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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 54, 4 March 1875, Page 2

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BISHOP'S SCHOOL. j Sciioor, v. House. i This ma'ch was played yesterday afternoon at the Botanical Gardens. At thy time ol! drawing the stumps the store ttood a? under School.

House.

In the second innings ilie ichool hal lost I 6 wickets lor C 6 runs. The match will be \ I^laycd out next week.

Judging from the Dunedin newspapers, the appointment of Mr Williams a3 Supreme Court Judge of Otago is extremely unpopular. This is how the Times begins an article of utter condemnation: — «« Truth is always strango; stranger than fiction ": so sang, with prophetic prevision, the author of Don Juan. And so should likewise sing, if the thousand tongues of rumor do not in tbia instance lie, Mr Joshua Strange Williams, of Christchurcb, in the Province of Canterbury, barristor-at-law. Happy man! say we. Happy Province of Ota<ro ! Happy everybody ! May ye dwell in everlasting felicity for ever and ever, as a stock-broking friend of ours hath it. Well-a-day, and alack 1 And yet this is not a season in which grossets have been of unusual proportions, or the litters of the porcine tribe portentous. This is a quiet year of grace, in which the eun rises and sets, and the cocks crow with undiminished vigor as heretofore. And so Mr Joshua Stranpa Williams is to be Otago's new Judge ! " Angels and I Ministers of grace defend usl" Heaven protect this law-loving community and the scribes aud lawyers and Pharisees who dwell therein. The lives, the property, the human bliss and woes of 70,000 people nre to be entrusted to the keeping of Mr Joshua Strange Williams! Siieep Wouryinci. — A large amount of damage has been done by dogs nmoug some valuable flocks in the Canterbury province. Tho Press of the 25th iost sayß: — Oa Sunday two dogs killed ten-ram lambs out of imported ewes ruuuinnr on Mr Marcroft's farm near Kiiapoi, and on the same evening Mr P. C. Threlkeld of Inglewood faun, had one of his most valuable Lincoln sheop also worried. Teachers for no les3 than 1 1 schools in various parts of the Province of Olago nre advertised for in the Provincial Gazette. Detective Hogan, of Sydney, has reported to the Government that Gardiner, the bush-ranger, has reached California from China, aud is keeping a liquor saloon in San Francisco. Tho Right Riv Dr O'Connor, the newEomnn Catholic Bishop of Ballarut wnp, on the 24th of January, presented by the members of his flock with a handsome carriage and fair, and a purso of 200 sovereigns. The Government Printing Office hnd a narrow escape from fire on Wednesday, through a rat having eaten through a leaden gns pipe. Tho eecape of gas was followed by a Hive, which was speedily extinguished by turning off the gas. But for tho preseuce of some workpeople the place would have been burnt dowu. — JV. Z. Times. According to a Wellington telegram which appeared in a late Taranaki paper, the hills around Wellington have recently been subjected to unusual disturbauces. The readers of the journal in qupstion were told -.—"Last night the hills backing the city were a magnificent sight, being like one sheet of flaming flukes of (ire, and were driven long distances." The faith that can move mountains appears to be existent i i Wellington, or else the faith of the readers of telegrams in Taranaki ha 9 been sorely tried. A curious case of somnambulism is reported by the Albury papers. N.b'.W. It is stated that a boy living nt Albury walked two miles, though iv a profound sleep the whole time, duriug which he divestod himself of clothiog and walked home in his shirt, opened the gate, passed through the garden, entered the house, closed the door, aud went to ted. The Neio Zealand Times, in commenting upon a report furnished by the Olago Daily Times ou the condition of the crops in that province, says : — This general summary is indeed satisfactory, and we congratulato the agriculturists of Otago apon their pro3pecfa for the harvest. The main drawback to the farming interest iv Otago has been the wont of suitable labor. This is a remarkable fact, considering the very large incrense that has been made to the laboring classes, by free immigration, since last harvest, but it is attested by several districts correspondents of the Daily Times. The Oamaru correspondent of that journal writes of tho harvest hands : — "There are great and universal complaints of the inefficiency, laziness, and independence of the laborers, who accept without reluctance tho current wages of £2 10a per week. In some cases £3 per week has been given — but to good hands" To the incompetency of (he laborers may be attributed also a somewhat novel operation in Otago agriculture — threshing from the stock. In the Oamaru district, we are told, " many farmers deem it more judicious economy to threth from the stook than to run tho risk from bad stacking necessarily attendant upon the scarcity of men who are practically unacquainted with this important branch of farm labor." A crane to lift weights of fifty tous bns been crecttd on the south bank of the Yarra, at Melbourne, and successfully tested with a weight of sixty-five tons. The crone iB manipulated by two engines, one used for hoisting and the other for turning or slewing. Tl:o hoisting engine has two cylinders ol lOin. diameter, aud the range of the hoist ia 80ft. The turning engine has two cylinders of Bin. diameter, the sweep of the crane being 95ft., and both engines are supplied by the same boiler. The Admiralty Court, of London, lias condemned the Cnndahar to pay a of £10,000 for sinking the ship Kiugsbridge in tho English channel.

Regarding Sir George Grey'a candidature for the Superintendency of the Province of Auckland, the N.Z. Times saya :— In the present temper of the people, wo think opposition would be futile . At all event?, Mr Dargaville is not tho man to beat Sir George Grey in au appeal to tho suffrages of Auckland, albeit the latter " take 3no active part in the contest." 'Indeed, we cannot help smiling at this stipulation. It is ' childlike and bland ;"— ao very like Sir George, and so exactly in accordance with electioneering tactics in Auckland, that we shonld have been surprised if it had not been made. Sir George Grey will take no nctive part, in the election ; his friends will work for him; and knowing something of those friends, we feel assured that their work will be well and thoroughly done. ]f, therefore, nnything we could say could have any influence upon Mr Dargaville, or anyone else who aspires to the vacant seat nt the head of the Auckland Executive, we should say : " Save your money and your time, for were you ten times better fitted for the oflice than you are, you would be defeated." Two housewives in Fifeshire, who had gone out to give the pigs their supper, met nfc a gate, and naturally took ndvanlago of such a favorable opportunity for a " twa-handed crack." "Losh, Peggy, woman," said one to the other, " I hear folks say there's a man i' the moon." *' Ou, ay," returned l >e BPy> "I've heard about him; but be oaoua be ve»y fond o' his am wife, for he's aye glowerin' this way." {I'or remainder of News see. fourth page.}

g. '.'. i 11..'... "" '■' —■ T-.— n „,. Ilolloway's Ointment ard Pills, — With the changing seiiFon ie is imprudent for all to rectiiy any ailment afflicting them • but it is incumbent on the aged, suffi ring ulcerations and similar sources of debility to have ti-em removed as, if neglected, worse consequences nay follow. This Ointimnt is their remedy: on if s powers all may confidently rely; it not merdy eradicates the sores, but extirpUes the mi=chief at its root, extracts the corroding r.oijon, r.nd ttimulntes nature to flil up the nicer vith those sound, healthy granulaiions, which should ati'e through life. Under this tre taie: t bad legs \ cc»iue sound, scorbutic f kins cast olf tlicir sculi s, and scro>ulovs s ires cctse to annoy. Such hrpe for the diseased was unknown in furnur days. 565

First Innings. Da* fcne'l, st Greenfield 4 Dviley, b Green 2 IV) r Morris, b Creei.fie'd 2 Mr Shaw, b Johnston 35 Pitt, major, b Givenfiel 1 1 Hopkins, b Green 0 M'NeilJ, c G<etnfield, b Green 5 Pitt, minor, b Greenfield 8 Allen, b Green 0 l'itt, minimum, not out 0 Jennings (absent) Wiiies 11 iso B-ills 2 Byes' 9 Leg Byes 0 Total 7!)

First Inning 0 . Eainc, 1) Shaw o Campbell, c M'Nt-ill, b Shaw 1 Greenfield, b Shaw ]<; Farqnhar, b Morris 0 Grccn,bMo:ri3 0 Snow, b Shaw 0 Jchnston, c Morris, b Shaw ... 3 Wymoiul, b Shaw 4 Heine, c Dartnel 1 , b Morris ... 1 lionalilson, not out 0 Lane (absent) 11) es 4 Lrg Byes 0 "Wides 0 No Balls 1 Total Ts