LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 111, 24 March 1870, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— — . . i The s.s. Omeo, with the English Mail on board, is due at Port Chalmers to-morrow. The price of oats at the Bendigo Serfs v>, according to the "Cromwell Argus," M?\er bushel. The first mail by San Francisco will not close at the Post-office, Lawrence, before to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Tat: Key. T. L. Stanley, of St. Peters, Caversham, is announced to perform divine service at the Blue Spur next Sunday morning, and at » Lawrence in the evening. Southern Chief was the favourite for the Dunedin Handicap and Maiden Plate on Tuesday evening ; Musician for the Ladies' Purse ; and "Wildboy for the Taieri Stakes. A Cromwell telegram of the 16th, instant states that Logan and Co.'s wasliing-up for the week ending on Tuesday night ga?e 2000 ounces of amalgam. The yield is estimated at the rate of 10 ounces to the ton. We notice posters in some parts of the district intimating that Dolly Green wjll shortly appear \a her entertainment, '' The Seven Ages, of Woman." We have no doubt this talented actress will meet with a welcome reception in Tuapeka. : - We believe it is likely Mr. Thatcher and his Company will pay Lawrence a visit next week. The Cynodrome, or dog and monkey show, may also be expected soon. . Let us hope that something will come to cheer our town, which is at present so very dull. Mk. James Tuohpsqn, of the Blue Spur, who. lately met with an unfortunate accident by which he lost his sight, has left for England. Before leaving, he disposed of his shares in the Pei severance Co.'s and in Kepple's claims for. about £1200. He still retains his interest in. one or two water races. An inquest was held before W, L. Simpson, Esq., Coroner, on the body of James Eastman, of Waitaliuna, at the Tuapeka Hospital, on the 19 th inst. The deceased was 44 years of age, and a native of Jamaica. He came into the Hospital on the 17th insi, and had not been there over an hour when he died. Verdict, " Heart disease." A meeting of the Havelock miners was held in Coghill's Assembly Kooin one Monday evening last, to consider' the question of allowing any part of the Mining Reserve to be sold for religious purposes, when, after due consideration, it was lesolved, " That it is the opinion of this meeting no part of the mining reserve be released, as it is small enough already. The nomination of candidates for the House, of Representatives for the Bruce district took: place at the Court House, Tokomairiro, on Monday. The only gentlsmun who offered, himself for nomination was Mr. J. O. Brown t who was pioposed by Mr. J. L. Gillies, and! seconded by Mr. Henry Cl.irlz. The EeLurning Officer therefore declared Mr. Brown duly elected. This result endoises tho remarks made ly us last week. Mr. M'Leod Nicolsont, of Lawrence, sold on the ground, at Switzers, on Monday last, seven sections, in the township of Waikia, at the upset price ; and yesterday ho sold 26. sections, in the township of Tapanui, ranging from £.'> to. £22, and realizing the total sum of £215 ss, thus showing the advantage of having, these periodical sales on the ground. Had they t,iken place in Dunedin, we would venture to say not one tithe of the amount would have been obtained. An Otago contemporary publishes tha following extract from a Gra,hamsfcowu letter relative- to the state of affairs at the Thames : — "The place has gone to the bad, and if it ever recovers itself is a question. There are lots of fine reefs here,, but no money to work tliem. This place was. pretty b;ul when you were here „ it is now a thousand times woise. I was at' Ohinemuri last week for two u'nys, bufc do noc think much of it for an alluvial country. There may be quartz reefs, bat they will have to be found. Theie is not the slightest probability of the place being opened. There are hundreds, of miners heie now quite destitute, and cannot. get employment. lam sure Ido not know howit will end. Many would return to OtaAif they had the means." ' On Monday evening last the first meeting of the present session of the Tuapeka Mutual Improvement Association took place iv th« Schoolhouse, Lawrence. The Eev. Dr. Copland, president of the association, occupied the chair, and iv a few appropriate remaiks, suitable to the occasion complimented the association on its first meeting, which augured well for its future prosperity. Mr. Crow read a paper on the " Social Evil," and the best mode of dealing with it, which elicited a good deal of discussion. Office-bearers were then elected for the sitting. The Eer. Dr. Copland was unanimously elected president ; Mr. Jamison, vici^ president Mr. Humphrey, secretary and treasurer. The association meets in the School house, Lawrence, every alternate Monday even^ ing, at eight o'clock. An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Jame3 M'Coomb, infant son of Mr. John M'Coomb, head of Gabriel's Gully, aged 4 years, who, while looking on at his father and some othvr men engaged in repairing White's dam, was precipitated down into the ravine helow aud smothered, the whole face of the re-, taitiing wall of the dam having suddenly slipped ;- indeed, so great was the slip, that the water' had to be turned on and the rubbish washed away before the body could be lecovered, and this operation occupied nearly an hour. «. Samutl, White, who was laying sods on the face of tho wall at the time, about six feet distant from the child, was also carried down by the slip, but managed to scramble out before it reached tho gorge, when he immediately ran to 'try and rescue the child, but was prevented by thetiee3 and scrub in the gorge. The verdict returned was "Accidental death." On Sunday afternoon, thq remains of the child were buried in tho*. Lawrence Cemetery. The funeral was as large a one as we have witnessed in the Tuapeka district for one so young. Under the heading of "'Articled Clerks, I'the "Evening Star" has the following paragraph, which it will puzzle our readers to comprehend :— "Mr. Warden Simpson has followed up the advice he received when in Dunedin a. week or two ago. At the last sitting of the Eesident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence, when the case of Griffin v. Buchanan was called on in Court, Mr. Mouat stated to him thaj; he could not for the future allow- articled clerks to appear as solicitors in his Court, as we had now a qualified solicitor resident in the district ; and added that when he had been down in Dunedin Judge Ward had_ addressed some very stron°remarks from the Bench on thesubjest, and had expressed the view that articled clerks had no right to act as solicitors until they became solicit oz^ in the usual way. Not only so, bufc after the Court was over he (Judge Ward) had sent for the Resident Magistrate, and in his private chambers .had called his attention very seriously to the matter. Mr. Keen then appeared, and the same remarks were repeated to him." _ We would draw our contemporary's attention to an article in, another column headed "Solicitors v. Articled" Clerks." The' perusal of which will put him right.

The "Mount Ida Chronicle" describes the, discovery of a quartz reef at Strath-taieri aa. follows :—" Early, last week intelligence was' received that a good, gold-bearing quartz reef was discovered by Messrs. Brcniner, M'lvor and Lynch, near the junction of the Sutton stream with the Taieri river, near Mount Boss, and .about thirty miles from, Hyde. Th'^ reef 1 cropped up on the surface, where gold was first found. A shaft was sunk to the depth of fifteen feet— gold being obtainable from the surface downwards. In prospecting the rubble, a small dish yielded half a grain of gold. A hole wa3 drilled in the reef-, for the purpose of blasting, to a depth of two feet, and, on the drillings being carefully washed, three grains of gold wa3 the lesult. The precious metal is plainly observable in any part of the stone. Several gentlemen from this township immediately proceeded to the scene of the discovery, with the object of satisfying themselves as to tho correctness of the above staciiiu?nt, and, if possible, to form a. satisfactory conclusion regtrjhng the probable yield and r< - chn:fc3 of the reef. Oiic pound weight of tho stone was tnWn on to Naef^iy for the purpose ofbeiug crushed and tosted. The result of the crashing was highly satisfactory, the yield being Igr. cf fine gold, or bay sozs. to the ton."