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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 164, 13 July 1877, Page 2

Two advertisements in the Dunedin Star for a storekeeper and a bookkeeper, produced 89 and 74 applications respectively. The Inangahua Times of Friday says : The cheering intelligence hag reaqhed Reefton of the striking of the reef in the lower level of the United Alpine Company, Lyell The discovery, though ifc has had the effect of running up the; price of scrip, is by no means a surprise, as the stoue was long since proved, and tho Company only awaited fche driving of a low levelfcunuel for the more easy and inexpensive working of the mine. The stone, as far as it followed down fche upper workings, was highly payable, and the lode well formed and regular in its course I

* '*• \ r" ■*\ • "". Jem Mace has .received £1000 from Mr , v Wilson, of the circus, for an eight weeks? : - * engagement iri Melbourne and Sydney. [;. The South London- P#e*M states that ths freehold of the Surrey Gardens is sold to an eminent firm,pf South London huilders, and eire long *. the f atoms' place of recreation; 1 * where Jullien, and wild beasts, and the flre^ works once held undisputed possession, will be covered with bricks and mortar. In the South Australian Parliament recently one of the members asked the At-torney-General if it-was intended to introduce any legislation fp prevent the recurrence of such accidents at football as have resulted • in the death of Mr C. B. Poole. An Auckland paper says that Mr Bedford, of- the Customs, recently met- witha severe accident. Having determined to make himself acquainted with the graceful and healthy , ' exercise of rinking he was engaged in prac- " tising when he suddenly fell. His right arm got doubled under him in some way, the consequence being that it was found to be broken just above the wrist- when he was as--sistadtip. ' /*' X{_ . \. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce I:. recommends that a measure should be intro*---duced in Parliament to render bills of sale absolutely void r aa against , the claim of any - creditor existing at the date of the bill of sale, and that it shonld cease to. have any force or effect at the; ekpiratioi of twelve months .from this date, unless registered. *l z In several small debt cases which have recently come Jief ore the Resident Magistrate, the defendants have set up, in one or two instances, successfully, the plea of 4n_incyr*> We advise tradesmen, therefore, to be careful ' in giving credit to whiakerless young-men,-and to demand the date and year of birth; or" a Certified copy of the parish register, oefo'rev, pla'ci_-*f their names in the ledger.— Star'. ~ *"' ; }Ye (AuckUnd Star) have received % W&- _ ' tailed and sontewhafc amusing description' of * an ejiamourialj contest which'_a8 r he<f&rgoto****n on in Onehunga. Tha heroin^ Vs aautto^be ' a pleasing young-lady;afr one-of the-leadiijg hotels/who has been placed oh" the hOffiii of a dilemma by having sixteen or seyenteen aspirants for her hand) and ifor led* h*fa r rt. As the story goes, there '-was W Friday a general skirmish, which^esa|tedip thQcbirta- „■ pwra kicking out all the others, and barricading himself in, with his prize. , „-- -' -Tha 1 ; *41BM5lSWi"'jir__d_tHrf l •' Ttuth) are as follows :— Russia, 1,789,571 ; Germany, 1,248,834; France, 1,119.525; .Austria, 56 1,268; "Italy, 871,871 - r-.Bagtond, % 655,808 j -'Turkey 62^736; othe^couwS' 476,321. Total, 7,754,935. Allowing only £30 per head for the cost of each man, £332,648,050 per annum is expended for ths " maintenance of these enormous armies. As they are drones in the hive instead of workers, if what they might earn be added to thOic cost, this permanent system of "blood and iron" is maintained at an expenditure to thfe hive of about £500,000,000 psr annum. And we .rejoice ,'that'we are bbru in an age' of ; civilization and progress I -' • The Paris correspondent of the Sydmg Morning Herald writes :— A curious wager h^» just been lost. One of the bettors had asked the other at what moment the nineteenth century commenced ? "Oh 1" replied the latter, « why, of course, it began on the Ist January, 1800." « Not at all,'.' cried the qiieriat.. . The two thereafter laid a wager on their respective opinions, and the second party has lost. In fact the century in question only begins on the Ist January, 18.01. To constitute a complete century a hundred years, must have elapsed. The first century ~ of the Christian era not having finished unflL the end of the 31st December of the , hundredth year at midnight, the second century' only commenced on the lat January, 101, "to* end at midnight on the 31st December, 200 ; and so on. Consequently the nineteenth century will terminate on the 31st December. 1900. . -.' The Kaiapoi (Canterbury) Boating Club has been compelled by force of circumstances to pass a resolution to the effect that "sufficient of the club's property be disposed of to defray the existing liabilities. Mr Wearing, one of the leading members, ,in .supporting,* the resolution said, that he £elj7 very sorry that matters had' cbhie : to this. It was simply impossible.for the annual subscribers to make up the deficiency within a reasonable period. There was no doubt whatever but : every club in Canterbury was more .or lgaa S dependent on its Winnings at the regattas to ' heljp its finances out,* but it seemed'as if the club "had .begun a system of cutting this source of revenue away entirely. Healiuded to |the fact that recently clubs had been lending their bloats to persons outside the clubs to which the boats belonged, Tand thereby assisting some of the disaffected of a club to compete against the boats entered i by fcheir club. Taking this into consideration, as well as the, fact that the interest in boa|ting generally appeared to be on the wane, he w^; forced 'into supporting ithe motion. The ceremony of laying'the foundation stone of a new Wesleyan Church in Christchurch took place last week in the presence of a, large number of spectators. The following gentlenj l e,ni.man*r^f. whom are weil-ls_i*ssvii) in kelson,' were on the, platform :-rT;be Revs Messrs Crump, Hodgson, Worker, Smalley, Aldred, Morley, .and C. Fraaeri In tha » course of the proceedings the ,Revl Mr"' Morle*y'proceeded, to apeak; asto the-'poihts, .aims, and objects of the- Wesleyan' relig4o_| and indicated a few of tho ; more JmnjediatO matters winch .he said ,fa^ from June tolim?' come under his hp'tice*. inf^^ tnat;!pia6'ei AWe£ leyahism was aboVe all ~&~ .practi&rr^'^pn, ' and was the means* of doing'-* a vast-ara6uht ' of good;! LThey. were,.inofe ,very7ekactingl'.?i_ •• _ the conditions they imposed upon; Iheir members. The apostolic mo'del was carried out .so fijir as it 'Wits' poS-Jible' J t0 "carry* it biit. '' ' J A greajt feature in their religion \y&s that) ..their, v ministers* did ; n6t>sta_d aloof from their coh-i^ greg'atibhv or arrogate' » to lj themselves any divine right as standing between God and the members of their church. The., laity .too . had a goefckdeal . to^dp 7 with the/ -management of chureh : affairs-ih their denomination'' Wesleyamsm wasiraaking great stridiss ih fche^ old cQuntcy^buts'-Jillmore in America, where" _aU the year round a churoh a day'^w'as : cbn-- J secrated. Ir concl-usjon, he expressed the great pleasure he bad in being present, and trusted the building, the laying of the foundatiou stone of which they "were met to commemorate,' would; .long prove a .blessing, tp the district..; : . ■• . .^Husbands living apart from their wives jsometimes advertise that they will not hold ' themselves responsible for any debts contracted _hy the latter. Iu some instances these notices are of no legal effect An action %as : recentljr tried in the Resident : Magistrate's Court at Dunedin, in which one Duncan, a butcher j sued a man named Cameron to recover £3, the- value of ' butcher's ' meat supplied to the defendant's wife, who is living apart from him. The defendant relied upon a published notice and upon arrangements made with tradesmen for her* maintenance. In giving judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the amount claimed," and costs, the Magistrate said ■*' that if the arrangements made by the defendant for his wife's maintenance had been complete, no action could lie against him; but it appeared m evidence that the wife had been refused meat at M'Donald's shop, where an arrangement had been made for her supply. She was, therefore, entitled to pledge her husband's credit for a reasonable supply elsewhere. A wife by law was entitled to maintenance, and a husband could not by any general notice relieve himself from the re- \ sponsibility of that maintenance and leave' his wife to starve," Consequently that hus- " band had to pay the butcher's bill. . - 1

S The Melbourne Gaa. Companies have come, to; an -arrangement by which' a uniform-rate of 7s 6d jier 1000ft is to be charged. \ ' The business of the -Reefton Telegraph office has increased so much' that additional operators and messengers h_ve-.£een put- on) ! '7-The rumotofajsohtemplat'ed visit of thePrihce of Wales to these colonies is again revived. The Aqe's London correspondent says if he goes out it will not be in the Serapis, but that he will take the Princess and one of his sons with him. ■/•--Tho Queensland Government intend "to introduce \ a Chinese, Immigration 7BIU, which limits one passenger tb each five tons of a ship's tonnage, and requires the master of a vessel to pay a deposit of £i0 each emigrant, to be refunded after three years should the immigrant not be convicted 7of auy crime, or not become a charge on the colony as a pauper. The Ashburton "Mail states that it has been informed that Mr Wason, M.H R., has commenced an action for slander against Mr " Pitt," one of the members of the South Rakaia; ROad Board, for having publicly accused Mr Wason when chairman of the -Board of tampering with the minutes. The well-known Mr Coppin, of Melbourne, -recently suffered a defeat in a contest for a iseat in the House of Assembly, ' His constituents wanted to banquet him as a consolation, but he said in reply that he considered a -banquet .'i-an embarrassing social nuisance, and au unproductive demand upon friendship." Anti-Rabbit, Kaikoura, asks the Canter- *■ bury 'rTiraes-it, -the. " rafctle-iriakes of the American Continent are very destructive to - ! ther rabbit,'' and whether any of their readers can give'him "information as to procuring - : ; lihem,,andi if -practicable getting thera landed ''alive "in New Zealand.'? The Times remarks, i •£ Our [correspondent, must have suffered very ' acdtely from the rabbit nuisance before he , \seti%<s&theMpre. .It. his. object is to destroy his f eliow-settlers at Kaikoura, powder and shot would be a cheaper method of accomplishing it than importing rattle-snakes. , --Egles in. the Australasian ..relates that a ■young {fellow f'out back" hrßiverina managed to lose himself* } After "considerable Isufferingirom hunger; he looked for certain death, and dug his own grave. He afterwards . bethought phimself , , qf. killing his horse, and ■having done so, he thereby sustained life for some days. He was found in a helpless con- _ ditipg, but was brought in alive, and being r. ;y ou .PSi an d of sound constitution, soon rallied. "Iri Squaring accounts with him his employer charged him with, " One horse killed, £20;" and added that " it ought to have been .£30." Says "the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus:— Turkey and New Zealand—there does not seem much connection between the two countries, but they have lately been associated in a small matter, according to the Constantinople correspon- , deut of the Globe. As may well be imagined, 'foreiguera. are eager for services in the -Turkish' army at the present time. Their salaries are always punctually paid, if the are kept waiting for months. A person lately made representations to the Turkish authorities that he had seen much service, and performed prodigies of favor in the New Zealand yeomanry against the aborigines there and the Turks thinking they had caught^a treasure, at once created him a Bimßashie, one of those officials whom Mr Gladstone, in high flights of eloquence, would have deported to the shores of Asia. He is, _ hdwever, only an ordinary major. Bud even this was rather too high a promotion, when it was discovered that the new Bim Bashie, instead of having covered himself with glory •in the capture of numerous pas, had no other title to command than the enforced obedience he had' been subjected to in the British Consuiated prison for having obtained money under false pretences in Constantinople. With reference to the Mount Rochfort railway, the Westport Times says:— The line opens up a long stretch of country which ultimately, when the New Zealand Government becomes awake tp its value, will support a thriving population. The 'grouhd is a. heavily timbered, but with wood of igood marketable value, affording a fine scope for saiv mills and kindred industries, and where cultivation has been attempted the soil has gifen excellent yields of both root and grain .. craps. /Potatoes, carrots, swedes, and parIt suips, grow to sizes which astonish importers ofj Nelson produce, and at the; Ngakawau, where therpioneer settler, Mr M'Nairn,' has aroUnd-his homestead several actes laid down iu permanent pasture, the fattening qualities of the feed for both_sheep aud! dairy stock haye become more than locally renoWned. Settlement has not much advanced in the Ngakawau district. Beyond Mr M'Nairn's ->' farfu? and well kept hostelry/the only_ other peijcaaheht "place of residence is: Mt R, Watson's house at Granity Creels, vyhere, during toe" progress of the rslway' f ,,*^ofks,many ot the men oh the line have found corafortabje. boarding accommodation. The railway line stops short qf ,the coal mine by a mile or. so, and the proprietors jof the' Alpion mine are hastening slowly. The railswill get deeply embrdwued before the rust ) is worn.off by the traffic of. coal trains. : . Jn pleasing contrast* to £be de-Jay in opening thje , Ngakawau coal mines is the energy displayed by jthe Wellington Company at WaimanjgaTpa. A branch line of about one mile, excellently well laid and' ballasted, cqnnect*** tßejmibe with the main line! • At n tKe tei:- ' ininus a narrow bridge is thrown across the rriyer tp.the pit mouth or rather drive on the 1 $M r si(le * 0a this bridge the small pit waggons are drawn three at a time by a horse - acrpss^he river, *ans .gp an inoijne .bi to a - '■' l^Tafifofttfwitlr : shdo't3,*-**^6Wh Vvhich'ffie"c6al is shot in^p, the ;oJoal 'trucks running- on^the branch line, ahd thenc^they. travel direct to Westport. Having got rid of an accumula.tioij of drpss ( and dustrthe ; mapag§f, Jfe ** -Swvnhurne, is now getting out,- & { fir^rfilgsss sam-ple of coal; and' will soon he. rea-dy-to _ send away the first shipment.