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Western Star, Issue 464, 23 July 1881, Page 2

The adjourned public meeting to consider the question of County Councils r. Road Boards, and other matters of importance to the distriGt, will take place at Thornbury on Tuesday next, at one .o’clock. On the former occasion the programme was found too large' to be carried out at one meeting, and it was agreed to defer the discussion of this question until next '

The wed known Clydesdale entire horse, Young Prince of Wales, which was shipped for Melbourne last week, died on the passage. The horse was not insured.

At the weekly meeting of the Waste Land Board held on Thursday, the- application of the following parties for land were granted : —R. Bellinger, section 7. block 3, Wairio; E. Harrison, sections 277-78, Taribgatura. Morgan Hayes’ application to purchase 355 acres in block 6, Longwood, was held over for report, the Board being desirous of further information as to the quality of the land, which the applicant said was fit only for. grazing , purposes, while the chairman’s recollection was that it was first-class agricultural land. The report of the Inspector of Forests showed that 1,029,f>58 feet of timber, the royalty on which, was £l2B 15s 9d, had , been cut from Grown lands during the month. The applications to purchase' by P. Halloran, section 72, Wairio was granted,

Mr J. Webb intimates that he has commensed business at Thornbury as carpenter, forwarding agent, &c.

Strong south west gales are reported from the North. The express train from Christchurch, which is due at the latter place at 8.40 p.m., did not arrive until 1 o’clock on Thursday morning owing to the line on the other'side of Ashburton being flooded. The train got ns far as Chertsey, between Eakaia and Ashburton, but there it was found that the line was under water. A trolly was brought into requisition, and on it the passengers, mails,-and parcels were conveyed over the break, a distance of about five miles. Another train was. waiting there, and it brought the. passengers through, good time being made over the southern part of the journey. One or two shipping casualties'are also reported. The more serious is the stranding ot the Maggie Paterson, a Dur.edin schoonei*, bouod to Dunedin from Greymouth with coal. The latest news is that she is expected to be got off when-'the’'cargoes discharged.

A new volcano lias made its appearance at sea near Cnpe Colville, off the Cororvian'lel Peninsula, and apparently at ho great distance from the Island of Kavvau. Captain Fairchild of the Stilla, has’been examining the locality and has reported as follows to the Marine Department upon it||by telegraph j—“ Thera is no mistake about the by Captain Anderson near _ the Channel Island, o jf Cape Colville. We found it without any trouble. The water is boiling up like a spring for the space of about a 100 feet-. 7 The Channel Island bears N. by W. three quarters of a mile. The water is muddy and yellow The yellow water drifts away with-the tide, and is in the shape very much like the tail of a camel. There is no change in sounding. The least water found was-24 fathoms, so navigators need not be afraid to go their usual tracks when passing there. I took the Stella on to the spot and.dropped the lead into the’ the centre. of.the : -boil, and there found 24 fathoms. I left the lead., down. .as long, as I co aid to see if it would come Up hot, but t came up quite .A'olJ, and brought up broVeu shells.”

The monthly Government inspection of the Riverton Rifl-s will take place on Monday. Weather permitting the Hussars will muster for mounted - drill at 2.30 sharp; foot drill and sword exercise at 7 p-tnV.U

The business of tbs- R.M. "Court on Thursday was pflm unimportant nature. TKFcSse of Patlison vi M'Donald, a claim of £2O was struck out, meithor parties putting in an appearance when called upon. At a later stage plaintiff explamed that he was detained by defendant in trying to come to an arrangement about payment of the money, hut his worship declined to hear the case that day.= Judgment was given for plaintiff in the following cases s—-’Vaughan r. Lee Guy, £12.75, lid; Sun Yo Lee v. Ah Wan, £ll Is 9d. In the case of Taylor arid Co. v. Chong Ton, a claim of £6 lls sd, defendant pleaded-the Statute of Limitations, This applied to the bulk of the goods, but no notice of the set-off having been given, judgment was given for plaintiff for the full amount and costs. Hunt y. Murdoch—Plaintiff claimed 12s as boat hire for two days. Defendant paid 5s into court, put in a set-off of 2s and pleaded not indebted for the balance, his contention being that the amount agreed upon was 7s. Judgment was given for plaintiff, with costs.

Our Lumsden correspondent writes on 21st inst. as follows I see Sletter-in the “Times” to-day in reference to railway employees being overworked, with 1 'which 4 quite agree. The writer should also ffiaye Yakgtt, notice of the ‘disgraceful neglect of the authorities in not !providing our railway"porter" with necessary .uniform, As he is employed at cleaning lamps, shunting, and other dirty work, it would bo advisable to give him two suits a year instead of one. The return of expenditure on the Mararoa railway is before me, by which I observe that about £lo,ooohas been spent —a tidy little sum for the convenience of one sheep station. The maintenance of the same will cost no small amount, as in opening the ballast pit the contractors have gone so near the embankment that it compels the surfacemen to re-embank to save the permanent way from slipping. This, sir, is disgracefk work on some one’s part.—Mr Todd hold a sale of pigs and horses to-day.—l beg to rectify a mistake made in my last with respect to the collection by Mr Howells for the poor woman. The collection was made in the town instead of in the hall. —I am glad to see we have advocates in your district for some of the poor natives. If your new settlers want room, let them come this way, and they can go thirty miles any way they like without disturbing the rightful owners of the soiK—We shall be able to show strength next election there being 200 names oh our roll instead of .2or 3at last election. Mr Daniel has had 29 additional names put on during the past week 1

The parliamentary correspondent of the Southland Times wires on Thursday night To-day Mr Hirst put the following question to the Ministeir of Public Works: —If fie will take steps to destroy -the rabbits on the Thornbury and Otautau railway embankments and railway reserve's ? According to the statement he made in support of the question, the reserves and embankments alluded to are complete nests of the rabbits, and in answer to a remark made by Mr Hall he stated that he had gone over tlk> ground within the last few days and he eo\3|S testify from personal observation the rabbits infested the ground in hundreds of millions (!) —Mr Hall said that he had received information to the effect that the engineer bad used poisoned wheat, and in that way had succeeded in mitigating the evil. The indifference shown in mitigating the evil on their own lands had had the effect of completely stultifying his endeavours to cope with the evil.—Mr Hirss was understood to retort that the fact was precisely the opposite, and that the neighbouring owners had cause to complain of the indifference of the railway authorities;

On Wednesday a man named Hugh Lucas was fined 35s for being drunk and disorderly at Otautau on Tuesday. Constable Buchanan said bo received a telegram from a resident of that township, requesting him to go up and arrest Lucas, who was creating a disturbance and brandishing a knife in a threatening manner. The constable accordingly proceeded to Otautau and took prisoner in charge, and after considerable'trouble brought him to Riverton, a buggy, having had to be hired for the purpose. A second charge was preferred against Lucas, that of being of unsound mind. From the evidence! given by Sergt. Fickle, the presiding justiee (Mr Daniel) remanded prisoner to Invercargill for medical examination. Wo are glad to learn that several concessions asked for by Messrs, M'Killop and Traill, sawmillers, are likely to bo granted by the railway authorities. The promise has been given that the question of erecting a siding will be favourably considered, and a train will be run up the line to clear the timber away two or three timesf a week. In connection- withAdns latter matter, if a train were announced to run -to the end of the section at stated intervals, say every alternate day, it would "prove a great convenience to the residents of Round Hill,- and would also overtake a considerable portion of tl'.e Paihi Flat and. Orepuki traffic. Wo learn that the Company’s Aparima estate will shortly bo cut up into farms of convenient size, which will bo sold on very easy terms.

Information was. receded in, town on Wednesday that a man named William Reynolds, son of a rabbiter at Wroy’s Bush, 1 was found dead in a ditch. Deceased and a settlor flamed Smith were engaged-fencing on the latter’s property at. Wairio on Tuesday, when Smith left and went into the township on business. :!On returning the following day, he found Reynolds lying in the ditch face downwards;- quite dead. Deceased was subject to epileptic fits, and it is suppesed that lie was seized with an attack and fell in the ditch and became suffocated. The coroner on b'eing did nobdeem an inquest' j necessary. ■*' * The A trogp- rcjf)HuSsai? Kald.vja muster at Wallacetown yesfordayw There were present ■ MajSr Biirwell/iCapt. "Gardner, jfjieuf.’ Tapper land about;, 2Q, froOplray and .men - and horses were subjected to a couple of hours formation i and Thompson. Messrs Taylor and Pattison’s application for permission td cut a sludge channel tqithe | Round Hill workings, via Lake. George, came on for hearing at the Warden’s Court on | Thursday, before Mr McCulloch, Warden. S. Edwards objected to the application on the ■ ground'rthat it; would interfere with the Orawera channel, which lie held. He solemnly protested against the application being granted, which he said he would not do if he thought the channel would be of any benefit to the district.- Mr Taylor produced a copy of the i " Western Star,” where a letter appeared, i containing Mr Edwards’ objections, which seemed to be on the ground that the lake would be an attraction to tourists and as a breeding place for ducks and swans; if the application was refused on these grounds, ho said, the effect woukLbe To put a stop to all ■ enterprise. When the proper time came be (Mr Taj lor) said he would question Edwards’ right to the Orawera channel. By draining the lake a large tract of auriferous country would be opened upland if the right were granted the applicants were prepared to go on with the work at oh cel The Warden said the application was not in order ; it ought to have been made in accordance with schedule D of the Act, not under the Regulations. The applicants should also have forwarded a plan of the work, and been more explicit in describing its boundaries and route. To allow of these particulars being supplied, and also to learn ■ what land would bo interfered - with; he adjjonrned, the hearing of thorcase until August 116th.' " ' ‘ v ‘ “ v — . j■; —— ■ i::