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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 142, 30 July 1880, Page 2

Tt is reported from Wellington that gold lias liecn discovered at Hawera. The report circulated some time ago is again revived that a local newspaper is about to be started at lvaikoura. A deer was seen last week beyond the Elevation, and one was seen some time since beyond Mr Webster's ground, near Picton, The election of a member for the Picton j Borough Council passed otl' very quietly on i Saturday, and resulted in the return of Captain Maencil, unopposed. | A meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr j Thomas (PSnllvan, will he held at the j < Ymrt-housc to-morrow (Saturday) at eleven o'clock. ' A requisition to Mr W. B. Kuril, asking him to stand for the vacant seat for the | West Ward of the Borough of Blenheim, i appears in our advertising columns. | Owing to an unavoidable delay the : Spring ('reek Volunteers will not meet for 1 drill on Monday next as previously advertised, but on that day week, Monday. August 9th. An information has been laid against Mr Worthylake, storekeeper, (Irovetown, for unlawfully unlocking gates on the railway j line. The ease is set down for hearing at ! the It.M. Court on Monday next. I We understand Mr Riley, of Mr Ewart's j stables, contemplates contesting the seat in the Borough Council with Mr Kuril to (ill j the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr Presswood. It is rumored that there is a probability : of the return to Picton of Dr J. I*. Tripe, who, a few years since, left for Wanganui. Should the rumor prove correct, the doctor's many friends in this district will give him a hearty welcome on his return.—/bv**. Messrs Stevenson and Eraser, two very old and respected settlers, are commencing livery stable keeping in the large iron build ing next the Masonic Hotel, foimerly occupied by Mr Smith as a foundry. We wish them every success.

Wo drew attention it short time since to the carelessness of the It!vers Board in not clearing away the tops of the willows oil the river hanks. The other day there was a slight fresh, and the large quantity of branches that lodged against the Omaka

bridge, showed our caution to he well found ed, had the river continued tc rise.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr Samuel Green, of Kaitnna, hotelkeeper, was fixed for 11 o'clock on Wednesday last, at the Court-house. No creditors appeared and no debts were proved. Mr Grifliths was appointed Trustee of the estate and effects of tiie bankrupt, by the Registrar, Mr MoXab appeared for the debtor. The following exhibits will he sent to Wellington by the Napier today, on their way to the Melbourne Kxhibition ; 23 samples of New Zealand woods by Mr Hornby; hale of flax. Mr Fulton; barley, Mr Raul : candlesticks, Mr Douslin ; violin, Mr Falconer. We regret the number of exhibits is so small ; grain should have been better represented. The Government has'sent a telegram to all the (education Boards, informing them that the House of Representatives lias reduced the education vote by £32,000, equal to 10s per head on the average attendance, and cautioning the Board not to incur any further liabilities for buildings, and hopes' the Boards will reduce salaries and payment to committees.

The usual monthly parade of the Blenheim Volunteers took place on Tuesday last, but only about half thi; company attended in consequence of the inclemency of

(In,, weather. The annual ineetiiif'of the company, which wan to have been held af*t, I - dvill, was postponed until the second Tuesday in August, which will be an inspection night. We und' r •t' tid matters of imiiortanco will be brought before the compauy in consequence of the reduction of the Cii]>it:ition-

Mr Archibald Scott, of tbe Union TnsurCompany, ( kristcliurch, arrived in I’li'idieiin this morning. He lias been apnointed to investigate the circumstances connected with late fire at llenwick.

The election of a Borough ( 'ouneillor for the West Ward in the room of Mr l’rcss\V(>rnl, resigned, will take place on I linrs(|:(v August 1 Uth. Nominations must be Hcnt' to the Returning Ofllcct' on or before ,0011 on Tuesday, the 10th August.

Mr 0. .1. W. (Jrifiltli.s will sell on Satur,|;iv, the 7th August, a consignment of-2000 fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, etc., from the well-known nursery of Mr Mason, of Auckland. Persons wanting their orchards and gardens replenished will do well to attend this sale.

We hear a that new store and bakery are about to be put up at the Upper M airau , 'diggings by one of our enterprising local tradesmen, wbo lias sufficient confidence in the future of the field to justify the under- j taking, in which we wish him success, torn t her with all who are assisting to advance the progress of the locality by business, on- j toi-pii.se, or in any other legitimate manner. | About two miles of fencing is being erect- [ cl along the sides of the streets (hitherto j only appearing as streets on paper), in that : ~,,4 of the town known as Bomford’s padJ/.p. This is in anticipation of the openj, |!M ip of this part of the Borough by the 11(! w bridge at York Terrace, and the extoe- j sjon of 1 iutchetfon sti'eet- AJessra Smith & C,,, the contractors for the bridge, have j nut yet started on the work, but we are in- , formed that the timber has been ordered, j mid that a beginning will shortly be made, j

The sufferers by tbe late fire at Rcuwicktown, now in the Hospital, are, we are ,Tid to hear, progressing rapidly towards ("uiivalcseiiee, and will soon be able to get about again, but they have undergonemuch bodily pain and mental anxiety consequent on the sad eeeurrence. The sympathy felt Im- them will have a suitable outlet of expression in a practical shape on the occasion of the vocal and instrumental musical entertainment which is being got up on their behalf, and which there can be no doubt will be liberally patronised. An excolluiit programme is Iming arnmgcil tor tlic occasion.

Messrs Mealy ami Son, the well-known boot and shoe importers, are erecting a two uoivy building in .Market Street, next, to \|, .1. Smith’-, wbieli will add great I v t<> unpearanee ..i' that part <>l this leading thm mighfiirc, ami will fill up a vacant piece of around which has hitherto been rather an eyesore to the spectator of the locality |iuni a picturesque point of view. The new I,mldiiu' will have a frontage to Market st. of feet, by a diqitli of 3(> feet, and the Inight from the lloor to the ceiling of the lower room is Id ft. Ihe height of the rooms in the upper storey is somewhat less. Mr Coleman is the contractor lor the work, wbieli is being carried out in a satisfactory manner.

'Pin- paper limit which was to have taken place at Havelock last Tuesday had to be postponed until the next Thursday on account of the heavy and continuous ram. Our correspondent says “ A hunt dinner is to take place at \\ ilson’s Hotel, Canvas Town, and should the weather prove favorable. a most successful gathering may be prognosticated. The majority of tbe young men here and in the neighborhood are interested in these paper limits which are a sort of recreation deserving encouragement Mid support. ’’ A telegram received this morning says The meet ot the Hunt Club was a great success yesterday at C anvas Town. Two hares ran. The fox was not caught. 'There was one of the largest gatherings ever held in the district present on this occasion.

Messrs 11. and W. Parker have recently carried out great improvements and additions to their business premises in Grove goad. In the place of the old and dilapidated building on the South side of the retail establishment a new and commodious corn store lias been erected. 'The building' fi of wood, with concrete floor, the first of tin- kind, we believe, brought into use iu anv similar establishment here. 'Thu tront--K<r> to (I rove Boad is 48 feet, with a depth of A; feet, the height of the walls from floor to ceiling 13 feet." The contractor for the work was Mr Wemyss, who lias executed it in a very creditable manlier. Nothing elaborate lias been attempted in an architectural point of view, but it is a plain, solid structure, well adapted for the purpose for which it is intended, and forms a leading feature of the thoroughfare.

\\\‘ were shown yesterday morning, some | specimens of coal, of an apparently excellent. description, from Shakespeare bay, Pi,.ton. Some pieces were submitted to the test of lire by Mr Turner, burned well, i •mil threw oil' a considerable quantity of rjas, 'l’he seam from which these specimens were obtained is stated to be several feet in thickness and the discovery appears i likely to be a valuable one. The existence • of coal in the neighborhood ot I’icton has lone been known, but the problem lias not vet been solved as to the production of a • rood marketable article being found m parable quantities. We hope that this last discovery will lead to a satisfactory result, as it would greatly tend to advance the progress and prosperity of the disti ict. Men are now at work on the seam and in a few days, time it will bo known whether (lie allair is likely to prove as successful as is anticipated. Mr Falconer, of Market-street, is forwarding to-day to Melbourne for exhibition some tine specimens of the choice w oods of New Zealand, and of articles manufactured therefrom by liimscif, Amongst the latter \ , violin and case of polished nwariwa are (•specially worthy of notice as very beautiful examples of wliat can be done by artistic skill applied to the raw material. .1 here is also a slab of polished matin of remarkable excellence which is sure to command attention. Samples of no less than -o ditferent sorts of wood have been forwarded to .Mr Falconer, principally from Messrs Hornby’s mill near Ficton, but they have arrived too late for Mr Falconer to polish or make up as lie would have done bad time petmitted, and they will have to lie sent over as they came. Much of -Ins timber appears as if very recently cut and would probably have been bettei adapted for exhibition if more seasoned. We shall be glad to see the Colony taking a good place at the Exhibition in its exhibits of one of its leading products—timber—-for which New Zealand deservedly bolds a very high rank. Last evening the first of a scries of open ineetim'S was held under the auspices of the 1.0.C.T. at their new hall in Grove Hoad. The public were invited to attend, and responded in such numbers as to till the hall to over Jowing, which suggested the idea that the building will shortly have to be I enlarged. The Lev. T. G. Carr was voted to the chair, and in addressing the meeting

spoke of the advance which the temper* mice cause was making Kngland and elscwhoie. and Sir Wilfred Lawson’s recent triumph in London. The following programme was then gone through in a very creditable manner and elicited hearty approval at the hands of the large audience present Never forget tbe Pear Ones, Choir; “Softly the’ Day Declining," Choir; “The first Class," Bro. Batty: “ Love at Home,’’ Choir: “ five .Nips, Bro Carvel!; “Bock me to sleep," Choir: “"[’was Drink," Mr Chuck; “Joy Bells, Choir: Beading, Bro. Watson; song, “Agricultural Slum," Bro. -lames ; rocit., “Farmer's Bluwder,” Bro. J. \\ einyss; “Skaters, Choir; reading, “Owd' Shunt, Bro. W . .James; “ Bise to .Voider Manhood," Choir ; address, Bcv Bro. Sherrill's; Chorus, “Hood Night," Choir. 'The Bcv Bro. SherritTs, in his address, said the people of New Zealand spent £BOO,OOO a year on drink, which, to put it mildly, did nobody much good, and to many did a vast deal of harm. If they would all abstain from the use of intoxicants, there would be an end to New Zealand’s financial difficulties. At the close of the meeting a collection was made in aid of the building fund, and a stun of IM and some odd shillings was received. The success of yesterday's entertainment is very encouraging to the promoters of those open meetings, and indicates the growing popularity of the 1.0.G.T. cause in the district.

Regulations for the management of slaughter houses North of the \\ airau in tliecoiintios of Marlborough and the Sounds are published in our columns.

The Choir of the Church of the Nativity are, tve arc requested to state, getting up au organ recital in aid of the sufi'erers by the Info fire at Bonwick. There will be a practice to-morrow evening at half-past 7 pun. at which a full attendance of members is desired.

A well attended ball was held at the Marlborough Town Hall last night, which was very successful. The musical portion of the arrangements was under the management of Mr D. Chittenden, whose excellence in this particular department is well known and appreciated. A capital supper was served in the school-room, which the Committee had kindly lent far the occasion ami the merry dancers did not separate until the “wee small hours avout the twill."

'The new footpaths in Markct-strrct and drove 'Hoad are now nearly completed and will both be great improvements to the appearance of those thorough tares, and M ill add much to the convenience of the public. T|,o drove Boad fooipatli would have looked still better than it does, as owing to an error in the survey the buildidgs fronting the street were puf bank and placed mi iT i ill-re 1 1 i a ugh- In tin mail line, and tbe verandahs will leipiire widening <>Ut Indued enf die In itpaih. M’lu-ll 1 lie vml. i completed and the carriage road formed this part of drove. Boad will be vastly improved. Mady ratepayers think works like these more' useful than such an under, taking as the Short-street bridge, wbieli will cost aeveral bundled pounds which they think would have been better laid out in street repairs.

Tt is an established custom in all newspaper offices not to insert letters from correspondents unless accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. We have every reason to think that a correspondent who has written to us under the signature of “ Churchman ” lias given us a fictitious me tie and address, and thcretoro, mo do not publish his letter which is otherwise unobjectionable. The writer lias not called at our office blit lias sent a letter dated from Picton which is evidently a Blenheim letter, and oil comparing it we find it similar to another sent previously with a totally different signature. Our correspondent must have very little confidence in us not to trust us with his name and must think we arc very “ green " to be “ bad " in that sort of way.

'The l’ukaka Rivers .Board intend asking the Government, through their member, Captain Kenny, to pass an Act by which, at the request of a majority of the ratepayers of any Rivers District, the provisions for classification and assessment of land as laid down in clauses 22 and 2.5 of the “ITawkes Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act, 181)8” van be brought into force. These clauses, which have been repealed |,y subsequent amendments provide that land shall be divided into three classes, v i z .—Class 1. Lands liable to great actual damage. Glass 2, lands liable to less actual damage ; and Glass 3, lands not liable to actual damage. For the purposes of rating. Glass 1 is required to pay double theaniouiit per aero payable by Glass 2; t lass 2, onehalf the amount per acre payable by Glass ] • and Class 3, onc-fonrt 1 ' the amount payable by Glass 1. Under the present system the rate is struck on the annual or renting value of property, and the land is only divided into two classes, which appears to us to he the most simple plan of the two.

General Davidson’s report on the Volunteer Force of New Zealand lias been laid before Parliament- It is rather “ rough ’’ on Marlborough, and especially 011 Drill-Instructor Kennedy. The General says: —“Of Volunteer matters 111 the District of A! ail borough 1 regret that my report must be unfavourable. 'The Picton Corps are as regards drill at a very low standard, and from the condition I found them in and which seems to have been the normal state of tilings for some time past, I certainly should have recommended their disbandment, were it not that upon enquiry I found they had been much neglected, and that under their new Cominaiuling Officer, ( aptain Kenny, tliey-wcie likely to recover themselves. The Drill Instructor had only attended once in twelve months and on my speaking to him, lie told me the pay lie received did not allow of his attending at Picton. He had 110 uniform and tor this also gave me the same reason. I heard afterwards that lie is much disliked by officers and men and that they will have nothing to do with him as lie is quite incompetent as an instructor. I saw enough to convince me that whatever of pay lie receives the money as far as his services as Drill Instructor are concerned is thrown away. While this state of tilings continues, little iiiiprovnieiit can be looked for. The Blenheim Company goes through a certain amount of simple drill fairly enough but to push’ them on a more competent instructor is required. The Rcmviektown and Spring Greek Corps did not assemble, and the sergeant informed me it would take four or five horsemen riding about for a week to collect a sufficient number together. (JudeU at Blunhvim. No parade stale was given in. I understood their enrolled strength to be above 100, but the attendance was very poor, t hey weie drilled by the sergeant and by there officers, but their performances was more than indifferent. Although this corps has been m existence for several years and drawing capitation, the cadets had no lunfoim.

Answered. —“Have you a motliei, asked a la ly of a letter boy who was impertinent to her. “No; but papa wouldu t marry you if there wasn’t a housekeeper in the whole land,” was his reply.

F. A. Weld., Esq., C.M.0., late Covernor, of Tasmania, has been made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael amt St. Oeorge.

The Kiii'openii Mail says that last year the consumption of intoxicating drinks in Kiiitlaml showed a falling off to the extent of L 14,000,000. And that this is not altogether caused by the badness of the times is proved, the Mail argues, by the fact that while the consumption of alcoholic liquors has decreased IPS per cent., that of tea, coffee, and cocoa has increased 23 per cent., thus sliowin that the change is due in a large measure to the improved habits of the people.

They All Do It.—Some time ago a man came here from America, and went to one of our Southern towns to “receive his inheritance," as he called it. His “ inheritance " was bequeathed to him by his father, and consisted mainly of book debts. He placed bis allairs in the hands of a solicitor, who asked him what proof lie had of his father’s death. “The old man’s planted, and there’s the papers to prove it." said the American, as lie produced a certificate of burial. The solicitor told him that was merely a certificate of burial, and that a certificate of death was then required. “(treat Osar ! I tell you the old man’s planted, and there's the papers to prove it. Would you plant vour old mail if he wam't dead J We don’t do that sort of tiling iu the States. The proof of death must have been forthcoming, however, for the American sued the various debtors and got judgment against them. Tie went to his solicitor shortly afterwards and said, “ Waal, judge, have you got the judgments “ Yes," said the solicitor, “ hut all the debtors have become bankrupt. “ Croat Ciosar I this is a darned rum country. Aon tell a fellow lie’s planted his old man before lies dead, and then -when get judgments against fifty-four people for L4.AO the whole fifty-four go broke."

An Hnglish exchange states that a remarkable operation was performed by a Whitehall physician a few days ago. A gentleman who had been siiffeiing from a superabundance ot adipose tissue consulted the physician, asking for relief from his burden. The doctor told him lie could relievo him if lie would consent to a painful operation. '1 he gentleman consented, and witii the medical practitioner entered the telegraph office at this place. Ihe fat mail was' requested to remove his coat and vest, after which the physician surrounded him with wires, attaching the ends to a powerful battery. At a signal from the doctor, Manager l-.ddv let on the- current. I lie patient writhed and twisted w hen lie felt the current passing around him : still lie |ii IiI;i- a martyr. Pre.-ontly lie began to.'brink : lie grew .-mall'T and smaller : fii> <-1 • • 11 1 ill * hung iu li;i-j- round Ids lasi

diminUhin.: form : flu- do,-tor f. !( mm-!, , pleased with the result of his experiment, i while the formerly fat man’s joy was very j 1 great, although lie seemed to be stillering 1 : acute pain. All of a sudden there was j heard a loud clicking at the instrument, as , , if Pandemonium's great hall had been let j loose. The operator sprang quickly to , answer the call. He ascertained it was ] from a New York olliee. He quickly asked, “ What’s up?” An answer came back as i if some infuriated demon was at the other , end of the wire, “What in thunder arc , jou about ? Cut oft’your wires quick—you | j are. filling the Now York olliee with soap j , grease !’’ ; 1 Mr AY. Bishop, of Wellington, has writ- , 1 ten a vigorous letter to the ('hronirk on that fertile theme, the fin-licial difficulties 1 of New Zealand. Ho argues that, except strong and determined measures of retrenchment arc introduced that any attempt to stem the downward current of i financial affairs will he like. “ shooting j Niagara. ’ He concludes his letter as fid- j lows ; —“ If the people of New Zealand | means to return to healthy times and pro- j gress, to growth in population, without | which we must inevitably go down the J path to shame and repudiation, let them insist on the repeal of the Property I’ax and the Beer Tax as unnecessary : until our | standing .eproach (army, I was going to j say) of 11,1 >0 officials has been reduced to j reasonable limits, and the equally shameful Kducation policy is expunged. Let us depend on Custom duties for revenue, as we have done hitherto, without any disas- ! ter like the Land Tax has biought us to. An increase in Customs duties, such as the rc-imposition of the original amount of the | tea and sugar duties, will cause no increase j in the army of officials as the Land l ax did I and the Property and Peer Tax will do. The. taste of the Land Tax and the threat, | of the other two, lias had the effect of open- ■ ing our eves. Let us then insist on the reduction of the expenditure of the Oovcrii- ' moot by Clot),000, before we submit to the proposed taxation. Let the people show i that is what they mean, in a constitutional j j way, and it willin the long run succeed, ; because time will prove that it is the true ! course for the honor and good of the country. It is thought by some, that the Civil I Service, led by tne heads of departments, arc not the servants of the country, but our masters, and that the eleven thousand with their relatives and friends ramifying through society, will prove too strong for the Government and Parliament together; | and that it will require a determined agita- j tion of the whole country, to break down j their combination. 'That in fact, no Go- i vcriiincnt dares to do what they see to be ; necessary for the good of the country, or j they won I<l have to go out, to be succeeded j ! p.obably by less capable and sterling men. . ; rt is for the country to speak out, before : Parliament is prorogued.” i At the Liverpool Police Court, a young ; 1 man, named Frederick Urich Morrison, j was brought up on his own confession i charged with embezzlement. I.lie prisonci s statement was to the effect that lie was ; born ai Ballarat. Australia, and at 10 years of a"e entered the office of Messrs John ! Domdiarty A Co., of Melbourne, with whom i l,e remained four and half years He then I went to the Colonial Bank of Australia, at ; Melbourne, and remained there for a yeat, ! when lie returned to Measrs John Dougharty & Co. On the ISth December last lie embezzled £2OOO of the moneys of the Norwich Union Building and Investment Guarantee Society, and lost most of the sum gamblin'' and horse-racing. He then bolted’ to Sydney, and left that port for England as a I first-class passenger in the Dunbar Castle, ! under the name of F. Mooney, which "W j lie kept up to the present time. After I landing at London lie stayed tlieie foi a fortnight, and then walked to Liverpool, and on the morning of the *24fcli ilist, lie gave himself up to ’the Liverpool police, bolee being unable to procure work and not j being able to walk the streets any lougei. - i The prisoner was remanded for a week. ‘ Dunfermline Journal,’ May Ist. After long coaxing, with no little use of the whip, we have seen a balky horse started by putting a lump of earth in its month. The mind of the animal seems to be set on not going, and the point to be gained is to divert it from the idea entertained, and ■ this the earth in the mouth does effectually, i So soon as the horse gives its attention to i getting the earth out of its month, it forgets its balkiness and can be started.

| “ Yi-'-y intellectual boy that of yours, Mr j (Joggles : I should like to examine his head.” ; Proud father—“ Joliny. what bumps have I you got?" “I’ve got the bump of eating, ; father, and the bump that Billy Hopkins j gave me on the nose ; but I’m lay in* in for j ; him.” |

The following will be read with interest. It refers to the intended capture of a mail steanie-, mentioned in oar telegrams some i time back. The mail steamer Bowen repoits | having left Singapore on June."), bound to | Hongkong, with .’Ho passengers and a large ; quantity of gold irom Queensland. 42 passen . gets were shippi 1 at Singapore, and on June 8 the Chinese interpreter informed the cap- i tain that the Singapore passengers were intending to seize and burn the vessel, having j appointed a rendezvous with several piratic , al junks near Hongkong, whose appearance would be the signal for the attack. J lie captain immediately mustered the Singa- | pore passengers, examined their luggage, and found several boxes of burglars tools, choppers knives; eleven loaded revolvers and plenty of spare ammunition. 'There was ■ also concealed in a looker 2-> packages of ! powder with fuses attacked. Seventeen of 1 the Singapurs passengers gave a satisfactory account of themselves and the balance were j handcuffed ami guarded till arrival at Hong koug, when the police recognised them as i old pirates, several of whom were wanted for a recent attempt to seize the steamer; |\ wangtong.— C// ran irlr.

A distressing accident occurred in the Opera House, Atalanta, Ga., on the afterneon of 12tli May at which time amateurs were rendering “ I’eri at the Gate of I aiadise," for the benefit of a local church. A correspondent describes it: —“ 1 lie characters in the play were supposed to be angels, their wings being 1 made ot cloth and cotton ‘battings.’ a most inflammable material. While some of the ladies (were in the dress-ing-rooms, against direct ordcis of Mi Do Give, proiuiotor of the Opera House, a maid lit a gasjet, the bracket of which protruded Iroiu the wall but a tew toot above the shelving. Iu moving around a Miss Ohapman, tiio only child of a city druggist, caught her wings on lire, and loudly screaming rushed out and on to the stage, setting fire to four or five others. The dressing-rooms are on a tier above the side of the stage, and along their front is a platform raised some six treet. A Mrs Hum inoiids, of Baltimore, being oil lire jumped over the railings on to the stage. 1 here were but three or four gentlemen present, and iu the excitement one of the burning ■ ••iris got out of the building on to the street where she wax met by men who extinguished the Haines before she was very seriously injured. Miss Chaiupman lingered in great ng-nny until the afternoon of the Uth, when sin- died, and Mr.'. 11 ulll liiolid '. wln> received 1 irx id*-.' her liitni.-. internal injnne.- by tin- in in tt xie - mad-, died lit teiTlbl*- ('_'<• 11\

L UilH 'j t 11«* h !.- 115 <•• t‘ 1 1 I In 1 njureil girls anil the gentlemen who were j nimt in extinguishing the llamos are doing swell as possible under the circumstances. There is likely to be some trouble bewcen England and United States, unless he present Knglish Uabinet should resolve ejmdiate the acts of its predecessor in the natter of the Fortune Bay fishery question. I’lie American Secretary of State has just mblished a report on the present state of ■ his question, which may be briefly sum- j narised. The United States fishermen hav- I ng rights of fishing near Newfoundland, Treaty of Washington, found | homselves impeded by the local legislative | •emulations of that colony, and forcibly j ; ‘topped on certain occasions. Mr Kvarts lomplained to Lord Salisbury, who replied j :hat lie could not override the local laws of Newfoundland. To this Mr Kvarts answer- i -d that the Washington Treaty with Lug. | ;iml was above Newfoundland law -. but ; Lord Salisbury rejoined that the Treaty j mist be understood to be qualified by the j ocal laws existing at the time. Mr Kvarts j loes not accept this view, lie recommends j n the first place retaliation by the reimpo- ; dtion of duties on the products of Canadian fisheries as they existed before the Wash- j mgtoii Treaty • and secondly, an examine- | lion audit of the pecuniary claims of the . United States fishermen, who allege themselves aggrieved, with a view to ultimate j provisionlor their compensation being exacted from Kngland. I ’resident Hayes, it may be added,' lias sent the Secretary's re- j port to Congress, with a suggestion that I that body should act upon its reeommenda- j tion. A ufmu. Mr Duncan C. F. .Hoodie (editor and | proprietor of the recently defunct Pinion;,ni. a serio comi-. journal, which was published at Fort Adelaide, S.A.), was charged at the Williamstown Folicc Court with haying assaulted Mr A. I. Clark, M.L.A., one of the proprietors of the V illiamstown Ai/miixi'r, on account of some coarse allusions to the Queen which appeared in that journal. Before striking the complainant. Mr'Moodiu handed him the following document, which lie refused to sign, hence the assault: —“Melbourne, June —, ISSO. A newspaper called the A<l eeetisn', of which I am the principal proprietor, and which is published at Williamstown. a suburb of Melbourne, contains in its issue of May 15th, ultimo, the following words, which bear reference to Her Most Cracious Majesty the Queen of Croat Britain, mldicit , an “ obese, not overburdened with brains, old woman, dubbed Ktnprcss. For these words, for the insertion of which I am responsible, I beg through you to apologise most abjectly—they are the expressions of a snob, a coward, and a seditious traitor, ! and also a cruel and brutal insult to an innocent and absent lady, i\ ho is lionoied for her virtues and venerated on account of her misfortunes by every true man anion" her subjects in every part of the world/ Mr Moodic, who is said to be related to the Karl of Orkney’s family, was lined £3. Extraordinary Suicide. The Queens" town correspondent of the Slur, writing under date July Kith, says “The suicide of Mr Jones, bank clerk at Arrowtown, fired a similar train of thought in the brain of Bandsman Russell here at about one o'clock this morning. Russell said after midnight, when talking of Jones’ military funeral at Arrowtown, that the Queenstown corps should not want a start. He then described how be would shoot himself, but no notice was taken as lie had often said ths same thing before. Fie then laughed and talked about other matters, and went home. When he got inside his bouse be put bis handkerchief to the trigger of bis Volunteer rifle, placed the muzzle to his left eye, and blew ont bis brains. Singularly, no one in the house or next door ! heard the report. He was found dead at 5 o’clock this morning. He was eccentric, i Fie was 21 years old, was a butcher’s assis- ] taut, and was generally liked. He had concealed away for over a month a package of cartridges. He was quite sober at the i time, aud it was proved clearly that lie had been so during the last two months at least. • Four months ago he had an attack- of ! th-linimi tre mens, A touching letter was found by his bedside from 1 1 is sister at i Martin’s Bay. A coroner’s inquest was j held-this afternoon. A special jury was I chosen, and from it was excluded all \ olim--1 teers. The jury returned, without mucli I discussion, a verdict of ‘ Committed sui- | cide while in a state of temporary insau I ity.’ ”

A wonderful and remarkable statement is made of ail English ship having discovered an island so rich in gold and other precious metals, that the persons who first visited it chipped blocks of almost pure gold from the bare rooks. This island is said fi> lie in , lat. l'ley. X., .-iii-l loll"., lMT'leg. W., amt is consequently about .Vuleg. from the coast of New Granada, South America. According to the accounts published, the British man-of-war Alermaid, which left England ; in January last, under sealed orders, has , taken possession of the island, and a number of gentlemen adventurers have arrived there to try their fortunes. The small bays round the island are strongly impregnated 1 with acid, and on the first visit of the British. it being found necessary to lighten the ; vessel in order to recross the bar, several tons of carbonate of soda were thrown over board. The result was marvellous. 'The water began boiling over, and appeared like a great sea of soda-water. Further pm- j tioulars of the character of this wonderful island will be looked for with considerable ; interest.

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