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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3495, 11 May 1872, Page 2

Sittings in Banco will be held before his Honor Mr Justice Johnston this morning at eleven. The cases down for hearing are :— Roy v. Lyon, the Queen v. ■Fitzherbort, and Stuart v. Drower. The following is the report of the Provincial Council Audit Committee :— Your Committee report thattbey have examined the Provincial Treasurer's monthly accounts, and quarterly abstracts of receipts and expenditure, together with the books and vouchers for the financial year commencing Ist April, 1871, and ending 31st March, 1872, and they find that the accounts are in admirable order, and have been duly declared to by the Treasurer, and certified by the Provincial Auditor, Mr Wm. Dorsett. They find the balance at the credit of the province on 31st of March last, in the. Bank of New Zealand, to be £15,897 2b 3d, consisting of, aa follows : — General balance per cash book, £7793 19s Gd ; add cheques out, £387 16s 4d ; less cash on hand, £180 15s 3d, leaving £207 Is Id. Special debts accounts, per cash book, £7860 0s 6d ; add cheques out, £36 Is 2d. Total balance at Bank, 31st March, 1872, £15,897 2s 3d.~EDwaed Peahcb, Chairman. Council Chamber, Wellington, 7th May, 1872. As a finale to the Luckie-RichmoncJ correspondence! concerning the telegrams of the former gentleman in his capacity as Greville's agent, we take the following from the Colonist, which has republished all the letters that passed on the question. Mr Luckie says : — " It appears that Mr Richmond, who dared to say that I put something ' bordering on falsehood' in his mou<fh, can yet deliberately telegraph that the meeting was ' very orderly,' and that the vote of thanks ' was passed.' It was a current topic of conversation in town that the meeting was very much disturbed — very unlike the quiot meetings which generally 'occur in Nelson. I content myself with a simple and direct contradiction of Mr Richmond's statement, that the vote of thanks was passed. It was not. Nearly half the people were out of the hall before Mr Brown mounted the platform ; many people knew not what he said ; no seconder's voice was heard ; the chairman never put the motion, for the hall was speedily emptied, and the motion was not ' carried by acclamation.' Tho report of the matter, as given in the Colonist last Friday, very tenderly stated the occurrence, avoiding any narration of what was not done, it being preferred rather to understate than overstate a fact which must have been disagreeable to Mr Richmond and his friends. That report concluded aa follows : — ' Mr E. Barnes here got on the platform again, and the meeting began eapidly to dispebse, whereupon Mr Hunter Brown, amidst MUCH NOISE, AND IN THE MIDST OF THE DEPASTURE OF TITE AUDIENCE, proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Richmond, and the meeting at once broke up, about half-past ten.' Tenderness is occasionally misplaced, and it has so happened in this instance. The action of some is more like the impotent anger of a disappointed child than the conduct of a man of the world and a gentleman. — I am, &c, D. M. Luckie, Nelson. May 2, 1872. P.S. — I may add that I have, by consent, appointed a gentleman to act instead of myself as Greville's agent here during the election, for the purpose of shutting the mouths of those who are continually imagining evil of an opponent. A Gazette published yeuterdy contains a notification requesting officers of the Government to strictly confine the use of free telegrams to matters only of pressing importance, which do not admit of the delay of the mail, and to make such telegrams as brief as may be consistent with their being intelligible. And further, to avoid as much as possible the use of the telegraph on Sundays. Any infringement of these directions will be followed by the officer in fault being surcharged with the expense of the unnecessary work thus occasioned. It is hereby notified for general information that his Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be immigration officers : — Nelson — Alfred Greenfield, Esq ; Blenheim— John Barleyman, Esq ; Greymouth— James Wylde, Esq ; Hokitika — J. S. Browning, Esq; Christchurch — John Edwin March, Esq ; Timaru — F. LeCron, Esq ; Oamaru — John Locke, Eeq ; Dunedin— Colin Allan, Esq ; Invercargill — Walter H. Peal-son, Esq. And that John Edwin March, Esq, has been appointed Chief Immigration Officer for the Middle Island ; this appointment to date from Ist January last. — W. Reeves. The horse sale held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock by Messrs Bethune and Hunter, at their stockyards, was fairly attended ; but as the stock was not of such a good stamp as is generally knocked down at these sale yards, tho prices did not range very high. A lot of draught mares and horses (medium) ranged at prices varying from £17 10s down to £10 and £12; saddle horses (light), £4 to £5 ss. Some unbroken two-year old colts were knocked down at from £2 to £5. Two inferior unbroken colts could not find purchasers, and were knocked down for almost nothing. J. M. Tabute.au, Esq, has been appointed Registrar for the district of Napier; and E. P. Rich, Esq, to bo Deputy Registrar. We are requested to state that in consequence of extensive alterations being made in the old building used as Land Transfer and Deeds Registry offices, those offices will be closed to the public until Monday next, the 13th instant. The football match between the Wellington Club and tho Armed Constabulary will be played this afternoon (Saturday, 11th May), at Clapham's paddock, Thorndon, at half-past two o'clock. The following are the names of the different teams : — A.C. team — Mathias (captain), Beasley, Bowers, Carson, Day, Danvers, Evans, Garland, Hargood, Lockett, Phillips, Whitehead, and Wright, (Lowlher, emergency man). Club team — Blackott, Bishop, Arthur, Gore, Ischerwood. James, Kane, Kirk, Knapp, Lillie, Ludwig, M'Loan, Park, Worry, and Withevby (Dougherty, Snow, and Hoggard, emergency men). As the club has not elected their captain for this season, the captain for to-day's match will be elected by the team on the ground. Members are requevsted to bo up to time, so that the game may commence punctually at the hour above stated. Seats will be provided for the ladies. We understand that there are some English players amongst (ho A. C. team, so that many look forward to see some good play, if the day should prove fine. According to a correspondent of the N. Z. Herald, his Excellency and suite had excellent shooting at the Mauku (Stanlake), nearly fifty brace being bagged for the day.

Henvy Carter, we learn from yesterday's Gazette, applied on the 7ih for an iuvention for malting casks, tubs, buoy?, or other cylindrical-shaped vessels, either straight, bilged, or conical, or the frustrum of a cone, to be known as a combined i cask- making machine. j We notice that Mr James Berber, Lambton Quay, is about initiating a musical circulating library. The institutution will be more of ft provincial char acter than merely a convenience for townspeople; its country subscribers are enabled by giving one day's notice to exchange monthly sixteen pieces ; and every subscriber is entitled to the proportion of four fresh pieces of musie per week, being 208 per annum, which may be exchanged not oftener than once a week. Subscribers can also retain music for their own use by paying half price. A splendid four-oared skiff, fitted with outriggers, has been built by Mr Morgan, of the Thames, to the order of one of the Auckland boat clubs. It was intended to have been completed in time for the intercolonial match at Christchurch, but owing to the delay which occurred before the material could be procured the agreement could not bo carried out. The skiff is in all 46 feet in length, and is built entirely of cedar. It is finished in the most exquisite taste, and reflects great credit on the builder. — Advertiser, May 2. Mr W. Skey, writing from the Laboratory of the Geological Survey, New Zealand, directs our attention to a paragraph in our Science Gossip, July 22nd, 1871, in uhich we, quoting from Mr Wilkinson's address before the Royal Society of Victoria, gave him credit for observing the deposition of gold from its solutions upon already formed nuggets, thus indicating the probable mode of the formation of nuggets. It appears that Mr Wilkin* son stated that he had merely verified the correctness of the assertions and experiments of Mr Dam tree, who was the first to observe this remarkable fact, and to publish it. Mr Daintreo is now in England, and is engaged on a series of inves tigations to determine, if possible, under what conditions silver can be deposited simultaneously with gold, and thus further to illustrate the conditions under which the silvery gold of some parts of New Zealand and other goldfields may have been produced, — Aihenamm, Jan. 6. The Victorian Drawback Regulations have already been of greut service to some of the Melbourne merchants. In reply to a deputation the Commissioner of Customs made the following remarks : — " It was not for him to say who were respentable and who were not respectable firms, but he knew that lately one shipment of rubbish had been made for the purpose of getting drawbacks, and that another was attempted. Any shipment lost at sea would be allowed a drawback." Mr George Augustus Sala intends visiting the Australian colonies next year. He will give readings and lectures in all principal colonial towns. A letter from Ngaruawahia says : — " Numbers of natives are daily arriving here en route for the ' big talk' shortly to take place." Referring to a telegram recently published, the New Zealand Herald saya : — It is quite plain that the Waikatos are beginning to realise their true position, and that they find they can no longer control the native policy. When William King, "the root of the evil," has como in and made his peace with the Government there is little room for Tawhiao and his followers to stand aloof. They have not the active support of the tribes as formerly ; and we are justified in looking forward, at no distant date, to a final and satisfactory settlement of the " native difficulty." The Fiji Ministry are determined to carry out their laws vi et armis, A late number of the Times says : — By arrival of the Vivid, cutter, from Windward Islands, the Government have received a reinforcement of twenty-three Tongese troops. This is a valuable addition to the brigadealready in Levuka, and swells the force at the command of the Ministry to such extraordinary dimensions that they will be able to take the Government of the country into their own hands and enforce the laws of the realm. Quietness reigns in mining matters at the Wakaraarina, and it is reported the Nelson Dredging Company are defunct or collapsed. The speculation proved anything but remunerative. The Nelson raailbag, recently lost on the way to Havelock, was picked up some five miles down the Sound, after having been carried by water twelve miles. The letters were in a good state of preservation, the seal unblemished, and everything alTright excepting a large plaid in which it was wrapped. The Olago Daily Times says : — " An association for the promotion of National education, in New Zealand has been organised in Dunedin, and has issued a prospectus, in which it claims to aim at the establishment of a National unsectarian system of education for the colony. The Association does not desire that the rending of the Bible in school should be enjoined or prohibited in the proposed Colonial Act, but will be content if the matter is left to the decision of the School Committees. Petitions to the House of Representatives, embodying the views held by the Association, are being circulated throughout the province of Otago for signature." The private residence of Mr G. Duncan, Rattray street, has been purchased by the Roman Catholic community as a residence for the Roman Catholic Bishop and clergy of Dunedin, for £2300. We (LytteltonTimes) hoar from a gen tieman who has lately seen this invention of Mr Joseph Carlile's at work, that it answers the purpose for which it is intended most admirably. A few days since, a farmer at Prebbleton had two sacks of oats threshed by one of Clayton and Shuttleworth's combines, yielding 1000 bushels, and no less than 30 bushels were saved by this apparatus, or 3 per cent ; and it is thought that with one of Hornsby's the saving would bo even greater. We give a brief outline of the invention which may thus bo described : — " The elevator and shaking npparatus is composed of three leather bands, with laths attached at intervals of two inches apart, and spikes not more than two inches long. The lath belt which is endless, runs inside a box, and goes at a speed from 400 to 600 feet per minute, by which tho shake is generated, the corn thus saved falls on to a shaking board, with blank surface over a riddle, which divides tho short straw from tho grain, passing from thonce up a small elevator over a blast free of chaff into bags hung in the usual way. An Auckland paper of a recent dato says : — " Maoris are sending their children to schools where the English language is taught, both at tho Thames and in Hawko's Bay. Mr Commissioner Locke states that in the latter province, at Maketu, he saw a Maori girl acting as tutoress, and teaching European and half caste children in the English language, and that great progress was being made."

A Cororaandel contemporary states that double tho number of carpenters could be profitably employed there if they could j only be obtnined, and adds that there are \ great complaints of tho scarcity of labour j generally".- j The Havelook correspondent of the | Nelson Examiner says that a fatal accident occurred there on the sth, by which a man known as "Lanky" (Johnstone is his veal nnme) was killed in an exceptionally painful manner. It appears that after starting work in the morning, the man proceeded to draw up one of the large logs (containing about 1000 feet of timber) in the usual manner, on a truck kept for that purpose; when at the door of the Rhed it caught one of the door-jams, caus-* ing one of the wedges to move, then rolled offfcbe ways into such a position that no other logs could be brought up until it was shifted. All the hands were then employed for that purpose, and the unfortunate man was below the log with wedges chocking it up, as they succeeded in moving it ; just when success had nearly crowned their efforts it took another slide on the iron rail, causing one of the cant hooks to strike Johnstone, and before he could recover himself rolled completely over him, crushing every bone in bis body, disintegrating the bowels, and leaving him nothing but a lifeless mass — death was instantaneous. Three or four of the other hands narrowly escaped. The Victorian Government intend to give the Fairlie engine a trial on the Victorian railways. The following letter has been received by H. S. McKellar, Esq., Collector of Customs, Auckland .—" March 8, 1872— Dear Sir — I have found a five hores gig. She is painted wife and red she ar been in here fhree weeks we here she is from the terns we wont to know who hones her send me an hanser as quio a you can and you will oblige yours ruiy •." All Freemasons Lodges in Calcutta and Bombay were to be put into mourning for three months, on account of Lord Mayo's death. A man, named Paul Millar, recently died at Hokitika of want and exposure previous to his admission to gaol, to which, out of mercy, he had been sent as a vagrant. The cod liver oil made at Port Chalmers ban been pronounced excellent in all the required qualities by the Medical Society of Victoria. The Dunediu correspondent of the Grey River Argus writes : — " A most extraordinary suicide was perpetrated at Waikaka a few days ago. The party, a miner, lived in a hut alone, and before he hanged himself put on a complete suit of woman's apparel — stockings, boots, chemise, stays, petticoats, and over all a black silk gown ; while to keep the rope from hurting him, or breaking the skin of his neck, he had folded a towel neatly, so as to come between the rope and his neck. He had been dead for some time when found. Verily, the man must have been methodically mad." Telegrams were received at Nelson on the 7th from Westport, stating that the block of buildings which includes the Empire Hotel, is in imminent danger. The sea had made considerable encroachment, and it is feared that the entire block of buildings on the west side of Gladstone street will be destroyed, if not immediately removed by the owners.