Lyell Times. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1886.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 291, 18 September 1886, Page 2

Lyell Times. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1886.

Mails for United Kingdom &c, direct mail service per " Rimutaka," close Saturday, 18th September, at 1.30 p.m. All correspondence must be specially addressed " Direct Mail Service. Mails for United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, and United States of America, via San Francisco, close at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, October 7th. Money orders will be issued up to 4 p.m. Tuesday sth October. The sittings of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts appointed to be held on Wednesday last were adadjourned till Wednesnay, 29th September, at the usual hour. Operatians at the Alpine mine have been proceeding as usual during tne past week, and the accustomed output of stone has been maintained to the battery. The usual scraping at the battery yesterday, from plates and berdans, resulted in 5350z5. of amalgam from 270 tons of stone crushed, the actual time occupied in crushing being 7 days 1G hours. Mr Foley will give an entertainment this evening at Fennell's Hall, assisted by a host of local amateurs, the show to conclude with a side splitting Ethiopean farce. It is intended to hold a short quadrille assembly at the conclusion of the entertainment.

The tributers in the United Italy, working from Potter's leader, completed a trial crushing at the Company's battery last Saturday of about seven tons of stone, and six tons from a large body of stone near it. The total result was 71ozs. 13dwts. retorted gold. It is calculated that the leader portion of the parcel gave lOozs. per ton, and the other about lOdwts and the result is considered highly satis' factory. We regret to notice by our Nelson files that Louis Burgassi expired at the Nelson Hospital on the 13th instant. The deceased was a native of Italy, and aged 52 years. Rehearsals in connection with the forthcoming Church of England concert are going forward satisfactorily. The various songs and choruses promise to be executed in a proficient manner. A varied and interesting programme appears in this issue. We have been favoured by Mr A. A. Corfield, Clerk of Licensing Committee, with the boundaries of the newly constituted Licensing District of Owen, which are as follows:—All that area in the County of Inangahua, bounded towards the north-east by the County of Waimea, from Mount Owen to the confluence of the Hope River with the Buller River; thence towards the south by the latter river to its confluence with the Owen River; thence towards the west by a line running due north to the County of Buller; and thence towards the north-west by the said County of Buller to the place of commencement. What might have terminated in a fatal accident occured on Wednesday last to an old resident of this district, Mr W. Burns. It appears that himself and another miner named Bourke were in the smithy connected with No. 7 level ot the Alpine Company, preparing to make some tool to be used in the level, when Burns took a poker to rake the ashes of the fire together, a charge of dynamite (that evidently had been inadvertently left there by one of the other miners working in the level), exploded, the result being, that Burns received some very severe cuts and bruises all over his face, arms and legs from the ashes, coal, &c, that were forced out by the explosion. Fortunately the injuries received, are not considered serious, and it is a matter ot great satisfaction to know that he escaped without any injuries to his eyes, which we believe is the most serious feature in connection with the late accident to the man Hobson, at the Tyr Connell mine. Since writing the above we learn that the other miner Bourke also received some injury to his arm, but fortunately not of a serious character.

The Rev. Mr Inness-Jones conducied divine service yestetday evening, in St. Matthew's Church, and services will bo held to-morrow morning at the usual hour. The County Chairman, Mr Eugene O'Conor, visited Lyell last Sunday. We understand that it is intended shortly to adopt some plan for placing the main road between here and Westport in a better condition, and it was principally with that object that the visit was made. On the following Monday Mr Thompson, County overseer, was also in Lyell on his usual inspection of works, although it would not be a difficult matter to inspect the works now going on ; but let us hope that they are in contemplation. In another column the Hampden Quadrille Assembly announce a ball for the Ist. proximo. In order to avoid any future or rather further loss, there is a matter affecting drainage which requires the immediate attention of the County authorities. At the end of the town a constant body of water comes down the terrace at the rear of Mrs M'DowalPs premises, which was at one time picked up and conducted by means of an underground drain across the road. As that structure was laid down some time ago, it has now gone out of repair and choked up, and the water is forcing an outlet in front of and under the premises of Mrs Williams' Welcom hotel, thereby causing considerable danger to the piles and foundation of a valuable property. To remedy this a short drain connecting with the main jsewer would not prove an expensive work, and in summer time the body of water thus brought in would act beneficially in flushing the main sewer- We hope that the County authorities will attend to this matter at once.

In the case of Oxnara v. the Inangahua County Council, heard before Judge Broad in the District Court, Reefton, last Monday, judgment was given for £SO and £ll 10s costs. Mr George Newman, driver of the mail coach, gave the following evidence with respect to the condition of the bridge:— '* The bridge is even now in an unsafe condition; there were a lot of rotten planks on the bridge prior to the accident, but it has since been repaired, and is still ricketty : it was the only bridge on the line he found it necessary to walk over. The Government have, it is stated, resolved upon abolishing the DistrictjCourt in Christchurch and Dunedin, and in consequence it was considered possible for one District Judge to take all the remaining Courts in the Middle Island. There are only Jtwoj District Judges pure and simple in the colony—Judges Ward and Broad. In the North Island there are three District Judges but they exercise only a limited jurisdiction, and their offices are held along with Resident Magistrate's &c. Judge Ward has been 23 or 24 years on the Magisterial and District Court Benches, and once he acted for a time as a Judge of the Supreme Court. Judge Broad has, we believe, been for 22 years presiding in the Magistrate's and District Courts. For the last ten years he has been Judge of the Nelson District Court, and six years ago, upon the retirement of Judge Weston, the district of Westland was added to his circuit. In both these districts he has been exercising all the extended powers of the Court, both civil and criminal. Judge Ward as senior District Judge was intended to fact as sole judge for Middle Island, and Judge Broad was offered, at the same salary formerly paid to him, the Metropolitan Resident xMagistracy of Wellington. This, it is understood, he declined. At this juncture Mr Justice Gillies applied tor a year's leave of absence, and it was arranged that Judge Ward should act as his locumltenens, aud Judge Broad take the position of District Judge for the Middle Island. There are twelve places where he will be required to hold Courts, namely,'Nelscn, Westport, Reefton, Grey mouth, Hokitika, Ashburton Waimate, Timaru, Oarnaru, Lawrence, Queenstown, and Invercargill. We have recived jja rather magnanimous- offer from a Melbourne firm of patent medicine manufactures, and it is this: " Insert l|inch paragraph advertisement for 12 months, and send free copy to Melbourne weekly, for 30s.—N.B.—It is quite optional whether you put in the accompanying six inch notice, freegratis." Analysis :—1 year's subscription, 14s ; 52 penny stamps, 4s 4d ; I.V inch, at Ifd, lls*4M ; total, £1 9s B£d. It is impossible to say when or if ever we should get the 30 bob either but we most contempteously decline to advertise quack medicines at one penny three-farthings an inch—Not much.

Mr Allan Scott, who will act as the representative of the Midland Kailway Company on a board of advice at Christchurch, states that the reason why the contract for twenty miles from Brunnerton was let was because he had the plans for that portion of the line with hi in in England, and the time when £'150.003 must be spent on the work was drawing to a close. He is instructed to make arrangement for getting under way the ends of the line at Nelson and Springfield. The Company expect to have tho wlwle line finished jin six years. They have not, Mr Scott states, the slightest intention to import labor so long as sufficient can be found in the Colony to do the work. It is also their intention to make as mnch use of local contractors as possible. According to a letter written by an old resident of Invercargill now living at the head of Lake Wakatipu, and an extract from which is given in a Southland paper, the writer says that he knows a few men who have been to the "Big Bay district, and they say they eau make from £'l to iJ4 per week in nearly any place. The difficulty has always been to secure 'provisions.

A correspondent writing from London says :—" It almost took one's breath away to sec by the notice board that between steamers and sailing vessels there are now ships engaged in the New Zealand frozen meat trade capable of carrying 830,000 carcases ! The busiuess done, both at the exhibition and in the city, by Messrs Fitter has of late been very brisk. I see that the prices at the former are as follows :—Sheep (average weight GOlb to 801b) perlb; hindqcarters, 8J; foreqnarters, skl; breasts, 3*4 ; lambs (average weight 301b to 401b) B}d per lb; hindquarters, 9f 1 ; forequarters, Cd. This is delivered free within a mile of the exhibition. Mr Brodie Hoare (of the famous banking house of Barnett, Hoare, and Lloyds) leaves England on September 25 for a tour in New Zealand and the Australias. He travels via San Francisco, aud will be accompanied by Mrs Hoare.

One of the anomalies in connection with the working of the police department, for which nobody seems to be able to assign any reason, is that of compelling constables to invariably write their reports to superior officers in the third person. We (Post) understand that new regulations are about to bo framed, preparatory to bringing the new Police Force Act into operation, and a very desirable improvement would be that of providing that all such reports should be couched in the first person. The present system is by no means conducive to clearness, and sometimes, in the case of illiterate men, leads to absolute confusion, so that the change would be welcome to all persous connected with the department. Young men, take heed ! Be single no longer. If you can't get a charmer out in this country, send Home, to the 11 Matrimonial Agency ;" two shillings and a photo ought to fetch her. Peter Wetherstone, the discoverer of Wetherstone's Gully, Otago, has died at the Dunedin Hospital. There have been sevoral important alluvial gold finds between Hokitika and Arahura rivers during the last week or so. The Mines Department has written refusing aid to introduce appliances for the successful treatment of refractory ores for gold and silver.

Ridicule is a terrible power. It has killed Mr Holloway's prospects of a baronetage (writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald). The trust of the •• late professor " has been carried out magnificently. The colleges and sanatorium built with much of the large fortune of the deceased pillmaker are among our finest buildings and not the least of our benevolent institutions. The Queen has inaugurated them, and Mr Hollowly was led by the pl»es and his immediate circle of friends to expect certain royal honours, besides those of the Queenly presence at Egham. But journalistic scribblers and gossips have christened his college " The pilleries and for the present Mr Holloway must be content to be plain " mister," unless he chooses to club himself " professor," as the original author of " the worldfamed pills and ointment " did. Lord William Beresford has lately been instrumental in saving Lady Dufferin at Simla from a terrible accident. Her ladyship was driving on the Mall there, when her pony took fright, and bolted off at a furious pace. Attempts to stop the animal were made in vain. Lord William Beresford, passing by chance, dashed at the runaway, and the hero of the Zulu war eventually succeeded in stopping the horse by leaping upon it from his own animal, and thus rescuing Lady Dufferin from imminent peril.