Tuapeka Times AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER & ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1872.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 206, 11 January 1872, Page 5

Tuapeka Times AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER & ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1872.

"MEASURES, NOT MEN."

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Reports of the Resident Magistrate's Court, Lawrence Town Council, sports and races at Hayelock,. Tuapeka Mouth, and Tapanui, our Waitabuna and Balclutha correspondents' letters, letters from Mi: J. L. S. Keen and the Rev J. Jones, also numerous paragraphs, are unavoidably held over tiil our next issue. " The erection of the new Roman Catholic school in Colons-iv street, Lawrence, is being r.pidly proceeded with. It is expected to be completad by St. Patrick's D.iy (17th March). On that day— which this year falls on Sunday -services will be held in the building by the Rev. Father Larkin. On the following day, Monday, the 18th March, the opening of the school will be celebrated by sports, and in the evening there will be a grand banquet. The St. Patrick^ Band, of Dunedin, have volunteered their assistance to make the opening go off with proper eclat. They will perform during the services on Sunday, and will also be present and play at the sports and banquet. Mr. Chaplin has kindly offered to convey the members of the baud from Dunedin to Lawrence and back free of charge ; and, with his usual liberaliry, Mr. Langley, of the White Horse Hotel, has signified his sntention of eutertaining them ou their passage through Tokomairiro gratis. A Race for £20 a side will come off at the Lawrence Race Course at half-past five o'clock to morrow evening, between Mr. Pine'fi Chance and Mr. Mullin's Little Dick.

The trial of Duncan Davis for passing valueless cheques cost the country, in expenses of witnesses, &c., £130. '

The well known Imperial Hotel, Princess .street, Dunedjin, has been taken by Mr. Haydon late of the Bull aud Mouth Hotel. Mr. Haydoa, we are sure, will maintain the favorable •reputation enjoyed by the Imperial. Hotel.

Mj;. Hcssell is the new boniface of the

Washington Hotel, Wethers tone's. He hopes hi ~fi<iiering for the refreshment of the public will appreciated, and that said appreciation will

he made evident by the patronage bestowed on liim.

The annual public meeting of subscribers to

the Tuapeka Goldfields Hospital, for the purpose of receiving the annual" statement for 1871. and electing a new committee, is convened for Friday evening, the 39th inst., at 8 p.m., at th c Commercial Assembly Rooms, Lawrence. THEhooths, refreshment stands, &c, for the Tuapeka Race Meet will be sold by auction, at 12 o'clock on Saturday, the 13th inst., at the Commercial Assembly RoomSj Lawrence, by Mr. Mathew Hay. . Keheopa was executed on Friday last at Napier. He died without a struggle. He ina«le no statement on the scaffold, merely saying, " Make has-te ; have it over quickly." The Chinese at the Nokomai are said to have acquiied the European habit of departing to Parts unknown, without previously going through the formality of interviewing their creditors. • At Manuka Creek scarcity of water has coin-

pelled an entire suspension of mining opera. tions. - A SPLENDID sample of strawberries, grown by Mr: Turner, Waitahuna road, were submitted to our inspection last week. Twenty to twenfcy■two of the berries weighed a pound. They were of delicious flavour and excellent taste.' A cricket MATCH between an eleven selected from the Dunedin Citizens Club and a country team, to be played at Lawrence, is talked of. • AN amusing "sell" was perpetrated at Lawrence last week! A piece of quartz containing alar^'j number of specks of gold was exhibited, those showing it saying it came from Reservoir Hill, where a reef had been just found. Great excitement was created, and quite a rnn on the timber market was caused by the demimd for pegs for the purpose of marking off claims. Sure enough the quartz came from the locality indicated, but the specimen exhibited was a work of art, not nature— tho« who exhibited it having practised on it the interesting operation known as "salting." The specimen was well got up, and the salt'ng reflected the highest .credit on those who had performed it. So much interest being taken in quartz mining at present, the following remarks of Sir Roderick Murchison. showing that quartz is not the only source from which gold is extracted, may be intei esting : -"The most usual original position of gold is in quartzose vein stones that traverse altered palaeozoic slates, frequently near their junction with eiuptive rocks, whether of igneous or of aqueous origin. The stratified rocks of the highest antiquity, such as the oldest gneiss or quartz rocks, have very seldom borne gold ; but the sedimentary accumulations which followed, or the silurian, Devonian, and carboniferous (particularly the first of these three), hnving been the deposits which,

in the tracts where they have undergone a *ißetaraorphosis or change of structure by the influence of igneous agency ov other causeo, have heen ihe chief source's 1 , where gold has been derived." -fThe carpenters of Wellington have been locked out in consequence of demanding a halflioliday on Saturday. They invite, through the "' Daily -Times'." the co-operation of their-fellow-tradesmen in Duued jn. , Mr.,C- E. Haughton, Under-Secretaiy for the Public Works and Goldfields Department; arrived in Dunedin on Sunday last. He purposes

immediately making a*our of the Goldfields. Mr. Giundy lias beea- appointed Depasturing Inspector for the Tuapeka district, and" Mr. JJf Ardell for the Wakatiy district.,. By the omission of a word in the Report of the Appeal case JJiggins v. -Djer, which lappeare'd in our Itijt isSUf , the| meaning of a sentence is- di'reversed. ' The nineteenth line of the cjuestibii slibnM -road— "ahd if any who has not previously" &c:.. instead of #8 it was printed^-' ',' and if any perspn who hajj j^eviousl^," do* |

A MATCH for £5 a side has been arranged t° take place on the Tuapeka Race Course, at li o'clook on the first race day, between Georgr Maidment of Lawrence and — Coppin ol Dunedin. Distance— lso yards.

Some individual recently buried the carcasses ofrtwo defunct horses at Gabriel's Point, which are now decomposing and emit a stench indescribably horrible^ The Inspector of nuisances would confer a great favor, on a number of citizens by officially sniffing the nuisance.

A RUSH has set in to the Blue Mountains. A considerable number of miners, from Tuapeka Mouth and other places, have repaired to the place indicated, but Ysat success has attended their efforts, we haw not heard. The ground rushed is on the east bank of the Pomahaka, and consists of terraces and the river banks.

The Roxburgh school reopens on the 25th of January. Attention is directed by the master, to the special advantages offered by this school, viz., a good English education and classical and mathematical tuition, Mr. Orr is prepared to receive a limited number of boarders on moderate terms.

Messrs. Burton Bros, announce that their photographic season in Lawrence will close on the 19th inst. Those who have not yet " secured the shadow " ought not to lose any time in doing so as the present weather is highly favorable for portrait taking, and there may not be a chance for a long time of getting a photograph so excellently executed as Messrs. Burton Bros, are doing at present.

Mr. T. L. Shepherd has telegraphed to us that he never intended resigning his seat for the Dunstan district to contest the Lake's election.

The recent dry weather has caused a great scarcity of water on Tuapeka Flat, and consequently mining operations are at a standstill. When the Tuapeka and Beaumont Race, now being rapidly constructed, is completed there will be an ample and never failing supply of water for Tuapeka Flat, and enforced idleness, which is of so frequent occurrence at present, will be unknown, .The people of the Tuapeka district have worked themselves^jip" into a state of qartz excitement. Nearly every individual carries a specimen in his pocket. Casing, dip, and dwts. per ton, supplant the weather, as standard topic of conversation ; and an alarming amount of piaclical and scientific knowledge of quartz reefing he been developed by parties hitherto deemed densely ignorant on these points. ' The premonitory symptoms of quartz fever are appeariug.

There seems every probability that the 1 representation of the Lakes district, in the General Assembly, will be keenly contested. We have been informed that Mr. G. B. Barton and Mr. B. Hallenstein, of Queenstown, Mr, i»/illar, of Queenstown, Mr. H. J. Cope, of Lake Hayes, Mr. Adams, of the Big Beach, and Mr. G. E. Barton, of Dunedin, will enter the lists. Mr. Cope may be considered the Ministerial candidate, and the others all Opposition. Mr. Hallenstein's influence, it will be recollected, was last election, bi ought, to bear on behalf of Mr. Shepherd, but was not sufficient to secure that gentleman's return. However, the party which voted for Air. Haughton will not be so compact on the present occasion, aud there is every probability that Mr. Hallensteiu or the candidate he supports will be returned.

The upcountry press is howling dismally over the proposed shifting of some of the Goldfields wardens. Our contemporaries assert that removing the wardens from their present districts would be highly unjust to those gentlemen, as it would entail on them great expense and inconvenience, and that the efficiency of the public -service would be greatly impaired thereby as owing to the great diversity in the style of mining in different district a warden requires long experience of a field before he can adjudicate on mining cases satisfactorily. In reference to this matter we may state that we believe that it i* contemplated to remove only two wardens at present

■ -those of the Dunstan and Tuapeka who will exchange districts, and that the said removal is made solely with the view of redeeming a promise made to one of the wardens affected when he took office by the Government, so that as far as that gentleman is concerned there does not seem to be any injustice. Regaiding the efficiency of the public service being impaired by the wardens being transferred from one district to another we have little hesitation in designating that statement as unmitigated bosh. The style of mining varies so little on the goldfields of Otago that a warden efficient in one district would be equally efficient in another.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Lawrence Town Council, which was to have taken place on Monday night, lapsed for want of a quorum. The Councillors present were Messrs. Coverlid and Uren,

The weather during the past week has been very sultry. The damage done to crops by it is considerable, as the most of the oats and wheat in the district have prematurely shot.

At a meeting of the brethren of the Masonic Lodge, St. George, E.C., held in the Lodge Room, Comoiercial Hotel, it was resolved to celebrate the installation of officers by a masonic banquet, to be given at the Commercial Assembly Rooms on the night of Thursday, the 18th. Bros., Budge, Bastings^ Williams, /and «T. C. Brown were appointed a sub-committee to carry out the arrangements for the banquet.