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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1008, 24 November 1883, Page 2

The Auckland Racing Club have decided to remove the disqualification from tho trainer Ray. The Summerhill Estate, at Kaitangata, Otago, the property of the late Mr Rutherford, M.fl.R. for Bruce, was offered at auction yesterday. The best offer was L 9,100, but the reserve was L 9,500. The annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company was held yesterday, at which the report and balancesheet were adopted, AlO per cent dividend was declared, L 2,000 carried to the reserve fund, and L 1 ,384 carried forward. Tho Hon Matthew Holmes and Mr li. Gidiea, the retiring Directors, were reelected.

At the Wellington Appeal Court yesterday, the case of Scott v the Northern Shipping Co. was heard. This was an appeal from Judge Gillies, Auckland. Scott travelled by one of the Company’s steamers from Tauranga to Auckland, and among his luggage was a case containing jewellery of considerable value. During the voyage, or at all events, on arrival of the vessel at Auckland, the box could not be found, and Scott brought the action to recover the value of the goods, judgment being given for defendants. It was against this decision Scott now appealed. After arguments, their Honors upheld the decision of the Court below, and dismissed the appeal, on the grounds that no knowledge was given to the Company’s servants of the nature of the contents, and 1 that there was no contract between the, parties to carry merchandise. The costs were L9O,

It is stated that the four principal Oama:u breeders, Messrs M. Holmes, John Reid, E Menlove and the N.Z and A.L. Co., havo mutually agreed not to show any stock at Christchurch for at least three years. Breeders of stock in the Ashburton district will be glad to hear that Mr Quill has been successful in retaining the services of the entire horse Cassivelaunus until tho end of the present season. As it was the intention of the owner, Mr Drdson, to t ike the horse back to Dunedin, owing to the death of Mr Allan Hobbs, who was in charge, Mr Quill deserves the thanks of breeders of good stock.

A meeting of the Committee appointed to arrange tho programme of sports to be held on Anniversary Day, took place at Messrs Matson, Cox and Co.’s office yesterd <y afternoon, Mr Gundry occupying the chair. The following officials were appointed : Judges ; Messrs C. 0. Fooks.'S. B. Nelson, M. Stitt, D. Thomas, and Dr Leahy ; Handicappers : Messrs J. Anderson and M. 0. 0. Digby ; Timekeeper, Mr H* Zander ; and Starier, Mr S. Saunders. The programme prepared, i 1 an excellent one, »nd should the wevther be fine the sports cannot fail to be a success.

Mr Iluskin, writing in his most characteristic style of London life says : “ The tendency of the entire national energy is to approxima 0 more and more to the state of a squirrel in a cage, or a turnsp t in a wheel, fed by foreign masters with nuts and dog’s meat. And, indeed, when we rightly conceive the relation of London to the country, the sight of it becomes more fantastic and wonder'ul than anv dream. Hyde park, in the season, is the great rotatory form of the vast squirrel cage; round and round it go the idle company, in their reversed streams, urging themselves to their necessary exer cise. They cannot, with safety, even eat their nuts without so much revolution as shall ‘ comply with the demands of hygiene.’ Then they retire into their boxes, with due quantity of straw, the Belgravian and Piccadillian streets outside the railings being, when one sees clearly, nothing but tho squirrel’s box at the outside of his wires. And then think of all the rest of the metropolis at the creation and ordinance of these squirrels, that they may squeak and whirl to their satisfaction, and yet be fed.” In the course of the recent cruise made in the Pembroke Oastle by Mr Gladstone, the right hon. gentleman was along with his friend, the Poet Laureate, presented with the freedom of the northern burgh of Kirkwall. Mr Gladstone made a most felicitous speech on the occasion, and pronounced a warm panegyric on the work of the poet. He said, “Mr Tennyson’s life and labors correspond in point of time as nearly as possible to my own, but his exertions have lain in a higher plane of human action than my own. He has worked in a higher field, and his work will be more durable. We public men

who play a part which places us much in view of our countrymen are subjected to the dangers of being momentarily intoxicated with the kindness, the undue homage of kindness we may receive. It is our business to speak, but the words which we speak have wings, and fly away, and disappear. The work of Mr Tennyson is of a higher order. I anticipate for him the immortality for which England and Scotland have sup plied in the course of their long national life many claims. Your record to-day of (lie additions that have been made to your municipal body may happen to be examined in distant times, and some may ask with regard to the Prime Minister, ‘ Who was he, and what did ho do ? We know nothing about him ’ But the poet laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die. Time is powerless against him.” A fe.v days ago (says the New York Times) an American schooner met with a remarkable, not to say unprecedented, turtle. The reptile was sleeping peacefully on the surface of the water in the neighborhood of the banks, and when it was first seen it was supposed to be the hull of a capsized vessel. On approaching close to it, however, tho schooner’s people saw that the suop ised hull was a turtle about 60£t long and 40ft broad. As it was decidedly larger than the schooner, the latter wisely forbore to attempt to capture it and sailed away, leaving the turtle directly in the path of the Atlantic steamers, any one of which vessels nr y run into it. Tho existence of gigantic turtles of the dimensions of the one in question has never been suspected, chiefly because such excessive animals have never before been seen. When we remember that a turtle 60

feet lo >g and 40 feet wide must dr iw at least 15 feet of water, wo can understand that such turtles have never approached near enough to land to be seer., much less to be pursued and turned on their backs by floating derricks. It is probable that they spend nearly all their time below the surface of the water, coming up to breathe only at night. With such habits it is no wonder that no one has seen a 60-feet , turtle until the other day. If the sea contains turtles as large as a small-sized island, they must be exceedingly dangerous to shipping. If a steamer runs into the turtle seen by the American schooner, that steamer will be wrecked as certainly as if she were to run on one of the Scilly Islands, Turtles even when floating on the surface of the water, lie so low that they can be seen with difficulty, and as they carry no side-lights, it is quite impossible to see them after dark. The simple fact is that the commerce of the world is at the mercy of the turtles, and wo shall never know how many of the vessels that are reported ‘'missing” have struck on turtles and gone to the bottom without a moment’s warning. The experience of the captain and crew of the American schooner already mentioned may, however, be interpreted as an evidence of the terrible effects of adulterated liquors. Pure whisky, as is well known, leads to discoveries of sea serpents. The liquor that results in gigantic turtles must be a horrible compound, and in the interest of science the people of the American schooner should tell us where they procured their liquor, and submit a specimen of it—if any remains—to some competent chemist for analysis.

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