PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 176, 22 June 1871, Page 6

PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL.

An anti impounding league has been organised at Cromwell.

The people of Alexandra are agitating for the appointment of a sub- Warden in their district.

A contemporary says that Mr. Yogel is coming out from England in two steamers.

Tenders for the construction of the Timaru and Teniuka Kailway are to Toe invited shortly. The number of Road Boards in the old province of Otago is 116. The Caledonian Company held a meeting on the lObh inst., when a dividend for the fortnight of £12 per share was declared. The total amount paid in dividends by this Company since February, is £343,200. An artesian well has been sunk in Timaru to a depth of fifty seven feet, and the boring through the rock is still beiug proceeded with. A man was recently charged at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Timaru, with being the owner of an unregistered dog, which charge he proved to be false. "Justice," however, demanded £1 and costs.

A contemporary says : — A gentleman who left Auckland some months ago for England, wished, previous to his leaving, to dispose of hia Caledonian shares, but could not get a purchaser. He has since returned, and finds several thousands of pounds waiting him for dividends. A well known Auckland shareholder is said to be receiving dividends amounting to nearly £100,000 per year.

A correspondent, writing in the " Dunstan Times " from Mount Benger, says : — A ghost is the sensation of the week. Of course your readers know all about Yorky's murder. Some of them may also know that the. body is interred at the junction of two tracks. Well, the other night two gentlemen of the Hiberni in persuasion happened to encounter just at this spot. No 1 naturally took No. 2 for Yorkey's apparition, and vice versa — " Holy Virgin," says No. 1. " Angels and ministers of grace defend us," says No. 2. " Begone to the Rid Say," says No. 1. " Begone yourself," says No. 2. Both advanced a step. Both retreatedantl finally, both turned tail and fled in different directions. I understand Bishop Moran is shortly expected, in order to exorcise the spirit.

A woman named Me Donald, in an alteration with hur husband, at Maungatua, threw a pitchfork at him, which entered his side. There is little hope of his recovery.

A Tokomairiro paper anticipates that in a year or two apples will become as cheap as potatoes in the southern districts of the province.

A Bluebook lately issued by the Queensland Government shows that out of a total revenue of £743, 05S, that colony pays annually £315,000 iv salaries and wages.

Wheat in Timaru is quoted at 3s 9d per bushel ; oats, Is 7d to 2s. These prices are, at the price paid for labor, sending many farmers into the insolvent courts, or causing them to mortgage their lands and homesteads.

Mr Martley, barrister, Sandhurst (Victoria), is of opinion that if the banks of the colony received their deserts they would all be on the roads ; at least he said that that was his opinion (in the Sandhurst CountryCourt), when he was very hard upon banking operations in general, and the Oriental Bank Corporation in particular.

Thus speaks the San Francisco " News Letter " of the United States Grovenment : — We think this motleycrowd of niggers and intelligent idiots known as the Congress of the United States has covered itself so thickly with infamy that the same might be scraped off with a knife ; and if we were deputed to do the scraping it should go hard but some flakes of skin should come ofF along with it.

Some time since the Government gave instructions that no trains should be run on the BlufF line on Sundays, save when the KnijHsh mail arrived, or sailed on that day, in consequence of the Kirk Session at Invercargill representing that the carrying on of Sunday traffic was contrary to the expressed wish of the religious portion of the community, and of the Chamber of Commerce. Ifc has since been found that to adhere to this restriction would be to cause great inconvenience and delay in business matters, and to operate injuriously on the other mail services, and consequently steps have been taken to memorialise the authorities on the subject.

A correspondent writes from Paris during the siege— Tiie only very fat butcher's meat I see is dog. It was my fate to eat some mutton broth the other day — that is, dog broth with a dog cutlet in it. The cutlet was very fat, and in passing by a butcher's stall to-day in the market iSt. Honore I was struck with the beauty of a saddle of mutton. Never after the cattle showin London btive I seen a fatter, saddle of mutton — it was a saddle of dog at three shillings a pound.

il is proposed, says the New Zealand Wosleyan, a Methodist publicain Christen urch, to erect within the next ten years fifty new Wealeyan churches in London, at a cost of £300,000. Towards this sum Sir Francis Lycett oners £50,000, on condition that the provinces contribute an equal amount ; and the balance £200,000, is to be raised in London.