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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 64, 1 May 1869, Page 2

*A meeting of Town Council was held on "Wednesday evening— Cr. Mears in the chair— when the only business of public importance was in reference to the tenders for the formation of Lancaster-street. It appeared that the specification had not been altered, although several of the intending tenderers had been informed of the proposed alterations verbally. After a rather animated discussion, it was decided, by the casting-vote of the chairman, to postpone opening the tenders, in order that full justice might be done to every one. Or. Keen protested against this course, and left the room. -ThejOouncil adjourned till Friday; 30th alt. AtOUB brethren of the pigtails and wooden shoes display an amount of enterprise worthy of imitation by Europeans. One of these Celestials, who must be a bit of a capitalist, has, we believe, engaged a hundred of his compatriots to work for him on the Waipori. The first batch of _these, in number about fifty, passed through Lawrence this week, and spent a night in the old " Recorder" office. John Chinaman is a " canny tshiel," and is not at all likely to eniier' into rash' speculations, sa,we may safely assume tea opinion' of the Waipori diggings to be highly favourable.

* A MBiTlNd- of the Town Council was held last evening, when the tender of Mr. Downie— £49 153— fdr the formation of Lancaster-street, was accepted. The other tenders were as follows— Messrs. Johnson and Tonks, £85 ; Mr. Buckley, £84 ; Mr. Nicol, £76 ; Mr: Tuckey, £50. Cr. Keen was elected a member of the Public Works Committee, in room of Cr. Hayi

Our Dunedin Correspondent, Writing under date the 29th uli, sends us the following supplementary items : -The Provincial Council met to-day, at 2 p.m., and after disposing of some preliminary business, adjourned till Monday. From the Molyneux River I have information that the salmon ova was got safely round as far as the Clutha Ferry, where it was transferred from the s.s. Tairoa to the |stein-wheel steamer Tuapeka. In all probability it will have been deposited in the ponds by this time. Late last night information wa3 received by the police of two deaths— one "found dead," and the other found drowned. Foul play is suspected in neither case.

A sensational paragraph, relating the discovery of a Chinaman's body at Waipori under very peculiar circumstances, has been going the tound of the provincial press. We learn on good authority that the report is entirely without foundation.

Professor Cook has been lecturing at Waipori with considerable success, indeed he made msiry converts to mesmerism in that place. On Friday evening he appeared before a Lawrence audience, in the Coinmerciali Assembly Rooms, but his success was by no means remarkable. We believe he accounts for this |by the uupropitious state of the weather, and declares his determination to continue his efforts until they are crowned with success. He repeats his performance this evening.

"Le Juif Errant : a Translation " (to Auckland), is among the literary announcements this month.

We are requested by the Athcnseum Committee to express their regret forthe irregularity which occurred on the last Headings night from the absence of a programme. It occurred purely from a misunderstanding on the part of the gentleman who was entrusted to get up the programme for the Readings of the previous Thursday, which meeting lapsed. The committee promise to prevent any such awkward occurrence taking place in future, and hope to receive the patronage of a large audience on Thursday evening next. £ THE ship, Mendora, with salmon ova on board for this province arrived at Port Chalmers on Tuesday, the ova has been taken to Port Molyneus, and although the long duration of the voyage has, no doubt, proved injurious, the condition of the on» case opened encourages the belief that a per centage has survived.

We shall lay before our readers in our next issue a detailed account of the new Scotch goldfields, obtained from reliable sources.

A meeting of persons interested in the proposed grand walking match will be held in the Athenieum, on Monday evening, when we trust there will be a good attendance. It is intended to have the race on the Queen's Birthday, when, judging by the number already enrolled, a most exciting contest will take place.

We beg to call the atteution of our readers to ourowtt Ooneapondent's letter ou tlxe 'W&ite*huna mining reserve question. • Our Blue Spur Mining Correspondent writes as follows .—". — " I have nothing to chronicle this week in the way of large operations in mining. All the claims are in full swing, water is plentiful, and the claim holders are in a position to make use of it. Mr. Ltdinghain has sold his store and business to Mr. Francis Nicol, one of our large claimholders. The purchaser has removed the building to the top of- the bill to a site opposite Mr. Giieve's store, for which he paid, lam "credibly informed, £5 per foot. The people here are pricking up their ears, especially those who have anything like a frontage site. They in;iy rest assured, however, this is not an everyday occurrence. Gabriels Gully will soon be deserted, and the bridle track will be utterly useless. Shortly there will be no track but a bog or gravel pit pretending to exist there as a track. It seems strange that if you ask our Government to make a road or track that leads nowhere, your request will be responded to ;. but ask them to throw the land open for the people, and they blush and say they have no ■ money for coinpensationi^Do they think we are so blind that wo cannot discern across all this democratic turbulence they create ? Is not the wish and the prayer from all human hearts in this district in those noble loyal words :— Give us a true leader, not a false sham leader - a true leafier thafe he may guide us on the true way, that we may be loyal to him, that we may swear fealfcy to him, and follow him, and feel it is well with us. Without this element of human society, 'tis like a body bereft of its soul— it falls down into death, passes away, and disappears. I have been informed that Mr. -Martin's stipend fund, for his past services, fortnightly, in the schoolroom here, from the 28th of J.une, 1868, to 25th April, 1869, amounted to £52 9s. 9d. Great credit is due to Messrs. Elliott and Morris, for after Mr. Martin had preached his farewell sermon, they collected during the week previous to his departure, £11 18s. Some of our Blue Spur people say we have too much religion, others say we have not enough. There are always two sides to a question ; and my opinion is, if we had more in quality and less in quantity, the wheel would spin quite as well.

The Editor of the "Wairarapa Mercury" fell into a slight mistake when he inserted the following paragraph :—" An Editor in Trouble.— The Editor of the ' Tuapeka Times,' itfppears, was recently married, and thus apologises for the paper being issued not bo full of matter as it usually is :— Owing to the melancholy accident chronicled in another column, under the head ' .Marriage, 1 we beg to apologise to the male portion of our readers for the blank appearance of our supplement. To our lady readers we offer no apology." The Editor indeed !!t Kot if- a& knowa it*