KAIKOURA NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 160, 20 February 1869, Page 5

KAIKOURA NEWS.

(From the Kaikoura Herald.) The Herald shows an unusual degree of liveliness this mail, and contains a large amount of interesting matter. We make some extracts below. It appears that an effort has been commenced for the purpose of getting a sufficient amount as stipend to induce a minister of some denomination to settle there, and £ll3 is already subscribed, Messrs Bullen heading the list with £SO. Mr. J. 13. Williams, formerly of Blenheim, appears to have attained high feme, and is quoted as “Dr. Williams.” Mr. H. Wharton is going to leave the district for a time, and has let Tiptree for a term to a gentleman from the North Island. A grand concert is in course of preparation in aid of the Kaikoura Church fund. A cricket match between “ town and country” is also on the cards. The now celebrated letter of Dr, Horne is published with the strictures which appeared in our transpontine contemporary, on the same subject, and upon these the writer adminadverts with more than his customary vigor. For the remarks, in our behalf we have to thank him. He says Mr Eyes “failed to understand .that a newspaper is bound to leave its correspondence column open for fair criticism.” - We are glad' to be able to state that out of the few cases’ of cholera reported to us by Dr. J. B. Williams, only one has yet resisted the skilful efforts made by that gentleman, to. keep the malady under. The doctor has entirely, rid the community of diptheria ; and it is to be hoped this noxious disease will never make its re-appea-rance amongst us.' s i- i : i ' Yesterday ft wo black swans ‘were observed passing the Kauhautara,, making in .the direction of the Peninsula. They . are supposed to have come from Christchurch.- : ■ ' We are glad to hear that steps areTikely to be taken at last to: repair the wharf, a portion of which was carried away in the hurricane of February last, when the schooner Triumph was lost in Fyffe’s Harbor. Representations having been made to the General Government some time ago to the effect that there was little or no chance of obtoining assistance in the matter from the Provincial authorities, a communication on the subject, we welieve, was received by His Honor the Superintendent, and owing to the pecuniary assistance lately rendered to this Province by the General Government, a certain sum will, shortly be spent upon the work. The.unsafe state of the moorings will also receive the attention of the authorities ; and when the management of harbors and wharves ishanded over to the Marine Board, the state of the port will doubtless be looked into, with a view to necessary amendments. :

A case of some importance was placed for tearing, last Tuesday, before the Resident Magistrate, which showed how careful people should be in the use of duty stamps when affixing them to a document requiring payment, of the duty. The defendant having pleaded indebted to the amount for which he was'Sued. 6y the plaintiff upon a promissory note, worded; in the shape:of an agreement. The Resident Magistrate declined to enter judgment in the case, inasmuch as the stamp affixed to the document in question was insufficient . The alternative of the fine 6f £5, provided by the Stamp Act, was offered to the parties to the suit, on default of payment of which,'the Magistrate stated he could not, give judgment. ... . Diptheria, it seems, although on the decrease, has pot yet, entirely disappeared from the district. Dr. Williams treated two cases during the week with a successful issue,- and it is hoped ;this dreadful 'scourge will soon have' entirely 'disappeared from our midst. - The doctor infoniis tts that two mild cases of cholera-morbus 1 have’ come’under h,is police, but a careful treatment soon relieved his patients. , V -Mr Eyes’ Meeting.— The Kaikbura Herald has the following respecting the date-meeting : ;‘ ‘ W.&. are informed by; one of the mdst influential residents of Blenheim, who ’ takes a leading part in.politics, tliat the show of hands taken at the meeting of Mr. Eyes, M.H.R., with his constituents, does not represent in any way the general feeling entertained toward that gentleman; Although the show of hands was declared by the chairman to be in Mr. Eyes’favor, the general impression is, that thei-e were at least jwp hands held against him for every one lifted in his favor. The room, we are further informed, was skillfully.* packed,’ and .the..tumult,'.confusion, and noise, most deafening. . The ■-[ Brass Band,’ engaged for the' occasion by the Superintendent, owing to an ; overflow of spirits mi their part, subsided at an early hour,’ 'gtld turned out a complete ‘ fiasco.’ The 1 champagne sapper,” given immediately afterwards by his Honor, revived howeverthe energicaJof-thoso who had-so vociferously and weU carried theu-bbjpbf ;<>£ the meeting {?), and prevented,. byj.,the noise and confusion they created,'all decellt ' people' Tfbin taking part in the proceedings.I ■’ Things havdiri. ted reached their climax in Marlboipiigh’ v/heu'provincial institutions;.require to be rived fii their moribund state by ‘ brass bands,’ champagne suppers, and general stimulants ad libitum.