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Southland Times, Issue 1601, 5 July 1872, Page 2

A serious accident occurred yesterday morning, between. 9 and 10 o'clock, at the Railway Station, by which Mr William Waddell, cattle-dealer, of the East-road, sustained a compound comminuted' fracture of the right leg, at the calf. Mr Waddell being about to ship to Stewart's Island a small Ayrshire cow of hia own breeding, was intending to take her by train to the Bluff for shipment. The animal, being an unusually quiet beast, was safely got into the break van of the guard, and Mr Waddell was about making her fast, when she turned--suddenly round and attempted to jump out, and, falling upon him, broke his leg. Mr Waddell was at once conveyed to the Hospital, where he waa attended by Dr Grigor, andthe limb was set. From the nature of the fracture, the case will i probably prove a- protracted one. Erom a letter received in town yesterday, from Mr It. Buchanan, we have been permitted to extract the following information regarding the progress of the work on the ground being prospected by the Old Wakatipu Deep Sinking Company : — The party is down over 130 feet, going through very stiff slay, which makes the work rather slow. The layers; however, are getting, thinner, and the general indications lead to the j belief that the bottom is not far ''off. Shirley's opinion is, that in a week, or ten days at most, he will touch bottom. Indeed, he is daily expecting to reach it. As for stopping, he says it would be extremely hazardous on account of the water bursting in from the sides, where puddled, and strongly advises that efforts should be made by the shareholders to continue working, although it • should be with only .two. shafts, instead of three as at present. From what I have eeen*,and heard, I.quite agree with him that the work should be steadily prosecuted. With this view the men all agreed to take additional shares, and with my own, I raised 105 shares on the spot. You must do the same in Invercargill, so as to raise (say) £100 more, which Shirley believes will complete the work. While prospecting on the side of the hill at their odd time, the men got to the bottom, i.e., the rock, and obtained some nice spec imens of shotty gold, about an ounce or two, which I saw. Shirley argues that if such gold can be found on the declivity of the rock, good heavy gold must be obtained at the bottom. The frienda of Mr Peter M'Kellar, of Longridge, will be glad to learn that information was received in town by last mail, that he had succeeded in landing in safety in San Francisco the entire number of the Lincoln rams shipped by 'him from this port about two months ago. At the meeting of the District Waste Land Board on Friday last, there was a full attendance, Hugh Cameron's application for 100 acres in the Mataura Bridge Reserve, in exchange for some buildings made over to the Provincial Government according to an arrangement entered into with the Executive, was granted. The following application was also sanctioned : — Robert Taylor, 250 acres, Hokanui District, under Oreti Railway contract. At the meeting on Tuesday, Mr Wade appeared as solicitor for Thos. Brown

saw-miller, in reference to a summons received for cutting timber without a license, and I requested more specific information as to the locality of the trespass. The matter being in the hands of the Crown Prosecutor, Mr T. M. Macdonald, the application was referred to him. Cuthbert Govra,n appeared to request an extension of time for a steam saw mill license at Okaiteru Bush. Application granted. At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, the Resident Magistrate delivered judgment in the case of Matheson v. O'Brien, heard .on the Wednesday, previous. His Worship stated that the evidence went to show that the sale of the cattle had been completed. The agreement was partly in writing, and partly verbal, but was nevertheless good, as the requirements of the Statute of Frauds had been complied with by the payment of earnest money, £1 having been paid on account. His Worship further stated that there was some difficulty in assessing the damage sustained by the plaintiff from the non-delivery of the cattle, the true measure being the difference between the price at which the cattle had been purchased, and the market value at the time delivery was refused. In the present case it was almost impossible to define this amount precisely. But the plaintiff had certainly been put to expense and inconvenience, which had been shown by the evidence, and he ought to be reimbursed to a reasonable extent. Judgment for plaintiff, £16, and costs, £9 6s. His Worship stated that the costs in this and similar cases might appear to be disproportionately large, but it must be remembered that they were chiefly composed of witnesses' expenses, which were often considerable, when the witnesses, as in the present instance, were brought from a distance. Yesterday two men, named Quinton and Green, lately tinsmiths in the employment of the Southland Meat Preserving Company, were charged by Mr Thomson, storekeeper at Win ton, with obtaining goods on false pretences. It appeared that the men had been discharged on Friday, 28th ult., and after their discharge went to the complainant's store, bought two suits of clothes and some other articles, asking for credit till nest pay day. Complainant believed them to be still in the employment of the Company, or he would not have given them credit. The men then went away, and were apprehended on the Dunedin road, on the other side of the Mataura, with the clothes ■in their: swags. Hia Worship considered that the case as it stood was very incomplete, and adjourned it till to-day afr the request of the police, for the production of further evidence. The Commissioner of Crown Lauds v. Thomas Brown, for unlawfully cutting timber, was adjourned, at the request of defendant, for three weeks. Professor Black, of the Dunedin University, is said to be analysing a specimen of black iron Band sent by Mr Matthews, of Riverton. We have to acknowledge receipt of the Illustrated New Zealand Herald for this month. It contains a view of the township of Picton, on Queen Charlotte's Sound ; four views of the goldfield of Tambaroora, N.S.W. ; the Nobby Rock, Newcastle ; the School of Telegraphy, in the Technological Museum, Melbourne ; two pictures representing the Backstairs Passage, South Australia, and Lake Colac, Victoria ; together with several other illustrations. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Southland -Building, Land, and Investment Society, held in the Court-house on Wednesday evening, the proposed alteration in the rules, giving the committee power to lodge the moneys of the Society in any bank that they might from time to time appoint, was agreed to without dissent. The appointment of Mr James Brown as Secretary was confirmed by the meeting. At the meeting of the Town Council last night the Mayor and all the Councillors were present. A letter was read from the Provincial Secretary, offering £15 towards fencing the cemetery, on condition that a similar amount was contributed by the inhabitants. It -was resolved to reply that the amount of £70 had already been spent by the town on fencing the cemetery, and to request the subsidy offered. The nuditors' report was read, showing that the revenue for the past year had been £2242 19s 6d, arid the expenditure £1428 19s Bd, leaving a balance at credit of the Corporation of £813 3s 10J, in which is included the amount of £701 4s 8d still remaining to credit of Tay street reserve fund. On the motion of Councillor Ross, the sum of six guineas each was voted to the auditors by way of remuneration. A proposition by Councillor Garthwaite for leasing the Public Park for 14 years, in ten-acre paddocks, was warmly opposed by Councillors Pratt, Ross, and the Mayor, as contrary to the spirit of the Act> which set the ground apart for recreation, and was ultimately lost by the Mayor's casting vote, the division h'Bt being — Councillors Garthwaite, Jaggers, Lumsden, and Tapper for, and Councillors Pratt, Ross, Goodwillie, and Blackwood against, the motion. It was resolved to invite tenders for leases of the Town Belt in blocks, for a period of 7 years, lessees to fence and lay down the land in grass. . A. meeting of women servants has been held in Dundee, at 'Which it was resolved to form a union, entitled " The Dundee and District Servants' Protection Association." At an enquiry into the cause of the fire which occurred in Dunedin last week, the jury returned a verdict that there was no evidence to show how it originated. The Evening Star hears that the station of Mr J. A. Douglass, generally known as that of Comber and Douglass, has changed hands for the sum of £14,000, Mr W. A. Tolmie, of Dunedin* being the purchaser. A London paper of May sth says : — " Cn Wednesday morning between thirty and forty agricultural laborers, collected from various districts in South Warwickshire, assembled at the Avenue Station, Leamington, and took their departure for New Zealand, under the care of Mr Brogden, one of the firm of contractors now engaged in the construction of a railroad there. The party, with then* wives and families and friends, quite filled the station, the crowd numbering between 200 and 300. They are engaged for two years at 5s a day, the contractors finding outfits and paying passage, the cost of which will be deducted in easy instalments." A society is being formed in Wellington to assist immigration and settlement on a plan similar to the English society represented by Colonel Fielding.

The report that a patient in the Auckland hospital had been seized with small-pox turns out to be incorrect. The Auckland Herald says : — A sample of what is effected in our harbor by those mischievous worms which destroy our piles might have been seen for some days past in the form of a pile completely honeycombed from end to end. This piece of timber was part of the extension of the outer T, and was put down only about seven years ago. The worms had effected a lodgment at the lower end below the sheathing, and thence had perforated the wood in every direction as far as high water nyirk. A Fiji correspondent, writing to an Auckland paper on the present condition of affairs, says Fiji is the Pacific Alsatia. Names of men can be singled out who oughb at this moment to be confined in her Majesty's colonial gaols; Now, in addition to those who ought to be enjoying residential privileges in the common gaol, there is a large number of individuals against whom writs are arriving by every mail from the colonies. These are issued mainly by reason of many persons here forgetting to discharge their liabilities incurred in other countries prior to their departure therefrom. It is absurd, however, to suppose that any writs from outside friends can be allowed to have force or effect in Fiji, inasmuch as, if that principle were ever recognised, it would sap and destroy the very foundation of Alsatian society. Prince Joseph Celua, son of Cokabau, who is being educated in Sydney, was present lately at a farewell demonstration to Mr Charles St. Julian, the newly-appointed Chief Justice. He responded to the toast of" Prosperity to Fiji," as follows : — " I thank you for so heartily drinking this toast. Speech-making is a new thing to me. You must, therefore, please exouse my words being few. I came from a once dark land— a land of cannibal cruelty ; but Christianity has risen us from the lowest degradation, and now we are a Christian people. We are now trying to establish law and order in our land, and I ask you to help us. We most earnestly desire the establishment of law, and if you will help us, it can be done. We want to govern Fiji in every respect as this land is governed. I have come to white men's land, to be trained at Newington College. lam anxious to be taught. You were born in the light, lin the darkness. You were born in a Christian land, lin a heathen country. I wish to be trained here, that I may be of service to the government of my own country. Again I thank you for 80 heartily drinking prosperity to Fiji." (Applause.) The Rev. W. J. G-. Bluett (Episcopalian) one of the candidates for the vacant Coleridge seat in the House of in addressing a meeting of the electors lately, made some observations on the subject of education. He said that he should be in favor of giving to all children the very best possible education that could be devised —the kind of education that would be useful to them in after-life, or in any undertaking that might be brought before them. Wherever children were found of greater talent than others, he should be in favor of their being assisted to bring that talent to a successful issue and make it of the greatest possible use to the country. With regard to the religious part of it, he thought that in a country where religious opinions were so diverse, it was a very great difficulty. For his own part he should deplore the fact that religion should be ignored in schools altogether, but he hardly saw how the system of education COUld be carried on here if persons of all denominations were allowed to go into the school, take half-a-dozen children from this desk and that, and teach them their own peculiar dogmas. He looked upon every parent as a priest in his own house. He thought a great part of a child's religious teaching Bhould be taught at home. If that were done, the difficulty would in a great measure be done away with. He was decidedly in favor of the State providing for every child in the country the best possible education it could provide.