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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 222, 28 October 1878, Page 2

Mr James Morton, of Glasgow, whose failure for two and a-half millions sterling has been announced, was the prime mover in the establishment and direction of the Australian and New Zealand Laud Company. A Dunedin telegram to the Chronicle says: —The Dunedin Fire Brigade held their annual torchlight procession last night. The celebration was accompanied by a grand display of fireworks, a heavy fall of rain, and the burning of two cottages. The illumination in spite of the weather, was very successful. The directors of the City of Glasgow Bank, all of whom the cable messages state have been arrested for fraud on the public, are seven in number. Their names are Henry Inglis, John Stewart, Robert Salmond, Lewis Potter, John Innes Wright, William Taylor, and E. S. Stronach. The last named is the managing director. The secretary is Robert S. Leresche, and he also has been, arrested with his companions in fraud. The National Insurance Company's profits for the past half-year have been £25,469 . A dividend of 10 per cent., with 6d. per share bonu9 added, absorbs £5000 of this, and £15,000 is to be carried forward to the reserve, which will ihen stand at £35,000 and £5469 is to be carried forward to the next half-year. An Auckland telegram of Thursday last say:— Yesterday, Richards, butcher, of-New-market, Cook (Richards's man), and Clayton's slaughtermen, were on the top rails of the pens at Panmure slaughter house, endeavoring to drive several bullocks into a killing pen. The animals were rather wild, being Wanganui run bullocks. One of .them, more furious than the rest, , charged Richards on the rail, which is some seven feet high, in a frantic manner, and smashed the rail. The scene then became awful. Richards and Cook, with broken timbers, fell peli-mell among the maddened bullocks. One of the bullocks dashed Richards into a corner, and then tuadly jumped on him, Cook, half-stunned, halffrightened, creeping among the bullocks' legs and timber, the other men meanwhile calling for help, got out. Richards was still lying trampled upon, and bleeding, among the bullocks, when one of the men broke open the gate, and the animals went bellowing up the paddock. The men now went to Richards's assistance. He was first supposed to be dead, but by means of restoratives in about two rninutas consciousness was restored. He was a long time before he could realise his position or stand up without he! p. The poor fellow has a severe" cut above the eye, which let down flesh almost hiding the eye ; his neck was swollen out some inches from being trampled upon ; his right hand was split in two places, and he had sustained other injuries. He was taken to the hospital. This morning he is sensible, but very ill, and much shaken and bruised. Cook escaped unhurt. An English paper gives the following account of a novel steam piunace :— " At the visit a short time back of the Speaker of the House of Commons to Portsmouth Dockyard, a steam pinnace was exhibited which, without having a man on board, could do everything but stoke and keep its own fires alight. Its engines were worked, and its movements controlled, wholly by electricity, the cable which supplied it with its mysterious power being unwound from winches as the pinnace sails on its mission. Its principal use is to drop and explode counter mines, in the neighborhood of an enemy's mines, and by destroying them clear a harbor for the approach of a fleet. It performed its work on the above occasion to the amazement of the beholders. The counter-mines were represented by a couple of barrels containing small charges of gun-cotton, and with these slung over the sides it took its departure from the boat containing the battery, and dropped the cask at a distance of about 200 yards, igniting at the same time the fuses which blew the barrels into matchwood and returned obediently, like a • thing of life ' to the controlling hand, after accomplishing its duty." The N. %. Times of Saturday says :-The flailway Construction Rill passed through Committee very comfortably last evening the only drawback from a Ministerial point of view being that its whole scope and purpose were entirely changed in the process i^very objectionable feature was eliminated and though the Bill cannot do any good simply because it is entirely unnecessary its talons are so nicely pared down that it cannot possibly do much harm. Even Nelson and Marlborough are pleased, their complacency having been purchased by a sop of £60,000 the cost of extending the Nelson andFoxhill railway some thirteen miles. To be sure Mr Macandrew has had to " wheel about, and turn about, and jump Jim Crow," m thus " at last" acknowledging th.a& this lfae is the maiu Hue, b,ut— E? long '? the people git their rattle Wut 'a there fer 'm to grout about, it would not have been nice for a majority of six to be recorded against the third reading of the Bill, aud it was, to say the least of it prudent to make concessions. ' The New York Times says Henry Morgan, a miner, residing at Pifctsburg, Pennsylvania recently sent to England for his wife and' two children. They took passage in the Wyomiug, which arrived here on Wednesday having COO Mormons on board. Morgan came to New York to meet them ; he lost hte money on the way, and telegraphed. h}s stra.it to James. Browne, of Pattsburg, who sent him 28dolg. W-itti this in his possession he went to Castle Garden on Wednesday night, but his wife refused to go with him. She had been converted on the passage by MQrqapn elders, and expressed her determination to follow them to Utah. Argument and entreaties were of no avail, and Morgan, half distracted, was obliged to return to his lodgings unaccompanied. Yesterday he went to the Garden agaiu, and renewed his appeals, but Mrs Morgan remained obstinate ; at length the Mormon chief took Morgan in hand, and wrestled him so effectually that he turned over all his money to them, and, tb,e entire Morgan family took tra^n. pa, Erie railway in cpm.pmiy with, tb,e other 600 bound for Utah. At Dillman's Town (says the Kumara Times) some thirty miners are about instituting a new feature in goldfields life by having a " club house " of their own, which* the promoters intend shall possess all the comforts and advantages usually obtainable in auch institutions. The premises already secured are in every way suitable far a, club, being new, substantial, commanding, ' and commodious, and situated in the ye'r'y best part ofDillmau's. Internally it is all that can be desired, with "a large and lofty hall, and handsome windows .overlooking the main street, behind which there will be smoking room, reading rqocn, Jayajory. The kitfihpji, whjch fhe, most pretentious hotelkeeper in Kumara m\ght on vy, "will enable ■ whoever is entrusted "with, the cuisine depar- ' inent to cater expe'ditioualy for the most fastidious tastes. The management will be under a secretary and a committee of its ineujbers. : Tftg nima of Mr A.lf red f ennyson Dickens ia gazetted s,a a, returqiag p^cer for tjhe Western Prpvin.ce; Yietoria,. This gentleman is the s,on. of the great novelist, and lives at Hamilton.,