The Lyell Times. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1885.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 247, 7 November 1885, Page 2

The Lyell Times. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1885.

The monthly general cleaning-up at the United Alpine battery, was made on Tuesday, and the yield of retorted gold from the quantity of stone crushed—64o tons, was 6710z5. The crushing occupied just a little over three weeks, there having been an interruption through breakages. A dividend, the 17th, of one shilling per 32,000 th share, is payable on and after to-day. In giving judgment in -the sly grogselling case on Saturday last, Mr Bird, R.M., said he was sorry to see a mere youth, like John Pearce, commencing life by drinking brandy, and then turning informer.

The Keep-it-Dark Company, has just •declared dividend No. 69, of one shilling per 20,000 th share. During an interval in the progress of the Court business here, on Saturday last, Mr Bird H.M., took oecasion to refer to a letter signed " James Lowick," which had appeared in a late issue of the " Westport Times," and imputing an act -of over■officiousness by Constable Bovvden, when •that official was administering the oath to Mr Lowick,—who appeared as complain - ant in a Warden's Court case, Mr Bird read tl>e letter through, and then described what did talke place. Mr Lowick had entered the box, and failing to comply with the usual form, by kissing the Book, the constable very properly interposed, stating subsequently, that he had been cautioned by higher Courts, Dot to allew the thing to fee made a pantomime of. Mr Lowick then made a secend attempt, and persisting in the same careless manner, skt constable took the book from him, and

appealed to the Court, which had to see that the usual form was complied with. All Biid, said, portions of the letter were unintelligible, but that a disgraceful accusation had been made against the constable, and that Mr Lowick should be ashamed of himself for having written such a letter.

We have received from the Treasurers, at Nelson, a pretty little specimen of the printer's art, intimating that the promissory notes given to Messrs Levestam and Field, for the purpose of meeting the preliminary expense in connection with the Nelson, East and West Coast Railway scheme, and providing a fund to defray the cost attached to sending the delegates to London, are now payable at the Bank of New Zealand, Reefton. Subscribers will take the hint, and do the amiable. It is very likely there will be something to be refunded, but in the course of a little time, a full statement, and report of the whole of the proceedings of the delegates when at Home, together with a detail of the relative expenditure, will be made. Although their visit has not been attended with c.ll the results which werj anticipated, still, it must not be supposed that the scheme has entirely fallen through, or that its' ultimate success is placed beyond probability. On the contrary, active representations regarding its merits are still being made ; and it will certainly be conceded, that if only in bringing the matter under foreign capitalists notice, and in describing, as has been done, the great trace uf country to be benefited, and its vast resources ; an important stage has been attained in the work of placing the merits of the scheme, and the intensely important and beneficial nature of the whole undertaking, in a good light, and in as prominent a position as its importance demands. AVe feel sure, that a great deal of good will result from the delegates' visit. The Archbishop of York, preaching at Northallerton, started people by saying that " Heaven and hell were not places. If serious thought were given to it, they could hardly be ' placed.' Heaven" is abovo and hell below, but where were the ' above ' and * below ' in a world which turned round every da3 r . No ; these were convenient figures, and heaven and hell were found, even as Christ is, in the hearts of His people.