SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 473, 17 July 1871, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

THIS DAT.

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FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT T l

TOOKETS—A MAN KILLED

POLICE COURT.

THE SHABE MARKET.

G-RA.HAMSTOWW, 3 p.m. Thkbk is a better enquiry here this morning for mining stock. Caledonians hnve been sold at £105 to £107 10s; Thames, £22 to £22 10a; Tookey, £22 to £23.

A frightful accident occurred here on Saturday night, by which a man named Gilbert Seymour Hall lost his life. The deceased fell down Tookey's siiaft and broke his neck, some time about 12 o'clock on Saturday night. He was List; seen alive shortly before that time, going home, towards * the ■Moauatairi. The body was fouud iv the shaft, in the 100 feet level this morning, with his head lying under his body. Deceased was a native of Prescott, England, and came out from homo some years ago. He belougod to a wealthy family. An inquest is now being held on the body.

At the Police Court, thjs inorning, Mary Bedford was charged with being drunk and using obscene language. For the first charge she was sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and. for the second throe} months. Jane Heaton . as charged with breaking four panes glass at Holclship's window, and entering the premises illegally. She wad seuteuced, on the first charge, to be imprisoned for two mouths, and for the second charge to six months. [FJIOM TO-DAY'S " .ADTKBTISEE."] . Tins Cm: op London—The fine prospects of t.lul iuTi'io lire ?iO\v attracting a good deal of nUentiou, notwithstanding the depression. that, exists in other matters. The lode has opened ;out into a fine body, almost seven feet thick, and gives indications of Tory considerable richness. The long deferred trial crushing is expect eel to take place next -week,, The sliaivliolilers are all anxious to have the quality of tlio lode tested in the mill, and. the direct ova to rniso money to carry on the works without making another call. Should the parcel turn out as satisfactorily as it is expected to do, the shaft which is at present sunk from the long crews-cut driTe will be raised to the surface, and a whim erected and other requisites arranged for more systematic Working than can be carried on in the present state of Affair?. The wretched weather of the last tiibiifch Jins much, retarded progress iv" this direotiou. • . . V

The Quicen of Bkauty.—This., rnit-e continues to maintain its prestige,. Jfc .(jonstantly employs Qow's machine, and the stuff has continued to yield very remunerative itvorages of from 2 ozs. to 3 ozs. to the tori. The show ou (he tables during the last week has been fully up to farmer .appearances,.and. another excellent yiefd may be looked for as, the result, of the retorting. The Dauntless and Sink to BitfE.— There ia 1i1.t.10 chance noticeable in" the appearance of tho crushing w'lioh is nowgoiug on at l,he Princo Alfred battery for this company. Tlio general stuff is crushing rather jjoorly, but there is a nice lot 'of specimens on hand, which when crushed will make the average something over an ounce to the ton,. The crushing will not be completed this week. ' ; :; • i

; The Long Duivk.—The brushing for the Long Drive is showing a very great improve* ment over that, put through on the last occasion. It is evirlcut that the yield will be' much larger in proportion to .the quantity of stuff crushed, from the present appearance of the plates. . . ,", ,„■",

An officer on a field-day happened to be thrown from hishtJrse, and as he lay sprawling on the ground, said to a'friend who caino to vis assistance, "I thought I had improved in niy riding, but I find £ have fallen off." A That i>ob the Episcopal Bench.—Sir Kobert Walpole once wanting to carry a question in the House of Lords, not being quite sure of some of the bishops, prevailed upon the Archbishop of Canterbury to stay at home"for two or three days. In.the meantime Sir Bobert circulated a report that his grace was dangerously ill. On the day of meeting the House was crowdod'.with lawn sleeves, not one of whom voted against the JV.'I raster. ■ ■ ■ ' v It is clearly ascertained that in India and China tho cane has been cultivated and sugar prepared from it, from the most remote times. For its discovery the Hindoos account by the following tradition:—Once, in a very,early a|e, a vessel from, the, Indian -peninsula' sailed into the distant parts of the Eastern: seas. It happened to touch at a small unin-, habited island, and, as one of the crew-was so. B,i6k as to be apparently tit the point of death, ■his-'fellow-mariners put hun on shore andleft him to die. Some months afterwards they happened to pass by the same island, and'again landed; when to their surprises they: found their, comrade not only alive and well, but grown remarkably stout. On their asking how he could have.lived in,a place which appareutly was incapable of affording food, ho pointed to certain plants, by eating which he hud, he said, been restored to health and afterwards sustained. When the voyagers sailed fop home they took with them their comrade, and also the roots of this wonderful plant, wh'icb was afterwards carefully cultivated in their own country, and was none,