LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 252, 28 November 1872, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

By a typographical error, the qualification fixed by the Tuapeka Jockey Club to compete for the purchase of publican's booths, at the races, was erroneously printed £4 4s. The qualification is a subscription of £5 ss. The Rev. Father Larkin has returned from the West Coast, and conducts his services as heretofore. The work of pitching and metalling the road between Tokomairiro and Tuapeka is being vigorously proceeded with. In the ■* Provincial Government Gazette" of the 26th inst. it is notified that sections 8, 9, and 10, block V, Waitahuna West, containing respectively 229, 313. and 310 acres, will be offered for sale by public auction, by Mr. B. W. CapsMck, at Tokomairiro, on Friday, the 20th, December. We certainly think the convenience of intending purchasers would be consulted by the sale being .held in Lawrence. MR. Geo. Jeffery, Rom Place. Lawrence, has on sale an assortment of Letts' diaries for 1873. These diaries still maintain the high re-, putation they have deservedly won, and preserve, their superiority over all other manufactures of the same description. We believe that Messrs. Letts' intended to introduce great improvements into their diaries, without raising their price, for 1873, but were prevented by the great rise in (he wages of all descriptions of operatives employed by them. In the *' Provincial Gaiette '* the Superintendent notifies that it is his intention to dot* certain, streets in the township of Lawrene*. Plans can be seen at the schoolhonsfi, Lawrtne*, and objections to the closing of the streets most be sent in within QQ days of the first publication of the notification. Sorrel is extensively tnd successfully grown in> t& TiwEfeW diatrfet, lie soil an^clim***. are not fuvorabk to. it, but by the great safe and attentio*n.-tb,at hpm been bestov#a onita cultivation, it has been thofongWy aoelin*atMe& We are given to T»na>Tatnud. that a, prise if, to be B,wa^edrtothe^ner of the best paddoak of this, useful plant daring the tfisunj* summer, . Wq are sure there > will. be^noTlack-Q* oomjpet^ tors.

falling. Several persona had seen it take its flight— one said it went up like a baloon, another like a rocket ; at any rate it must have risen at least 50 feet from the ground, as it took its course completely over Mr Lockie's house, and was carried a distance of full o'o yards before it fell. It turned a somerset, pitched upon its top, and, striking ] the fence, scattered fragments of it about. It is seldom that an accident of the sort occurs without some injury to persons about, and we regret to say that Archibald Graham, the cooper, who was working close to the digester, was badly scalded about the arms and shoulders. He was taken immediately to the Hospital and attended to, and it .is hoped that no bad consequences will result. A boy named John Mellon, ten years of age, who was playing at the time among some casks in the yard, was struck by a splinter and had his arm broken. He was taken to the Hoopitai, where the arm was immediately set. • Beyond that, ne auoWnor? up injury. Providentially, the huge mass of iron took precisely the course in which the least harm could be effected. Had it flown in the opposite direction, many persons at Messrs Wilson's foundry must have been hurt. The digester was nearly new, having only been about eight months since made by Messrs Kincaid and Co. On examination of the bottom, the upper part had the appearance of being cut off- from it by design, so clean was the fracture. Every attention was paid to the sufferers by the partners of the firm.