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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 124, 28 May 1880, Page 2

The Marlborough Teachers’ Association meet at the Marlborough Town School to-morrow (Saturday) at noon.

The Bicton Volunteers contemplate firing the return match with the Blenheim company on Wednesday next. The Marlborough Land Board hold their monthly meeting on Monday week at 11 a. m.

The monthly,meetings of the,Education Board and Borough Council will be held on Tuesday next, the former at 10.30 a.m., and the latter at 7.45 p.m. - Wo understand that a petition will shortly be taken round for signatureswhich ‘ the ratepayers should read carefully before signing. Wc have known people sign petitions, to take away their own birthright. Mr T. OSullivan will sell by auction tomorrow afternoon a large and varied assortment of furniture, balance of pot plants held over from last Saturday’s sale, wines, spirits anil general merchandise. " **

Shareholders in the National Insuranco Company can obtain warrants for the payment of the second half-yearly ten percent dividend on application to Mr T. O'Sullivan, the local agent. The threatened injunction by the Spring Creek Rivers Board to restrain, the Wairau , Rivers Board from diverting the Omakahas been served on the latter body. As a matter of fact the diversion lias already bfcen made. There seems to be a prospect of con-, siderable litigation over the matter. If there arc any able-bodied men in the district out of employment they can obtain work on the Pclorus road on the following terms -.—-Single men 21s per week, married men 28s per week; a deduction of Is 3d per day will be made for rations to be supplied by Government. ' A proclamation declaring the season for shooting cock-pheasants, and Californian, quail in Marlborough opens from the Ist. June to 3lst July, is published (from tlio Gazette of May-20th) by the Acdimatfsa- ;• tion Society, in our columns to-day, for general information.

The five highest aggregate scores of the last three competitions of the Blenheim Rifle Volunteer Company for the-Gold Medal were as follows : —Hood, 58, G 7, 02, total 187; Rogers, G 4, 01, 59, IS4; Griffiths 59, 58,-64, 181 ; Maddock 59, 59,-Glj i 7 9; Turner 54, G 3, 01, 178.

Anniversary sermons wille be preached next Sunday at Sfc. Andrew’s Presbytertau Church by the Rev? P. J. Riddle.’ Tii the afternoon a children's service .will be held, commencing at half-pasfc‘tw<j"<*!ol6<dt. • G'ol-* lections will he made in the morning and evening in,aid of the Congregatio*.il build. 1 ing fund, and in the afternoon for the « Sabbath School library. ,

Mr Jonas Woodward, Public Trustee, is appointed administrator pf the estate and effects’of Arthur Harrison, deceased! ‘ All‘ persons indebted to the estate arc request-, ed to pay the amounts due to the Trustee " or to Mr H. H. do Bourhcl, Christchurch; and all persons having claims against the estate must send them in to either of those I gentlemen on or before the 10th of June, or be liable to he excluded from participa- - - r -,: , ‘.’s 5*,.,; i

Mr Renfrew has lately sunk an artesian, well, for Mr Lunimas, in Market Street. South, and obtained a .splendid flow of, water"three feet above the surface. Uyjul-* vevtisement in another portion of our col- - uinns, it will hc.seen that Mr Renfrew js. prepared to carry out contracts for sinking wells, and from his long experience and success in the line, there can he no doubt that any work of the kind entrusted to •hiin'-will he performed in n satisfactory manner.-

We lea»n that the result of a fortnight’s ‘ crushing oil’ the copjier jdates at the. Turner Reef, was 11 Tom.’of amalgam. This* result is undoubtedly a good 9ne,.aa<Lwill, weave informed, bring the crushing for. this month up to 130 ounces. Mr ’Turner employs warm water in his work instead of cold. The cold Water process, he has coine to the conclusion, occasions a considerable loss of gold, and' certainly the success that has so far attended the change would appear.to., warrant hint in.-its com f tinuancc.— Prets. . .

Recent operations at polden .Poiqt h;wp given renewed hopes to the Directors, and• they have decided to further prospect - the * mine, with a view; of < bringing to*light the riches contained therein. The prospects. lately obtained fully warrant a further exptorr.tiGivand We hope the enterprise-dis-played by the, Company will shortly meet with a due'reward. In another 1 column will bo found an advertisement calling for tenders for work at the mine, and miners j desirous of tendering may see the spec!((cations of the work required to ’ be none* at this office.— Press' ; ‘*,.* *

An extraordinary freak of nature is recorded’ by ,the ...1/ aua teatu -. Time*. . A*, butcher was dressing.a sheep, when lie was astonished to feel a hard substance embedded in layers of fat upon the left side .of tlio animal. Briuging his knife Onto operation the adipose matter was .quickly cut ,away, . when a young lamb in a i pe.jfef state of 4 ossification was taken Rom its resting place, * * The object- which was thoroughly formed _ —the eyes alone being wanting—vvaa about? 12 inches long by j inches broad, and was _ In a sitting position with its legs doubled underneath it;-after flic* manner 'of such’ animals when taking re?t. - The nips was as hard‘as a’stoiie, and when weighed" turn- * ed the scale at six pounds. The opinion of the medical men ; who 'have-seen this ■ lusnumtarat is, that it has been embedded in the. side, of .the sheep—which wp aaix T ■ tooth one—for the past tvyo years, autl the " most singular part of the aflair is tluYthe mother has'since»lxnsn lambing. • j J

The steamer' Napier arrived in the river this afternoon with the Suez mail and two passengers, Messrs S, Johnson and Dumble. A Masculine Attraction.— l iTie local paper hears it on good authority that a certain young lady in Charleston, at present acting as barmaid ip a leading hotel, has come in for an inheritance of £14,000, to be paid to her when she attains her twentyfirst birthday.- The bachelors should roll up to look after this fair Ilebe--at least one would imagine so. Journalistic Amenities.—When a \\ esteiJi editor wrote, “ V, - c are living at this moment under a despotism,’’ Ins opponent kindly explained, “Our contemporary means to has lately got married. Whgikft Southern paper asked, “\\ hat is editorial courtesy?” a Northern join mil re])licd.: “ Why it is when a .Southern editor is caught stealing chickens at midnight; and his brother editors kindly allude to the matter as a strange freak of somnambulism.” A newspaper asserts that his ancestors had been in the habit of living a hundred yo.ars ; to which another responds: “ Tliat jinist'liavc been before thelntroduetion of capital punishment. ” The proprietor of a Western jou'-nal announced his intention of spending fifty dollars on a “ head ”, for it. .“Don’t doit,” advised a rival sheet ;■ “ better keep the money, and buy a new bead for the editor, ’ that gentle-man-being evidently, in bis opbiiou, “a young man-of frugal mental capacity,” as au Oregon journalist delicately termed/.mother. 1 The Melbourne At/e of a recent date, has the ’following:—“ .Some interest lias recently been excited in the movements of a new company formed in this city, having for its object the development and extension of a new process for the manufacture of a chemical gas intended to supersede the gas of coal as xvell as tho electric light. The promoters of this new scheme have refused to divulge the principle of the invention until they have the opportunity of out: • letters patent for their production t jin taking all parts .of the World.' indeed, so precious and valuable do they consider the discovery that the experim -.its and demonstrations have been preserved as great secrets, open only to a few shareholders.of trustworthy character. The new gas is said to be the invention" of Mr John, Dixon, a Victorian mechanic, and it is stated that ’it can be supplied at one-half of the cost of the gas now delivered by the Melbourne companies; that in consumption a great saving is effected,* as oiie‘fifth less per hour than the pro's (hit yeilrfw coal extract is consumed ; that with a syphon burner the light capable of being I'iven is equal to 34 candles, as against the light of two candles supplied by a similar burner through the main of the Metropolitan Gas Company. Until patents have been taken out, practical operations will not be commenced, but already a strong company lias bech formed and registered under the name of the Dixon Patent Gas'Company, 4 An agent was despatched to England a few days ago for the punlose of taking our letters patent there.” A fatal accident, of a peculiarly distressing character, occurred at the Upper Hutt yesterday morning, .by which a man named James Gilchrist, formerly a member of the firm .-of Gilchrist and Waters, of this city, blacksmiths, lost his life. It appears that Mr Gilchrist, with his wife and children, was stay at the residence of Mr Brown, a contractor, living at the Upper Hutt, where they! were taking a short holiday. Yesterday moruipg the deceased man met Mr Rayijiojnl Johnson, a storekeeper; living at I’e'toiii, and they agreed to go into the l>iish„ shooting. At- the time tire accident' occurred they were in the Alta tar awa Valley, above the Upper Hutt, ou tins- side of- the river, near the new bridge. % Only, two or .three shots bad been fired at the tiine.fiibout II o’clock in the morning). iXltc deceased man, it appears, fired at a pigeon, which he missed. He then balled,out.to Johnson, who was standing, very near him .at the time, to take a shot at jit. i Mi- Johnson was at that time in the act .of watching another bird, and had his giiii at full-cjck prepared to shoot at it. (jinuiaring the request of the deceased, lie,remarked “all right,” and.then haying, as.lie states, placed, his gun at half-cock, he tgriied round towards the deceased, at the same time holding his hand on. the hammer to keep it from being caught in act of turning round, the gun in some inexplicable inaiiuei'suddenly exploded,. and to the liorror of Mr Johnson, the charge lodged in the heart of his companion. The unfoi\tuiiate, Ilian exclaimed “My God, .Ray, however ylidygu do that ? Ini done for,, and saying- inisexpired almost instantly. The Iniliappy cause of the disaster was so overcome with grief and liorror, that lie hardly knows what happened after this. It appears; however, tllat Mr Brown, who was in the neighborhood, went offlfor assistance, and met the guard and one of the drivers, of the*lo o’clock train, to whom lie told, what haiUliappencd. On going to the spot they found Johnson by the side of the dead man. With other assistance the body was talce.ii to .tlie Cnteron Hotel, where it awaits an incjucst. ]VY c regret tp hear that the deceased man leaves a widow and five children" to Ivioitrii his loss. The family reside” in Title-street, ’ Wellington. An ekaihiliatidn of the body showed that the charge (oFNo. 2 shot) struck the deceased in the bYeSt-and iulbomen, but tlie principal portion'lodged in' the region of the heart, sd * was almost instantaneous. Great synipfithy-iS expressed for the friends of dm* abed ami for Mr. Johnson, who was tin- imifitcntioual cause of the deplorable Miilh'an and who is a bfothei of the TnSpbefor of Nuisances, and a great friend of deceased is •overwhelmed with grief at the shocking ekent.— -Post. —25.