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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 277, 29 August 1881, Page 2

Rubbish, per United Press Association, Dunedin :—Collection at the Synagogue consecration yesterday was Ll4O. The s.s. liotomahana arrived at the Bluff at 7.20 this morning fiom Hobart with the Euglish mail. Ah (lee’s exhibition of New Zealand Forest Scenery is now being shown in Nelson. The special meeting of the Borough Council which was to have been held on Friday evening lapse 1 for want of a quorum. Constable Nicholas Kiely has been appointed an Inspector of weights and measures for the Counties of Sounds, and Marlborough, and the Boroughs of Picton and Blenheim, dec Sergeant R. Saunderson, deceased. We understand that a new lodge of Freemasons under the Scottisli Constitution will he consecrated at Blenheim to morrow. The new lodge will lie named the “ Wairau” Lodge, mil the opening ceremony will be performed by I\M’s from Wellington. A meeting of the Spring Creek Volunteers was held on Saturday evening when when it was unanimously decided to cooperate with the Blenheim Compauy in joining a battallion, and appointed Oaptain Soper, Lieut. Soper and Sub.-Lieut. Peake, a committee to carry out this object.

The resignation* of Captain Wheaton Soper of the Spring Creek Hides lias been accepted by His Excellency. Date of resignation, 2nd May, ISSI. ' Sub-Lieutenant Charles Peake is gazetted Captain of Spring Creek Rifle Volunteers. Date of commission, 24th July, ISS 1. Mr H. J. Sealy, the author of the pamphlet “ Are we to stay here?” was a visitor to Blenheim on Saturday. His work has attracted great attention in the South, and we shall take an early opportunity of referring to it at length. Mr Scaly left by the afternoon train to-day en route for Wellington. Mr O. C. Carter publishes a characteristic announcement in another column relative to the superior advantages of “No. 1.” In a former issue we described the building at some length, and wo have no doubt that when MrCartercommences operations therein his well-known business energy will enable him to secure a large share of the local trade. We wish him every success in his new premises. We understand that the Wakamurina Sluicing Company’s lease, water-rights Ac., were disposed of privately to Mr S. Hutchison the gas contractor for the Borough of Blenheim, for the sum of L7so' the amount at which the property was withdrawn at auction. Mr Hutcheson lias already received an offer to purchase at a vcy handsome advance on the amount paid by him. We are requested to draw attention to the fact that the football match, Town r. Telegraph, which was played about a fortnight ago, resulted in a victory for the latter by one try to nil. In our previous report we stated that the Town team had won the match, but owing to a dispute as to whether the try the Town team scored was a legitimate one, it was referred to the Canterbury Time*, tlio authority of which states that the Telegraph team won the match.

A Gazette issued on Thursday contains the following notice:—ln exercise of the powers and authorities veste 1 in him by “ The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1877.” His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby incorporate the members of the Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association into a corporate body under the said Act, under the stylo and title of “The Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association.”

Wonders will never cease ! The editor of our local contemporary has constituted himself a critic of literary style, and there may be some foundation that he is about to publish a work upon the “ Errors of Standard authors,” in the compilation of which he will bo assisted by an equally competent individual in the person of the editor of the late Lyirll Av<ih*. The two foliowing samples from the fix/nmt of Friday are to be selected as models of the now style : “ The two are often divided by a wide gulf of separation.” “No more surer prophecy,” andothers will follow in future issues.

The Annual Parish meeting of St. Peter’s Church, Havelock, was held in the Town Hall, Friday, August 2(ith, 1881. The Rev. F. T. Opic in the chair. The meeting opened with prayer. The minutes of last meeting were read anil confirmed. Re- ' solved that the Church Warden’s Report as read he accepted ; also, that the Annual Statement of the Parish Accounts as read be accepted. The Chairman nominated Mr Alfred Mills as Clergyman’s Warden. Mr V. (’. Vennimore was unanimously elected People’s Church Warden. The Vestrymen were—Messrs 11. L. N. Clark, Firth, Guinness, Ernpson, Price, Plunkct, Hayden, C. Mills, and C. B. Jarvis. At the Resident Magistrate Court this morning Mrs Palmer, of Crovetown, was charged upon two informations with having used language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The first information was dismissed on technical grounds. The second information was laid under the .Justices of the Peach'Act, and was dismissed, the evidence failing to support the. charge. Mr Sinclair appeared for plaintiff and Mr Rogers for defendant. The following civil business was also disposed of : TafFncr v. Oakes—debt £2 Is ; judgment by default for amount and costs. Cheeseman v. Sewell—debt £lO (is 2d ; judgment by default for amount and costs. Executors Barclay’s Estate v. O. Eyes—judgment summons £1 17s (id. Defendant did not appear. Mr J. Sinclair deposed that defendant had admitted lie was in a position to pay the claim. Order made for payment within one month, or, in default, twentyone days’ imprisonment. A correspondent furnishes us with the following description of a trip to Havelock : —-We started from Blenheim at 5.30 on Thursday morning aul pouring rain. When we got to the centre of the river the horse refuted duty, so MrTaffner took him out and rode to Maxted’s to get another one to pull us through the river. After waiting for over an hour, two horses and men came to our assistance, and we got safely to Maxted’s. After a short stay, we made another start, but after going about j of a mile our horse again objected to go so we had to walk for about 2 miles, when Mr Jakes kindly lent us one of his cart horses to take us through the mud as far as Dixon’s, where arrived at 11.30. We borrowed another horse to take us to Havelock, and got there about 2.30. The sale had been postponed twice, and as there were some Nelson men wanting to get away, a special license was taken out for Mr C. H. Mills, and he had just read the conditions of sale when we arrived. A great crowd of people had assembled at Fear’s Commercial Hotel. The bidding was brisk, and it was eventually bought in by trustees for £750, the highest bid being £535. The following day on our return journey two fresh horses met us at Dixon’s and we were able to get along very well, although the roads in some places were axle deep in mud, we crossed the river which was very high, successfully, and arrived ill town in the evening none the worse for our adventures.”

A meeting of the Committee of the Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at Clark’s Club Hotel on Saturday. Present—Mr K. Paul, President, Mr J. Ward, Vice-President, and Messrs Gauc, Allan, Parker, Storey, and Harding. Mr Locke, of Nelson, having written requesting to he paid the sum of LI for expense? incurred in coming from that place to act as one of the judges at the late Show, it was resolved to comply with hi* request. The Secretary was instructed to write to all persons indebted to the Society and request payment of jmoneys due. It was stated that the balance to tiie credit of the Society at the end of the present year would he about L4O, after providing for all outstanding liabilities. A resolution was passed authorising Mr Paul to receive the sum of LlO which had hem paid in by Mr-Coulter ns the price of a debenture disposed of to him by Mr Paul. A long discussion took place upon the subject of holding a Spring Show, and on the motion of Mr Storey, seconded by Mr Ward, it was resolved that a general meeting of members should he convened for that day fortnight to consider the advisability ,

of holding a Show for sheep this Spring, or I of postponing it till the following Spring. It was also arranged that the question of holding a Horse Parade should bo held over till the general meeting. In connection with this subject the President suggested that an entrance fee of os should be charged in future to cover the cost or advertising, Ac. On the motion of Mr Allan it was resolved to convene Committee meetings by circular in future. The Committee then adjourned. The Wanganui lie raid is of opinion that Separation is as dead as Provincialism. A section of land in Christchurch was sold last week at the rate of £2,200 pel acre. The racehorse Mata has been purchased by Mr Huzlitt of Dunedin for L7OO. Mr Ormond is said to own property which yields hint from £30,000 to £40,000 per annum. No wonder he is opposed to the property tax. It is stated that the inhabitants of the Cannibal Islands have discovered triehime in an American missionary. This is a sad blow at one of the country’s principal exports. The Nelson pipers arc wroth at their representatives for abandoning tlioil stonewalling tactics so soon. “ Talking for Bunkum” appears to he in favor in Nelson. Speaking of the “ floating log dam” as used in the Mutt River, a correspondent of the Post says “ From experience, I can say they have stood and done good service when the groins, ifco., hare failed. It is easy to condemn that which is not understood.” A correspondent of the Evening Post suggests that as a means of preventing the annoyance caused by Sunday trading in liquor, public ins should he permitted to serve liquor within certain hours. The number of employes on the New Zealand railway for the year 1880-1 was 320."), as against 3d2."> in the previous year, a decrease of 320, notwithstanding that the length of railway open had increased by 103 miles.

Messrs Farmer and Co. pay the Sydney Morning Jferuld L3O per week for one column in the first page of the paper. 'The owners of the other Sydney establishments grumble at this column being reserved at this figure. 'idle people of Auckland arc in sackcloth and ashes, figuratively, because the Dctatelied Squadron is not going to visit them and they will not have an opportunity of “ kotowing” to juvenile royalty. It is said that Queen street alone subscribed L-'iOO towards the cost of a reception. A correspondent informs us that Pokai Tc Waiatnn, the well-known leading chief of the Ngati roro o te rangi, died at the Island of Mokoia on Sunday last. This old man was the first to welcome and protect the white strangci in the Bay of Plenty district.— Bui/ of Plenty '/'hoes.

The R.M. in the Wairarapa, Mr H. S. Warded, has, after taking time to consider the matter, decided that in a criminal case a resident magistrate has no casting vote—that in fact his vote may at any time be neutralized by that of aJ. P., who, sitting on the bench with him, differs from him in regard to any particular criminal case. l’he European Mail hears that so many persons contemplate proceeding in August to Mr (4. Verscy Stewart’s third special settlement at Tc Puke. Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, that it has been determined to despatch a vessel direct from London to Tauranga, for the convenience of settlers, thus obviating the trouble and expense attenling transhipment from Auckland. In the New Zealand Tunes of the 13th, under the title of missing friends, William Daniels, a son of the murdered man Daniels, who was murdered at Kumara a few years ago, advertises for “Thomas ltym, who was iii Dunedin in 1878, where lie was tried for the Kumara murder and acquitted, and who is now supposed to be in Wanganui.”

The Lord Chancellor has introduced a Bill into the House of Lords the object of which is to enable offenders to be arrested in any part of the British dominions for offences other than felony, which arc not com prised in the present Acts. It also enables inter-colonial arrangements to be made whereby persons escaping from one colony can be follow ed to another. A member of the Tasmanian Parliament, who made complaints that his speeches were not properly reported, has been treated to a verbatim report of one of bis deliverances in the Hobart Jfercun/, and file result has caused a great deal of laughter at the expense of the grumbler, ■who could not deny that it was very correct.

The South Australian Treasurer made hit financial statement on the Kith inst. The revenue for the past year was £2,000,000, and the estimated revenue for the current year is £2,127.000. The railways are paying about the same interest on the cost of construction as those in New Zealand —namely, 31 percent. It is proposed to raise a new loan, bearing interest at 3 per cent., and to abolish the duties on tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, corn-sacks, and wool-packs. It is also proposed to impose a tax off! 1. in the £ on property. The San Francisco Spirit of the Times of a late date says :—“ Parties here have thought of purchasing one or more Australian racehorses, which had shown by their performances that they were worthy of being classed with the good ones of any country, and we understand that there has been some correspondence towards consummating so desirable an object In an early day several mares were brought here from Australia, and now if we can exchange some of our trotters for the blue blood of the Antipodes mutual benefits will follow. 1 ’

‘ Ignotus,” in Hie New Zealand Times thus describes Mr,Saunders : Mr,Saunders merits notice from the prominence in which he places himself occasionally. He is an irreconcileable, splenetic, cantankerous, and politically perverse. Capable of making himself thoroughly disagreeable to those against whom he speaks, he is incapable of quietly following any leader. He is fond of stirring up burning questions, and revels in waking sleeping dogs. He is fond, too, of easting reflections and finding faults ; and he is implacable in ferreting out and following up what, in his somewhat crooliety mind, he considers an abuse. Incapable of following, he is incapable of loading; and it will be an unfortunate day for bis party if, by any accident, be should find himself on the (Government benches.

King Tawhiao’s body-guard is described by a gentleman who saw it at Alexandra as a corps of tatterdemalians, to whom the famous description given by Falstatl'of bis scarecrow company would not be inapplicable. It is composed of ill-red and worseclad fellows, who are uf all sizes and ages, who attempts at military drill would tickle the sides of stolidity itself, and whose uniform consists simply in no two of them being similarly arrayed. Old glazed tablecloths, batteree belltoppers, and such like, articles are prettv well distributed amongst them,

The following is said to he the Texan plan of training shepherds’ dogs : —As soon as he is born the pup is taken from his mother and taught to suck a sheep, the sheep’s lamb being taken from her at the same time. She soon adopts the puppy, and as it grows it soon learns to follow its adopted mother, and will continue to go with the flocks and protect them from strange (logs and sheep thieves. The dog is fed, after he is a few months old, in the minting and at night. Should lie return to the house during the day for food he is given a whipping and sent off without food, and lie will soon learn not to forsake his charge again. A writer in a Melbourne journal states that a firm in Melbourne lately received from Sandhurst, as part of a remittance, three Bank of England £lO notes, hearing date May 31 and .June 11, 1831. The notes are in good condition, ami do not hear the appearance of much circulation. Their history and the reason of their long disappearance from the public use would doubtless he of interest if they could he traced and told. The use of the money represented by notes to the Bank of England counts up considerably. £3O at 3 per cent compound interest for fifty years amounts to something <m r £343. The C.M.O. Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society met last Thursday night to discus* “ Which is more advantageous, the single or the married state?” The debate went on with great spii it for about two hours, and just as a speaker was unking an impassioned oration in favor of the “ single state,” a lady in a red shawl and goloshes, 'marched up tc the orator, an l exclaimed was at the puli., but this ’ore’s worsen Come ’oinf, you willin, and support your family.” When he had dismally slouched out, the chairman put the question, and “ the Single state” was carried neni. ill*. — Sydney paper.

The Churchman of New York says : “ We are still to have another version of the New Testament, to be known as ‘ the American Version,’ and, what is more, it is to be copyright under that designation.” As to the. particular reasons for its publication the Churchman says : “ The fact that the readings and renderings proposed by the American Committee of revision have been published in a separate list, such of them, at least, as were not adopted by the English revisers, has vexed the minds of some people, who cannot hear that anything American should he made to take a back seat, and of certain others who are not willing to acknowledge that there can he any appeal from the judgment of the American Committee. ”

The following is the principal clause of the Education Amendment Bill, adopted by the Legislative Council after much deliberation, but which Bill was thrown out by the House of Representatives : —Section 84 of the Education Act, 1877, is hereby amended by adding to subsection two the following words, namely “ Provided always that any such Committee may, if it sees lit, direct that a portion of the Holy Scriptures shall he read aloud by the scholars of one or other of the senior classes every morning as the opening of the school; but no child shall be compelled to attend at the reading herein piovided for if his or her parents or guardian shall inform the Committee or teacher in writing that they object to such attendance ; and no such reading shall exceed twenty minutes. It shall not he compulsory on any teacher to extend such reading. ”

The clot arc regulations which were recently introduced into the House of Commons, and which the Preimer of New Zealand proposes to adopt confer on the .Speaker or Chairman of Committees power, in regard to business declared “ urgent,” to check obstruction (1) by refusing to put motions of adjournment or to grant divisions if these if these be moved or demanded merely for purposes of obstruction, and (2) by ‘•directing” a member to “ discontinue a speech” if lie displays “ continued irrelevancy or tedious repetition”; (3) by “putting the question forthwith” on a majority of three to one agreeing to it ; (4) by refusing to allow a debate on a motion for going into committee on an “urgent” bill ; and (5) by “ suspending” any member “ named” as guilty of peresitent or wilful obstruction.

At “Ye Fancic Fayre” lately held in London in aid of a charity one of the first tilings the Princess of Wales purchased was a magnificent bouquet, for which she gave a couple of sovereigns or so. Haring inspected the various stalls, she was on the point of departing, when one of the ladies who had been most indefatigable in disposing of her wares, who was evidently a personal friend of Her Royal Highness, stopped her—“ What! are you going already?” “ Yes,” said the Princess. “Oh, then, do give me your bouquet, and wait a moment and see what I will do with it.” Her Royal Highness complied with her request at once, v,'hereupon the pretty vendor —for she was a very beautiful woman—promptly announced to the crowd of male admirers standing round her stall that the flowers from the Princess’ bouquet were on sale at ten shillings a-pieee—“ only a limited number to be disposed of.” In less than two minutes thirty gallants bad each one in his button-hole, and thirty golden half-sove-reigns had been added to the funds of the charity.