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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 27 February 1880, Page 3

The Marlborough Land Board will meet on Monday next at 11 a.m. Mr Earll, who has been visiting the 1.0.G.'L Lodges in Canterbury, returned to Blenheim to-day. Mata, the winner of the Dunedin Cup, was bred by Mr H. Redwood, Spring Creek,

The Napier leaves Wellington this evening. and may he expected here early tomorrow morning, and will leave again tor Wellington on Monday. Mr Clarke, tlie Chief Surveyor, is now on an official visit to Nydia Bay, I’elorus, and parts adjacent thereto, where Mr Coulter junior is busy surveying.

Mr flay ley, Chief Inspector of Sheep, left Blenheim on a tour of inspection to Tnrndale and the Southern portion of the district yesterday. Tins Education Board and Borough Council will hold their monthly meetings on Tuesday next, the former at 11 o’clock and tlie latter at half-past seven. The annual meeting of the Marlborough County Council will lie held in the Borough Council Chambers on Monday, the loth March, at 11 a.m.

Irish Famine Relief Fund—Received by the Town Clerk Subscribed by the congregation of tlie Wesleyan Church, Blenheim, £ll.

A gentleman who visited Picton on Thursday last has shown us some pearls—small, but apparently of good quality—which lie got out of some mussel shells on tlie beach. Mr G. Hodgson, the recently elected Secretary to tlie Nelson Board of Education, lias resigned in consequence of scurrilous attacks made upon him by certain newspapers.

School Committees should bear in mind that they must send in the names of members of the Board for whom they intend to vote by Tuesday next. As there is no opposition the three old members will he reelected.

The Press states on the authority of the authority of the Manager that 13lozs 2dwts lows of retorted gold have been obtained from the Ravensclifl Mine as the result- of the last three crushings.

We notice among the prizes for prizes for mining exhibits at the Sydney Exhibition, that the D’Urville Island Copper Mining Company have received a 2nd prize for copper.

Irish Relief Fund—Received by the Town Clerk, Blenheim Koromiko Sunday School, £4 15s. Total received to date, £7<> Is, of which £7l fis lias been sent to the Pnnriwj Pont to lie forwarded with their subscriptions. A gentleman has shown us a big stone weighing eleven pounds which he picked from the crown of the road at the Nelsonstreet crossing of the railway. He says it is a fair specimen of the road metal which the railway authorities are using.

Mr Hodgson, the Inspector of Schools for this District, has completed his half-yearly examination oi all the schools except Blenheim and Kekerangu. He will finish at Blenheim on Monday, and then return to Nelson from which place he will go to Kekor;u m by steamer.

p/jias been suggested to us that it would he a good plan if the old practice were again put in force of posting at the door of the Court House a list of the cases set down for hearing on any particular day. .This would bo a great convenience to suitors, the public, and the Press,

In a garden on the banks of the Opawa am lie seen an apple true bearing both fruit and blossom at one and the same time. Such an occurence has not often conic under our observation, but we understand it is not infrequent in and about Nelson, where the superstitious portion of hie community believe it to be in some way prophetic of ill luck. One of the handsomest specimens of an Insurance Company's card and almanack that we have seen for a long time has been issused by the Transatlantic Fire and Life Insurance Company, whose head office is at Hambugh, of which handsome town there is a very accurate picture on the almanac. We are'indebted to the local Agent, Mr Stollhouse, for a copy of this work of art.

A letter, which appears m another portion of our columns to-day, speaks hopefully of the Wakainariua goldfield. A gentleman who came into town a day or two ago from the Wairau Valley informs us that several prospectors are out on this side the range in the Upper Valley, near Mount Patriarch, but ho was not aware ■what amount of success had attended their o Ports.

Mr Smith, the Inspector of Police, who is the fortunate winner of a prize in the London Art Union —a valuable picture—intends Lo exhibit it for the hem lit of the Blenheim Literary Institute, and Mr Lawrence, wiio has brought from Sydney some real!v’beautiful works of art in the shape of statuettes, is willing to exhibit them for the same purpose. This will be the means v.'o hope of adding something to the funds of a very useful Institution, which, for some reason or other, is not so liberally supported by the public as its friends could wish.

Wo understand, that proceedings for hhel arc about to be commenced by Mr |J. A. Ingles, of K.aikoura, against S. Johnson, late publisher ol the /grprtxs. i lie alleged libel is contained in a letter printed ,ii the /A/i/vss issue of September 26 th, under the heading, ‘"A \ nice from the South,” the iinim,do being that Mr ingles was in the habk of using the Road Bean, funds for electioneering purposes. Our volunteers left for Brightwater last evening, f rom the Blenheim Company are Lieut. Rogers, Sergeants Griflitlis and Turner, Corporals Hood and Bythell, and Privates E. Haddock, M. Womyss, junior, A. M ‘Konzk*. -fas. Doidge is also a competitor from this Company. The Blenheim Company is, therefore, represented bj nine persons. The Spring Greek Company has sent Lieut. Soper, A. Sutton, Frank Sutton, IF Sutton, Jl. Soper, and 11, Stagg. We hear that the Picton and Renwick Companies are represented by one member each.

A serious accident occurred yesterday at Wantwood to the driver of a waggon who got kicked by one of the horses in the team, and fractured both bones of one of his legs. He was brought in a spring cart to Renwick Town, a distance ol some oO miles, and as may naturally be supposed he suffered great pain on the journey, which occupied all night. On arrival at Renwick Town this morning modi al assistance was procured from Blemieii , and we were glad to hear this afternoo i that the patient is apparently progressing favorably towards recovery.

Mr Thompson, the agent for a new portable gas machine which has been introduced into hotels and other buildings in the North Island with great success, is now in Blenheim. The patentee claims for bis invention that by a new process tlie destructive distillation of coal is done away with ; no furnaces, retorts, chimney stack, or washing and purifying apparatus is re--o Hired. The gas is made without the application of heat and the machine is automatic in its working. T e price of the gas does now exceed lls pei 1000 cubic feet, and is expected to be still further reduced.

In the matter of Robert Baxter against George X. Budge, which was set down for hearing at the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, the defendant confessed judgment for the amount claimed and costs. The action was brought to recover the sum of £2 Os lid for work and labor in removing the Wesleyan chapel and was brought as a test ease, there being others of a like nature pending. I’bu defendant has commenced proceedings against the owner of the building for alleged breach of contract. A fresh contract for the completion of the work has been let to Mr John Williams, carpenter for, £25. This building was bought for £2l, but it will apparently cost a pretty large figure before the bargain fructifies to the owner, and quite a nice little crop of actions is growing for the lawyers out of the affair.

At a meeting of the Committee of the Marlborough Racing Club held at tlie Masonic Hotel on Tuesday evening last, the Treasurer paid the following Stakes to winners of the late Meeting :—H. Redwood £lO2, C. Redwood £s(i 10s, F. Gentry £SB, ,J. Barry £57 Ids, R. M’lvor £7B 10s, Kelly £9, A. Ward £-15, Hood £9, B. He Ferrers £l3 10s, J. Robinson £4, A. Dillon £3, D. Henderson £2. Total £478 10s. The accounts due were ordered to be paid. In the matter of the Hack Hurdle Kace between Grey Moinus and Whalebone a protest was entered by Mr Mcßae on the ground that this was no race as tlie jockeys were not weighed either in going out of, or coming into, the saddling paddock. A reference to the Rules showed that the matter rested with the Stewards. In this particular instance the reason why the jockeys were not weighed was because there were no scales on the ground at the time the race was run. The protest was dismissed. Another by Mr Stevenson against the start in the Hack Race lapsed. The takings at the gates on the two Race days amounted to £l5O 11s, being within a few shillings of the amount taken at the previous Meeting Mr W. Pickering advertises that on and after March Ist, a coach will leave Blenheim for Havelock at nine o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays, returning from Havelock to Blenheim on Tuesdays and Fridays. If this service is puntually carried out, as we presume it will be, weather and rivers permitting, it will be a very great convenience to the public. If sufficient inducement offers, we understand, that on the completion of the Rai Valley Road, Mr Pickering intends to run right through to Nelson, and in this case we hope the Government will see its way to re-establish the Nelson overland mail. This service was well and regularity performed from Havelock to Nelson for £IOO a year, and the taking away of this subsidy has been naturally a cause of complaint by residents along the line of route. Tlie mail service between Blenheim might also be greatly accelleratedby its being sent by coach instead of the present circuitous route via Picton. The fact that it takes fl e • ,ys to get an unwer to a letter sent from 1 ire to Havelock, is not in accordance with tuoprogiess of the locality.

The Fastest Ocean Voyage.--The “ European Mail” says:—The rapid passage of the Orient will no doubt lead to the construction of many more vessels of its class to ply between this country and Australia. The distance from Plymouth to Adelaide by ine Cape being about 12,000 nautical miles, the Orient, to have accomplished the vci, age in thirty-seven days and twentytwo hours, must have maintained an avcage speed for the whole vovags of over fourteen knots per hour, ape ormanoo, having regard to the great distan e, m equalled in the annals of steam navigation.

Fora long time past (says the A. Z. '/V//m's) the town has been tilled with mysterious rumors in connection with. the sudden disappearance of one of the citizens some months ago. Rumor is not slow to mix up n guilfcv love and murder with the affair, and also to particularise the method by which the body was got rid of—rumor eiving out that it was cut up and burned piecemeal, and that for weeks the neighbors complained of the peculiar and disagreeable smell. There may be nothing whatever in the rumor, and we only give it for what it is worth. It is a fact that the police have been investigating the matter for months past, hut hitherto the mystery has remained a mystery still.

'fhe following law ease is taken from the records of the New Haven colony in 1(5(5!!. The statute says:—“ Whosoever shall inveigle or draw the affections of any inaidc or maide-servant, either to himself or others, withaut first gaining the consent of her parents, shall pay to the plantations tor the first offence 40s, for the second i'-l, for the third shall be imprisoned or corporately punished.” Under this law, at a court held in May, 1000, Jacobctli Murtiue and Sarah Tuttle were prosecuted “ for setting down on a ehestlo together, his arms around her waiste, and her arms upon his shoulder or about his neck, and continuing in that sinful posture about an hour, in which time lie kyssed her and she kyssed him, or they kyssed one another, aa ye witnesses testified.”

Curious Calculations. — The year 1881 will be a mathematical curiosity. From left to right and from right to left it reads just the same ; 18 divided by 2 gives 9 as quotient; SI divided by 9 and 9 is tlie quotient, if 1881 is divided by 209, 9 is the quotient ; if divided by 9, the quotient contains a 9 : if multiplied by 9, the product contains two 9’s. ()ne and *8 are 9; 8 and 1 are 9; if multiplied by 9, the product containstwoffs. If tlie IS be placed under the 81 and added, the sum is 99. If the figures be added thus —l,B,B,l —it will give IS, two 9’s. Reading from left to right is 18, and IS is twoninths of 81. By adding, dividing, and multiplying 19, S’s are the product, being one 9 for each year requiried to complete the century.

The Wellington correspondent of the Salurihtji Adeerlmr thus comments on the recent Telegraph strike “ The Telegraph Department has wound up the strike, with as fitting ail action as could be expected from the heads of it, when their conduct all through it is considered. The ('n-eUe. this week announces the dismissal . ir of the operators, who went “o. i on strike,” and were plucky enough to maintain their positions. Some of those whose services have been dispe; s d with, it has been publicly stated, and remains uncontr wlicted, w re efused certificates as to their compe is >perators, and that is admittedly ass. Dignified conduct on the part t. ormanent heads.”