INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
CUDDLE ISLAND. OTAGO. The Jewish residents of Titnaru will soon have a place of worship of their own. The Synagogue will he erected in Bank-street,, opposite the Wesleyan Church. The Tv,apcku, Times says that threshing operations have been commenced by a number of farmers in the district. The yield of grain generally is very satisfactory., The stoppage of the railway works between the Bound Hill and Tuapeka gives great dissatisfaction. There are three contracts in this portion of the line—the sections being let to the following persons, viz., Messrs. Morrison and Co. (sub-let to McKenzie), Straohan and Hunter, and .Tames and H. Campbell. On not one of these is » man at work. The stoppage is most unaccountable,- and deserves the attention of the proper authorities. With plenty of labor available, now that the operations of harvest are over, railway contractors should be; compelled to push on their contracts. The cast, excavated from one of the Kakanui quarries, of a nautilus, has been presented to the Museum by Mr. K. Wilson. There is nothing whatever remaining of the shell or any portion of the fish, but the cast made by the atone forming on the outer and inner sides of the shell before it disappeared, is complete, and is a fino specimen. The nautilus must have been very large—it would be large for a tropical specimen of the present day —the cast showing that the shell was over a foot in diameter. Meetings are to be held next week at Balclutha and Kaitangata, for the purpose of establishing building and investment societies in those districts. The nominations of persons as immigrants lodged with Mr. F.LeCren, immigration officer, at Timam, from the Ist April, 1874, to the 31st March, 1875, number 619. _ The recent discoveries of auriferous ground at the Bearing Meg, between Cromwell and the Arrow, still continue to attract much attention. On Tuesday the completion of Wilkinson and Co.’s new tube fluming, for conveying water across the Kawarau to the workings, was celebrated by a jollification amongst the miners resident in the neighborhood. Messrs. P. Gorman and Co. are busy with the construction of their flume tube, and expect to have it in operation in the course of a fortnight. This is the best paying little diggings on the Kawarau, some of the claims . having paid as much as £2O per week a share. On Thursday last the Perseverance Company, Blue Spur, got off a most successful blast. The charge was 25owt. of powder. The discharge shifted, or rather thoroughly shook, a block of ground 150 ft. wide by 50ft. back, and 200 ft. deep from the surface. The total cost of the blast was about XI2O,
and the ground loosened will take three months to sluice away. The miners have arrived at great perfection now in getting these heavy blasts off, and very few cases of failure occur, the power of a given quantity of powder in a certain position being calculated ■to the greatest nicety. . It is notified in a Provincial Government Gazette, published on Wednesday, that the Government will give a bonus for labor-saving machines, and for a goldmining apparatus on an improved plan. It has been decided that the sum of £3500 shall be boiTOwed to complete the Invercargill Athenaeum building. During his journey overland, the Hon. Mr. Richardson, Minister for Public Works, inspected the Waitaki railway bridge, and expressed hia satisfaction at the rapid progress which was being made with that structure. The Wardens of the goldfields appear to be either very negligent of their duties, or very reluctant to perform them. With two exceptions, they have omitted to furnish any rejiorts for the past twelve months. We observe that a gentleman who beam the official designation of “ Warden of Dunedin District,” put in an appearance at Mr. Wilson Gray’s funeral on Tuesday. We have not had the pleasure of perusing any of his reports on the goldfields of the Dunedin district, and it would be very satisfactory to the public if they were duly informed of the progress of quartz and alluvial mining in that district. Another handsome addition to the street architecture of Dunedin will be the building which Mr. Campbell, of the Crown Hotel, at the junction of Maclaggau-street with Ral-tray-street, is about to erect for hotel purposes, on the site where the present hotel and adjoining buildings now stand. Wo believe the new hotel will be a three-storey building, contain at least a hundred bedrooms, and be erected and furnished in such a way as to enable the proprietor to carry on a first-class hotel business.
At a sitting of the Supreme Court in banco, yesterday, Mr. Henry Smythies, formerly a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, practising in Dunedin, and who has just returned from England, presented and supported a petition to be re-admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. His Honor the Chief Justice appointed the 21st May next, at the Supreme Court-house, Wellington, before the Judges then at the Court of Appeal, as the day on which the petition is to be considered in terms of the Act. CANTERBURY. At Timaru, on Wednesday last, a coroner’s inquiry was held touching the death of the wife of Thomas Syrett Hardy. Evidence was given to the effect that deceased bad, before her death, stated that her husband had struck her because she refused to go to bed; and two witnesses deposed to having seen bruises and' discoloration on Mrs. Hardy’s head, on the right cheek and temple. It was also proved by the police that Mr. Hardy had admitted having struck his wife. The medical evidence showed, as the result of a postmortem examination, that the lungs and heart of the deceased were seriously diseased. There were marks of blows, such as would be inflicted by a blunt instrument, on deceased’s right ear and temple. The blows alone would not have caused death to a healthy person, but would accelerate death in a person in the condition in which deceased was. Henry Preston, father of the deceased, stated that Mr. Hardy had procured every delicacy in his power for deceased, and had purchased a buggy to drive her out. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased’s death had been accelerated by blows inflicted by her husband, who was thereupon bound over to appear to take his trial on a charge of manslaughter at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court at Timaru; the bail being, himself in £3OO, and two.sureties of £l5O each.
A meeting of the members of the Lyttelton Yachting Club was -held at the Mitre Hotel on Tuesday night. The following- correspondence was discussed :—From Messrs. Guthrie and Larnach, Dunedin, respecting the yacht Anonyma ; from Mr. Weymouth, Auckland, respecting the yachts Energy and Eleetwing, also prices for which yachts could be built in Auckland ; from Nelson respecting the yacht Minehaha. The chairman inquired whether the Auckland yachts could be sailed down to Lyttelton in safety. Mr. Weymouth, who was present, said there would be no difficulty. In reply to a question from Mr, Packard, the chairman (Mr. Cunningham) said the funds in hand were £7O, and about £3O could be raised by subscriptions, and that he would find half the money for two or three years, until the club was established. On the motion of Mr. D’Authreau, seconded by Mr. Young, it was resolved that the sum of £l5O be offered for the yacht Energy.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4389, 14 April 1875, Page 3
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