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Judge Gresson has just delivered the following sentence on a fraudulent bankrupt in Christchurch : — " Jonathan Earnshaw, you have been convicted of omittinw property from your statement with a fraudulent intent. The. jury have paid every attention to your case, and you have been ably defended by your counsel. The offence of which you have been convicted is one which I am sorry to say requires severe repression because it is becoming frequent in this district. I feel bound, whatever the decision of the Court ot Appeal may be, to pass a sentence upon, you . now that wiU mark my determination, so far as in me lies, to repress these frauds by bankrupts who pass through this Court. The . sentence of the Court is, that you, Jonathan Earnshaw, be imprisoned in the common gaol at Lyttelton for two years, computed from the first March instant, and that you be kept at hard labor." Bail was accepted, the bankrupt in £100, and two sureties in £200 each. The Canterbury Provincial CouncU was prorogued on the 23rd; a dissolution wih be 1 immediately proclaimed. It is not expected that' oppositon wUI be offered to the re-electio n of Mr EoUeiton to the Superintendence.

A little girl, daughter of Mr K. M'lvor, met with a serious accident on Monday last. Learning that her father had returned from a visit to Melbourne by the Omeo, and anxious to see him, she procured the assistance of a brother an I sister — both children — caught a horse, and started for town. Her journey, however, was ! too soon terminated, for the horse at once threw her, and in the fall her arm was broken. Under proper surgical skill the fracture has been reduced, and the Uttle patient is getting on welL An adjourned meeting tor tha election of Wardens for the New River Hundred took place at Wallacetown on the 26 f h ult. W. H. Pearson, Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands, occupied .the chai**, and opened the business. Some difference of opinion on the question of having War lens at all having been settled by a vote of .7 to 3. ¥e«rs W. Lawrence, A. Beaven, ,T. Brook, D. Wallace, W. Russell, and W. Boyd were duly elected to the office. These gentlemen held another meeting in ther n<*w capacity immediately afterwards, at .which the bye-laws previously in force in the district were re-adopted. and the officws of Secretary and Treasurer filled up by the appointment of Messrs Beaven and WaUace to the performance of these duties. A paragraph (says the Oamaru Times of the 25th ult.) has been going the rounds to the effeot that the representatives of Auckland at the Colonial Prize- firing in Dunedin will be aboufc 40 in number. We have authority for stating that this is a mistake, as the total number of representatives for aU the Provinces wiU not exceed 60. " A Shareholder" writes to ask uswhat has become of the Southland Prospecting Association, whose coal-boring operations were some time ago supposed to be likely to lead to a great discovery ? We can only echo the question, and ask, what has become of it? George Meredith (alias Jones') twice remanded on charges of forgery, was finaUy committed for trial at the next session of the criminal court, by the. Resident Magistrate on Tuesday last. J. M'Kellar, one of tre firm whose signature was appended to the spurious cheques issued by prisoner, was in attendance, and gave evidence clearly against the culprit. The Southern Cross states that on a recent Saturday afternoon a Maori gentleman who,^ like his pakeha friends, no doubt, found business nearly at a standstill, resorted to tbe auctioneer's hammer to drive a little trade. Perching himself on the palings of the market, he began to sell to the highest bidder, and without reserve, watermelons, kits o peaches, grapes, &c. A large crowd soon gathered, and some spirited bidding ensued for the various lots. It was amusing to hear the. Maori urging on his bidders with "Ka pai this kit," " Big melon, this one, pakeha !" "How much you give?" "One herrin — one herrin three cop — going, going ; orie herrin sicapenny — ka pai." From the heaTty manner in which his audience entered into the fun, we are pretty sure our would-be auctioneer drove a slashing trade for fche time being. And when our dark friend came to the balancing up, he could very weU report bidding brisk, prices highly satisfactory. The Wellington evening paper of March 19 "has the following : — A sample of the advantages we derive from our connection with the Imperial Government and its iUustrious representative, iSir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., was furnished yesterday by an auction sale. When the visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh was in contemplation, the Stafford Government bought from Captain Benson a very handsomely finished six-oared boat, 35 feet long, and fitted with aU the appliances deemed requisite. The jprice paid for the boat was £80, and she was used on two occasions, and, no further use appearing likely to arise for her, she was sold yesterday at auction for £28, so that the two trips made by the Quee»'s representative cost the colonists about £25 each, or say, fifty guineas for enabling Sir George to pay two viceregal visits in state. During his recent visit to the Waikato (says the Wellington Independent) Mr Fox incidentally 'stated to a deputat on of miUtiamen, that it was the policy of the Government to encourage the volunteer movement, and with that view it was their intention to try to pass a Mil through Parliament to increase the allowance to volunteer corps. The Auckland Evening News says:— "The following we found in our letter box this morning : — ' TJriwera Retreat, February 4, 1870. —Misser Ewiter— Me make the write to you all *a same as one Pakeha. What amatta? Why the Pakeha make a pukeru me. M'DonneU wery good f .Uow, my friend, Frager werry good fellow, my friend, the Gubnor werry good fellow, my friend, all, amy friend. Why you not lemme alone. Kahore Firth too much the wai maori. Me Ukeit the Lum. . Kapai the Lum. Wewona goh ome tiilmor ning, Wewona goh ome tiilmor ning, Wewona goh ome tiilmor ning, TiUda yligh tdoe sap pear. (Messer C. O. Davis he maket the translation, so you like). Ton send . me the Lum. I maket peash, Misser M'Lean send me the plower the liugar I maket peash. Always maket peash. Too mush the Pakeha meat me, no good the Pakeha now, all a same as one leather shoe, aU a bone. Why not the Gubment feed the; Constabulary. Too mush the bikit and water, kahore the fat. No me likit a fight a lean man, no good the ki. Too mush ! You maket the fat man, kapai the fight, kapai the copper Maori. Misser Kereopa, Misser Hakaraia, they send the 2 compliments (kapai the koraro? you Uke ?) All ,we maket the peash. Tou pay me the wisifc. We maket the peash. r " Shou Idaul dacquai nta eeb efor got, Anneve rbrou ghtomind." ■That is all.— Te Kooti." , An illustration of the chance of gold mining is thus related by a Victorian papor : — " Last week an unfortunate digger, who had bought a 66ft allotment at Berlin for £1, found bottom afc three feet, and seeing no appearance whatever of gold, pronounced it " a duffer," and tried to' sell out to liis neighbor for only 4s, but without success. Two Chinamen (new chums, of course) who happened to be passing, looked at the hole, and after much persuading and hankering, ventured to give 12s, and a nobbier to boot, for the claim.- Before sundown the same day the Chinamen had taken 671bs of gold from the hole, which produced them £3,295." At the examination of the great middle-class school, recently estabUshed in London as reported in The Times of 11th December last, after the reading of a report specially made by the Rev. Mr Jowitt, the head master, and Mr J. G. Fitch, one of Her Majesty's inspectors o schools, the lord mayor said : — " I have heard thef report read with great pleasure, but as an old mercantile man I cannot but think there is one great omission, namely, that there are no boys' copybooks to be seen— no writing ; and so biassed am lin favor of good writing, that I take it to be a great test of itself. I should Uke to have seen writing made more of in the report. I hold that in writing we are behindhand, . we are going back. The schoolmasters of the present day think themselves above teaching handwriting, and we have scrawls forced upon us in the shape of writing which are nothing more than hieroglyphice." A correspondent of the Auckland Herald says : — " I have lately paid a visit to one of our flax fields. The flux was cut two years last spring. I have been examining it closely. The leaves that come up after the cutting are very small and stunted, not more than from two feet to two feet six inches long. This year's growth is about three feet to three feet three incheß in length, and much healthier. The former growth was from five to six feet long, and it appears it wul take at least another year before it comes to j its former health and vigor. After examining a great many plants, I think we can get a crop every year, and keep the plant in health by cutting it in the proper season, that is, from AprU to August. Cutting last year's growth and leaving this year's wiU be the means of saving the plant. I also saw many plants that have: died out, the roots being exposed to the sun. The' roots require great shelter. There appears to be

some difficulty in raising the plants from seed. I have some experiments going on, of the result of which I will inform you in due time." A leading article in the Auckland Herald on the Ministerial Memorandum, after remarkin/ that the colonists woul 1 have been better pleased had Ministers treated the Despatch with silent contempt, concludes by saying :— "On one point we must differ with the writers of the Memorandum. They say : * Nowhere more than in New Zealand does there exist a stronger feeling of loyalty to the Crown, and of devotion to Her Majesty, or a higher value attached to its position as an "integral part of the Empire.' It" is not hard to read the signs of the times, but certainly in this matter the Ministry has failed to do so. Great Britain, by its conduct, has alienated the colonists from her. There may still be a strong affection, for the ' old country,' but there is none left for its Government. The question, with thinking men in New Zealand, is not what shall be our position in the Empire, but what our position out of it ?" The Grey River Argus of the 17th ult. says : — " We never remember seeing the town so ' crowded witb visitors as it has been within the I last two days. Morning ani evening the. streets have been literally crowded, and the sleeping accommodation of the hotels tested to the utmost, on or under a billiard table being considered good quarters for the nonce. Notwithstanding such a large influx, the town has been remarkably quiet and orderly, no disturbance of any kind having taken place. Only one charge of drunkenness was preferred at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. Business of every kind has been entirely suspended, and most establishments closed. Quite a sensation was created in. town about noon on St. Patrick's Day, when a procession of miners, over two hundred in number, marched in from the Eight-mile, headed by the Greymouth Brass Band. Most ol the men wore green sashes with white crosses, in honor of the day. A finer, more respectable, and more orderly body of men could not be seen anywhere. They entered the town by Tainui street, and marched down Mawhera and Richmond Quays, Gresson and Arney streets, to the Catholic Church, which they soon crowded, many having to remain outside. A special service for them was conducted by the Rev. Father Rollnn-1. After leaving the Church the procession was reformed, and marched to the United States hotel for refreshment. The men then quietly dispersed, after taking off their green saßhes, and moat of them made their way to the racecourse in twos and threes. The affair passed off in a most creditable and peaceful manner." The price of land is said to have risen greatly in Taranaki since matters assumed a more peaceful aspect in that province. An inquest was heid in Dunedin, on the 24th ult., on the body of George Miller, a young man aged 19, who was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun two days previously. It appears that deseased had gone out with some companions kaka shooting, and was standing leaning on his gun, with the butt on the ground, the hammer being down on the cap, which was said to have been too small, but there was no evidence to show how the gun went off. The jury returned a verdict of " accidental death." It is reported (says the Bruce Standard) that a number of parties intend going into hop growing at the West Taieri. A number of sections in the Maungatua township have been purchased for the purpose. A more suitable locality could not be found, and we trust the new industry will prove remunerative. " It needs but a glance at the statistical tables," says the Wellington Independent, "to see what ample immediate employment New Zsaland itself can provide for an enormous addition to its producing population. With its gold mines in every part of the colony, and the certainty of a rapidly increasing development of the fl-ix industry, it is apparent that New Zealand has little need to fear the want of a market within herself, for any quantity, not only of the necessaries, but also of the luxuries of Ufe which she can grow, and the consumption is likely to increase in a far more rapid ratio than the production, unless an enormous addition be made to the agriculturalists, who iare already far behind the requirements of the colony. Taking a most cursory glance at the statistics of 1868 — what do we find imported which could be equally well, probably better and more cheaply produced by our own small farmers within the colony, if they had only the roads to get their produce certainly and rapidly to the numerous ports ? Imported beer, which we have every facility for making for ourselves, froths in our face t D the extent of £85,000 a year. New Zealand cows by thousands ran unmilked, while £28,000 worth of. foreign butter melted in our mouths. jj" ew Zealand mice had the opportunity of nibbling £12,000 worth of foreign cheese. Australian hens cackled to the tune of £11,000 worth of eggs cracked on New Zealand tables, £146,000 was expended on flour, to be consumed in the shape of New Zealand bread and puddings, to which was added £9000 worth of bottled fruit to make New Zealand pies. New Zealand dessert was furnished with £20,000 worth of fresh fruit, and £3000 worth of musty nuts. £93,000 was taken to pay for foreign grain, and in addition to the bill for beer, an item for malt appears of £44,000, besides £48,000 more for hops. Importations, chiefly from Australia, of cattle, horses, and sheep amounted to £119,000. Nearly £4000 was paid for meal, and while New Zealand, pigs ran halt wild by thousands, and potatoes were rottin* in the ground, £18,000 was spent for AustraUan and English bacon, £25,000 fo hams, and £7,000 for pickled pork. New .Zealand pasture was sown with £14,000 worth of English grass seeds ; £22,000 was spent in soap to wash away New Zealand dirt, while the materials for its manufacture are wasted wholesale" on every New Zealand homestead. The farmers surely might appropriate gome of the £293,000 which went in the purchase of sagar, -or at least they could produce honey in endless quantity to supply its place. £78,000 was paid for- timber certainly hot better than our own bush lands produce ; and the purchase of £90,000 worth of tobacco has absolutely ended in smoke, as far as this colony is concerned. £87,000 was paid for wines, though gooseberries and rhubarb are almost weeds in every garden in these islands, and would make as good and far purer champagne than that which gets into the fortunate miner's head. But last— and the item which should make our little farmers blush— £22,ooo went the year before last to pay the market gardeners of Victoria for fresh vegetables imported here. We might add largely to our list. We might fairly complain, for instance, that New Zealand farmers gain no benefit from the grain which must be used from which to distil £218,000 worth of spirits imported in 1868 ; but we do not think it necessary to go any farther, especiaUy when it is remembered that the bulk of aU the imports to which we have referred come from the neighboring colony of Viotoria, which, with a far inferior sod, not at aU to be compared with that which we possess, we allow successfuUy to compete with us in our own markets."

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Southland Times, Issue 1231, 1 April 1870, Page 2

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Untitled Southland Times, Issue 1231, 1 April 1870, Page 2

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