The Nelsion Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST- 4, 1871 Winter Evening Lectures.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 182, 4 August 1871, Page 2

The Nelsion Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST- 4, 1871 Winter Evening Lectures.

■ The Rev. P. Calder will lecture to-night at the Assembly Rooms, on "Burns" Football. — The alp!iabet.ical match, A to H, versus II to Z, so often postponed ou account of the weather, will be played out to-tnorrow afternoon. The game will commence at 2.3 C* p.m. Bankruptcy Court. — At the sitting of the Court this morning, Haas Fanselow receiver) his discharge. The final hearing re W. Jones, publican and tailor, was fixed for Friday, 25t.h instant, when the bankrupt will apply for his discharge. Death on Board the Rangitoto. — From a telegram in this morning's Colonist, we learn that Mrs. Aylmer, recently a resident in Nelson, died on the pnssage from hence to Dunedin in the Rangitnto. The body was to "be convoyed to the Bluff where the deceased had many friends. Latest from the Thames. — By the Wellington, which arrived from Mauakau at noon to-day, -we have received our usual Auckland files, from which we extract the following intelligence relating to the Thames Goldfield, dated Shortland, Monday eveuing :— " The fun of gold in the face at the Caledonian. is still looking very well, aud bids fair to yield a very large quantity of .very rich stone. The chamber at the low level is -nearly completed, but owing to the immense quantity of water and other drawbacks, the workis going on very slowly. The reef cut in the chamber is of the same appearance as the main body, and is either it. or a large leader from it. This afternoon- a shot was put in the stooe which laid bare a fine piece of gold-bearing stone, haviug a band of gold three or. four inches wide running through it. Some of the specimens on hand are very rich, and will yield a very large percentage of gold. There is at present about two -tons. .of. rich stone ready for crushing. — The sharemarket has been brisk ; the following are the latest quotations : Caledouians, £198 ; Bright Smile, 30a. to 40s ; Thames, £39 ; Tookey, £40; Queen of the May, 7s ; Otago, £4 ; and .Inverness, 375. 6d. Central Board, op Education. — Subjoined is a list of the members of the Central Board of Education, showiug also what district each member represents. Several districts are, however, still unrepresented : — District. , Name. Motueka D. Rough (Chairman) Nelson J. C Richmond. Suburban North W.Wastney. Stoke and Upper Takaka W. Kout. . Richmond ;... — . Talbot. Spring Grove J.Rose. Lower Vf akefleld W. M. Smith. . ; Upper Wakefield W. Morrison. Wainiea We5t.............. F. J. Blundell. Hope.. .'■ W. P. Smith. Upper Moutere J. W. Barnicoat., Lower Moutere P. Jennings. Pangatotara . . The Bishop of Nelson. Kiwtilca R.Burn. Lower Takaka.......* C. P.Kearns. Motupipi M. Campbell. Westport D. M. Luckie. Cobden '.. F. C. Simmons. Motupiko Lowther Broad. Dovedale W. Win. ■yUDKEDGING THE AORERE. — The Steps taken by the Nelson Dredging Company in securing » portion of the Aorere river, and commencing the construction of the requisite appliances at Collingwood, appears to have given an inpetusto this particular industry, as we learn ' that between tbe'-Maori gardens and Slateford. a distance of about four >l niiles, every available portion of the. river, has ..beeii applied, for, by" parties . yr.hp^intend/to' conii r \ tnence operations as soon db possible. The ; weather has of lute proved exceedingly unfavorable, arid considerable i 'delay ulils coriseque'ntry occurred^ in '''the .works, It ; present ( beia^, carried on by the Dredging j. Comparfy 1 ; but many weeks will not have

elapsed beforevthey are fully employed. \En thevmeanth-ne, the prospecting of f^e s river sisbeiog carried on, and Williams'-'and s party^haye;\wMeJarn, obtained favorable -resultsT their researches being carried out by means of a home-made "spoon " which is worked from a canoe.. During the anju-oacliing.summer. season* we may look for r ~ti»is 'peculiar- method ofigold-seekiug being pursued to a large extent, and, from the success that has hitherto attended the very rude efforts -'mnde-byrthe Maories in the direction of "blind -stabbing," it is not too much to expect that the yields will be such as to amply reward the various parties, engaged for the labor and .capital expended in the search for .the precious metal. • -'-';-• Salt Beef is beiog prepared for shipment to the home market from Canterbu, T- . A Tokomariro paper states that ice five inches thick was seen at Warepa last week. * ' ' y During the quarter ended: 30th June, the emigration from Otago exceeded the immigration by 87 souls. A Christchurch paper reports an immense waterspout as being observed out at sea from opposite Luke Ellesmere. The Grey papers report the pasting up of large quantities of black sand along the beaches during the late gales. A Gigantic Pump, for the Caledonia" claim Auckland is being, constructed at Ballarat, Victoria. The Victorian new war ship Cerberus has been refitted and is now complete — "ripe and ready for the fray." Penny Postal Cards are about coming into use in Victoria. Messages written on the cards will be transmitted to any part of the colony/ The proposed railway from Wellington to Wairarapa and the Norlh, will require a funnel which is estimated to cost from £85.000 to £130,000. ' The amount of suow that has fallen iv the hi<jh-!ying portions of the Wakatip district this winter is reported to be greater than in any, previous season since 1863.. • -'• . A bottle of petroleum from, one of the sprin £8 near Poverty Bay is reported by the Hawke's Bay Herald as appearing extremely clear, aod paper or rag dipped into it burnt with a brilliant flame. In the morning service at St. Francis's Church, Christchurch, on the 16th inst., the Dead March in Saul was played, in conspquence of the news of the murder of the Archbishop of Paris, arriving on that dtiy. A new company is being floated in Charleston, called the "Charleston Permanent Water-supply Company," with a nominal capital of £6,000. It is reported by the local paper there, that £1,300 worth of scrip has already been disposed of. Some daring thieves lately made their way early one morning to the sluice-boxes of one of the mining parties working on the Pleasant Creek, Upper Shotover, Otago, and washed out about 40 oz. of gold. We learn from the Hokitika papers that the pheasants that were put on : the Longford farm, up the Hokitika River, some time ago, have largely increased, about fourteen or fifteen of them having been seen the other day in the locality in which they were released. The Governor's visit to the West Coast, says the Greymouth Star, cost the people of the County £449. This is the debit entry. What, we wonder, is likely to be shown on the credit side, as an equivalent for the outlay. Simultaneous observations of eleven stars were recently taken at the observatory at the Hutt,-' and at that at Caversham, with a view to determine the absolute longitude of Wellington and Dunedin. The distance between the cities is exactly 321 miles. The; night was in every way most favorable for observations. ■ _. :'.<-•-' A Napier correspondent, writing to a Wellington paper respe ctiqg Jtbe members of the Ministry, remarks that he K would not besurprised if both Mr.jM'Lean and Mr. Ormond were, under some pretext, during* the coming ; session," to 'dissolve partnership with Mr. Fox. It is rumoured that they think he would be more advantageously employed in looking after his political duties, J than in running about lecturing on teetotafisro. - ' A gentlemen who arrived' in Greymbuth (this 5 morning ; from the" Iriangahua; i cMstricr, i says a late't Greymouth paper, ihfoTnis; us thatfVery great activity is being' shown by the working shareholders in the several reef claimsof that district,, Machinery,. , is^l; that- is wantedvtp dfcveljop :the reefs, and this'js being supplied as quickly as circumstances will, .permit,, r . But what, 40 Bjtijl^mpre .'. !•• ..J «--!YI t . "J: .-i FT. T , , <- v ,7 ■ 'let i -p ■ f •, l ■ ■f , J encouraging; fo lanQtbgr3l anQtbgr 3 .class j^gflld, se^kf. er^.is. that alluvial gpld is believed to exist'on the banks unci in the beds of the

rivers and creeks in the district. A p.r-ospect was obtained a few days ago in the 'hbedyojf a (tributary creek, the course c^wliichjhad been <|iVer ted by a, party of miners. !A trial oPtbe washdrrt showed ?ome six grains to the dish. "■'•"*■•*•-"• The Canterbury Press says : — "Human bones were discovered by some men whilst pig-hunting on Saturday last, in a fissure of a rock at Wninui, in Banks' Peninsula. Sergeant Ramsay, with others, started to -the* -spot / on Sunday morning, and have brought in the head, &c. A medical examination has taken place, and the conclusion arrived at is that they are the bones of a man. A slight portion of light hair was also found attached to a piece of skin. Au inquest will be held by W. Pilliet, Esq., the coroner. It is supposed that they are the remains of Mr. Dickens, who was lost some fourteen years ago, although report says another man was lostsome six years previously, on his road from 'Wain ui to the. fishing station, but .his track would have been up an opposite spur. The Wakatip Mail says : — " At the sittings of the Warden's Court on Friday, the Chinese litigants set an excellent example; A day or two before they withdrew all the cases between themselves, and deposited for each of the several companies the sum of £50 — £200. The Compauy that first goes to law is to forfeit £50, and so on. They have also adopted an arbitration tribunal, to whom all matters of dispute between themselves are to be referred. Of course the Europeans would not use these means, but 'John' is thoroughly disgusted with the European "Courts of Justice. He says that he always goes to the wall, and cannot understand it at all. Hence this new movement, which is likely to be adopted throughout the district." A New Manure. — The Brisbane agent Mr. J. C. Wilkins, has sent us, Queenslander, a sample of boiling down manure, a considerable shipment of which we understand goes by the Sea Star to London, where we have no doubt it will command a price as high as the best guano, to which it ought to be equal. It is prepared from the residue of the meat digestors at Red Bank boiling-down establishment, and consists mainly of dried flesh and particles of bones, the high fertilising properties of which are well known. In its wet state the refuse smells considerably; indeed, the powerful fume evolved from it, though familiarly known as the odor of boiling-down violets, has, up to to the time Mr. Alexander took it in band, been the barrier to its use as manure. But the sample before U3 is a dry powder, as fit for transportation as guano or bone-dust. Many thousands of tons of offal have annually gone to waste, and we believe that this is the .first attempt to make it an exportable article. We trust it may be successful, and that those in want of a condensed manure wili bring its merits to the test. Our Forests. — A suggestive lecture has been delivered, says the Melbourne Telegraph, by Dr. Mueller. Its burden was that we are not taking proper steps to conserve our forests. Like some peoples of old, we receive a fertile country, and are likely, by a criminal want of foresight, to transmit to posterity a desert. The same incident has occurred in modern times. AIL Pacha; burned; down the forests of the Peloponesus, like the goldminer is consuming them here, and there came famine and drought. Tbe Russians destroyed the forests of the Caucasus for the purpose of routing out the brave defenders of tb'e soil, and the climate of the country changed completely, the land be'carae barren, droughts ensued, and whole tribes were forced to seek new homes in foreign lands. That our own floods have become more severe, and our droughts more prolonged, may be attributed greatly, if not entirely, to our destruction of timber. In Japan a law exists that whoever cuts down a tree is obliged to plant another in its stead. In Biscay every proprietor plants two for one he cuts down. The American farmer is also compelled to plant by Act of Congress. Why should not pur settlers -act thus' wisely and honorably without the compulsion. of the law,. and if they will not, 'why should .not the law interfere.? There should be a general determination to plant, to make glad our waste places by an abundance of choice, thrifty, healthy trees., That noblest of the eucalypti, "thejarrah, might be grbwri, for instance, in a thousand barren soils". And then our streairis; will/be L'full and !less liable to floods, bur gales will be more mode,rate ? our- ha vests more abundant. and more regular." oi iOtago BBOyiNCiALi .Council. — They appear to have been having some fun iv this august body lately. A few days since, a Mr. Hickey moved, " That in the opinion of this Council the introduction of Chinese is detrimental to the interests of this Province," whereupon Mr. Barton desired to move the following amendment,

" That in the opinion of this Council the introduction of Scotchmen "to this Province is 'detrimental • to the interests of the Province ?'• (Laughter*); He moved the amendment because Scotchmen were a frugal and industrious race. After having explained in what other respects he considered Scotchmen resembled, the Chinese, Mr. Reynolds said he would second the amendment -pro forma, and explained that he had prepared an amendment to the effect "That the introduction of lawyers into the Province-^ Mr. Barton : Hear, hear) — and especially such lawyers as the honorable member for Dunedin, was detrimental to the interests of the Province." Perhaps, however, it would; be far. better to move the previous .question. Mr. Hickey's motion was lost, the voting being — Ayes, 15; noes, 16. Farmers' Clubs. — At a meeting of the Farmers' Club at Kaiapoi in the Province of Canterbury, one of the members made the following remarks :— " One of the advantages of a properly organised club would be that the farmers of the district could meet and say, first one and then the other, " I will put. in my 1000 bushels, 2000 bushels, or whatever it might be, and when they had got 20,000 they would go to a factor and say, there is so much good grain, what will you adrauce on 'it?" The fact of the quality of the r grain being guaranteed by the honorable and respectable character of the club would be a great inducement to a merchant to treat with the club, added to -which, the large quantity thus offered would be a greater inducement to a merchant to buy, while on the part of the club there would be a collective liability which must ensure the members delivering none but good samples'. Then there was another advantage to be got by beiog formed iuto.a club. Say, for instance, a merchant in Aucklaud or Dunedin telegraphs to them to know if he can secure so much g^rain; the secretary might then ascertaiu if the order could be met, and send a reply accordingly. On the order being accepted, the farmers would deliver tbeir grain to the merchant's agent, get it sampled and passed, and paid for as quickly as they could deliver ifc at the store. Again, the farmers very often want advances before their corn is ripe for harvesting, and if the club was a co-operative association, they could go to a factor in Christchurch, or elsewhere, and say * ! What will you advance ? " If started, the aim of a club would be to give information, and co-operate, so as to be of the greatest advantage to its supporters. Tt might be construed as somewhat illiberal, but he should advise that all information obtained by the club should be confined exclusively to its members, as he thought, from hisexperience of similar societies in tho Northern districts, that they had worked more for the benefit of outsiders than insiders. He would be very happy to assist the club, for upon the farming, interest depended the future success of the province. There was a "little nigger" in our city, says au Arkansas paper, who had such long heels that a wit observed tliat "he was ten years old before it was decided which way the little fellow would grow."

THE CAPE DIAMOND FIELDS. (From the Cape Standard, April 18.) Mr. Winthrope, late of the 2nd battalion 20th Regiment, has returned to Cape Town, after having spent a very succesful four mouths at the diamond-fields. He has with him seventeen diamonds, the largest of which is 38 carats. The finding of the large stone is another demonstration of -what a lottery this diamond finding is. Mr. Winthrope pitched his tent on a claim which he had no intention of working, but which he was desirous of keeping for the sake of the ground. To prevent its being jumped, he was compelled to work the claim once in every three days. This working he used to limit to removing a little sand. One morning after having done this work two or three times, when scratching the 6and, r he saw this gem, which he found to be a perfect beauty of 38 carats, and valued at between three thousand aod four thousand pounds. The following letter from the diamondfields -has been kindly handed to us : — "The:finds are going oh as briskly as you can possibly imagine. lean now giveyou as a fact, that for a dead certainty Mr. James Proctor has taken out of one claim twelve diamonds, and that he has just brought in and deposited here three of such diamonds ns would make even your eyes sparkle. The one, the largest, weighs fully 8 carats. It is unquestionably a splendid gem. The second weighs 4§ths, the third If carats. The largest diamond might, for all one would think, if he did not know better, have been cut to its shape and made of other than 'the stuff 1 of which diamonds are made. They are not to be sold io the fields." ; ,, „ tli • .' .'•'•', v By the courtesy of Mr. -Moore, manager of the Standard Bank; >weM recently had the,Kf>lsa^re:i-p,fMji6sp)Sctipg about 100 diamonds which have been plaoed in the

hands of ..the bank to be forwarded to England^for v r ■alisation. '■ (Amongst them were some bciutiful gems, rnuging in weight- from n half, to forty carats. We understand that the bunk have made arrangements whereby the owners of diamonds, are enable to get them disposed of in the bi?st markets of |he e v?orld at the most advantageous rates. . We believe that diamonds can be lodged at any of the numerous branchespf : the bank in South Africa, information which, we have no doubt, -will be hailed with- satisfaction by diggers and holders of precious stones. Fourteen . hundred and fourteen dia-j-;monds'are;not.all seen at' a single elance every day, but—we- (Uitenkage Times) saw them at Mr. Blame's, Port Elizabeth, last Tuesday. They were arranged in two glass cases, the latter, divided into small compartment?^ and lined with skyblue paper sq as, 'to form a sort. of cerulean back grojund, ,for the .starl ike gems, and "bring them all under, the eye at once, collectively-^ and? indiyid ; ual)y. They varied ,in size from a pin's head to a good "large' nut. The small gems far outnumbered the great, ones, but in weight and value the large ones carried the dayj j ust as there are far more shrimps than whales in the ocean, but it would take a multitude. of shrimps. .to weigh as much ; as ..one .whale. ', There was, .almost as much variety of shape as size; some were fragments. There were one or two black diamonds, sending. forth that rare compound of light and darkness only found in black eyes;- we don't mean the black eyes conuected with the prize ring, but those that have more to do with, the, wedding ring. There were some we should not For remainder of news see fourth page.

have taken for diamonds at all had we not been assured they were by the gentleman who showed them to us. There were others you could not fail to recognise j as " first water "in the dark. There was one large beauty, a perfect octahedron, looking as if Nature had been having a cutting and polishing match with the lapidaries of Holland, and bad beaten them. And there were some little sparklers that seemed to look up at you wilh an intelligent consciousness of their own worth, and a fore-knowledge of the longand brilliantcareerthey entered upon a few weeks ago when exhumed from their dark tomb on the banks of the Vaal. There was an air of self-appreciation about them, too, such as we see in little people, as much as to say, "If we are little, we are good." To eyes like ours, more loyal to Venus than Mammon, the dazzling Lilliputians looked far the best; but people above that kind of thing would give thepaltn to theßrobdignagian beauties. We would like to have the little ones to keep, and the big ones to sell. The particulars of the galaxy are as follows : — 1,414 diamonds, weighing altogether 2,400 carats, or about ten ounces. Value (estimated) £15,000. There were 140 different consignments, seventy of them were over 5 carats and under 441 carats, the weight of the largest. All the rest were under five carats. May they fully reward their owners for releasing them from the dark sepulchre, and may they shine through the millenium. The following, says the Telegraph, is a list of the diamonds forwarded by the R.M. St. Briton, upon which freight and wharfage have been paid. Of course they form butasmall proportion of the diamonds sent home by this vessel, as most parcels are now forwarded by post or by private hand, by which a considerable saving is effected : — Diamonds. Value. N. Adler&Co 50 £1,050 Richards, Glanville, & Co. 66 500 G. & T. Griffiths ... 67 and 1 garnet SPO Deare & Dietz ... 21 150 E. L. Kilt 11 200 215 £2,250