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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 963, 7 June 1883, Page 2

Harrington, of Riverton, has backed out of the sculling match with Hearn The supporters of Hearn are indignant at Harrington refusing to meet their man after his throwing out the challenge. Mr John Corbett, of Greenstreet, brought from Invercargill yesterday an enormous turnip, measuring in circumference 4ft 4in, and weighing nearly 401bs. It is now on view in Mr Tait’a (saddler) window.

The members of the Otago Land Board were yesterday served with a notice of mandamus to compel them to issue a pastoral deferred payment license to Johnston, one of the purchase! s at a recent sale, to whom a license was refused. The Licensing Committee for Lambton *Ward, Wellington, referred yesterday to the frequency of transfers, and said that in future they would be careful in granting transfers. All present licenses were renewed, no restrictions of hours being named. A man named John Jones has been arrested for forging and uttering two promissory notes for L 35 and L2O 10s on the Bank of New South Wales. Wanganui. He was staying at a Dunedin hotel, and for several weeks’ board left these notes as security.

A very successful movement is being made at Invercargill for the relief of the distressed inhabiiants of the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides. As yet only Scotsmen have been appealed to, but with handsome results, and it is hoped that the movement will become general throughout the coleny.

A public meeting under the auspices of the Otago Trades and Labor Council is to be held in the Dunedin Lyceum to-mor-row evening. It is expected tnat the city members and several suburban members of Parliament will address the meeting. The subjects to be discussed are the Eight Hours Bill, Corrupt Practices at Elections, the Seamen's Franchise, Extension of Polling Hours, Plurality of Voting, and Workmen’s Liens.

A number of gentlemen of Auckland intend to apply for the Puhipuhi block, lately passed through the Native Lands Court, Kawakawa, under the District Railways Act to construct a railway which joins the line at Kamo and ultimately go on to the Bay of Islands. Puhipuhi is a splendid forest of kauri, comprising hundreds of millions of feet of timber.

There was an improved attendance at the Town Hall last evening, when a panorama depicting scenes in the RusaoTurkish War was exhibited. The views were admirably painted, and Mr Stuart gave a very interesting account of the memorable campaign. All the strikiug incidents of war were illustrated, the attack in Plevna, and the fighting in the Schipka Pass being especially effective. A glowing eulogy upon the late General Skobeloff by the lecturer was greeted with loud applause. At the conclusion a number of valuable gifts were distributed. A newspaper correspondence is going on in Invercargill re the building of steamer wharf just inside the pilot station at the Bluff to accommodate large ocean steamers. There is a great depth of water there, and it is probable that a concrete quay only could be constructed. Against the scheme it is urged that the wharf would be exposed to S. E. winds and to the ocean range, but these ace not common nor strong as a rule. Such a wharf would enable steamers passing througn the straits to calj in without loss of half-an-hour. The present railway could be easily constructed to the point. The suggestion is principally made with a view to the frozen meat trade, as it is not likely these large steamers could come to the present wharf.

It has been estimated that the annual consumption of timber for railway sleepers for renewals of old, and for laying down new lines throughout the world, amounts to something like 500,000,000. If this

estimate is anything near the mark the forests of the world which afford timber suitable for the purpose must soon be exhausted. Allowing that on an average of all forests 100 sleepers could be procured from an acre, 5,000,000 of acres of forest per annum would be exhausted. But it is doubtful if, on an average, forests would yield 20 sleepers, because only certain classes of timbal are suitable so that we may safely estimate the number of forest acres exhausted yearly at 25,000,000. What will the world do for railway sleepers a few years hence ? And not railways only are to be considered ; the world is rapidly being deforestered to supply the demand for timber and otherwise. Large portions of the world are already suffering from deteriorated climate in consequence. Forest raising must ere long become a necessity, if not so already, throughout the world, or it will no longer be fitted for the habitation of man with the myriads of animalsneeded to supply his wants.

For downright hard swearing, says the Waikato Times of the 22nd inst., the Maori is not easily beaten. The motto, “What I says I says, and what I says I sticks to, and what I sticks to I swears to,” appears to be adopted in its entirety. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Cambridge, on last Friday, the evidence given by one of the defendants in tne case Montague v. Potatu and others, called forth a very plain expression of opinion from the Bench. We do not remember hearing the like except on the occasion of the Magisterial enquiry re the manslaughter at Oxford, when half-a-dozen on one side swore to the occurrences, distances, time, etc., with the minutest circumstantiality, although the utmost care was taken by the Court to prevent the possibility of collusion, the whole of which evidence was contradicted by half-a-dozen of the other side, who, also agreeing in the minutest particular, told quite another story. On that occasion, leaving the Court at the mid-day adjournment, our reporter remarked to a friend, a native interpreter, who had been present, that it would puzzle any jury to sift out the truth from the evidence, to which he replied, “Don’t you know how those fellows do it ? Why, they’ve been rehearsing for this trial night after night at their kainga until every man is letter-per-fect in his part. The devil himself couldn’t shake those fellows’evidence.”

In our yesterday’s issue a paragraph peared, taken from a contemporary, ill which a description was given of a fatal accident that took place at Melbourne recently. We were in complete ignorance that the victim of the mishap, Mr Cresswell, was related to Mr Quill, of this town, and from the evidence given at the inquest it appears that there was i othing said about drunkenness being a contributory cause of the accident. It need hardly be said t'uit we regret such an imputation should have been made, as it could not fail to hurt the feelings of Mr Gresswell’s friends and relations. The greatest appetizer, stomach, blood and liver regulator on earth —Hop Bitters. Look for and read.— [Advt.] Clergymen, lawyers, editors, bankers, and ladies need Hop Bitters daily, for nerve force. Read.— [Advt.]

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