GENERAL NEWS..

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 238, 2 June 1874, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS..

The net. yearlv income of the Melhmirm Arqvs is ,£o7.!>f>7 125., the w6rking expenses being :£r,4.800. Zephaijiah Williams, the remaining Newport Chartist, died,at<]jauneeston on May 9. {iced voars. At Tnglewond, police-constable Bouchier was fined £5 for allowing a prisoner to escape from his custody. South Australia has 113 persons in different parts of England acting as agents for selecting immigrants." A resident of Greymouth has been fined 10s and costs, for " inciting and encouraging two dog's to fight in the street on a Sunday." Three hoys—cue a<?od 13, and two aged 12 —were sentenced to three davs' imprisonment on April 27, for being found in the streets of Melbourne in a filthy state of intoxication. A lnr r "o number of Welsh miners are leaving Ballarat (Victoria) for Wales, to resume work in the coal and iron mines, the wages they receive there being better than they can earn in Victoria. At TTnnt's Beaeh, Westlaud, there has been a squabble over an abandoned race. It appears firearms were brought into requisition on the occasion. This style of argument seems to he sn'owincin favour in the district. Owing to the recent glowinsr accounts from Ramon, n.s to the prospects of finding payable gold there, n few gentlemen in Dunedin are mnking arrangements to charter a schooner t<> t'»ko down .a party of miners to test the auriferous properties of the island in question.

A singular 'accident is reported by the Cleveland Bay Express:— "A passenger on board the Boomerang dislocated his shoulder when in. the act of sneezing. Several attempts were made to put it back again without success, when ho was brought ashore, and, in the absence of a medical man, Mr Clay! On, chemist, reduced the dislocation." One of those rare events in new countries, a golden wedding, was.celebrated at.Stawel! on Sunday,.April 26. Mr and Mrs Nayler, who are woll known in many parts of the Colony as leading' spiritists, (says the Plect'mnt Creek Advertiser,) have been 'married fifty years, and to do honour, to this venerable couple the Lyceum in that town was crowded. ••;. ...-',. .

. Wiltshire, the pedestrian, is before the public again. Some person's having disputed his powers of endurance in walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours—a feat which he successfully accomplished in Christohurch some twelve months ago—he announces in.the Timaru papers that he is open to walk itagam if. there shoujd be a guarantee of £3OO if he complete it—if no t, to lose all. And he further offers to walk any man in the Colony against time and endurance, a mile for every hour, for £3OO or £SOO. ,■

An instance of determined courage in arresting a burglar was shown on April .20, by Master Joseph Adamson, the sou of the American CJonsul at Melbourne. Early on that morning Master Adamson found a person in his room, and immediately seized him. After a sharp struggle, Adamson was thrown down the stairs to the first landing, and on seizing the man, again was hurled to the bottom. He, however, again caught the burglar, and this time succeeded in holding him till his father came to his assistance.

Of "La Juive" at the Melbourne Opera House, the correspondent of the Hamilton Spectator says:—"ln one scene Dondi, as the Cardinal, and Mr Kite, as the Emperor, enter on real horses. The first night it was performed, Mr Kitts was bucked off, and the great Cardinal iguominiously saved himself "oy holding tight with both arms round the horse's neck. I know several who went to see 'La Juive' after this, not so much'for the sake of the opera, but in the hope that the same;'feat, of horsemanship would be repeated."

A curious occurrence in church is thus reported by the Talbot Leader :—-" A young man, who belongs to a f set' among whom euchre is the principal intellectual, study, took a young lady to church the other Sunday evening, and fell into a gentle doze before the.minister had reached his'thirdly.' He cannot explain how it happened, but just as the reverend gentleman said something about the 'last trump,' the young .man' earnestlv ejaculated, 'l'll go alone !' "The young lady says the : neXt' J time he can ' go alone,' for "she won't-go withhim. 1 And she left hiin.tb go home alone, too,?'' v •' : ; 'M

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Nelson lately, the secretary of the Caledonian Society was sued by Mr Askew, an hotelkeeper. The plaintiff's claim was for the value of eighteen bottles of Tennaut's ale, twelve bottles of Colonial Ale, twelve jugs'of beer for a "Doch an Dhurras" for seventeen committee men and others, and for twenty-three glasses broken, as : it was alleged, by the habit Scotchmen have of knocking their glasses together on festive occasions, the occasion in question having been the Caledonian fete of January 1, 1871. The committee did not admit any portion of the debt, but offered the plaintiff £2 10s, believing that ho had sustained some loss. For that amount judgment was given, each side to pay its own and half the Court costs.

Shortly after the Dunedin Races in March last, we noticed the importation to Canterbury of the thoroughbred horses Blueboy and Albany. Since then Mr Connor, formerly of Port Chalmers, has also imported to Cantorbury the stallion Cassiebehiunus, by Caracfcacus, winner of the English Derby, 1802, out of Campansil by the celebrated StoekweiL Caractucus by Kingston, dam Defenceless by Defence. Cassiebehiunus is therefore descended from some of the speediest and stoutest bred horses in England, It gives us great pleasure to announce that this-stallion has been secured for Otago by that well known judge of horse-flesh, Mr George Dodson, who purchased him when recently in Canterbury for twelve hundred guineas, and is expected at Port Chalmers by the 15rat steamer from the North. The ship in which Cassiabelaunus came out touched at Adelaide on.the way, and Mr Connor was offered .", thousand guineas by one of the largest breeders in South Australia for the horse, but declined parting with him until arrival in New Zealand. He will prove a valuable acquisition to Otago horse-breeders—Mr T. Jennings, M. Lefevre's trainer, having pronounced him the best horse that has left England for years ; and we hope he will prove a profitable investment for his plucky purchaser.— Daily Times.