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West Coast Times, Issue 2168, 11 September 1872, Page 2

Those of our readers who delight in looking at resplendent jewellery cannot do better than pay a visit to Mr N. Salomon at the

Cafe de Paris. The exhibition of gems sot for ornaments of all descriptions which Mr Salomon displays are really worth inspection and though Iris purpose is to sell, he will be found willing enough to gratify the curiosity of any one who has no iutcntion to buy. It would be quite impossible to describe within reasonable limits the magnificence of some of the jewelled ornaments contained in Mr Salomon's collection,' and as notlriug which I we could say would give eveu a faiut notion of their splendor we advise a visit. We may mention that Mr Salomon has given xip business in Dunedin, and now has with him his entire stock, which he is determined to sell even at a sacrifice. Our Stafford Town correspondent writes that a public meeting was held' at Reed's Concert Hall, Stafford Town, on Saturday evening last, when Mr Barff explained the injustice which would be done to the mining population if the proposed Gold Mining Bill became law. Mr Barff also gave an account of his actions in the County Council. The meeting, which was a large one, after passing an unanimous vote of thanks to the speaker, separated. j The Rev. William Hogg, Presbyterian Minister at Ross, was a passenger by the coach to Christchurch yesterday. He will be absent from his Ministry for about three weeks, and the Moss Guardian says that Mr C. E. Button will occupy the pulpit in the Presbyterian Church on the Sabbath evenings, pending the return of Mr Hogg. At the Bauco Sittings, yesterday, the arguments in the case of Drury, appellant, v. Cooney and Armstrong, respondents, were concluded. His Honor reserved judgment. The appeal case of Diniant v. M'Ennis. was called, but was not proceeded with. It will be taken at 10 o'clock this morning, when Mr Guinness, for the applicant, will open the arguments in support of the appeal . Mr South has been retained by the County authorities to support the decision of the Resident Magistrate at Ross appealed from. Mr John White' has addressed, by telegraph, the following to the Greymouth Evening Siar: — " Sir, — Permit mo to salute those fervid enthusiasts whose burning zeal found congenial employment iv consigning my effigy to the flames, and to express my regret at being denied the gratification of being present in propria persona to witness the conflagration. May the incense from the burnt offering sweeten the sacrificial instincts of my annihilators, but let me remind them • though I have been extinguished yet there rise a thousand beacons from the spark I bore. — Yours, &c, John White." Drake has made an offer through the Greg River Argus to run Pat Twohill a distance of from one hundred to five hundred yards, or all included distances, Twohill to hare the choice of starting. The Grey River Argus says :—": — " We are informed that some trouble is being given to mailmen and others by a troublesome customer in the Grey Valley, who will deserve to find liimself in trouble if he pursue the course he is at present taking. > We refer to Mr Montgomery, formerly ferryman. As we are informed, he levies or tries to levy, as the presumed proprietor of a track, " black mail," from mail contractors and other Government employees who are distinctly understood to be exempt from any charges, and he threatens to interrupt the highway unless his demands are complied with. The matter is one in which the Post Office and County authorities should at once take action with a view to the protection of public rights if these rights are at all infringed upon." The following amusing case, heard in the Magistrate's Court, Greymouth, is reported iv the Argus of yesterday :— " Dennis O'Driscoll was charged by Eleanor O'Driscoll with assault. The complainant, in her own statement and in reply to questions from the Bench, said : 'My name is Eleanor O'Driscoll, but I was married to him in the name of Eleanor Osborne. He took that name on account of his being a ' professional' — on account of his danciug on the stage. When I was a-lying in bed on Friday night, about about three o'clock in the morning, he came home rather the worse of liquor, and set to beating me most unmercifully. He cut me about the head, and sefme up in the nose. Dr Morice had ,to strap up my head, Sir — just as you see. He kept kicking me, and split my small toes into two halves. I tried to prevent him kicking me in the face, and he kicked me right in between the two toes. I was fast asleep iv bed when he came home and did this. This is the first time for seven years I have fetched him to a police court. Yes, he has ill-used me before this. Six months ago Dr Smith had to sew up my lips. Please, Sir, I don't want him to be anything but only bouud over to keep the peace on his recognisance, for there is not a gentleman in the place who will become sureties for him. — The complainant added that she had no wituesses, and immediately left the Court, without waiting to hear the Magistrate's decision. — His Worship made an order for the defendant, who did not appear, to find sureties to keep the peace for six months — himself in £6, and two sureties for £3 each." The Wellington correspondent of the Dunediu Star gives the following description of Mr Arthur Collins :— " Mr Collins has a nasty way of speaking, as he gets out what is on his mind and then apologises — a very convenient way, however, to get himself reported. His attack on the Treasurer, was unworthy of any man pretending to be a gentleman." A meeting of the Directors of the Energetic and Inangahua Companies took place at the Albion Hotel, Greymouth, on Mouday evening, when it was resolved that tenders be called for at once for the conveyance of machiney to the Company's claim, and that the erection be proceeded with without delay. The death of another old Victorian colonist is thus recorded by a Geelong paper: — " Mr Frederick Champion, who died at Newtonhill, on Friday,'in the 81st year of his age bad long held the commission of the peace, was widely known, and universally respected. He was one of the early Tasmanian settlers, taking an active part in the events of the time. He was one of seven who were out fourteen days and nights without changing their clothes, protecting the settlers from the gang of bushrangers who escaped from Macquarie Harbor, and whose first exploit was surprising a large party of gentlemen at a dinner party at Pitwater (Mr Bethune being at the head of the table), taking their plates, and enjoying the spread, while they

made the former occupants c i the table wait upon thorn. Mr F. Champiou was for some yeara a merchant at llobart Town, and came over to Geelong shortly after the discovery of gold at Buninyong and Ballavat. Entering into trade, ho succeeded in making a sufficient competence, on \vhich ho retired, and erecting a house at Newton, ho resided there up to his demise."

The Ararat Advertiser of the 16th inst. says :—": — " We have before called attention to the accumulated misfortunes of a man named George Baird, who, with a wife and six children, came from Burrumbeet, towards the end of last August, to take up a small selection of land in the area of Chapman. On his arrival here lie went to work clearing ground for another selector. The first day lie was so engaged a tree fell upon him, breaking his arm and leg. He became an inmate of the hospital, and his wife and family sought relief from the benevolent society. On leaving the hospital, though unable to use his hand with any degree of efficiency, he again began to do a little in the way of clearing ground, and while so doing another tree fell, this time on his wife, who was assistiug in the work. Besides sustaining a severe scalp wound, the woman's leg was broken, and she became an inmate of the hospital. Anxious about her young family, so soon as she was able to get about tolerably well on crutches, she left the institution. The poor woman had not long been at home, however, when she slipped and fell, breaking her leg a second time, but uot in the same place. She was admitted into the hospital yesterday week, and is, we are informed, progressing favorably. Baird himself is stilt uuable to work for his family, not having recovered the proper use of his broken arm, the muscles haying been seriously injured." By way of impressing the ravages of smallpox in the pre-Jennerian period on people's minds in a manner more picturesque than that of ordinary statistics, a writer in one of the foreign medical journals selects the history of a few Royal houses. Thus it appears that of the descendents of Charles I. of Great Britain, up to the date of 1712, five ■were killed outright by small-pox, namely* his son, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and his daughter Mary, wife of the Prince of Orange and mother of William 111., and three of the children of James H., namely, Charles, Duke of Cambridge, 1677; Mary, Queen of England and wife.of William IH., in 1694; and the Princess Maria Louisa, in 1712. This does not include, of course, severe attacks not fatal, like those of Queen Anne, William HI., and others. Of the immediate descendents of his co-temporary, Louis XIV. of Prance — who himself survived a severe attack of small-pox — five also died of it in the interval between 1711 and 1774, namely, his son Louis, the Dauphin, and the Dauphiness, his wife, in 1712; their son, the Due de Bretagne, and Louis XV., the great grandson of Louis XIV. Among other royal deaths from small-pox in the same period were those of Joseph 1., Emperor of Germany, in 1711; Peter 11., Emperor of Russia, in 1730; Henry Prince of Russia,in 1767; Maximilian Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, in 1777. ' A writer in the Albany (New York State) Argus gives the following account of the dressmaking establishment of Princess Pierre Bonaparte, in London: — "A sober page in buttons conducts the visitor to a room arranged with a taste and an elegance which English match-makers— adopts in the art of catchpenny decorations — would do well to imitate. Quiet tones in the coloring of carpets and curtains, not too many mirrors nor a redundancy of gilding, and three or four valuable printß and paintings, as substitute for the usual garish pink and yellow. Here presides the Princess— a tall, very handsome woman — over a bevy of young workwomen she had obtained for her purpose from Paris, and whose unchignoned heads and plain neatnesß of dress are admirably in keeping with the practical business objects of the placeHaving -adopted dressmaking as a vocation, the Princess enters earnestly into the mercantile spirit, and desires the custom of the poor as well as the rich. There should be established in England, she thinks, ft 'good middle-class school of dressmaking, the same .as that which, in Paris, makes a grisette as neat, dainty, and as tasteful of dress, in her way, as any person/ and adds, • I buy dresses — a thousand francs each is cheap — of Worth, and by using them as models for my workwomen, can give my customers exact counterparts of his masterpieces at less than half his prices. Mine is f democratic ' dressmaking? you perceive, and I am not afraid of the world.' The ladies may be able to tell just how sound this speech is in art,and how much of good suggestion it may have for New York, as for London; but how thoroughly French is the whole tableau of princess turned ' modiste.' With full-length portraits of the parents of her husband's great ancestor, Napoleon 1., among the few pictures decorating the walls of her modest wareroom this formerly haughty lady of Auteuil not only adopts dressmaking with fervor, but expounds its art with a grace almost persuading the hearer to imagine that there may be really something princely in it."