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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 128, 11 June 1880, Page 2

The Supreme Court,will sit on Tuesday next at ten o’clock. The Lyceum Skating Rink will he reopened on and after to-morrow (Saturday) the 12th instant. Our Havelock correspondent telegraphs that at the Licensing meeting yesterday all the applications for renewals were granted. A deputation of brewers and publicans from all parts of the Colony, is about to proceed to Wellington to protest againt the imposition of the tax on colonial beer. We have to acknowledge witli thanks the receipt of a copy of the first number of Haimmt. issued this session, and also a number of Parliamentary papers from the (Government Printing Office, to which we shall refer in our next issue. At the sale of Mr Rangers stock yesterday by Mr T. O’Sullivan, there was a good attendance and satisfactory prices were obtained. Cows fetched from L 8 to LlO, heifers L 7 to L 9, yearlings of good class L 4, pigs from 12s to 30. •Seymour Square is now in process of being ploughed up preparatory to being made tit for a cricket ground. The public will understand that this will not interfere with their right to tiie ground which is a public Reserve. A telegram from Major Baillse was received yesterday by Sergeant-Major Kennedy to the'effect that (General Davidson will not inspect the Kenwick and Spring Creek Volunteers, unless they can muster at Blenheim with the Cadets at 2 p.m. to-morrow (Saturday.) On Wednesday evening last a woman dressed in man’s clothes was walking about the streets of the Town. The police were after her, but she got away. This is ail offence under the Vagrant Act, and the offender is liable to be summoned for it to the R.M. Court. (General Davidson will inspect the Blenheim Company of Volunteers to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, instead of this evening as directed. We understand that tiie Remvick and Spring Creek Companies will not be inspected this time, they being unable to muster at so short a notice. It is unnecessary to remind both the Volunteers and Cadets that no excuses, unless accompanied by doctors certificate will prevent the full penalties being enforced. Mr Jas. O’Donoglme complains that a letter addressed to him and.posted at Blenheim on the _2nd May (as appears by the post-mark) was not delivered until Wednesday last. There certainly appears to have been an extraordinary delay in delivery of this letter which will no doubt be inquired into and explained if Mr O’Donoghuo brings the matter under the notice of the Postmaster. A Civil Service examination has been going on under the supervision of Dr Muller for the past ten days. There are three candidates, one for the Senior examination, R. M’Callum, and two for the Junior, A. and D. M’Callum. The first named candidate is from the Borough school and the two latter have been attending Mr Macklin’s evening classes. Our Waknmarina correspondent, writing from Deep Creek, June Sth, says : —“ The cylinders for working the (Jorge claim have arrived in Havelock. They arc (ift long, 4ft diameter, fin wrought iron plate, with a gauge for showing the amount of pressure and air-pump to work by hand. The men who are going to manage the machinery have worked at it before with good results. A party of old Victorian miners lately from Wellington visited Oliver and Company’s Ten-acre sluicing claim yesterday and expressed their surprise at the ground laying so long idle. They intend to publish in Wellington an account of what they have seen and what they think of mining prospects here.

We regret to hear that Mr J. C. Chaytov has sustained the loss of a large number of sheep, wh eh were drowned whilst being driven ' , ford near the mouth of the Waira on their .way from the ; vac ua Marina. The bodies of many i tl.. drowned animals were subse(|uentl th own on to the beach and their kins T c sir , bu; no ithstanding hist \4' a serious oe, the sheep icing le o s.

We have io acknowledge with thanks, the receipt of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency’s Circular of April 21st, with catalogue of prices of N. Z. Wool to date from Mr Holmes, the local agent. There appears to be no Marlborough wool catalogued in the price list, except 50 bales of greasy combing, Messrs Ingles and Pasley, Jvaikoura, Is 31 l. The second series of the year’s wool sales commenced on the 20th April, with arrivals of 408,040 bales, of which 73,027 were from New Zealand, opening catalogue consisted of 8,401 bales, of which 1210 were New Zealand wool. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the following price were obtained. Washed and scoured Merino, advanced lid to 2d, greasy do., Id per lb ; washed and scoured crossbreds, and greasy do, id to Id. The total quantity catalogued to date is 15,257 of which 1210 arc New Zealand, and of which 180 bales have been brought in, and the remainder sold. The commencement of the third scries as fixed for the 17th Auisu As regard, tallow, the report says : —Only three public sales have taken place since the date of our last issue. Of the total catalogued—4,42l packages of Australian and New Zealand, only 1,910 were sold. The market has been altogether without animation, and with a dull trade, the heavy supply of home melt having been sufficient to meet current requirements. Consequently when sales of Colonial sorts have been effected, lower prices have had to be accepted, the decline being fully 2s per cwt. on mutton and 2s Ud on beef tallow. The recent large arrivals also have tended to force prices down, and wc appear how to be approaching the low scale of values ruling in June last, when fine mutton was (pioted at 33s (id and beef 31s (id, the lowest point reached for many years. There lias been lie business in New Zealand wheat for arrival, although it lias been recently offered at 43s Gd for prompt shipment. There are few parcels of this description on the market, such as remain being merely second hand lots, bought by speculators in the course of last Autumn. Flour finds little demand, and is about 2s per cwt. cheaper.

A case of peculiar interest, instituted under the Laud Tax Act, was head at the 11. M. Court to-day. The Deputy Land Tax Commissioner sued a Mr Farrelly to recover the tax due on a section of land at the Hutt, assessed at £OOO. The defence entered was that the section in question \\‘as Maori land, and that the Commissioner had not given notice to defendant of the assessment. His Worship pointed out that the Act provided that the defendant was liable even through there was a plea of the property being native land, and with regard to the compliant that due notice of the assessment was not given, such a circumstance did not exempt anyone from payment. Defendant then urged that the valuation was excessive, upon which the Magistrate said he ought to apply to the proper Court to have it reduced. Judgement was therefore delivered for the amount due. — Post, June 7th.

The Hinemoa, which had been despatched by the Government on Friday to see if any traces could be found of the missing schooner Colleen Bawn, returned on Saturday night aider a very thorough butnusucccs ful search. Mr Noes, father of the imfortiuia' ; man who was a passenger by the , accompaied Captain Fairchild in c ch. Port Underwood, Ship Cove, I o. iSouid, Stephen, llangitoto, and D’U.ville Islands, S ntinel and Jag Packs, -1 'oi f. V dy we c each visited, . ,j ar , els which hid been to ( R . ou t:i i 1 Pelorus Sounds were spoken P: . » trace of the missing schooner ( oeld be dis ovcved. Some wreckage was found on Stephen .bland, but this was supposed to have belonged to the schooner Merlin, which went aslicve there some months ago, It appears the Captain Guard of the Old Jack, spoke the Colleen Bawn ou the Gth ultimo, after she was seen by the Forest Queen, rid advised the captain to run into Port U derwood as the weather was so threateni’ p Captain Pike then stated that he had a sick man on board. Later in the evening a heavy south-easter sprang up, and it is no v only too probable that the ill-fated vesrel foundered m the storm.— Post-

Sat on. —A neat protest against long speeches at places of amusement was made the other evening. At asocial gathering in a Alksion House, a popular clergyman was delivering an address m his usual happy style, ‘when n little urcliin loiully exclninied “Bay Amen! and sitdown:” Oar informant says the audio i were convulsed with lr milter, and the rev. speaker joined m the merriment caused by the apparently innocent remark of a child expecting the distribution of tea and buns. The clergyman received an unlooked for moral wherewith to adorn his tale. — Standard.

A Terspsicliorean Cleric. —Last week in Otat'o, a reverend gentleman preached on women and dancing. Hut emit ahe said:— "There were other ways of praising Cod, besides singing the Old Hundred and Hold the Port.” Mr Spurgeon, in contradiction to a narrow remark on smoking said he could smoke a cigar to God’s glory, iu olden times the people praised God m a muscular and practical manner, with \ oicc and foot. Dancing and theatrical performance of the present day were not as profitable as they might be. He said hoiine'\/llleAd beauty go together. / New Chumism. — A cruel joke was perpetrated (says the Kangitikei Advocate) upon an unsuccessful new chum sportsman the other day. He had been out all day and was returning home crest-fallen, fearing the jeers which surely awaited an empty hacr, when he espied a native carrying foui birds, which he explained were New Zealand ducks. Those he purchased, and with them came home in triumph, w hen he saw liis compaions faces, he wished those four old shags had never been hatched, rather than lie should been ‘‘galled with them,

Holloway's Pill*. —lndigestion, Stomach and Liver Compliaints. —Persons suffering from any derangements of the liver, stomach, or the organs of digestion should have recourse to Holloway s Pills, as there is no medicine know that acts on these particular complaints with such certain success. Its peculiar properties strengthen the stomach, increase the appetite and rouse the sluggish liver. For bowel complaints it is in valuable, as it removes, eveiy primary derangement, thereby restoring tlio patient to the soundest health and strength These preparation may be used at all times and in all climates by persons affected by biliousness, nausea, or disordered liver: for flatulency and heartburn they are specifics. Indeed no ailment of the digestive organs can long’repGt their purifying and correo tive powers.

Volunteer writes to the Otago Witness:— What trade or calling docs Butler follow? Why I ask this, I remember in 18GG, as a member of the Brunswick and lentridge Volunteers having occasion to go to the Pentrkh'C Stoc adetofiton a new suit of uniform- —all the clothes of the corps being made there under the superintendence of Lieut-cob 4 Champ-arriving at the entr ce t o warder or sentry spiang a ratt . when a second warder came and escorted me to the tailors’ shop; the mastertailor called a prisoner, a lad of about 1G or 17 and gave him instructions to wait on me. After undressing the prisoner, who was intelligent and obliging, showed mo into a smaller room to fit on the Queen’s garb. My business finished, I quitted the establish ment, when I found this intelligent and obliging prisoner had taken from my pockets 23s°in silver, pocket-book cigar-c-se, and matchbox, and his name wasßutl r.— Butler was employed as a boy in the tailors shop at I’entridge at that time, and is the person alluded to.