with a small amount collected. At a meeting of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, held a few days ago, a Mr Just, of Adelaide, wrote on the subject of tbe injury caused to Australian wool by the presence in |it of tar. Mr Just wrote : " I would suggest ! the use of wattle bark powder for cuts in sheep in place of tar. It will dry and heal t wound much quicker than anything else that can be applied. I applied it to the galled shoulders of a horse, and found it a very effective cure ; it dries and hardens a sore in a night. A strong decoction of ground bark would answer the same purpose, and could be applied with a brush ; but if the powder is used it should be mixed with hot water as thick at paint, and applied qnickly in the same manner as ground bark. This would preserve the wool in ita proper state, and thus obviate the danger complained of by by Bradford wool buyers." It was ultimately decided to bring the letter under tbe notice of the wool bouse*,

Cheap excursion fares to the WaihoU regatta on Saturday next are announced by the Railway Department. THE united anniversary tea meeting of tb> Roxburgh and Goal Greek Wesleyan Cburcbe^ takes place in the Roxburgh Athenaeum on Thursday evening. A MACHINE has been invented that wil paste labels on one hundred thousand cans in • day of ten hours. There is an endless pro cession of rolling cans on a chute, and each picks up a label as it passes. The total quantity of dairy produce exported from Victoria for the past twelve months was as follows :— Butter, 11,500 tons (as compared with 7,300 tons for the previous season) ; cheese, 370 tons. Tbe total value of the produce exported for the year was £1,109,000. THB Ohristohuroh " Press " says :— At the Belfast factory on Wednesday the record of killing was made. The number was 3,914, the largest that has been done since the factory was started. The number consisted of 916 sheep, 2,049 lambs for freezing, and 849 sheep for preserving. We learn from a Sydney paper that » Hornsby orohardisfc buried eight tons of ripe grapes a conple of weeks ago, finding by experience that carriage, agency fees, and Sydney market prices would leave him without a profit if he sent them forward. And Hornsby is only 21 miles from Sydney ! At the Wellington City Assessment Court on Friday last, Mr T. K. Macdonald mentioned as a curious fact that eighteen years ago land in many parts of Wellington brought much more money than to-day. This he could prove from his own books, for only the other day land opposite the Supreme Court was sold for £18 per foot that in 1879 was bought at £50 per foot. The Tuapeka Collie Dog Club's trial matches will commence this (Wednesday) morning at eight o'clock at Greenbank farm. The entries are large, much larger than they have been at previous competitions held under the club's auspices. There are, for instance, thirteen entries for class 1., the conditions for which are heading and bringing back within a circle of about a quarter of a mile. For class 11., heading, bringing back, and yarding within the same radius, there are six entries ; and for class 111., huntaway, seven entries. With such a oumber of entries, it is reasonable to anticipate some lively and interesting work; and should the day be fine a large attendance may be looked for. Certainly tbe best medicine known is Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect in coughs, colds, influenza — the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, etc., diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised byHiß Majesty the King of Italy; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this aoproved article, and reject all others. Mb Blackmoeb, the Government pomologist, has been exhibiting his fruit evaporator atßangiora and giving practical lessons on its use. Last week he had a nunmer of visitors to inspect the apparatus, nsed for drying apples, pears, nlums, nectarines, etc., which is a zinc-made upright oven, in which screens of wire are placed, and the heat from a small furnace below gives off enough heat; to cause efficient evaporation. Apples were being put through a paring, coreing, and slicing machine, the slices being then spread on the drying screens. In the process the weight of tbe fruit is reduced by almost one-fifth. Tbe process was lucidly explained, and probably some of the lar^e apple growers may see their way to go into the preparation of dried fruits as an industry. A RAILWAY collision, which fortunately did not result seriously to anyone, occurred on Saturday last in the vicinity of the Puketeraki railway station. It appears that when an excursion train laden with children from the North-East Valley (Dunedin) school was slowly coming into the station it was struck by a train coming from Oamaru. Instead of. the driver of the Oamaru train, which was ten minutes behind time, stopping short of the points at the north end of the Puketeraki station, he appears to have run bis train right on to come up to the platform, as usual. The driver is said to have stated that when his train was coming round the curve he thought the excursion train was in the siding, and only discovered it was on the main line when he actually reached the platform. His train, according to his statement, was in the act of coming to a standstill when he discovered tbe other train in front of him, and he then reversed his engine and pulled the train up at once, but not before striking the leading engine ef the excursion train. The result of the collision, from report, was that tbe cowcatcher of each engine was damaged and had to be removed before the trains could procepd on their way, while the front portions of the two carriages immediately attached to tbe engine of the excursion train were damaged. At the Wesleyan Church, Lawrence, on Sunday evening, the Rev. W. G. Thomas preached bis farewell sermon, taking for his text Acfcsxii-, 17 s "And he departed, and went into another place." In connection with the ministry of Peter, be asked them to consider—(l) Peter's various experiences ; (2) his widespread ministry; and (3) his ministerial departure; In speaking to the last division of his text, the rev. gentleman said the silence of Scripture was very suggestive. While the mortal removes, tbe unchanging Christ and the abiding truth remain. This was a very short record ; but if man was forgotten, let Christ and the truth be remembered. Little was said ; hut reading between the lines, very much may have been felt in the parting hour, both by the Church and Peter. Tbe after history of Peter, however, was very instructive: be went forth to a new field of labor ; but very little was said of him till we came to bis glorious epistles. There he was seen at bis best. In these we had instruction about the reach of bis ministry and the tone of his spirit. In conclusion, Mr Thomas- made a brief reference to his farewell, and spoke kindly of bis successor, the Rev. Mr Jory. He always found great difficulty in speaking •boot himself: they all knew him. He thanked them for their kindness in the past and thus counselled them : "Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and tbe glory of the God of love and peace shall be with you/ There was a large attendance at tbe church, which was comfortably filled, and the rev. gentleman's discourse was listened to with a great deal of interest. j OSCAE WILDE, who firsb became famous I through the aesthetic craze that took such a hold of the fashionable world some years ago, bas fallen very low, so very low, indeed, that tbe infamy of bis position can be no more than hinted at. His charge of criminal libel against tbe Marquis of Queecsberry has ended in bis own arrest, and, before the end is seeo, may not improbably result in putting the greatest dandy since J^ord Chesterfield's time into a convict-dress for » gppd many years. What years of enrions and sot anphilosophic reflection are yet before the sestbetio Oscar ! That he is a man of genius of a certain kind is nndeniable. His mother, who is still alive, bas written poetry, under tbe name of "Speranza,"tbat will outlive her a good many years ; and bis father, who died a good many years ago, was an oculist whose Came extended far beyond Dublin, of which city be was a distinguished member of tbe medical profession, Tbe Queen, as a special mark of distinction, conferred on him the honor of knighthood. Wilde, it wijl, therefore, be seen, comes from a gopd stock, and tbe rain that bas overwhelmed and destroyed him once again reminds us of the unutterable rottenness of what is known as fashionable "society" in London, The Marquis of jQueensberry is a man of wild and eccentric habits. He bas been in his time a patron of pugilists, and to-day ring fighting is conducted under what are known as tbe Queensberry rules. He has not in bis time done much credit to bis order, and his exposure of Wilde is about tbe most meritorious act of bis life. Wilde was arrested immediately after the trial, and so were some of bit horrible associates ; and the trial which will follow will no doubt be something like i second chapter of the Boulton and Park case, vwbich some years ago, so hideously impresaec 4te Eogjish.'rea.ding worjd,

IT is reported that the Tuapeka Milling Go's flour mill bas passed into tbe hands of Mr D. L. Christie, who has been connected with its management for many years. The purchase money is said to lie between £1,000 and £1,100. The Hon. Mr Oadman, Minister of Mines, will arrive in Lawrence either to-morrow (Thursday) or Friday. It is understood tbe bon. gentleman will remain here for a few days, and with Mr Larnaob will go through this part of the district. Waipori, we need hardly say, will be honored by a visit from both gentleman. At a meeting of the Hon. Mr Larnach's Lawrence supporters on Saturday evening, it was decided to tender the hon. gentleman a banquet, and also to invite as guests on tbe occasion both the Premier and the Minister of Lands. It was also arranged to ask a number of members of Parliament from Dunedin and other places to attend so as to Rive eclat to the function. No date has been fixed for the banquet, bat it is likely to take place within the next fortnight or three weeks. It will be seen on reference to oar advertising columns to-day that the Hon. Mr Larnach intends to address bis 'constituents in the Town Hall, Lawrence, to-morrow (Thursday) evening. We could wish the ' notion allowed more time and opportunity to the electors of the district to hear Mr L»rnach'« opinions on tbe questions of the day. It has been alleged against Mr Larnach that he has not spoken in Parliament as much or as fully as he should have done ; bnt if he bas not been a frequent speaker, he most certainly has been a frequent voter, and no doubt be will endeavor to justify to-morrow evening the votes he has given during the session he has represented Tuapeka in Parliam ent. Tbe opportunity is one that should put an end to those anonymous remonstrance s and attacks directed against Mr Larnach during the past weeks. Those who differ vikh the policy or the opinions of the member for Tuapeka will be afforded an opportunity of satisfying or confirming their doubts, and nobody need be told that Mr Larnach will give the fullest opportunity for such a purpose. We hopo to see a large and a representative meeting, and a full expression of public opinion.