Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN." WEDNESDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4514, 12 January 1898, Page 2

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN." WEDNESDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A kepoet of the proceedings of yesterday's Warden's Court, together with oar leading article, have been held over. THJB " Triad " for the present month, which : tigs come to band, is a number of more than usual interest, and maintains its reputation as a very readable monthly. Many of the oat orops in the Taieri are expected to yield as much as one hundred bushpis to the acre, and wheat yields of seventy bushels to tbe apre are looked for. IT is stated in certain well informed Quarters that Mr Thomas Mackenzie, formerly member tor Clutha, will contest tbe Tuapeka constituency at the next general election in the Liberal interest. MB A. 6. Hendbeson, Blue Spar, has been appointed agent in this distriot for I otb the JTew Haven a^d Sterling bioyeles. Both of these are machines tb it have obtained considerable fame. The Otsgo vbeel r,aoe was won last week at Daoedio by A. Holjow ojj • Sterling, *

Mr John Thompson announcas in another column that his JEorrnigbtly stock sale on Thursday, 20 h ins' ant (the second day of the Tuapeka Jookey Clab races), will commeoce at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, instead of 1 p.m. At the Police 0 nrt, Lawrence, on Monday, before Mr F. Oadaille, J. P., William Simpson w*« charged by the Police with forging a cheque for £4 12s on the Bank of New Sooth Wales at Lawrence, payable to Alex. Cameron, and purporting to be signed by Archibald Moffatt ; he was farther charged with attempting to use the same, knowing it to be forged. Accused was remanded to Dunedin Gaol till Friday. By a fire which occurred in (Jhristcburoh on Saturday the lar^e agricultural implement manufac ory of Andrews and Bea van, situated on the S'-uth Belt, was practically destroyed, together with its contents of machinery and finished implements. The fire will throw SO bands out of employment. The total insurance amounts to £5000, but the damage will be considerably over that amount. The writer of a priya'e letter to a Wellington resident dating bis cpis'le from Victoria, B.C. — "a dirty, sleepy little 'jay ' town"— ch^ts thus re tbe Klondyke :— " Many people are going up to tbe northern goldfidds, bat the general impression is that most will regret their venture. The so-called hardships are a myth ; grub is plentiful, and men £oing on the trip can get right through to Dawaon City for two or three hundred dollars. Already a party of theatricals, including six women, have gone, so if the latter can get there no men should be afraid." The sheep rates c.llected during the year ended March last amounted to £19,616. The annual cost of maintaining the sheep department is: — Salaries of inspectors of stock, £9,421; veterinary surgeons, £786; qnaran* tine, £250— total, £10.457. Traveling expenses of inspectors, £2,342 ; veterinary snrgeons, £466 ; estimated expense in connection with sheep returns, etc., eradicating diseases, i laboratory work, quarantining, officers' and clerical charges, £3,482— t0ta1, £16,667. MINISTERS have given notice to the four inspectors appointed noder the Lioensing Act to generally supervise the liquor traffic, aud in particular to make analyses of liquor sold, that their services will not be required after March 31st next. This action, it is understood, is taken as a consequence of a resolution passed by the House of Representatives when in Committee of Supply upon tbe Estimates of the Justice Department, reducing the vote by £1 as an expression of opinion that the inspectors' services should be dispensed with. When Mr Bcetbam, S.M. of Chrisfohurcb, inflicted on a numbir of bookmakers fines of £10 and 14 days' imprisonment for laying totulisator odds on Riccarton racecourse, an appeal was lodged against his decision. The persons concerned, however, decided this week not to proceed further with the appeal, but to " take out " their sentences. Accordingly f<nr of the bookmakers sentenced (three being Wellingtonians and one hailing from Auckland) have given themselves up to the police daring tbe last few day.", and are now quartered at the Terrace Gaol. The Duoedin "people are working with extraordinary energy to make the celebration of Obsgo's Jubilee an effective mcaas of bleeding tbe country districts of alltheir spare shekels. It is purely a matter ofli|g and not provincial patriotism with them, in proof ol which the different organisations with yawning exchequers are falling ont among themselves over the partition of the prospective spoil. They all, including tbe churches, want to be made tbe exclusive centre oi patronage for a day or part of a day and there is consequently a disposition among tbe promoters of ibe show to ate strong language aud fall out among themselves. Had the business people in the country districts a tithe of the speculative business push and energy of those of the city the provincial towns would have their own celebrations and Dunedin would have to depend on its own resources. The "Lyttelton Times" reports that a rather amusing and unfortnnate incident happened when tbe express train was going out of the Christchurch station on Saturday morning. A couple who had only just been united in wed'ock were leaving by the train on their honeymoon. The bride hadrbeen duly installed in a carriage, and the happy bridegroom lingered on the platform to bid good-bye to some friends who were down to see them off. Tbe train moved off before he was aware of tbe fact, and as he attempted to jump on board he waa seized by one of the station officials, and prevented from doing so, and the bride had therefore to go on her honeymoon trip alone. Of course her sponse followed by a later train. A slow recovery. When a man has had an extraordinarily severe spell of sickness he usually recovers slowly, and it seems as thongh tho s»mo principle applies to the weather. A late winter prolonged beyond the usual time softens into balmy spring wiih reluctance, aud now here it is the middle of December and we have bad bardly enongh sunshine to make tbe flowers bloom. But one result of the tardiness of the season is that W. Talboya is determined to quit bis enormous stock of summer novelties at once, price no object.— Adyt.] Mes Menzies, a very old and much respected resident of this district, passed away peacefully at her residence, Campbellton-st., Lawrence, on Friday last at. the ripe age of eighty years. Tbe deceased lady who had resided in Lawrence for a period of over thirty years, was the widow of the Rev. Mr Menzies, who was in charge of the Congregational Church here for the nine years preceding his death. Mrs Menzies leaves three sons — Mr John Mer zies, a teacher in the Waimate dfatrict, Mr J.:mes Menzies, who is engaged in husitirsi pursuits in Melbourne and Mr Walter Mmzes, postmaster at Cromwell. Mrs M^nzins was a native of Scotland and was br<>nght up in the family of Mr Cland Mnirheaci, at that time proprietor of the " Edinburgh Conrant." Previous to coming to the colonies Mrs Menzies had been settled with her husband and family in Yorkshire. Tbe fuueral, which took place on Monday, was attended by almost the whole of the snr* vivors in Liwrence of a generation that is bub poorly represented now on this side of the srvve. Tbe R?v. Mr Will read tbe funeral service at the grave. Thus the Dunedin correspondent of tbe "Ciomwcll Areui " -—Vanity and mild notoriety, as evinced by a love for seeing. one's name in the public prints in connection with something for which a little credit is due, is one of tbe besetting sins of young New Zealand. What a pity, therefore, that the newspapers instead of curbing it, rather assist in fostering the craze just at this particular time of year by publishing long lists of names of prizr-t,kers at the various schools. The thing has become such a farce that where sensible men are on tbe committee they set their faces against it, and we hayg one or two schools in which no prises are given, An ln» stance ofthis indiscriminate prise*taking oo* curred tirconneetion with a snburban school. Tbe class prizes, settled prizes, were given for attendance. As the regulations atill excluded a large number of scholars, it waa decided that every child who had been only absent for eight days should also get a prize, provided a satisfactory explanation of the absence was forthcoming. And by this means over 50 per cent, of those in attendance secured a prize. The 23 members of tbe Legislative Council who voted against the Old Age Pensions Bill have between them bled tbe country to the iune of £79,468. Among these 23 pensioners who, on conscientioqs and patriotic grounds, of course, objected to a small annual pittance being given to aged and destitute colonists, are included tbe whole of tbe " lifers " in the Council— men who will continue to pocket the taxpayers' money right into their dotage and beyond it — for many years daring which their opinions and advice on any question will not be worth a red cent to tbe country. This statement applies to some of those old gentlemen at the present moment. Oae of 'these, the Hon. Mr Baillie, is indebted to tbe bounty of tbe colony since 1861 — for a period of 36 year?. In' that time be has drawn £7,938, Dr Grace, whose conception of tbe functions of an Upper House appears to consist in opposing everything that emanates from the Representative phamber. being tbe runner-up with £6,738. Then come'thl Ormonds and the Johnstons and the M*jjea.ns —men who hold areas of country as large as German principalities between them In the North Island, and they were horrified, of course, at anything beyond a charitable aid ; dole being given to necessitous or indigent people. Dr J. M. Cornell, Kansas C;ty, Kana, says :— " I use Sander & Sons Eucalypti Ex tract frequently as an antiseptic, and for neuralgia, it has given me great satisfaction, Care has to be exercised not to be supplied with spurious preparations, a/ done by my supply-druggist."— Jnsist getting Sander &pd Sons Eucalypti Extract, or else you will be supplied with worthless oils. * Certainly the best medicine known is San* der and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test is eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza — the relief is instantaneous. Iv serious cases and accidents, be they wounds, burns, aoaldings, braises, sprains, is the safest remedy — no swelling:, no inflammation. 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NEWS has been received in the colony of tbe de»*,n, in Derbyshire, of the Hon. Win. Gisborne, an ex-Colonial Secretary in New/Zealand. He was for many years in reoeipt of a pension from tbe colony. Of the 494 marriages in Wellington during the year jim closed, 105 took place iv tbe Registrar's Office. The majority of those who get married in the Registry Office appear 111 1 be of the working classes. The cheapness of the ceremony and tbe fact that it is Recognised by law are the influences that decide auch people in favor of the civil marriage.

The Borough surfacemen ire at present doing excellent and much-needed work in clear1 ing the water drains in Campbell ton-street and thus for a while, at least, preventing tho lodgment and accumulation of foul matter. The work, however, is not likely to have more than « temporary effect, but it is yet a welcome as well as a valuable sanitary improve-

ment while it lasts.

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