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Southland Times, Issue 1211, 18 February 1870, Page 2

In a recent issue we placed before our readers a digest of the terms of the contract recently made between;the Government of New Zealand and the United States Consul at Sydney, for a mail service via San Francisco. The arrangements therein set forth do not appear particularly favorable to this colony, with the exception of the province of Auckland, whose interests seem to have been almost exclusively consulted. It may be, however, that important interests not yet stated by the Postmaster-General, have had to be considered, and that the route now' fixed upon was the best that could be adopted for the benefit of all parties concerned!. On the other hand, it is quite possible that experience may demonstrate advantages to be gained by a route which would strike New Zealand at a more central point; and in that case the influence of the extreme north would speedily have to yield to the just claims of the other provinces. If it can be shown that by making the steamers intersect New Zealand further south, say Cook's Straits, the Australian Colonies would not materially suffer, the commercial importance of the Southern settlements will very soon command that concession. At present all the advantages to accrue to the Middle Island from the new service de-> pend on the value of Mr Vogel's ia'asurance that it would be made beneficial to the whole colony. The nautical bearings of the question, with respect to the f merits of the rival routes across the Pacific-are very fully given in a report made to the Government by Lieut. Woods, Colonial Marine Surveyor. After statiag at lengththe influence of the prevailing winds ori r the two courses, Lieut. Woods Baya':~: " Now, assuming Sydney to be the port of departure, on reference to the tabulated j distances, it will be observed that supposing Auckland the place of call, the distance to San Francisco via Auckland is 6,945 f miles, while the distance via Auckland and Tahiti is 7,140, being an increase of 195 miles, or eighteen hours steaming only. Aaain, supposing Wellington to be the port of call for New Zealand, the distance to San Francisco via Wellington is 7,083, and via Wellington and Tahiti, 7,190, being an increase of distance of only 107 miles, or about nine hours steaming, and with respect to i the total distance the route via Wellington and Tahiti has only a smair increaseFof about 50 miles over that via Auckland* and Tahiti ; but by making Wellington the port of call the steamers would gain all the advantages of the prevailing westerly winds so far south of the Equator to carry the steamer into that part of the Pacific Ocean where the trade winds are regularly established throughout the year." * * * .* *„ " After carefully considering the question, generally from a nautical point of view, I am of opinion that the most advantageous route for an ocean postal service to San Francisco, for the benefit of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, would be with Sydney as the port of arrival and departure (until theje ar<[ facilities in Wellington for the., docking accommodation of large ships) the vesse^ calling at Wellington and Tahiti en route; and I calculate that the voyage would^bfe easily accomplished with vessels of tons, from Sydney to Wellington, 4; d^s • Wellington to Tahiti, 8 days j arid Tahiti to San Francisco, 13 days ; total, 25 dayiiV Add to this stoppages of 2 days, fcHe.t|jne occupied in going from San Fraricißco to New York, 6 days ; and by Cunard's line from New York to Liverpool, 10 days ; we place Sydney within 43 days postal communication with England, and Wellington within 39 days."

On Wednesday last, about 30 of the laborers employed on the Oreti Railway struck work for an increase of pay. They have been receiving ei"ht shillings, some of them eight and sixpence, per day. and they now demand nine shillings, or liberty" to work overtime during fine weather, to make' up for broken time, of which they have had too much lately. The contractors, howover. decline to make the advance, or allow of overtime, considering Bight hours per day as much as a. man can work with any vigor. The works will riot be much retarded by the withdrawal o" this gang, anl it is certain that labor will shortly be more plentiful, as harvest and shearing will iom be over. The men who have thus thrown themselves out of work can hardly be said to h ive been well ad^is^d. Ivi fact, it ia now almost universally admitted that under an v circumstances strikes are a mistake, defeating in the end* the very purpose they are intended to accomplish. In the present instance the men have, no doubt, a serious grievance to complain of, in the loss of so much time through stormy weather but the contractors can hardly be held responsible for' vicissitudes of climate, and there is every likelihood of there being still enough of fine weather, before winter fairly sets in, to allow of j the line being finished. i Those favorites of the Tnvercargill public — the ; Carandini company — will commence a short ■ season in the Theatre Royal on the evening of Monday first, when we hope to see a large attendance to bid them welcome. It is needless for us to say anything of their abilities. They have already won golden opinions from Invercargill audiences, and we have no doubt the visit will be a successful one, especially when wo take into consideration the large number of visitors who may be expected to be here for the races which come off on the 24th and 25th inst. , Two cases which came before the Resident Magistrate on Thursday, 17th inst., exemplified the folly of persons permitting indefinite friendly understandings to supercede common business arrangements in their dealings with each other. The first, Myers v; Myers, in which Mr Russell appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Macdonald for the defendant, wa3 a suit between uncle and nephew, the latter being pursuer, for the recovery of £69, balance of wages due. From the evidence it appeared that in December, 1867, "plaintiff arrived in this province, on a general understanding that his uncle, defendant, who ■ was already settled here, would do the best he could for him. He went to work with his uncle, and remained in his employment some time before anything was said on the subject of remuneration. In the February following, however, the question of wages was settled by a verbal ' agreement that plaintiff should have £60 a-year and board, with the further proviso that, if things flourished, he might got £5 or £10 extra. A settlement had been made •at the end of the- first year on these terms, and the connection between, the parties continued until .the present year, when some misunderstanding appears to have arisen, and without much ado the nephew instituted the present proceedingSi Defendant admitted the rate of wages, iand that fc year would be due on the 25th of the present month—plaintiff claimed that the year was completed with December — and had paid into court £28 9s Bd, with a set-off for clothing, tobacco, washing, &0., amounting to £21 10s 4d in liquidation of the claim. Plaintiff repudiated several of the items charged, particularly the washing and tobacco, saying that they were included in his bargain, and that his wages were to be £60 per year. Defendant, however, positively denied this and swore that the items had been also deducted from the first year's wages. Ultimately, after a good deal of contradiction had been indulged, in judgment was given for the amount paid into court, costs divided. The next case was M'Kenzie v. Leith— Mr Maedonald for the plaintiff; Mr Harvey for defendant. The action was brought to recover the sum of £23 17s 6d, the value of certain goods and chattels Baid to have been wrongfully converted by defendant to his own use. The evidence, which was tery lengthy, including about a dozen witnesses, was most conflicting, but appeared rather in favor of defendant. The facts of the case were, that some two or three years ago, defendant (a minor) and h\s mother, who are settlers in the Oteramika district, for friendship's sake, gave plaintiff, who also owned land adjoining, permission to erect a house on, and cultivate some eight or nine acres of their land, for the purpose of allowing him the advantage of a bush frontage, his own land being open. He held the land for an indefinite time, free of rent. After building a house and cultivating to some extent, plaintiff appeared to have left the land, when it was retaken possession of by defendant. Plaintiff had left sundry articles in and about the house, as also some crop in the ground, potatoes, the value of which formed the ground of the present action, he alleging that defendant had appropriated the crop, and also broken open the door and taken the things which had been left inside. For the defence, however, it was pretty clearly shown that the crop was worth nothing, or next to it, and that several parties had bad plaintiff's permission to take , away some of the chattels; at all events it was not proven that r defendant had taken any of them. In short, the whole case exhibited a good many, of the worst features of neighbors quarrels, the anger of plaintiff showing itself in open court. Judgment was given for defendant, with costs; 1 £5 9s. Two small debt eases followed/ viz. ':— Mitchell and . Co. v. Nicholson, claim for £9 8s Bd, goods sold and delivered ; and Ross v. Clayfield, claim £4, balance of a dishonored acceptance. In both cases judgment went by default for the amounts with costs. 1 The overland mail from Dunedin, which generally arrives in town on Tuesday evening, did net, on the last trip, come in until midday on Wednesday, when the appearance of vehicle, horses, driver, passengers, and luggage explained sufficiently the cause of delay without tho necessity of asking questions. Mud was everywhere, breakages in several places, and exhaustion exemplified in the jaded team. The driver described the state of the roads by a short pithy expression, not exactly polite, but perhaps excusable under the circumstances. To our surprise, however — having a vivid recollection of what has been said recently of Otago's progress in road-making, of being in a new world whenever one crossed the border — his Btrorig terms referred to soma particularly bad piece several miles beyond the Mataura, where, for some hours, the whole turnput had floundered hopelessly about in a sea of mud, from which they were only ultimately extricated by assistance given in a towing process, suitable to such a slimy canal. On Monday last, the children attending the Church of England Sunday School enjoyed, as well as very boisterous weather would permit, their annualfile. The fine grassy enclosure known as {he Union Bank property in Tay-street, was kindly thrown open for the occasion, as was also the large store-rooms opposite, known as Beaven's Buildings, now Mrs Cowper's, and which formed a convenient house of refuge from the frequent showers. In the evening the juveniles were properly marshalled within the said building, and regaled with tea and its suitable accompaniments, after which they were addressed shortly by the Rev. W. P. Tanner. Before dispersing ior their respective homes, the youngsters gave vent to their overflowing happy spirits in three sounding cheers for Mr Tanner, and three more for Mrs Cowper, who had-done so much for their enjoyment. ■■'.'■■ > 'Tenuers for: grarelling 76 chains of the East Road, were opened at the Treasury on. Tuesday, 15th inst., as follows — Richard Powell ... £650 0 0 George' Brown ... ... ... 639 0 0 Samuel Hazlemore ... ... 595 6 8 Jas. M'Menamin & Co. (accepted) 663 13 4 . The amount of fresh provisions consumed by the squadron dnring their three days' stay at ijyttelton, waß M follows : — Beef and mutton, 10,000 lbs; vegetables, 5,000 lbs; bread, 14,000 lbs. A special meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society is summoned for this evening, at Colyer's Princess Hotel, to consider mportant business. < -

The heavy westerly gale which, continued all , Monday nighfe and Tuesday, fairly " piled up" the water in the "Waihopai estuary, and along the co ist towards Riverton, while heavy rains added their quota to the flood. The sea on the Riverton Beach, wo have been informed, has not been so hi-*h for many years, the' debris being washed far inland of the ordinary high-water mark. The mail eoacli coming up on Monday, had a very narrow escape in crossing the upper ford of the Waimatuku. The horses : were barely touching bottom at some parts, and the water was entering the machine, as well as carrying it-down past the landing. Fortunately the wini, acting" upon the carriage cover as a sail, prevented a capsize, and counterbalanced the force of the current to some extent, enabling the horses to head up a little without difficulty, when they had secured firmer footing. On the way up the driver observed the cqaminss of a vessel's hate iwiy, which appeired to him to have been but newly washed ashore, probably, they were from the Laughing Water. At the New River Bridge the water was within two feet of the pWform, and from that point up to near Chalmers's old caw-mill, the road was entirely covered, in some places the water almost touching the girths. In the country, we hear of considerable damage having been done to standing crops. In the case of grain well ripe, in exposed situations, the effect of the wind has been about equal to that of a thrashing machine, vary little being left for the farmer to gather, save the damaged straw and chaff. Fortunately a good deal of grain was under coyer before the storm came on, and gome was too green to take much harm, still a large number of settlers have suffered a heavy loss, all the more keenly felt on account of previous expectations. The Presbyterian Annual Congregational Soiree came off in the church last evening, 17th insfc. The weather was moat inclement, but there was, nevertheless, a . good attendance. Several speeches, and the singing of a number o c anthems by the choir, Mr Erskine, leader, together with the pleasures of the tea-table, enabled those present to pass a very enjoyable evening. Want of space prevents a fuller report of the proceedings in this issue. Mr Stead, the driver ot the Riverton Mail Coach, informs us that on his downward trip on Wednesday, the 16th inst., he observed a boat cast ashore about half a mile below the finger post, about half a mile from the place where he had seen the coamings washed up on his previous journey. The boat was cream-colored, about 14 . feet long, and had in it two oars and a piece of planking. Oa returning the following day the boat had disappeared, having probably been carried to some other nook by the retiring tide. A discussion has lately taken place in the Wellington papers as to the parties who fixed the site of the Canterbury province, the Wairarapg Mercury asserting that that 'district would have been chosen had not the founders preferred the big plains of the Middle Island. In setting its contemporaries right on the subject, the Independent gives the following information :•— The merits of the Port. Cooper country had, as early as 1840 or '41, been brought under the notice of Colonel Wakefield,~the. then Company's agent, as a suitable site for the Nelson settlement, in a ■written report by the late Captain Daniell and Mr Q-eorge Duppa, who were the first English settlers who had visited the- locality from Wellington. It would probably have been the site of Nelson, but for the unjustifiable refusal of G-overnor Hobson, who insisted on certain conditions imposed, if we recollect aright, on the New Zealand Company by the late Lord Derby, and who thus drove the settlement of Nelson into a corner where for many years it had a hard struggle for existence. When Otago was to be selected, the Port Cooper site was examined by Mr Tuckett, the exploring surveyor appointed by the New. Zealand Company for the purpose, and who was accompanied by Dr., now Sir, David Monro, Mr Barnicoat, and others. Why they passed over the Canterbury Plains is not known ; but some of the party were decidedly what is termed " crochetty ;" and it is probable that, like other events in the history of nations, " temper " or " conceit " may have decided a point against the dictates of common sense. There is no doubt that in the then circumstances of the colony, the selection of the more remote Otakou and the rejection of Port Cooper, were mistakes. The explorers so little appreciated either locality a* a site for an agricultural settlement, that they asserted their belief that . wheat wouldn't ripen there! The many hundreds of reaping and thrashing machines which may this day be heard buzzing and clicking between the Hurunui and the Mataura, are a curious but practical refutation of the prediction. The cry of the unemployed has once more been raised in Adelaide (observes the Mount Gambler Standard), and once more has Parliament been appealed to on behalf of the starving poor. Alas ? this time the Assembly has shown no sympathy. The cry for employment is mistimed, and ' members will not listen to it during the very midst of harvest; and so, instead of meeting .with an abundance of condolence and a provision for their comfort, the unemployed have been treated to a- little bit of wholesome advice. In fact, members said to them, " If you really want work you can get it, and at wages that will support you and your families ; but you must not hope to always find employment in Adelaide at high wages, whether the colony prospers or otherwise. Take your sickles and go into the harvest-fields. Labor is wanted in the south-east." In corroboration of this statement we would draw attention to the state of affairs in this district, giving as nearly as possible the facts in the words of the farmers themselves, and ask our legislators to place the two pictures— the Adelaide unemployed, and the position of the south-eastern farmers — side by side. Says one — " I have kept men at work all the year round, wet or dry, at 20s per week and 'found,' and at harvest, seeing the scarcity of hands, they would not stay unless I raised them to 30s and ' found.' " Another says — " 1 offered men 8s a day, and they laughed at me. They told me they would not work under 13s a day." Another — " I came into the Mount, and engaged with 16 men. Only two would come after aIL I pay them 30s a week and their board." A fourth farmer says — " I have been at the Mount four times, for men, and they would not listen to my terms of 25s an acre for reaping oats. They consulted with one another, and turned their backs on me." A fifth farmer relates that he cannot get men to work at all with a stripper ; hand reaping is what they want — at their own terms. Says another^-" A lot of Adelaide men came to my place, and went on all right at first ; but on Saturday the old hands turned on me, and would not do a stroke more unless I would give them more than the wheat would fetch that they were reaping." Another illustration — " The men wanted the net price of just 18 bushels per acre for my reaping, and that would have left me^ perhaps, two bushels for myself." In an article on 'the new postal service, the Wellington Independent says: — "To work a Pacific Ocean navigation on the most economical plan, and in the interests of the whole colony of New Zealand, we hold that the eastern line via Tahiti, as a coaling station, should be adopted, that the terminus of the ocean Bteamers should be in Wellington, where proper facilities should be given for their refit, and that branch steamers should diverge from this port to the various Australian Colonies. It is well known that the Panama service could have been worked much more economically, had the terminus of the ocean steamers been here instead of in Sydney. It was the constant complaint that the last 1200 miles made all the difficulty. The result of experience and of calculation Bhows that — Ist. The trunk line of Pacific steamers should take the eastern route via Tahiti, the termini being San Francisco and Wellington. 2nd. That a branch line should run from Tahiti to Panamas but this branch must take care of itself ana cannot at present expect a subsidy. 3rd. That a service from Sydney by way of the north of New Zealand, and by either the eastern or western routes, can only be looked upon as a New .South Wales service, and of very inferior importance to New I Zealand. It is with regret that we hare, to

allude to the apathy which seeni3 to prevail in Wellington on the subject of this Pacific route. Wo would strongly advise the public and the . Chamber of Commerce, to be up and stirring in their own interests ere it be too late. So far as the interests of Victoria, of South Australia, and .of Tasmania, are concerned in Pacific mail conveyance, it is evident that the Tahiti route, -with a terminus in Wellington, is, out of all question, the most convenient for them, and although Victoria, has always hitherto, thrown cold water", upon proposals for the Pacific line of -mail steamers, yet whan the Melbourne peopleperceive that such a line is inevitable, they are - clever enough to see which line will be the best for their purposes." . The latest telegraphic intelli genes from Waikato (siys the Southern Cross), presuming that it is correct, is far from reassuring. TheKing natives at Tokaneamutu are said to boarming, apparently to prevent M'Donnell from , following Te Kooti into their territory. Ihefriendlr natives, it is also said, have been warned to withdraw themselves from the European settlements. This intelligence comes from a trustworthy source, but yet it is desirable that it should be' received with some amount of reservation. We do not think that there is any cause for alarm, because it is not at all likely that the King party will make an aggressive movement against ub under existing circumstances. Maori* are fond of " bDunce," and threats uttered in the way of mere empty boast are frequently repeated by idlers about; the settlements, and magnified according as the imaginative faculties of the narrator may dictate. The report which our correspondent sends us may be, after all, based upon a If aori rumor which it was not possible to test. We shall await 'farther intelligence. The Ceylon Observer of the 28th December says : — "The more information we receive aad the more we reflect on the position of Ceylon, the more serious do we believe our danger to be. We go further and we say, irrespective of what opinions may be held by Governor or Chamber of Commerce, or any one else, that if this Colony refuses to take the limited responsibility regarding her own harbor which the Government and Parliament of Great Britain have devolved upon <• her,— refuses to accept the really liberal terms offered, she will most . certainly and ere long be annexed to India and will richly deserts that fate. It would be a much easier course and much more popular to join in fhe cry againstthe tyranny of the Home Government, which really means the determined resolution of the British taxpayers ; but we feel that we are responsible for the opinions we utter, and. the influence they may exert. Events will show who are the best friends of Ceylon : those who refuse to take any responsibility in regard to her great Mail Steamer Harbor, or those who like the editor of the Observer counsel the acceptance of our share of responsibility in a frank and loyal" spirit." ■ . • . ' ' ".•-••■ » The Secretary of the General Post Office," London, has issued the followiog circular:—^ Many persons are in the habit of addressing letters for well-known firms and individuals to " London " only : but this practice not unfrequently occasions delay in such letters reaching their rightful owners. In all cases, however well' the firm or individual for whom a letter is intended may be known, it is most essential, to ensure its correct delivery, that the street or locality in -which they reside, and the number of . the house, should form a part of the address. The Post Office department of the United States Government keeps a register of the time occupied in the transmission of the mail between San Francisco and the chief eastern cities. Theaverage time between New York and SanFrancisco is 7 days 2 hours 23 minutes ; but frequent trips have .been made in less than 6 daysand 16 hours. It is intended to reduce the schedule time, so as to bring it down: by half a .day on the average. The subject of the dressing of New Zealand flax appears to be attracting attention in Eng~ land, as well as in this colony. From the., advertising columns' of the Otago Daily Times weobserve that registration of letters patent has been granted to two Liverpool gentlemen for " improvements in machinery for breaking, scutching, washing, softening, discharging and separating flax and other fibrous materials." The fact is encouraging, inasmuch as now that the matter has begun to occupy the attention of skilful and experienced persons at home, the solution of the long-vexed problem as to how the phormium tenax may be best prepared for use, may be hopefully looked for. In the trade circular of the Old Swan RopeWorks; Liverpool, we find the following withregard to New Zealand flax: — "New Zealand Hemp' Rope. — We have much pleabure in calling attention to this new description of rope, which we believe will very soon come into general use. The sample we have tested bore 20 per cent, greater strain than Russian hemp rope. We strongly advise our friends to give this new rope a trial, as it is very probable it will be sold at a much lower price than Russian hemp next year, when large importations of the hemp are expected. Several of our customers have tried this rope and are much pleased with it. It has been used for heavy lifting, and for working wliere there is great friction, with most satisfactory fesulta." A special messenger (says the Shortlani Times of Febuary 2nd) arrived in Shortlandyesterday afternoon with a letter for Mr C. O. Davis from Tarapipipi, King Tawhaio's principal man of business, informing him of the sentiment* of the King. The letter states that if the Government will only send the soldiers from Tauranga back to Tauranga, the Boldiers from Auckland back to Auckland, and the soldiers from Waikato back to the Waikato, he will undertake to induce Te Kooti to leave bis present position and go back to his own place. The native who came with the letter is one of Tarapipipi's special messengers, and came direct to Shortland, having left Kurunui (Tarapipipi's place) on Monday morning. The man has never been in Shortland before, and seemed quite frightened at the noise and appearance of the cab 3 and 'busses. It was with the greatest difficulty that he was induced to • get into a cab. He has other information, which, will, most likely, bi* communicated to the Government before being made public. The following is the scoring of the Otago team in the friendly match with 10 of the Biverton and Inrercargill Volunteers. The former are the victors by 3L points. It is acknowledged, how. ever, that the Otago men were more fortunate in the weather which prevailed on the -day of

The following rather amusing passage occurs in an article on opium in the Scientific American : — " This opium-packing for 1867 was josfc orer at Christmas, and nearly 30,000 chests of China opiumhad been sent down to Calcutta, worth, about £4,000,000. Each chest contains 40 cakes ■ — the dark, sticky Btuff ingeniously inclosed in a coating of dried poppy leaves, so that each cake — weighing about two pounds— presents the appearance of a Dutch cheese or a. cannon ball* It has given rise to the saying that in war the British gave the Chinese cannon balls of iron, and in peace cannon balls of opium, thus giving them the choice of being shot or poisoned, and making them pay smartly for either attention. In return for this, they feed us with tea and clothe U3 in silk, which seems to show a truly celtstial^spiriu" . . . •„. ::.

The construction of the graying dock at Port ] Chalmers (says the Daily Times) is progressing Tapidlj. The excavation is nearly completed, and the masonry work is being proceeded with. A jjreat portion of the stone, obtained from a quarry In the neighborhood, is dressed and ready for ■eettuxe. A paragraph in the European Mail states that the young Earl of Pembroke has gone to Uew Zealand for the benefit of his health. Considering that his lordship has been in this colony for the last couple of years, the iipws is rather Btale. We notice that the New Zealand Herald of the j 2nd instant notes his return in his yacht from a j visit to Kawau. j The London Economist has an article under the heading of Marine Insurances, which endeavors to reach some general results concerning the comparative safety of vessels propelled by •team and sails. Prom the article, it appears that there are only about onertwentieth as many Btee»mers as sailing vessels, on the whole ; but they do more than twice the work, in proportion to their number. The entries and clearances of steamers in the TTnited Kingdom for instance, are one-fourth of the whole number. A given number of steamers suffer from about twice as ] many accidents as the same number of sailing vessels, so that for s voyage, or for the same amount of trade, it appears that steam is somewhat safer than sails. But the results in transAtlantic navigation are now marked. The Toyaees made by steamers between Europe and the United States in 1868, were one-fourth of the whole number j so that the safety of steamers, Toyage for voyage, is nearly double that of sailing ships. Another point is to be noted. Not only are steamers twice as secure against casualties of all sorts, but the casualties which do happen them are not so fatal. In almost all cases, the loss by Bteamer is less ; the instances of total loss, both to ship and cargo, being very considerably less. * But on the other hand, steamers suffer twice as much in proportion from collisions as sailing ships, which are more exposed to other casualties of the sea ; and many collisions are probably noted which come to little. Whatever may be the case, the fact seems certain that ■b. casualty to a steamer is not usually so grave as a casualty to a sailing ship. The estimates are useful as well as interesting. It is evident, also, that year by year the trade of the world is abandoning all the slower methods of locomotion. Steamers are yearly taking it from sailing vessels, and railroads from canals.

firing; — Yards. 200 500 600 Total. Corp. J. M'Gregor, C.Gk 15 16 18 49 Sergfc. W. Cowie, Scottiah 16 16 10 42 „ J. Wilson, C.Gk 11 9 18 88 Vol. P. Fredric, Scottish 13 12_ 15 40 Srgt.P.Wedder3poon,C.Ghl2 16 9 37 Vol. W. Lambert, C.GK 14 12 11 37 Oorpl. P. Treaeder, 0.0-. 19 16 0 35 Sergt. J. Douglas, O.Gh 14 12 7 33 Vol. Jas. Robertson, Scot. 14 8 8 30 Vol. Thoa. Buchanan, Scot. 12 10 5 27, 368