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Southland Times, Issue 1643, 4 October 1872, Page 2

A walking show of entires (draught and thoroughbred) is to be held in the grounds of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association on the 12th inst. As the season is just opening, it is to be expected that there will be a good turn-out on the occasion. While referring to this subject, wo may state that we understand the well-known horse, Lord Raglan, is to travel the Southland district this season. Our Riverton correspondent informs us that the gravelling of the road from that place to Wallacetown is to be procee ded with shortly. The District Road Engineer, Mr Bews, is at present engaged in laying off the road from Win ton to Wrey's Bush.

Provisions appear to be getting scarce at Martin's Bay. The Provincial Government have telegraphed to Mr Pearson to ascertain whether Captain Gilrov can go round with a ear^o, and whether any Invercargill merchants are -willing to send round provisions at their own risk. The steep bank in Tay-street, in front of the Court-house, should receive some attention from the municipal aurhmtifs, as that side being entirely unprotected, a serious accident might readily occur on a dark ni^ht to any one not acquainted wit)) the locality. A meeting of the Railway Committee was held last night, at which it was resolved to request the Mayor to call a public meeting at an early date, for the purpose of receiving the resignation of the committee, which lias now been at work for moro than twelve mocths. It is considered that the kbora of the committee may fitly terminate with the inauguration of the Inyercar^ill and Mataura railway, an event which, but for its exertions, would probably be still in the future. A sub- , committee was appointed to prepare a report, to I be read at the public meeting. The desirability of taking stops on that occasion to form a fre.«h ; organisation, ibr the purpose of watching over 1 the interests of the district in regard to future railway works and immigration, was also discussed. The Treasurer made the gratifying announcement that all liabilities incurred by the committee had been paid, and that he hid a small balance still in hand. A meeting of the members of the Road Board for the Lindhurst district was held at the Halfway Bush on Wednesday. All the members of the Board, viz , Messrs Brydone, M'Gibbon, Elliott, Basstian, Allan, Macdonald, Bain, Halliday, and M'Matli, were present. Mr Elliott having been appointed chairman of the meeting, Messrs T. M'Math and James AlLin were respectively proposed to occupy the office of Chairman of the Board, when Mr Allan having declined, Mr M'Math was duly elected. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at the large size of the district, which, it wa3 thought, would be quite unworkable, and a resolution was passed to the effect that the Superintendent should be requested to alter the boundaries. The members seemed to be in favor of an acreage rate, provided that the agricultural and pastoral interests could be separated. It was decided to request tlie CrOrernment to hand over the amount of dog-tax collected in the district to the local Board. A letter having been read from the chairman of the Invercargill Road Board, suggesting that a delegate should b 2 appointed to attend a meeting which would shortly be convened to consider the best plan of working the Ordinance, Mr M'Math was appointed to represent the Board. Five pheasants, two cocks and three hens, have recently been received from Auckland by Mr George Saunders. The birds are in fine condition, apparently none the worse of the long voyage. At the meeting of the Southland Land Board on Tuesday, all the members were present. Mr Daniel Sinclair applied to have section 5, Invercargill hundred, surveyed, the survey fees having been paid for a long tim^. It w.is resolved that the district surveyor be instructe 1 to survey the ! section. Messrs Ross and Aitkun applie.l to have section 21, block 4, Oarapbelltowu ivmdvel, put up to auction in one block, instea I of two separate blocks, as previously app!ied for, th? object being to reduce the upset price to £li instead of £2, charged fnr sections under 20 acres. It was resolved that the application could not be entertained. The question of the d.lay in the payme:.t of survey fees by the Provincial Treasury was considered, and it was resolveJ that for the future Captain Elles ba requested to act as treasurer to the Land Board, under clause 3 t of the Southland Lmd Act, 1865, and retain all deposits f3r survey fees, paying them on the certificate of the Commissioner of Crown Landa, the Chief Surveyor, and the Inspector of Surveys. The following surveys were passed : — Sections 2 and 3, Lindhurst district ; section 45, Forest Hill Hundred ; sections 28, 35, 36, and 39, Takutioio district ; sections 19 and 2i, Wuiau district. At Riverton, on Wednesday, the following; eases were heard before H. M'Oulloch, Esq , It. M.., and Edward llankinson and J. Potchell, E?q=>., J.P.s : — Longford v. lie nr i ; claim fof £4 on a judgment summons. Mr Matthews foe plaintiff. The defendant was orlered to pay the amount in monthly instalments of £1 each. Whittingham Bros, and Instone v. Archibald M'Donald was a claim for £14 3s 7d for goods supplied. Defendant did not appear. Judgment for plaintiffs, with costs, 19s. A second case, between the same parties, was an action on a promissory note, for £26 6s 2J, including intorest. Defendant did not appear. Judgment for plaintiffs for £25 19s 2d, with costs, £1 ss. Hamilton v. M'Callum was an information laid by the Ranger of the Jacob's River Hundred, on behalf of the wardens, aguinst Mr M'Callum, for depasturing sheep on the Hundred without a license, contrary to the bye-laws. Mr Matthews for complainant. Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr Matthews asked for a nominal penalty, the object being to call attention to the fact that a license from the wardens was required for the depasturing of sheep. The bench, on referring to the bye-laws, said that an anomaly appeared on the face of the regulations, the depasturing of sheep without a license being forbidden, but no penalty specified, which was no doubt an omission. The information was dismissed, but on the application of Mr Matthews, no coats were allowed to defendant, the omission of the penalty in the bye-laws being evidently an inadvertence. Mr Matthews thereupon withdrjw five other inform itions for similar offences, costs being disallowed in each case. Yesterday, the 3rd of October, wa3 the com. moncement of the Jewish new year, and forms, with tile nine days which immediately follow it, the most important epoch in the Jewish Calendar. These ten dajß are called the days of repentance. The two first of these penitential days are termed " the days of remembrance," and form the com- . menceraent of the civil year, on which the cornet ' (shafar) is blown to admonish the sinner to return and repent, and to humble himself before the Supreme Being. These days are also called " the awe inspiring days," and the intermediate Sabbath the " Sabbath of repentance." The tenth day, called in Hebrew Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, will this year be on Saturday, October 12. Two samples of New Zealand freestone, from Oamaru and Kakanui, have been sent toVictoria, and, among other?, are being subjected to analysis as to their fitness for use in building the new vice-regal residence in Melbourne.

At the meeting of the Town Council last night, the Mayor and all the Councillors were present, wi'h the exception of Councillors Tapper an;l Pratt. The resignation of Mr Cuthbert, Town Surveyor, consequent upon his having received an appointment in Wellington, was rereived an. l accepted by the Council, and the Mayor was nques'ed to convey to Mr Cuthbert an expression of the satisfaction of the Council at the manner in which he had performed his duties, an i congratulation upon hi 3 appointment. On the motion of Cr. Gvirthwaite, seconder! by Cr. Lum^den, it was resolved that Mr iT [viiiop, the warder in charge of the prisoners, be instructed to take up the box-drain placed under the footpath opposite section 1, block HI, unless Mr Osborne agrees to at once pay for the box. The j tender of John Cardie, £23, for excavation of earth in the pubHi gardens, was accepted. Mr Krskine's tender for stationery, and Mr Thomson's for kerosene, were accepted. , A fire occurred at the Water of Leitli, near ' Dunedin, early on the morning of the Ist inst., i when Messrs Wilson and Ifa Idox's brewery, and ; half of Duncan's flour mill, were destroyed. The water-wheel of the latter was kept going all the time, and this saved a large portion of the mill. The barrels in the brewery were tossed in large numbers into the Leith, to prevent them from ad ling to the conflagration. The mill was insure;! for £500 in the Royal, and £750 in the Liverpool and London and Globe. The brewery was insured for £500 in the New Zealand office, and £750 ia the Liverpool and London and Globe. A sample of black sand, found within six miles of the B'.uff, and forwarded to Professor Black for analysis, yiel led 58 percent, of metallic platinum. The Pall Mull Gazette gives the following information respecting the Vienna exhibition :-" Aletter from Vienna gives some encouraging details regarding the prospects of the Universal Exhibition of 1873 in the Austrian capital. The building makes rapid progress ; a great part of the principal gallery, as well as of the four transverse galleries, of the Palace of Industry being already covered in. The last day for the reception of exhibitors' demands for admission was the Ist of July. The result surpasses all previous precedents. More than 15,000 Austrian exhibitors hare announoefl their intention of taking part in the Exhibition, and from Hungary alone liare come 300 requests for admission. At the first London Exhibition, in 1851, there were 7381 English exhibitors ; and at the second, in 1862, 9387. At the first Paris Exhibition, ia 1855---thera were 11,003 French exhibitors ; and at the second, in 1867, there were 13,000 ; so that the number of Austrian exhibitors is considerably higher than the highest at any similar show of the kind. The German Empire will bo represented by 8000 exhibitors, Belgium by 800, while Italy, Switzerland, and other European countries will send their products in large quantities. Of more distant countries — the United States, Brazil, China, Japan will be well represented, and the Porre as well ag Kjzypt have taken the requisite | steps to ensure the participation of the East in the universal competition. Large enclosures are being prepared in the enceinte of the Exhibition for the accommodation of Turkish an I Egyptian products. There is every prospect therefore that the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 will not prove inferior to its predecessors." Referring to Mr Macknv's qualifioitbrn for acting as a Native administrator, the Taran-iki News says : — " Mr Staffjrd has found a political piece of putty that will not be worth much to him. Mr Mackay's conduct in 1868, in turning his official position to use against Mr Stafford's then Ministry, docs not entitle him to that respect which a Minister should possess in the estimation of the country." An Auckland correspondent adds to the foregoing : — " The idea of Mr J. Mackay, junior, administering Native affairs, is treated here with derision." It may be interesting (lays an exchange) to consumers of coal to know that experiments have recently been male to as?e'-tain tie amjmtit of loss coal undergoes when exposed to the weather. Anthracite and cannel coal auff;r least, but orJinnry bituminous coal loses nearly one-third in weight, and nearly one-half in gasmaking quality ; from this it follows that coal should be kept dry, and under cover, and that to expose it to rain or damp lessens its quantity and weakens its quality. A requisition to the Mayor of Christchurch is in course of signature, asking him to convene a public meeting of the citizens, at an early d;ite, to consider what steps shall be taken to ensure the immediate construction of the promised railway to the Malvern Hills, and so open up the coalfields, and supplj local wants by local industry. The decision of the Government not to prosecute in the Green Harp case, causes great dissatisfaction in Auckland. The reason given for the adoption of this course is that legal opinion is against the prosecution. The Canterbury Press states that the Christchurch Golf Club is an accomplished fact, and a goodly number of members are to be found playing this national game on Saturdays, in Hagley Park. The Daily Times says : — Another of the landmarks of old Dunedin is about to be removed. The store of the late Mr John Jone?, the store emphatically of old identity days, is being demolished. According to the Western Daily Mercury, a Plymouth paper, the discoveries of tin in New South Wales and Queensland have occasioned considerable anxiety on the part of the Cornish tin smelters ; so much so, indeed, that they have resolved to send forthwith a competent person to examine the deposits there, and at once report thereon. The Government of Queensland have set apart a reserve of about 10,000 acres of land at Lake Weyba and at the Noora Kiver for the purposes of the Aboriginal Missionary Society. A Parliamentary return shows that 414 ships were built in Tasmania between 1831 and the end of 1871, having an aggregate tonnage of 26,553 tons. In reporting the recent arrival of German, Polish, and Scandinavian immigrants at Lyttelton, the Lyltelton Times says : — " Amongst the married couples, one immigrant was pointed out aa having walked from the Russian frontier to Hamburg (a distance of about 800 miles) with his wife and five or six children, sleeping at farmhouses and oftentimes in the open air, on their way to join the ship."

The Wellington Evening Post of the 11th ult. has the following : — " One of the moat amusing scenes that took place yesterday afternoon in the House of Representatives, was afforded by Mr Harrison, the member for G-reymouth, and Editor of the Independent, trailing after him up to the table with much ostentation a petition several yards in length, from " 1000 inhabitants of the South- wert Groldfields, complaining of the mal administration of the Nelson Provincial Government, and praying the House to place the whole of the West Coast Groldfielda un ler one form of ftoTornmcnf." Mr T. Kelly, the member for New Plymouth town, who ia Chairman of the Public Petitions Committee, drew the attention of the Speaker to the fact that as the body of the petition was printed, the Standing Ordar to that effect prevented it from being received. So the presenter had to return, this time with his long tail rolled up under his arm, amidst general laughter from both sides of the House. The Assembly has passed a motion by 23 to 10, granting £1000 to Mr Henry Smythies, as compensation for his being deprived of the right to practise as a solicitor. After the Judges have decided adversely to MY Smythies, it is dilliculc to understand on what grounds this extra burden should be imposed on the country. It is proposed to form a limited liability company in Christchurch, for the purpose of providing an efficient number of first-class cabs to ply for hire in that city. The road steamer, designated Mr G-illies's " black elephant," is not much appreciated in Auckland, if we are to believe the following : — " Here it comes crawling along at a snail's pace, children screaming, horses allying, in all directions. The bideous useless thing whilst making a pretence of earning its salt, belches forth suffocating volumes of smut clouds, which roll over the harbor, and tinge its blue waves with myriad black specks. Phew, the intolerable nuisance is here, down with the windows I" The Auckland correspondent of the Lyfctelton Times says : — All well disposed Natives, with whom I lately conversed, are clearly of opinion that Mr Stafford's scheme for governing the Natives will break down. The scheme is looked upon as being wild and visionary, and eminently impracticable and dangerous in whatever light it is vieTO-ed. A.rx aged, but extremely sensible, Native said tome this morning, "you. mean to undo M" Lean's good work, and it will take years to repair the evil that may be done in a few months." The Auckland city rites are said to be £10,000 in arrears. The proposed interprovincial exhibition of wool, flax, grain, coal, minerals, timber, miscellaneous objects, agricultural, flax, and other machinery, for the purpose of selecting exhibits for the Vienna exhibition, is likely to be held in Christchurch a'jout the mid lie of December. One of the largest tobacco manufacturers in America is about to erect a tobacco manufactory in Sydney. A general feeling of regret has been expressed in Melbourne at the loss sustained by Mr J. E. Crooke by the death of his gallant little racehorse Salarlin. The particulars of the death are not fully known, but it is said to have been caused br an overdose of physic bein^ given when the horse was not properly prepared. Saladin was a great favorite with the public, and his memorable struggle with Flying Dutchman in the Australian Cup, at the last Victorian Racing Club Autumn Meeting, when the horse ran two dead heats, and Saladin won the conquering heat by a neck, will long be remembered by Victorian sportsmen. A West Coast paper says ; — A short time since whilst one of the Hibernian men was at work, New River, driving through blus roef, he drove his pick into a hollow cavity, and immediately a fire damp escaped and the man had some difficulty to get out of the tunnel, about 100 ft. in length, but not before his whiskers and hair were pretty well singed. The Real Property Act is popular in New Soutli Wales. Ths total area of land under the Act at the end of 1871 was 1,497,975 acres, the toial value being £3,751, 1-71.