The Evening Star FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1872.

Evening Star, Issue 3052, 29 November 1872, Page 2

The Evening Star FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1872.

Police. — Sergt. T. Meredith Smith, lately stationed at Queenstown, has been promoted to the rank of Sergt -Major. Court ue Appeal.—ln tlio Court of Appeal at Wellington, the judgment of bis Honor Judge Chapman in the case of Coneys v. Weldon, has been confirmed.

Something like a Claim.—The Tuu-iklm Tihim says : —“ ihcre a e some good claims vet in Otago. The Hreak-’cm-All Claim, Winding Cieek, Switzers, turned out LIOOO worth of gold during the last eight weeks. Ibe List work’s work yielded G7 ounces of the glittering metal.

Sporting.— The programme ot the Lake District Races—to bo held on iho JOih and 17th January, 1873—has been issued. It comprises the undermentioned events, viz. :—Maiden Plate, L3O ; Grand otand Handicap, L6O ; Wakatip Handicap, L4O; Hack Selling Race, L‘2o; Handicap Hurdle Race, L3O ; Hack Hurdle Race, L 25 ; Queenstown Handicap, L 8 0; Publicans Purse, L3O ; Handicap Trotting Baco, L2O ; Consolation Handicap, L2O. Ihe total value of stakes offered is L 375. The Hacks.— The first races on Monday will start at noon, and it is intended, we believe, to adhere as closely as possible to the announced time for the starting of the other races. Mr Watson, who has the gates this year, intimates that persons going to the Forbnry iu traps need not fear being subjected to a repetition of the imposition practised upon them last year, as he will only charge for the vehicle, and not for the persons it may contain.

The Earthquake. —Tho shock of earthquake fe t in Dunedin on Wednesday was also experienced in the country districts. Near Utepopo it was felt at 12 45 p.m., and is described as having been a rumbling sound resembling thunder, with a direction from north to south. It was also observed that the waters of the Otepopo river were disturbed on the surface ; the oscillatory movement Listed from three to four seconds. At Waikouaifi it was also felt at 1.45 p.m., but ouly slightly; and at Pleasant Valley M>‘ Young observed the door leading from the kitchen into the bar open and shut without any obvious cause except the earthquake, there being no wind at the time. Chamber of Commerce. Some business was done after our reporter left tiie meeting yesterday. A disc ission took place on the letter of the General Manager of Telegraphs, which stated, in answer to tee Chamber’s application for a reconsideration of its request for tho supply of shipping telegrams, that the matter bad received the grave consideration of the Government, who were uuab|.e to alter their previously announced decision, T)ic request of the Chamber was that instead of the Telegraph Department supplying reports of tbo movements of the smaller coastal steamers, it should give regular information as to the arrival of vessels from Great Britain at New Zealand ports ; the arrival of steamers from Melbourne at the first port they make on the coast; and the arrival of steamers from Sydney or Melbourne, at Auckland. It was a/rccff to bring the matter under the notice of the city M.il.R ’a. On the motion of Mr Finch, it was remitted p. o pbo committee Jo consider that feature of the tariff'win,U did not permit, as in England, an allowance fm under pi oof spirits. On that of Mr M‘Neil to request the Provincial Government, in view of the Port being insufficient to give employment to a stall of professional marine surveyors, to authorise Captain 'J hcnicon, (fie harbor master, to ael in that capacity when gaUcd upon to do so ; and on that o£ Air Nfcill to i'wgues.t ILc eOiimuttcc to urge upon the Government tho deSfrabjLty of providing for the const!HJtion of a Harbor Board for Otago Harbor,

Mining. The machinery of the Gain-id’s Gully Quartz Mining Company was starfcd yesterday week. Tire r J'nofH-kct T/uk < thus deafi'iifes the self-acting tramway which lias been e/v.etpil 0# the mine “ The atone is illlo/J into trucks which a,.c rap out on a level tramway seven chains in length. Tboti' contents are then emptied into a lipppt’r situated at the top of the self anting train way. which is on. an inclined plane with ft gradient of lin 4j. 'I his hopper tills a truck which is worked with a wire rope passing round a east-iron drum, fitted with a self-acting brake' It am., down the tramway until it comes to the hopper at t!;e machine, just previous to reaching -which it goes p\) a level platform. The weight ol the leaded till,-, k tips up ttrits platform, ajid when it arrives at a certain position the door of the track opens, audits contents tall into the hopper. The loaded trucks in them progress down pull up the empty ones. The tramway has thr-e rai s, but at the point where the loaded truck ia its downward progress passes the empty one on its upward journey, tin re are fug) Vails. The length of tho self-acting tramway is OUU.feel, and a groat portion of it is supported 0 1, trestles. When the stone goes into the .hopper, it passes through apertures into shoots, which convoy it to the stampers. Tho hopper js Jlpt. high m trout, 4ft. high at the bad:, the b tfcomsFpo to the front is about 55 deg., and it Will hold about •iP tons of quartz.” A meeting will be held at the Shamrock Hotel this evening, to initiate arrangements for the Interprovincial Cricket Match. Cricketers and others interested are invited to attend. Tno.SE in revested ;i n tho formation ot a Canary Society are rep nested to meet at the Bull and 'Mouth Hotel, ou Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. The annual picnic of the Diunaliu anti Mornington Band of Hope will he held on Boss’s hill, opposite the cattle market, on Monday, Dec. 2. .It i.s intended to give a complimentary benefit to Miss Webb, at the Headquarters Drill Shed on the loch We have little doubt that the value of the services voluntarily rendered by that lady in aid of charities and ou all other occasions when they have been sought, will he substantially acknowledged.