LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4208, 29 May 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The self-denial week in aid of the Mcl« boarne hospitals has realised £2000. The owner of an np-country racehorse has re-named his horse " Letters," because it was so often left at the post. The cost of theattempted rabbit extermination in Now South Wales is said to have equalled that of a civil war. THE Wnitahuna Farmers' Clab meet next Monday evening, last Monday evening's meeting having been adjourned. The number of men employed daring April on the relief works in the Centennial Park, Sydney, was 7735-5375 married and 2360 single. The death is announced of Mr Thomas Calcutfc, of Dunedin, who was one of the valuers for the colony of land taken for public works. MR Wm. TURNER has received the appointment of teacher of the Coal Creek school in succession to Mr Bastings, transferred to Waiareka. Mr W. Carnoross, M.H.R. for Taieri, addressed his constituents at Mosgiel on Monday evening, and was accorded a vote of thanks and continued confidence. In Melbourne Chinamen are now dyeing men's suits of clothes for about a third the price charged by Europeans. Chinamen ask 2s 6d a suit ; Europeans get 6s to Ss. THE gold returns of the following companies are to band :— Dunedin Dredging Co., 21oz for week's work ; Jutland Flat Dredging Co., 19oz 2dwt for 137 hours' dredging. A CIRCULAR issued by the Victorian Department of Agricultme shows that poultry shipped to London recently realised Sa a pair ; ducks, 10s a pair ; and turkeys, £1 a head. A return to the colony of £500,000 or £600,000 from an advance in the price of the wheat crop is a better way of getting money than raising loans that have to be repaid. A few years back the ordinary charge for clipping a horse was £1. A contract waa entered into last week (says " Truth ") to clip 100 in Christchurcb, the rate being 2s 4d a head. Mr C. W. Potter, stationmaster at Pebbleto a (Cancer bury), while engaged shunting on Saturday morning, had his foot caught in the points, and, being unable to extricate, it, waa run over by a waggon. His thigh was smashed to a jelly, and he was besides internally injured and died soon after. In the llodfern (Sydney) accident, 15 cases were settled at a total cost of £3600. Claims for £1800 are still pending. Wilson, one of those who were seriously injured, withdrew all his claims, declaring that the accident was unavoidable, and it was therefore unfair to ask for compensation. A BILL has been introduced in the New York Legislature providing that the Governor shall appoint a board of horse-shoe examiners, forbidding any master borse-shoer from practising in the State nnlcss he be duly registered, under a penalty or fine of £10 for each offence. Some such measure is badly needed in New Zealand. AN important notification will be found in our advertising columns to-day in connection 1 with the poll of ratepayer^ on the question of i a loan for the construction of a bridge over the Olutha River at Millers Fiat. The poll in questiou will be taken on Tuesday, 11th | Juae ; and the various parts of the County in which the poll will be taken are also fully specified. The Government on Saturday afternoon. last, through their representatives, who were armed with the Governor's warrant, formally [ took possession of the Midland Railway at Stillwater, near Greymouth. The ground of seizure is breach of contract on the part of the railway company. It is understood that the extension of the Christcburch line will be at once proceeded with by the Government. Bad weather approaching : a very severe winter predicted. After the break in the fine weather we have been having, we may expect very cold and severe weather, with its attendant colds and influenza. And as prevention is better than cure any day, we would recommend our readers to supply themselves with good warm flannels, blankets, boots, etc. The best place to secure these at lowest prices is W. Talboy'9, the noted Cheap Drapery, Clothing and Boot Shop, Town Hall, Lawrence. — [Advt.) Feeling reference was made by the Yen. Archdeacon Beaumont at Trinity Church, Lawrence, on Sunday to the death of Bishop Moran,and to the loss sustained by the church of which he was for so many years the zealous chief pastor in Otago. The Rev. Father Coffey, at St. Patrick's Church, also spoke of he death of Bishop Moran, of the services he had rendered to the church, and of his labors on behalf of the spiritual welfare of the people. The remains of the late Bishop will be interred t o-day in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin. In passing sentence on Oscar Wilde and Taylor, the judge, speaking with great emotion, said the case was the worst of its kind that bad ever come before him. The iuilt of both men was clear beyond a shadow of doubt. In passing the most severe sentence the law allowed, he regretted it was totally ir- adequate to the dastardly nature of tbe offence. He then sentenced each prisoner to two years' hard labor. Wilde, on hearing tho sentence, appeared dazed and horror-struck. In his despair he murmured something about addressing the court, but the warders at once hurried him off to the cells. His associate seemed unmoved and left the dock with a firm step. The tunnel in course of construction on the line of Messrs Edie and Kirkpatrick's headrace, Horseshoe Bend, is expected to be completed at tbe end of the week. The construction of the tunnel was rendered necessary owing to the sweeping away of about 400 feet of the race by a huge slip some time ago. The regular mining operations have had to be discontinued in the claim during the time the work of constructing the tunnel has been going on. As many as thirteen men have latterly been employed by Messrs Edie and Kirkpatrick, and the work of repairing and tunnelling, it may be understood, has been I one entailing considerable expense. It is expected that mining operations will again be resumed at the beginning of next week, with, it may be presumed, the customary large yields. The rule 3 and regulations for the care, management and protection of the Tuapeka commonage, hitherto known as the Gabriels commonage, are published in the last issue of the Government " Gazette " to hand. The regulations provide that Messrs C. Campbell, J. Campbell, A. Donnelly, W. Goldsmith, W. Johnston, S. Johnston, R. Pilling, senr., J. K. Simpson and E. Varcoe shall be known as the "Tuapeka Commonage Committee," and that three members of the committee shall retire by ballot at the expiration of six months from the date of gazetting the regulations, but they shall be eligible for re-appoint* raent. Thereafter thre« members of the committee are to retire annually by ballot, but will be eligible for re-election. The first meeting of .the committee is to be held at the Land and Survey Office, Lawrence, on Wed* nesday, sth June, at seven p.m. How many are there— that is, of average men and women— who count for something in tbe serious business of life, who have ever heard of George Giffen ? He is neither a pillar of the State nor a pillar of the church, nor is his name known in connection with literature or scientific discovery or with any philanthropic or useful movement. His fame and his popularity are much more transcendent, and, it appears, worth much more to him in current coin of the realm than if he had found fame in any of those capacities that might be considered serviceable to the world. An Australian cable during the week, with a touch of dramatic brevity, announced that George Giffen was engaged in the test intercolonial cricket matches, and for his " brilliant services " he was presented with an address and 400 sovereigns. There is to-day clearly more fame in football or cricket or even pugilism than in what is known a 9 the "learned professions," and, of course, none of the ordinary occupations are "in it " at all, which goes to show the stupid and senseless as well as harmful extremes to whioh people are, rucaiog in such matters,

Clydesdale horses, four years old, bandied "but not broken, suitable for trams and 'buses, •re being bought in Buenos Ayres at aboul £8 a head for shipment to London. Similai sorts, sent previously, realised in London from £22 to £27. These are what New Zealand horses would have to compete against at Home. The new woman broke'out in a fresh place at a meeting of householders on the West Coast recently. One of the sterner sex was making himself rather obnoxions, when an irrate lady jumped up and told him "plump and plain " she "had a mind to thump him." She further intimated that she " would like to meet him in the dark ! " A MATCH between the Milton and Waitahuna Football Clubs was played on the latter's ground on Friday last, resulting in a win for the visitors by 11 points to nil. The match between tho Lawrence and Roxburgh clnhs, arranged for the same day, fell through owing to Lawrence being uuable to send a representative team. The Wellington " Post " is in cordial agreement with us as to the part borne by the member for Tuapeka in tbe financial departure attending the floating of the late million and a half loan. Our contemporary says the real credit of the scheme belongs not to the Hon Mr Ward bnt to tbe Hou. W. J. M. Larnach, one of the moat capable financiers in the Honse of Representatives. Mr Ward, it continues, simply followed the advice given him by Mr Larnach in tbe debate on the Financial Statement, and the results following that advice bave most remarkably borne out Mr Larnach'a predictions. / On Saturday a shepherd named John M'Leod, an old resident of Tuapeka Mouth, who was in the employ of Mr A. Boyd, who bas a station at North Taieri, met with an accident that caused his death. It appears that M'Leod and his employer were driving in a buggy towards Lovells Flat, when the horse, taking fright at a passing train, bolted and threw both the occupants of the buggy on to the road. Mr Boyd escaped unhnrt, bnt M'Leod, unfortunately, sustained injuries that caused his death. The body of the deceased was taken to Tuapeka Month on Sunday and interred there on Monday afternoon. Certainly the 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, braises, 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 by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at Internationa) Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this aoproved article, aad reject all others. Mr Justice Crease, of the Supreme Court of British Colombia, lately distinguished himself by a perfectly sbnpenduous exhibition of judicial ferocity. He sentenced a man named Wilson to five years' imprisonment for robbery. On leaving the dock Wilson observed, " Thank yon, sir." For this "contempt of court," the Judge condemned the man to three years' additional imprisonment — a year for each word. It is said that on the death of the late Chief Justice of British Columbia Mr Justice ' Crease, as senior judge, expected to be made Chief Jnstice of the province ; but the Canadian Government ignored his claims. This should be a matter of thankfulness to the British Columbians, and still more thankful should they be to hear of the retirement of a judge capable of exercising his powers in such a brutally vindictive fashion. The Oamaru " Mail " contends that there is nothing whatever to warrant tbe sharp increase in .wheat, and it contends that large stocks were, and are, held by millers and speculator;*, and the increase seems to be part of a conspiracy to exploit the milling and grain trades, so as to enable a few men to make capital out of the misfortunes of growers An Auckland floor merchant is stated to have cabled to Adelaide for 1000 tons of flour, and merchants in Dunedin have also sent for supplies from the same source. Having sent large orders— though the last quotation in Adelaide was £5 17s 6d, and is to-day £6— they probably bought at £5 10s, allowing the discount for cash, and landed in New Zealand tbe total cost would be about £7, a price which shows a considerable margin between the prices in Adelaide and here. Bui flour has gone up still further since, and is now quoted at £8. It is difficult to ascertain definitely what is the condition of New Zealand stocks of wheat and flour ; bnt there can be no question that the enhancement of prices is consequent on the RegistrarGeneral's statement tbat there would be a shortage, and that that statement is not reliable, seeing that he implies that he docs not know Btocks are in the hands of millers and dealers. The West Coast papers state that Mr Seddon had announced his intention not to arrive on the Coust before the 25th instant, when " his friends would bave an opportunity of congratulating him on having dropped plain •Mr' and being in future known as Sir Richard John Seddon, K.C.M.G." But though the 25tb baa passed, Richard John in his new K.C.M.G«J)arness has not showed op on the Coast. There is in consequence much speculation and much controversy as to the reason of it among the papers on the Coast. Some say he wouldn't wear nickel-plated things, aud tbat ifc must be a dukedom or nothing. An "Old West Coaster," writing in one of the papers, won't bave that. He knew him away in the fifties, and be says between fcbem they "pot away more tanglefoot than would float Kelson's old flag ship, j When a man like that," ho says, " pots a brass plate on his door and a bell, and dresses himself in a stove-pipe bat, he'll do anything. If he hasn't the Brummagem handle to his name, its because he couldn't »et it," Bat there's nothing in all that. Sir Harry Atkinson carted wood to market, and the American President of tradition is a man who in his early days split rails or followed some other bumble occupation. Then Mr Seddon's rise is equable and steady. Here it is— Miner, publican, storekeeper, vestryman, politician, champion log-roller and stonewaller, Premier and Sir Richard John Seddon! Many a man with much better antecedents came to a less reputable ending.