THE PELORUS GUARDIAN FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1890.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 22, 11 April 1890, Page 2

THE PELORUS GUARDIAN FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1890.

a dance in aid of the building funds will be held in the Town Hall to-night. Tickets 2/-, ladies free. A meeting of the Pelorus Prospecting Association will be held in the Town Hall to-night at 7 o’clock. Attention is directed to Mr Reynolds’ advertisement re night school. This presents a good opportunity for those who have been so unfortunate as not to be able to finish their education to do so. To those who are grown up we may say they cannot leam younger, and Mr Reynolds would soon put them on the way for further advancement. We look upon night schools as a grand opportunity for anyone to increase their knowledge, and one which should not be neglected by both old and young.

We have been shown some excellent photographs taken by Messrs Price and O’Malley, of Wellington. They are equal, if not superior, to any we have seen, and are proof of the perfection arrived at in the photographic art. A fifth call is now due and payable in the Pelorus District and Goldfields Newspaper Company, The contractor for metalling the first section of the Rai Valley road is getting on with well with his contract, and expects to be finished in about three weeks if the weather holds good. Just before the Waitapu left Manaroa on regatta day three or four occupants of a boat alongside fell on the edge of the boat caused by the jerk in shoving off and capsized. They all all got a cold bath, and, fortunately, they were all picked up without further mishap.

A correspondent suggests that the authorities would do well to put a bridge over the Alfred Creek, Rai Valley, as the coach and other vehicles are very liable to be stuck up all night in times of heavy floods.

St. Peter’s Church, Havelock, was nicely decorated on Easter Sunday, and we are told that the Easter offerings amounted to over £6.

MrVenimore advertises 250 shares for sale in the Federation Gold Mining Company at 1/6 per share.

Tfie election of School Committees will take place 4on Monday the 28th instant.

The Union steamer Ritokono has been launched at Dumbarton,

During the Easter holidays Havelock has been visited by a good number of people from Wellington and Nelson and other parts, and the town presented quite an animated appearance. A great many, of course, paid a visit to the Wakamarina goldfield.

The labour schooner Eliza Mary has been wrecked at the New Hebrides with seventy-nine souls on board. Some were drowned, and the majority of those who reached the shore were tomahawked. Two other wrecks also occurred.

Another report respecting the quarrel between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck is that it occurred over the bold policy of the former for extending the colonial possessions of Germany. Mr Thomas Burt, M.P. and President of the Miners’ Union, has left on a visit to Baron Hirsch, of Berlin. It is his intention to formulate a scheme for the establishment of a grand fraternity of labour between trades unions in Britain and Germany. At a Mormon Conference held in the Wairarapa'district, it was stated that there were 8,854 Mormons in the Colony, and that there were 600 converts, principally Maoris, during the year.

Among the presentations to the Rev F. W. Isitt, on leaving Invercargill to take charge of the Wesleyan circuit at Nelson, was an address and gold pencil case from the Roman Catholics.

In the case of Hay v. the Queen, claiming £IOO for a valuable dog starved to death at the quarantine station at Ripa Island, Mr Beetham, R.M., gave judgment for £47 5s and costs.

The death is announced of our former Governor, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, second Marquis of Normanby, at the age of 71. He was Governor of New Zealand from 1874 to 1878.

The Sydney Gold Cup was won by Carbine by three-quarters of a length, Mantilla being second, and Muriel third.

At the Canterbury races the Grand Autumn Stakes was won by Merrie England, Dudu second, and Helman third. The Champagne Stakes was won by Medallion, with Pygmalion second.

Professor Huxley and Mrs Huxley are passengers to New Zealand by the Aorangi which left England last week. An Italian is trying to fast forty days, and for the first eighteen days he has been successful only taking water and painkiller. Our Nelson correspondent writes: — The season for deer shooting closed at the end of last month, and some very fine beasts have been killed this year. A few days ago Mr Busch brought one into town which weighed four-and-a-half hundred-weight. This is supposed to be the largest stag ever shot in the district. Mr Newport got one recently which turned the scales at three-and-a-half hundred-weight, and another very fine one was killed by W. Smith, of Hope. Owing to the pressure on our space we are obliged to hold over several articles of interest. In our next issue will be commenced an original tale called, “ The Rolling Stone that did Gather Moss.” It relates to the early days of diggings, when rapid fortunes were made, and will be found very interesting. Mr Vannini, of Blenheim, the wellknown musicion, has expressed his willingness to come and play at any of the entertainments got up for the benefit of the Town Hall. We have no doubt the Committee will gladly avail themselves of Mr Yannini’s kind offer.