Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873. "MEASURES, NOT MEN." LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 279, 5 June 1873, Page 5

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873. "MEASURES, NOT MEN." LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are compelled from want of space, to hold over a large quantity of local matter till our next issue. In the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, the argumeuts iv the Blue Spur case, Clayton and others v. Morrison and others, was finished. Judgment was reserved. We had thought Mr. Macandrew was going to have a quiet walk-over on this occasion for the Superintendency. Such, however, is not to be the case. Mr. J. L. Gillies is in the field as a candidate, and announces his intention of addressing the electors in the Ceminercial Assembly Room, Lawrence, at 8 o'clock this evening. The nomination for the electoral district of Oreti, will take place on the 13th intst., and the poll if necessary, on the 19th inst. Tue concerts given by Mr. Anderson, the celebrated pianist, assisted by Miss Fanny Sara, and Mr. Fred Clifton, on Saturday and Monday last, aftot ded a great treat to those who heard thorn. The attendance on Saturday, was extieinely small on account of the boisterous weather 1 , but on Monday there was a veiy fair house. A COKRKSPONDENT thinks that some effort should be made without delay to get a Board of Wardens for the Tuapeka district. Fiom our Waitiibuua correspondent's letter, it will be observed that a board for that district is now almost a certaihty. The matter rests with &tockowners themselves to convene a meeting and make the necessary application to the Government. A melting of persons interested in the holding of a ploughing match, took place on Tuesday evening last, in the Shamrock Hotel. There was present a sub-committee from the Polycultural Society, consisting of Messrs Pressly, Darton. Evans andDr.Halley. Mr. Pressly was called to the chair. On the motion of Mr. Darton, seconded by Mr. Evans, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : "That it is desirable a ploughing match should be held in the Tuapeka district, and that Messrs* Drysdale, Holmes, Hills and Fraser, be requested to co-operate with the Polycultural Society iv carrying out the details, and that the services of Mr. Holmes be secured for that object." It was agreed to ask Messrs Auld, Higgins and Stevenson of Waitahuna, to co-operate with the Committee, and also to procure subscriptions in their district. The following gentlemen were appointed collectors for Tuapeka district : — Messrs L. C. Holmes and J. Drysdale for Lawrence and Tuapeka Flat ; Mr. D. Evans for Evans Flat ; and Mr. Pressly for the general outside district. It was then decided to hold the match on the 4th July. Messrs Drysdale and Holmes were appointed to inspect the giound. The meeting then adjourned till Tuesday next. Persons having ground suitable, are invited by advertisement to inform the Secretary by Saturday next, as the time is very limited. AYe are informed that the remark made Vy our Roxburgh correspondent some weeks since, to the effect that the puntman declined to take some members of the Progress Committee across the river when the Superintendent and Goldfields Secretary visited Roxburgh, was incorrect, no such refusal having been given. The sittings of the Supreme Courfc, Lawrence, have been adjourned till the 30th inst. , in consequence of His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman being at the Appeal Court, Wellington. "We learn by telegram, that Mr. Mac" andrew and Mr. J. L. Gillies were nomi' nated for the Superintendency yesterday. Mi* James Browne, J.P., proposed, and Mr. James Black, J.P., seconded the former, while Air. Sligo proposed, and Mr. Andrew Todd seconded the latter. Complaints still reach us from the Teviot, with reference to the irregularity with which subscribers receive their copies of the " Tuapeka Times." The papers are despatched from this office with unfailing regularity, and until lately, we have had no complaints whatever regarding them. We shall endeavor to ascertain the cause of delay, and apply the remedy. The tunnel of the Clarks Hill Prospecting Company is now driven over 250 feet ; for the last 50 feet, the ground has been so soft as to require to be timbered. The ground now being passed through is of a rather harder uature, with a good deal of quartz and pyrites, Owing to the heavy fall of snow on the 26th ult., Cobb and Co. 's coach from Lawrence, did not reach the Teviot till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, being several hours behind its usual time. Thbee candidates are now in the field for Mt. Benger, Mr, Charles Nicholson having, at the request of numerous influential electors, consented to allow himself to be put in nomination. Nr. Nicholson's well-known ability and large mining influence, would make him a most dtsirable member of the local senate. As he is certain to command a large share of votes, his candidature will make it hot for the other aspirants. Mb. MACARTHY the enterprising proprietor of the Dumbarton Rock Hotel, had a pigeon match in the ground adjoining his hotel, on the 28th ult. The first event was a match between Bennet and Mu. arthy for £20, which was won by the former. The score we subjoin : - Match for £20 a side. 21 yards rise ; 60 yards fall ; 5 birds each. Macarthy .... 10110- 3 Bennet - 01101—3 The result being a tie, one more bird each was let go. Macarthy's pigeon fell out of bounds, while Bennet landed the stake by stopping a fast one very cleverly. A number of sweepstakes wexe afterwards shot off, and the proceedings wound up by a sumptuous dinner, prepared by the worthy hostess for the occasion. The Manager of the Gabriels Gully Q. MCo. reports as follows :— The Company re-com-menced crushing since the 22ulfc. Owing to the broken nature of the lode going north, the batteries have, for the first lime, not been fully employed. Fi om the same cause a large quantity of slate and mullock has unavoidably been sent down with the quartz, which will probably reduce the average yield of this crushing. After the clean, up of this crushing, a trial will be given for a fortnight of the lode at the south end of the mme — south of the break in the reef. The formation here is composed of soiall quartz leaders more or less auriferous, together with broken slate and large quantities of pyrites. Beyond this trial crushing with five head stamps (the other batteiy running on stone from the N. end of the miue), no further prospecting will be done at the present level, as the mine will be much more effectually and cheaply exploied from the lower levels at the Claiks Hill Co.'s tunnel, the driving of which is now progressing rapidly,

If anything wab wanting to prove the utter | inefficiency of our Cemetery management it was supplied by the miserable and disgraceful occurrence which took place last Thursday in connection with the burial of a late esteemed resident at the Blue Spur, who del in the Hospital a few daj s ago. The facts, as we have ascertained them, are worthy of being placed upon record, as a monumeut to the dishonor of the horrible neglect and positive indecency whioh has all along prevailed, and of which wa have so frequently and loudly complained. An undertaker was employed to conduct the funeral ; and he, in accordance with what is stated to be the usual practice, and indeed the rule, registered the death at the proper office and then paid the fees for the grave to the Secretary to the Cemetery Trustees, receiving from that functionary the usual certificate. This took place on Wednesday, and the funeral was appointed for 3 p.m. on the following day. A very large number of friends of the deceased attended— many on hcrseback from a distance— a clergyman was there, and the body was removed from the Hospital to the Cemetery gates, which were notJopen. No sexton was in attendanc, no grave dug, and no instructions had been given to the sexton. That the friends of the deceased were more than annoyed at such a wanton and disgraceful neglect of duty by some one, we are not surprised— the leverse would have given rise to wonder ; and we aver that the possibility of such a thing taking place is a disgrace to the whole town and district; Of course the body had to be returned to the Hospital, and another funeral conducted the following day. We do not write as judges. One thing is certain, some one is most grossly to blame ; and we do trust, and as the representatives of public opinion we demand, that the Trustees arouse themselves for once, and investigate this matter thoroughly and earnestly— not so much with a view to punishing the person who has so neglected his duty, whoever he may be, but with the firm determination that such rule and such management shall be forthwith established as will prevent the re-enactment of the unrighteous farce which tcok place last Thursday. As it happened the deceased had here no relative, though he possessed many warm personal friends. This was an accident. Had he been one of a private family, we can imagine the afflicting scene which would have been inevitable — when after all the sorrow of parting with the remains of the husband, father, or bother, the corpse would have been ( returned to the house, with all the trying cir- j cuinstances to be re-borne the following day. We would not have had such a thing as this take place for any consideration ; but, as it has occurred, good will probable come oufc of evil. The s tubbomness'of the Trustees in retaining the management, although the Oovernor in Council has years agojbeen memorialised to remove them on account of their neglect of business, is no at vividly before the public. The only atonement the Trustees can make is to institute a searching investigation! offl the matter, and then resign their appointments in favor of some body of men who will do the work entrusted to them. Mb. TJobebt Atliso has completed his contract for gravelling the worst parts of the road from Roxburgh township to Coal Creek. The I road is now in a good passable conditoin. From Tokomairiro we hear that an amalgama- ! tion has been effected between the two claims on the Ocean View Quai tz Reef, at Tah'e Hill, known as the Alexandra Co.'s and Dyer's. These claims hold nearly 1000 feet on the line of reef, over 200 feet of which are said to have been explored, and proved to be payably auriferous. The new Company is to be styled the Bruce Quartz Mining Co., and Is to be registered under the Mining Co.'s Act, 1872. On Monday evening last, a large meeting was held at Roxburgh, when the following gentlemen were named as candidate for Mount Benger, viz., Messrs. J. Beighton, Charles Nicholson, and George Ireland. The requisition to the two latter mentioned gentleman appears in another column. Sections in the township of Lawrence have lately reached what have been termed fabulous piices ; but when compared with sums given in Melbourne, they sink intoinsignificsnee. We read in a Bendigo exchange, that Mr. J. B. Watson, the wealthy quartz miner of Bendigo, laid out £10.600 in a, block of land in Little Collins-street, the site of Hogarth, Connel, and Watson's premises, lately destroyed by fire. The frontage is only fifty-one feet nine inches by a depth of 120 feet. This makes about £100,000 invested by the same gentloman in Melbourne property. Among the disasters consequent on the late flood, has been the wreck of Mr. Nioholson's dredge. Mr. Nicholson has been very unfortunate, and although thore Is every prospect of the craft being floated again, it will only bo at a considerable outlay of capital and labour.