THE The Grey River Argus. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1869.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 463, 1 January 1869, Page 2

THE The Grey River Argus. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1869.

A pew short horn's ago another year was gathered to its Fathers, and another leaf added to the book of the Past. The year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-eight has not been without events that will leavo their mark so long as time itself shall live. In every part of the habitable globe there have been troubles, disasters, and changes good and bad — politically, socially, and physically. In the Old World we have seen the consolidation of old institutions in one State and their destruction in another. We have seen Liberty marching in giant strides in one direction and halting in another. War, pestilence, and death has each left its trail, bub yet who cannot say that the departed year will leave Europe iv a better state than that iv which it found it % In our own dear England a grand political revolution has been accomplished. Peacefully the people have obtained rights aud concessions which make them now absolutely the greatest power in the State. United Germany has become a fact, and its existence is a strong guarantee for the peace of Europe and the progress of civil and religions freedom. Italy has been passing through a crisis : her idea is not yet realised ; Borne is not yet the capital of the kingdom of Italy, But what was unaccomplished in 1868 may be achieved in 1869. France has steadily proceeded in her onward course; guided by wise counsels, its Ruler has abstained from pursuing an aggressive policy which might have plunged the civilized world into the vortex of war. France, like England, is at peace with all the world. Spain has cast off the domination of the hated Bourbons, aud has almost, without spilling a drop of blood, accomplished one of the greatest and most important

revolutions that has eyur occurred in

Europo. Free from the blighting in- ' fluence of priestly tyranny aud bigoted rulers, Spain may now take a proud place iv the rank of nations, The greatest military event of the year has been the British expedition to Abyssinia* the history of which is more like romance than hard reality. Future history will point to this as one of England's grandest exploits, and will probably record many important results of it to the people of that wonderful region in their relation to the rest of the world. England's domestic peace has been secured by the suppression of the most formidable and treacherous conspiracies of late years, and let us hope that as it has been the means of opening the ears of the English people to the real grievances of Ireland, full and ample justice will be done where right 3 have to be granted and wrongs redressed. The United States have passed through the year without further internal disturbance, and are fast solving the problem which tine abolition of Slavery bequeathed to them. in South America, war has raged furiously, and earthquakes have devastated the land. Probably the late convulsions of nature in that part of the world exceeded any thing of the Kind of which history has any record. If there be such things as Portents, the present year has been fruitful of them enough to satisfy the imagination of either Dr. Cu mining or Mi*. Baxter, each of whom can no doubt build upon them some grand prophecy. In our own Colony, the year has not passed without incidents of importance. Perhaps it will prove that the events of 1868 exercised the most powerful influence on the future of the Colony. The great change that is working in our political institutions; the sudden outbreak again of a formidable Native rebellion, and the attempt to suppress it single-handed; the discovery of goldfields in the North Island; the great depression in the value of one of our staple productions; the decreased yield of the Southern goldfields, fields, and the loss of population, are each and all circumstances that will test to the utmost the character of the Colony and its people. Coming more immediately to our own part of the Colony, the past year has been productive of a mixture of good and evil, but a mixture in which we may say the good predominated. The year found us entering on a new political career, under a form of government that did not offer much prospect of success. It leaves us in the full enjoyment of the privileges of local self - government, under institutions which give the utmost liberty of action to the representatives of the people. It is true that our population has decreased, and our revenues have fallen off; but, on the, other hand, our resources have not diminished. The tempting attractions of distant regions may have had an unfavorable influence upon our progress, but the various discoveries which are constantly being made, prove the vast extent of our material wealth. In our more immediate district, the year has been mai-ked by a great improvement in prosperity and advancement, and there appears to be every probability of its becoming one of the most flourishing parts of the Colony. Its gold diggings have increased, and are increasing, in. number aud importance ; its trade and commerce have revived, and become settled on a firm basis ; its coal deposits are being put into course of full development; its local marine has been strengthened ; important public works have been initiated and carried out, and everywhere there are to be seen signs of prosperity and progress, It is to be hoped that the new year, will see a general revival throughout Westland. We have strong faith in the district, end believe that if we only loyally and faithfully administer our new political Constitution, our old prosperity will return. Westland has not yet had a fair chance ; but let us wait awhile irntil its vast forests and wide wastes are opened by roads, and we venture to predict that the future of the. County will be a proud and happy one.

For the industrious pursuit and successful discovery of mare's nests, commend us to our ingenious contemporary the " West Coast Times." " The County of Westland Act, 1868," has been a perfect godsend to that journal, and has enabled it to indulge' its idiosyncracy to the, fullest extent. We cannot count the many flaws aud failings which our contemporary has pretended to find out. First of all, it made the discovery that by the Act the office of County Secretary was not provided for ; next, it detected that 'the. Chairman of the Council was only to act as ordinary chairmen do at ordinary meetings of ordinary public bodies, and- that there must of necessity be another authority in Westiaud, in

the shape of the Governor's delegate. Since then, it has abandoned those ideas; and when the real meaning and intention of the Act were forced upon its cloudy imagination, it turned round and, first insisting that the Chairman rriust be elected by popular vote, now asserts that by the Act'the Chairman is to be an unpaid officer; , In our contemporary's issue of Monday last, appeared an article which very elaborately, and to the mind of the writer, no doubt, conclusively, explains the grounds for tins last grand discovery. We are sorry that so much ingenuity should be thrown away ; but possibly it may have one good effect, viz., of euabliug th^ public to arrive at the truth, by the process of refuting our contemporary's bad reasoning. As we have said, our contemporary alleges that, unless the County of Westland Act is amended, the office of Chairman must remain an unpaid office. It bases this opinion upon a distorted reading of the 17th aud 74th sectious of the Act. Ib is perfectly true that section 17 says that " no person who shall hold any office or place of profit UDder, or in the gift of the Council, shall be capable of being, or continuing to be, a member of the Council ;" but that clause must be interpreted by others relatiug to the same subject, and by the whole scope and intention of the Act. Read by clause 74, which relates to the appointment of officers, so far from the Chairman being excluded from the receipt of a salary, it is expressly provided that the- Council may vote him any salary they may think fit. We will reprint the clause, as our contemporary did, and will give our reading of it as opposed to his'V4-7 ....

The Council and every Road Board respectively may from time to time appoint and employ a Treasurer Secretary or Clerk and such other officers to assist iv the execution of this Act as they shall think proper aud from time to time to remove any of such officers and appoint others and may out of the funds at the disposal of such Council or Board respectively pay such salaries aud allowances to the said officers respectively as the Council or Board shall think reasonable and no member of the Council or of any Road Board shall be capable of receiving any salary or other remuneration as Secretary Clerk or Treasurer or any other such officer of tbd Council or Board of which he is a member. Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent such salary being paid to the Chairman of the County Council.

Our contemporary asserts that even if the clause can be stretched to meet the payment of the Chairman, he can only receive salary in. the combined offices of Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer!, Now, what does the Act say 1 It gives to the Council the power of appointing a Secretary, Treasurer, or Clerk, and 'such other officers' as they shall think proper." Now, the appointment of Chairman is previously, by another section, made imperative, and the payment of his salary is made, by the 74th section, a special resprvation. The last sentence of thi section is conclusive on this point. The words "such salary" undoubtedly mean "such salary and allowances as the Council shall think reasonable." The whole intention of the Act is to give the Council entire control over the expenditure of the moneys at its disposal, and the 74th "section is simply to preprevent any other paid officers but the Chairman being members of the Council. ,

The "West Coast Times" in noticing our remarks the other day upon the subject of electing the Chairman by the people is not frank. Our argument against disturbing the present arrangement was not simply that because the County Council passed a resolution that the Council should elect its Chairman, theiefore that course was necessarily the wisest. Our argument was that although that resolution was passed a year ago, and has been fully before the publiG, not aAbreath of, opinion has been raised against it until now, when the County is first called on to try the. plan; but it in common with the general scheme of our new form of Government was received with general approval. The. only difference of opinion 'there ever was in the, Council was as to .the,, number of members. Nor is it true that by Chairman the Council simply meant a Presideut or Speaker, and not an officer endowed with the functions of a Superintendent. We are sufficiently • well informed that by Chairman the Council intended a chief' executive officer. So the, Honi: John Hall, -vvho was a member of the Committee which drew up ;the. resolutions, understood it, or else he would .not have given- effect to that idea in the Act which he drafted. Nor is it true, as the " Times" states, that Mr Salefirst advocated the election of Chairman by the people. Mr Sale certainly did object to the Council electing that officer, but distinctly expressed the opinion that the Chairman ought to be nominated by 'the Governor or elected by the people. We know in which direction

Mr Bale's convictions go. His loud talk about popular privileges and so on is all bunkum of the first water, and is a standing protest to his antecedents and all the traditions of his mind. If Mr Sale were honest in his new-fangled opinions he would never have hinted at making the Chairman a mere nominee of the Governor. Mr Sale's condiict reminds one of ' that of the Vicar of Bray in the old song, which, slightly parodied, might run thus — In good King Bealey's golden days, when loyalty no Jiarin meant, A zealous Christchurch man was I, and so I got preferment. * * . * * * ,* «• When Westland County was declared, to cure the district's grievance, With this new wind about I steered, and swore to it allegiance ; Old principles I did revoke, set conscience at a distance. * * * * * * * And this is law, I will maintain, until my dying day, Sir, That whatsover King may reign, still I'll be Vicar of Bray, Sir !

In order th.it our employees may enjoy their annual holiday, the Grey River Argus is published to-day instead of on Saturday. In order to accomplish this there was no publication of the paper yesterday.

In reply to au iufluentially signed requisition, tne Mayor has called a public meeting for Monday at 8 p.m., for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of establishing direct communication between Greymouth and the Greenstone Diggings. A suggestive letter on this subject will be found in another column.

Thia being New Years day all the banking establishments in town, with the exception of the Bank of New South Wales, will be plosetl.

Recrnitin.g for the Armed Constabulary 'Force still goes on briskly in town. Since the last detachment was shipped, Mr Andrews, has enlisted 36 men^ who will be sent to the front by the first steamer. This brings up the total of recruits from Greymouth to 74, :.•■■-.

The sports which were formerly announced to take place a,t Coal Creek Gardens on Christmas?day and did not oome off, are again announced for this day, when every effort will be made to, render the gardens as attractive as possible for pleasure-seekers.

The annual picnic of the children attending the Sunday Schools in Greymouth and Cobden will be held to 7 da;y in the paddock belonging to Mr Fairhall.

We notice from the Otago papers that in the slather action Isaacs v. Kempthorne, the jury awarded £100 damages, and the foreman stated that in the opinion of the jury the plaintiff's character was unstained.

in accordance with onr usual custom we had intended to publish in our present issue a statistical leport of the trade and commerce of this port for the year 1808. Owing, however, to a pressure of other matter, and a difficulty in making the table fully complete, we are compelled to defer its publication until our next issue.

* The Nelson Colonist of the 25th irisb. states that on Tuesday morning last, at an early hour, Aldourie, Wuimea West, the residence of Mr J. Mackay (Tertius) was, we are sorry to state, entirely destroyed by fire, together with all the furniture and effects. Mr and Mrs Mackay were aroused from their sleep by the roaring of the flames, and had scarcely time to escape from the house bj r the bedroom window. The origin of the fire is at present unknown. The insurance effected on the piemises and furniture amounted to L 550.

On Sunday last, about five o'clock, as a butcher, named George Morgan, was riding up to the Greenstone his horse fell on him and broke his leg. He was brought to the Hospital on Monday at mid-night.

Mr Nathaniel Edwards has been elected one of the representatives of Nelson city in the General Assembly, by a majority of 84 over his opponent, Mr J. Shepherd.

It has been denied by the Government organ, the New Zealand Advertiser, that Mr E. Barff was ever appointed a Justice of the Peace; Its remarks on the subject are; specially applicable to one Westland journal—"We have merely alluded to the matter in order to show what dependance can be placed upon the Opposition Press when they go out of their way to invent a fabrication, upon which to hang a grossly personal attack upon a very worthy gentleman who does not happen to agree with them in politics. - We certainly trust that the Government will not allow Mr Barff to be abused without having something to show for it ; and that they, will, should it suit his arrangements, place him in the Commission without delay."

Au accident occurred during the games ou Tuesday to one of the competitors in the wrestling match, named Peter 1 Allwell. Whilst wrestling he was thrown and had his shoulder dislocated. He was taken to the Hospital, and is doing well.

The usual weekly meeting of the Borough Council was held last evening in the Fire Brigade Hall. Present -The Mayor (in the chair), Councillors Rae, Strike, Coates, < Moore, Parkinson, Kilgour, and, Wickes. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Mr Strike stated that Mr Lapham, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, was willing to accept the appointment; of Treasurer to the Corporation. Permission was granted to .Mr Smith to make a temporary road along Alexander street, in order to make the cottages .he had built there accessible, subject to the approval of the Town Surveyor, Extension of time for the fulfilment of contract for supplying gravel on Mawhera Quay was granted ;to. J. Jones. , The Town Surveyor was instructed to expend a small 6unv in repairing Arney street, near the bridge.. The report of the committee appointed to meet the deputation of the Local Committee of Management of the Grey River Coal Company was read, and also a formal application from, the Company's Engineer and Manager

for wharfage accommodation. Consideration of both documents was deferred s nntil next meeting. The Town Clerk repoited that up to that evening he had collected £159 ss. 6d. on account of the Borough general rateOnly one tender for the supply of Bcrub, tha of King and Williams, at the rate of 7s 6d per cord, was sent in, but was not received. A conversation took place with regard to a tender whioh had been sent in previously to tho Public Works Committee by Mr Perqtti, and a previous offer from Bushbridge and Ward. There appeared to be some doubt as to whether these tenders could now be legally considered, and it was resolved to extend the time for receiving tenders up to Saturday, and to give Messrs Perotti and Bushbridge notice in writing to that efiect. The Council adjourned until Saturday at 4 p.m.

We believe feat Mr Stevens has been appointed arbitrator on behalf of Canterbury in the adjustment of the debt between thajt Province and Westland.

A meeting of those who had enrolled themt selves for the purpose of forming a new Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Engine Room on Tuesday evening. There v j was a very limited attendance. Mr J> C. Moore was called to the chair, and Mr Be Costa elected secretary pro, ten\. The list of : members being called over more than one half tbe number, were found. to be absent. A resolution was carried to the effect — That;, the meeting adjourn, and that all those who had enrolled > themselves. ;be requested to meet on Monday, 4th January, when the election of officers and other business would be proceeded with. ■•••-.

The following, extracted from the Melbourne Argus, of the 17th, will probably be of interest to our legal friends :—" A new point in practice relating to the law of evidence in the courts of petty session was raised yesterday, at the Richmond Police Court, in the case of nogan against Michael Moore and Gerald Moore. Mr M'Kean, who appeared for the defendants, who were in custody for assault, put the defendants into the witness box and examined the one prisoner on behalf of the other. Mr Read, for the prosecution, objected to this course, but Mr M'Kean cited an English authority, from the 20th vol. of • The Justice of the Peace,' in support of his position, and Mr Templeton, P.M., ruled in his favor."

The Gift Auction in aid of the building fiindß of the Church of England Parsonage and School-house was as successful as we anticipated. The sura cleared was, we believe, £82, which is sufficient to clear off the whole of the debt remaining on the Parsonage, and leive a sum in hand as the commencement of a fund for the erection' of a School-house

Te Kooti is said to -have made several changes in the Hau-hau superstition. According to the New Zealand' Advertiser, under his direction greenstones 'have been discovered to contain some magic principle unfavorable to their owners, and every one found is burnt. He has also constituted himself treasurer, aud holds all the money of the Hau-haos, as well as any articles of jewelry, &c, robbed from the unfortunate Poverty Bay settlers. Watches, for some reason or other, are condemned, and all those in their possession have been broken up. .

A miner named Thomas Finlay, from Callaghan's Gully, Nelson Creek, has beeri missing, in town since Sunday morning last, and has been reported to the police. He is an, Irishman, sft. 9in. in height, 33 years of age, and when last seen had on. a dark sack coat and moleskin trousers. He is known to have had. £2o in his possession, but oy^r £200 was taken from him by his mate* for safe keeping.

The Olago Daily Times records- that an accident, unhappily attended with fatal consequences, took place a few days ago on the road between the West Taieri and Lee Stream,to a man named Arch. M 'Shannon. The deceased was seen to pass the Lee Stream Accommodation House on horseback, and it is supposed that the animal had thrown him. Two sixpences and abottle of brandy were found in the pockets of the de* ceased, when his body was discovered.

: We recently mentioned the' disappearance of a maned named Louis Martin, who was supposed to be drowned iv the New River. Nothing has since been heard of him, and enquiries have been made by Sergeant M'Min, who followed up the route taken by Martin. He ascertained that Martin, while going to the Eight-mile Terrace, missed his way at the German Terrace, but afterwards struck Meehan's track, which he knew, and then made his way to the hut of Mr Dickson. Here he was asked to stay for dinner, but he refused, as he wished to push on for the New River was rising fast . He was then shown the road and was never heard of again. He had to cross the river on a log, a portion of which at any tipae is under water, and on" that day must have all been submerged* There is not the slightest doubt now' that Martin made the attempt to cross, and was swept Off the log and drowned. Sergeant M'Min made a search for the body as far as he could among the brushwood and snags, but without success. A number of miners have promised to turn out and make a thorough search. for the body, but little is .expected from this,, for it is supposed the body of .the missing man will be caught among the snags, or in. some of the deep pools with which that portion of the riyer abounds. ' ' -'V >

The New Zealand Advertiser states that the ; Constabulary,, recruits who arrived at Wellington by the Alhambraand Airedale 1 left for Wanganui in the; s.s. Wanganui, on Saturday evening. They looked a Very fine, body of men as they marched up to the Militia office in the fprenopn, but they gave ample proof of their rowdy character before they left in the evening. They had been billeted at the Empire Hotel, and apparently aware there are no grog rations at the front, they were determined to have a good Vdrunk" before leaving. This laudable intention they fully carried out, and when the hour of embarkation approached very few of them were in a condition to traverse unaided the short distance between th«- Empire, and the wharf. The scene ni the vicinity of tne ; 'hotel was an

extraordinary one. Ther£i9H|iav« been. , at least 100 men in various stages of intoxi- . cation. Some perfectly helpless, some inclinad to inaucltfn sentimentality, but tj^^^f majority inclined to be combative. j^^^^H fights seemed to be popular, and>^a^^^^^^H the patrons of that species of amus^^^^^^| were physically able to do much haro^^^^^| results were more ridiculous than dangJj^^^^H There were, However, several" .• *4^^^^^| casualties in the clothing line, .but thu^^^^H not much matter, as there was of. <$jjj^^^^H new suit of uniform ready to be donuew|^^^^^| once landed in Wanganui No oh^pln^ll^^l ticular seemed to be in commaDd,^Snfi hota^^ single officer was present. SejMral cabs were called into requisition to <npl£rey oar gallant defenders to. the . whaj^and^dg tn'ese feheyi T^re niled^lix thejSpli; fiurpriai%a»nner, , a /rood many cominjjPft and rolling off before they had gon» / in any yards. Atjhe^.^ wharf, Major M 'Ba,ipneV was superintending tho embarkation, an#d it was well thai Me wag there, for one of thfe.men, eifcherleca cirunk or more vicious tJpan hw comrades, r else fancying that heViiad actually arrived ■ i the field, where thew no doubt burn' to dis?i; .-'uish themselves, "dffew his knife and was oLut using it in an/unpleasantly energetic .i^ner on those aroilnd him, when he was p'innJd by Major ; M|fc*rnet, the knife wrested from hiir J and he bjflljplf transferred to the care of the police, therefore,^ of facing Tito Kowaru bie will have- to face his- Worship lntr Crawfordf Major M'Barnet proceeded to Wangaa;tii in temporary command of/ the reinf ov^oenb. We scarcely envied Miß "his task. ■ . ■ The party of miners engaged in prospecting tit Kuggedy Bay, Stewart's Isiaud, have pSet with a fair amount of success. To protolv test, the reefs they have discovered, however, will take more capital than they possess. The largo nugget, which we mentioned in ; our last as having been found up the Buller River, is stated by the local journal to weigh nearly eight pounds. It was found by Scott and party, and was purchased from them by Mr John Fughes, of Tonks and Hughes, * Empire Hotel, Westport. It is said to be a very vice lump of gold, with only very small^H pieces of quartz adhering to it. Writing in the Melbourne Leader, "Unde^^^B the Verandah" says : — "In these dull times it is refreshing to hear of people making money in mining. Who is there that doesn't Jtnow little Jones of Ballarat ? The Inck of little Jones is proverbial. Jones made np his mind foine time ago that he wonld visit bis native country. Before his departure the cautions Junes sold out a few hundred full Band of Hope shares at Ll2O each. This waa good, but Jones did something even better. He had had a dream about North -dunes shares, and bought three hundred at eight pounds each. Shortly after, the shares began to rise, and the mail takes home to little j Jones the pleasant intelligence that his shares are worth about eighty pounds each, or L 24 ,000 for what cost L 2400. Besides ibis, he bad-L3OOO in dividends. This, £«Sskrrt"^ the best single mining share operation publicly known in Victoria. ;

The usual weekly meeting of the Paroa Road Board was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Fire Brigade Hall, Greymouth. Present, Mr Stansell in" the 1 chair,- -Messrs Hamilton, Colton, Howison, and MurdocL* The minutes of the last meeting were read 8n I confirmed. A communication waa read from the Arahura' Road Board, requesting that a conference should be held between the two Boards in order to arrange for leasing the Teremakau ferries to the advantage oi both Boards* The secretary was instructed to write to the Arahura Road Board, enclosing a copy of a resolution passed at last meeting.; A letter was read from Mr A. Guinness, solicitor to the Board, in reply to a communication from the Secretary, stating that instead ' of the present fixed salary he would continue to act as solicitor to the Board at the ordinary charges, but before this arrangement could take effect his salary for the last quarter^ and legal expenses incurred previous to his appointment would have to be paid. It was resolved to pay the quarter's salary, and to inform Mr Guinness that the account -due to him by the Road Board is included in the accounts handed over to the municipality. Consideration of two applications for protection for tracks' was postponed until next meeting. The Secretary was instructed to r call for tenders for the combined-offices of Secretary and Engineer to the Board—applicants to state their qualifications and salary required. A committee of two members waa appointed to call on Mr Clark, Paroa, for the purpose of engaging a room at his place for the Board meetings. The Board adjcfttnied-^ until the 13th January, then to meet at ParoaL

On Tuesday evening, a tea-meeting wa held at the Wesleyan Church, South Beach for the purpose of endeavoring to raise a sum sufficient to wipe off the remaining debt on the building, abd we are glad to say that this good object was accomplished. The chair was occupied by Mr Brammell, and addresses were delivered by the Rev Mr Shaw, and Messrs Gaskin, Boases, and Cwnptpn.— On Wednesday evening, a tea-meeting waia held at tne Wesleyan Church, Greymonth, for the double purpose of "holding a social gathering of .the : church members, and laying before them a financial statement of the affairs of the church. The Rev Mr Shaw reported that since his arrival here, neatly two years ; ago, a sumof L 675 had beep expended in \ .church buildings, of which Ll2O remained as > adebt on the church yiri addition- to which ; there was a circuit debt owing to him as part; j stipend, of LI 40 ; but.it had bUn agreed by the office-bearers that L2oo. should <be bor- j' rowed on mortgage on the church to pay off the debt, and lend to the quarterly meeting ■ LBO towards defraying the circuit debt, the j" remaining balance of to be. raised by ! lqcal efforts, of which L4O has stall to be t raised. At the meeting no collection was > » made, but it . was announced that in a few weeks the members, of the. congregation would be waited diufor subscriptions towards . the above objects. . The* Rev: Mr. Shaw de- -

on the state of the missions Friendly Islands, referring' to', their ____Kathen worship, the general working of the. ____Liissions, especially their schools, local and choirs. Addresses were also by Messrs Boases, (Raskin, and and after votes of thanks to the and choir the meeting terminated after ten o'clock. On both these the choir of the church rendered efficient service.— Last night the usual services were conducted in the Church by the llev Mr Shaw, and H^^well attended, An^mproved distilling apparatus, for "which aj^atent has been applied for,Jby the inventor, aiMr Fraaer, of Trelissic, is' thus described by ttiei Wellington Independent ." — " The improvement consist in the application, by a new m*d°» oi steam in -the i;xtraction of spirit fc^ai any kind of vi.sh \ coutaiting saccharine matter. The objects attained by it may h.c briefly enumerated as f olowb :— (I). CheapV'ss of construction; ('.). economy of fuel io^a use ; (3). the case with which spirit of any required strength can be procured ; (4) t|he freedom of the apparatus from liability to become clogged ; anil (5) the large, quantity of spirit which cr. i be procured from a given quantity of T^a'jh. . . . . . With regard to the ajjioj.ttus for which a p&jrQPfc has b,oeh appli. d, we may mention t«at Mr Frassr invented it in America and approved it in this colony ; that it *..ji be malle to produce a large amount of spirits f-> the ybushel ; and that it can be suada t< % vun s<J>o gallons of spirits per hoar. 1 '