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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 118, 7 May 1880, Page 2

We insert a full report of the ordinary half-yearly meeting of tiie Bank of New Zealand at Auckland in our fourth page. Peter Kellor, of Blenheim, carter &c, has filed a declaration of his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting of creditors will be held on the 11 tii inst. The Railway Commissioners, it is expected, will pay a visit to Blenheim early next week. The line will, we understand, bo opened for passenger traffic into town in the course or a few days, as soon as the plat form is finished. The Immigration Officer, Mr White, has received a communication from the AgentGeneral, statiug that the ship Geraldine

I’aget, left Plymouth ior Wellington on tin: 25 th February, with twelve immigrants, equal to OJ statute adults for Marlborough. Their names arc —Margaret, I'Ulen, Mary, James, Thomas, and Patrick Hogan ; Mary Jordan, Jane and Isabella MnHiolland, Bridget Murphy, Harriet J. Paul, and Oath arin c >S i minon rls.

The meeting of the Wairrit lton.il Board, wliieli was to have been held on ViYdnosday last, lapsed for want of a quorum, Mr Gout ter and Mr Avery only bein'.; present, and stands adjourned for a fortnight. The prospectus of the Wakamarina Hydraulic Sluicing Company appears in our ad vertising columns. Imports speak highly of the ground on which the Company proposes to operate, and predict a ready sale for the shares.

\ pastoral license over Forsythe Island, Poiorus .Sound, will be offered for sale by auction at tins Survey Ollice, Blenheim, at noon on the Bth June next, and also an occupation license of the unsold land on Illumine Island, Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr P. Lawrence notifies that lie will, at an early date, sell the workshop, tools, etc. of a contractor, and that the sale of timber advertised for sale at Havelock on Monday next, will not take place, as the timber lias been sold by private contract. The Lyttelton sailed from Gouland’s Ferry at noon yesterday, taking with her 200 hags of barley which had been shipped by Mr George Dodson for Mr T. Harley, of Nelson.

The Post OJicc will he open every Saturday evening until further notice form half-past six till a quarter to eight o'clock for the receipt of Savings Bank deposits only.

It will be observed by the advertisement in another column that free tuition can be obtained at the High School, on three evenings in the week. We hope to see our young people taking advantage of the benefit so kindly offered. Mr Andrews, the master of the Grove Town School, also notifies that lie wdl commence an evening class for young men at an early date if a sufficient number will enrol. The Spring Creek Itivers Board met on Wednesday last at 11 a.m., when it was unanimously resolved that the Chairman, Mr George Dodson, be instructed to take the necessary steps for preventing the Lower Wairau Hirers Board from cutting the channel from the Omaha river to the Opawa. A report of the meeting will appear in our next issue. The Secretary of the Spring Creek Itiver3 Board desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following donations towards assisting the Board to obtain the injunction re diversion of the Omaha :—Messrs Bowden Soper £3, Isaac Gifford £2. The list lies at the Secretary’s office who will be happy to receive further .subscriptions which will be duly acknowledged. It is always a pleasing duty to chronicle the progress of local industries, and we were much pleased to notice yesterday at the shop of Mr Smith, tinsmith, a novel washing machine after the model oi one lately exhibited in Sydney. In our present issue we have not space to describe it in detail: but will do so in our next issue. It appears from casual observation to be likely to prove a most useful article in every household, and to elfect a great saving in labor.

Tiie Spring Creek Boad Board mot on Wednesday last, when the following tenders for work were opened : —Ditching, Mills and Ford’s road—Marling and Craven 13a per chain (accepted); Leary and O’Brien 13s 5d per chain, T. Neville 14s (id do, Seannel end Co. 15s do, H. McKegney 17s 4d do, J. Channing 10s (id do, R. Ronowicz 20s do, J. Marplc 32s do. Ditching Steam Wharf road: —O’Leary and O’Brien 7s 10d per chain (accepted) ; Seannel and Co. 8s per chain, R. Ham Ss do, Neville and Co. Ss Oil do, H. C. Heurickson 9s (nl do, H. McKeguoy 10s do, Marling and Craven 11s do. Forming road &c., through W. Gifford’s section : —D‘ Seannel and Co. £55 for the whole work ; C. Reeves £OB 0s do, O. and J. Bubb £BS do, R. Ronowiez£S9 do, J. Marplc £OO do. The Board decided not to accept any tender for the road. A full report will appear in our next issue.

An amateur concert: iu aiil of the funds of the Blenheim Literary Institute took place on Wednesday evening at Ewart.s Hall, and was a decided success, both as regards the attendance and the merits of the ehtsrtainment. The Hall was well filled by an appreciative audience, and the ladies and gentlemen who kindly gave their services on this occasion were all well received. The programme was an extensive one, and the several pieces were well rendered, and it was evident that no little pains had been taken by the several performers to do justice to the parts allotted to them. Where all did so well it would he out of place te criticise, but we may remark that the comic song, “ Don’t be too particular” was in its way one of the best and most humorous performances we ever heard, and that taken as a whole the entertainment reflected great credit on all who took paH in it. The receipts amounted to £24 12s Gd, and the result wili be a gain to the Institution, after payment of expenses, of about £2O.

Mr McGregor, the Government Assistant Inspector of Machinery, had a very narrow escape from the sacrifice of his life in the discharge of his official duties the other day. It appears than a few days ago he was at Blenheim, engaged in inspecting the boiler of the little steamer Torea. For this pur-

pose he got inside the boiler, when suddenly his lamp was observed to go out. The engineer asked him if he wanted another light, and finding he could get no answer looked in, and was alarmed to find Mr M’Gregor lying apparently lifeless on the tubis of the boiler. lie was soon taken out, and it was found that he had been overpowered and rendered insensible by the foul air in the boiler. Witli the applicition of restoratives he was soon “ brought rourd ” again, aud is now none the worse fer lhe somewhat narrow escape.— Pod. M’s. E. Ha dinge-Britten has been writ’rg to several American papers her impressions of Australia and New Zealand. Ju a letter to the />;:.'/• of C one of threading Spbitnalistpapces United States she thus discourses on our colony:—“Of the lands I have visited, I may say in brief, Australia with all its nnwrought treasures and vast extent, is far less attractive in in pointof soil, scenery, and climate, than New Zealand which is an earthly paradise; in fact if there ever was a Garden of Eden its site must have been, at Nelson, and if it was not so it ought to have been for there is just the spot where Adam and Eve could have found their Eden and that without even the ghost of a serpent to tempt or betray them. Of this lovely land and its unique and singular natives and natural history, I propose to speak more at largo in one or two special lecture s.' The 1 liarne« AAv?rl\wf says:—“in a field off Sealey-atreet a curious sight is to be seen. A few days ago a fine crop of mawas growing in the paddock, hut now hardly a particle of it is to be seen, an enormous colony of caterpillars having

| ca'en if up in a day or two. During the ! time these voracious insects were demoh’shi ing the crop, the field appeared to be alive j v, it!, them, and at night time the peculiar | sjimd made by them in eating could be ! heard distinctly by persons passing along ' the street.”

! Freemasons in the Colonies wd! be | pleased to learn that His Royal Highness the kriuces of Wales has been unanimously : r.i-oheted C ran l Master for the current year. At the same meeting a sum of £SOO i was granted towards the Duchess of Mhuii borough’s fund for the relief of the distress I in Jrck'.ml. - Ecropoun Mail.

This is how flic Liberals in the old country work tin; oraolo. As a net-oil' to 1<»0 faggot voters created by the Duke of Buecleueh, Lord Roseberry lias, as if by a •sudden touch enchantment, thrown up ICO •Cittages near Edinburgh, on the Tyneside, 'to house 100 working men and add 100 to jtlie Liberal consitituency. The work was pushed on in a most picturesque and energetic manner, four contractors taking each forth tenements, and a force of 500 masons, bricklayers laborers, and so forth relieving each other in relays night and day. The Restoration of John Wesley’s Chapel.-The trustees of this chapel in the City Road London which was nearly destroyed by fire in December have resolved to proceed with the restoration of the building and the work is now proceeding. The morning chapel has been so damaged as to necessitate its re-erection. The new building will be as nearly like the old one as posssiblc,but will have a more handsome ceiling and better lighting and ventilation. In the large building the work will be carried out as nearly as possible on the old lines. Amongst other improvements will he the introduction of an organ. It lias been found that one of the line granite pillars erected by Mr. S. I). Waddy, M.P., to the memory of his father, lias been so defaced by the heat that a new one will have to be erected, at an outlay of £3OO. The other monuments and tablets will be cleaned and restored. Photographs of the interior and exterior have been taken, and an order for 20,000 of these has already been received. The contractor (Mil. Hobson) has engaged to have the work completed in June for the sum of £4,227.

A Liberal Cleric.—The following extract relating to the proceeding of the General Synod on April 21, is from the report of the Li/ltellon TUtW. —‘‘The Rev. W. P. Tanner then moved, “That no persons shall be entitled to receive the offices of the Church except those whose names arc on the churchwarden's books as having contributed by way of offering certain optional amounts, to be called church dues. Provided that the services of the Church shall he at any time given at the request of any two members who may be at the time fulfilling the afore-mentioned duty.” He spoke in favor of the motion at some length. The Bishop of Melanesia, in strong terms, deprecated the motion being put. lie hoped that no record of it would appear upon the minutes. The Rev. W. P. Tanner wished to make another observation or two, but was met with cries of “ order,” The motion was not seconded. Last night about five minutes after the down train left Palmerston (says the Foxton Herald of yesterday) the driver noticed an object on the line, but before the train could be stopped it was run into, and proved to be a man on horseback. The horse appears t havebeei o' her standing or walking with its back . • he approaching train, when it was overtaken. The horse was struck by the coupler and an enormous would indicted. It appeared to have died instantaneously. The rider then fall hack upon the engine, striking and breaking the lamp and falling to the ground. By this time the train had been stopped, and it was then discovered that tho injured man was a well-known seteler at Awapuni named Patrick Maxwell who had visited Foxton yesterday and returned to Palmerston by the evening train. He had three contused wounds on the head—one in front, one at the back, and one at the side. He was at once placed in the brake van and taken back to Palmerston, where he received medical attention. His injuries arc very serious ami his life was despaired of by the train officials. — Vest, May 1,

Mr Allwright, in addressing his constituents at Lyttelton the other day, made the following remarks : —“ He might say of the great Liberal party that he thought next session would find it thoroughly disorganised, without a leader (or at least with five or six leaders), but without any mail at its head who would carry the party through. If they got into power, his opinion was they could not command the confidence of the House for twenty-four hours. The difficulty was, they all wanted to be Ministers and they might agree were there about forty-five portfolios to he filled, as then they could command a majority. The Liberal party had behaved like a lot of cats and dogs, and under such an existing state of affairs as that it was impossible good could come of it. So far as the Hp.ll Government were concerned, they had gone about the business of the country with an evident determination to do their duty, and bring about an era of prosperity in the Colony. So far he was satisfied with the measures they had brought down. The finances of the colony, it was true they had depicted as in a most gloomy state, and it was no doubt too true that they were. But the Government had faced the difficulties like men with the welfare of the country at heart. His audience, he said, was well aware that about half the last loan of £5,000,000 had been virtually pledged before the present Government came in—before indeed the loan itself was floated. This was surely a most alarming state of financial management. He believed, however, that, for the most part, the men no»v in power were thoroughly honest, and would help the colony out of the difficulty if possible. As to the Native Policy of Mr Bryce, the present Native Minister, he was deiighted with it, and with the firm action of the M inistcr. Before Mr Bryce obtained his portfolio lie, the speaker, had met him and been much pleased with his abilities. He regarded him as one of the most worthy men of the House, and when Mr Bryce said that if ho could not by next session show that he had reduced the enormous expenses of the Native Department he would lay down his portfolio, he the speaker, was sure he meant every word of it. He trusted most earnestly that Mr Bryce would succeed, for he felt sure lie was the right man in the right place ” (Cheers).