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Southland Times, Issue 1587, 4 June 1872, Page 2 (Supplement)

A fire broke out in the store occupied by Messrs Cross and M'William, at Winton, at halfput 2 o'clock on the '26th nit:, and in two hours" the building, with all its contents, was reduced to ashes. Mr Cross! who was sleeping oh the premises, was awakened at the hour above-mentioned by the flameß, which appeared to be making way between the weatherboards and the lining of the building, and blazing out upon the roof, at a place 15 or 20 feet distant from the chimney. Mr Cross at once gave the alarm, and set himself to work with a bucket and what water was avatfable to stop the spread of the fire, but with little effect. It was about a quarter of an hour before much assistance could be obtained, and by that time the flames had got beyond control. Little or nothing was saved, and. in less than two .hours the building, was a mass of smoking ruins.. The value of the property destroyed is estimated at about £1300, of which £750 were covered by a policy in the Koyal Insurance Company. At the Besident Magistrate's Court on the 26th, the case of Caulfield v. Boyle occupied the Bench for nearly two hours. The claim was for £25, for trespass on the plaintiff's land at Roslin j Bush, damage to a fern tree whare", and cutting some scrub td make adray track ahout a chain long by the aide of' a fence., The trespass and the cutting of « ; small quantity of scrub were admitted, and the sum of Is. paid into court in eatisfaition of the damage. The damage to the -whare was not proved to have been the act ot defendant. It was stated that the plaintiff's j land was open on two sides, and continually resorted to by numbers of cattle, and the injury , to the property from the cutting of the scrub j ■was shown to be at most nominal. His Worship, , however, gave judgment for plaintiff for £1, and j COBts £4 17s, remarking that the defendant had X^ *Sgbt X, int~-fe™ £xx ««jr way WITO tne property of anolher, and that the actual amount J of damage done was not the only consideration I "which should'' determine the amount of the award. 'Kavanagh v. Kilkelly was adjourned to ■Wednesday, to admit of the examination by j -plaintiff of 1 a'counter claim. According to a. Tictorian paper, bullock, drays 18ft long, and capable of carrying eight tons, are •now the fashion for up-country wool-earners. Prays of this size are being made at Pleasant Creek. Miss : Aitlcin, the accomplished elocutionist, whose readings come years ago in' the Theatre 'will bei remetbbered with pleasure E by all who neara cuem, is vow lircrrer nvrtb Island, ana, re ,»;Baid,-purppBes.tq;yisit the shortly. - , ":• : At- the weekly meeting of the Dunedin Waste ; tand : Board on Wednesday 18th; protection was granted to Air Blacklock for six months, to enable ; him to prospect for half a mile on ; each bank of Poison River, near Milford Haven, for gold and ■ minerals. The tradesmen, of Oamaru have agreed to stop ■work at! 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoons, the .' arrangement to- come into operation on the first i Saturday in June. ; ; , - - ■■The Governor, in ■- addressing the Tauranga - Volunteer* the other day, said "he was pleased to be able to inform them that hereafter the Colonial forces . would take rank with the Imperial." The Grey Biver Argus records as follows a singular sccident that lately occurred to a miner in that district : — " The man was cutting a f sapling in the bush, when the root end of it flew I ■ up and struck him under the chin, causing his I teeth to close on his tongue, nearly severing it in two parts. One of the blood-vessels was so ' injnredthat he nearly bled' to death before he ; reached Ahaura. Dr Phillips, however, sue- • ceeded in stopping the hemorrhage and sewing ■ up the wound." . The New Zealand Herald adds another missing > link in the chain of 'evidence in the Tichborne ■ case, and says the three-masted schooner i (American)- Osprey, which appears to have been treated as a myth on the trial', was in these eea# at the time stated by the claimant. The year ' previous to the date mentioned by De Castro, or Tichborne, she loaded at Auckland with potatoes ' and -general produce for California, where gold had been discovered ; and so careful were those . on board .not to betray the secret, that a nnnHide"able jram was refused by them for a newspaper or commercial items, until they had completed lading. They then supplied the local press with the first intelligence of the discovery of gold in California and the " rush " there. It would ' appear by the evidence of De Castro, that he was ■ picked up by the same vessel, and carriedto Port Phillip '{now Melbourne), on her following, voyage. The probability is all in favor of -the ' truth of this part of the claimant's statement, ci The following j 8 from the .Westport Times : — Driving cattle from Westport to Christy's is no playful undertaking with the present condition j ofxoads. Mr James Suisted, in company with two others, smarted, the other day with a mob of bullocks, among which was one of the ferocious T iind, ; 'which took a favorable opportunity on a ' narrow part of the road of testing the strength of ' its horns against human ribs and shoulder blades. - Not content with-favoring Mr Suisted to a gentle ' rise' from the saddle, which caused him to kiss • mother earth, the animal disposed of one of the ,- canine race by making him perform a series of . somersaults in view of his master, and afterwards - introduced itself from, behind to.an inoffensive'••i digger who was sauntering home, with his week's provisions. Tea, sugar, and flour were indisi criminately! supplied to the piscatorial frequenters !of the Buller- river, while the owner was heard i ■ , thanking, the. presence of mud in place of quartz ] - for having; saved him from hospital board for the . next month. The naturally enraged miner, when - finding his .equilibrium, sought revenge in his gun/ bnt ; the animal had more respect for the . auctioneer than to be ' knocked down' in that ; - -way,, while.- 1 Schneider' by this time was steering i a course for the: Westport butchery, direct.! . Ultimately,, the. buUock. was; penned, and bo is I . the Bftrrative of his journey."