Thb Hikat-ia timber dispute case, between the employes of the Union Sash and Door Company and Mr Blair's men, was vailed on forbearing today in the E.M. Court. No less than four lawyers were engaged, and the dee is expect: Itobe a long one. A report of lbs proce3d:ngs up to our gong to p*bbb appear in another column.
The long postponed cricket match married v. Single will be concluded on the WaioKaraka FJat to-mcrrow aftarnoon, when the ffiarried men, who require 35 runs to win the match, will go in for their second innings; after the ahoTe a match will be played between Grahamstown and Shortland, the teams being choseni from the following: Shortland—Smith, Coney, Griffiths, Airey, Lough, Maddern, Pearce, Harrison, Cartwright, G. Newman, Gentry, Christie, Gellion, Steward, Lawry, Lucas, and Allen. Grahanutown—Bucban, Muir, Rowe, Dobbs, Hindman, Grubb, Egginton, Martin, Robinson, Pak-er, Fletcher, Waite, iColhoun, Douglas, Patterson, and Hastings. WiokcLs to be pitched at 2 p.m. Players are requested to roll up a'i 2 sharp.
Skveral local peds. are arranging a sweepstake race for Easter Monday nezt, to be run in thr^e distances—lso yards, 440 yards, and half-mile—to count by points. The first prize will be £10, and if more than ten enter there will be a second and third prize. A meeting was held last night, when ten entries (£1 each) were received, and it was decided to receive further entries ap to Thursday evening next, when a meeting will be held in the Hazelbank Hotel. Mr J. Christie was appointed starter, and Mr E. Johns handicapper. Should there be more than ten. entries the first distance will lie runin three heats, but if not only two heats will be run—if two heats only, the first and second man in each whl run off for places, but if three, only the first man in each will run off. Several men are out training already, and close finishes will, no doubt, be the result. Other sports are, we understand, in contemplation for Easter Monday, but the above events will be so arranged as not to clash with them. They are to be run at lararu.
The Hon. the Premier,. Major Atkinson, has telegraphed that he intends visiting the Thames shortly, but the date of his coming is not fixed.
In the Court this morning the R.M. stated that he had decided to repeal a ruling previously given by,him regarding the allowance of costs in cases where judgment had been confessed by defendants. The rule appears to have been that half the legal c 3Bts were allowed when incurred in cases where 'the money was Jpaid into Court, or in which judgment was confesacl ; but the Bench stated that in future, where the amount is paid in, or confession made, and the plaintiff is duly notified, nor order for the payment of solicitor's costs or hearing fee would be made.
A woodkn store at Kawakawa containing mining materials, oils, points, tallow, &c, belonging to the Bay of Islands Coal Co., was burnt down on Wednesday. The cause is unaccountable, as there wo no fire in the building or its vicinity. It was raining at the time. There waß a miraculous escape of life from an explosion of powder and dynamite caps. One man was slightly hurt, and a building in the vicinity was shattered. The propertj was insmvJ. The difference between Dr. Bond, of the Auckland Hospital, and the medical staff, has ended, a general reconciliation having taken place.
A BUB jie of clothing was discovered web at high water maik, ncr the Sugar Company's works, Auckland, yesterday, and it has trans* pircd that a man named William Wafer was diechargiJ from the Constabalary in the last reduction of the force. ; He was last 81 -n leaving the North Shore steamer on Tuesday. He was believed to be Buffering from the horrors, and hard up. Fears are entertained that he has rommitted suicide.
At a meeting of Canterbury members, Government supporters, held in Christchureh yesterday, B. G. Wright, A. P. O'Callagban, H. AHwright, J. E. Browa, H. Thomson, H. McMillian, WyDn Williams, Po^tlethwaite, and W. F. Pearson beiDg present, it was resoved : That, viewing the great injustice in the increase of the railway tariff on grain, the mode in which it has been carried out, and* the ill-judged time when brought into operation, the meeting strongly protests against the action of Government as injurious and oppressive to their constituents; and respectfully, but firmly, begs that Government will defer giving effect to so important an alteration in the tariff till the sanction of Parliament has been obtiined.
The lad Kelly, who 'was injured at the Nelson rifle butts on Tuesday, has had bis arm amputated. Unfavourable symptoms have set in.
An expert .agent has been sent to New Zealand on behalf of a European firm, with a view to establish the silkworm industry upon a sound financial basis. He has, however, experienced considerable disappointment in finding that a good supply of mulberry trees could not readily be obtained in the North Island.-—Australasian.
The annual meeting of shareholders in Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., New Zealand Drug Co., was held in Dun. din yesterday, and the directors' report recommending the payment of a dividend at the ratj of 10 per cent, was agreed to.
Me Fedebit, who has been engaged by tbe Government to disseminats knowl dge in respect'to silkworm rearing has held a discourse with a number of leading settlers in the Public HaU, Cambridge, Waikato. He accompanied Mr J. 0. Firtli to Matamatj, at the beginning of the week, with which place he was highly impressed. He recommended the meeting that if the settlers there desired to make a successful effort in the silkworm industry, the best plan would be t p start a company, and commence operations by establishing a nursery farm, and imparting the best plants from the south of Europe. Other industries, such as olive growing, wild fruit. &c, could be undertaken in connection with the silkworms, and to carry on business four families of skilled hands should be imported from the south of Europe. The proposal was received? with much favour, and offers were made to take shares in case of a company being formed.
Ths following, from an Australian paper, affords a contrast to the way in which too many mines have been worked on theTbuines: —The Union Tribute Company aft Mount Greenock, Talbot, has afforded a typical illustration of the persistence und energy with which Victorian mines are sometimes worked under discouraging circumstances. For 15 years the mine has been kept going, and only a few days ag3, that period having expired, a new leasj for a further 15 years was obtained, and yet the tributers were only earning .he poor pittance of 14s a week.
The Taranuki Herald's TTrunui correspondent writes —" On Sunday eight or ten natires came to Tukerauhe, en route to Farihaka, but were turned back. A new guard is stationed at the roads, and in future no natives will be allowed to proceed to Toagaporutu with potatoes for To Whiti.
A south Australian farmer has been experimenting to show the wonderfully prolific nature of wheat. Si- years ago be planted one grain, and has replanted the produce of the same each ye:>r, it yielded no legs than 260 b \gs this harvest. One single stem WE3 found to contain net ly 25} grain?.
Oxjb readers are reminded of the exhibition in the Academy of Music to-ni»hfc, when Mr Robson displays his Colossal Mirror of the Egyptian War, r-nd announces, in addition to the show, a distribution of coetly gifts.
Isr another column will be found an advertisement from Coombes and Co., drapers, Owen street, announcing the last two weeks of their clearing sale, which commences to-mor-row. A prici? Hat is given with the announcement.
The directors of the .Moanatairi Extended G.M.Co. have accepted the tender of McDermott and p:rty for the erection of the machinery at the mine.
A MEtBoiJPNE paper says:—"New Zealand is determined to enter on the frozen meat trado on an enormous scale. Contracts have actually been entered into by two companies—the New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw-Savill-Albion Company—to carry during 1881, 440,CG0 carcases of New Zealand sheep, or more than 30,0(D,0G3 pounds of mutton."
A CTTBioxrs experiment with thistles oa a large scale is being tried in Victoria. It is believed the soup, or matter extracted from thistles by boiling them, makes a good fattening substance for pigs. One settler, it is stated, has procured a chaff-cutting machine and other apparatus for the purpose of cutting up the thistles and bo ling them down for feeding pigs. Where plenty of thistles of various kinds grow, as they do here, the experiment might bo worthy of imitation.
The Australasian thus comments :—"lt is characteristic of bo erratic a politician as Sir Gtorge Grey that he should be quite oat of accord with tbe leaders of political thought in Australia. 'We do not want,' he says, ' a great Federal Executive Government. Let us spend our own money in developing our own resources. Let us work to make burselves one AtigloSixon people, an important nation, without troubling others or submitting ourselves directly or indirectly to their distant rule.' New Zealand, he thinks, can defend its own. If France annexes, we can. conquer and gain back again what we lose. Not a veiy pleasant modus vivendi this, with troublesome neighbors in the Pacific."
The two Swiss guides who accompanied the Bey. W. 8. Gre^n on his mountaineering trip in New Zealand, have succeeded in climbing Monnt Kabru, one of tbe Himalaya peaks, 24,000 ft;. in height.
Sic Heecttik3 Bobihsok, the popular exGovernor of New Zealand, he.-} evidently gained golden opinions wherever he has been. In Ceylon he is regard d as a benefactor no less than as a socially popular Governor. There, we are told: — "Sir Hercules Robinson left hia mark in every province and nearly every district of the country, in now roads, bridges, public build* ings, end eaprcially in the repair of irrigation tanks and channels and the provision of sluices. He extended the railway some 17 mils, and he laid tbe foundation of tbe scheme through which, under his sir sssor, Sir William Gregory, the Colombo breakwater was begun; acd voder Sir John Coo3e this has ensured for the capital of Ceylon one of the safest, most convenient and commodious artificial harbours in the world."
A Lovely Ohaplet.—A late fashion sayß: " Nothing can I ) prettier than a chaplet of hop vind in blossom." A recent medical review says: " Nothing can be a better renovator of the health than Hop Bitters. They aid in all the operations of nature; toning up the stomach, assisting the food to become properly assimilated, and promote healthy action in all the organs. The dictates of fashion, as well aa the laws of health, alike favor a right application of hop 3." Bead.
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